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Trademark Question: punctuation...
For anyone who has experience with the trademark process... how does the USPTO treat punctuation?

I ask because my scenario is this:

I have a startup that could use an apostrophe in the company name. It's similar to "flickr" not having the "e" in their name. The website with the "e" was taken (and just used a random redirect) but I grabbed the one without.

Currently, I like the logo and branding with the apostrophe. However, I'm not sure how the trademark office handles that?

Would I still hold a trademark for the mark without apostrophe (i.e. my website name) if I managed to get the mark with it? What about vice versa?

Also... what do you guys think of the use of an apostrophe at all? Will it lead to confusion when people go type the URL? Should I just drop it entirely and simplify? I've asked some people and most tend to like the branding with the apostrophe. For one, it's correct. And two, it just looks right. But it looks fine either way.

Anyways, any and all help is appreciated. Thanks!
I was not comparing the possible pain of different bugs. I was merely stating that there is possible pain with commas.
so when trucks would drive their chips out to California, some of the seals would open up due to the pressure difference between the high altitude air and the air sealed inside the bag

This is backwards, isn't it? Less dense air from Colorado would shrink the bag in California.
Trailing commas is defined in ECMAScript 5. The issue is that IE8 and earlier choke on them.
I'm sure a blanket refund issued to all the current owners of the game will quickly explain to EA why this is a terrible idea. They'll survive, but they'll be wiser.
I have found that this is much less likely in practice.

Lists usually grow on the end, not the beginning.

(I use this kind of formatting for SQL, for a similar reason.)
Yeah, it is. Your shampoo usually opens on the pass.

At a guess, maybe he meant the plants were east of the mountains, not west, so they would have to drive over them?
I did something similar, sometime back, where I used the influences from the information boxes on the programming language pages on wikipedia to generate a global lineage graph. I used SVG as the output format though, since it is much more searchable, zoomable, and linkable. You can see here:

http://jaisharma.info/static/choice/images/projects/lineage.... .
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Designing a Microsite for the Mercedes M-Class, inspired by 'think small'
starting the y-axis at 0 would have it more difficult to see any differences across the graphs.

That's the point: the differences are small.
| so starting the y-axis at 0 would have it more difficult to see any differences across the graphs

Then maybe there isn't a real difference. See statistical significance.
iOS Developer Program License Agreement

3.3.16 Any master recordings and musical compositions embodied in Your Application must be wholly-owned by You or licensed to You on a fully paid-up basis and in a manner that will not require the payment of any fees, royalties and/or sums by Apple to You or any third party. In addition, if Your Application will be distributed outside of the United States, any master recordings and musical compositions embodied in Your Application (a) must not fall within the repertoire of any mechanical or performing/communication rights collecting or licensing organization now or in the future and (b) if licensed, must be exclusively licensed to You for Your Application by each applicable copyright owner.
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That BS religious propaganda. There are many good counter examples. And on the other hand, many wars current and past have intolerance from religious groups as a main component of causes.

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/428275_339614...
This is not exactly an unbeaten path:

[1] http://hellokisses.com
[2] http://beta.lu.scio.us
[3] http://www.snatchly.com
I wonder what programming language(s) they used to write the docking and on-board software.
Indeed the link I gave demonstrates how the right IDE also solves this problem. The fact that there are many ways of solving the problem does not mean that it isn't a real problem that formatting can help address.
I must say I love the marketing focus of this announcement together with the one last week (or so) about just having three versions of Windows 8. Feels like a new kind of Microsoft.
And copyright protection of interfaces to block interoperability has been struck down so many times it's explicitly written into the EU convention (article 4 IIRC)

Oracle could conceivably get a ruling on the 'Java' name but using copyright to block somebody else doing an interoperable implementation has been defeated before

I'm sure Oracle knows this and is simply going to trial in the hope of a random verdict (it happens) or to get Google to reveal lots of documents that can be used in a future patent / monopoly / trade case
Finally something to say "you go Microsoft!" - Windows Live was so DOA that you couldn't make lemonade with it!
Ah, yes. Of course, thank you.
Microsoft has released their own MonoTouch-based applications (e.g. Star Wars Kinect), so I'm sensing there's nothing to worry about.
The password is sent from your browser to the server in a way that the server can read it as cleartext. When you log in over SSL, all that does is protect your password (or whatever) from being interpreted by third parties.

Your browser doesn't do any hashing, it doesn't (and shouldn't) know about whatever password hashing scheme is happening on the server.

This is how sites can (but shouldn't) store passwords in clear text, because that's how they get them in the first place.
So lets see... discusion:

1. why is this hn worthy?

2. guidelines about what is worthy including statement of intellectual curiosity.

3. counterpoint about not satisfying one specific person's curiosity (and another seemingly unrelated counterpoint about religion)

4. (ignore second counterpoint) focus on intellectual curiosity and how focus of it for one person is not the same as for the group.

How is my reply is misinterpreting? It certainly isn't intentional. Nor is it diverting the thread away from how it is HN worthy. It is an example of how one person's view of what is intellectually stimulating may not match another's.

I honestly found the discussion in this thread far more interesting than comments on almost all vim articles. This counts as satisfying my intellectual curiosity. Including the debate about religion.
Harvard & MIT Put $60-Million into Platform for Free Online
Eiffel wasn't strictly functional but it heavily influences Racket (including current development). See [1].

[1] http://www.eecs.northwestern.edu/~robby/pubs/papers/ho-contr...
Add somewhere near the bottom Pure
http://code.google.com/p/pure-lang/
This is a large part of why I love SASS. I frequently work with a base color + some combination of lighten/darken/saturate/desaturate/opacify/transparentize for a given widget or whatnot. Changing the entire widget is as easy as changing the base color. It makes tweaking and theming super easy.

It's a lot easier when you think of colors as derivatives of a base color, rather than a collection of 7 different colors that have to be kept in sync.
The songs aren't on the cloud, as the game works perfectly on an ipod touch when wifi is disabled.

The problem is games requiring "authentication servers" to do anything. The general thought has been when these servers were removed the last act of the company would be to release an update that disabled the requirement of the servers... however this has never really happened.

It frustrates me as thanks to tools like DosBox I am still playing games on my Mac that I first played years ago (Master of Orion 2 specifically). There is a distinct possibility that every game you purchase will no longer work in 5 years between DRM'd executable, proprietary platforms and authentication servers.
Oh, right, the mountains :)
Couple of suggestions:

1. You mention "sites" plural. You may want to focus on just ONE site and pour your energy into that.

2. Start self-project management small and simple, stick to it, then get more complicated as you need it. I like to start with just a Google Doc/Excel spread sheet. After doing that well for a few months, try something more sophisticated. The worst thing to do is get too deep into project management and not your project.
"Also, DART, despite being very interesting, has to be supported by the browsers and that will be hell."

Dart compiles to JavaScript precisely to avoid this problem. And while Dart's JS target support is somewhat uneven among browsers, it has been improving and will continue to get better.

Quite a few of the people working on Dart were previously working on GWT, and the eventual end-game for Dart is to cover a lot of the same ground GWT did, but with a new (but familiar) language instead of Java.
Gmail: Auto message translation and other labs features now standard
Spring 2011* and they're working at the VeloCity Garage right now :)
What Biz are We in? Node.js in Context with Jason Hoffman of Joyent
Austin is on the verge of being a clear #2 to Silicon Valley in my view. The recent growth has been enormous.
Given the shape of a bag, it seems pretty difficult to put shear force on the bag. Since the sealed layer deforms and crumples, if for example you grabbed onto both sides of the middle of the top edge and tried shearing them apart, they would just reorient so that the forces are now more or less normal to the glue...
You fail to understand how much the entire company is in jeopardy. They've lost or are in the process of losing their foothold in every sector they once were the leader (not uncommon for web companies).

I'd be surprised if the killing their making is growing or rather stagnating. Regardless, they're shrinking at a rate which means they'll be chopped up and sold in pieces. At which point I still believe my original comment rings true.

I used to work there and am sad to see an Internet icon fade but you can't change the facts.
In defense of hype
> Why would age/sex/location/education of the person doing the judging matter?

It can bias the results. How did your users find your site?
I think CloudFlare isn't bad for a small-to-midsize site.

They're new in the industry and still learning.

If you have a large mature site, then its likely your uptime will be better than theirs and you'll lose serious money for every minute of downtime. In that case, don't use CloudFlare because they're still learning from their mistakes.
Basic Authorization Attribute in ASP.NET MVC
Research is tricky.

Unless you're very careful with adjusting for factors (like age, location, etc) and careful with statistics you end up with garbage.

Either do something that's just purely fun, or do something properly and call it research. But don't do something wrong and call it research, because there are so many people ignorant about how science works and ignorant about numbers.
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Wouldn't it be:

hash(password)
hash(password-inverted)
hash(password-first-lower-case)

The first character upper case-case only matters if the first character of the entered password actually is received in upper case, in which case, you'd want to flip it to lower before doing the hash, right?
Because it's most likely skewed. Without knowing anything about where your votes come from, I'm pretty sure the WEIRD demographic is over-represented (white, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic).

Not trying to be overly critical - I like the concept and execution, but these things are really important in statistics.
I think it depends where in Colorado they started and where they went after. I walked and hitched my way cross country this year. I did not go through Colorado but went up and down in altitude quite a lot. I was up around 7000 feet at least three times in states I never thought of as all that mountainous. And Cali has mountains, some of them quite high.
Vintage Apple sales video surfaces, stars Jobs as FDR
The judges have IP addresses that you can map to a geographic region, such as a state or country. That would be useful data, and you'd be able to actually say with authority whether or not at least the location of the person doing the judging matters.
Can you tell what you meant by "most Java systems"? Which are the Java systems that are NOT running on top of some C-based OS?
I think that everyone would like to see how men and women rated them as individual categories(maximizing sex appeal is a common goal), and age might also be desirable.
I don't think the author has any idea what anything in that article even means.
Thanks a lot. It makes sense now ! Next step would be to refine the product and look for an investor !
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selection_bias
When you mention the strong differences, are you accounting for the y axis starting at varying locations? Once I realized this, the significance of the results went down significantly.
>By couching it in these terms, it implies that anyone who follows best practices has given in to “lies and fear!” Who wants to be swayed by that?

That is some fairly brazen rhetorical sleight of hand. Schlueter is obviously not attacking the following of best practices. He is saying that semicolons-everywhere isn't a best practice and he gives an argument that the most common rationales given for the practice do not hold water. There are a few flaws with his argument, but what it certainly is not is a general condemnation of the following of actual, bonafide best practices.

Pretending otherwise is akin to accusing someone of "siding with the terrorists" because they argue that people should be allowed to take bottled water on airplanes.
As a Latinist, this makes me cringe. Roman numerals are added, not multiplied. MM = 2000.

Not saying that this isn't the root; just that it is deeply dissatisfying.
This is my love/hate relationship with JavaScript. There is often more than one "correct" way to do things and there is a lot of disagreement in the JS community about what way is "best".

Contrast this with Python where the overarching rule is there should be one, and preferably only one, obvious way to do things.
Indeed. It's hard to tell if any of the differences are significant, particularly when you compare with so many traits -- the chances of a false positive are very high.

I have a statistics final exam coming up; if the complete data set were available, I'd love to play with it for practice.
In general, I'd say you're right that the fact that "some one else already does it" shouldn't stop you from taking on a project. Almost every successful site on the Net was NOT the first to do what they do (Google, Facebook, Basecamp, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Woofoo, WordPress, etc.) yet they're all pretty amazing. The largest factor of your success/failure will probably be your determination, so just go ahead and pick the thing you'll be most likely to love doing for the next X years.
Maybe, but if the numbers can be represented in two very different ways-- by the SAME organization-- I'm not sure what those numbers tell us.

In today's article the concern was voiced that the data "“raise questions about whether the United States is becoming less entrepreneurial given the lower pace of start-ups and the smaller share of activity accounted for by young firms.”"

However, reading the previous two Kauffman pieces would seem to allay that concern.
There is no physics implemented on the z-axis yet.
I see them over here all the time... you'll find them on jerky packets, for example, or as the initial seal on nearly any re-sealable bag (think of a bag of cereal with a zipper on top). The problem is that if the Seal God (blessed be his flippers) doesn't smile on you, you'll end up ripping off a sliver of the top of the bag and completely failing to get a decent opening. This has caused much wailing and gnashing of teeth. I think the material used for the bag/packaging is definitely a factor--I can pretty much always make a good tear on a ramen flavor packet, but I don't know that I've ever had a bag of jerky open properly.

God, all this talk of cereal and jerky and ramen makes it sound like I eat only crap. I eat vegetables, I swear!
It appears to be branded "Microsoft Hotmail" or just "Hotmail" now. I think this is an improvement.
I agree about anonymity. I'm a high school teacher and there are a bunch of smartphone apps that let students send in answers to multiple choice questions that the teacher puts on the board (I think it's called SmartResponse). The problem is, all responses have the students' phone numbers attached. So privacy concerns make it so that an otherwise useful product is basically unusable. Obviously the level of concern would be different in College/University, but I think students might be less inclined to use the app if it is not anonymous.

That said, this is a great idea. This is the kind of real-time feedback that I would love to have access to. Many of my students would rather fail than put their hand up and ask for help. Something like this would really help them out.
The biggest and most appreciated change for me is its stability. Gdocs was either crashing or down so frequently in previous few months that I thought they're abandoning it for some reason. It was so bade that I looked for alternatives like Zoho and others. Having had much trouble in the past month, hope they keep it up.
Go to any reddit video subreddit apart from comedy ones. All the 'classy' ones with high quality videos are vimeo dominated now. That's all changed in roughly a year. I know a video production company and their 'video of the week' are invariably vimeo videos now. Because all the cool indie filmmakers post there now instead of YouTube.

Youtube has lost their total dominance. Youtube is no longer the be all and end all of online video. Vimeo started off capturing business videos from youtube as they looked more professional, now they're capturing the indie filmmakers.

I said they need to be careful about not pushing YouTube into MySpace territory, not that they will. Nor did I say Vimeo are the next YouTube. You could see the video market fragment as it's not all or nothing as Social Networks are.

And who cares about the quantity that gets uploaded to YouTube, you know most of it's long tail junk. It's where the viewers go, not who has the most crappy video of their dog rolling around for a tasty treat.
Maybe run an A/B test?

Suppose 1) you had 1,000 resumes of near identical startup-ready backgrounds (top tier CS, design, entrepreneurship experience etc.), and 2) of those resumes 10 also had top tier MBAs. Which resumes would you prioritize reading?

If you believe an MBA is a negative hiring signal, then you'd read 990 other resumes first--which doesn't make sense to me. I may be missing something...
So does that mean I no longer need to feel guilty for not using my @live.com email account?

Microsoft you were "not live" anymore for me when you decided to bring a wall between your Internet services and your Windows XP.
Ooh, do we have a smoking gun here?

Edit: And will this have consequences for any other EA offerings?
Don't write your own project management app unless that's what your idea is. IMO.

I really like OmniFocus but it's pretty expensive, and you have to purchase separate licenses for the iPhone, iPad, and OS X versions.

TaskPaper is popular. I tried it and found it too limiting after getting used to OmniFocus.

I really like OmniFocus actually. That's my recommendation for task management software. It's very fast to CTRL+ALT+Space and enter new tasks(whenever you have an idea come to you, just enter it and it will go in your inbox and you can organize it later) and it's easy to keep everything organized. I put almost everything I do in there -- I even have a weekly recurring project to clean my apartment up.

Now, OmniFocus has a breaking point -- it's really for personal productivity, it's not a bug tracker, and it's not for collaboration. If you start growing your business and have other people working with you, you'll need something else... but for solo projects and keeping your personal life organized I really like OmniFocus.

Edit: oh, yes, for teams http://asana.com/ is good. I tried TaskPaper and keeping the document in a Dropbox share -- didn't work too well. The first time we heard "where the hell did my changes go?!" it was time to drop it.
I've never been able to figure out how to get my own styles. In particular I'd like a style named 'code' that I can then use for various code and API text in documents.
Thank you.

At the moment, I am trying to primarily focus on my health site for development: http://www.healthgazelle.com/ But I also have a blog which is mostly intended as a personal outlet. I don't feel my health site really has an audience. It is far easier to write for the blog. Any suggestions on how to do audience development or otherwise get more focused on what to do for the health site?
This explains a lot, thanks. We noticed that the traceroute for one of our domains was running through Asia (usually DFW) and found it odd. It also changed shortly when the sites came back online.

Glad to know it was just a mistake though, as opposed to an attack or failure. Much less worried about recurrence.
Yes, obviously, sorry. :)
It is a real problem. Formatting can address it. That doesn't mean that formatting is the best solution.
it seems like a lot of Facebook users thinks Socialcam is a spam.

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/question/?id=2154928

so whats the fine line here? they clearly say they won't spam your wall, yet they post without you knowing and you can't even see yourself that you posted something?