skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I turned down UCL and KCL to go to Bristol, which is lower rated than both on this year's list.

I can see why you would want to go to a university as high up this list as possible, because you want your degree to be from an institution that potential employers will recognise. In the UK at least, having an Oxbridge degree will automatically doors to some opportunities that aren't otherwise easy to get into.

But, if you're actually concerned about the quality of education that you get (hint: if you're spending 3+ years on it then you probably should be), then bear in mind that individual faculties and departments within universities vary a lot and a ranking system can't replace doing your own research.
I would be surprised if motor vehicle deaths were "anomalously" high

Depends. Does getting shot while driving count? ;-)
Even if this is 1/2 to 3/4 water weight loss, that still likely isn't healthy.

You're right though, without more information to supply context it's hard to judge what is "too much".
Shame they didn't implement a Baraja[1]; now there's a challenge!

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baraja_(playing_cards)
This looks great and should solve a number of issues with the current API.

I have an app that basically tracks donations for different campaigns. Getting total donations per campaign isn't easy with the current API. There is nothing like a "select sum()" statement in Parse. Basically I currently have to run a cron job on my machine that will periodically download all donations by campaign and update the total donations field on the campaign (the regular user account doesn't have privileges to edit the campaign object).

This seems like it will be a much cleaner, saner way to take care of this type of task.
Thank you. That sounds really cool.
https://aboutmybrowser.com/450321640
How does this effect the current pricing structure?
Ask HN: What do you guys think of my javascript library aggregator?
Took 2 and a half hours to throw this together. I'm looking for critiques on my coding / implementation.

http://javascriptloader.phpfogapp.com/
> I can see it might not be constant over an extended period, but I don't think there are many, if any, things that would cause a significant spike.

While it's hard to predict, I personally wouldn't bet against a game changing spike in the coming decades. It's only very recently that medicine has started riding Moore's law. Robotics and miniaturization are speeding up basic research by orders of magnitude.

I don't think it's unreasonable to say that biology has achieved more in the past two decades than in all preceding history. And there's no sign that the exponential is running out.

Granted, there may be fundamental limits that we don't appreciate yet. That's the whole draw of science, we simply don't know.
how is this priced?

a cloud code request probably can't fit within the pricing model posted on the parse site as a single API request because it may presumably have huge variance in resource consumption. like what's to stop someone from use parse's resources to run bitcoin miners?
Clean web startup Honest Buildings raises its first round of financing
A Case Study on Corporate Philanthropy
The environment is based on V8, which provides a lot of tools to sandbox javascript code. There's some other pretty cool technology there - we might write a more detailed blog post about it if folks are interested.
Olaround launched in Pakistan with collaboration of Google
I don't think you can assert the stance on names from a stance on copyright or patents; they're very different issues. Trademarks can be abused, but they're much less problematic and create a direct, tangible benefit to the consumer (not getting defrauded by fakes).
Randall has written a very interesting and painfully accurate book on the full YC experience. If you have questions about our YC experience, feel free to ask.

And for more info on the book - check out his site: http://randallstross.com/thelaunchpad/
Besides going to Wharton it helps to inherit a couple hundred million dollars.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Trump
While I agree with what you say, it had the opposite effect with me. "Drinking this grande mocha frappa doppa lattechino will make that hour-long run for nothing, and I didn't endure being bored out of my wits for an hour for a lousy coffee".

This lead to quite the weight loss.
Some other reading on the factuality of the importance some people/diets are putting on the glycemic index: http://alanaragon.com/glycemic-index

The conclusions part is pretty great.
Thanks for the feedback, and if you have any specific ideas of how we can better explain it - please shoot them my way. And yeah, we'll see about getting rid of the marketing-speak in our next update.

Sounds like you've groked the big concept, but we'd love it if people didn't have to ponder over it before understanding what it is. Thanks for taking the time.
Do I want the option to trade disk space for greatly increased reliability? You betcha. Also, snapshotting.
Tutorial: Getting started with scala and scalatra - Part I
Intel's Haswell chips are engineered to cut power use
I like how it sets up shims I always re-implement in require.js. Sweet.
I somewhat agree with your points.

You can't just explain every single design pattern available in any given language and then say, you now know how to write that language "The right way!".

Thats the feeling I got from this, it just goes into way too much detail about way too many things, and forgets to start with the basics, which is all you need to know to write JavaScript the right way.

How can you write any language the right way without knowing the basics?

This book could be an absolute disaster in the hands of people who don't know any better.

+1 for steering clear of this resource.
I don't see myself doing anything like this. Help them help you.
What sort of vocals do you like? Any examples? Just curious with regard to your qualitative opinion here. I happen to like this, but I won't judge. To each their own.
Love this idea. Surprising that it hasn't been done yet, has it?
Really not my argument here. What I'm suggesting is that one clear idiot has leveraged the value of knowing what something costs to a non-trivial level of success. In our line of work, the most important commodity is developer time. Having a fundamental grasp of such is a unique competitive edge.
Totally agree ... great post along those same lines here: http://joethepeacock.blogspot.com/2012/09/9112012.html

"I think that many (too many) people feel that, if you don't stop and make a public display of paying tribute, you don't care. And God forbid you don't care about a tragedy, lest you be thought of as a heartless bastard. It's like all these personal moments are made public simply so we don't look bad in public about our personal feelings.

At this point, we are past the grieving stage. We are not grieving as a nation. We are now posturing; making a presentation for the sole purpose of avoiding the appearance of not caring."
I agree. Most fad diets seem to be an elaborate trick to get you counting calories. They typically start out by dismissing calorie counting as difficult/boring/depressing (it is), then forbidding/strictly limiting/making less exciting extremely calorie-dense foods, then using some other metric (typically, portion size + preparation) to effectively limit calories.

It works up until a large enough mass of people subscribe to the fad, then someone finds a way to pack more enjoyment (also, calories) into the fad's rules. From there the fad stops "working" and another one rises to the top.
For every stage, there is a salesperson - Joe Kraus
I don't get it... why do the ISPs even bother opting in? Isn't it just time and money spent on basically making their customers angry, and for what benefit on their part? Why spend money on something that provides no obvious benefit, and many negatives, to the company?

I know some ISPs are also content providers, so I get that one. But what about the rest?
Just out of curiosity, the 'result' from that Wolfram computation: 4.807 * 10^8 kgm^2/s^2.

What is that in relation to the speed of free fall of that floor? Is that roughly half? - i.e. in total free fall, you would expect that the floor would fall at 9.8 * 10^8 kgm^2/s^2?

Thanks!
Yes -- the author of the paper added a link to the required MathJax JavaScript resource, and the math now renders as it should. HN doesn't allow editing or deletion of comments beyond a certain time, so my original remark is unrecoverably out of date.
Mr. Boingy - WebGL Soft Body Physics
Warning of trouble ahead for seed funded startups
Julian Assange threatened legal action over WikiLeaks documentary
I'm pretty sure popen is just a wrapper around this stuff. It's basically,

pipe: get two fds connected by a pipe

fork: create a child process

dup2: move the read fd of the pipe to 0 (stdin) in the new process

exec: run the program in the child process

There's some cleanup but that's the gist - popen isn't a syscall (or reasonably close to one), so must necessarily rely on other stuff to get its work done where it actually interfaces with the kernel.
I think it is more of a difference between experienced vs inexperienced. Unity hasn't been around as long as the devs behind braid, super meat boy, or minecraft have been making games. Most of your experienced indie devs will already know how to program, or already have a game engine they like to mod. So you are going to have to wait a few years for kids who picked Unity over OpenGL or Half Life mods to become experienced enough to make something great before you can really make that call.
> You can buy PC's with it preinstalled and buy PCs with no operating system so you can install it.

This sounds like a fairy tale, given how many problems people have with claiming the Windows refund alone, let alone getting alternative OSes preinstalled. And no OS option? Virtually non existent, except may be for corporate customers and servers.

> I don't think Microsoft is a monopoly

They formally avoid antitrust regulations by delegating the refund to OEMs (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_refund), but it doesn't change the factual situation - Windows is bundled practically by all major OEMs, and you hardly can find an option of Linux preisntalled or no OS for those OEMs. Getting a refund for Windows is a burden which one has to fight through, do you think it's not an artificial restriction on the competition? I think it is, and it needs to be broken.
The anti-skeuomorphism crusade is more distracting than the designs it calls out. If I were a designer and if I had any influence, I'd add some gratuitous skeu-ness to a design just to attempt to calm the skeuphobia sweeping the design world.
This is true and a huge annoyance to me when people say "When social security was first put in place, most people didn't live to collect it!"

This is of course false. Back in the early 1900's when life expectancy was only around 60, if you survived your childhood, you'd likely live to 70 or 80.
I have a lot of these.

philosophy.txt

{book/lecture/topic-name}.txt

tweets.txt

happiness.txt

Does anybody remember that website which can automatically notify you on these ideas periodically? I think it was on Show HN the other day? I was hoping to hack my brain in this way.

"I study life and draw conclusions, abstracting the particular instances I experienced into broader maxims."

This is part of one of my maxims. A lot are methods of thinking which I use out-of-the-box to take an idea to the next level. A few are just basic ideas in life and architecture/development/nature which are fundamental building blocks.
These are fine but for me, it looks like this https://dl.dropbox.com/u/26141789/CloudShot/shot_9112012_110...

Is it different for you? And btw, not all experiments on cssdeck have play feature.
It looks to me like these are going to be short-running, on-request computations, that might timeout. Not long-running back-end code.

Edit: Confirmed! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4506783
Looks like most ISPs are either content companies themselves (Comcast) or have tight relationships with them (AT&T, Verizon).

They all see higher profits in screwing over consumers, apparently
I started with a couple of flat files. Then I used a notepad, then I moved to Xfce Notes (one of my favourite pieces of software), and lately I've been moving to a folder of text files.

While this is certainly an important habit, I wouldn't call it defragmenting. Sometimes I do refine or rewrite my notes, but occasionally delete them entirely, and sometimes find myself more confused, having tied together too many concepts. One thing I have learned is that my thinking changes so much over time that conveying information, even to myself, is surprisingly difficult.
DevOps: To increase reliability you need to have more outages
I wouldn't expect, say, Wyoming to have a well developed public transportation system, or even Colorado as a whole. But once you get past a fairly small number of major cities, our public transportation systems for metropolitan areas are still underdeveloped.

Colorado's front range, for example, would almost certainly benefit from having a well-developed commuter rail system, with heavy passenger rail connecting the corridor from Colorado Springs to Fort Collins (with a spur to Boulder) and light rail taking people from the terminals to points spread further out.

Doing something like this would take a long time and cost a lot of money, but our choice (so far) not to spend that money in most metro areas has a direct effect on the quality of life in this country.
Knowing what everything cost is not the same as being able to build. Sure you know a for loop, that dont make you a developer. You may just be able to know when the dev is lying, but really..
'Riots globally' not "Global Riot"
Whatever else he is, Julian Assange is certainly a five star prat.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=prat
This sounds cool, but (IMO) it's actually a bad idea. When I was in my late teens / early twenties, I essentially had a 180HP version of this.

It was a lot more expensive back then: $4,000 for the 1984 Chevy Blazer and $0 dollars for an extension cord we found in the garage, but going going fast on a skateboard, no matter what the method, is dangerous.

The worst part of this idea is "braking". I can assure you the only good way to brake a skate board at speed is a power slide, which you need to be an expert to do.

I've hit sand at speed and, even knowing it was coming, the slight braking power of the sand was enough to throw me. It's difficult to explain, but between knowing how far to lean against the braking force AND managing your balance side to side on the trucks, it ends up being harder to pull off than a good ole power slide.

That said, a roller blade version of this would be cool.
OS/2 at 25: Surprising Afterlife of Operating System
As a woman, I feel that there should also be step by step instructions on how to install these feminine applications while carrying a baby in my left hand.
I think you hit it on the head with the weight issue. 15 pounds isn't light, but it's manageable for most people -- about the same as an 18 pack of canned soda/beer. The $500 board listed above is a whopping 37 pounds... much heavier than an ordinary person can carry comfortably.
Sounds like something you could do through Odesk for about the same cost and probably more conveniently than IRC.
I don't think Java is beautiful, and would give it an average rating on being clean, but having worked on projects with both small & large teams in multiple languages, I think its one of the best languages for large teams. Its also much easier to assimilate new team members in a large Java project compared to other languages[1], primarily because of static typing and inferencing capabilities that modern IDEs provide. I suspect this is why Google uses it extensively.

For my personal tinkering, I prefer Ruby and love its meta-programming. But I wouldn't use it for a project if the team size is going to exceed 10. Writing Ruby like you write Java will work but doesn't count since the advantages of Ruby are wasted.

[1] Try diving into the source code for Rails/Django compared to a large, well-written Java project (the only ones I can think of right now are Google-internal, sorry)
Google Research blog: Helping the World to Teach
Aren't peppers still fruits?
You might be interested in the "No S" diet. [1]

No Snacks
No Sweets
No Seconds
Save, Sometimes, On S-Days

(S-Days are Saturday, Sunday, or other days that are
special to you for family/cultural/religious reasons)

[1] http://nosdiet.com/
Sweet! Parse is one step closer to being as powerful as my dream host vps was 10 years ago! Congrats guys!
I don't see it as defending GoDaddy at all, quite the opposite. I would be more reassured if it was an unexpected massive DDoS which they weren't prepared for but one which they might prepare for in the future.

The way it's described now is a weakness in their infrastructure of which I wonder if it's possible to prevent this from happening again.
I love this. They're such a creative band, cool when they take a real interest in their fans, elements outside the music itself
That is possibly the coolest thing I have ever seen. Thanks!
Well said. Is the data suggesting causation or correlation?
When people talk about how powerful a programming language is, they're talking about how expressive it is, not that it's Turing complete.
Oh, Wired... you write an article about a hacker and change his name to "protect" him, but publish a photograph of his neighborhood with readable house numbers and license plates.
Cool idea but as others have mentioned, the 'viral' visualization is pretty but doesn't represent any one-to-many shares.

Also, poor China... They don't get to play.
While the information is sparse, I think it's good that articles with this theme get posted on HN a little more often. With few exceptions most of the startups and projects that I see (including my own) do little to address more important problems like this one. It's good to be reminded of that every now and then.
Old - Curve 8520, something like that.
His homepage is awesome!
looks very good. I'd suggest to rework the video since I can't see anything.
Also I would move the how it works section (http://lessneglect.com/customer-analytics#how-it-works) to the top of the page since it's the most important part you need to show to the people right now.
Did I spot an iPad Mini in Madrid?
You make it sound like this is official government policy or a law, but it's just an agreement between some private companies. Copyright holders can already can communicate with ISPs and ISPs can already shut off someone's internet.

My ISP used to forward me copyright violation notices periodically (it was my roommate's doing), and claimed they could shut off my internet after three of them. This six 'strike' policy seems lenient in comparison.
Router bugs aren't unheard of. There was the Juniper MX bug that caused multiple outages for Level3 & Time Warner Cable. That was supposedly just a bad pattern of route injections and withdrawls.

That said I agree that Godaddy's handling and RFO doesn't smell right.
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I know for a fact Unity powers some of the largest mobile releases out there, so that list is probably incomplete. I've also seen it be the default choice for 3D mobile development at at least two more top studios I've been talking to.
By default, Power Nap only turns on limited features when plugged in to a power source.
the more weight you have the faster you can lose lbs.

This may be true at extreme weights but unless he's 5 foot nothing, 250 is not an extreme weight. To safely lose weight you have to cut calories but you can't starve yourself otherwise you aren't losing fat.
Ask HN: I fail at trick interview questions. What to do?
I'm a very experienced hacker with a truly impressive track record of sophisticated projects to my name. I'm the proverbial rock-star/ninja/guru everyone is looking for. I've worked on everything from optimizing compilers to high-end web apps, led teams, ran my own business, contributed widely to open source projects. In other words, I know I can deliver the goods.

It's not often that I interview for jobs. When I do, I tend to ace the conversational part of the interview - I'm confident, knowledgeable and fun to talk to. But when it comes to the famous "trick interview question", I pretty consistently fail. It's not just that I get nervous and confused, but I literally find myself unable to deal with challenges that would be a joke in normal day-to-day work. I think it's a combination of anxiety and some kind of undiagnosed sort of dyslexia (in my day-to-day life I never do anything "on paper", without a computer).

As a result, I fail to get job offers from places I really want to work at, and where I'm pretty certain I could make an excellent hire. I end up being limited to those places where the hiring managers are willing to overlook my failure at the trick questions. It's not a huge problem - I always get something interesting to do, but obviously, my choice is much more constrained than it should be.

Any ideas?
The first company to offer intensive programs like this over the Internet will do well for themselves.
Kewl.. I love this crazy stuff!
Remember that the big ISPs are owned by big content companies. If anything, forcing this issue on people is going to result in increased regulatory oversight, so I honestly don't see this happening.
That was not a rant. That was a cogent example of the usefulness of a non-tech founder.

It also sounds like you don't need a tech founder, now or in the future. You've proven adept at navigating the CTO-type skills already; you can skip ahead to hiring and managing tech employees without substantially diluting your equity on a CTO who provides little additional value.
Douglas Crockford should be named in my opinion, he loves javascript! ...

Javascript: The Good Parts is a pretty good book, good real world examples, like one where Crockford shows you how to split a url with regular expressions in javascript

JSlint is a pretty good tool, great parsing, using C, going on in the source

JSON is great for data. Data is pretty important.
No offense, but how many exits have you had to date?
Pinterest users complain about hacked accounts
Hands-on: Google’s new YouTube app improves on Apple’s offering
> Warren Buffet anyone (who if I remember correctly is the 2nd richest man in the world now, because he gave away enough to make Bill Gates the 1st)?

Not that it matters, but Carlos Slim is richer than either. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes_list_of_billionaires