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I'm not too keen on trademark law, but as I understand it the point to including an (R) symbol is to provide notice that a mark is registered with the USPTO.

Why does notice matter? It doesn't excuse infringement if the (R) is missing. However, if you infringe on a trademark, damages are due from the date that you know or should know that the mark is registered. So if you register a mark for your obscure brand of shoe trees or whatever, it makes sense to include the (R) wherever you can.

Now who doesn't have this problem? Apple, for one. Unless you've been living under a tree for 35 years, you know that if you sell computers with an Apple logo on the front, you're infringing on a famous registered trademark.

Yahoo also doesn't have this problem, so who knows why they felt they needed to include the (R). During the original dotcom bubble, some companies were notably overzealous about IP, so they may have gone all in at the time only to revisit it now.
Starting a company in either of those geographic areas (Loop/River North or SOMA) is like shoveling cash into an incinerator.
I think you hit the nail on the head. I have no problems using C or Java without highlighting, but I wouldn't want to use Python or even Fortran without it, there's just not enough guidance for my taste.
I think TM is what you put prior to the mark being approved as a registered trademark by the USPTO. (It's analogous to "US Patent Pending" but for trademarks.) So eventually there will be two (R) on that logo.

Maybe Microsoft could make the whole logo out of (R) symbols. Then the ones inserted by the lawyers will fit in.
Mother's Day in the US was originally conceived as a pacifist holiday for mothers to organize for disarmament.
So unaccountable nation-states have access to anything you say or do on a network, and random strangers have access to your account and billing details. Is there anything left standing here?
Maybe coffeescript programmers could just use their brain and choose not to descend the Infinite Staircase of Obfuscation (the carrot's not worth it). Just because Coffeescript can saw your foot off doesn't mean you have to.
Billy Bob's Bike Repair, because I know I can bring their site down. I also know that I won't be able to bring down CF or sites running behind their infrastructure so no g33k cred to be had, etc.
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I'm not saying don't have a rigid schema, just don't enforce it at the storage layer. If you're doing an ad-hoc report then you wouldn't have indexes in place for it in the SQL case, so I don't see how it's any worse or harder in mongodb.
Haha, try PSN.
Microsoft is probably aggressive about the windows trademark as it is a very generic trademark and could easily be revoked if not defended vigorously.

Even in relation to operating systems it is generic - think "window manager". Because of this it is very easy to argue that Microsoft should not have been allowed to trademark such a generic term.
Good question. There is a second-hand diamond marketplace. But the discount you get is proportional to the extra effort you must exert to get the diamond you want. Do you want a 2 carat triple-A GIA certified round brilliant with VS1 clarity, >I color, and an HCA score under 2? Good luck. You'll spend months tracking that down. And you better know what you're doing or you could get scammed. Or you could go to a diamond wholesaler and get what you want, right now, no hassle, and pay the associated overhead.
I started thinking about this issue a few days ago and have yet to come up with a strategy for convincing a (future) partner on the follies of purchasing a diamond. Is there any recourse at all to the epic marketing job De Beers has masterminded?
Ask HN:What should i learn after html/css?
Well a web developer told me to learn html css javascript,
but is there a specific reason there 3 are used in web. dev. ?
i also notice google code university recommends those 3.

what other languages could i learn in under 3(edit:basics in 3-5 weeks) weeks, that will be useful?

edit: later with this background, i want to go into iPhone / Android development.
The way Ruby handles string interpolation (evaluating code inside a string) is what pushed me to learn Ruby. It was the only way that made sense to me. Also, completely disagree with your first comment. When reading my code out loud, saying "print" makes me think of a printer, which doesn't make sense to me. Puts, as in, put string, describes exactly what is happening, as you're "putting" a "string" on the screen.
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Ask HN: what do you think about "signin without logging in" for your startup?
Trying to get people to sign in seems to be a big obstacle to getting user takeup.

Do you think it is an acceptable idea to allow people to sign in by sending them a link with a random string linked to that user? i.e. if someone has that link then they are trusted to log in. What do you think?
I'm a Dev Bootcamp grad from the summer program. I also just got hired on at Tapjoy. Can I write production-quality code?
Probably not just yet. What I do know is that Tapjoy isn't the only company hiring grads. In the last 4 weeks since graduating about 20 people have been hired as Jr Ruby Developers at multiple companies. Every single one of them had to go through technical interviews to get the positions. Many companies have decided the grads have enough real knowledge to be valuable. Average salary has been somewhere around $84,000.
>If you're doing an ad-hoc report then you wouldn't have indexes in place for it in the SQL case, so I don't see how it's any worse or harder in mongodb.

Only true in a case where you ahve to index everything you might want to search on, like with InnoDB. In PostgreSQL all you really need are your foreign key indexes and a couple (if that) of criteria indexes and you are good. That's more of an InnoDB limitation than a relational limitation. Basically InnoDB tables are primary key indexes and they can only be traversed in key order, not physical order, so sequential scans are painful....
You're sharing pins for electronic transactions? What the what? (I'm over the pond in Australia, and I've never shared any of my various pins with anyone.)
Some of kickstarter campaigns are strucured as actual (or implied) pre-orders.[1] Any such quid-pro-quo is a loose form of contract. With the emphasis on loose.

[1] "Cash in return for the promise of a future reward," per the article with examples also referenced therin.
I'd go for WordPress.

Then you'll be able to set up your own marketing sites/blogs, work as a freelancer, and know a little php too.
So it's just like buying a smartphone?
Guilty -- truly wanted to know how Chicago measured up to SF even if it be geographically.
Tell HN : Interesting observation on Jquery and javascript
Well, I have just checked my profile on linkedin and an interesting thing I found that javascript has -2% yoy trending and Jquery has huge +34% yoy trending.

I understand the huge upward trend for jquery but -ve trending for javascript is unexpected as recently we have observed lots of new framework/libraries based on javascript are coming.

Would like read opinion of HN members on this.
VC gibberish? I found this to be pretty insightful, and valuable life advice in general.
I'm guessing you're a big fan of stored procedures too.

Good luck.
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My fiancee and I did tattoos instead. We came up with a design that we both got in the same place and can be filled in and completed when we get married. The best part is, we are the only two people who had to suffer and shed blood for it.
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Indeed. Even Christmas was controversial in early America because it was seen as a chiefly Catholic holiday that represented excess, decadence, and gluttony. Now it's the cornerstone of the entire retail industry.
yeah python is still much clearer than coffee. I used to somewhat prefer significant whitespace but coffee has definitely killed that for me haha. Seeing braces after looking at files of coffee is like a breathe of fresh air, it just lines up nicely for the eyes, even from an "artistic" stand-point I think the balance is more appealing
I'm guessing you're a big fan of stored procedures too.

In certain times and places. However, I am not a fan of the idea that all db access goes through stored procedures. LedgerSMB will eventually do everything through stored procs but the reason is to make sure that all the logic is available to other apps, not to require that everyone else do all access through the stored procs.

Also our stored procs are designed to be discoverable by the application and therefore allow for looser coupling between the app and sproc than is typical.
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> Or there's the pricier sorts of bottled water...

Tell me about it. On my honeymoon in Maui I accidentally spent $9 on a bottle of water at Ferraro's.
I hate signing it when I'm first exploring an app. See DJ Patil's talks on building data driven apps. Our (user + application) first interaction is like a first date. I'm not giving you access to my Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn/Google account on our first date.

I'm sure there are levels of access that can be granted to slowly introduce users to your app.
This is still a recent development. It never had this originally. Besides going by the ugly apps, it hasn't had much impact so its ineffective at best.
I agree. There's a tangible sense of renewal at Yahoo - they've been stagnant for so long, it's refreshing to see them challenging the status quo and revitalising their culture.
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I simply don't understand how brute-forcing can remain a problem today. It seems like such a trivial implementation detail to freeze account access after a certain number of incorrect attempts – and yet most password security guidelines still warn against what they consider brute-forceable passwords.

Could a security professional explain in non-domain-expert terms why this practice isn't simply adopted everywhere?
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when you browse istore from an android device they added programmatic wiggle and jerk when you scroll the screenshots for an app. It's hilarious because android jerking wasn't that consistent. to make it authentic they needed to add randomness to it.
No, you can't do that. That said, there is absolutely nothing from preventing you from creating a parallel DNS infrastructure which copies the part of DNS you like, and doesn't copy the part you don't like. Running a root server is not a whole lot different (except in scale) than running a regular DNS server. Distribute your own root cache to your 'clients' put a copy of the root servers for the domains you care about into your machines and recursively resolve the rest with the regular system.

At one time this would have been prohibitively expensive but with Amazon's EC-2 service you could run a separate namespace for about a million customers easily for $600/month maybe less.
I typically hate any political post on HN, but I upvoted your comment because of the Simpson's Paradox reference. I've never heard of it, but have seen many applications of it. Thanks for teaching me something new! :)
Because they're doing it intentionally and knowingly and have worked to mitigate the risks (as detailed on their site - https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/security) unlike the vast majority of the open resolvers which have done so unintentionally or without understanding.
Yes, I was indeed making a point about sampling. Hopefully we're on the same page now.

But here is an honest question for you. Why do you think that it would make sense for me to try to write up and publish a paper on arXv?

My view is that doing so would take a considerable amount of work. And the real-world constraints that matter to my clients don't seem to be in a direction that academics care much about, so I can't see them getting particularly interested in it. So it does not seem like it positively impacts my life.

I say this as someone who has several publications to my name. This fact has only once mattered to me. That once was when I needed to get sign-off from my current employer to have something I did before they hired me get published. Unfortunately my employer at the moment was eBay, they had just purchased Skype, and the paper that I was publishing among other things implied that Skype was unlikely to be worth what eBay had paid for it. This was..not fun.

If some research mathematician particularly wanted to sit down, pick my brains, and try to formalize the real-world constraints I've observed in my clients, that would be fine by me. It would only be fair in that case for me to be listed as a co-author. But unless that happens, I'm not going to try to publish a formal paper.
Went through the same thing with my wife. In the end I caved and just bought the best damn diamond I could find after 3 months of searching. Easier to explain why you bought an alternative stone than why you bought a shitty diamond.
Only if it’s possessive; apostrophes aren’t for plurals. They refer to their employees as Yahoo!s, which I guess is supposed to be pronounced with an alveolar click.
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> Say, for example, you set up a pool table with a pool ball and hit it through a time machine such that it went back in time and hit itself, making it miss the time machine? Would the pool ball be suddenly acted on by some invisible force? Would it explode? Would the universe just end?

No, none of these. Well, something would prevent this from happening, but whatever happened would have a perfectly reasonable explanation at the time.

You have to understand, firstly, that in GR, the universe doesn't start at the beginning of time and slowly evolve until it reaches the end of time. Instead, all of space and time that ever was or ever will be, exist now and forever. And this one big constant eternal space-time is one of many possible solutions to the equations that constrain the universe.

If a potential universe does not satisfy those equations, then it can't exist and therefore it won't exist.

A universe in which your pool ball goes back in time and deflects itself, is not a solution to those equations, and therefore, that will never happen in any GR compliant universe.

So, what might happen instead? Well, you might get bored with the experiment and give up before you get it working. Your girlfriend might come along and tell you that you are neglecting her. Burglars might steal your time machine. Or most likely, you might never invent the time machine to begin with.

It's quite conceivable that in some sense a time machine is theoretically buildable, but the reason our universe is one of the solutions to GR is that no one ever actually builds one in the history of the universe.

Why not, you ask? Because if they did, that universe is much less likely to be a solution to the equations, so we just so happen to find ourselves in one of the more likely universes.

Another way to think about this is that perhaps all possible universes actually exist. In that case, we have to find ourselves in one of the existing universes. We can't find ourselves in a non-existing universe, since non-existing universes don't exist.
What, is it possessive?
There is a size selector on the left. S M L XL

The XL is the actual size (pixel-wise) that you would see on a phone such as the Galaxy Nexus.
Because the people who implement the login systems aren't always security professionals. Sometimes they're random, mediocre, software engineers who don't really care about security, but their boss put them in charge of the website.
Blame the people who coined the initialism, not the public who uses it the way that sounds best.
Since the Flickr team didn't write it, I'm sure they would be glad to hear it.
Good luck. It's akin to convincing your SO that you don't want to celebrate Christmas because it's a product of retail marketing.
Re-read the blog post. He's speculating the attack used DNS. (Though he has no proof.) In that case, with UDP, spoofed headers are allowed out. Connectionless.

Cloudflare uses anycast DNS - machines in different geographically located data centers all sharing the same IP.
If you want to try to make your site DOS-proof (and potentially faster), one way is to move the site to the network edge. Move the data closer to the user. Put a copy on a machine in the data center nearest the user. Do this in data centers around the world. ("CDN") Give all the machines the same IP. ("Anycast") Your users will be accessing a mirrored copy of your site at some regional data center, instead of actually sending requests that go out to the internet. Does Google do this? Akamai? Netflix?

Next time you access a popular website ask yourself "Am I actually accessing the internet? Or am I just downloading a copy of something from a local data center?"

A lot of these services are just marketing. In theory they sound great, but things may be different in practice. And that's why we frequently see comments that things did not work as expected.

I did some CDN experiments downloading pages using Akamai where I accessed content on the "true IP address" (the master copy so to speak) versus the regional IP address they provide through stupid DNS tricks. Guess which one was faster?

It all depends on caching: what is in the cache and what isn't. Same applies to DNS. A DNS caching server (resolver) is only faster than non-caching DNS server (authoritative) if it's primed with the records you're after. If they are not in the cache, it will not be faster. In fact, it will be slower because there are more steps to the process.

These strategies are often based on 80/20, power law thinking. If you are not in the 20 percent of content being accessed 80 percent of the time, then you do not see the benefits. If no one in your region has requested a given page, and you're the first, it will be slower to wait for it to be cached at your regional data center than if you just grabbed it from the internet.
Gmail has something similar, try to press G L and then start typing to move to a label. Might require something to be activated from labs though.
I've been using 10 in Canada for several years now. I initially carried cash on me as I expected it not to work at a lot of places... So far I've only had one issue which was at a parkade. The payment machine only accepted six digits on debit cards.
Bitbucket offers unlimited private git repos for individuals and small teams (upto 5 people) with no limits on storage... for free.

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Hey, I'm not the biggest "diversity" cheerleader in the world, but I think this criticism is over the top.

There is a significant difference between an organization's stated rules and what you can make a phone call and get just for trying. If you belong to the category of not being a white or Asian man, give it a shot.

Being a sourpuss precludes working with people and figuring out what makes sense together. It isn't a good idea.
Here's the original announcement from the Internet Archive:

http://blog.archive.org/2012/09/17/launch-of-tv-news-search-...

But it's not particularly convenient to get to the content:

"Use the index of searchable text and short, streamed clips to find programs to borrow on DVD-ROM or view at the Internet Archive's library in San Francisco."
i know wordpress already.
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You said that you don't like the availability issues then state "but at the moment MongoDB is about as good as it gets."?

Just. Wow.

Get your head out of the sand mate. MongoDB is nowhere NEAR as good as it gets.
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I was lucky, my fiancee is dead keen on Moissanite. She likes the idea that its a "meterorite stone" (even though the ones you can actually buy are industrially grown).
It was pl/sql, I'm sorry. I got autocorrected. PL/SQL is a procedural language and a superset of sql. It's what stored procedures etc. tend to be written in.

Thank you for your response!
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I try not to go off topic and bitch about the site when stuff is posted like this, but sometimes being fancy can come back to bite you: on my 11" macbook each "slide" (if you want to call them that) doesn't actually fit on my screen. The header bar takes up so much damn space I can barely see the main content. A basic website with no frills that I could just scroll, using the maximum amount of real-estate I have available to me, would have been a much better experience for me. Sometimes simpler is better.
I'll relate a similar anecote; dot com exploding crisis in the board room, frozen management. I reached out to Scott McNealy and asked how at Sun we had hit rough times and it got painful but it never got stuck. His response changed my whole take on things. He said,

"Chuck nobody knows what they are going to be when the chips are down, they can think they will be a tiger but they sometimes they discover they are the deer, and stare transfixed at the headlights. The best you can do is test people early to get a sense of how they respond and move the ones who can't act in a crisis into safer jobs."

I have found this to be very accurate advice. People who you wouldn't think would freeze up can (and do) and people who you felt were meek and softspoken can suddenly stand up and take charge. Its the fight-or-flight instinct and its wired in the part of the brain you don't have a lot of control over. It sounds like your CEO friend discovered he couldn't take the pressure and ran. It can be a shameful place for a proud person, it has driven people to suicide. Understanding that its not under your conscious control can help.
Anyone know if there is something similar for people who can't attend during work hours (but willing to put in a full shift after work/weekends)?
As a Chicago native currently staying with a friend in Mountain View, I keep refreshing the comment thread. Chicago HN community represent.
The issue is that:

* Humans use indentation

* The Compiler ignores indentation

* The indentation and the the compilers interpretation are different
HTML + CSS + Javascript are suggested because they are the core languages websites use for visual display and interactivity.

After that, PHP + MySQL is fairly popular choice for beginning web programmers. But the point isn't just to "learn" the languages, make something cool and useful out of it.
I'm not sure whether the Alcubierre drive contradicts causality, but if it does, I highly doubt that it is because of the arguments presented on this forum.

The Alcubierre drive most certainly does violate causality, and this follows from just the most basic amount of Special Relativity that you might learn if only you'd spend your time learning real things, rather than spreading disinformation.
I think some people are about to lose their virginity.
If my (admittedly rough) understanding of relativity is correct, there's a problem with this weapon: From the recipient's perspective, the shell would never arrive.

Basically, as the shell accelerates to C relative to the target, time in the target's reference frame expands relative to time in the shell's reference frame. A shell traveling at C would instantaneously travel from origin to destination (from the shell's perspective) but would take infinite time (from the target's perspective).

Of course, an impact at 1% C would still make one hell of a bang.