skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...this could only make sense if you want to maintain fluency in programming languages that you are not using regularly. And why on earth would you want to maintain fluency in a language you are not using?! It's not as if you'll forget the basic concepts.

IMHO, if you want to maintain fluency in a programming language you're not using, say to keep your knowledge of C and C++ fresh while you're working in higher level language, you should keep contributing to a bunch of open-source projects written in that language, same as for natural languages you need to keep conversing with people that speak it or at least watching movies in it. Otherwise you'll end up knowing and artificial subset of that language that's useless for real work... And the plus is that having the os projects contributions in your resume will keep you employable for future work in that language.
I'm pretty sure I know the guy that wrote this (seriously, how many physicists named Alex Alaniz are there?), and he can't have LaTeX on his work computer because of some really dumb rules. So I don't blame him for it being an exported Word document because a LaTeX version would have meant doing this all at home instead of his spare time at work.
Organized chaos: here's what it takes to build CES
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
What limitations are those? Windows Phone 8 allows native code which was a stumbling block in WP 7.
This logo doesn't look unfamiliar. It looks too familiar. It looks like something that belongs on a powerpoint presentation in the 90s.
"Saying that the logo is just a small part of the overall identity is really dumb."

His point is that it makes no sense to evaluate a logo on it's own without greater context of how it fits with a fuller identity.

"saying that the general public is unqualified to comment on it is even dumber."

Why? Doing an identity is hard work and it requires more thought than just looking at a screen, evaluating it against something which it isn't even replacing, and then making a gut reaction. I wouldn't be surprised if most people went into the discussion with a bias introduction ("checkout this ugly logo!") without any rationale.

"if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo."

Well that depends on their taste.
Rebranding like this can work okay -- The University of Queensland introduce a new logo recently, which is quite similar to the UC one, and use it along side the tradition shield. I don't love UQ's logo or its colour scheme, but it's not terrible either.

Example: http://omc.uq.edu.au/news/599UQNEWS.pdf [2.7MB]
Samsung drifts away from Android; will Motorola rise to replace it?
That is how most attempts at humour come about...
Hardy played the hit on the head with a brick, and then when he thought that was the worst, he'd get hit on the head with another brick.

This schtick has appeared (in various forms) in endless movies. It's so cliche I knew the goblin king was going to fall on the dwarves the moment one of them said "that wasn't so bad".

Then there's the good guy slicing the bad guy with a sword. You think he missed, then the bad guy looks surprised as his head slides off. I've seen that in probably at least 6 movies.

Falling into the abyss, and yet being grabbed and saved at the last second. Where have we seen that before? The literal "cliff hanger". And we get to see it several times over in The Hobbit.

I still liked The Hobbit. But in spite of those scenes.
Reminds me of when Chrome was "mistakenly" classified as a virus by Microsoft:
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-10/03/microsoft-chr...

Are they breaking each others' tech in a war of plausible deniability?
What did you think of their programming chops?
Hardly.

Fact is most people expect certain visuals from academia.
It hardly looks like that to me? I beg to differ, it most certainly looks like that to me.

Do you expect me to pretend that I don't think that just because I am not a designer?
How hard would it be to write mathematical proofs in a modular way? And have someone check a "module" of a proof and someone else another "module" and so on?

...and for the bits that's possible, write in a subset of mathematical language that computer can check, or at least partially check and ask the human reviewer for feedback on the parts that can't be automatically proven.

I always fount it odd that mathematicians use so little of the mind augmenting potential of computers. Is is true that there aren't any smart enough programmers to craft the tools they would need, or that the tools end up being so "user hostile" that they always go back to pen and paper? I know people tried to express physics proofs in "computer-like language", Sussman et all in Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, but I've never heard of such things really catching on and being actively used and developed by mathematicians.
Yes, I want to see if it felt anything like it.
I don't really get this "you are not qualified to have an opinion about this" thing. I'd understand if we talked about some specialized form of art that was designed to be appreciated by a narrow circle of truly illuminated people and to heck with the rest of the boorish crowds. But we're talking about identity that will be demonstrated day to day to millions of people and is supposed to attract them and they are supposed to like it and get some ideas from it, presumably. Who else is to judge if it attracts them or not but those same people it is supposed to attract? If the idea they get is "we hate you" - how it is anything but bad? No, I can understand the feeling of people that were sure their design was cool and were disappointed. But if this product is meant for mass consumption - in form of being part of public materials, etc. - then I think if the public hates it it should be back to the drawing board.
> This has nothing to do with comments. The emphasis on comments is little more than an attempt to get on the "social media is harmful" bandwagon.

I don't agree.

First of all, this study was about comments, and as such we now have data about how comments affect the reader. There may be studies about annoying ads and the like, but this study is useful because it provides data about comments on a page. I agree with your premise that

> We respond to the whole experience, not just the propositional content of an article.

however this article and study are most certainly about the specific effect of comments.

Secondly, comments are significantly different enough from the other elements you outlined (such as design and advertisements) to warrant individual research and reporting. For example, comments are community-generated vs "site-generated" (for want of a better term) things like design and ad content. Comments are a user engagement tool, and in light of this research this tool evokes a number of questions.

* Good design is for our intents a solved problem; find a good designer and give them money. How does one cultivate "good" comments?

* We agree that having malware advertisements on your site is bad practice; is it bad practice to have unmoderated comments on a science blog?

* Are authors justified in disabling comments completely?

I don't agree that this is just "complaining about the purportedly ill effects of participatory online discussion", nor do I even agree that this is what was being done in the first place (it's not how I read the article). This article is providing reporting about a study that has given us data about how comments effect consumers of science reporting, and should cause us to question the role and implementation of comments in the future.

As an aside, my favourite comment from the article, posted after a long series of rants about reporters with agendas:

> Ouch, right in the irony.
That's a bit harsh. Library docs are for users of the language. I grant that the list package could use more docs (I personally find it a bad example) but for someone who knows Go, all the important stuff is there.

Juba surprised that you rate the PHP docs so highly, particularly the user comments. Typically those comments contain terrible advice!
I just recently converted from Windows to Mac and when on Windows the fonts looked fine.
It's a joke, take it or leave it.
Oh sure, rebranding can certainly work. Nothing about that University of Queensland redesign seems offensive to me; actually it seems relatively nice to me.

This University of California logo is not an example of a redesign working. There is nothing wrong with a new logo, but there is a lot wrong with that new logo.
"We [...] look forward to following through on our
commitment to introduce consumers to electric vehicle
technology in an open, friendly, no-pressure environment,"
Elon Musk, Tesla co-founder and CEO, said in the statement.

Is it no pressure because they make so few that there's a lineup of people waiting to pay full MSRP?
I initially thought they were sarcastic, but I quickly decided that was unlikely. Amusing from the outside looking in I guess.
Well, its on here, I guess you can just choose to ignore it then.
> realizing how potent online comments can be in undermining a factual report may help publications to better manage comments on their websites

I think this is the wrong thing to take away from this. If you are indeed writing a 'factual report', nothing should be disputable. The problem comes with dumbed-down or poorly written news reports where the 'facts' aren't presented, or are heavily mixed with opinion...

The solution is less to 'manage comments' as the article says and more to write better articles, and encourage a good culture of news where readers and commenters are critical and contribute to the conversation (like HN does - sometimes).
The last one sounds fascinating. I assume the generated plot would be a few levels beyond "Fetch X units of Y and take it to Z"? :)
Why on earth would they be consulted ? The design departments aren't involved in the commercial realities of branding/marketing and the students are just that students.

People forget that isn't just about the logo it's about the positioning of the brand within the economic marketplace. Plenty of analytics, surveys, strategy etc etc is involved.
Good on you for trying different languages!

"An old Java convention is keeping the name of the file and it's class the same."

One correction, the Java compiler requires the filename to be the same as the public class present in the file. You will see a compile time error if this condition is not met.
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was just thinking about rewatching this movie the other day.
800 hours (20 weeks) of consulting service for $125k. That's about $6.25k per week, which seems reasonable for high-quality engineering. Some folks would charge more. The key is if you believe it would take 800 hours to re-create Cheddar.
Very heavily seconded. One of my favorite novels, it does a really good job of giving a "feeling" of mathematics, without including any actual mathematics.

This is the same author as Logicomix, which is aslo very highly recommended - a comic about logic, Godel, and the foundations of mathematics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicomix

http://www.amazon.com/Logicomix-An-Epic-Search-Truth/dp/1596... (this might be with a refferal link, I'm not sure - you have been warned :)
Hilarious and entertaining.
With all of their "analytics, surveys, and strategy", where they anticipating the backlash they have received?

If not, then they clearly did something wrong, so why should we give any weight to the rest of their conclusions? If so, why are they acting so shocked?
World's biggest atom smasher heading for two-year hiatus
I agree with you and I like your last point. It is indeed a problem that we have many languages and many libraries when many of them do the same thing. One big library to rule them all. Some day we will have that. There will be many algorithms in there, containers, network stack, everything you want and need. And cross platform of course.
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>if 90% of people don't like it, it is by definition a bad logo.

Bzzt. WRONG.

If 90% of "prospective 18-20 year olds" don't like it, then and only then is it a bad logo. Everyone else really should probably stay out of it since they aren't who the logo is for.
...and it wasn't even UC Royal Blue, it's the Sky Blue that only UCLA uses, the symbolism of which I thought was particularly poorly thought out.
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You're kidding, right? It's just as important that the State, parents, alumni, research partners etc etc like it too. 18-20 year olds are probably one of the least important stakeholders at a research university.
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I agree with all the other comments here. You're trying to be that guy who eschews curiosity in an attempt to be mature, but that is not and never has been the type of mentality that leads to success, be it in software or any other field. Curiosity leads to creativity, and creativity leads to success. To swim against the current on this one is hardly admirable.
Solving the CVS-lifting problem
When it took a few months to deliver a quality Google Maps for iOS after Apple removed GMaps, the speculation was Google was withholding it on purpose to "hurt" iOS and help Android. Other speculation was that Apple was deliberately not approving it for anti-competitive reasons. The truth was neither, the reality is, quality software takes time.

Look at all the hoopla over Facebook's abandonment of HTML5 on mobile. HTML5 is not write-once run anywhere on mobile, where implementations are deliberately constrained in CPU and memory, and where GPU acceleration is all over the map. To get good performance out of HTML5 on mobile, people often have to tune specifically against an OS and browser version. Sencha went through herculean efforts to tease out good performance in their Fastbook HTML5 clone.

I think people should not jump so fast to nefarious conspiracy theories and give things time.
Yeah, the Thinkpad brand is really one of the few in the industry that I feel is confident in its own fundamentals. It knows it is good, and it knows why it is good. Besides Apple, I can't think of any other brand in the market that I can say that about.
ThinkPad is amazingly solid. I had two so far and both were wonderful machine. Lenovo's service is pretty good as well. My latest laptop's Intel SSD drive went dead after a year. They shipped a replacement right the way with no question asked.
Also, does anyone else feel like people on Hackernews too often leave comments that deliberately go against the general consensus in a weak attempt to get up votes from fringe users?
Firstly we don't know if they have done something wrong. The target audience for the branding change is going to be the NEXT generation of students not the current or past ones. And definitely not the general public. And I personally can't speak for 18-20 year olds and what they think of the logo. I would imagine that if the agency did their homework then it would be more appealing and commercially successful than the previous one.

As for them being shocked. It is always surprising when people become so passionate about a brand.
Think, as a brand, is over 100 years old.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_(IBM)
What do you think about mybatis instead of hibernate ?

Ebean looks interesting but it seems me that there is very small community, some documentation are from year 2009(it seems me litle bit old).
>There's something funny you see in voting patterns if you make a comment, and then someone replies with refutation, and then the refutation is refuted, and so on.

I've noticed that sometimes, if someone makes a post agreeing with a comment but not explicitly saying so, it'll get interpreted as a disagreement simply because folk have fallen into the back-and-forth rhythm.
What you say is true. But the way the human memory works makes the PHP library thing a non-issue. Even if it's badly designed, even if it's not well made, you will probably remember it in the same time frame. Maybe a little slower but not much. That's the flexibility of the humain brain for you. It's not picky at all.
I'm a C++ programmer but I remember myself learning and remembering the PHP functions very fast a few years ago. The PHP library is just a bunch of stuff put together and yet I still remember a lot of them today. Even the parameter names.
Even in spoken languages this applies. In French, you have to memorize the spelling of every word if you want to write without making too many mistakes because the spelling of most of the words doesn't make any sense sometimes. Sometimes the word is coherent with the sound, sometimes the word has mute characters, sometimes the word is bizzare because it comes from Old French... You have to remember everything. Ok maybe I shouldn't have picked French because we do have a big problem about dixlexia and the average teen douchebag can't even spell the word poker.
Economics of attention
Both more than likely. First the injury lawyer would get as much as they can from the company's insurance, THEN if that was successful. They could go down the path to get money from the driver, seeing how it was their fault to begin with. It's all really up to how greedy / badly injured the victim is.
Step out the damn reality distortion field already.

Likewise.

Who do you think built and rebuilt the aforementioned company?

The thousands of people who worked on Apple producs acknowledge that Jobs was fundamental because of is hyper focus and vision.

If you stop hating the man you might learn a thing or two.
Honestly... I just had a habit of checking up on him every once in a while. Came upon this today when someone brought him up and I thought to check in. It's been there for weeks and somehow no one else noticed.
If they did not anticipate the backlash, then they did something wrong.

If they anticipated the backlash, but decided not to care (because their target audience is the NEXT generation, as you suggest), then why are they surprised that this generation is responding poorly. They saw it coming and decided not to care.
Any serious news source should have something like a professional "comment moderator" and division of "top comments" selected by the editor and the general discussion only below. "Crowd wisdom" only works for groups of knowledgeable people that are also skilled in online communication - take HN or SO. It doesn't work with things like science popularization articles because 99% of readers lack not only scientific/technical education (and this is ok, because the articles are written for them to understand) but also basic reasoning skills and common sense factual communication skills (eg. most people are taught to make themselves heard and promote their opinion and not to STFU when they have no idea of the topic). And then you automatically have the ones distorting the facts to promote their interests - and these people are actively drawn to "science for the public" kind of places!
With Go open source projects (on git, svn, mercurial) much of the time you can just

And have absolutely no version management or any way to indicate API changes (except for making a new repository for every API-breaking change).
What is success if not the sole telos of your every minute and interaction?
This is rather tricky subject - to understand real behavior - what is behind this or that a syntactic sugar.

In Scheme, for example, we could implement any data-structure as a closure, which accepts messages. There is no difficulty in writing such wrappers - it is just a closure which return another closure which accepts "messages", and following some protocol, returns, for example, another closures to be called for a certain action (generators, iterators, etc.)

We could teach the read function to recognize any kind of wired syntax we wish, and constructing appropriate data-structures with type-tags attached to them. But it will become a mess.

The real data-structures, however, its representation is very different thing. In Clojure, I suppose, it is based on built-in Java types and generic interfaces, such as Iterable or whatever it is. So, they are ordinary Java objects, without any magic in it.

In Scheme or CL it depends on the implementation, the choices made by developers. So, for example, Gambit-C and MIT Scheme are quite different in how they implement hash-tables or vectors. My guess is that, say Alegro CL and CMUCL are also very different, yet they all conform to some standards (CLtL2, ANSI).

Having very different implementations with different set of compromises is a strength.

So, in my opinion, there is absolutely nothing special in this syntactic constructions, moreover, it is not that difficult to implement them using closures and macroses. In arc.arc you could see how strings and tables were implemented.

Another issue is, should we add all this wired syntax to what we call Lisp? In my opinion doing this ruins Lisp and the result is some very different in a look-and-feel language. Calling it Lisp is, well, confusing, at least to me. Arc is a Lisp, no doubt. CL and Scheme are Lisps, for sure. Clojure is Java with lisp-like syntax, if you wish.)

The old rules says that there must be very heavy reasons to add any new symbol or a keyword into a language, and that the same things shall look the same, and different - differently. For me, personally, Arc is a proper approach, while Clojure is, well, a mess.)
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They did (except for orcs and hobbits), but if not for LotR, they would not appear in popular fiction as they are appearing now. Besides, the comment above looks like it's disagreeing with originality of hobbits.
It also means that if Comcast rips you off, you can sue Comcast. You don't have to chase diffusion of responsibility around to sue the individual humans who wronged you.
Not even a patch may be necessary. At most, the court will rule that corporations don't count as persons for the purposes of carpool lane rules, and the precedent will serve as case law in case anybody else is as stupid as this guy.
I think you're reading this backwards, I think this is like Toyota splitting off Lexus into a separate, high-end brand.
I indeed would be interested in the taxonomy of your last proposal, too.
I don't hate anyone. In fact, I respect Steve a whole lot for pursuing his passion and vision for technology. I just hate the lies people believe. Shipping involves more than any one individual. It's an ongoing collaborative process. Read up:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20124720-37/jonathan-ive-s...
Canadian astronaut warns William Shatner of life on Earth
One can argue the methods used to block the new logo, but its an ugly, bad design and UC is better off without it.
Dwarfs, elves, trolls, goblins, and plenty others come from Norse mythology.

Orc I think was original to Tolkien, but derived from Old English for giants and ogres.

Many others, like uruk-hai and hobbit, were original.

Also, even though some of the races come from Norse mythology, Tolkien's description of them and their habits are unique (and many times quite different from the "sources").
I had an IBM era T43 for a while and currently have a T60 that's almost as old as Lenovo's take over of the brand, and it's still chugging along. A friend of mine recently upgraded to the t430u ultrabook and has been loving it. As far as laptops go I'm pretty sold on the thinkpad line for the foreseeable future.
I'll sometimes catch myself, in a friendly debate, repeating something I've read, and then immediately saying "nevermind; that doesn't make any sense"

I'm nearly 40 and I find I'm still "defragging" my childhood. I still come across things I've "known" for decades but haven't explicitly thought about in as long turning out to be useless garbage as soon as I try to load them back into "working" memory. Its rather disorienting. I'm afraid my subconscious might actually be using some of the stuff I haven't fixed yet.
Hooray for _why! :D

Found a fourth PCL: http://whytheluckystiff.net/SPOOL/YOU

http://www.scribd.com/doc/119153889/You
We are working in this space. http://www.codesonic.com/ . Spaced repetition software just for coders. Launching in a couple of weeks.