skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As the article admits - 'Although, generally, the quality of work is high...' the general quality of these designs is interesting to me.

Historically, low-quality art and design was a good (though certainly not conclusive) indicator of a low quality product.

These days, every fly by night business can have a slick logo, every shovelware game can gleam in stills thanks to the underlying engine and every inane YouTuber has a pre-roll that could pass for a major studio.

All at once barriers to entrance are lower, reach is wider and and filtering becomes much harder. Social networks and learning/recommendation features feel like logical if not simply necessary conclusions in response.
LinkedIn Acquires Bizo
I would add that the point of a logo is to convey what the company does.

These logos may not be unique, but I do instantly know "Oh this is a law firm" or "Ah, they sell houses".

These are local businesses with no intention of global recognition, and using a basic template helps convey what they do at just a glance.
1) extra random is not going to help, in long term any "noise" disappears and signal can be seen. 2) such attacks are infeasible most of the time, so we don't need to worry
By this standard, whoever criticizes some policies - eg the wars in Afghanistan or in Iraq - of the USA (and this includes tens of millions of US citizens) should be ostracized by the US tech community?

Edit: added reference to controversial and important policies
If the procedural system were only used as inputs for the initial state and the world were based on a chaotic model then the the starting game state (after some iterations of the world model) could be wildly different for very similar sets of input states.

As you mention, the challenge then becomes to define this sort of chaotic system in such a way that the resulting worlds are not 'nonsense'. Nonsense states could be culled using some fitness functions... sounds like fun :-)
This is the kind of feedback I was looking for by putting this out there - so thanks!

I hadn't thought about putting the TXT records on another hostname. That would actually be advantageous for using a CNAME instead of a A record, too.

Can you elaborate on "impossible to use redirect.name URL in email"?
Well, for very small intros (4k/8k) distance fields are still hard to beat due to their compactness. A couple of examples not based on distfields, off the top of my head:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62027 (No idea what this is, but it's great)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=62974 (reverse fluid simulation)

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=59613 (particles)

For 64k intros and size unlimited demos the possibilities are too many to list. Procedural mesh generation is a classic approach which has found great modern use recently:

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61204 (if you follow 1 link in this comment make it this one)
Like it or not, a 1$ bill certainly is "something international" ;)
The space shuttle launches are manned missions. I don't think it's a fair comparison.
Generally, GoG is great, they have a great user experience, sell most of the best games from my formative years, and represent brilliant value. My one complaint is the odd compatibility hole - I've been waiting for Settlers 2 to become available on the Mac for what seems like forever.
Microsoft Confirms Decision To Kill The Surface Mini
On the topic of KSP: Some guy on /r/spacex modded KSP to hell for realism then recorded a video demonstration of how the boost-back will/could work: http://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/1z6vyt/boostback_dem...

The first video explains the modifications to the game, mainly more realistic aerodynamics, realistic fuels and engine capabilities, a realistic planet and launch site. The second video is him actually performing the mission.

There are a few differences between what he did and what we now know is actually planned, but it's still pretty damn close and demonstrates the feasibility of the concept in a pretty intuitive fashion.
wow, this may seem stupid but I found this comment awesome. I was about to poste "down" or "down for me" when I saw yours and you simply bring a solution. Kind of inspired by the attitude man
The USA is usually comfortable with its actions to one degree or another. Israel constantly lashes out on the defensive as though they have no justification.
The iPad clearly isn't going away, but it isn't taking over computing in the way everyone predicted either. If the rumours of Apple making a larger iPhone come true that could hurt iPad sales even more.

Aside from anything else that makes me ponder the wisdom of Microsoft's tablet-heavy focus on Windows 8.
I'm impressed with the barge concept if only from the wave action the'd have to compensate for. Anyone know wave amplitude in the area they'd be landing in? That's a flat surface that's coming up to meet you or dipping away, making for a pretty heavy drop...
> Probably not exploded

I don't know about that: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/488718649515986944

Even with minimal fuel, the tanks are still highly pressurized, a loss in hull integrity would result is a rapid depressurization of those tanks. It may not have been a fiery explosion, but I would bet it made a hell of a bang.
good point. I was considering the comparison as resupply missions and (future) re-usability of the vehicle.
These all seem fine. Honestly, if your company is something incredibly generic like _______ Capital Strategies, then a generic logo with some letters and an arrow is perfectly acceptable.
Yes, in my mind there are at least two levels of procedural generation:

1) Generating the layout of the world, placement of entities, and other world states (such as available quests or plot devices).

2) The generation of the actual content itself (NPCs, items, terrain, flora, fauna, etc).

Here, I'm mostly referring to the second type. :)

As far as the first type, there is a LOT more you can do with chaotic systems because they are often AI-driven, and AI-driven things can (potentially) have emergent results (although even an AI-less system, like Conway's game of life, can produce many interesting results).
Now narrow it down to Fortune 1000 companies the last 5-10 years and you will see quite a big change.

We often forget that things take time to change. There are primarily CEO men in fortune 1000 companies be because of historical reasons.

Of course you are going to find an overwhelming number of men at fortune 1000 companies but the more you move towards today that will shrink.

Now go down to the homeless shelters and tell me what you see. Who is in the bottom of society?

Men are generally found in the top and the bottom of society but the reasons have changed radically the last 50 years and they have nothing to do with women being treated unfairly.
I think there are interesting opportunities there, for curated content :)

For example, I want an equivalent of "TV channels" with varied programming for, say, Netflix, and while YouTube does have channels, it's not easy for myself to discover them (it takes a lot of time and there's no easy branding to ease the discovery process).

Edit: I agree that most of those logos do look pretty good. And things like Bootstrap have lowered the barrier needed for a website to look professional. Both are good things, but make using old heuristics for filtering ineffective :)
> Exactly. By definition, most developers are mediocre, and thats okay.

That doesn't say much. So yes, most developers are average, but what is average? Is it necessarily developers who need training wheels, helmets and elbow pads in order to protect themselves and others?

That may be the reality, for all I know. But that isn't necessarily a timeless truth. Take a room of expert programmers; now most of them are mediocre (average), relative to each other (imagine a really big room with a lot of experts, if you must). But that doesn't necessarily mean that they need languages that cramp their style in order to mitigate whatever damage they might do.

"Mediocre" is the same as "average", but with more negative connotations. Hence, when someone says that some people are 'mediocre', the immediate thought might be "bad". Then it becomes obvious that tools need to hinder these bad developers from screwing up too much. But mediocre is just a relative term, and can mean that they are really bad developers who create 100 bugs for every feature they implement, or that they are really competent, reliable developers.

I won't comment on the skill of the average (mediocre) developer. But I think that saying "most are mediocre" can easily hint at "most are bad" (because of connotations, not necessarily because that was the intent).
FreeBSD timecounter in detail:

http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/timecounter.pdf
Sure but it just not as important as one might think.
That graph might be a little more intuitive if you swapped the axes, FWIW.
I love Dwarf Fortress, and there are some real treasures in the legends of many worlds. But even with all the possibilities, things still get redundant.

Yes, the elephants have taken to their emergent treenests, and that's beautiful. But that's a single bug (feature) that makes us say 'wow' once, after which we've seen it. The possibilities of were-spiders and were-alpacas and reanimated spleens and rains of dwarf blood are just more evidence of those sliders he mentioned. Urist likes tigermen for their stripes, and you can care about it, but Tosid likes cows for their mooing and Tovist prefers to consume purring maggot cheese and at a certain point we've seen it all.

That doesn't mean that Dwarf Fortress is flawed. It's easily the most involved story generator out there, and I'm really glad to live at a time when I get to read about it. But it's still not immune to the issues that the grandparent post raised.
He didn't even criticize, all he did was reference articles without comment.
Based on the comment from Carthy at the end of the article, it's the compulsory service that makes them sensitive. Even though they're carrying out orders they could and should object to, they're still just carrying out orders, and apparently that should make them immune to criticism.
And comparing their iDevice sales against Android Device sales really shows how little of the market they control:

http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=prUS24442013

The link is Q3 2013, but the numbers are relevant. 211.6 million android devices vs. 33.8 million iOS devices.
You can't land on planets :(
A New Apple Patent Called ‘iTime’ Might Hint At What’s Coming For The iWatch
Tumblr. You could have your blog up within 10 minutes
Your post has been an eye-opener for me. I never thought someone could be missing the sense of achievement. That describes me very well.

I'm at the 99.9+ percentile (I haven't found a psychometrician to take tests with higher ceilings) and I can relate to much of what you said, including having to learn how to be more "human", e.g. how much my tone of voice matters to others, that I'm allowed to stop working sometimes and relax, etc.

I also had problems with anxiety and depression (but never paranoia) and I second what others said that meditation works. It works in the scientific sense, but it's not been easy for me to achieve success through it. However, what little benefit it's had was enough that I can now say I'm generally happy (but nothing fills the emptiness, you just learn that that's how things are). I read some Zen and Mindfulness material (also see Sam Harris as it's hard to find this material stripped of its religious culture) and that has helped me. These are my recommendations.

Where did you get your genome done that you could see results about serotonin and dopamine? I'd be extremely curious to do that. I sent my dna to 23andme and I do have the health results online (they don't do that anymore) but nothing about serotonin or dopamine. I think they do give me my complete genome, and if so maybe it would just be a matter of matching bits of it? (Edit: saw your other comment, downloaded my data from 23andMe and I'm reading through the Promethease report right now).

Do you switch projects often without getting close to finishing them? I start projects to see if I can do something; I never can, so that prompts me to learn (a passive activity) and then I can do it; but as soon as I find out I can do it (sometimes just something clicking in my head is enough) I'm uninterested in the project (say, a game, after I've learned rigid body physics) and so I abandon it and move on to something harder, or something else I can't (yet) do. I never doubt I can learn something but synthesizing knowledge into a product is nearly impossible for me outside work. And the things I do complete (work or otherwise) do not teach my brain that finishing is a good thing that I should do more often.
> If you have user ID or password problems, use the following address (place in the “To” field) to send an e-mail requesting assistance: websec.adminp@cs.oag.state.tx.us

This poor guy.
If you dont need to actually push the code to the reposity (which you wont for the first bunch of patches) it is totally fine to use git, the github mirror is at

https://github.com/mozilla/gecko-dev

and you can just upload patches for review
> "They filled my Tumblr mailbox with the usual anon posts like, ‘Die, you fucking cunt!’ And, ‘You'll know when I rape your mouth hole, bitch!’ When I turned off anonymous messages, they made new Tumblr accounts and continued to spam me. Later, they discovered the link to my personal webpage and sent hate mail through there. I still get an occasional random hate message through my website."

There is an assumption that all these anonymous posts are from men, but there is the possibility that some are from women.

I've read a few articles like this, but I cannot remember one which looks at sexism from a world wide web oriented viewpoint.
Try changing the values of dom.max_script_run_time and dom.max_chrome_script_run_time in about:config to lower values so that unresponsive scripts can be killed faster.
I would have liked to have seen Martin Fowler mentioned the parallelism and state implication of the unix pipeline, somewhat limited (see http://www.quora.com/Parallel-Computing/Do-pipelined-unix-co...) but this is for me a very profond way of looking at this kind of pattern: whether you finish completely your processing on the data structure or you emit the result downstream as soon as you have finished processing one element.

Stream is for me the fundamental nature of the unix pipeline, and this is rarely met in programming language (channels to the rescue like in Clojure and Go). The Java Streams seems to work this way with the distinction between stateless and stateful processing element (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/stream/pa...).
I like the "Direct Capital Group", which manages to fit three categories at the same time.
Those all look like they are made in those dime-store logo factories. They charge $100-500 for some copy'n'paste shapes that the client "loves" because it looks just like their competitor.
"Certainly the US is responsible for the escalation of the situation in Ukraine."

This seems like the author has an ideological axe to grind. But I guess the technical aspects are interesting.
well, you can override ntpd to always sync no matter how far out of whack but it's not recommended

tinker panic 0
Yes, Dwarf Fortress is a great example of what can be achieved. To provide some level of distinction, as in my other comment (which I will repeat here for convenience), there are at least two types of generation: generating the world layout and its rules, quests, plot devices, etc, and generating the actual visual content itself.
What are you doing instead now? Using event sourcing and replaying events on a server side copy of the client code?
I was excited to read about it until I saw it's only for a console. I've wanted to build a unique "park" world with similar ideas for a long time, but never had the time or resources. I guess you have to start somewhere, but doing this for a single console (P4) is not what I would want to work with. Outerra is the engine that has taken real world geometry combined with procedural geometry in the direction I wanted to go and is built for PC/Mac when it's complete.
Don't hold back your programming
"... great at what they’re doing but with no idea why they’re doing it."

From what I've seen this is absolutely dead on. Obviously I've met exceptions, but I have seen a pattern of people out of places like Harvard and MIT that are excellent at what they do but have a strange lack of intellectual curiosity.

I get the sense that many of these folks have gone through the programs they've done to satisfy others' expectations, not out of a personal drive to create or learn something. You can't force or fake genuine curiosity.

But the tough thing and the counter-argument is this: going to places like Harvard and Stanford gives you access to an unbelievable network. If you go to the University of Somewhere Not On the Coast, or don't go to college at all, you're going to have to work twice as hard at least to do something like raise money or land a really high-end job. Many doors are just going to be closed to you. The trend seems to be toward increasing concentration of wealth and therefore of network connections with access to it.
If the point of a logo is to convey what the company does, then just about every classic logo fails.

Just to name a few, the logos for Apple, IBM, Coca-Cola, UPS, Nike, BMW, Shell, McDonalds, and GE give no clues as to what the company does.
I think the biggest difference between Scala and OCaml is that Scala users don't (have to) tell beginners to avoid the OO part at all costs.

OO in OCaml feels as if the designers thought "we think OO sucks, so let's implement terrible support for OO to get our point across".
Yeah, it feels like people wanted the iPad to be the next iPhone, to fuel continued growth. But it may just hang out at that 15% of revenue, like the Mac, and it's ups and downs just don't matter that much to the overall picture.
Italy gives Google 18 months to change data use practices
> If the rumours of Apple making a larger iPhone come true that could hurt iPad sales even more.

I don't really see that. I own a Galaxy Note (read: HUGE phone) and yet I still own a tablet. A larger iPhone won't be as large as the Galaxy Note, it just isn't Apple's way, at most it will be similar to the Galaxy S5.

To me the iPad has a niche that it covers (e.g. reading books, larger "table" games, etc) and even a large iPhone won't cut into that business much. Even if the iPhone was Galaxy Note sized I'd still buy an iPad, only maybe one single use case would shift and that is a minor one.
I'm not familiar with the whistleblower act but Snowden could legitimately argue that they were necessary steps towards "blowing the whistle". Snowden did not have the professional experience to be able to decide what information was safe to publish and in the public interest — so the responsible thing to do would be to present the documents to a professional while taking precautions to secure the data.
Yeah, I don't care about Microsoft's phone sales, I want to see the smartphone sales numbers...
Google, Verizon, Samsung And Others Want To Make New York City Pay Phones Useful
It's apparently called "Active Heave Compensation":

http://www.boschrexroth-us.com/country_units/america/united_...

It's used at sea for winches, but I'm sure platforms can compensate just as well with the proper force actuators and motion reference units.
Shouldn't this link to https://usekite.com ?
Looks like this is one of the "most overused Web servers" at the moment. HTTP errors about mod_slotlimit.
Image Diagnostics – Tune up your images
The article has a tweet from someone who says:

> what about the fact that 170 people died in Homs on July 19th? any mention about those "Atrocious Actions"? no. antisemite.

One reason to mention what is going on in Gaza and not in Syria is that US voters/taxpayers are financing, directly or indirectly, what is going on in Gaza. The Ron Reiter's of the world want me as a worker and taxpayer to bankroll his country. Then if I have a critical word for what his country does with the money, say I do something outrageous in his mind like quote what the head of the UN says about it, then I'm an anti-semite.

Shut down AIPAC and stop having them tax my money to send to Israel, and my criticism of Israel will subside. These people bite the hand that feeds them.
I'd add these ones: http://yourlogoisnothardcore.tumblr.com
Does something about the redirect.name setup negate the use of DKIM?
Nope :( It's very strange that the abbreviated SHA isn't clickable. The commit message still is, however.
What every entrepreneur should know about financing right now
My understanding is it came from the UK. Sign of wealth. A bit like buying your own set of queen's china.
We're comparing apples to oranges here. There are 7.4 million companies in the US, and most of those are local businesses. Law firms, car repair shops, restaurants, etc.

You're talking about the exceptions -- global billion dollar brands. These aren't that.
Housing costs don't really make it practical in WA to put away $4k/month when you're pulling in $6-7k/month after taxes. A mortgage on any decent-ish place is going to be around $2500-$3500+ a month. If you just bought a place recently your savings were probably tapped out out to come up with the $100k+ down payment. It's definitely possible to save a lot of money, but $1 million in the bank is pretty tough IMHO.
I think a dual business model with an AGPL open source license is a good way to start in the server space. Frankly, I don't know if this will be more difficult than starting a closed source software company becase nowadays closed source software are difficult to promote (e.g. few people share them in social media).

Additionally, while I agree that following an open source business model is hard I don't think Facebook and Google apply. They are not open sourcing their core products like MySQL, MongoDB, JBoss, RedHat We can argue about Android but Android is neither iOS nor Windows Mobile, in the sense that the kernel is Linux and there are libs based on the GNU ones.
Probably stored in 9, 8-character columns, labeled "last_password_1", "last_password_2", etc, given #10.
I think cards usually have the same size unless it's a business card.
+1, I was just about to recommend Octotree. I use it almost daily.
They're storing passwords in the clear, otherwise they wouldn't be able to enforce the "cannot be too similar" rule.
This is coming out as an expansion after the initial release of the game. Or at least that's what the developers are promising if the initial launch goes well.

Indeed planetary landings (and walking within a space station) requires as much work, if not more than, the space-flight stuff, so it's understandable that they don't want to just tack it on.

Frontier and First Encounters games all had seamless planetary landings so the goal has always been to include them in Elite: Dangerous as well. Everything the developers have promised so far has been realized (although some things a little later than initially scheduled), so thus far it's a good bet that they are not overselling their capabilities.
Why is apple's tax rate lower than mine?
I'm not sure you/we are typical, though. Do non-tech folks really spend $500 on a device to read books and play table games? If you were into reading, at least, I'd imagine you'd be picking up a considerably cheaper Kindle instead.
Oops, you're right. Don't know how I missed that.