skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, in my experience this is actually a depressingly common game that universities play:

(1) Pay design firm mucho bucks to "redesign identity." [The fee is usually insanely huge, especially considering the quality of the result and the probable amount of effort that went into it.]

(2) Get truly horrible result back, which is universally hated by everybody except the design firm. [Well, who knows what they actually think behind closed doors, but in public, they have total confidence in the thing they're getting paid a huge fee for.]

(3) Spend huge amounts of time and money trying to force people to use it, usually resulting in people hating the new "identity" even more. Often this involves draconian regulations that absolutely forbid any use of the old logo in any context whatsoever (amusing when talking about history of course...), and creation of new infrastructure solely for brand-identity enforcement (and remember, this is a university we're talking about here...).

(4) Either (a) eventually give up and go back to the old logo, (b) successfully browbeat everybody into going along with the new order until all the people that remember the old logo have died, or (c) officially maintain the new logo while in practice everything except the school letterhead just quietly uses the old logo anyway. [Which of these happens depends on university politics.]

I've personally been associated with two universities that have gone through exactly this idiotic process, and have heard of others second-hand.

In most cases the whole thing seems to be a sort of an ego project for the university administration, who think it's a chance to "refresh things." Once the design firm gets started with the vague hand waving and justifications, the administration almost always seems to be gullible--and egotistical--enough to accept pretty much anything they say at face value. Even once it becomes clear that it's a complete cock-up, backing down would be an admission of failure, and there's no way the administration is gonna do that unless there are mass protests and burning of faculty.

Commercial firms sometimes do similar things, but are generally a bit less gullible AFAICS, I guess because they tend to be a bit more hard-headed (university administrations are often, well, kinda...wooly...).
There's also select2, chosen's big brother: http://ivaynberg.github.com/select2/
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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.

You mean like Mathematica? Or Wolfram's "predictive interface", http://reference.wolfram.com/mathematica/guide/WolframPredic...?
That's because Google Books made a decision to use a feature of PDF (JPEG2000 image compression) that is better suited for higher powered devices. They could just as easily chose JPEG or Flate if they wanted.

Don't blame the format - blame the publisher!
Sure, just as soon as everyone stops using Google Analytics to track users, and blogs stop using Google Adsense to monetise their websites....
Unnecessary disclosures
Unreasonable at Sea to set sail on 100-day accelerator cruise with 11 startups
Dealotto – A daily deals site where your luck decides the price you pay
/me puts tinfoil hat on

Adam and Eve are riding bicycles (naked) in the Garden of
Eden. They decide to have a race to see who is the
fastest person in the world. Adam's wheel pops and he
uses the snake St Satan as a replacement tube. $4

Imagine turning a snake into a bike tube. You'd end up putting the tail in the mouth. The symbol for a snake eating its own tail is an Ouroboros (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros) representing cyclicality (hohoho bicycles!) especially in "eternal return".

Funnily enough this cyclicality is mentioned in the idea where a man ends up being a dead albino during the day and a wild horse at night. There's a cycle of the man going from dead albino to a wild horse and even a "Rising from the grave" (http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/rise+from+the+grave) in the idea's description.

Oh.. and here's some info about the symbolism of horses: http://www.whats-your-sign.com/horse-symbol-meanings.html

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There's quite a few mentions of love and marriage across the texts. There's also a date on the last message (DESOLEE). Could they be related?

Oooh actually look at the second to last point of NOTES and then look at DESOLEE. Of course 18th of April not in "1 hour" but still ;)

One bit I found interesting in NOTES was "avoid using pseudonyms". Could this be something to do with _why detaching from his persona for the last few years?

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deterioration of the
team "social" has made
this a lost art!!
perfect timing

I think it's supposed to be "term" not "team". I think we all can guess where's he's getting at here though :) (/me looks up the last point in NOTES)

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/me takes tinfoil hat off
As HN places significant value on innovation and entrepreneurship, I suspect that there will be a number of comments on this post calling out Rocket as a parasitic clone machine who steal good ideas from hard working startups and throw massive capital at these clone businesses in developing markets.

While this is definitely a valid criticism, I'd urge you to read this post: http://posts.richoakley.com/post/rocket-internet-respect which argues that we, as entrepreneurs, have a lot to learn from the way Rocket has managed to execute so phenomenally well in each of the developing markets it has targeted.

Especially given a few recent posts on HN detailing failed attempts at startups, I think the above post highlights the importance of being able to consistently execute in a business.
New Facebook app allows voice calls in Canada
I've kept remote sessions active while in at train at 140km/h, constantly roaming between GPRS, 3G and LTE. Mosh delivers its promises and more.
Yes, they may complain about society/"industry" not caring enough, and that's mostly because it is true.

Let me offer an analogy: when veterans are badly treated, everyone's angry because society isn't valuing their contribution enough. If scientists and professors contribute at least as much (and think of how far we've come in just the last 50-odd years), I think it's fair they're miffed if you trivialize their jobs as "least stressful" when they're not.
These were my thoughts too - while I agree with the general sentiment of using Spaced Repetition; it also depends on the language you are using. If I find I'm beginning to recognize an abstraction I immediately begin to search for something someone else has already done.

The author of the post used PHP as an example and I think it's a terrible example because PHP's standard library and 3rd party libraries were all over the place in terms of naming conventions, structure, duplicated but not quite abstractions, &c...

I've found learning languages like Haskell to be very different - where learning the axioms and postulates is what leads me to implementation specifics. A good example: I was building accumulating recursive functions for a little project and was looking at the code and said this to myself, "This doesn't feel right, this looks like Scheme or Erlang code - not Haskell."

I set out to find any abstractions built into Haskell or 3rd party libraries that handled accumulators - low and behold folds! I've done that numerous times with this language proceeding from fundamentals and the process of abstraction to find first if the abstraction has already been done!

[EDIT]

I use Spaced Repetition for learning Haskell - but it isn't names of functions; it is the Monad laws, or Functor laws, &c... that I want to memorize.
Are there countries where a significant proportion of IT workers are female? Or representative of the country's ethnic makeup?

If so, please tell us!
I have the same sort of problem, and went with the MBPr. I need large VMs (6gb+ of ram) and travel a fair bit, so dragging around a big Dell was taking its toll. The MBPr has been great, the only limit being disk space, 512GB fill up quickly when each Windows image takes 40+ GBs. Also, the gorgeous screen, 6 months later, is now ghosting on me.

A colleague went with Air + VPN to his home lab, but that fails when your customer works "in a bunker" (i.e. heavy-handed firewalls and proxies, common in financial sectors).
Why? I'm European and I don't really have any strong feelings about it. Isn't this capitalism at work? I'm really having trouble seeing the issue. If laws have been broken that's one thing but fair competition is another entirely.
I would kill fr a laptop with a model M keyboard built into it. There must be some way to simulate spring action in a thin keyboard setup.

Most of us don't need to look at the keyboard when writing, chiclet keyboards are completely ok for that. You don't really need the peaked edges to find the keys.
I would go even further than that and state that this is a classic example of nerds completely failing to understand what the justice system is for (hint: it isn't a state machine).
People are generally more comfortable being naked around people of the same gender (except during sexual situations, which medicine is not supposed to be). For much the same reason, my gym has segregated locker rooms.
great work.. :)
Take your MacBook in and you'll get a replacement one, typically on the spot. I know at least 3 people who've had their rMBP replaced due to ghosting.
Makes me wonder why people don't use Free Pascal more ... It shares many of Go's advantages described here (simple language, powerful libraries) and is frequently faster and uses less memory (8KB memory in 4 cases where Go uses 700-1200KB!) on the Benchmark Game programs. It's probably the C-like syntax that tips the scales every time ...
Darcy's Law of Permeability
There are YouTube videos: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=yotaphone

Not excited by this.
My understanding is, it is not just 10 years. Also, I am comparing the USA to most countries out there, not a single country.
Well, what's your role in the team/organization? That's the first question. Are you the big chief, middle mgmt, person with seniority, person whom the others respect, or the new guy? That matters in this case, I think. It's easier to say, "You will adopt to this and you will work together" when you're the CEO. They'll have no choice. It's far harder to force that Team A's leader work with Team B's leader when you are on Team C, or are the new guy, or are someone the others do not know well, or...

In other words, your question is too general. Be more specific with it and you'll likely get more specific responses.
No, it's more like Chrysler spinning off Mercedes into its own high end brand.
OK, but patients should be equally frequent for both genders, so I don't see why this would evoke a gender bias for nursing?
If you want portability, get an 11". Maybe you think you need those extra 2", but I believe in time that you will find you are wrong, and never look back.
agreed. but please apple, for the love of god, let me have a file system on ios devices! that would be. so. close... and i could just dock that to any workstation ( monitor,keyboard,speaker,etc) i wanted to. maybe ipads runing osx in "launchpad" mode? but with access to the desktop when docked?
Sorry that I can't read between the lines, but "what's wrong with the European startup ecosystem"?
"Diversity is valuable when it represents diversity of life experience and problem-solving methods, not when it represents some external characteristic like skin color or gender."

First of all, gender is not exactly an "external characteristic". Secondly the life experiences of men and women are inherently diverse.

Hopefully, someday the colour of your skin won't influence your life experience, but that is not the case in any human society that I am aware of.
"Speculation suggests the company is moving away from Google as a result of Google’s acquisition of Motorola in 2011"

This "speculation" is what the whole article is based on. Where does it come from?

I think it makes sense that Samsung would like to expand their influence on the market by leading customers into their own ecosystem. But Android is not stopping Samsung from doing this: In fact, Samsungs Touchwiz OS already comes with plenty of Samsung Services installed: You log into a Samsung account, you get a Samsung app store in addition to the Google store, a music store etc.

What gives Google power in the Android ecosystem are its "Google apps for Android" services. Most people expect these to be part of every Android based operating system.

If Samsung thinks it can do without these services in the future, it will try. That its operating system is currently based on Android does not grant Google much influence over Samsung IMHO.

And that Samsung is also supporting other operating systems is no change from the current or past state. Was there ever a time when Samsung did only support a single software stack? I don't think so.
The more they know about me, the better Google Now can get (and the less irrelevant ads I'll see).

The only real risk of privacy breach is if the US government subpoena the info, but that can happen to any US cloud supplier.
JavaScript is the new Perl, what say you?
It depends what you want to build I guess. Go has a much smaller surface or things to learn if you know POSIX already. It's fast startup times makes it also a good contender for command-line tools.
You know, I see your point. Our mantra is "ideas are worthless, execution is everything". Rocket is an execution machine, and they deserve recognition for that. The problem is that because they are so successful at copying ideas and executing them in other markets, it reinforces the stereotype that this is what all European startups do. Maybe it's simply a matter of lack of confidence on the part of us Europeans, but I think a lot of people agree with me on this.
Great Debate: Why Arguing Is The Best Way To Learn
This is based on search engine results!?

"The ratings are calculated by counting hits of the most popular search engines.... The number of hits determines the ratings of a language"
-- http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/tpci_d...

How could that indicate anything other then more pages found by the search engines. How do you know the bias of the engine over time isn't giving better results and the "search trend" ranking is causing the results to skew in one direction or another.

I doubt search engine trends are a really accurate way to understand how much code is out there and what people are actually doing on a daily basis.

Worse the search term is: +"<language> programming"

More sites have "python programming" in them then "perl programming" and way more have "java programming" in them?

This tells me nothing really. I could argue it tells me Java is hard as hell and you have to have lots of references to figure out how to do anything.. Or it tells me that Java has lots of "java programming" sites. Heck maybe it tells us that lots of people host javadocs and every single page says "Java Programming" <reference, docs etc.>.

All that said I am actually enjoying python a lot and find myself writing more of my "you choose the language" projects in it. It feels like it will be more maintainable over time and I have the general feeling I can turn it over to others easier then a pile of Perl. I have to really write careful in Perl to make it readable by non-Perl heads. Python sort of forces that on you up-front. I'm still not a fan of having to use SPACES (COBOL anyone!!) to maintain blocks of code but I'm slowly getting used to it and using vim settings to make it easier etc.
Just use a pager. I prefer paging to scrolling.

What I'd like is probably something in between. Or one e-ink display and one 'normal'. But the OS would need to be aware that it was dealing with an e-ink display. You'd need to say goodbye to animations/flashing cursors and mouse pointers etc.
Disgusting, but par for the course in today's world.
This article may do the most to help our learning if we read it along with Hacker News site founder Paul Graham's essay "How to Disagree."

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html

But feel free to disagree with me and suggest a different idea you have read the article, based on your life experience in learning.
"TINSTAFL: There is no such thing as a free lunch."

It's "TANSTAFL" because it ain't "is;" it's "ain't." I hate being pedantic, and I ain't sure that I am. In any event, I won't apologize to the author - the internet is a harsh mistress.
How do you explain machine learning and data mining to non Hackers?
I would love to use a different email provider (I'd be prepared to pay up to 10$ a year for it), but it would need to be as fast and as good at searching and have at least as much space as gmail.

I'd like to be using a google docs alternative that was at least as performant and supported.

Other players are actually now catching up on search and maps, but even so, it's difficult to find products that are as good as google.

I was hoping this article was going to give me suggestions on how to 'unplug' but in fact it had a very low information content.
The only service of Google's that I use is Reader, and that solely as a backend to Reeder. I would love to unplug entirely, so I'm hoping that Google messes Reader up to the point that third-party RSS clients will have no choice but to switch.
Cells Grown By Japanese Researchers Kills Cancer
Fexl version with vastly improved handling of repeated side effects
You might get a bit of mileage out of 3., you can write go applications quite quickly and the optional typing makes it feel script-ish.

Also Go does compile on ARM.
Wait, how is a rich Buffet giving money to a poor Buffet a net increase in energy? Isn't this a zero sum system?
Popularity index sounds like something only Paris Hilton would take seriously.
In a nutshell: take successful US start-up ideas and create a European version of the exact same thing.
I agree.

A quote from the article:

> She explored the possibility of post-traumatic stress disorder with her therapists, but could not identify a triggering event. One clue that did eventually surface, though, hinted at a possibly traumatic experience. During a session with a hypnotherapist, Campbell remembered an image, accompanied by an acute feeling of fear, of a man looming over her.

It is very similar to the histories of false memories recovered after hypnosis that are discussed in the book "Demon-Haunted World" by Carl Sagan in chapter 9.

It discuss tree main branches

* Alien abduction

* Satanic cults kidnapping

* Past lives

* Repressed child abuse

The common pattern is that the subject has unclear symptoms, and after many hypnosis sessions a traumatic "memory" begins to appear and later after a few repetitions it became very clear and detailed. But the details are very difficult to corroborate or refute. (Some people even went to jail because of the supposed abuses.) The "memories" in this article look very similar.

(There is real cases of child abuse, but it is not repressed for decades.)
Oh, absolutely! Small executables would be a good fit for Go (provided you don't need a GUI, since AFAIK Go doesn't have a UI toolkit). Only, in that case, isn't a whole new language ecosystem a bit of an overkill to avoid some of the inconveniences you'll have using C/C++?

Sorry, I've yet to be shown a large enough class of problems where Go would give a significant enough an advantage to abandon rich and well-established ecosystems.

Look, there's no doubt Go is nice, and, as such, some people would use it for some tasks, just because it's there. But if I run a company building large software, why would I switch to an entirely new ecosystem that's incompatible with just about everything unless there is something spectacular that Go can do that no other solution can? Or, at the very least, something extremely hard that Go does very easily. Erlang, which is also incompatible with just about everything (though it might even be more compatible with C than Go is) does some spectacular things. If Go's killer feature is small console programs that don't require dependencies, then, well, it will see very little serious adoption.
I do agree.
How can Javascript go down? It doesn't sound like it peaked last year at all.
I hope that this succeeds, because I hate not having a good brand to recommend to people who want a Windows laptop, but I am skeptical that refocusing on business needs is the way to build a product that humans will love.
Jesus was a dirty, dirty God
An interesting article that humanizes Jesus. More I read about religious leaders like Jesus/Buddha, all these guys appear to be like modern day entrepreneurs - they found a community that suffered from problems (potential customers) and then showed them the solution through their teaching (the product). They disrupted the religion space by revolutionary ideas about god, giving the concept the upgrades that were needed adding features with modern UI - and engaged with their customers to to serve them better. Their growth hacks were "miracles" performed in public - that spread through the then social media and their religion got viral!
Looks like it is Linux with custom bits thrown on top.
Please release us all from all stupid regulations, and let remain the better, faster, and stronger ones.
At best, this article is overwrought analysis. At worst, it's fabricating unlikely scenarios.

Samsung has been diffident regarding Tizen, and quite unwilling to commit a level of resources that might draw Google's attention.

NTT Docomo was the most high-walled walled garden, with a Docomo-specific app runtime and other tightly bound ecosystem-technology links. More recently, docomo has had to accomodate Android smartphones. It's likely that Docomo sees Tizen as a platform for defending their garden walls.

This is not to take away from the accomplishment. Getting Tizen to market with a top OEM and a top carrier ain't chopped liver. But neither is it a strong indicator of continued success beyond that Samsung will support Tizen as long as Docomo orders handsets. It says nothing about whether US or European carriers will pick up Tizen, or whether any of Intel's plans for a Tizen ecosystem will come to fruition.

On top of all that, the question "Will Motorola rise..." is an appendage, without a single link to reality, least of all any indication that Samsung is less committed to growing their Android products.
Anatomy of a successful cold-email campaign
Despite being a stickler for normally calling out reposts, I'm not sure I've seen this one on HN before, and it's a FASCINATING read, even if you're not into ASM.
In this "awakening" cases nobody would be sent to jail, but I suppose that they can get a lot of money in a "malpractice" lawsuit.
Still amazes that this is still an open question and is argued upon. May be you can argue when you will have ubiquitous e-books.
>The Air is a somewhat paradoxical machine in that it is extremely portable and therefore perfect for travel, which is when you often lose the data connection and therefore need more power to run VMs!

If you loose the connection you're screwed anyway, except if you work in some long term isolated part of a system.

Else, you have no access to the repo for other people's commits, no mail or IM contant to see what to work on etc, no way to check documentation/Stack Overflow/etc, no way to connect and make changes to the deployment servers, etc.

But it's not like people don't have access to the network on travels, anyway. In most hotels, coffee-houses etc you can get a wifi connection easily, and that's even in places like major African cities.