skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're taught in faculties just like anywhere else. There is a Department of Computer Science or Department of History or whatever, and those are where everyone goes for lectures. You have 1-to-1 or 1-to-2 teaching sessions in your college (or at least, organized by your college), with some kind of relevant academic in the college (taught by a PhD student, PostDoc, professor, depending on who is availble, who the director of studies thinks is good, what level of undergrad etc).

The analogy usually used for the benefit of American-tourists (not meant patronisingly, it's just empirically surprisingly effective) is that it's like Hogwarts. You have the colleges/houses (like gryffindor and hufflepuff) where you live (at least in 1st year) and eat and play sports for, but lectures and the degree in general (like potions class) are all done in faculties with people doing the same course but in other colleges.

Most lecturers and professors will belong to a college too, but they'll still be lecturers in a faculty rather than a college. In Cambridge there is an academic rank called 'College Lecturer' but like most things that doesn't mean what it says, and is probably designed to confuse and intimidate foreign people, like everything else (for example May Week when all the college balls are held after exams, is in June, and the weeks start on Thursday and end on Wednesday). [Lest the po-faced take me seriously, it's not actually designed to confuse people, it's just there's a lot of vestigial baggage that it's not worth the effort of changing [like removing an appaendix when it's not causing you problems] when you've been around almost a millennium and where a switch to the Gregorian Calendar was more recent than when the desk in your study was built.]
"Icon is no good" 1 Star review.

Man do I hate people who review IOS apps in the store.

Personally my initial impression is positive. The slideout menu imitates similar patterns I've seen on the iPad and seems to work well on my phone. Not entirely sold on modals (login is in a popup) - but I have a hate on for modals in general.
Why do you use the Flash version on desktop instead of the HTML5 version?
Looking for developer with NodeJS
Permanent position here in nice Florida for a developer with NodeJs experience. Willing to pay for re-lo and offers competitive salary. Send resumes to jayme.rivera@experis.com
Aaaand obviously not.

And incoming Clojure/Scala/Ruby comments in 3...2....1... go! :)
GitHub truncating repo names in news feed?
GitHub, why did you start truncating repo names in your news feed? Please change it back.

http://cl.ly/image/2I3R0m3f2c2C
Thanks. So I was wrong again.

BTW the graph with time shows that there was reversal - in 2008 Linux had 1.8 % and OSX 1.27 %, now OSX has 1.53 % and Linux 1.06 %.

Makes me sad.
The Horror, The Horror - a first-hand account of the WTC atrocity (2001)
Irrigation water has to come from somewhere. In most areas the renewable aquifers are already tapped above refill rates, and the fossil aquifers are a fragile source, as they will run out.

Saline conversion plants are one option, but much more expensive than rain.

More droughts will obviously lead to more drought adaptation, but the effectiveness of the adaptation isn't automatic. I imagine they will encourage more efficient irrigation techniques though.
Great thanks. What deters me is R&D, if someone wants to make a Saas web application, say something like basecamp, to me there isn't really much research required other than what is already publicly available in books/tutorials.

How can someone receive a grant for something like that? (Or do you have to fudge the truth?)
My quick glance of the headline was that the MBP used the kinetic motion to recharge its battery...I'd accept a glued in battery for that feature.
Umm, I'm not really sure what you are getting at.

Regarding meetups, I was asking more about online communities. Meetups are great, but sometimes you just want to chat or ask questions online.
I have no idea, im afraid. I like the thought of an "ambitious reproduction", but "awesome" works just as well :)
Hence,

> 2. It takes more than code to make a business.

Like culture, marketing, market validation, generating press buzz, interviews, recruiting, and so forth. If the idea guy can't do a lot of those business-y things, you don't have a business so the 6-month question is premature.
OMG! How did you manage to install Snow Leopard on Macbook Air 2012!? I'm very curious to know the method.
Ask HN: Options for selling small web business?
I've been running my own web design and programming company for over ten years. It is a steady business that has a loyal client base and supports my family of four. While I am the primary face of the business, I use a network of contractors (friends who are designers and developers) to help me with larger projects.

I was recently offered a management position at a local company that would effectively double my annual income and provide some long term benefits and stability to my family. It may be too good to pass up. However, I'm not sure what to do with my existing business.

One of the ideas I am playing with is "selling" my business to one of my contractors. Because the contractor is not in a position to buy it out right, I have been trying to think of ways that I could be compensated for the existing work and good will I have built up over the years. What are the options for such a sale?

My top idea is to create a "seller's fee" that would essentially mean I get paid some percentage (20-30%) of the revenue generated by the business for the next X years (2?, 3?, 5?). Has any one been involved in such a deal and what are fair parameters? What are other options or models for selling a business like mine?

PS. Yes, this is a throw away account to protect the parties involved.
Wasn't this just an intro email? I occasionally get emails from friends or friends of friends who are looking for marketing advice and while most of the projects don't interest me, I at least send back another email asking a few questions before rejecting them.
3 reasons London's Tech City is seeing explosive growth
..would love to hear what factors make a great "scene"...
Another first world problem on HN. What's going on with HN?! :-(
I was wondering if submission time had something to do with it. thanks.
Pitching to a programmer is the best from of natural selection. Someone should make a webform that directs non programmers through The Wax on Wax Off of being an effective non programmer. There is equal contribution that can occur with non programmers but it takes quiet a bit more effort than most non techs think.
You're right. I knew I'd miss something! Thanks for catching my mistake.
Dan North: Embracing uncertainty
there's another route. break down what you want to do and you can basically get it done for free. For example:

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Requirements.

1. requisition an Amazon EC2 instance for me.

No other steps.

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then a tech guy on IRC will do it for $5. Next, you want to get someone to do the following. I need a programmer to put a plain rails installation on my amazon ec2 instance.

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Requirements.

1. Install rails on my amazon server.

No other steps, no configuration.

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Then someone from IRC will do it for you, shittily, for $10.

Next, you want to do the hard part. "I need someone to create a page in my rails installation that says Enter your email address in the box below. It doesn't have to work. Like this: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_for...

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Requirements doc:

1. The following code translated into a rails app that doesn't have to do anything:

- http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_for...

There are no other requirements.

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Someone will do it for you for $5. Next you would say:

"I need to get this rails form working." and link to the page showing the non-working form.

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Requirements doc.

1. Whenever a user submits their name and address on the following rails page __________ it should be added to a database connected to rails.

There are no other requirements.

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Someone on IRC will do it for $10.

Next you would requisition a non-working table of other names who have used that field. Next you requisition someone to get the table working.

Next you requisition a change from "name and email address" to the REAL point of your form. Maybe you're building an online trading platform where people can enter information about collectable turds, and you will be monetizing this.

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Requirements doc.

1. Change "name" and "email address" to two different fields I give you, keeping the application working.

No other requirements.

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Someone will do it for you for $10.

In this way you can boil the chicken slowly, and by the time you've blown through $85 you'll have a complete turd-trading platform with built-in recurring billing and a % commission your turd platform takes on every transaction.

Yes, not everyone can pull it off. Your main risk is that you have to kind of screen the fifty-sixty programmers who will be comming in and out of your amazon instance.

But with a little dedication, you can pretty much get unlimited work for free and get to keep 100% of it. The point is to only do one super-simple thing at a time.

I guess you have to have some technical understanding of what's happening behind the scenes to pull this off though. Maybe enroll in a quick seminar :)

Good luck with your turd platform.
Two of the most contested resources in much of the world.
If you still have the DVD then I guess you can just pop it in your super drive.
Torque is awesome. It was really quite unnerving when GarageGames was shutting down for a short time before I believe they were purchased by a different company.

Torque2D and the iOS version are both fantastic for quickly and easily building 2d games. However, with cocos2d and cocos2d-x, Torque2D has quickly lost it's appeal outside of the fantastic scene builder.
Interesting:

First Party Cookies - Third Party Cookies - Third Party Requests

Mashable: 12 - 13 - 36

Techcrunch: 12 - 37 - 30

Betabeat: 7 - 4 - 28

Apple:13 - 0 - 0

Microsoft: 4 - 3 - 3

Reddit: 5 - 0 - 5

NYTimes: 6 - 6 - 16

Khan Academy: 9 - 1 - 8

Groupon: 10 - 1 - 18
Cool idea! Here's my feedback: Feels like there is too much on the page that doesn't do anything. Since this is essentially a search box with a button and a result, I would eliminate almost everything on the page and focus all attention on that search box and the results. Also you should show something if the search doesn't come up with an average, perhaps the few listings that did come up. Better yet, show the eBay search results no matter what, so I can edit my search if it looks like the wrong items are being averaged.
Could you explain what you found poor about it? I thought it was rather good TBH.
Assembla Touch Released - Task and Project Management on your iPhone and iPad
I wonder how much of this is over-fitting.

When I see statistical predictions like this I always wonder about the over-fitting problem.
The mind of a teenage boy can be a dangerous place. They are old enough to realize the possibilities and thrills associated with what they are doing, but not experienced enough to realize the consequences of their actions. I know I was a "knucklehead" from about age 15-20. I never did anything that got me into too much trouble, but I distinctly remember that the line between right and wrong seemed much hazier than it does to me now. I only wish I could figure out a way to impress upon my kids the consequences of their actions.
Repost [1]. The other thread has some interesting comments too.

1. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503104
This is the first time I've heard anything about Out Of This World's scripting - can you provide any more info on it?

I always just assumed it was hardcoded.
Inside YC: Who wants to be a billionaire?
Brain fart. Lion, not Snow Leopard. Time flies!
In particular, oil is a fungible commodity. Fungibility is the key factor here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungibility
Lectures are organized by the relevant subject's department, independently of the colleges; in many ways the departments are as autonomous as the colleges. But supervisions, the more important part of the Cambridge style of teaching, are organized by your college (though smaller colleges with only a few students in a given subject will often share supervisions, and even the biggest colleges might send you elsewhere to be supervised if you've picked an obscure specialization in your third year). Almost all colleges offer almost all subjects (there are a few special cases like st edmund's which is a dedicated theological college AIUI), but some do have a reputation for particular subjects; many (but by no means all) computer science students (in general most students don't have a minor in the UK, especially in Cambridge) go to either Trinity Hall (for its history/reputation and its generous internet usage policies) or to Churchill (which is physically closest to the Computer Science department)
Yeah but this leaked weeks ago. When was this launched? Still really cool.
That's what I would have thought, but I found this on Facebook before my music–blog reading friends found a link to it.
Will not buy any more apple product, iphone 4s was enough trouble. Buddy convinced me getting one.
Amaya does not render correctly the most basic SVG files. Even IE6 would make a better reference implementation of web standards.

Batik seems to be the most well-tested and conformant implementation of SVG at the moment: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/status.html, though I would use WebKit as reference because of it's market share and potential of Google and Apple to change the SVG spec.
Türkiye Estonya maci canli izle
Myself being somewhat of a minimalist, I don't really like the idea of the application shipping with its own set of music and other graphic assets i'll never make use of. But I do recognise it's hard to strike a balance between leaving enough of this content in and removing it simply for the sake of storage reductions.

There's a reason I included the idea of a package manager in
'Crazy Pipe Dreams' - I'm not at all thinking this would happen, and you raise a valid point about Apple being the one to co-ordinate releasing the programs.

Have you had any experience with Mac development? UIKit is far more pleasurable and easier to work with than AppKit IMO - I was simply meaning trying to introduce more framework consistency between platforms, hopefully resulting in apps being far easier to be ported to and from each platform.

I didn't say ZFS should replace HFS+, simply noting that Apple promised inclusion of it in Snow Leopard. Although things like snapshots would be a welcome addition to some power users, but I am well aware that ZFS & OS X won't ever really happen.
I'm Polish :)
Jon Stewart's first Daily Show episode after 9/11/01
In Defense of Judging Startups Based on VC Dollars Raised
"All we need is your name to show you a preview", or "You won't need to enter anything else unless you purchase". Emphasise that the name is all you need, I think that would solve the issue.
We built the main sessions in Flash first because it was the quickest way to discover what it was that we were building! So the Flash version has been around longest and is the most stable (and currently the slickest). Once we were confident of the functional requirements we built the HTML5 version, but that's still in beta so we display the Flash version by default if you have it installed/enabled. Quite a few technical challenges we had to overcome to chain videos seamlessly in HTML5 on iPad...we'll definitely be writing about it once the launch dust has settled...
It's interesting that they chose not to include the ability to pull videos being shared on Facebook, Google+, and Twitter (these are all options in the web app).

Curious what the HN community thinks about that lack of "social" inflow - I always feel like those networks are better at curating video that YouTube's "recommended" stream.
nevermind. I see it looks like Sept. 3rd. It did leak over 3 weeks ago but this is a cool concept.
I can't overstate how important I think these sorts of habits are. A slow walk. A quiet meditation upon waking. In aggregate, they can really change your life. The problem is, these habits aren't easier to develop than any other. They take practice and time to become innate.

We "make time" for all sorts of destructive habits. I gave smoking hours of each day for a decade. Anxiety, worry, hurry, they'd run my life for more than that. Don't set out trying to replace them. Make it OK to be a few minutes later walking home; a few moments later to work. Make time for these good habits and the bad won't stand in the face of them.
How Austin, TX almost purchased its first drone
I think the main problem is, that there is simply too many people in the world. Of course it's very politically incorrect to say so, every politician will say that we need to increase our birth rates,not decrease them. But honestly,if we reduced the population to around 1-2 billion, we could all afford to live like we do today, with all our consumerism, fossil-fuel burning and so on. 7 billion people just cannot sustain that kind of lifestyle, not on this planet.
What "makes sense" is that a ranking system that surely depends a great deal on reputation finds schools geographically closer to it to be "better".

(In particular, I'm comparing the ranking of Stanford and MIT in surveys from the UK and Asia.)
Ditto. It conflicted annoyingly with what I already had playing. I managed to take in about four seconds of her vocal before realizing that it was unspeakably bland.
Singular Sensations
How can Malthus be discredited? He said that the population tends to grow to the limit of the food supply, and then suffer periodic famine as the weather fluctuates. This is an obvious truth.

It matters because subsistence living is probably not compatible with a high-tech society.
4 Ways That AT&T Screwed All Carriers with the iPhone
Gibber - Live Music Coding in the Browser
you should really cite your response :)
SPDY has header+body DEFLATE compression by design. And if all Google Chrome requests to google.com use SPDY... that's... a little scary.

Edit: i'm wrong, apparently body compression was removed, added back in, then removed again: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/spdy-dev/HXkhL6TASN4...
Well, you could kill yourself. If you think that's the moral solution to this problem.
I've been doing android only work for the last few years, does iOS still not have an equivalent to andriod.intent.action.SEND?
Wearing the same jeans and T-shirt all week is not advisable.
Three to four years is an absolutely terrible window. Applecare lasts 3 years and they're introducing OS updates that make the devices obsolete just outside of that window?

Compared to both Windows and Linux, Apple is the absolute worst on this front. They break backwards compatibility and leave old devices in the dust all the time. It gives them the advantage of almost forcing upgrades upon people, and allows them to keep advancing at a fast pace because they don't have to maintain legacy systems. It comes at the cost of early 2008 macbooks with no problems becoming significantly less valuable since they will not longer receive software updates.
Next up, I'd like to read.

Dear Investor, I want some money
Social network design and urban design
Blocks with friends: How to run your own Minecraft server
What “911″ Means In Chinese: Some Netizens Light Candles, Others Take Jabs
I used to say that too. However, I could not get over this part: are you volunteering to be one of the 1-2 billion in the die-off so that rest of humanity can survive with this current lifestyle?

Barring people who are already suicidal, I doubt anyone would want to volunteer. This is a hard problem, well beyond the concerns of political correctness.
Honda Accord plug-in hybrid review: Like the Chevy Volt, only normal
This article sounds like there's a movement among CIO/marketing types to hijack the well-defined technical term "API".

edit: I just spent a while googling and I still have no handle on what they're talking about. From the terminology I've deduced out that it's culturally related to the SOA/WSDL stuff that is frequently used in the "enterprise world" to add byzantine complexity to machine to machine communications over port 80.
You may argue that it doesn't matter as concurrency and raising complexity will force everybody to go FP or be crushed under the complexity of other solutions. That may be fine argument for FP being inevitable...

Except that that argument would fall on the wrong side of history. Most the really big examples of successful high-concurrency systems are programmed using imperative languages, and have been all along. And they do it using mostly the same habits that a lot of FP advocates would like to suggest are the exclusive domain of functional languages. Personally I like to think of them less as an excuse for functional apotheosis than as "elementary coding standards", but I learned Lisp before C++ so perhaps I'm just showing my age there.

Now there are spots where FP offers a serious win on the concurrency front. Continuation passing comes to mind immediately. It'd be nice if the outspoken contingent of FP fans would spend a bit more time talking up node.js. But I suppose it's silly to expect Javascript to be held up as a successful functional language. It spends much too much time rubbing elbows with the object-oriented hoi polloi for that.
I am surprised [may be even amazed] that these kind of articles are making it to the HN's front page on a regular basis.

There are tons of people with muddy wishful thinking that can not execute even if you put the gun to their heads. This statement covers both commercial and technical side. If these people approach you, say no... unless they can offer money for your efforts.

Only the minority have required knowledge, experience, focus, will and smarts to execute on any kind of idea and build a proper business. It easy to recognise such people [based on hiring 101] - look at their past successes. If these people approach you, say yes... even if you are offered shmequity [but check the legal docs].

I have a feeling that most of such articles are driven by the ego thing, and help people to validate their self-worth. Not sure this the most effective way for self-validation.

My another feeling is the SV people are living in a kind of rosy bubble and are constantly patting each other in back to help their view of the world hold together. Well, may be do something of value?

P.S.: of course the above does have certain generalizations, but smart people shall have not hurt feeling, yes?
I'm mixed, great for him to have the opportunity, but there is still caution ala redgate. Just in case Telerik does pull a redgate, at least there are plenty of other options now for the 80%+ use case of sniffing HTTP requests, starting with what browsers provide.
Water Wars: Are they avoidable?
Not entirely true. MIT students are required to take, on average, at least one humanities course a semester even if they are doing a purely tech degree. I was a comparative media studies major there and the faculty was incredible. A lot of the professors are poached or borrowed from Ivy league schools. The linguistics department in particular is amazing. You can also cross register for courses at Harvard or Wellesley, which is awesome. About a quarter of the folks in my dorm were music majors (along with something else of course.) Humanities majors are common, humanities-only majors are rare, but I don't think any of us felt like the humanities education there was anything but world class.
Full-Text Search with Heroku and Postgres
Pirate Bay cofounder in police custody after deportation to Sweden