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I do.

If you have to sign a copyright assignment statement, I'd think you'd be required to by the project (such as for GNU projects). But even if you don't assign your copyright to the project, I have a hard time understanding what using a pseudonym would do for you.

If your employer owns anything you create (like most businesses in the USA), then even if you submit under a pseudonym, once the employer finds out what name(s) you're using, they still own the copyright. You just make it harder and more annoying for them to find out that it's you.

I can understand if you're just writing a single bug report or sending a one-off email to a mailing list asking a question, sure, using a pseudonym is probably fine if you're worried about spam. But if you're actually contributing to the project (code, documentation, specs, marketing, etc), using your real name is the only way to go.

Also, if you put on your resume that you contribute to an open source project, I'd go check that out. If I can't find your name anywhere, I'm going to assume you're stretching the truth on your resume, probably in other places too.
This is the second post of this silly claim (from a newly created account) today.

No idea what the poster is on about as they do not trouble to make a case.
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Scared of the truth? http://pastebin.com/9rHuWFGw I bet you're going to c e n s o r this hn mods are pathetic
Right...what's the metric? 10% of your customers will consume 90% of your customer handling resources?
It is not as though Apple's innovation has been unrewarded. At some point the value of the innovation is less that the value of some other things, like price competition.
v = 1-v toggles best I think.
Ok, so the math for everybody.

Google spent 12.5B.
Motorola has 3B in cash.
The stock market thought motorola was worth around 6-7B incl cash (assuming they weren't just factoring in a takeover already).

So google really paid around 6B for the patents, they don't have to do anything to motorola. They can sell all or parts of it, maybe muck around with some of the parts of Motorola other than cell phones. But either way the Nortel auction was 4.5B for JUST patents while google gets a mobile electronics company + patents for its 12B.
I didn't sign code with my real name for a long while, and it was great, it feels honest. Doing work just to scratch your own itch, and in some cases I am still doing it. For most projects, things like copyright and responsibility is just things that get in the way, we just want things done, and the license will never be enforced in court.

I started signing code when I started going to meetups etc, doing it with people who actually knew me in real life, it started getting pointless to try to hold a cloak of anonymity.
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If the mods didn't sit there with no lives immediately with a second censoring all my posts and comments maybe i could.

They're scared of the truth though.
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The interesting bit is that on the conference call they did say that that was actually not the plan (most likely to keep the other android partners comfortable). Supposedly their process for Android remains the same and Motorola will be on the same footing as everyone else when it comes to software access.

This says that the deal was 100% about patents and nothing else, which in turn says it wasn't that great of a deal in the first place (considering as they paid a big premium for the patent portfolio).

But assuming that they break their promise to partners and do what apple does too by designing both hardware and software together: it would be a good thing for Google as a phone maker, but a nail on the "Android as open" coffin. I don't think they'll be able to risk a move like this - angering their partners and probably breaking Android up -, which just means that the actual impact this will have on the quality of phones coming from Google and Android as a mobile OS is slim to none.
i agree with some of the recommendations already posted here, but i also highly recommend a technique known as 'freewriting.' it's based on the concept that ideas aren't endpoints, they're stepping stones to other ideas. the more ideas you have, regardless of quality, the better chance you'll navigate to a really good idea. i saw a review here on HN of an excellent book called Accidental Genius. here's the link to the review:
http://www.dextronet.com/blog/2011/07/accidental-genius-summ...
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I have often picked up hitchhikers or helped people on the road when their car was broken down. I also spent quite a bit of time mentoring people in some of my skills, but that actually also helped me become better myself in those fields. Probably the best way to help people was my Open Source project: OpenDomain. We give domains to groups for Free to support open source, such as Drupal.Com, Oscon.com, FosDem.Org, and OpenAjax.Org
Unfortunately, I have also seen the other side: I have given money to people with a similar sorry as yours, only to find out they we just scamming me. And I have helped people for more than 12 years with OpenDomain, only for Google to steal my domain http://Schema.Org
http://pastebin.com/9rHuWFGw

They're going immediately delete this also (maybe me writing this will prevent them from doing so) I DOUBT IT
Tell your friend if it's on liquidweb shared hosting then there are four levels of backups with rotations on an external drive array. The data is definitely there and a reseller can get it restored within an hour for free - if they are motivated of course.

If they can prove ownership of the content to liquidweb maybe they can do an end-run around the reseller.
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A copyright assignment doesn't need to be public.

An employer might not own anything we create in our free time, or there might not be an employer at all.

And if I put that I worked on a project under a pen name on a resume then I would include the name I worked under, accepting that it is probably not that anonymous anymore.
If you're really interested in this stuff, looking for some research that isn't 20 years old might be a good idea.

Try this as a starting point: http://www.cogtech.usc.edu/publications/hmelo_ep07.pdf
It does seem odd. What you're talking about is not even particular to big user facilities. If I don't have the (physics) facilities to do something, I just track down someone who does and ask them (which is not hard using google or looking at the relevant literature). The majority of the time they're happy to collaborate on the basis that they're on the paper. I think I'm missing some detail about this.
Yes! If WebOS was way better than the alternatives, it might give HP an advantage to be the only provider. However, it's not perceived as better, and the main complaint is a lack of apps. And that is because of a lack of popularity. That could be overcome if HP's hardware was much better than their competitors, but it's just not.

WebOS pulls down hardware sales, and the hardware isn't doing anything to bolster WebOS. The best shot at saving WebOS is to license it.
I expect better logic form a professor at Harvard. It's a classic example of attacking a person's character rather than the position.

Using Greenspun's logic overweight people should have no publicly stated opinion regarding world hunger since they don't donate all excess food they have to hungry people.

A person's hypocrisy is not a valid retort to a position they have. Great, Buffet is a hypocrite. But is he right?
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lol word of mouth
They're mistaken. Roughly 40% of European VC money is invested in London, nowhere else comes even close.

If you just want to do a headcount you can search Crunchbase by city.
I bought it at the original price and on the first day. Right off the bat, I felt the build quality was crappy. The console itself was very bulky, and the non-game software felt slow and unresponsive. The 3D hurt by eyes so I ended up having to lower the 3D effect.

They completely mishandled the price-cut. Nintendo has the full right to discount however they want. What pissed me off was that they announced they would be compensating original customers with 20 games. True but COMPLETE BS. You're told u have to sign into the store by a certain date or no freebie for you. Then, they announced original customers get 10 games for the Gameboy Advance and 10 NES games. These are old game!!! I feel really cheated by Nintendo for misleading people (not the price drop).

You asked about fun though. I hardly use my 3DS. My girlfriend and I mostly use our iPads for games. Hell, we use the iPad more than the Xbox 360 or the Wii! The 3D effect and augmented reality are technically interesting but so far, I am not impressed at all. I got the Street Fighter game, which had the highest rating of all launch titles. I felt it wasn't as good as the XBOX 360 version on a big screen.

The 3DS has a bunch of offline features ... lets people continue the game offline ... sort of like Tamagotchi. This is likely cool for the school yard but not for an adult.

Overall, this has left me with a sour taste for Nintendo products. I've owned pretty much every console and handheld they have released. This feels like a repeat of Virtua Boy.
Interesting, but no C/C++ for comparison.
Uhm, no. Arguably MS and Apple got a much stronger patent portfolio for a much lower premium than Google did. If anything, this action makes Google look desperate, striking out to try to acquire as much IP "real estate" as possible before their competition completely buys out all existing IP. Additionally, MS was reportedly in the running for buying Motorola.

I think this is most likely a reactionary move by Google to basically make sure Microsoft doesn't buy out / pay off all the cell phone manufacturers, and make them all go WP7.
It's better to treat Gruber like a tool and stop giving him attention. Don't submit his posts to HN, don't upvote them, don't discuss them (here I am doing just that so make of that what you will)

In other words, the only reason some people are well known is that they're well known. That kind of fame burns out quickly once people stop paying attention.

don't feed the troll!
I think licensing WebOS will dilute it and I don't see it being successful. The problem for WebOS, as I see it, is lack of apps; especially for tablets.
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The SERP doesn't take into account advertiser information, so by advertising on Google you can't get a higher "organic" listing. The algorithms aren't allowed to interact, Google Ads team even has their own crawler bot.
I like the footnote form. I use that in e-mails as well.
Apparently it was his bachelors thesis though, so he's (hopefully) written to academic levels of detail before before...
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How exactly is this different from using Android?

As long as HP makes WebOS enabled devices, wouldn't you end up with the same potential conflicts that you would have had with Google in the first place?
What IS webOS? Under the hood, I mean. I know it uses a Linux kernel, but past that, all I've really heard is about the only option for applications being HTML/JavaScript. My somewhat subconscious impression to date has been that it's really just WebKit with some nice "web"apps and extra hardware integration.

If that's the case, I don't really understand what either HP or anyone else would get out of it being licensed to other manufacturers.
Yes. After Dejanews resurrected ancient Usenet postings, I stopped using my real name online for most things. But my flaw was using a single pseudonym almost everywhere. So now my insightful Slashdot comments (that was years ago) are by the same userid that posts stupid photoshops on Fark. I can't "claim" my existing identity on one site without claiming all of them. So a few years ago I moved to site-specific ("unlinked") IDs. If I someday wanted to stick my real name on my HN profile, it would be easy and it isn't linked to other sites. I've also gone to indistinct userids (ja27) that are almost impossible to Google. (Just as I say that, I see that my HN profile is now the top result for my id. Nothing else appears though.)

But back to the original question. I rarely contribute to open source, mostly due to time issues, but when I do it's always as a pseudonym. My current company may be ok with some open source project contributions but having been acquired twice in 5 years (and always considering changing companies) I don't want to take the chance that a new boss would change that. I also wouldn't want to make it easy for a patent dispute to spill over between my paid closed source work and open source.
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You're showing us a sign-up screen? Well OK. The logo has odd proportions, but the background image is nice. 5/10! :P
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It reminded me of LabView.
Is this company run by 15 year olds? This behavior is just ridiculous. Completely unprofessional to delete someone's data in a fit of rage. I seriously hope people boycott this company.
I do, It depends on your employer. Do you hate reputation? Do you want privacy? Then use a pseudo name
That's the thing about customer service. People are gonna call you out, but professionalism is in not rising to it.
As an OS geek, I always enjoy the annoucement of a new OS, even if it is one I personally have no use for. Choice is good.
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Tell HN: Mechanical Turk bans asking people for website reviews.
A few days ago I posted a job on Mturk with a link to an very early draft of my website that I wanted feedback on. My job contained three text fields for people to enter their opinions and feedback on my site. I solicited absolutely no personal information in any way. Below is the message I received from them this morning. So what service can I use to crowdsource early-stage design reviews now?

Greetings from Amazon Mechanical Turk,

Your Human Intelligence Tasks "Collect information about a website and provide summary." have been removed from the Amazon Mechanical Turk marketplace because they violated the terms of our HIT listing policy. The removal could be due to many reasons, including but not limited to:

* requiring disclosure of the Worker's identity or e-mail address, either directly or indirectly

* requiring registration at another website or group

* asking Workers to post an advertisement, review or comment on a website

* directly or indirectly promoting a site, service, or opinion or engaging in unsolicited contacting of users

* requiring a Worker to download or install an application

* violating the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote or like something)

* having explicit or offensive content, for instance nudity, without having the Adult Content Qualification

* asking Workers to solicit third parties
* generating "referred" site visits or click-through traffic

* asking workers to take action to manipulate a search engine's relationship data

* violating copyrights

* disrupting or degrading the operation of any website or internet service

* creating a security risk for Mechanical Turk, any Mechanical Turk user, or any third party

You can find more information on our terms of service here:
https://requester.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies

You can also learn more about invalid HITs by reading this blog post on the Mechanical Turk blog:
http://mechanicalturk.typepad.com/blog/2010/12/some-thoughts-on-invalid-hits-.html

If you continue to post Human Intelligence Tasks that violate the terms of our HIT listing policy, your account will be suspended.

Sincerely,
Amazon Mechanical Turk
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why aren't these on stanford.edu subdomains?
As a Brit, it doesn't surprise me at the British address here. I work primarily with US companies but the most obnoxious service I get tends to be from the British ones. An idea of "honor above money" seems to be more prevalent here in the UK, whereas in the US it seems you're more likely to just get ignored.
That if I start, I will not know what to do, or that the direction I must take on a task is too unclear for me to feel comfortable starting...

That doesn't sound like a well examined state; go looking for why you fear "not knowing what to do", there's bound to be one or many things hiding behind that description.
Also reported

here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2889095

and here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2890101
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If all you want is shortening, then there shouldn't be a problem: if the t.co link is longer, just don't use it. This is different from data compression because "pointers are automatically dereferenced": there's no functional difference between t.co/foo sending you to google.com and t.co/bar sending you to t.co/foo. (If I'm wrong about this, then it's still possible to not-make-longer everything that isn't a t.co link.)

A similar case with data compression would be if you can guarantee that the decompressed data is never a valid compressed file. In this case, compress something iff that makes it shorter, and decompress something iff it's compressed.
If your employer owns anything you create (like most businesses in the USA)

I'm not from the US, so excuse me if I ask you: What the hell?

Is this really true? Anything? Or just things related to your job? The former would be - lacking any better word for it - ridiculous.
Looks interesting, but I'm leery of offers that require me to re-tweet or Facebook a specific posting. I'm not even certain how they would verify that I've done so.
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You should also do some keyword volume research (using adwords keyword tool for example). It will show you which keywords are popular, and then you can tailor your content in consequence.

You can also use the list google suggest gives you: if you start typing "books barack obama" the first reading result is "has read" and not "reads". Hence it suggests to me that you should optimize for "books barack obama has read" (meaning that should be the title of your page and your first H1 tag to start with).

That's just one example :-)
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Oops,they shouldn't translate the title into Japanese at News (see about the book), as its sold as "Let over Lambda 1.0" as same as English. Of course contents are translated.
> Of course, as ever, there's a lack of detail as to the amounts left unpaid and the nature of the PayPal issue and so none of us should really be offering ludicrously emotional and dramatic judgements about either party.

Did you not read the comment on the Reddit link GP provided? It is by the customer in question and very clearly lays out the situation, including the amount of payments blocked by PayPal

(Of course, the assumption is that the details are accurate, which IMO is a fair one to make, given that the service provider hasn't been too forthcoming)
I think, for me, procrastination has to do with projecting complication into things. So, if I want to cook something new, I imagine needing to find the perfect recipe with the perfect ingredients, for example.

Need to... or else what? Instead of forcing onwards, ask yourself why you don't want to go forwards...
I usually abide by the guidelines and don't tell people when I've flagged a comment or submission, but I'll make an exception in this case.

I would guess you're unhappy that something you're submitted, or a comment you've made, hasn't received the wide-spread acclaim and general approbation you thought it deserved, and hence you're blaming "the establishment."

My observations are in disagreement with your claims. It has always seemed to me that my contributions stand or fall on their merits, without any intervention from "the mods."

In short, your "submission" here adds no value, and doesn't even have the merit of appearing correct. It's certainly not informative, and has the air of a crank rant.

Or a troll.

Either way - flagged.
I do commit using my own name (well: a pseudonym/nickname followed by my real name). I'm proud of what I contribute to open source and have no problem whatsoever with people _knowing_ what I do. Even if there are embarassing commits (such as fixing a terrible bug produced by yourself), it's still ment to be public IHMO.
No one is questioning that it's better, just whether it makes sense to conflate a still unfortunately hypothetical system with something immediately available. Until the US financial system starts taking security seriously, I can't force them to switch to token-based auth but I can start using a password manager.

I also find the distinction above almost meaningless for webapps: if an attacker has privileged access, you're screwed. Maybe they can't make actions while you're not logged in but they can hijaack the session and control everything you see each time you do login. Using a more trustworthy client is your only realistic option until banks start requiring one-time codes for every transaction.
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I know a few people in the asset and treasury management areas and none of them are MBAs - they mostly qualified as accountants or actuaries early in their career (often on top of higher maths degrees) and then go on to become hyper specialized.
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Same story previously submitted here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2880815

I'm pretty sure there was another as well, with some discussion, but my search-fu has failed me today.

ADDED IN EDIT:

Ah, here are some more:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2883656

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2888417

I was wrong - none had discussion. Perhaps this fourth attempt will get some traction.
Indeed. Also, companies get way too worked up about people "trashing them on Twitter". People are going to say crappy things about your company/product. And nobody cares except you and the person "trashing" you. Getting worked up just makes your company look stupid.
webOS is a fully fledged mobile OS. Yeah Linux Kernel. The way you write apps and lay them out is very similar to HTML/Javascript, and the rendering engine is a modified version of webkit. However, it supports native applications too.
No. You tell the users that the web app works fine on Firefox, and they can check in the about window to make sure they're up to date.
It might have been in the US but although my parents sometimes played records I don't think I have ever heard that sound.
Some of the comments here are very disturbing. Right or wrong , customer or proprietor - you just dont talk to people that way.. especially so if you are a business.

It doesnt matter if you are only making $One Dollar from a customer -- a company or individual should not engage in open and public shit flinging.

What makes this grotesque is the way the company taunted the customer. What is really shocking are some of the responses and the notion that since the customer didnt pay or had a problem that the company was entitled and near obliged to dish out such treatment.