skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well good for them for making the logo changing process fun to follow. A logo is after all only a small part of a company's success (compared to the actual value of its products), might as well have a light-hearted attitude about it.
> somebody who makes one or two typos in a blog post on their personal home page.

You'll note that the best bloggers/essayists (e.g. pg) have other people proof things before they post them for public consumption.

I didn't say it doesn't have false negatives. I just said that it's a good proxy for attention to detail and diligence. Life isn't a warm-up round or a first draft.

MVPs aside, when you release something for public consumption, it should be as high-quality as you can possibly make it.
>looking back, there was no single defining feature of bad teachers I had, but every one of my good teachers were over the age of 40, had previous careers/jobs, and not a single one had a degree (in teaching)..

One of my favorite teachers my drama teacher, probably somewhere on the younger side of 25-35. The year I quit taking drama classes was the year that she was forced to go back to school because she "wasn't qualified" to teach permanently, having not completed a teaching degree.
Not sure why people are so bitter, but personally I think it looks good. In fact, I even like the bevel... adds a touch of nostalgia to the 1990's.
Ever notice how, when someone starts a sentence with "no offense, but...", the very next thing they say/write tends to be really offensive?
Use random primary colors for the letters and you are not far from the Google logo.

EDIT: I gnu image manipulated it: http://imgur.com/XajyMr7
Terrible. This is so embarrassing. We're losing you, Marissa.
I'd be a cultural chauvinist if I went around telling everyone how America is awesome and can do no wrong. I actually spend a lot of time complaining about my own country's problems, so I don't really understand this accusation.

It would be ironic if I were on here denying the problems that my own country faces, while commenting on India's. But as I said, I spend a lot of time talking about that as well, so irony doesn't make sense either.

What is the context of Indian culture that makes institutional corruption, gender / class discrimination, and the demonization of rape victims OK? Once again, please keep in mind that I'm not talking about all of India, just the corrupt government institutions and wealthy individuals that are comfortable living in the middle ages.

I don't see why this is such a controversial view, if you made a comment about corruption in America, I'd be more inclined to agree with you than to act like my personal honor has been besmirched because my country isn't perfect.
'next segway' as in too expensive for its purpose to become a comodity.
The bevel bothers me as well, especially dark bevel on white background.
Stanford University Is Going To Invest In Student Startups Like A VC Firm
I wonder why they didn't pick the top choice. It looks better to me.
Python autocomplete in Vim!
I call it the "No offense, but fuck you."
How sad, that to look good the U.S. has to pick the most isolated, state controlled country and still needs to rely on story telling.
Wow, can't believe they took such a big step backwards. Purple w/ black shadow and bevel ... this must have been a decision by committee.
Looks herky jerky and overwrought on my machine. Don't mind the idea, just seems exaggerated in the execution.
He didn't forget the typesetting. He (the parent) was basically writing about the typesetting.
The short answer is yes, but it would be some work. Maybe someone has a product that does this, but I'm not aware of it. Openstack deployment tools are still a very active area of development for a lot of teams.

If you try to do this yourself, bear in mind that getting the core services replicated across multiple public cloud servers in order to tolerate failures could be challenging, and you'd need to set up a network spanning all the clouds you wanted to abstract away using a VPN or similar so that your mysql and rabbit servers aren't facing the public internet.

There is a team at HP doing Openstack on Openstack, though with very different goals.
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO
Typos are one thing, misuse of homonyms or lack of subject/verb agreement is another entirely. I wouldn't begrudge someone a "teh" in a readme THAT much (though, again: where the fuck is your spellcheck?), but a misuse of "your" for "you're" immediately makes me start to question if they have a clue what they're doing.
Hey! it's that wibbly wobbly new fangled web 2.0 thingamajig I've heard about~
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This type of prosecution is having the opposite effect as intended: it gives Barrett a larger platform and more credibility because the unusual unfairness is itself newsworthy. It shows just how abusive and insecure USG has become.

Moreover, for USG going after journalists is a naked abandonment of any sense of first amendment protections.

It is wrong and the leadership should be ashamed. Period.

If this trend continues, I will turn in my SAR membership and my citizenship.
Animated logos are the future - including on storefronts, the tops of monumental buildings, and vehicles.
The bevel is pretty ugly and unnecessary.
It does sound long, but maybe it's the time from first contact to decision. You schedule an interview a few weeks in advance, for example.
the logo is bad and I'm not even hating, the 3D effect is horrible on a large screen with a high resolution. Drop that weird word art effect...
Potentially, raw socket access. This could be a server as well as a client. But I need to do some more work porting it.
Feels to early for a tribute to the 00s.
(language and written communication) is

Singular as they are logically combined into a single field/endeavor, that is, communication (including language and writing).
WAT. Are you trolling us, or are you that uninformed about VCS history? Giving you the benefit of the doubt, just learn and use git[1]. Yes, there are things about the UI that suck. But the underlying machinery and power it provides is unparalleled.

RCS, in short, is that horrible feet-killing pair of boots that made you think you hated <insert sport here>, when in fact it was just frustration with sub-par equipment.

[1] If you need to learn git, check out Scott Chacon's excellent Pro Git, available for free online at: http://www.git-scm.com/book
The interesting thing is that eduacation by play is not a novel idea. It dates back at least to Comenius and was re-iterated over and over again since. Yet, after almost four centuries it's still not widely implemented. One gets a feeling that there are some strong socio-economic forces acting against it.
For a few days some people will say it sucks, and some people will say they like it better - then nobody say much of anything about their logo ... new or old.

Ultimately, they'll still be facing the same challenges they faced 31 days ago ... just like every company they call their competition.
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in the usa, i've definitely seen lights where a larger road crossed a smaller one, and the small road green light stayed green longer if someone had pressed the pedestrian crossing button. which does seem like a sensible use of the button - from a flow-control point of view you want the large road green a lot more of the time than you want the small one green, but if someone is walking across they're going to be potentially a lot slower than the traffic (people with walkers, e.g.)
Just because those things exist and can be used to track you doesn't mean you have to use them.

Just because US privacy rights are being eroded doesn't mean that not having them at all is better.
Name a more universally compelling area of deep human interest than sex.
I guess I'm insane but I actually think it's a big improvement. If changing their branding goes along with improving their content and actually coming back from the brink, then people might remember it more fondly than they're reacting to it now. If there are no other meaningful changes and Yahoo goes down, then it'll be remembered poorly.
I feel like there's a hint of Google in there. Could just be my imagination, but with the exception of the much sharper center gradient divide, it's a close 3D effect. The only other difference is the uneven font size.
Well, it isn't exactly the same -- the day 7 wasn't 3D and was a heavier typeface.

But in survata's tests day 7 and day 10 were very close together -- 45% and 47%, compared to 36% or lower for others -- so it would be entirely possible for yahoo to have tested all 30 and had those two rank oppositely.
Thanks. It predicts your professional expertise in specific domains for specific roles based on data from user's profile as well as similar other profiles. Sample representation: "Score of 67 in Data Science domain for Data Scientist Role".
Multiple factors such as education, work etc. go into algorithm (much more being added). Klout, Kred etc measure social influence based on how much you engage and interact on the web.
Unfortunately, a larger platform and more credibility won't help Barrett in that kangaroo court. He's screwed.
Scientists Expand Scale of Digital Snooping Alert
Samsung Galaxy Gear watch
You might try following the lead of Salman Khan: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salman_Khan_(educator)
I think a lot of people would love to cancel their citizenship with the USA, save for the small problem of not having citizenship anywhere else.
> If you want to get the best advertising delivered to you, based on your actual interests, start here.

They make no compunction, though, that's not what I want.
It's easy to be reductive and pick apart other people's work. Time may prove this to be an iconic choice. But it does look a bit like the logos designed in the early 2000s using the Optima font and a Fireworks bevel filter, high video production values notwithstanding. It's not made that way, of course, but Googling for logos using Optima yields vast fields of results with a strong family resemblance.

Tangentially, it's amusing that businesses named "Optima" often choose that eponymous font. Even American Express did this with the Optima line of credit cards.
Can someone please do a 99designs project to see if they get a better logo from that?
Very interesting, you might want to check your credit report, your identity may have been stolen..
To clarify the parent comment, I see iTunes gift cards for sale at grocery store checkout lines. Perfect spontaneous purchases. Where do you even buy a Google Play gift card?
Have you tried using the x86 images with KVM? They're quite speedy.
Its all right. If you do get the green light, email me. I'm looking for open source projects to contribute.
Culture change: How to improve your company culture
OK, you win. But you completely missed the point of 1990 in that post (hint: he meant windows)
I like it too. The proportions look a lot nicer and so does the colour.

The only grounds I can see for criticising it is that it doesn't follow the 'flat design' aesthetic, but I don't think that's a problem. Plenty of logos don't.
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Man, I don't necessarily think they should be used in technical interviews, but I really don't get the aversion to these kinds of questions - stuff like this is so much fun to think about and debate!

I personally think manhole covers should be human-cross-section-from-above-shaped.
An online PDF editor
I work with a client that uses Acxiom data.

My contacts say this is a real and legit attempt to get out in front of potential regulation. Because of the regulations around credit data, it is derived from a variety of non-credit sources. The only information they are likely to use from this site is the email address. In general, they do not trust user-provided information.

I think the reaction they are hoping for is "I guess that's not so bad" but what I think they are going to get is "wow, you don't know anything about me."

Oh, and they really do honor the opt-out stuff. So few people do it that it actually improves the response rate of advertisers because the people who care enough to opt out are never going to respond.

I wish they put a hit counter on it. I'd love to see how much traffic they get.
It's interesting that colleges actively recruit homeschool graduates because they are more likely to succeed. They tend to be more able to learn and study independently. They also tend to be better at working with diverse groups of people.
That explains my grandparents remodeled their bathrooms every 6 months. (Yup, I guess that makes 'em hipsters.)

The way around hipster discontent is to stop caring; the only person you have to impress is yourself.
I was curious as to what Acxiom's cookies actually look like after opting out. With a fresh Chrome Igcognito session, following through the opt out process, I get 20 cookies. Plenty of unique GUIDs perfectly capable of tracking me through the internet, and no occurances of "DO NOT TRACK" or "IGNORE". Screenshot here:

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/950/d2ys.png

Also, can you define DMP? I did do some googling first, and I'm not sure which acronym you're referring to.

EDIT: Found it. DMP stands for Data Management Platform. For anyone else: http://www.adopsinsider.com/online-ad-measurement-tracking/d...
"can't be assed" is an idiom with which it seems you're unfamiliar.
Wrong. Completely wrong. Stop trying this stupid wording fraud.

What the hell the Android means? The users? Or the cartel?
Android users are never starving for beautiful apps. The Android cartel does. Android users always starving for free stuffs, not beautiful. What kind of idiot choose Android for beautiful apps instead of iOS which is already-existing and also proven? Android has no beautiful apps because the users don't want it.

Market share? Market share itself doesn't make money. Especially blind market is purely useless. This article is just a mutated clone of crappy meme: "Say market share, and never say how the market share will make money.". Even Google and telecoms are making more money on iOS.

Android is pretty attractive toy for a developer. But for business? No kidding.
Well, I'm only commenting on what I think the point of the article is. On the other hand, that point is undermined by comments in this thread about what the actual intent was. If the intent was just to be playful, (like say, the episode of Doctor Who in which the Time Lady Romana tries on different "bodies" before settling on a new actress to play her) then that's not at all like the scenario I described. It's more like dying your hair a different color each day on a bet.

However, to some people, (the author specifically) it's /come off/ as the situation described. So, without really seeing more evidence, I can tentatively conclude "a swing and a miss". But I can't fault them for trying.
Regardless of whether you think WikiLeaks is engaged in "true journalism", the activities referred to in the article took place before the cable dump in November 2010.
They won't, out of politeness and not wanting to make enemies. I will, as an anonymous coward on the internet.
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They should be but they won't. They just do it because they can, and because courts routinely defer to most outrageous claims and requests by government - like recent decision that TSA is free to lie in responses to FOIA requests. These guys have absolutely no shame and the only way they can be stopped is for US public to expose them and to vote out anybody who helps this happen. If they fail to do so, it will only get worse.

Somehow in many excessively publicized cases we've seen over the years it never was a problem for the government that everybody is talking about it. But when it comes to the surveillance case, suddenly there's an urgent need of protecting jury from being tainted. It smells as fishy as it gets. A complete and open abuse of power.
Hangul is great, but Japan has a 99% literacy rate as well. With a good method, e.g. Heisig, learning the characters is not very difficult at all.
It says "My parents named me something stupid, but please take me seriously now. I'm a businessman. Look at my suit."
That's One Fugly Logo, Yahoo
Do no evil. Google exploring borderline evil tactics.
The article says the author doesn't want to depend on something like Ruby. Ruby (or Python) seem a lot more likely to be on a base install than GNU Stow, though.
Does this mean if you are drafted to an NFL team your expected (minimum) earnings would be $1.62M?

My understanding is the median household income in the US is approx. $50,000 - about 32 years' worth of work to equal the (minimum) earnings of an NFL draftee.

They're hardly struggling, even if the contract isn't renewed and they have to find another job.
Is Smartphone Addiction the Start of a Global Conciousness?
Nice bit of sed. :-) Here's the best awk, I could muster:

awk -F'>' -v RS='<' '/a href/{print$2}'
I keep the dotfiles in my dotfiles directory without the dots, as there's no need for them to be hidden.
You don't see any difference between cute baby pics and star wars kid? I wouldn't put naked baby pics or anything on the internet, but saying no pics at all seems a bit over-paranoid. (And I am about as paranoid as they come).
More expense is a bragging right and a substitute for thinking.

RFP should due-diligence recent projects to be sure they're not cutting corners. Also, shopping around for better results/value elsewhere.

(It makes you want to guard good value/$ firms that aren't big names.)
Seems you no longer think so? Why not?
Patriot Act author says NSA’s bulk data collection is “unbounded in its scope”
Many homeschooling parents find they can accomplish in about four hours what public schools do in a full day. Considering the personal attention, study halls, and such, this makes sense. Next, the parent teaching doesn't need to try to figure out where their student stands with quizzes, tests, and assignments because they manage it already. There's generally one parent at home doing all this, but the time needed is much less than it sounds initially.
Well it is true that a fair trial is only possible with an unbiased jury, and having a lot of media coverage can create a bias. But doesn't that only apply to bias for the prosecution? And anyway they manage to find juries for high-profile cases (like OJ even after the car chase).

But no, let's throw out the First Amendment instead.
Or just write a shell script. This is a pretty trivial task in Bash, let alone zsh
Perhaps for software development, but not for product development. Often as or more important to a product is finding out how it works for real users, and rapidly prototyping and disseminating builds is a good way to do that.

While software engineering is hard as a discipline, I don't feel it is the hardest part of building a startup.
Yahoo Picks A New GeoCities Logo
Geeking Out on the Logo
Out of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Facebook, Google was the only company that straight up declined to interview me because I did not meet GPA requirements (3.0 cumulative - I had a 3.4 at the time in CS but I hadn't done well in freshman chem or calc 3)

I like that they decided to stop asking brain teasers due to a lack of correlation between performance in them and performance once hired. Do they really think that cumulative GPA has a strong correlation on new-hire performance?

I certainly don't.

(I expect to get some push-back from you guys and I'm interested in the discussion to follow :))
It's nice. It kind of grows on you. Feels more modern (which if that was the goal, mission accomplished).

Seems to work even better as animated gif (like on the main home page).

I'm glad the logo didn't get completely butchered into something unrecognizable. That would have been a big loss of brand equity.

I feel the old logo just needed some modern tones and these new logo has it.
That's bullshit, they have all kinds of limits on what they allow.
Maybe you married the wrong person.
Maybe you're right and maybe you're wrong - but I certainly hope that this thought hasn't prevented you from applying.

Can't win if you don't play :)
That could be true, but not necessarily. There is an opportunity cost to take into account. Is it better to port to the other platform, or just work on another app for the same platform?

I think there are lots of advantages and good reasons to target both, but as long as the majority of the revenue comes from iOS, it makes sense to target iOS first.

Also, lots can happen between now and 2017. 4 years ago nokia and blackberry were still competing. iOS or Android could in theory be small players in 4 years. (Note that I don't think that will be the case, but it's possible.)
That "blueprint" in the video is pulled right out of thin air. Sort of the pinnacle of the "we live in a scientific world and I don't know science so I'm making this up as an excuse for my intuition" thing.
It's not only hard to teach yourself calculus, it's also something you wouldn't think of doing unless you're Gauss or one of those guys.

Agree with the rest, kind of disagree with this part. Measure the slope of a curve, measure the area under a curve. No big whoop. Sure, the details get fiddly but 90% of anxiety over calculus comes from its arbitrary place as the capstone of a suffocatingly rigid elementary math sequence, not its inherent difficulty or magisterial importance.

Stats and discrete math are harder imho, and people teach themselves those all the time. Helps that they're much more useful (outside physics and engineering anyways...)
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Last 4 digits of SSN is particularly flagrant. I could almost believe (if I wanted to give them the benefit of the doubt, which I don't, particularly) that they are using name and email as good-faith identifiers to let me opt out. After all, they need to identify me with _something_. But what could they possibly be doing with SSN unless they have offline credit score information obtained from some third party, which they couldn't previously link confidently to my advertising profile, and now they can?
You have to give Yahoo's marketing team credit. If they had just made this change with no greater context, people would have said "meh" and moved on.

But through some clever marketing techniques the entire internet is abuzz (and has been for a month) about a minor change in font. Seriously - the change itself is utterly uninteresting and uninspired. So nice job, Yahoo marketers!
Ah, good to know that functionality was added. I haven't used Cassandra since the 0.6.x days so my knowledge of what's possible there is rusty.
> Is this in line with other software companies this size?

Large companies, yes. Not sure about software.

And the thing that struck me as Monty Python ludicrous is that no one from the actual team is interviewing you! Almost every large company and most smaller companies have you interview on site with your actual team members. Is Googlish really that strong a predictor of team fit?
Gamma correcting and color calibrating an 8-bit signal requires at least 10 bits of output accuracy to avoid noticeable banding.
Whenever I see beige in a product colour scheme, I am reminded of a friend's statement: Beige isn't a colour, it's a lifestyle.
Borderline?...4 billion for Frand patents...lol
It's about 35 days too long from first contact, in my opinion, outside any legitimate logistical concerns (e.g. traveling from out of state).
If your phone was truly bricked, how did you identify that it was indeed "two malware" that bricked it?
I just checked the clock times, and it's not possible to judge.

1953: no departure time, arrival is 13:05.

1983: departure at 14:00, arrival at 14:03. Fast trip! Or someone cheated setting up clock / departure shots.

2013: departure: 08:32, arrival 09:50.

The Brighton-London trip looks to be about 1:10 based on this site:
http://traintimes.org.uk/?page=/service/timetable/lateroutbo...

Trip times here are 58m to 1h 20m.
https://www.thetrainline.com/train-times/london-to-brighton