skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The title I wanted to use: "In conclusion, serial entrepreneurs do not appear to be more successful than one-time entrepreneurs and even worse they even seem to perform less and less well with time." The sentence after says, "It should be noticed however that they seem to perform well in the second venture and then the performance degrade with the third venture."

The author seems to define success as market cap.

It would be interesting to see a binary "still around after x years" comparison for single vs serial-founded companies.
Worst generation EVER! Almost every boomer I talk to complain about everything but don't do a damn thing about it.
I can take the logo from the homepage, enlarge in gimp, and it's fine to my eyes.

And what with being slightly colour blind, I've learned to suspect that it is probably my vision that is the problem.
Very heavy metal!
Their first song: "Developers".
Consistently bad.
Not only that, but the upgrade price is virtually the same as the full price. Euro 43.07 vs. Euro 44.99. It must be some sick joke.

On the upside, it's good news that operating systems are cheaper than VMWare Fusion these days ;).
Maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw any demonstration of correcting words that were typed with one fewer or one more letter than the intended word. The absence of tactile feedback when typing makes this a fairly common error -- anyone know if their algorithm is capable of handling it?
Fast Company: Beware Of Fake Mentors, And Other Advice On Accelerators
The lesson here: The best way to sell stuff is by selling stuff.

Look at what's involved:

* Guest posts / articles to become known as an expert

* Emailing a list of interested parties

* AdWords, preferably in a campaign that can scale

* Twitter and other social media

Learning to write good copy, or finding someone to do it for you, will have an impact on your business. I still get a trickle of traffic (that converts well) from an article I wrote over 6 years ago. I'd much rather spend time adding "one more feature", but a few hours spent writing quality content will have a much larger impact on the bottom line.
I agree. It's fairly in line with the new Metro and Phone 7 UIs. Not as polished though:

* In Chrome, the carousel controls at the top right are cut off. Intentional?

* The "For home" and "For work" buttons on the right shrink the margins between themselves and the carousel on hover but never quite bridge the gap, which looks awkward to my eye.

* The carousel is gigantic and hides all the content below it on all but the largest screen resolutions (and I thought Windows 8 is supposed to be running on small portable tablets?).

* The top menu under the logo is extremely cheesy with its thin 1px border on hover, never mind that it's next to invisible next to that massive carousel. When it comes to actually navigating the site to getting the user to Microsoft's products, this menu is failure.

* …

Generally, the entire layout feels a bit like the team that's been responsible for the page for years has been told to 'clone' the newest UI to the best of their abilities.
So when Apple change their name from Apple Computers it was because they lacked credibility? No, of course not. But because it's Microsoft everyone throws this nonsense around.

Rebranding is something that all companies do at varying times their lives. When you haven't done it in 25 years... yeah, it's probably time for a refresh. Trends change.
It seems it is NOT the first logo change since 1987.
Some previous logos are displayed here : http://facts.swebee.com/microsoft-logo.html
I think it's fine.

It's just that it's... only fine.

It's perfect for Microsoft!
We have had those up for almost 20 years now..
Agreed. I am not even sure they are talking about the same thing.

DHH:

- formality is bad

- boring businesses are bad

Bottom Line:Formality stifles innovation

curtismch:

- rules are not necessarily bad

- boring businesses are not necessarily bad

Bottom Line: Society needs structure and people need to make a living.
Your post and the one below make me think I need to go back to my optician. It's probably overdue, but I can't actually look at the smaller version of the logo without it hurting my eyes a little as they strain to stop the red square from throbbing.
I've seen better diatribes on bathroom stalls.
“I don’t believe that young buyers don’t care about owning a car,” says John McFarland, GM’s 31-year-old manager of global strategic marketing. “We just think nobody truly understands them yet.”

I'll give him this: at least he's not blaming his customers or the market, unlike some other industries I could name. I just wonder what he will do if when he "understands them" he will have figured out that they don't care about owning a car.
The numbers all come from the American Housing Survey and Consumer Expenditure Survey. Are you claiming they are incorrect? Or are you merely stating your dislike for AEI?
They are trolling, full stop.
Copyright isn't the issue; trademark is.
IOS Development?
Will the 'Real' Charles Babbage Please Stand Up?
A bit plain but I like it. The previous one was dated-looking.
How can we reconcile "everybody is poor now" with all the teenage millionaires and 22 year olds moving to California for six figure salaries?

Is everything we read here such an extreme case that the rest of the world has no chance of catching up or competing (except in the überextreme sport of Startup)?
Are those the Google colors?
Different to Apple != anti-Apple

I think it is a tremendous disservice to the amount of work that went into the Metro (or whatever it's called now) interface to describe it as an anti-Apple reaction. It isn't, and not everyone in the tech world bases their entire business around what Apple is or is not doing. It wasn't created to spite the memory of Steve Jobs.
Sure, I'm not arguing against the idea itself. My concern is how to approach it without it continuing to fester as a slush bucket for cronyism.

Today, the actual effect is not addressing actual "transit and residential goals". It's to funnel tax dollars to entities favored by the bureaucrats -- return the favor for campaign donations and so on (how else to explain that they've universally cost so much more than we agree to pay, yet they fail so dismally at attracting riders?).

So I believe that we need to find out how the system continues to be corrupted, so that we can go forward with a plan that can be reasonably expected to be successful. Following this pattern just digs us a deeper fiscal hole, without doing very much to address the real goal.
A few reasons:

There is no build system in PhoneGap, just instructions on how to get it build with Xcode. Using the RubyMotion build tools will allow you to work around this, all you'd really need is the Rakefile in this case, no extra Ruby files.

It's agreed, that most may not need to write (or alter) Plugins for PhoneGap, but if you did, and if you'd prefer to write in Ruby, this article may be helpful!

Or maybe you just want to tinker around.
I have no clue why they consider that forgotten. Particularly, in a world where the HP-16C is no longer sold.
Yeah seems to happen all the time once you get a few pages deep.
Internet Explorer didn't even make the list for browsers. I'm not really surprised, but as a web developer it's always nice to be reassured that it's dying/dead.
Presumin what? That page says I've opted out.
Yea I just think it is weird the algortihm is picking up an article from over 100 days ago, and showing up in the top 125 posts.
Trying to stick out is good.

I love to program... haven't looked back.

Great.

Do you remember... never had a moment of doubt about my career.

Unnecessary and arrogant. Why do you assume the person reading your cover letter has been in a CS class in the first place? Lots of programmers didn't go to school for it and lots of people who make hiring decisions aren't programmers.

To me there is nothing more gratifying...

Not really saying much new.

I'm a realist and I understand... I don't care.

"Your field of work is boring, but I can deal with that" is not the message you want to convey. You should show interest in a company you are asking for employment.

Give me a problem...

Fine, but nothing you haven't already said.

I love Linux...

Geek cred, no problem there.

I program for profit...

Several possible readings, none of them good. Why do you assume the company only programs in "boring" languages? If they do use Java, why do you feel the need to tell them you disapprove, but will suffer for the sake of cash.

Unfortunately, this letter does not make you sound like someone I would like to work with. I think you can find a better way to make your cover letter stand out. The thoughts you are trying to convey (hard worker, willingness to dig deep) are good. I just think you can do a better job of saying them in a way that sounds good to someone making a hiring decision.
> Which is only useful if all the nodes are exactly the same, but that prevents you from distributing the data across them based on the user profiles, and then load balance according to the user id, as (if I'm not mistaken) Netflix does. Since they're using subdomains as user identifiers, you'd get that for free using an existing, well-tested HTTP load balancer.

I'm not sure what you think makes that complicated to implement without HTTP, or why you consider it 'free'. Netflix had to write custom code to support that, and could have just as easily done so on top of a message passing architecture ala ZeroMQ or even AMQP.

> That's a tautology. The question is: are they a useful idea? Is being able to take advantage of existing and deployed solutions like CDNs useful? Seems to me like it would be.

Not really, no -- neither a tautology nor are they particularly useful for API implementation. Their primary value is in caching resources for HTTP requests in a way that meshes well with the complexity of HTTP.

If you need geographically distributed resource distribution than HTTP may be a good idea simply because:

- There's widespread standardized support for HTTP resource distribution.

- Its inefficiencies are easily outweighed by the simple transit costs of a large file transfer.

We're largely talking about server "API", however.

> I think you underestimate the advantages that some of the core HTTP concepts provide.

No, the core concepts are more-or-less fine. It's the stack that's inefficient and grossly complex, largely due to browser constraints and historical limitations.
Pendantic and off-topic, but it irks me when ZMQ gets lumped in with i.e. RabbitMQ and AMQ. ZMQ is more like an improved socket library and tools for building distributed message queues (among many other things), while RMQ and AMQ are actually message queue applications.
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This is actually deceptive on their part. That upgrade is for the Pro version of 5. It's unclear if it will be possible to just get the regular one at an upgrade price.
The logo from the 70's is so disco.
"The new logo, which incorporates a multicolored Windows symbol in addition to the "Microsoft" name in straightforward, lighter type, is intended to "signal the heritage but also signal the future — a newness and freshness," said Jeff Hansen, Microsoft's general manager of brand strategy."

Freshness? The most underwhelming design "innovation" yet... Playing it safe, boring, square as ever.
The colours remind me just a little bit of Google..
Microsoft isn't changing their brand, they're updating their brand. It's something virtually every company does from time to time, and it's not a sign of the apocalypse. Microsoft isn't escaping any of their past with this change, they're still very recognizable as the same company as before.

Your assumptions about the reason for updating a brand are even wronger in the case of Twitter. They didn't update their brand because it was weak, quite the opposite. The twitter brand is currently so strong, it afforded them the unique opportunity to drop the words from their trademark and use just an icon. Twitter's rebranding was them stepping up to an exclusive club of the worlds most highly recognizable brands.
I thought this was a given? I am absolutely CPU bound and I don't know a single developer who isn't. Do any of you actually code (efficiently) at your maximum typing speed?

At the risk of painting with a wide brush, I am currently under the impression that any developer who sits down and cranks out code non-stop at their maximum typing rate is either :

a) cranking out a complete mess that will require extensive refactoring down the road

b) the protagonist of "Hackers" or "Swordfish"

For what it's worth, I am a reasonably fast typist (~115 wpm, qwerty) and can't even imagine myself ever coding as fast as I can type. I wouldn't mind for this to be the case, though :)
I think Tantek Celik might disagree with you about IE 5 on the Mac. I seem to remember it had the most advanced CSS support available at the time.
I was thinking logo may be more appropriate to FourSquare as well.
I'm having this issue as well.
Blogging is not sharing - blogging is a GET, sharing (in the Facebook or Twitter formats) is a PUT.

To read new posts I'm interested in, I have to remember to bookmark and revisit the blog regularly. I don't have a convenience glance-view of what's new in my personal blogosphere. RSS was intended to solve this, but never really had much mainstream uptake, and I don't suspect it will now either.

The real addictiveness of Facebook and Twitter come from the fact that they are capable of constantly providing you with a stream of interesting content, filtering out that which you don't like and floating up that which you do (the mechanisms for this between Twitter and Facebook are quite different).

Until blogging can have the same thing (tumblr I suppose is somewhat like that, but is still somewhat of a fenced yard for its own community), it won't be the same as sharing in the modern context.
Microsoft adopts a new logo with 'Windows 8 Styled' boxes
I was just surprised that all of the posts #110-120 are from between 7 and 111 days ago. I have usually not seen that old of posts breaking the top 125 like that(I thought the algorithm was supposed to target new posts)
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MO disks caught on and remained popular in Japan for decades. Their popularity has only started to wane recently.
The market wasn't then, and isn't now, zero-sum.

Microsoft's domination was achieved by making passable-to-excellent browsers in the beginning and putting them on the desktop, which made the web more accessible to millions of people, boosted commerce, and pushed feature development forward much more quickly than Netscape (or any company) would have done absent competition. Bigger market, bigger pie, more investment, more jobs, more consumers.

Netscape died, of course. But it didn't have to be that way; and Microsoft won far more than Netscape lost.
They're the windows colours. http://thegadgetsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/windows-...
One of us missed something here. I did not see Fred saying investing in his firm is not a good idea. I saw him talking about VC's in general having a poor return and thus putting investors on the fence. It's probably safe to assume that with Fred's profile and track record he's not personally struggling.
I really wish that Sony had built a reasonably priced IDE version of the MD recorder. Those things were tough and not too bad.

Unlike the article's love of ZIP drives. I liked ZIP drives like my first car, it got me places I couldn't go before and left me stranded there multiple times. ZIPs were not very reliable.
This is sad. This is not how you win, and your victory is not worth the glory.
At first I thought this had to be flat out wrong.

Then I realized that the typical HN'er probably doesn't post many comments, and even fewer post comments which make me curious enough to look at their profile.

What tends to make me look at someone's profile is to see if there is a basis for their opinion in terms of experience. My image of an HN'er probably biased in favor of people who post good insightful comments and not necessarily someone who still just clicks on links.
Thats because they had to compete with foreign cars. Everyone started buying foreign cars cause they lasted longer.
There are occasional grumbles from the right about means testing free bus passes, but it would probably lose a lot of votes and I suspect the increased bureaucracy would mean that hardly any money would be saved.
Wiki weapon project aims to create a gun anyone can 3-D print at home
How to sleep upright
Counterpoint: I live in NYC because I don't like driving and hate commuting. If I was into cars and houses, I would live in California or Texas.
While the new logo is OK what I found intriguing is that for the first time Windows is associated with the corporate image. Isn't that betting the whole company on a single product?

Not that is not true since a decade ago but it might reduce the chances in the future to make a turn around. Apple did remove "Computer" from his name to make space to iOS devices and to me Microsoft is doing the opposite... let's see how it goes, at least they are working hard to refresh their selves and that's good for the industry.
Must be fun for math people typing intervals that are semi-open.
"In Chrome, the carousel controls at the top right are cut off. Intentional?"

Intentional, it's the same in every other browser. It's similar to Internet Explorer's new back and forward buttons.
Adjuncts and the Death of the American university
Fogus: Minimum Viable Snippet
It's interesting they would make a point of incorporating the old Windows logo. Microsoft is a company trying to reinvent itself, and the industry consensus is that Windows has an uncertain future at best. It has failed completely in the phone and tablet markets that would seem to be the future of consumer computing. So is this a statement of defiance or a company in denial?
drhowarddrfine, you appear to have been hellbanned about 150 days ago.
I can't help but nitpick. Companies lower guidance and expectations all the time. Share price almost always falls when this happen, but it's not uncommon and not cause for the CEO being ousted.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws...
Enjoyed Rich Hickey's comment: http://blog.fogus.me/2012/08/23/minimum-viable-snippet/#comm...
It's been used commercially, which makes it tricky to repackage and sell. It could be donated to a charity, but once it's been used for a shoot it'll generally be torn down rather than taken down to save time.
They either resized a bitmap image or they rasterized a vector image that wasn't properly aligned, thus some of the squares have some of the borders antialiased and the space between squares appears to be wider between some than others. Also, they are different colors with different lightness levels and that has additional impact on the appearance of different width of the empty space.

This has nothing to do with color-blindness, I can see it, too (I was non-color-blind enough for my driver's licence.)
Do people buy MacBooks out of goodwill to Apple, or because they're kickass hardware?
That's a pretty bold generalization. "People like him" prefer big cities for a lot of diverse reasons, most of which are probably not that they do not want to own a car. Not needing to own a car is a result of the convenience of a big city--having everything you need within walking/transit distance. That is the reason I live in NYC.

Edit: last sentence was unclear
>I'm a bit annoyed, I just paid $50 to upgrade to the Lion version last year, plus $50 for Fusion 3 upgrade the year before that, and now I have to pay again?

The changing digits at the end of the names you mention (Fusion 3, 4, 5) make it sound like those are _different_ versions of the product.

Did any of them came advertising "free upgrades for life"?

If not, I don't see the point of this rant. The worked hard, implemented lots of features and put out a new version. Nobody is forced to buy, in fact the old version should still work fine.
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As far as I know, the only query string that really matters is "q". There's also "tbm", which seems to indicate the type of search to run.

So: https://www.google.com/search?q=google+icon&tbm=isch
For most of them, it won't matter what the return 10 years from now is, they are cashing out much sooner
This is a great resource! There's also a visual Bootstrap client http://jetstrap.com/ which I came across the other day. Still in beta atm I believe...
It's nice to see Microsoft putting some effort into design. The logo doesn't take my breath away or anything, but I think it's an improvement on the old one.
This is a little informal to me and strongly suggest you write a targeted cover letter for each one you send out using an existing job description or at least targeted role at a specific company.

A cover letter I would love to see:

"Hi,

I was excited to see your job posting for an entry-level bioinformatics software developer and would like the opportunity to speak with you further about the role.

Specifically, I see you are seeking a developer with experience with Linux, SQL, shell scripting, and some Ruby or Clojure programming experience. My primary development environment is Linux - I used to use Arch, but have shifted to Ubuntu for simplicity's sake.

My Ruby/Clojure experience is limited, but here is a link to a project I did as a learning experience on github (<insert link here>). The project was created to do (<insert short description here>) and originally used Ruby, Sinatra, and a PostgreSQL backend. I have recently started porting it over to Clojure/Compojure.

I have attached my resume, which contains some short descriptions of work I did as an (intern/student/previous job) that demonstrate the background you are looking for.

Thanks for considering me as a candidate,
<me>
ps - if we meet and decide to go further in the process, I am happy to provide references at that time."

Even the above is a little informal - you might want something a little more conservative for a big company. I think of the above as having a conversational tone, which is personally comfortable for me.

But, if you send me the above letter and I think your code examples don't look like a complete travesty, I am at least going to interview you.

There isn't a lot of information actually in the example text, but to be honest (and keep this mind) - I want you to be the one. I am going to read between the lines of the cover letter, generally assuming the best. If I got the above, I am going to think, ok, here is a candidate who bothered to write me a cover letter, addressed my job requirements, and looks like they at least have some initiative.

Anecdotally, I have friends who run small consultancies that have literally received one-liner responses to job posting: "I can do this and my rate is $95 an hour"

Anything you do better than that probably helps your case.

Also, it is an old horse, but I'll beat it again - try to weasel a real contact in your network to make a recommendation or introduction. I am not particularly good at that personally, but it makes a huge difference when it happens.
One year down, many to go: 5 things Apple has done since Tim Cook took over