skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why did they even ask McDonald to submit ANY proof that they sell a product called a Big Mac when there has been saturation level coverage ...

They asked because one of the classes the trademark was registered for (besides "animal based food product" and "sandwich" which are obvious) was "services to operate or franchise restaurants, or construction of restaurants, or consulting for constructing restaurants".

This "services to operate or franchise restaurants" class was apparently used to keep SuperMac from expanding, and from the back and forth documented in the ruling, that was what they were really after. That class isn't sufficiently demonstrated by "we know they have a product by that name" since McDonald's has no "Big Mac stores".

So the claim was that McD abused the trademark in a class they registered it for without using it in that class, and that use in another class isn't enough to hold it.

Article 58(2) EUTMR states that a mark should only be revoked for the good or services for which it fell out of use, so they might have revoked it only for the "services for restaurants" class.

As far as the sandwiches go, where "everybody knows McD sells Big Macs": They refer to the Centrotherm decision (http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&doc...) a couple of times, § 43 and § 46 in particular.

These state that it's up to the trademark owner to prove use, and that probabilities or presumptions shall not be used (that might be unfair against the applicant).

They applied that argument (which originally was made against a German company, so probably not "politically motivated" in the way you alluded to?) identically to McD's submission. The situation was nearly the same: as "proof" they offered material that merely showed that some sale probably has happened at some point in time. The Centrotherm decision said that this isn't sufficient, and the court took that as precedent.

It's somewhat likely that the court asked them to provide better material a couple of times as that's what courts tend to do. With that ruling they handed it off to the appeals track.

My guess would be less that it was "politically motivated" but that it was a response to something perceived as "contempt of court"-style behavior.

It may be petty, but McD was engaging in such lawsuits sufficiently often as applicant against other parties' marks that they should know how to navigate the process.
IMHO it's just that front-end is very complex and we haven't found the perfect solution yet.. so a lot of great people are trying many things
That is a totally different case because reseller was removing serial numbers from products which in return invalidated any support from Beltronics.
I don't care about him all that much. As you imply, he'll do whatever he wants to get whatever he wants.

I care about things moving forward. And if we assume that he's not about that, then we need to start moving our gaze to those who are the actors that should be acting correctly and having things move forward. They're not doing that.
Ask HN: Your Favourite, Open Source RATs, C&Cs, HTTP Botnets
Hola Amigos.
I am currently testing all open source RATs, C&Cs and HTTP Botnets. So far i tested Pupy, FatRat, BYOB, Lilith, Lime Rat, Quasar, Koadic, Merlin and Empire. And Metasploit ofcourse.
So far Pupy is my favourite.
But i want to test more and more and more, and i kinda ran out of resources.
If you have your favourites, or maybe your private tools i could test, bring it on. :)
Cheers
It's reasonable in light of modern agriculture and medicine for the fertility rate to go down, simply since fewer babies are dying, and thus breastfeeding longer. However, below replacement fertility rates are not sustainable for a society.
I order from specialty merchants or manufacturers when I can.

Books I trust from Amazon. The rest, not so much.
The Old Testament certainly has a few more readers these days
> What pharma companies do is get the drugs FDA approved

That's the D part of R&D, isn't it?
I tried very hard using bash scripting and some recursive archive extraction stuff to get all the icons out... but I couldnt get all the names, and I got a lot of false positives. Id be interested to know how the author did this.
Well when a society is 'progressing' to utter extinction, it seems sensible to label the 'progress' as 'regress'.
Self confidence is everything. And also HN, why is it downvoted? This comment follows all of the downsides!
Right, exactly. Now, that can be broken down into smaller chunks based on what toolset you're intending to work with (C#, C++, web, SQL, etc), and the sizes for each toolset vary, but clearly these toolsets take up a lot of space.
Could you give examples, I don't consider auxiliary workers to be really part of an industry (like non-specialist janitors aren't part of the satellite sector, say). Other than those roles I don't see how you can flit between industries chasing an ethical posting.

Let's say I'd like to work in environmental science .. what role can I walk into?
So why do colliding blocks compute pi?
Wouldn't such an approach require limiting immigration? A country won't consume fewer resources if it offsets its native low/negative population growth with immigration.
While true it's a very grey area in how the sugar is reported. It's not clear whether they are reporting macronutrients pre or post fermentation. Ferementation in kombucha is particularly efficient from what I understand and the residual sugars after fermentation are not significant. So it's unclear whether the high carb count is due to sugars added pre-fermentation or if they are only including sugar added post fermentation to make it sweet.
the gradients have just enough aesthetics IMO

kinda like NT5 fading.. it added a bit of information but without distraction nor cost (unlike today UX)
The TV show end, multiplayer games don't.
Sure, but humans are not a school of fish. If one set of humans decides to die out. Another will step in.
I feel like older user interfaces treated me like an adult.

Whatever I did on Solaris [1] or even early OS X [2] felt like I was doing real work, important stuff, even if I was just messing around.

I don't know what changed, I use both Linux (Gnome 3) and macOS Mojave daily but they both lack that polished "workstation" feel. Maybe it's all in my head or I'm just getting old :/

[1] http://agilo.acjs.net/files/screenshot_solaris.png

[2] https://forums.macrumors.com/attachments/picture-2-png.57621...
That is just not true at all. The nitrates thing is far from proven (there is also uncured bacon available if it bothers you) and bacon itself is a high fat meat source that is very good for you.
The ever changing field of diets must be the most shining example of the infinite need for people to come up with theories to justify their own quirky believes.
The puzzle solver obsession in SV has always confused me. Seems to me that you would only need a handful of those type of personalities at any software company. The majority of the work is just shoveling so to speak.

I'm no expert but I know a logistics company that has the 30 workers 1 puzzle guy setup. He maybe writes 20 lines of code a week but its on stuff other people cant figure out. However if he was the only type there literally nothing would ever get done.
not sure there's a simple codebase to study for learning this stuff, but most sophisticated linters or static analyzers will have some amount of dataflow.

At minimum you're going to be managing nested scopes, resolving names to values and assigning types to names.

Sample PR from the eslint project that has all these elements:

https://github.com/eslint/eslint/pull/10020/files

IMO dataflow is more useful for dynamically typed languages. In static languages where the type of every name is declared somewhere, tracing values through local scopes and function calls isn't as critical (though still valuable).
Reviving the Handwritten Thank-You Note: Guide, Template and Tools
Good article, I'll have to see reactions on /r/synthesizers, gearslutz where people will talk their own solutions

Also how much applies to laptopless rig built around Pigtronix /EHX / Boss looper or Elektron boxes.

I did think the fan fret guitar looks a lot like Charlie Hunter's or Ormsby's but maybe he's come up with a better MIDI pickup, that wasn't discussed.
I was just looking at this the other day--at first it looked pretty jank on my desktop chrome, but I switched to an android phone and the animations looked surprisingly slick. (Haven't tried on an iPhone yet.)

I know the bar for purists is "it will never be native", which is true, but this is a huge improvement from the state-of-the-art mobile webapp frameworks/widgets from ~5 years ago.

Definitely great to have options, especially for building/prototyping apps that otherwise wouldn't exist, e.g. because they'd be (for some/many developers) prohibitively expensive to MVP.
Reporters combing Reddit for story ideas has been going on for years and years. Heck, it might be worth an experiment to see how quickly someone can start from scratch and put together a portfolio of clips this way. The pitches practically come prewritten.
It's valid to future proof your clock so it will be useable in the future.
I occasionally temporarily redirect certain sites (twitter, HN, reddit) to 127.0.0.1 via /etc/hosts.

This is helpful, though occasionally it creates conflicts when there's a mixup between "lazy pages" and things I want to get done (e.g. sometimes twitter DMs are the way I reach people).
That wouldn't work for a court case in 2018 that covers the 2012-2017 time frame anyway.
rev -> then

rely -> really

seeing -> seeking

Perhaps a small volume of typo corrections could be allowed as edits for longer than the normal edit period.
Did you really just belittle my 60+ hour work weeks and 45 minute commutes as some frivolity?

Do I have a choice about whether or not I have to hold down a job? No. No I don’t.

Do I have a choice about the level of competition I must bring to the table to simply tread water? No. No I don’t.

If I had a choice, I’d never program another piece of code again, but hey. Yeah, beer money. Like I have a life whereupon I enjoy it enough to drink beer.
Women investing in women matters
Just to make sure "functional programming" or "structured programming"?
Microsoft was never regarded as a force in graphic design. That was more of Apple's wheelhouse.
this era also:

- invested in fad
- fad that killed the old way
- only to ressuscitate the worst of the old (immature business, price games)

who wouldn't looove that
Doesn’t he push thinner for any and all costs though?
I always, and suggest it to other college students, to pick classes by professor. A shitty class can be made great by a great professor and vice versa. Can't take all ratemyprofessor stuff seriously but the rating has never been too far off for me. (just check the class the review is for!)
Your theory is that the reason why there is a gender difference where 36% of men but 59% of women in the age group of 16-19 wanting sex, is because of illustrated child porn? Does that not sound a bit like an extra ordinary claim which might need some supporting evidence?

Gender roles and norms is normally used to explain gender differences, and is often one of the first area that people explore. If the data had been reversed and 36% of women and 59% of men wanted sex, what would we normally claim to be the cause?
Most “ugly” produce gets turned into soups, sauces, salsa, jam
Early OS X [2] in no way looks like a "workstation" UI. It looks like an interface for a toy.

Solaris [1] UI certainly does though!
Amazon made online shopping feel safe and comfortable, at least mechanically, where once the risk of being scammed by bad actors felt huge

Maybe this was true once, but now Amazon has brought back that fear and confusion of getting scammed.

You used to be able to count on reviews for some idea of the quality of the product, but now you need to do research at someplace like www.fakespot.com to see if the reviews are fake.

And even if the product is legit and works well and it's fulfilled by Amazon, when you get the product you need to check it carefully to see if it's a counterfeit knockoff that some vendor sold through amazon's commingled inventory.

I've switched to https://www.bhphotovideo.com/ for most of my computer/electronics purchases now - they seem to price match Amazon automatically (or maybe amazon price matches them, many products have an identical price) and delivery is almost always within 2 - 3 days. I used to go to newegg, but have had a few issues with their third party sellers (product never shipped after ordering) so stopped going there.
In my experience, many of the books I've purchased from Amazon are actually illegally exported reprints from India. Those books tend to not make that fact obvious or even known.
I think the small palette is a big part of the charm. It’s limited enough to give the whole set a coherent look, but large enough to illustrate any kind of object.
Sure, but why not actually have something that you need to assemble for a good reason? Like some eurorack cases go for ~300€ and those are just a PCB, some wood and a metal rail. You make that modular in a flat pack for 30€ instead with the need for assembly and I am not complaining.
The third example on that list is a nice little short story. Simple mistake, gets right to the point.

I’m setting up a lambda test right now so I find it perfectly timed!
Early OS X looked like a weird candyland to me. Not as lurid as XP, sure, but the 3D-like glassy buttons and the sliding animation as you minimised something always struck me as kind of overkill.
I think that's unfair regarding the last decades. Post war people were pretty enthusiastic about tech. There are always people resisting. As a kid I wasn't obviously. But even adults were running after kitchen appliances, electronics and computers. It was a given.
> Japanese men seem afraid of women in general

Talk about sweeeeeping generalisations ...
Just put the domains in your ublock origin list. That way, if you visit those pages, you will be displayed a page that says that the site was blocked but you have a button to temporarily override the block.
> That said, the whole "let's run another referendum until we get what we want" approach doesn't endear the EU Council of Ministers or the Commission to me.

If someone offers you a cup of tea, and you decline, do you get offended if they then offer you cup of coffee instead?

Even if the question being asked were exactly the same, it would only be like a piece of software asking "Are you sure?" before you delete something, or providing a cancel button after the process has started.

I concede, though, that you're absolutely right about the supremacy of EU law being a principle clearly recognised by the ECJ. The difference is, by not putting this principle as an article to the treaty, it remains slightly less binding on signatories (under international law), since it relies on the evolving precedent of the court, rather than being agreed up front.

Now let me explain the logic of this supremacy principle.

If a sovereign nation agrees to be part of an organisation which creates laws that apply to its members, then those new laws apply just as a new law passed by a national government would apply. This follows the basic legal principle of "lex posterior derogat priori", but moreover there is the principle of statutory interpretation which means that a national parliament can't "accidentally" pass a law which contradicts existing EU law.

A member state, remaining sovereign, may choose to deliberately pass a law, knowing it will put them in breach of EU law, but that would also put them in breach of international law, which courts generally assume governments aim to avoid. In any case, it would be churlish for a member state to deliberately break the commitments it made as part of joining the union when there exists a mechanism by which it can leave and disapply all EU law.
It's possible to get Solaris CDE working on Linux [1]. I'm not sure how usable it is though.

[1] https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/LinuxBuild/
I'd say arguing is a good thing as long as it's done in a polite and respectful manner.

Unfortunately the lack of context when using text-based communication leaves interpretation errors wide open, and with it come the emotional responses we know and loathe (from angry texting to trolls to flat earthers).

Therefore since the internet is mostly text-based, it's probably better to leave the arguing off it for the moment. But I think the problem is not limited to the internet.
To try and sell a high carbohydrate diet based on this isolated community is disingenuous. "They eat an abundance of green and yellow vegetables – such as the bitter melon – and various soy products. Although they do eat pork, fish and other meats, these are typically a small component of their overall consumption, which is mostly plant-based foods." In other words they eat a nutrient rich diet, not high carbohydrate as implied (They eat little rice which is high carbohydrate.) They are small in stature that implies an evolutionary response to food shortages.
Questions I have are
do they use "naturally" fermented soya?
do they walk a lot?
Alcohol?
Interesting read even though I dont buy the titles narrative
Amazingly, moricons.dll is still included with Windows 10. This contains icons from Windows 3.0.

(it should be called "moreicons.dll", but this was from when filenames had to be 8 + 3 characters long)
> There's a reason why so much commerce has moved online in general and to Amazon in particular: We often value price and convenience and oodles of consumer reviews and easy access to competition and related info more than we value meat space salespeople with specialized knowledge laying on personalized sales pressure.

I've stopped shopping on amazon for years now and perhaps the best thing they've done is make the online shopping experience better on every other website, purely out of necessity. I think any convenience in amazon has an advantage with is mostly perceived at this point. Also, their review system had become so huge and untrustworthy even the stars next to an item are basically meaningless.
Even on a modern pixel 3, the slider animation is a bit behind. Everything else looks smooth, but the slider definitely feels "off".
There were always people taking the other side and warning us of the society we were building. If people weren’t listening or actively disregarded them because pessimism is obviously always wrong, well... I guess that’s another reason why we’re here, isn’t it.
"Divide" is bad choice of words on my part. I meant to suggest that the two instances of a hypothetical student are extremes on a spectrum, upon which we all lie somewhere.

I know I burn out quickly if I'm disinterested, but could work on something exciting — a website redesign was the latest — for hours, forgetting about food and rest.

Back in the uni, I'd postpone some assignments until the very last date if they weren't interesting. They'd still be good, but making them on time wasn't important to me. Same with revising/learning for a test, or an exam.

(To be fair, a lot of it is also in the anxiety. I'd postpone any project — more so one that involves public presentation — if I was afraid to not do well enough, let alone fail.)
Less than 40% of young men are otakus. And only a fraction of that are into hentai. And a further small fraction of that are the group you refer. Yours is a very horrible generalization of all men and shows exactly my point. Men are to blame. Women are do not share any of the responsibility. Right.
I love the early Windows design, especially the Windows 2000 look. Other than the well designed icons, I find it to be much more intuitive and consistent than modern Windows GUIs and Metro. Part of the reason why I use the classic style on my Windows 7 machine (the other part is better performance). I like it so much I implemented it in ReactJS https://github.com/Gikoskos/react-win32dialog/

Moreover, if you guys haven't read it yet you should definitely check out Raymond Chen's Old New Thing, which talks about the reasoning behind some of the design choices that went down in earlier Windows desktops.
For people who use YouTube and would like to remove distractions, I use the simple CSS script below along with the CSS styler extension Stylus to remove distractions and stop me from jumping mindlessly from video to video.

/* Hide the Distracting Comments */
#comments {
display: none;
}

/* Hide Livestream Comments */
#chat {
display: none;
}

/* Hide Related Videos */
#related {
display: none;
}
I suspect there's some projection going on
These look to be new. Refurbished listings clearly indicate that, for example, the listing "Refurbished iPhone 7 128GB - Black (Unlocked)" [1], and it goes on to describe details about what a refurbished phone from Apple entails — all things that are missing from the iPhone SE page. My guess is Apple doesn't normally sell new "clearance" products, so they decided to just add it to the existing discount/refurbished store.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/FN8L2/Refurbished-iPhone-...
Funny how the icon of a floppy disk which was used to represent saving is slowly being phased out because the new generations have never even handled a floppy, so they don't remember how crucial it was to put files on floppy before storing them somewhere safe (or handing them over to a colleague/friend). I even had a floppy organizer in my desk drawer with fresh labels and sharpies, and peeling off old labels was actually satisfying back then.
Agreed, Whole Foods' quality is suffering under Amazon. It's a crap-shoot now whether I'll actually find what I'm looking for.

They've also implemented the most frustrating customer rewards program I've ever seen in a grocery store. You have an app with a QR code that you scan at PoS--but the scanners they've got almost never detect the code! Probably 60-80% of the time, the cashier has to scan it herself with the regular barcode scanner. I tried using my phone number once--a common practice at other store that always works--but it couldn't detect that I was a Prime member, despite my phone number being very clearly entered into my Amazon account. Even when I do finally get scanned in as a Prime member, I usually save less than $2. It's so much frustration that I often don't bother. Whoever was in charge of creating and implementing that program should be fired.
Aifiddle – Design, train, and share neural networks
That's not it but it looks interesting!

The one I mentioned let you pick different proportions of energy sources for the entire U.S. grid, and told you how much it would cost, the carbon impact, etc.
I was going to comment why not get them an iPad, but that would be a big change all at once. I like your approach of slowly introducing them to the new software they'd be running on Ubuntu on their Windows 10 system. That way they get used to all the new programs and the final switch to Ubuntu is pretty much a non-event. Smart! So smart that I don't think transitioning them to an iPad would be that easy.
You'll quit Reddit when you begin getting annoyed with how predictable and repetitive it is.

I'm not kidding. People who got addicted to World of Warcraft and then quit it, recommend migrating to another server. It gets boring to grind again (or whatever happens, I'm not a player).
> You have no source for this at all.

Have you got credible sources for your crazy misandry, and crazy generalisations about JP men, women?