skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know much about Go but even a very small language like scheme can fuel quite a lot of screencasts if you put your mind to it. And Go is huge compared to a lot of scheme implementations.

It's not so much about learning all the syntax of the language on its own (which is useless and boring) but rather about how using the language to solve some real problems.
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Windows 9 to be unveiled in April, distances itself from Windows 8
> "We aren’t laughing with Leonard, Sheldon, Raj and Howard. We’re laughing at them"

Well, here is my confession... I do like the show, and I guess it is a guilty pleasure.

I like it because I feel identified by the characters (my wife even call me Sheldon when I am being pedantic about something). But the author is right, when I watch the show I laugh at them and by transitivity I laugh at myself, which I have learnt is the best way to keep a good humor.
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Those are not really Docker issues they are upstream Linux issues. 42 layers of aufs is probably a sane limit, the NFS one looks at a glance like an obscure NFS bug...
Innocent bystander here. All 3 of you guys should partner up to make 1 high quality source of screencasts IMO.
I found that living in w2 was cheaper because I could travel on a zone 1 bus pass instead of a tube pass. The inner city council tax is also much cheaper than outer suburbs. The trade off was a much smaller place, but this was balanced by proximity to the parks and many places to eat out.

But the real bonus for me was when I scoreda job around the corner and had a five minute walk to work. I had tons of free time others could oly dream about. Of course I understand that people with families need rooms ad schools and the rest.

My time has always been too precious to spend commuting.
Even with only a Core i5 CPU, you can use cpuminer to create some yourself.

For small amounts, you could go to http://www.reddit.com/r/dogemarket, the fraud risk is not very high there. In the US, there's https://www.altquick.co/. Other than that, you need BTC/LTC first then trade on cryptsy.
Using multiple MongoDB databases instead of one – performance check
Although there were a bunch of outages, I'm pretty sure Cloudflare stated the problem wasn't on their end.
Is it worth going to one of these events or similar events if you're just an enthusiast?
And it is. The paragraph at the end that follows the 'To bring this to a close I think I found my answers: ' is exactly that, a TL;DR.
Available in Homebrew:

brew install pngquant
Is that really a good thing?

What if you had finished up a document at home, thought it synced but it never did, and then showed up at a clients a few hours later wondering why you still had the old version on your phone/laptop?

Wouldn't you have wanted DropBox to let you know something was going on?
Is there still no support for post types such as links, asides, etc.?
I think this page http://gan.co/the-network would have been a better landing page. As others have mentioned I thought this was someone giving a content delivery network a hype-y flashy new name
America and India at odds: India shows who's boss
There is no such thing as a "nice car" with respect to long distance travel. They're just not optimized for it.

Maybe when the cars drive themselves the situation will change a bit.
I don't think they'd be allowed to do this. It's probably stipulated somewhere in their contracts, but I have heard of other startups doing that.
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Absolutely, good fun, (pizza and beer!), interesting people, interesting talks, friendly, welcoming and well run.
There are page down buttons that appear at the bottom of the page.
Well, living in Taiwan, I feel that "remarkably short distance" is too large for me already.
> they're overly focussed on superficial form at the expense of deeper functionality

Then again, isn't that what almost all advertising is trying to do these days: draw your attention to the superficial form so you forget to criticise fundamental flaws with the design?
I quite like this writeup. I've seen a few episodes of The Big Bang Theory, and could never quite put my finger on why I didn't enjoy it, when I knew people who claimed it was the cleverest thing on TV and absolutely hilarious.

Clearly, though, I need to check out Community.
Exactly. It's a Chuck Lorre sitcom, look at his past work and realize that he keeps following the same creatively bankrupt patterns from series to series.
So according to his own arguments (which I don't accept btw @), he has just proven that increasing government spending does no damage to the economy? So we can now choose to spend more or less with no whining about the economy?

In that case, I choose more hospitals, libraries, healthcare and a social security net.

@ In any case, I think this is far too simplified due to:

a) Lack of a control group/proper statistical analysis/elimination of other factors.

b) No consideration of what that money is spent upon/ common factors / types of spending. His own graph shows massive variation. That is what he should be investigating. What actually makes the variation shown in the graph? I suspect it's down to types of spending. To illustrate my own bias, I'm happy to believe that giving money to the poor boosts the economy. Giving it to bankers, maybe less so.

c) No consideration of other benefits of spending. At the end, he says the only thing you have to show for spending is debt. If you spend it on infrastructure, you have roads, hospitals, etc, that you wouldn't have otherwise.
Is that what you need? http://cabotapp.com/use/http-checks.html or open an issue on: https://github.com/arachnys/cabot
Show HN: Fix missing contact photos(identicons) like Github
I heard from a friend that what.cd and similar torrent sites like that have been under heavy ddos attacks for a while now.
I really like it! Imagine how easy it must be to create something like that! Simply export a video into jpegs, add some JS and BAM! A nice scrolling effect. I like it!
maybe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7046263 ?
It's TV, what did you expect?
I thought the problem with the big bang theory was it's inability to explain the low entropy starting condition?

EDIT: btw if you want a comedy show that's rooted firmly in the geek world, dig up the TV version of the dilbert cartoons. superb.
>If you can't see that strength as a massive weakness, ask yourselves what value BTC intrinsically has over other alt-coins.

That's an easy one: the network effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_effect). Same why you cannot simply start another successful social web and eat Facebook's lunch.
This again?
TBBT is a comedy show. People laugh because it's funny.
The culture that has spawned around TBBT has made nerd/geek culture cool. People don't buy and wear "Bazinga!" shirts because they like Penny and finds Sheldon to be a some kind of freak.
The general audience love these characters. And through building that love and care of these guys, Chuck Lorre if anything has made Science and geek culture more populare than ever.
Look at how HUGE geek and science-related things has become in social media. Look at the following astronauts are getting. Youtube channels and facebook groups about science.

Yes people find them quirky, just as the characters of FRIENDS were quirky. People still love them and even identify with specific things they do or issues they face.

My guess is people who find TBBT insulting are people who project self loathing. Clue #1: Feeling ANGER towards a TV show.
Most of your points are reasonable, but your last ruined it all for me.

> I'm not sure if they give that award to ponzi scheme creators

A Ponzi scheme requires new money all the time for it to continue. If new money stops going into Bitcoin, it's not doomed to collapse like an actual Ponzi scheme. Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme.
My first weekend project that I finished in a weekend. It generates identicons in the style of Github (https://github.com/blog/1586-identicons) to fill in any missing contact photos.
I'm curious why you ever accepted in the first place? False advertising? And why you stayed three years?
Well they are exaggerations which is the fundament of comedy. Moss is my favorite character of IT Crowd. And now that you mention the show, you would see that IT Crowd is the other side of the venue, they tend to laugh at non tech savvy people (i.e internet in a box, typing google inside google, etc)
In that case it describes how they did it. Quickly, slowly, etc. 'Manages' in that case is not a flattering word.
sigh not the shitty TVshow again.
> Do you have any examples?

Sure, write a self-executing function in C#.
Primecoin? It's not solving a "problem" as it claims, there's nothing that can be solved with chains of primes. They're interesting but that's about the end of it. The vastly smaller network means it's a lot more susceptible to attacks.
There's a lot of buzz around Ghost and it's becoming the primary choice for a lot of people. When i had to choose which platform to use for my personal website i gave it a try and spent quite some time playing with it. After a couple of months: i'm switching to Jekyll.

Ghost is indeed a great platform and i consider it "Wordpress with superpowers". Yet, exactly like Wordpress, i consider this a huge commercial machine with the usual themes frenzy and marketplaces/agencies chasing customers. And i personally deeply dislike it as it's far from pushing a healthy dev environment.
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All purchased food relies on unsustainable energy sources and nearly all food relies on unsustainable fertilization and other petroleum derived products.

I have a super minimalistic garden and grow some of my own salad vegetables in the summer but I'm under no illusions and 99% of my food calories come indirectly from crude oil and natgas.

My car doesn't burn biodiesel and isn't made of soy. The store is illuminated and HVAC by natgas and coal. The delivery truck from the warehouse doesn't burn biodiesel and isn't made of soy. The warehouse burns lots of coal for its HVAC and lights. The trucks delivering to the warehouse don't run on biodiesel and aren't made of soy. Assuming produce and not "processed food-like substances" the farm uses diesel to run the tractor and other gear, some coal powered electricity in the greenhouse, fertilizers made of phosphates dug out of the ground (what to do when they run out?) and nitrates made by the haber process outta lots of natgas. Also there may or may not be herbicides / pesticides / fertilizers made out of crude oil.

If your food is cheaper per "gallon" than diesel, its at least theoretically possible to make it with biodiesel and be net energy positive. If it takes 20 gallons of diesel equivalent environmental damage to make a gallon of walnut oil, then if you poured walnut oil into a biodiesel tank the system would rapidly run dry and halt.

Computer science types have a stereotype where the "halting problem" can't be solved for them so it can't be solved anywhere, although energy calculations are actually pretty simple (yes yes I know totally different type of halting its a bad joke). If (Energy Returned) is less than (Energy Invested) then the only way to keep pumping food out is to burn crude oil to make up the difference.

Depending what axe you have to grind, EROEI of food varies from 0.1 to 1. The truth is probably within that range, perhaps 0.3. A pound of fat (animal hydrocarbon, basically) is worth 3500 or so calories so the environment is better off if you burn two pounds of gasoline than if you eat a pound of food (aka equivalent of 3 pounds of diesel burned to make it) and bike the same distance.
He is familiar with Thailand and might go back there.
Agreed. I think one of the best things about Nagios is all the readily available plugins. I suspect more than enough to cover the current functionality of Cabot. I think Icinga[1] (a Nagios fork) also addresses some of the common issues people have with Nagios.

[1] https://www.icinga.org/
I was going to upvote you but it's "its" instead of "it's"
> socially it's ok to talk to strangers but also ok if you don't want to

I'm guessing you don't live in London, and if you ever visit, please don't start talking to the rest of the passengers.

:)
First: if you have been programming since 12 you are probably above average in intelligence. If you are in the USA you should be able to go take a GED exam so that you have the equivalent of your high school degree.

You seem well aware that you have a credibility problem. If you really have the skills that you say, it shouldn't be very difficult to whip up a website for your portfolio. The point of this site is to demonstrate to prospective clients that you can envision and create a complete site, that shows common elements of business websites, images, maps, sensible site organization and navigation, user registration, access control, cookies, forms, data capture etc. At this point you are trying to create something that impresses the average small business owner not readers of HN.

Creating a portfolio site will help overcome the credibility problem but it is only a first step to finding clients. I suspect that you will initially need to find an established small company that builds sites for other local small businesses and try to become a sub-contractor to them. Freelancing to the end client at your age and lack of experience will be very hard.

Here is the other thing: if your portfolio site is outstanding and shows lots of polish and skill then there are start-ups that might take a chance on hiring you.
I like this small program , great for compressing png files. Congrats dev.
I think the thing for us was that we couldn't understand how to make Nagios see the world in terms of services (which are sometimes a set of machines running on physically or virtualised infrastructure, but sometimes individual servers on shared hosts). I'm sure it can be done, I just couldn't wrap my head around it.

Also it was surprisingly easy and fun to write. Probably has taken longer than learning Nagios but I don't think I would have spent Christmas hacking away at that task...
How is this different from `pngnq` (that's been around for ages)?
http://www.bitcointrezor.com/
He doesn't produce it, but "Two Broke Girls" being picked up from a pilot, nevertheless going into its third season, pretty much solidifies the point about Lorrie thinking.
Just because you don't enjoy something, doesn't mean you should belittle those that do. I like to think I have plenty of sense, and I quite like the show. Just because you didn't enjoy that particular episode, doesn't mean you wouldn't find another hilarious.
Really excited about Ghost—I've had a tendency to keep a close eye on various blogging platforms, and it's easily the one with the most potential right now.

Part of it is the editor—I'm very particular about my Markdown editors, and it's one of the few web-based editors that gets close to Mou on the efficiency front.

That said, the changes made here really go a long way towards making this the platform of choice for many. I'm keeping a close eye right now—I'm on Tumblr mostly due to my follower base there, but if Ghost evolves in a way that cuts away the cruft, it could seriously be a replacement for a lot of folks.

Godspeed, Ghost team.
Ex bike repair professional here.

It's definitely possible for your bike to need way less maintenance than a car and to provide very few headaches.

In your case, I recommend that you buy very good tires.
Most bikes have cheap tires, which dry rot. Some of my bikes have tires that are 6-10 years old and still working fine. They also cost $40 apiece back then.

In general, most bikes are designed for the recreational "joe 6 pack" market and are of poor quality. If you expect a bike to work well and last a long time, you have to pay extra.
OH: We use puppet, chef and a grain of salt
IT Crowd - Non-nerd characters are the actual clowns.

The Big Bang Theory - Nerds are the clown characters.

In IT Crowd, the nerds are put into hilarious situations because of an insane normal world. In Big Bang Theory, the nerds are put into hilarious situations because they are insane.
I was in Russia a few times back 10 years ago and regularly did this as a solo woman traveller whose Russian is not so good. I felt perfectly safe, at the instruction of other girl friends at the time. Not sure I'd do that anymore solo (youth provides a certain fearlessness) but no qualms when with others.
> "It enjoys Johnnie Walker Blue Label Scotch"

Its money is better spent on a decent malt. Is it as carefree with my resources as it is with its own?

(Yep, it's a joke on HN).
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Sure, you laugh 'at' them, but they're still portrayed as good people who are worth hanging out with, as Penny finds out with time over the first few seasons.
This idea may have technical merit, but I'll never know. They lost me the third time they used the word "disrupt". Apparently it just means "be awesome".
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And I thought Twitter was all about screaming out information for the whole world to see. An "NSA proof" version seems pretty pointless to me.
"Total dollar value" is the correct terminology for currencies
Ghost supports tags as classes if I'm right, which would allow you to do a pseudo-version of this pretty easy.
Even more confusing: Unless his accommodation in Lancashire is completely free, then living in Ramsbottom and travelling to London is significantly more expensive than just living in London.
On the plus-side, China's current lack of a serious anti-submarine capability means any seaborne invasion of Taiwan can essentially only happen with the permission of the US. It's not so far from China to Taiwan on the map, but it's a hell of a long way in a warship :)
I'm on exactly 500 karma right now, and I don't see any downvote arrows. Has the number changed?
1. Bitstamp is a YC company and many investors are looking to invest in the next Bank of America, unconcerned with short term liquidity.

2. Mining is currently barely profitable, but some people get economic value from heat and the mining futures market is going to stabalize the mining to bitcoin price relationship.

3. If you ever believe that a decentralized currency will be how we transact in the future (as I do) this will always be the case. The benefits of crypto currencies are vast, and the institutional support seems to be behind bitcoin at the moment, but this could change if a strong contender arises.

4. You misunderstood the author. He is saying that it will be easier to be anon with bitcoin in 2014 (think Tor backed bitcoin clients).

5. Global forces are complex. Corporations are some of the actors, politicians others, and the military and intelligence groups others. It is fair to talk of America's interests, as papers like the economist do.

6. Bitcoin is hard to use right now, it only competes well on irreversibility and on annonimity. People use it to buy drugs in western countries, but as it gets easier this may change.

8. Making something easier to use does not necessarily change its security. It is both easier and more secure to make a voice call over the internet than next to a land line.

9. Most people (including you it seems) don't have an intuitive understanding of inelastic supply. The price changes look more rational when you do.
'Cheap' is the best adjective that describes TBBT. The jokes, the characters, the situations, all of it feels cheap. And that is because it is less about the character of the four guys and more about this one specific aspect of them: being nerdy. And it gets old really fast.

Community has more interesting characters. They're still neurotic (the old guy gets a bit tiring), but they're much easier to care about.
I think the US barely figures into this. I think it's all about oil in the south china seabed in both of these island disputes. Nobody cares about the actual islands. The chinese are terrified about their oil supply vulnerability.

Unfortunately this part of the world is a powder keg. I wonder if there is a diplomatic way to assuage china's oil supply insecurity and save face for all concerned.
Cannot agree more. TBBT is one of my favourite TV shows. In recent series, a lot more jokes are made about Penny:

Sheldon: Stephen Hawking is...
Penny: Yeah I know, the wheelchair dude who invented time.
WOW!!! I just applied this to the (big) PNG sprite files used in a project I am working on now, and the gains in file size were amazing! And with hardly any difference in quality!

Who ever said that reading Hacker News was a productivity drain?
Pretty sure if all the miners stopped mining, bitcoin would be dead in the water, unless there is a secondary transaction mechanism that doesn't rely on miners.
> Wouldn't you have wanted DropBox to let you know something was going on?

This is such a hard thing to balance. I hate nagging notifications. Dropbox makes it really easy to see what the service status is. I glance at my menu bar/system tray icon, and look for the green check. If I don't see the green check, I know my docs haven't synced.
water resistant IP65 smartphone is a real enhancement, as in 100M deeper functionality. I wish the iphone had that instead of lighter/ taller/ thiner fonts.

Yeah I dont take calls underwater but I keep a bag of rice handy...
Children also like to see their parents from time to time, so the extra time works, too.
I guess part of "geek culture" is having been the uncool guy in school, having been pointed at and laughed at, getting bullied, being an outsider, andsoforth.

A comedy show where outsiders are being pointed and laughed at will often bring those experiences back, and really isn't helping.
I had a similar issue, but came to the other conclusion: my blog is running on Middleman, and I kept it that way. My biggest problem with Ghost: lack of offline support. So while I can edit if from everywhere in a browser, I can only do that when online.

I have a setup that immediately publishes my blog somewhere when Github receives a push (working through travis). I seperate two branches, one gets pushed to a staging area, one to the live site. I do the touch-up when I am at home. I usually want to write anywhere, but not necessarily publish anywhere.

In the end, I just write my posts using any text editor I can find, be it Githubs direct editing. On the train or in a flight, I use an iPhone with a bluetooth keyboard (it works surprisingly well, except the odd looks) or my notebook to write the posts.
I was working as a freelance web dev at 17. I just approached local businesses to see if they needed simple, static websites made, or if they had existing websites I'd show them how they could be improved and how their presence on the web is important (even more so now than it was then!). You'd be surprised how receptive a lot of them are - for many of the businesses it seemed like 'build a new website' had been on their minds for a while but they hadn't got around to looking for someone to do it yet.
50:50 would imply that 1 in 2 PhDs would get tenure; the odds were never that good.
It is rather "Wordpress without superpowers"
And even that would be relatable if it was self-deprecating. The article is right, the audience is positioned as an outsider; "It's funny because he mentioned that thing which is nerdy" rather than any realization of the character that Penny might find that reference impossible to relate to. You're clearly intended to identify with Penny.
I would say "Have you tried turning it off and on again" accurately represents 90% of IT service calls, :p.
As someone who considers themself (and many of their friends) a nerd, I have to say I thoroughly enjoy the show. I study physics, I love Sci fi, I read comic books etc. I don't feel genuinely insulted by the show. Yes jokes are made at nerds' expense. But if you can't laugh at yourself and your own "culture", there's something wrong.

If you don't like the show, that's fine. Don't watch it. But don't try and turn me against it just because you don't like it.
Ah, I figured there was a reason I was missing. Thanks!