skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I take from these findings is that people prefer the current style of Yahoo! logo, so for their sake, the new logo will want to be very similar to their current one. Obviously Yahoo! were blanket testing what worked best and presumably have even more detailed statistics about why people liked which logo.
As someone living in minnesota, I don't see how the vikings are a vote for purple and yellow. :D
What mmorpg is this for?
Sure, the release process might be easier on Android, but there are other factors involved in app development. Android is becoming a kind of curse word at my current job. Getting a working emulator can be a huge exercise in frustration (like for gMaps v2... forget it). Every and any feature or UI widget can break in unexpected ways on different devices. The tools are very functional but about as unintuitive and finicky as you can get. And I can tell you the documentation is not shorter because it's better.

I have nothing personal against Android, but let's not just skim over the actual DEVELOPMENT process.
The problem with online dating/OkCupid
how girls think.
I've done SW for real-time & safety critical systems. Things are heavily tilted towards "Quality" in the "quality fast cheap" triangle there, but at the end of the day, it's still:

- unit tests

- functional tests

- code reviews

- automated analysis tools

I have a real hard time saying that this is engineering when it can be done by anyone who has the internal discipline to do it carefully.

More pertinently, I don't believe that there's any experimental basis to demonstrate software's correctness for a task a priori. E.g., I (or actually a more competent mechanical engineer) can develop a model for a table and demonstrate that given x,y,z constraints the table will hold; attaining x,y,z constraints requires using a,b,c kinds of materials. This all before the table has been built, based on fundamental laws of physics and observed qualities of materials from the field of material science. Computer science research (in broad strokes) is generally devoted to determining existence or other qualities of algorithms for tasks, or demonstrating really spiffy and unthought capabilities of computers given extant algorithms and hardware. This does not generate the basis for building materials for programs: this generates tools and other capabilities to shape the software. I am not knocking CS research - it's valuable when done well. But I have a hard time seeing how CS research provides the same type of foundation that, say, chemistry research provides.

What I think I am saying is that formal sciences don't lead to engineering the same way natural sciences do: the application is qualitatively and distinctly different, and not simply in degree or seriousness.

Disagreements are invited.
Remember when Nintendo was the most valuable company in Japan surpassing Toyota, Honda, and even MUFG?

How the mighty have fallen.
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Nice thoughts!
When I think about wiki, I think about team work.
After read yours comments I could find (googling) a proprietary solution called Confluence[1]. Maybe it's what I'm looking for. Lets see...

[1] https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence
I was expecting something more interesting, but that's probably because I like N-gram analysis, among other things.

This is how we do it (examples below are not weddings, but random topics):

http://blogdotitrendcorporationdotcom.files.wordpress.com/20...

http://blog.itrendcorporation.com/2013/04/10/social-media-on...
Joining a big company has many benefits such as being able to see what leads to bureaucracy in order to avoid it, meet at least one awful manager so you will never be like that person, meet at least one amazing mentor and grow, and learn see beyond appearance to recognize truly skilled/smart people vs. overconfident fakers. I think many of these skills are necessary for building a successful company and the relationships formed at these companies are invaluable.
Though I appreciate the initiative of those that homeschool, there are only two kinds that I've known:

1. Those that shouldn't be homeschooling because they are not trained as educators, certainly not in all of the subjects they need to teach, but they are religiously conservative to the point of some social withdrawal, and don't want their kids going to public school and being exposed to drugs and liberalism. I've known many people in this category. BTW- I'm somewhat conservative and religious, so when I say they are conservative and religious, I mean really conservative and religious.

2. Those that are so liberal they take their kid on a round the world trip spending all of their life's savings and money from their newly-sold house to do so, homeschooling (some would say no-schooling or light-schooling) during the trip with little support or structure. When they got back they got a lower-paying job and started from ground-zero again, with their kid who disliked the trip and missed months of education. I only know one person in this category.

I have never been introduced to a no-speed-limit homeschooler.
Nobody pines for the ASR33 keyboard :-) Now that was a mechanical keyboard.

I've been typing on my CODE for about a week now, its nice and the feel is good, and I do like the look of the backlight (and no I don't look at my keyboard while I type). I do wish I could get a keycap for the caps lock key that said "CTRL" but I am OK with it just being control.

On the multi-media keys, one enhancement that would really rock would be to have those 6 keys be programmable. By default they could come up as multi-media keys but its pretty conveneient to use thumb on the 'fn' key and then press one of the 6. So being able to load macros into them would totally rock.
That shift has been aided by the increasing dominance of Toyota & Honda.
That actually looks like just what I had in mind. Thanks so much for this.
You don't have to wait for Mavericks, it has already happened. Apps that are sold through the App Store can not make use of the the media keys on Apple keyboards, which is why VLC can use them and other apps can't.

Edit: other than iTunes
The chances of you getting rich (say, hitting $1M) by accumulating some capital from your corp job and then using it to pick the right stocks on the market are probably greater than working at a start-up with a sub-1% equity and a reduced pay and waiting for the big exit, which in this case would have to be well in the over $100M territory.

Working at a start-up obviously has its non-monetary benefits over other forms of employment, but getting rich, on average, is probably not one of them.
> I find it hard to believe a Model M could be easier on the wrists than my abhorrent Macbook Air 2012 keyboard, due to its equally straight, unnatural angle.

I find ergonomic keyboards pointless, but I also don't have (or have ever had) wrist problems.

> Compared to my old Acer C312 tablet with a 5-degree angle, typing 90wpm+ for more than an hour is not sustainable.

Who types 90wpm+ when programming? We are programmers, not typists, we spend most of our time thinking and debugging, with only some intermittent spurts of typing activity. For spurts of typing, the Model M is perfect. If you had to write a lot continuously, I'm sure there are better solutions, but even when I'm writing a paper, the thinking/typing ratio is high.

> Could this be a medical condition on my end, or is there a real ergonomic case to be made for the aging Model M? Right now, I don't buy it.

Given that your work sounds more like stenography and not programming, it is probably just that this keyboard is not meant for you.
Nintendo's market cap is ~$15B. Their cash on hand is ~$11B. In my opinion, their IP is worth sooooo much more than the difference.

Rovio, in comparison, is estimated between the $2B-$9B range. If Angry Birds is worth that, what is Mario/Zelda/Metroid/etc. combined worth?

I do feel like they would be best served ceasing set top boxes and focusing on handhelds and making games for the PS4, XB1, and PC. Perhaps port a few of their games to iOS/Android.

To do this they would most likely have to get acquired though. I see Disney as a much more likely suitor for that than Apple.
"Nintendo isn’t just failing because their hardware is sub-par. They’re failing because they continue to try to re-tool the Model T while the competition is building Ferraris."

This has been Nintendo since practically forever, they have always been railed on for their sub-par hardware milking it for as long as possible. Wii U might not be selling hotcakes but I don't think this is Nintendo's death. Their IP will keep the company going.

For anyone interested in the story of Nintendo (or just enjoys gaming history in general) this is a fun read: http://www.amazon.com/Super-Mario-Nintendo-Conquered-America... (or listen for commute/jogging)
> The blueprint still used for today’s schools was developed during the Protestant Reformation, when schools were created to teach children to read the Bible, to believe scripture without questioning it, and to obey authority figures without questioning them.

This came as a surprise to me, so I looked it up:

http://www.faqs.org/childhood/Pa-Re/Protestant-Reformation.h...

Not the most authoritative resource, but the provided bibliography is at least impressive.

> I hypothesize that people who are against homeschooling pledged to flags many of times, and are probably incapable of forming opinions that aren't regurgitated to them from a figure of authority.

And this is why I'm not upvoting you.
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I still haven't found a linux distro that doesn't eventually resort to me fudging with xrandr for a week trying to get multiple monitors working correctly. Granted, this was 3 years ago. Have any linux distros solved the problem of configuring multiple monitors using a gui yet?
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I'm not a Japanese citizen or know the language but I'm under the impression that Nintendo is more like a Hasbro or Milton-Bradley; having been around since about 1905 or so.

These companies don't seem to go away. They have brands that continue to sell to the next generation of children.

Every now and then they become immensely popular and have some runaway freight train successes. But even in the bad times, they seem to stick with it.

There are some game companies that seem to do the startup gamble. The company that produced Teddy Ruxpin (Worlds of Wonder) and Atari seem to have been structured this way; put all the chips on black and see what happens.

But I'm under the assumption that as an American what I see are the electronics of Nintendo and that within the confines of Japan they have other product lines such as boardgames and toys for children (things like this: http://d3gqasl9vmjfd8.cloudfront.net/aba95bdd-6979-4b92-b7fe...) - as that is their history.

Am I wrong, or is this fundamentally what Nintendo is?
I seriously doubt SL would have been (more) successful by having a client in the mobile space. If that is what the author really thinks then there is no takeaway from this article.
I managed to get a digital version of it off tpb.
Are you in the Melbourne area by any chance?

I've used a MX Brown at work for 6 months (45g) and it was too soft. Nice feel but just too soft.
I use a MX Black at home (60g) which I enjoy, and for the past 4 or so months, I've been using a MX Clear (55g) at work, and it's my favourite typing keyboard to date. The increased activation force (55g) and even higher bottoming-out force(65g) is why I bought it. I love this keyboard and it looks amazing too ;) http://mrinterface.com/sites/default/files/styles/mywatermar...
And I'm assuming you can swap the keycaps?
Fascinating commentary about the "puck" quote, which existed decades before Jobs ever uttered it (did he? I know it as a quote that Gretzky's father told #99. Even that is unnecessary attribution, as it is fundamental training that every kid learns about hockey, and the wisdom is as old as the sport). The point of it, your personal hang-ups about it notwithstanding, is obvious: When a market is changing quickly, if you're undertaking a project that is going to take time -- which pretty much all mobile projects do -- you target where the market will be when you hit it, not where it was last year, or even right now.

if I'm releasing an app this year, I should target iOS first because Android is a distant second

Personally I target both "first", because the tools and methods to do so are simple and effective. However if you are somehow making Absolutely Median Software, then sure. Reality tends to be dramatically more nuanced, and such a blanket statement is almost certainly naive nonsense.
Having trouble finding the link, but I remember an article on why the founder of DailyKos settled on burnt orange. The rationale was there were already lots of shades of blue and other pleasant colors on the Internet. So while burnt orange was pretty ugly, it was at least unique and memorable. And for a blog trying to get repeat visitors, a memorable look was important.

Granted, uniqueness or memorability is no longer necessary for a company as well known as Yahoo, but there's something to be said for ugly.
MMORPGs also got that right. World of Warcraft still has 7.7M subscribers, for example, a solid order of magnitude more than Second Life.
Isn't beta testing a problem more suitable for a third party service (https://testflightapp.com/)? Using app store to distribute beta quality product is a subpar solution IMHO.
If I'm not mistaken, instead of splitting into:

controllers/
users.js
teams.js
models/
user.js
team.js

Just have:

modules/
users.js
teams.js

Where model and controllers for each function is defined within a single file.

I've switched to this convention as well - less context switching of files.
100% right
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Blackboard is a known aggressor with its patent portfolio and cash. They will acquire and extinguish or just kill you with a patent lawsuit if you present a significant threat to their products.
Empiricism trumps theory. You theorize people don't type fast enough for it to matter, but a large number of programmers, including me, report that ergonomic keyboards help them. Why are you arguing against the evidence?
It's not for anything, it's just for fun, according to the source code.
Nonetheless, I think he's right in his assumption that it brought a sense of togetherness that social networks desperately fail to reproduce.

However, i think gamers still experience it on more "regular" MMORPGs. I know I used to.
Ugh. I have a Razer one sitting in a closet; it really belongs in the trash. (I'm typing this comment on a Unicomp Spacesaver M, and I'm a die-hard mechanical keyboard junkie.)

To compare a Razer to this keyboard (or even a Unicomp) is to compare a cheapo, bottom of the barrel smartphone to a top-of-the-line phone. The Razer feels terrible--the keys feel "loose", the typing feel is incredibly off, and above all the keyboard looks like it's made for a 14-year-old male gamer. (Which it probably is.)

So no, I do not agree that this keyboard would have any comparison to a Razer. At least, I hope not.
WASD sells extra keycaps, but I don't think they sell the clear ones for the CODE.

Also, the multimedia keys just emit another keycode so you should be able to reprogram them, depending on your OS. (e.g. xmodmap on Linux, as detailed here: https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard/MultimediaKeys)
A very similar article could have been written before the original DS or Wii debut.

And many were.
> They don't on the Play Store.

What is it that causes people to indulge in such hyperbole on this point? It's such an utterly ridiculous statement (obviously, people do buy things on the Play Store, there are plenty of paid apps with tens of thousands of purchases), yet it gets trotted out time and time again as an absolute as if it is an obvious accepted fact. How about a tiny bit of moderation:

"People pay for things less often on the Play Store"

You will sound a lot less like a troll.
> "Rovio, in comparison, is estimated between the $2B-$9B range. If Angry Birds is worth that, what is Mario/Zelda/Metroid/etc. combined worth?"

I don't know, what is nostalgia worth? A lot more kids know and crave Rovio IP these days. Sure, Mario/Zelda is recognizable and part of the zeitgeist but then so is Pacman.
Agreed.
Best developer platform != best platform for your startup

Your [potential] users & their value should drive the platform decision.
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> After all, a logo serves no other purpose than recognition.

If recognition was the sole purpose, Yahoo should have kept the logo exactly the same. I think logos (or styles in general) are also an expression of the attributes that a company wants consumers to associate with the brand.

The uneven baseline in Yahoo's logo express playfulness, as do the colors in Google's logo, for example. That's how Google and Yahoo contrast themselves with boring old business-oriented companies like Microsoft, IBM and SAP.

Like potatolicious pointed out, it is dubious how worthwhile it is to ask your existing customers for feedback if you want to change your image. After all, these are people that are already familiar with you, while the purpose of an updated image is, presumably, to attract a different/wider userbase.
Just curious, is this part of the Coursera Stanford Startup Engineering course? I was just wondering because the final project involves a bitcoin crowdfunder and also is going on right now.
Except that's the opposite of the inference I made. My reasoning is, "If I'm an exception, then other people might be too, so the system broadly should be less uniform."

Whereas you seem to be defending a system that focuses, above all else, on uniformity.

The system isn't designed to maximize your personal well-being.

That would imply the system gives a damn about well-being of anyone, whatsoever, at all, so it's pretty obviously wrong.
I think I spend too much time planning and not enough time just getting shit done. It's one of the things that I feel like I have to work on this year.
My favorite reason people give for why kids should not homeschooled or alternative schooled is that it is not "the real world".

As an adult, I live in "the real world". When I come to work I don't get degraded, ridiculed, talked down to, insulted, wedgeed or dumped headfirst into the garbage can.

Public school is not "the real world" unless, of course, you are referring to a actual prison.
I bought one of these and posted impressions and unboxing pictures on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/jcurbo) I had a Filco before this and have some Model M's laying around that I used for years, so I fall into the same camp as the OP in terms of being a mechanical keyboard user.
A friend of mine purchased the first three volumes of TAoCP for $1 each from a sale at the UCLA engineering library and gave them to me.

They're quite scraped up and ugly, but the content is all there :)
This is simple rule based generation. Every type of node has certain pseudo random distribution of children. So you pass seed object (by default universe, but comment in source specifies it can be anything), and then programmatic pseudo-random on the fly generation magic happens.
And then you can run clouds as a service. The trick is then self-hosting.
I know man, still not working. No idea why, probably just something I'm missing because Eclipse is ugly and difficult as sin.
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For an article so sure of itself, it was incredibly light on actual facts, figures, and numbers. I got: the 3ds has sold 20% less than its predecessor at the same point in its lifetime.

Also got: Wii u is a dud (I think that's some kind of technical term); they have like, a blackberry amount of cash (whatever that means); and the author is "definitely" right.

Anyone have some actual details about why I should be concerned about Nintendo?
That's probably because the DPRK doesn't release reliable stats.

Also, while you may get indeed thrown in jail for drug possession in the US, in North Korea you, your wife, your parents and your children would end up in labor camp, eating undigested corn kernels out of pig shit and dying of starvation or dysentery in a few years.
I use a Filco Ninja Majestouch 2. I looove the side-printed keys: they'll never wear out, it looks pure-black from the top, and it just looks great.

http://www.amazon.com/Filco-Majestouch-2-Keyboard-FKBN104M-E...
I'd buy the Razer BlackWidow happily, except that critically (for me) the Escape key is not mechanical. (Nor are the Function keys)

Yes, I am a vi user. :-)
The problem that Second Life is solving, that is "how to have a shared experience with someone when you're not physically close", is actually the same problem that a lot of MMOs are solving in some form or another; see this article [1] for a great example.

The subtlety lies in the fact that MMOs are games, and that Second Life tried to tackle the problem by being more of a "lifestyle" application; sure you could play games, but you could also read content, talk with people merely for the sake of talking, and so on. The point was that content in Second Life would be mostly created by 3rd parties.

In other words, while MMOs offer a shared experience by being the content consumed by the users, Second Life positioned itself more as a platform for content that would be consumed by users all over the world. Second Life is the city, 3rd parties are the shops and businesses and movie theaters and so on.

It's a noble cause, and we are far from having solved that problem yet (as any couple in a long distance relationship will tell you). However, I don't believe we will solve that problem with software, but rather with interaction embodied in physical objects (which is an extremely recent field). For example, see [2] for a great example of what that could be (there is another, older project I have in mind that involves beds, lights and webcams but can't find any links right now).

If you're interested in tangible and embodied interaction, the academic TEI conference is the best place for that- sadly it's an ACM conference, which means you need an ACM account to access the paper archives, but you can easily access the proceedings index (for example for TEI2013 [4]) and google the PDFs from there :)

[1]: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-fi-c1-rodrigos-world-2013090...

[2]: http://littleriot.com/pillowtalk/

[3]: http://www.tei-conf.org/

[4]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2460625&CFID=242863494&CFT...
At first I thought this was satire, so bizarre was the vitriol against big corp.

I work at one of the big "nefarious corporate" companies, and my life is incredibly happy; I'm proud of getting a job here and proud of the work I do. More importantly, I have time and money to travel, play music, live a healthier lifestyle and generally enjoy life outside of (and in addition to) work. Who gives a shit if "The Man" is getting rich off my work? I don't envy what he has. Being able to afford a Lotus wouldn't make me nearly as happy as spending time with my wife.

If you feel compelled to pursue a startup because it's your passion, that's wonderful...but doing so with the expectation of riches is unrealistic, statistically speaking. Plus, growth in wealth is proven not to linearly increase happiness.

EDIT: But who am I to tell you how you (or anyone) how to live their life? If that's your path, then by all means pursue it.
It can't be nostalgia if these kids have never experienced what a real video game should be.
And come back as interim CEO?