skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A rocket is a series of pressure vessels, pressurized fuel tanks, pressurized crew compartment, etc.. Round shapes spread the pressure around the entire structure. The ideal shape for pressurized vessel is spherical, however for aerodynamic reasons cylinders with rounded ends are used.
It's also difficult to use in B&W, most really good logos can degrade well to a black and white image (nice for letterhead) also I'm still shaking my head on what the shell has to do with "Groove".
it can be turned the other way as well - Chinese fell into stagnation and lost the technological, power and all other races during last 2-3 centuries because they stopped the exploration and closeted themselves inside their kingdom.

>We stopped the moon landings for the same reason the Chinese stopped landing Eunuchs in Africa.

and we don't go to Mars and beyond for the same reason Chinese didn't venture deep into and across the Pacific to America - too technically challenging, unknown and dangerous
Ballmer: 500,000 Downloads of Windows 8 Since Last Night
You suffer from depression. Go see a doctor and stop self medicating with alcohol.
I thought it looked like an anatomical heart YMMV ;-)
The logo doesn't look 'crisp', 'smart', 'pleasant' maybe 'enthusiastic' but more in a 'the butcher ate candy today' way.
Request for web design help
The MathsJam landing page makes you want to tear your eyes out, I know. For the intended audience it's not actually that bad, but I'd be interested in having a better one. Problem is, we have no money to throw at something like this

But people who do work deserve suitable and appropriate compensation. So here's the thing. If you're interested in coming to the MathsJam weekend, I'll give you a free place if you redesign the landing page and a couple of associated pages. I know that this will be a non-trivial amount of work, but I really, really don't want anything fancy. I'm not going to say "Hard hard can it be?" because I know I can't do it, but I'm pretty sure that someone with interest, experience or inclination will be able to do something significantly better in not a lot of time.

So if you're interested, either comment below, or email me at MathsJam (at) solipsys spot co spot uk and we can talk about scope of work, independence, criteria for acceptance, and compensation. Since compensation is likely to be a free spot at the MathsJam, probably this will only be of interest to UK people, but it may be possible to set up a three way deal. I do, for example, have someone coming to the MathsJam from the US, and maybe they can pay you instead of paying me.

There are options and possibilities.

Work done "on spec" is entirely at your own risk. In return, I promise I won't use anything you show me without agreeing compensation.

I hope this is of interest. If I get no responses by the weekend I'll be looking elsewhere.
When have people never cared about jobs? When have they (outside a select few) ever really cared about Science?
Does Windows 8 degrade the normal desktop Windows experience?
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you can either use Courgette or bsdiff or some other binary diff algorithm for compressing code updates, or punt and choose to fully replace all of your code every time you rev.

update verification is a < 100-line block of code using system cryptographic libraries on Windows.

for Chrome-style background updating, the solution is as simple as:

1) running a thread in the background to ping an API to check when updates are available,
2) downloading them via HTTP when they arrive,
and 3) having a program which gets run at update-required-exit, which verifies and applies the patch to your main executable.

yes, writing update machinery for your software is some work. no, it's not insurmountable, and will certainly get easier as the Mac App Store and Windows Store gain traction because they allow you to piggyback on the update machinery of the platform.
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Clickable:
http://www.mathsjam.com/confindex.html
Sorry, I don't know. I use a Nexus S as my primary phone so that's what I test on.
Mexico's "Cave of Crystals" are the slowest growing ever measured.
My educated guess: it's because a cylinder is the easiest shape to form sheet metal into. It also avoids multiple seams which are failure points. As a side effect, the stress concentrations at sharp corners are avoided.
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Ditto. Great logos are simple, and get even simpler over time. This one is over-engineered and, to me, completely lacking in meaning.

The word Groove is strong enough to stand on its own, with maybe a slight embellishment, perhaps some negative space. One of my favorites that may serve as some inspiration: https://community.jivesoftware.com/community/jivetalks/blog/...
It should apply to either, especially if they're using the blog to get more investors.
I stole a few categories from you into my Category Repo.Hope you dont mind.

https://samyzee@github.com/samyzee/Additions.git

You can add my category repo as a git submodule the boilerplate if you want.I have some cool stuff in there!
Mr. Ferrara explained, “When an investor or insider is engaged in an omission which proves to be a deception, and the result of that was a financial loss to another investor, a case for fraud can be made.”

That applies to any investor or insider, regardless of where they speak publicly. So, it applies to Fred Wilson, Mike Arrington, and any other investor.
I came here to suggest fees dropping as volume rises, but of course it's already been covered! All I can add is that you're not even factoring in the cost of finding a competent developer and paying them to make that happen - small nonprofits usually don't have a developer on staff, often just a volunteer or two who may really just be WordPress admins.
I find courier very ugly and borderline unreadable.
“In 20 years, programming will be just another blue-collar job or related to almost every major employment field,” Mr. Sims said
For all I know, you suffer from being a sanctimonious snob with a pathological obsession for impersonating medical professionals, and you should be tied to a chair and fed fruit loops 18 hours a day.
NASA Unveils New Rocket Design
ah, clever… I was thinking detection before the user types anything.
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Nothing revolutionary or EC2-specific here. The article could well be titled "Mounting an SSH host on OS X using OSXFuse".
I stole a few categories from you into my Category Repo.Hope you dont mind.
https://samyzee@github.com/samyzee/Additions

You can add my category repo as a git submodule the boilerplate if you want.I have some cool stuff in there!

EDIT:link
BostonRB - September - Test Driven Development [VIDEOS]
The exhibits show the code copying http://www-deadline-com.vimg.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/...
I worked at the MIT Instrumentation Lab on a compiler for the Apollo Guidance computer. The language was rather bizarre. Each line was encoded on 3 punched cards. One for the main expression, one for subscripts, and one for superscripts. I was pretty junior so my task was really at the front end processing compiler options and reading the input.

The Lab was a really interesting place. Lots of high end 360's, which couldnt even power a phone these days. We had our own command module mockup, but I was an employee of a contractor, so no-one would let me play around on the inside, but I did get to peek.

In the grand scheme of things, my role was miniscule, but I am still very proud that I was able to contribute to one of the greatest adventures of the last century.
Air Battery Would Last 2.5s on Machine with 1990's Efficiency
I wish Fusion worked half as well as VMware Workstation does on Windows. OS X's memory management appears to shoulder most of the blame.

Darwin loves to hold on to recently wired memory as long as possible and does not gracefully dump out 2GB of inactive memory at a moments notice. The performance of snapshots as well as multiple VMs even inside 8GB of RAM totally sucks compared to workstation.
and by the way...noticing that there's an exponentially multiplying number of stupid people in the world is NOT a sign of depression. I've lived with people who have clinical depression, and tried to explain to them how this isn't a reason to be depressed. The truth is, it's a reason to be worried, and maybe a reason not to follow any rules whatsoever.
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Very interesting! ;)
I installed it recently and even though I tried being careful not to install anything unnecessary, it tricked me into it! There was a checkbox saying something like "accept terms and conditions and install Bing toolbar", and I only readbthe beginning and left it checked as Eulas have conditioned me (of course I had accepted terms and conditions of utorrent before that).
microsoft is the new apple.
Congrats one two milestones: launching and having paid users. I think I first saw FileSlap on reddit - well done.

I like the simplicity of the audio player. I can't pinpoint a niche off the top of my head, but I can see the appeal of sending a quick link, "Hey, listen to this". I know a few musicians who might be interested in using FileSlap for that purpose.

While I'm here, may I offer a suggestion for your website? I would keep that slider for view demo/see examples visible by default. I just read that I can view files without downloading them...my next question is how, say, PDFs are going to look on your site. I actually missed your "see some examples" link the first time I scanned the page. (You could then remove the "View demo" button and have a bigger call to action, but I'll leave the details to you)
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The kernel panic screen on the Mac really makes users feel cosmopolitan and cool. I feel like I'm riding the monorail to SFO when my Mac crashes:

http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/...
Tks a lot :)
An other good example is constructors; say you have a function like this:

function MyClass(x){
this.x = x;
}

In Coffeescript this translates to

MyClass = (x) ->
@x = x

`x` is returned; and if you return something from a constructor, something is returned instead of the constructed object (`new MyClass({})` returns `{}`).
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Awesome ! I'm always interested in watching TDD presentations. I've been meaning to watch some of the BostonRB presentations and now this has given me another reason.
VMware Fusion 4 has a migration utility to upgrade from 3, really nice

http://twitpic.com/6kwhhs
This is really helpful. Thanks for the post.
Take the visual Turing test
Poll: Would you work in the Mission, SF?
This is for engineers working in the SF Bay Area.

We're looking at office space, and people are telling me that office space in SOMA is now twice as expensive as it is in the Mission.

There seems to be an up-and-coming ecosystem of startups in the Mission (e.g., Posterous is at 16th and Mission). On the other hand, the Mission is far from Caltrain and its vibe isn't for everyone.

My concern is with recruiting: do people want to work in the Mission, would they work in the Mission for the right company, or would working in the Mission be a dealbreaker?

I'd also be curious generally to have a conversation about commercial rental real estate in SF right now and other options.
Enthusiastic yes
For the right company, maybe
Definite no
How to add 200 subscribers to your list in 2 days.
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I sometimes think Linux is the Ron Paul of operating systems.

Doesn't matter what number of people use it, or cheer for it, or how many sites it powers, it's, you know, not a real contender. :)
> the most common reaction to this article, even among space geeks

As Richard Feynman once said, "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled".
Thanks! Interesting feedback on the music uses. I'll post in a couple music subreddits and see what they think about it.

Great suggestion. I've been toying with the idea of leaving that open by default and switching the "Demos" button out with a "Try Now" button, so that people can actually upload a file before registering (and just have it expire after 5 minutes or something). I'll go ahead and get started on that.

Thanks again!
The USA will find the weapon of IP law etc. it has been building all over the world turned against it.

One would expect China and India to follow USA commercial practice and use the established structures of IP. But USA-IP is not intended to be good economics in the real sense, it is supposed to benefit the USA. When the USA is a net importer, it will be the loser. It will start to disavow international IP.

But IP is fairly dumb in an information economy so it must die out in the not too distant future anyway.
If I recall correctly, OS X doesn't do the "Caps-Lock + Shift = lowercase" thing that Windows does. So if you have caps-lock on, every letter will be capitalized regardless of holding shift.

Does that allow you to log-in with this 'hack'? It wouldn't produce the "opposite caps state" string that Windows creates.
So for image sharing you have Flickr, and for music/videos you have Youtube for sharing.Both are these services are well done, have big money backers, and are household names. That leaves document sharing opening, sure there is Scribd & Google Docs but I would argue neither are house hold names.

You could also change up your game plan to offer something like Posterous. It seems like you've already created a service that easily allows users to get content up on the web. Maybe it's just a matter of giving them additional tools to share that content?
The coolest thing I learned by far was from Steve's Minitest talk; the linear performance assertion is a killer feature.
can you explain why the newest breed of linux will be any more threatening to Microsoft than the last?

I don't think corporations have ever thought they 'have to move to apple or linux"
the challenge is will they upgrade from windows 7. The tablet capabilities will help, and for the most part I don't think there is much other tablet capabilities in other devices.
That thing looks like a dissected heart with gangrened arteries... no offense.
So is it a problem that Fred Wilson blogged for months about Kickstarter before revealing that he was an investor?
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I thought it was a breast at first. I think they could use some darker lines to show the spiral of the shell[].. but my questions are

1) What does a shell have to do with customer support?

2) What are the things coming out of the shell to represent? (data?, support?, rainbow?)

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lriq8ulPK51qko63m.png shows a shell with darker outlines that would've imho worked better.
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Every talk this month was killer. The best compliment of the meeting was from BostonRBer Wyatt Greene "It felt like a mini conference"
FactoryGirl 2 looks like it has some nice improvements too. Great talk by @r00k.
And yet, it keeps powering most of the computers that make this conversation possible...

Go figure...
That's bots I think - there are companies who'll happily try and arbitrage Amazon vs You.
Windows 8 blue screen of death
So Fred Wilson and co. are fine as long as they do not "deceive"? I suppose that still exposes them to the possibility that they might have to defend themselves to prove that they have not "deceived"? Ah, the perils of the internet age. I wonder if general liability insurance policies cover those types of claims?
Thanks, I had no idea about this crazy scheme. Now at least I know that it is Amazon to blame, not the authors and not even their publishers (which were my first suspects).
Rather than going for a niche, how about a wider audience? The majority of file sharing sites allow anonymous uploads and yours does not.
Four things that will make – or break – Windows 8
Yes, what was I thinking... you seem perfectly balanced.
"For instance, the site has Apple Newton compatibility."

Haha
I saw the breast as well.
okay, I like the idea, but that Turing test is messed up. I scored 38% human on it. Maybe because it's written in British English, but I really answered the way I would answer anybody.

My unscientific analysis is, this ain't no Voight-Kampff machine, or I'm a skin job.
Here is an example web grep that I ran to find the top ranked sites that used kissmetrics.com for user tracking. Last month there was a huge blow-up over kissmetrics possibly using ETAGs and other hacks to track users across multiple sites.

https://blekko.com/webgrep?page=view&id=3f469c08de300c12...
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Thank you for sharing! I've been researching this for quite some time and now I finally know how to do this. The StartupLawyer mentioned in the article should be releasing articles and guides like this!
If factories get shut down and re-purposed it costs a lot more to then create new factories if you need to build that product again at a later date.

Long term wise how can we justify not spending money knowing that we will spend less in the long run if we spend big in the short term?
Giant balloon to be launched to test climate fix hope
Thanks for the sarcasm. If I were really depressed, I guess I'd kill myself.
Mac OS X Lion and Mac OS X Lion Server are now supported as guest operating systems. Mac OS X Lion can be installed by dragging the Lion installer icon to the virtual machine wizard.

Nice! So, how exactly does one do this? The Lion Installer seems to be gone from my system since I upgraded to Lion...
Google and Intel team up for x86 Android
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I originally allowed anonymous uploads (back when it was just a hobby site that I wasn't trying to make money off of) and took it away for a couple reasons:

- It was losing me tons of money because uploads were coming in like crazy and I wasn't making any money off of the site.

- I had no way to keep track of who's uploading what and interact with or analyze my customers and their usage.

I'm considering adding anonymous uploads that expire after a short amount of time (like 5 minutes or so) just as a way to let people try out the service before signing up. Do you see that as a good alternative? Or is even that not enough?
Stop wasting our time with this. Post it when it's done, divided into parts or not.

I will read part 1 and only part 1 if that's the only one available at the time it was posted. I will not return to your site to look for that content again.

I despise this trend.
This sounds really cool. I'd love to be a part of this somehow.
There are some negative comments about the logo (and I agree with some of the posters), so on a more positve note: it's just a logo, a lot of the other things you've done are pure awesome!
> waterboarding, hypothermia, near-drowning, psychological torutre, etc

Do yourself a favor and read Judith Herman's book "Trauma and Recovery." You'll quickly understand why your counter-intuitive observation is simply wrong. These things work in special forces training in a way they never could and never will in prisons and hospitals.
Says the non-programmer who knows squat about what he's talking about.
All creations are a product of the culture they are produced in. Originality is an illusion in this sense.

What suffering occurs, exactly, when works enter the public domain? The public domain does not prevent works from being sold, for example. The author of a work loses exclusivity but he does not lose the right to benefit from the work.

A big problem with copyright is the name - it sounds like it concerns a "right" when in fact it is a privilege granted (in the US) by the Constitution. To quote the FSF, if copyright were a right, "nothing could justify terminating this right after a certain period of time".
Thanks! Very useful :)
On a similar vain we are thinking of incorporating in the US but we will also need a bank account there. Anyone know what the procedure/requirements would be for this?
I don't like this logo at all. It's too complicated and feels contrived.

The concept of just the shell was pretty cool, but the three colors doesn't add anything. I don't care what ideation process says, if it's not adding clarity or defining the brand then I'd say it's just complicating things.

That said, thanks for sharing.
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He is, have you seen his bloig startuplawyer.com? Helped us a lot!
Mashape is hiring a hungry Frontend Engineer
Mashape is revolutionizing the way data and services are distributed and consumed. We’re a fast-growing, online marketplace for APIs. We’re not disrupting a market, we’re creating one. We’re backed by top tier VCs in the world such NEA, Index Ventures and Charles River Ventures; as well as outstanding angels such Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors.

Mashape is looking for a software designer (yes a designer, because you’re an artist, you design the software) that is truly passionate about creating scalable solutions and solving frontend problems. You will have the opportunity to have a huge impact as an early member. Our ideal candidate has a CS background, but we are most interested in you as a person.

Responsibilities:

- Implement production ready web pages on mashape.com

- Build a scalable frontend application in clear and beautiful code

- Make UX/UI decisions to deliver a better experience

- Work closely with the backend team and help making decisions

- Collaborate around the creation of new and existing features

- Take strong, crazy decisions

Requirements:

- Deep experience with Java

- Play Framework

- Scala or Groovy is a big plus

- Passionate about HTML5, CSS3, Javascript (also jQuery), AJAX

- Beautiful personal experiments. Let’s see what you’ve got!

- Love for continuous deployment and getting things done quickly

- Can easily switch to new programming languages and learn things fast

- Passion in breaking the rules and changing the status quo

- Strong communication skills

Perks:

- As an early employee you will get a true stake in the company

- Competitive salaries

- Apple equipments

- Italian Food cooked by the founders

- Official mashaper

- 2 weeks/year in a spiritual retreat with the team somewhere in the world

- Vacation days & time off

- Awesome medical, dental, & vision insurance

- Company dinners & happy hour

- Devastating Parties

- Much more…

“We’re here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise, why even be here? We’re creating a completely new consciousness, like an artist or a poet. That’s how you have to think of this. We’re rewriting the history of human thought with what we’re doing.” – Steve Jobs

Cheers,

mashapers

Latest Press: http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/08/mashape-turns-down-acquisition-offers-raises-seed-round-from-big-name-investors/
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On the next post we will publish about opening a bank account. We chose Silicon Valley Bank. Great entrepreneur support there.
Try a free, decent template:

http://pilu.github.com/web-app-theme/

http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/
Every time Facebook tries to copy Twitter like this, it just makes their product even more confusing and unfocused than it was before.
Cool... Im looking forward to reading it already, great work.
I'm not a lawyer or an SEC examiner, but I think securities fraud requires an overt fradulent claim, not simply the omission of potential benefit. Had Wilson been pimping Kickstarter as a profitable company (rather than merely a really cool idea) then it might be fraud.
Maybe it would be an idea to add a comment system to the viewer component. So at a given time in the cast you could put in a question, asking what the heck was the point of this or that, and someone else could answer you (perhaps the person originally submitting the cast, but presumably other people might answer as well),