skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, I don't agree. I know trademark laws sanction appropriation of a common word for use in a brand (eg googol, yahoo, woot). And I know that a strong brand is agreed to create a secondary meaning for that term - and that brandholders must defend this secondary meaning assiduously, so as not to avoid accusations of trademark abandonment, since trademarks enjoy far less protection than copyrights in most legal environments.

Nevertheless, I think there are limits on how much adjacent linguistic territory a brand is entitled to claim, and in this particular case I think Google's reach exceeds its grasp.

You made the point (which I failed to address first time) that this is a competing search engine. I don't really agree. It bills itself thus: 'Groggle is a location driven alcohol price comparison service', and on their site they invites signups from retailers. Unless this is the result of some radical recent change, that seems very different to me from 'search'. It's selective (of the booze you want) and location-based (because you want it now). It doesn't crawl the web, but serves retailers' structured price information. you will never be able to go anywhere with it other than to the website of an participating alcoholic beverage retailer.

That is a very narrow and specific kind of service. Saying 'they're in search' is like saying Gem Hardware Co. is infringing on GE's trademark because GE manufactures electrical motors & turbines, and Gem sells some electrical power tools.

As for your point about "G_o_gle", I do not buy that all letters in a word are equally weighted like bricks in a wall. The start of a word is a much better guide to its identity than the end. Grog is only one letter different from Goog, but the sound is very different: it sounds a lot more like 'blog' than it does 'goog'. R and O have plenty of distance between them on a keyboard. Plus, I do give some weight to its pre-existing meaning - it's not a neologism or (un)creative spelling alteration, but has a well-known provenance of its own. They took a common and highly specific slang word and extended with a common suffix.

It does have some similarities to the word Google, and both companies are on the internet. Unlike you, I don't think they compete in a very similar space. And they're not aping any visual aspects of Google's mark - even a drunk person would distinguish the two with ease.

And look, it's not my name. I said it's quite likely they noted the similarity, but that was by way of acknowledging your point. I would appreciate if you disagree without SHOUTING at me.
I don't think Jobs ever committed himself to any idealogical standard. Maybe the word you're looking for is pragmatic?
Yes, I know there are online fax services but they don't really solve the requirement of getting my signature on the document.

I bought a pen tablet. It was about 60 bucks, but the cheap ones are even cheaper. You can sign things with it, and if you aren't afraid of a make file it even works (quite easily) on Linux.

That said, I think not getting a printer at all is a mistake. Sometimes it is really nice to be able to print stuff and take it with you and not rely on something with a battery life.
A sales tax is not regressive, it's flat. Simply because it's not progressive doesn't make it the opposite.
I've been using this for a few weeks and it's pretty damned awesome. My only complaints right now are that I think it should be easier to add feeds (abstracted away or not, it gets its articles from somewhere), and that I always say "no" to "do you want to unsubscribe this thing you've been downvoting repeatedly?" because it feels too destructive, like there's no way I could get it back if they ever put out an article that I care about
There are very large organizations that have tied themselves to IE6-dependent code (or at least, code that their IT staff assumse is IE6-dependent) on their intranets, and they are not eager to commit the resources necessary to bring everything up to HTML5 compatibility.

And IE6 still represents about 20% of browsers on the Web (http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-200807...). So a business owner hiring someone to design a public-facing corporate Web site doesn’t want to hear the designer dismiss one out of every five potential customers.
What flash ads? Just use AdBlock.
People just don't seem to get it: We have a byzantine tax code to made people do X instead of Y and to not do Z in favor of Q.

Congress wants to do these things, and the tax code is the easiest way to do them. Congress will STILL want to do these things even if you do fair tax.

If the fair taxers get their way, we'll likely end up with income AND vat 10 years down the line. Ech.

And you realize: Fair Tax would ALSO cover all investments? Buy a house: 40% to the governement. Buy stocks: 40% to the governemnt, etc.
I traded the euro (6E futures) long yesterday, so yes.
Where did 101 come from?
Steve Jobs and Adobe Flash: Our thoughts
Thanks David! Yes I've got your email feedback stuck on my wall :) The next rev will lose the prompts and will largely be about prioritizing without relying on a blacklist.
The thing is I feel sort of helpless without a CPA. I recently (beginning of this year) bought Quickbooks and I have been keeping track of all the books myself. Logging all transactions, income, expenses, keeping receipts etc. So I feel like this is good step in becoming independent. I paid in a bunch of my debt (about 20k) and filed for a 6 month extension. I'd rather not pay this guy any more money to prepare my return. Do you know any online resources that might help me get this sorted out?
If consistently releasing great products to generate hype about future products is "metamarketing", then yes, Apple is all about marketing.
You're not allowed to virtualise Mac OS X.
A sales tax is regressive. The lower your income, the higher your tax burden as a percentage of income. Even the fair tax understands that which is why most versions of it has a huge tax credit per year.
The funny thing is that some people think it's serious.
watching cnn is even worse. the headlines are ridiculous. when someone was killed by a KILLER WHALE they dedicated an hour to it. Segment name? Killer whale KILLS .

Picture as proof: http://i42.tinypic.com/znu3gw.jpg

They also have someone behind the scenes that reads tech news or something and tries to make them seem hip by reporting the linkbait stuff.

I only see it on the tvs on the treadmills at the gym. It's actually effective since it infuriates me so much, I run faster.
The way you put it, the Microsoft career path sounds like a boring RPG.
Fake Steve raises an interesting point about how close John Gruber and Apple are.

>"...we leaked the Flash essay to our Chief Apologist John Gruber and told him to start whipping up some buzz on Twitter about it, and he followed orders [http://twitter.com/gruber/status/12988151829]."

Consider too that Steve Jobs replied to an email asking about the restriction of apps to C* with a link to a Gruber post [http://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2010/04/steve-jobs-response-on...].
I loved Bombardiers too. Catch-22 applied to the financial 'industry'.

Those are the only two books I've read that managed to pull off that style of satire. If anyone knows any others, I'd love to know.
i wonder which one it is gonna be: ChromeOS or Android...
and will they get in the consumer hardware business or will it just be a rebranding ala nexus one?
Gates has (almost) always been very graceful when speaking of Steve Jobs. I'd like to see this going the other way. What does Jobs say of Gates?
Wow, you don't even have a printer? That's impressive - a true digital office! I think the printer will be the last thing ever "to die".
Oddly, it's leak was timed to coincide with one of the dates Apple was supposed to announce a tablet, in order to steal some press space.

Nobody ever believed it would be a real product.
Sorry, all of the provided examples are damn near unreadable.

And what happens when you want to make use of template inheritance and block replacement?
"The user may be the world's best neurosurgeon, does that mean that they have to learn about filesystems?"

There's a bit of a divide as to what 'personal' computers are being used for. The original mainstream use was to create/edit files using programs. The modern use is to interact with other people via the internet. So no, the neurosurgeon doesn't have to learn about filesystems because filesystems are mostly becoming irrelevant.

I don't think software should be designed to educate people about the trappings of decades of computer cruft. I think software should be designed so that using the software teaches the user how to use the software. Apple's method (re: iPhone/iPad) seems to be to design software that doesn't invite learning, and at the additional cost of limiting functionality.
So, then, how does openangelforum do it for free?
Not significantly different, but interesting.
It doesn't have to be run in the open; they have to release the source whenever they release a new Safari update, but they don't have to do project administration in public or let anyone else access their SVN. This is how several of the Darwin opensource projects work, notably Apple's gcc branch and the kernel.
My hopes are irrelevant to the discussion. My point was that your claim is inaccurate. If you're unwilling to make factual claims, than maybe you shouldn't participate in this discussion. The world needs neither more ignorance nor more lies when discussing global conflicts.
Your link seems spammy but your comment here isn’t far off — semi-transparent PNG support was promised for IE4 but delivered in IE7, IIRC.
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I use pay-as-you-go online fax services when I'm required to file something. You know how I get the signature on it? Export whatever the document is to PDF, turn the signature page into a GIF using ImageMagick ("convert file.pdf[0] sign-here.gif"), open the GIF in my image editor and copy/paste a signature block I keep in Dropbox, and then re-export to PDF. Nobody can tell because by the time it comes out of their fax it is going to look like garbage anyhow, and any imperfection in the pasting process just looks like a fax artifact. If I wanted to go for extra authenticity I'm sure ImageMagick has some combination of parameters which will make it look like it was copied six times on a Xerox that hasn't been serviced since the 1970s prior to being faxed.
When is this effective?
As in "see, look! VAT is waaaaay simpler than this tax system.

argh.
I think it's clear that a norm of using the Cocoa API is implied here:

I don't think it's that clear. I think it's more likely that it's a practical reason for the last sentence of he preceding paragraph:

Again, we cannot accept an outcome where developers are blocked from using our innovations and enhancements because they are not available on our competitor’s platforms.

They are establishing Adobe's track record of keeping current on underlying platform enhancements.
What parts are inaccurate, Michael?
Last week only I downloaded the RC version of Ubuntu 10.04. Quite happy!! Mac inspired design :) I am running in Virtual Box apart from resolution I didn't face much difficulties going smooth!! though I m not using much feature apart from learning Ruby & RoR...
No doubt.

I've been very careful to ensure that my FB profile is as locked-down as possible, yet last night when I was uploading the latest round of baby photos I caught, out of the corner of my eye, that the album was public by default.

If a technically-inclined person like me can find this difficult, what chance does the general public have?
Who thinks "please kill yourself" is funny?
I'm actually bummed they ditched the picture frames. I tried to order one from the first batch but they were out. My mom and dad would be stoked.
Lunch.com Imports Facebook Likes For Similarity Engine/Personalization
This is definitely one of the few positive things Jason Calacanis does.
Can you imagine how many 1099s a company like Amazon would have to respond to under this system?
The tax system is complicated not because of the taxes themselves, but because of all the tax credits created to incentivize behaviors.

The vast majority of tax cuts are really just government spending in disguise -- pork for a special interest group that gets allocated by the constituents' accountants instead of in a spending bill, and adding directly to the national debt instead of through the budget.
The OP says: "Each browser should focus on innovation, not parity."

If that's the case, developers won't bother using those shiny new proprietary features. We're in the business of making products, and there's no way most people are going to waste their time adding tons of browser-specific features.

The fact that the browsers don't have parity is probably the most time-consuming thing about web development.
hmmm I too agree with this post somehow.... since long I am also not comfortable in learning flash and creating flash based website.. though the graphics is amazing but very slow.... the current decision by apple will definitely hinder the progress of Flash... Adobe need to come up with it's own version of mobile phone :) in the post Steve Jobs mentioned not to encourage the third party layer.... so they ll be slow to adapt the platform changes.... But today got mail from Appacceletor Titanium, they are quite happy bcoz they are developing based on JavaScript.... not sure..
How could this possibly have not been noticed before?
Free Jason Chen's Computers
A site to raise awareness and curates news links regarding the police raid that found stripped Jason Chen of his computer hardware because of his news story leaking details and video of the iPhone 4G that was lost by an Apple employee during a night out drinking.
Level one, 'Basic,' includes: "Tries to diffuse tense situations with appropriate humor."

In a different row, level two, 'Intermediate,' includes: "Uses humor to boost morale or decrease tension."

Similarly, level one includes "Is conscientious about timing and setting for humor," and level three, 'Advanced,' includes "Realizes when and where humor will backfire, and withholds."

If this were a real skill being assessed, that kind of redundancy would be a problem. In fact, it probably wouldn't be there at all, because the person writing it would sense that something was a level-one trait or a level-three trait. But when you start down the path of bullshit like this, you find yourself in the land of arbitrariness, and pretty soon you're just desperate for some more words to fill up the boxes.

And it is, indeed, bullshit. A good sense of humor is important in the workplace, as it is everywhere, but it's not something that can be assessed in some abstract way like this, separate from the person's other qualities.
Heh, I was just kidding about that monster bit. I know several devs on the IE team and have consulted with MS as a web developer for many years.
On the cnn.com frontpage, they used to append " | Watch it now!" to the end of headlines for any articles with video. I would read CNN daily just for the hilarious mashups. E.g., "Arizona family of four slaughtered by Havalinas | Watch it now!" or "Serial sex offender strikes again | Watch it now!" etc. But I guess somebody finally caught on and made the appropriate changes.

(Not actual headlines, but you get the idea.)
How is it so different? Microsoft at least did not control the hardware. Apple has always been worse than Microsoft in that respect - they even wanted to control the printer at one point! The only difference now is that for some reason its working for them now and iPhone is incredibly popular. But they're much more monopolistic than Microsoft ever was, and they always have been, and I would imagine they always will be.
You thought CNN was a serious news outlet?

I'm not sure what to say to that other than...

sorry?
Similar to the writing on Nikos Kazantzakis tomb
"I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free."
That is a really clever logo. Who designed it?
just a play on the whole "101 ways to do X better" thing. I've created a list of 101in365 in my blog for the last few years and I thought I'd finally automate the thing.

and then I did the math later and it turns out that there are 104 weekend days in a year, so it also works out that you can do 1 thing each weekend day and have a few to spare :)
You realise that Adobe lets you make any components you want EXCEPT FOR THE PLAYER? Why, because they want to retain control of it. I mean, they publish the spec, people have made players before, and they have been told by Adobe to stop.

Sounds familiar.
It is a start, but it doesn't allow you to share say a link to HN for only your hacker/business peeps and a "the baby just did this" for your friends/family. As is, the HN link would just confuse my family (and maybe scare them) and nobody but my family wants to know that my boy just drove his car down the stairs.
Bill Hicks.

Not that it is appropriate here, but I assume it is an allusion to the Bill Hicks' bit about marketing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo (strong language)
$1500 for what? Renting a conference room and some bad coffee? They're charging the wrong people, the investors should be covering the costs to see the pitches.

Besides, if anyone with $1500 can pitch I'm sure the quality of the companies is poor. Jason is spot on with his crusade against this BS.
ummm.....if these are such great startups, then why not charge the investors for good deal flow?
The part about Israel ending its occupation. Removing soldiers from Gaza is insufficient to end the occupation. At least, according to the UN, Human Rights Watch, and scores of NGOs.
Very nice, gave me collapsible threads on HN.

Works fine on Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta Ubuntu 10.04 AMD64.
There's a short story by Asimov where the cause of humour is explained and then disappears forever. Or at least that's how I remember it (proving hard to Google).

EDIT: I remembered this a little incorrectly. The story is called "Jokester", from the book Earth Is Room Enough. Someone has it in a Word document online (on the first page of hits).
Close to shipping?!

Microsoft has been strategically announcing products to harm potential competitors since ever. This one was timed to prevent Microsoft-happy companies from buying Apple's tablet (that wasn't announced on the corresponding Apple event, BTW).

Natal is another fine example: a special-effects-heavy video from a product that didn't even have a shipping date, with people assuming it would be a couple months later, timed to hurt sales of competing consoles. They didn't have a product and my bet is that they won't have anything close to what was shown.

Microsoft has consistently used vaporware over most of its history to promote a "let's not switch providers - Microsoft will soon have a similar product" attitude on its clients.

The downside of this is that the tactic has become transparent to most. A Microsoft announcement has little credibility these days.
It's good that you were able to pay 20k along with your extension.

I can't think of any specific online resources that would help (note that I mistakenly said Quickbooks Online instead of Turbotax Online in my original post - I run Quickbooks, but do taxes in Turbotax or by hand).

Maybe you could find a better CPA, if you really feel you have to have one. Do you know your actual tax liability from your return? If not, you could go on the Turbotax website and figure it out without paying anything, unless you actually file through them. Do you know all your deductions, etc? Since you live in NYC your rent could be a big deduction, if ever work from home.

If I were you I would go through Turbotax Online and diff that against what your CPA is telling you, as a first step.
As a bonus if you already use any serious VoIP provider, you might want to check their offer. Even if it's not that popular / advertised, many of them do offer fax2email and email2fax services. Just check whether they're using T.38 (otherwise you'll get a lot of failed transmissions).
Well to be fair the original way of doing it was an accumulation over a year, they simply expanded what they were covering. Not saying I am happy about it.
I tend to prefer DIAF or "die in a fire"
How Google, 37Signals, Netscape, and Microsoft Set The Stage For The iPad
How many?
Pretty much, and leveling up is a bitch.
Reason: Because there is no equivalent for TCP/IP that "just works".

The fax use case is: a businessperson needs to walk to a machine, lay a stack of 50 sheets down, punch in an address and let the machine do the rest. Oh, so you say some scanners/copiers can email? Let's go over the problems with email.

- dealing with attachments

- attachment filetype; no enforceable standard by the recipient

- inboxes overflowing

- smtp servers rejecting messages over a certain unknown size

- mailserver administration

- chews through Internet bandwidth; no built-in throttling

- spam

- spam false positives, dropped messages

- no ability to reliably confirm delivery

- recipient has to print document, for full fax simulation

I'm actually amazed there has been no Internet standard that has emerged for this: pushing a large document in some standard format to an Internet-connected client computer (laptop or desktop, not dedicated server) for immediate viewing/printing. The cynic in me says the anti -P2P movement had a lot to do with it, since a P2P file transfer is about as close as we have to fax functionality (albeit with some problems of its own). There are obviously many ways to cobble together HTTP, FTP, SFTP, XMPP, etc. to imitate this use case, but none really come close to the plug-it-in-and-hit-start ease of fax machines.
im not familiar with youngstartups, but how is the fee they are charging different from when like techcrunch charges to be in the demopit of tc50 ?
That is a nearly unreadable way to post e-mails.
Thousands of pages of barely parsable legalese, constantly changing in different places to keep different politicians on board, the final copy rammed through before the ink dried, what could possibly go wrong? From an engineering perspective the health bill was a QA nightmare.
Just saw this one:

"Stewart tells Jobs: 'Chill, baby'"

And above it was a picture of Jon Stewart making a dumb face.

This one just defies comprehension. I mean I know what it's talking about because I watched the Daily Show, but otherwise, WTF CNN?
I watch Worldfocus sometimes on PBS and they run Al Jazeera English reports all of the time.

Edit: Looks like Worldfocus stopped airing as of April 2, 2010.
DIACF, I like to add the c, for chemical.
Walt Disney Animation Studios 3D Graphics Whitepapers
Seriously? Canvas was invented and first implemented by Apple, but since implemented in other browsers (e.g. Firefox), with new code, and owing no royalties — it's now a W3C standard.

The article is quite mistaken.
Also add Namoroka and Minefield, test versions of Firefox. Instead of whitelisting, can't you run some test code client-side and only prompt when you're sure the browser doesn't support it?
So far, so good, but it's still got 30 minutes to go..

http://skitch.com/petercooper/dbe31/virtualbox-os-x-2
You dont need to worry if youre not on a nvidia chipset mobo. Also the bug is not a regression, the drives havent been detected in 9.10 either. The relevant bugs are -
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/501950
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/396738
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/540939
I've been waiting for Google to help with this since their voice program came around. These business that charge to do fax->email conversion were great, but from my understanding the most expensive part of this was getting the numbers reserved. Google doesn't charge for their voice service, so it would seem they could provide this service to everyone with a google voice number.

I don't think anything is going to kill the fax any time soon. But Google could easily make its existence much less annoying--which may just be the first phase of its death.
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