skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the aim was to design something modern and minimalistic , the fading gradient at the end of letter 'C' somewhat destroys the point. Clear boundaries would improve the clarity and enhance applicability (on stationaries, prints, etc). I don't mind going modern, but they should do it well with clear purpose.
Let's hope this means they start moving away from it.
Best part about this is the link to my home town newspaper. I used to deliver the Enterprise Record every afternoon on my bike after school. Yes, in the 70s the Enterprise Record was an afternoon paper.
That's totally unreadable. What is 'f'? Did you mean reducedNoethereianSubschemeTransformer?
Yes that's true. I was making the point that they were simply moving to a Scala stack rather than a Java one, as you had mentioned above.
Since when do language designers get rich? I can't think of a single person who got rich through language design.
Exactly. Other than Netflix, what well-known applications did Silverlight back? None come to mind for me.
huge fn waste of money when the system is starving (or being starved by the inflated administration). don't the big bosses know this is a SOCIALIST UNIVERSITY SYSTEM and should just stick with the "good enough" cheap logo to keep tuition more affordable?

of course not... because they're eager to sell out the people to the banksters. instead of creating a political push for more funds from the state, they are pushing to get more private donations. it's the wrong way to go.
<label><input type="checkbox"/>Stuff</label>

is easier.
You may argue that it's simpler (I'd argue it's not), but either way nesting elements inside labels usually breaks assistive technology: http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F68.html

That's a good reason to use the format the author suggested instead of nesting.
Baldur's Gate is one of my favorite games of all time, and I'm generally behind the Enhanced Edition - I hope a new generation of gamers will be inspired by the world of BG, as I was 14 years ago.

Having said that, playing BG:EE on PC for the past week I've been disappointed by the lack of polish, and the number of bugs still present. GameBanshee - probably the most respected site about computer RPGs - published a pretty critical review (of the PC version):

http://gamebanshee.com/reviews/110209-baldurs-gate-enhanced-...

I hope the iPad version benefited from an extra week of polish. An earlier build was rejected, implying the have done some bug-squishing:

https://twitter.com/TrentOster/status/275743862507589632
ДЖУНГЛИ - (2012) - DVDRip - КОМЕДИЯ лицензия СКАЧАТЬ
Yeah, when he gets into Android forecasts for 2014 with one in every four people or whatever - a bit much.

But like you I think its pretty amazing that I can put the same OS on my Raspberry Pi, any crappy tablet, my phone and whatever else at the same rate as the rest of the world for practically nothing.
This looks unprofessional and garbage-like. Universities aren't supposed to have crap like this, they are supposed to look dignified. This looks like a 12 year old crapped it out in ms paint in about 5 min.
As a UC Berkeley student who has a passion for design, I can honestly say that the UC system has made a mistake here. Though I imagine this is probably the popular opinion.

However, I attempted to figure out what the symbolism in the logo was supposed to be. Disregarding the "fresh, hip, and modern" style that they were going for, I can definitely see how this could have been pitched. From my analysis, the U is supposed to subtly be shaped as a book and the C is supposed to be a loading sign... It's symbolically loading knowledge.

Regardless of the symbolism, my opinion is that it is painfully ugly and not representative of the UC system. If the regents were democratic, I would definitely vote to throw it out.

Edit: I didn't actually see the associated video before posting. [1] At least the book symbolism shined through without knowing that first. That's one plus, I suppose.

[1] http://vimeo.com/53530934
Knowing what language we're working in is enough to know that's exactly what that _math_ says, too.

You don't expect to understand Java after learning PHP, and you don't expect to understand a Topology paper after learning Algebra.

"C x A" is a combination of C and A. C, x, and A are defined once somewhere at the beginning of the paper/book.
Professional breeders are not the problem. It is not in breeders' interests to flood the market and collapse prices.

The problem is irresponsible pet owners who fail to neuter and spay their pets.

Santa Cruz County, California, where I used to live, enacted in 1995 a law requiring neutering and spaying of pets. (A breeder's licensed can be purchased for something like $100 annually, IIRC.) The numbers of animals in the shelters dropped dramatically.

Efforts to pass a similar bill at the state level failed, however.
I don't believe for a second that understanding of math is at all correlated to efficiently storing and manipulating raw numbers in your brain.

If anything, it can help you survive school where inadequate teachers try to make you believe the direct opposite.
People want it to be a financial solution to political problems. It won't do that.
This looks like something made by a ten year old who just learned photoshop.

If this actually catches on, I'll eat my hat, but from where I'm standing it's one of the worst logos I've ever seen. It's unclear in meaning and borders, uses gradients poorly, and isn't balanced.
I've always attributed the excellence in mathematics to the culture and their emphasis on schooling. I have many Asian friends who grew up not knowing the language but with strict parents from these backgrounds. All of them perform above par in math, as well as school in general. Perhaps it is the language, but I have yet to see personal evidence of it.

I have to wonder, does the English language offer any improvements? Obviously it's the language of choice for most technical and scientific ventures. Is this simply because it became popular and stayed popular?
> Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good resources out there [...]

I think that really changed from back in the days when I wrote The Node Beginner Book. For example "Professional Node.js" has been published some weeks ago: http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Node-js-Building-Javascri...

Full disclosure: I did the technical editing for this book, thus I'm highly biased. However, it was a pleasure to receive the single chapters from Pedro Teixeira, the author. It really teached me a lot while working on them. I honestly think it is a wonderful book, and one that Node.js deserves now that it matures.
It's probably a small part of why Asians are better at math. The more salient reason is that Asian have a reputation of working harder than anyone. That's why you see Asian succeeding in the west in acquiring high status jobs and high level education more than anyone. They valued formal education more highly than anybody.

However, just because Japan and China and South Korea work harder doesn't mean they win outright all the time. For example, Samsung is the winner in many area, but they are also one of the foot soldiers for google, and they are not really good at the kind of innovation that make Apple famous.

The US may have poorly educated students in math, and our programmers may be relatively less formally educated. We still kick ass, for some reason or another
Out of curiosity, what's the string?
Brand New did a review on the new logo that brings some more insight and perspective [1]. Here's an interesting note:

Basically, the previous wordmark could have not even existed and no one would have complained.

1. http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/ic_uc_we...
Unfortunately, you are beating around the bush.

It is perfectly possible to create "duck.so" in C. Any other language having a dlopen() and dlsym() will be able to find the "walk" symbol in it, and execute it.

C is being used all the time exactly for this, regardless of what Tanenbaum says.

If Tanenbaum believes I should not want to do this, that's his problem, because I want it anyway. Tanenbaum has no authority whatsoever to tell other people what they should want.
Hi ChuckMcM. I'm the "clock-work" mom.

What you are saying is very much what I am trying to get Brian to understand. In addition, when you believe (even just a little), then if tragedy strikes your life, there is somewhere to turn for strength and comfort.

I believe there are times in life when all the knowledge and intellect in the world won't be enough, and no "person" will be able to bring comfort or peace...At these times, I want my son to have somewhere to turn.
As someone who doesn't follow CPU manufacturers closely, it is still surprising to me AMD is in a tough spot - don't their CPUs power a huge portion of commodity hardware based cloud servers like AWS and Rackspace cloud? It seems like demand for that space is huge and only going to grow.
More-or-less a direct port. They added a stand-alone 'arena mode', and a few new NPC companions, 2 of whom have an associated quest/new area.
Epistemological Pluralism and Revaluation of the Concrete
I think it's a pretty big jump to say that this language difference is why Asians are often better at math. Maybe it is a contributing factor, particularly in younger grades when students are just learning arithmetic... but at some point, know how to do arithmetic. I'd make a guess that education style and social factors have a lot more to do with it.
It's possible to have an emblem for a stately, revered and old institution that looks modern, looks good in print but not so...well, saccharine-y silly looking.

Consider the French government logo:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Logo_de_la_R%C3%A9publique...
Re: 'Disappointed with Europe', please see recent FOIAs to the privacy body http://www.asktheeu.org/en/body/edps and subsequent to 'Home Affairs' (new EU body, ~immediately after introduction rubber-stamped US-friendly surveillance laws) at http://www.asktheeu.org/en/body/dg_home

EU had, and perhaps still has, the promise of a strong political body as a counter-balance to US and Chinese interests in the world. IMHO the promise is rapidly fading though, under what appears to be high-level influence and manipulation that demonstrably favours US-friendly outcomes. This is not a new phenomenon.

Tried to integrate results with Wikipedia, contacted the EFF, forwarded to journalists, nobody will write up the results. Trying reputable university-affiliated Wikinews journalists now. :/
HN, let's make the 'better email'
I'd be interested in talking to anyone else whose interested in making email better. I'm thinking something along the lines of creating a simple task management web app that integrates all tasks, to-do's, read-it-laters, and email. If interested, reply in the comments, and maybe this will devolve into a Google hangout with stupid moustaches.
Math's hyperlink: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Angle.html
When did that start? I don't remember seeing any this summer when I interned with them.
I've been a .Net dev for many years and I'm generally optimistic and excited about many Microsoft products but I warned everyone to stay away from Silverlight from day one. I knew that couldn't be the future of the web. I think I can safely thank those years of being Flash developer for that. One day Microsoft will realize they can't 'own' all the technology between the server and your monitor. I do think they're doing a great job embracing open source and web standards these days.
Don't know, I saw them in September.
See nowarninglabel's comment below [1]; this doesn't carry the same benefits to accessibility as the ID-linking method.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4890833
How many standards would you like? :-)
http://mathoverflow.net/questions/33152/is-there-a-reference...
Flu shots don't cost anything. Hey Larry, try not being a cheapskate next time.
This seems like deja vu, University of Waterloo was also trying to modernize its logo, didn't go to well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lF1YfYOumM
of course a Hitler interpretation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHLKp3lwdK0

Instead of replacing everything, the new logo is used only for advertising materials, while the old logo remains on the diplomas.

p.s the new logo looked horrible once it was introduced, but a year later most people don't mind it; though it left a really bad impression on the student body as the university decided to pretty much ignore the popular opinion

pew pew
Some thoughts:

o A don't like using calendar apps, just don't like them,

o I frequently use email to email myself links and todos,

o I hate outlook,

o I've been thinking it would be ideal to integrate todo lists, calendar apps, and email all together, and

o Why the hell do I still have to forward emails?

EDIT: to clarify - forward emails between accounts.
Rings true...

I definitely work best in 4-10 hour focused sessions, can easily do a weeks worth of work in one go. I can't always make those sessions happen though. Coding block? I guess I should write. [1] :)

Around the time this was written, I was working somewhere you had to break all the rules to get anything accomplished. The un-sanctioned stuff was of much higher quality and function.

[1] http://tommy.authpad.com/understanding-and-combatting-coder-...
"It's possible that even Guido doesn't have enough pull at Google to overcome this."

I have enough pull at Google to overcome this, so I'd be pretty surprised if Guido doesn't.
"..."

You don't say! (He certainly didn't.)
Me too! Kubuntu hits a real sweetspot for me in terms of a desktop environment.
Also, when that help screen appears, everything else on the page darkens out except the CAPTCHA (presumably because it's done in flash). It probably leaves some users confused about what the dancing text has to do with the help page, and what they are supposed to do with it in that context.
Why We Need DevOps Now
I guess these are stalkers. My #1 is my mom, which I rarely view her profile. My 3rd is my best friend, but I only visited hers thrice in my lifetime. The 5th, not to mention, i view his profile everyday.... So.... yes, these are stalkers....
There are a lot of private enterprise applications built on it. Its strength was that you could build complex tools relatively quickly. For example, I know of a local company that builds law enforcement software on it. I believe Netflix only uses a small portion of the 'Smooth Streaming' technology in Silverlight.
It ran (past tense) MLB.com's streaming games, but they abandoned it in favor of Flash.
The goalposts shift, but the conspiracies remain the same.
I'll have to check that one out. Several years ago I read two great books on the subject:

"The Science of God" and "The Hidden Face of God" by Gerald L. Schroeder...

http://www.amazon.com/Gerald-L.-Schroeder/e/B000APV1XA/ref=s...

About the Author from Amazon:

Gerald Lawrence Schroeder is an Orthodox Jewish physicist, author, lecturer and teacher at College of Jewish Studies Aish HaTorah's Discovery Seminar, Essentials and Fellowships programs and Executive Learning Center, who focuses on what he perceives to be an inherent relationship between science and spirituality.
I don't know; the Waterloo logo looks like something that might quickly become dated, and lacks the elegance of a classic logo, but certainly captures an element of a modern electronica influence.

In contrast, the UC system's logo actually has some thoughtful elements (the book leaves forming the 'U') that are executed inartfully.

Or, to mince fewer words: Waterloo's new logo looks less ugly to me, circa 2012, than does UC's.
I realise it's kind of ridiculous to complain, but it's also ridiculous that a 14 year old game won't play on a few years old tablet, and I'll need top urchase this year's model if I want to play said 14 year old game.
I have long thought that it's the most intelligent dogs that have the worst behavior problems. Although, it's not their fault, it's the fault of an owner who thinks they can reason with their dog using people-logic when they really need to learn more about how dogs think and behave.

Owning an intelligent dog is like signing up for acting classes. The dog will watch your every move and play you like a chump if you do the wrong thing. It requires you to act like the alpha dog (which is a very awkward feeling to most people) in order to maintain the behaviors you want. This means understanding how dogs see reward, punishment, encouragement, etc… or at least learning what to do when you see behavior that you don't like and understanding how your own behavior affects the dog.

I wouldn't say that less intelligent breeds/individuals don't have issues, but a super-smart shepherd or hunting dog can easily get bored and turn that creative energy into a destructive streak.
That's a 'C'? I though it was a loading spinner!
Anarchists such as Benjamin Tucker were advocates of "free money" at least as far back as the 19th century. Of course there was no way for them to have imagined an implementation like Bitcoin.
Further, I like the idea of "posting" on somebodies todo list rather than "emailing" them some letter through an internet postal service.
Extender - easily create extensible chainable APIs in javascript
Show HN: I wrote a poem about toys.
Targeting VCs For Seed Money Is Generally A Waste Of Time
Apple and Google making joint bid for Kodak patents
Avalanche Safety Smartphone Apps
The process of attaching a document is entirely unnecessary. Why distinguish between formats? If you want to give somebody a spreadsheet, just send them a spreadsheet, not an email that happens to have a spreadsheet attached.
Javascript: Ember.js / Node.js / Socket.io / jQuery

DB: MongoDB / PostgreSQL

Learning: Java

Novice: Python / RoR

Eventually: Redis
Another gem from this video, not that there is a shortage of them - at 3:55 - "It makes us into a vortex machine, sucks things in at the top and shoots them out of the bottom"
I was working on a project where, when viewing an issue, you could use the file picker to choose a file that was then committed on the project's 'gh-attachments' branch, and then linked via markdown to the raw URL.

This is good enough for me :)
Where are all the high-resolution desktop displays?
This is so fucking terrible. The fact that UCs will now have this awful logo makes me a little sad.

As a side note, that video is really stupid. It seems like they're trying to show how the new logo evolved form the old logo, but in the video they handwave away all the old parts and then trace around the book in the center, but only use one random edge of the book shape. WTF? Why even pretend that's where the top edge of the new logo came from. this whole thing is a disaster. Seriously. What the fuck.
When this was announced a few weeks ago, the University of California added this comment to their Vimeo account:

"Thank you again for all your thoughtful comments and feedback.
To clarify: this new visual approach DOES NOT replace the historic UC systemwide seal. We love the seal. The seal will still be used in all formal systemwide communications, on diplomas, official regental and presidential communications, and other formal applications.

"The two symbols serve very distinct roles. To preserve their gravitas, many of our campuses, and other universities across the country have limited use of their official seals in similar ways. It also does not replace the individual identities of each of our UC campuses. It gives our campuses and others a simple, distinct way to reference the system as a whole.

"We looked at many different solutions, but felt that building off the seal was a great way to honor our history, while also pointing to our strong tradition of pioneering innovation. We’ve done considerable testing on the overall approach, and have generally heard very positive feedback."

---

To me, the new logo looks cheap and flashy, instead of timeless. Universities are some of the only long-lasting institutions that we have, and this new visual style has zero life in it.

Someday, we'll look back at this logo like we look back at bellbottom jeans and denim jackets.
Linus Torvalds is at least a multi-millionaire; when RedHat and VA Linux went public, they each gifted him with shares in gratitude for inventing Linux, reportedly worth around $20M [1]. Some sources put his wealth at anywhere from $150M [2] to $1B [3]; his actual wealth would vary significantly based on when he sold and what he's invested in since, since those shares shot up 10x on IPO day.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Later_years

[2] http://hollywoodnose.com/net-worth/linus-torvalds-wealth

[3] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2000/...
And note that the gravity lamp was announced on physorg.com, famous for how wrong it is about science topics.
Worked at chipotle for a few weeks in my early 20's, so I'd known about most these 'hacks' already, but I guess it never occurred to me that others didnt! So some extra info:

With the exception of meat and guac, and within reason, obviously, you can get extra everything else at no extra charge.

Don't bother with the spy-game double bean routine. When they ask 'black or pinto', say both. Seriously. They don't care.

Double, triple or quadruple up on salsas too. I usually get the corn + tomato. Sometimes the red too.

They have both hard and soft tacos and will make you quesadillas if you ask them to.

Enjoy!
There was some discussion a while ago about the tendency of Nobel prizewinners to go off into crazyland (see Linus Pauling, others [1]). I recall hearing some speculation that this was (somewhat) inherent to getting a prize. I think the willful ignorance of established thought (to make the great discovery) plus the feedback loop of the prize made Nobel winners uniquely confident in their more off-the-wall theories.

[1]: http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Nobel_disease
All these things. Let's talk, but wait for more people to get back.
They're going to struggle to get that printed on anything. Yellow on blue is just asking for muddy colors.
I would say either: a) an arduino kit, b) a sphero (especially if he has an iOS or android device), or parrot drone.
It's a shame seeing such an interesting historic logo get replaced with one that has little personality and uniqueness. Something similar to the Starbucks logo redesign might have been more appropriate, keeping the idea of the original logo but refining and simplifying to make it more modern.
Actually:
18 = math
8 = physics
6 = eecs
5 = chemistry
Why Apple Got a "Made in U.S.A." Bug
Yeah but being able to drag a selection beats out Windows by a lot.
Pebble smartwatch won't ship in time for the holidays, no new timetable given
You shouldn't assume anything about the personal wealth of...well, anyone. There are rank-and-file, post-IPO engineers at Google sitting on multi-million-$ hiring/retention stock grants. The only difference is that there's no press release when your boss quietly prevents you from leaving for another company, or hires you away from another company. Most smart people, if given the choice, would rather that other folks not know that they're wealthy.
Reminds me of this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Major_League_Baseball.svg
Simplistic logos are so easy to pan mercilessly & dismiss, and as a UC grad that was my first instinct too.

But a quote on one of the subsequent sites in the comments (from UC's creative director) makes their case:

"Previously, the UC system only used its seal as its primary visual identifier, where it was abused with impunity. . . this is less of a rebranding exercise, but instead the creation of a coherent, consistent, and relevant brand identity where before there was none."

This actually makes sense to me.

The UC system has always been intimately connected in name, but disconnected in culture and practice.

So visual execution of the logo aside, pushing to have a unified brand in front of the millions of eyeballs that are exposed to the UC system every year is a pretty damn smart move from a branding perspective.