skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm from germany and spend some time at the technical university of munich.
This statement was not accurate at the time of writing and is even less accurate today.

There is a well known university ranking in germany, named "Hochschulranking". An older version for sports can be seen at e.g. https://www.sport.uni-freiburg.de/bachelor-ranking2012.pdf
There was no such thing as equal quality, obviously, just a baseline of what you should learn. This baseline is from what I've heard higher than in the US.

Nowerdays universities are praised for their specializations and receive extra money for those activities. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Universities_Excellence...

German universities do pop up in global rankings, too.
https://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rank...
lists the technical university of munich as #28. (How biased those lists are is another topic)

One more thing, I'm currently trying to find the source again, but ~20% of foreign students decide to stay in Germany after receiving free education.
Those numbers were way lower in the US iirc. Given such a high number of staying students I'd say it's well worth the money (for Germany).
Researchers address 'state of uncertainty' in drones
It was fun creating 3M threads on my laptop back in the day. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/a4n7s/stackless... :) memories!
Hell, they just need to watch Star Wars.

the more you tighten your grip, the more star systems will slip through your fingers

It's like they just don't understand causality, at all.
I'm fascinated by the idea of exploring the underground layout of cities interactively in 3D. Is there anything that offers that experience? I expect geographic data might be available for tube lines, for example.
This is really good fun! Thanks a mil.
Much, much more likely to die in a car crash, but you can't justify militarising your state in the name of traffic safety.
Thanks Shane. Love your picks by the way!
We also call ourselves "geeks," which is also quite bad, and we've done little to stop the media and industry rebranding us as "coders," a job title with little prestige or connotations of authority and professionalism, over our previous titles like "software engineer/developer/architect" or even just "programmer." Collectively, we're really pretty socially inept, aren't we?
Chinese hackers had access to millions of records of US workers
Verbling Hiring Engineers (Node.js, React, iOS, DevOps)
Free IoT Whitepaper:Bridging the Gap Btw Devices and Developers with Cloud Service
I knew a bunch of people who died in the wtc (Lehman), I was one tube behind the one that blew up in London.

I still think the best response to terror is to shrug it off and get on with your life. Spent 7/7 sat at a pub in the sunshine.
If you are redistributing, hosting or using it commercially you have to have the agreement of the author of the content. RSS just gives you access in another way than HTML, but it does not circumvent copyright.
Should I Use Relative or Absolute URLs?
Also, binge drinking frat parties aren't a thing in Germany.

There are fraternities ("Burschenschaften"), but they're very different and far less popular. They tend to keep to themselves more and are less visible to non-member students.
All-nighters' worth of unpaid overtime and crowded, noisy, privacy-free open office working conditions that would make anyone who isn't a 20-something long for the days of the once-denigrated cube farm. Really shows how little respected we are.
Great article but this line at the end is a bit weird:

"These villagers themselves have yet to reap many of the benefits of modern civilization, including electricity, clean water, or employment opportunities"

Employment opportunities? Really? Isn't that kind of missing the whole point?
See also: 5 Famous People Who Succeeded Long After They Should've Quit

http://www.cracked.com/article_19655_5-famous-late-bloomers....

Lists: Alan Rickman, Peter Roget, Joseph Conrad, Kathryn Joosten and Harland “Colonel” Sanders.
Even with high-profile, high-fear factor, violent events we're highly selective about what we freak out about. Last year a military installation shot down a commercial airplane, killing nearly 300 people. No military solution called for, no drastic measures taken, commercial flights are still flying over war zones today.

Why do we believe we should/could do something about all foreign and domestic crazy people (so called 'lone wolfs' like at Boston) and all crazy and motivated groups who hate the US because of our foreign policy in their region (and there are plenty of regions with negative perspectives) when we can't even prevent state actors from killing civilians?
HN'ers in Rwanda?
Hi, I'm a designer/programmer and I'll be in Rwanda for the rest of June (I am from Canada but currently live in Berlin). I'm into JavaScript and Clojure, & previously co-founded Hacking Health, a network of health-focused hackathons, as well as Sparkboard, software for managing hackathons. I'm interested in developer tools and learning (I spent last summer at Hacker School / Recurse Center). If there's anyone in Rwanda who would like to meet up, please email me! mhuebert@gmail.com.
So sad to see Pipes go! I absolutely love Pipes and was just raving about it to a coworker this week. Terrific UI and a fantastic idea. When development fizzled out, I tried to find another service as a replacement, but everything I've tried has fallen short. I'm really disappointed as Pipes is definitely one of the best ideas that never caught on line it should. Popfly, while short lived, had the advantage of being able to modify the code behind, but it didn't come close to the fantastic ease of use and tremendous potential for reuse.
Show HN: Alt-G, an original puzzle game
Hi and thank you for your reply. We might get in contact and you might be my first beta tester, if you like to.

The decision for a Desktop App were the following:
- i don't like the cloud
- Access to internal projects (like on "localhost) which are not accessible via Internet
- No Limit (expect your own (CPU & Bandwidth) and your server to test (mostly bandwidth)).

You might be right that such a tool on the web might be more lucrative, but for a developer, it also seem to be more hindering.

As soon as this tool runs on a server, i have to keep track of bandwidth and cpu on the server. The will probably lead to crawling queues and such and this will lead to waiting for the user. This isn't a problem for a working website, but imagine you are just before a website launch and your checking will take one or two days before it even gets started.

Or if your are a SEO Person and like to show your customer right now the results of a complete SEO Analyse within a minute.

Right now, my tool is very fast and can be adjusted to your needs. Mostly, its limited by your own CPU, Bandwidth and pages of your website. You can, if the circumstances are ok, crawl and analyze 1000 Website Pages within a minute... If you need it, you can even do a load test with it ... this actually brought my server down on my first attempt, so Load-Testing became an additional service of my tool.

Would be nice to hear from you if you like to test my tool and give some feedback.

Greets,

Chris
search on google
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Yeah, similar experience here on 7/7 (although I fortuitously walked instead of getting the tube that day, I do know a bunch of people who were close). I wasn't far off the centre of Manchester when they did the Arndale either. All you can do, as you correctly point out, is shrug and carry on.
Although I'm interested in what they've built, with a phobia against insects, I can't even think about using it.
It is indeed very true, with compressed samples put through more compression and then limited. Look at the waveforms of some tracks and they'll be like square waves.

Rush Vapor Trails is the worst offender, perhaps?
> Perhaps you could go further and tease out why...

I suggested it for much more mundane than you suggested: Google is likely to have valuable political, economic and political information because politicians, businessmen and service members have personal Google accounts, and employees are the weakest link in an organization's security. I don't think anyone's going to be sending out the designs for the next stealth fighter over Gmail, but plenty of people would be sending out innocuous documents, contact information, personal problems, etc. Intelligence services thrive on innocuous information in aggregate.
It's the same isn't it? :-)
Honestly why don't they have an easy to understand rating system? Specs do nothing for me, having been out of the PC gaming market for ages since I swapped to Mac. I do have a basic understanding of the CPUs and GPUs but when you combine X with Y and throw in W, what do I have?

Give me a solid number so I can compare machines quickly. How much Steam does my SteamMachine have?
Wow! I've competed in rowing at fairly high level and reading this is article is shocking. I did not expect such a huge performance boost and THEN to turn up clean is insane.

So far I've always given people the benefit of the doubt but this really makes me wonder...
Popular Facebook-endorsed gaming plugin can steal your email
Shut up "coder" and get back to work. You don't need a private office. After all, you aren't a doctor, a lawyer, or even an MBA. Also, don't forget about all of those stock options we gave you in lieu of a market-rate salary; those could potentially make you a millionaire! Quit your whining.
Thank you for changing the name of the title. The default title is clickbait which I find very surprising given this is a tech post and IMO the audience for such posts hates these titles.
SoftBank investment values Clash of Clans maker Supercell at astonishing $5.5B
Thank you for this link. I wasn't aware that there are still several "uncontacted" tribes, especially in South America. Fascinating.
Ask HN: Looking for an overview of web application development
I am interested in web development.

There seem to be a lot of languages involved. I am finding the abundance of options confusing. Searching the web mostly revealed strong opinions about the author's platform of choice without convincing analysis.

Can anyone direct me to a book or site which describes the overall web framework and discusses the merits of competing options? I need something that breaks down how websites are served and what type of operations are performed on the client vs the server.

I tried to figure out how websites I liked were built. They tended to list various stacks. The variations convinced me that many roads lead to Rome, but left me without a map of the various paths.

Background: I have built desktop applications in java and common lisp. I find lisp more enjoyable, and would prefer to work in a lisp style. However, I recognize that a flexible approach may be required. I took a class in Ruby on Rails several years ago, but it was rather poorly taught. I have played around with html and css.

Endstate: I would like to be able to produce a site with capabilities similar to smartsheet.
The Complete Guide to the Kano Model – Prioritizing Customer Satisfaction
I was talking about local companies...
So are you saying the C++ STL under Windows is poorly implemented and causes sudden executable growth?
(Admittedly, std::max has performance problems under VC2010 but that's kind of old)

Software bloat has nothing to do with the runtimes. It's how people use the runtimes that's the problem. Saying that the runtimes cause software bloat is a massive generalisation.

When I use the MSVC runtimes my software isn't bloated. I compile the same code under OSX and Linux and it also isn't bloated there. In fact, under OSX it uses far more RAM, and I have to bundle along dylibs with the executable inside the .app itself in order for it to be usable. This makes my OSX app far far larger than my Windows binary, which just relies on the MSVC runtimes.

Interestingly, my software doesn't crash either. If the MSVC runtimes were "bloated and buggy" then I would be crashing all the time, but my programs don't....

The executable format under Windows was originally designed to be portable - hence PE (portable executable). Just because they abandoned the other platforms (outside Intel land) does not make the binary unportable.
Because we aren't respected the way other knowledge workers are. Look at the abuse heaped on us by the press or the anti-tech worker protests in SF.
Also worth looking at "Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell" http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000929
Using the web for economic growth and environmental impact
Around 2012 there was an edit but the first two lines were accidently removed - both the <HTML> and <HEAD> tags are now missing but later closed.

This can be confirmed with internet archive. [1] vs [2]

[1] http://web.archive.org/web/20111220220928/http://ericschmidt...

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20131030012224/http://ericschmidt...
On Toxic Deadlines
> Every feature of every part of the HTML spec has to be supported for every transport. End of discussion.

Where does that feeling of entitlement come from? What makes you think you have the right to access my camera or microphone via your web page, or even execute arbitrary JS on my computer in the first place? Websites have no right to do such things. They are privileges that I grant on a case-by-case basis via my user-agent and various plugins. You don't even have any guarantee that your DOM and CSS will render as you intended, because I block all sorts of things and sometimes even tweak the styles to make the content more readable. My computer, my rules.

So I see no problem with restricting websites to a known-to-be-safe subset of features by default, until and unless a website can demonstrate that they take my privacy and security seriously. Privileges must be earned, not taken for granted, and ruthlessly revoked at the first sign of misuse.

The HTML spec describes the maximum privileges that a website can hope to have, not the minimum that it can expect to have. If your website doesn't need any special privileges, feel free to use whatever transport you want.
My comments having been very measured and calm. I have simply stated my understanding and tried to reduce unnecessary confusion. I was not explicit when I didn't think I needed to be, but did respond positively when asked to be explicit. I have never been confusing. I don't think I deserve to be attacked.
Gosh, is not so funny when is legal ;-)

http://icelandreview.com/news/2015/04/27/killing-basques-now...
Because this year's "Steam grade 1" will be next year's "Steam grade three".

Even if you include a date - "Steam 2016 grade 1" you're going to need some kind of comparison table to work out if your game ("runs on 'steam 2017 grade 3'") will work on your machine or not.
Mood-altering smartphone device released in US
Until the lowest bid contractor who built the key storage system gets hacked or an admin walks out with an external hard drive.

Then you have the massive cost of re-issuing all the keys.
Station Viewer has 3D diagrams of a few stations:

http://stations.aeracode.org
Interesting... I may decide to downplay my own page... I've been trying to find a combination of time and motivation to move my blog and homepage into something more cohesive, though I don't think I'd go quite this basic... it looks so much like something from 1994 to be honest.

As to another's comment on the speed... interestingly enough the image and twitter button don't actually load that fast... they pop in.... for what it is, having the images inline may be a better choice (for raw speed). As would simplifying the broken markup.
It's just a change to the defaults.

You can enable this right now. Go to Settings> Privacy> Plugins, and change "Run all plugin content (recommended)" to "Detect and run important plugin content"
There are 3D tube maps:

http://brunoimbrizi.com/experiments/#/07

https://vimeo.com/67869313 (last one seems to be only available as a video)

Also, just as a tangential point, you may be interested in the BBC documentary from last week about underground spaces in Rome, which was excellent. It's called "Rome's Invisible City", and there are a couple of copies on youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QAaYi0Zt4I
Related, much earlier (2003) article: http://www.outsideonline.com/1924306/drug-test

He didn't try to avoid any tests though.

That micro-dosing is effective for passing the biological passport hasn't been news since Tyler Hamilton detailed how it was done in his book[1]. Michele Ferrari (who invented it, and systemised a lot of doping methodology) is bad person.

If you are interested in any endurance sport outside of cycling (which suffered the worst for a long time) then your sport has some challenges.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Hamilton#Autobiography
I really would like to see sports where performance-enhancing drugs (except life-threatening ones) are permitted.
Spark Reaches for the Holy Grail: Federated Queries
Massive Cyberattack: 4 Mil. Federal Employees’ Records
NYSE Chairman: Millennials Trust Bitcoin More Than Fiat
I thought George Friedman had some interesting perspectives on the Greece, Germany and the dept crisis.

In this video [0], Friedman explains that keeping all countries in the Euro is very important for the German economy (export + welfare state). And it seems the Greece government uses this knowledge in their negotiations with the EU.

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[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeLu_yyz3tc&t=1545
How can computing geodesic distances be slow? Isn't it rather trivial math? I'm pretty sure 5 million of them can be calculated in a few seconds on my laptop. And it can be offloaded to the client.

Whereas route calculation can't be easily offloaded.
I think Markov chains would be a bad idea for the use case of passwords because some words always follow certain words.
A bad name can kill a good product and hinder a great product. Example: Diaspora, Deus Ex.
I like this one:
https://github.com/yarrick/pingfs
>if you can force the target to e.g. boot from a malicious USB device.

If you can control the boot media, aren't you already past the point where you need further exploits to control the machine?
This is technically true, but it's very common to take more hours than the absolute minimum. Good driving schools don't send you off to take your practical exam if they don't think you have a good chance to pass.

It has less to do with being a bad driver and more with your learning progress. If you're a bad driver, you shouldn't pass the practical exam no matter how often you take it -- and your driving school shouldn't send you to it in the first place.

Case in point: I paid for a ridiculous number of lessons because I switched instructors halfway through and was full-time self-employed. If I had been able to keep a tighter schedule I could have done it in a fraction of the time. I passed the written and practical exams on the first attempt but what bloated the costs was having up to two week gaps in between driving lessons.

To expand on your summary: it's 12 classes (only two classes that are mandatory, for the rest you just have to show up to ten of them in total, you can go to the same class multiple times) but going to those classes is rarely enough to pass the written exam, so you normally also get a book. As the written exam is a (mostly) multiple-choice test with questions from a well-known pool, there's also software that lets you train the exact pool of questions which your exam will be based on. Many driving schools have you take a simulated exam before they give you the paperwork you need to sign up for the real thing. How long it takes you before you can pass the exam mostly depends on how good you are at rote learning.

The 12h driving consists of various lessons. These include various scenario-based lessons (i.e. driving on the Autobahn, driving at night-time and driving on rural roads). You have to take a specified number of lessons for each scenario. You also have to take a minimum number of regular driving lessons but most people I know have done more than the bare minimum for various reasons. Most driving instructors do these lessons in batches of two per session (as, depending on traffic, you can easily spend half a lesson just getting to the training area and back).

I think this part is different from the US: driving lessons (even the very first one) are generally done in real traffic. Although you often do a few of the early exercises in safe environments, many instructors make you drive there and back. Driving instructors are trained to operate cars from the front passenger seat (which, btw, is called Beifahreritz -- literally "co-driver seat" -- in German) using a second set of pedals and mirrors the training cars are equipped with; so they can always take over and simply grab the steering wheel if necessary.
HN'ers in Vancouver, Canada? Anyone interested in coffee and cake?
I'll be in Vancouver, Canada, on the w/e of June 13th/14th. Anyone interested in meeting up for coffee and/or cake and chat about anything of mutual interest?
Show HN: A gem for method overloading based on pattern matching for Ruby
Gaming Plug-In Leaves Hundreds of Millions of PCs Vulnerable
This is a super interesting read! Having come into Rust from an experience with mostly object-oriented languages (Python, Java, C++), what you seem to have taken for granted, I found surprising and new, and what you are surprised by (such as self parameters), I found quite normal. It's great to see the other side of this.
To be technical ... from a information theoretical point of view your brain definitely can't hold infinite information so it definitely fills up in the sense you can't possibly be adding information without evicting/corrupting something else. I personally don't think we can reach that point within a human lifetime though.

Something more interesting to think about is the limits of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_memory which you probably fill up on a day to day basis.
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In the same way one can consider a deeply flawed person beautiful and valuable, surely it's possible to consider the bible a beautiful and valuable book while accepting it's inconsistencies and horrible parts?

The Sermon on the Mount I find beautiful. The general account of Jesus' life too. I also rather like Ecclesiastes and Song of Solomon is basically porn!
No more than a neural network can be full. To anybody who has worked with neural networks, the following comes as no surprise:

old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain
for new memories to form

Weights in a NN like the brain would just gradually shift. Older, seldom-accessed information will slowly fade.

That said, a NN can suffer from the trying-to-be-jack-of-all-trades, ending-up-an-idiot problem.
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It's doing well, thanks :)

Thinking of offering more products/different kind of plans.

We are also still trying to figure out exactly the right price-point, so tweaking a bit the price/amount of tea. I have an Ask HN to do about that by the way...
Not a huge problem as long as you don't plan to use RAID for storage.
Interesting article. I was surprised by how mature and automated the technology was, given how relatively few tunnelling operations of this scale have been attempted.

Also, the concrete slabs, and presumably therefore the tunnel, have a projected lifespan of 120 years [1]. I wonder what use the tunnels will be put to in 2120?

[1] http://www.railtechnologymagazine.com/Rail-News/Concrete-seg...
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