skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cool. Do you happen to know what constitutes actual "use" in the eyes of the trademark office when it comes to a website?

Content? User accounts? For a private site behind a login screen, how would they even know whether the service your trademark is being registered for even does what you say?
Help me pick an int'l payouts vendor for Gittip, eh?
This reminds me of this website: https://makr.io/

I think I found it on HN a few months ago.

Fun little project anyway :)
Given the overwhelming number of people in jail because of plea bargains, which up to 95% (depending on sources, but all tend to be >85%) of the US prison population made. It seems like in the US you can simply avoid jail by not making a plea bargain. Seriously, with those rates I bet prosecutors just bail the second the plea bargain isn't signed. They put more pressure on weak cases to try and get the plea bargain through, if they get guaranteed evidence they withdraw the plea because the prosecutors want the highest conviction at trial rate they can.

The best way to deal with police is say nothing until you see a lawyer. Cops are allowed to trick people, so until you have a defence lawyer sat next to you, you say nothing because you don't want to give them anything usable against you.

The whole point of judicial system is that if you get people fighting for both sides, you should get a socially appropriate punishment for what really happened. This doesn't happen with plea bargains any time. Innocent people make pleas from fear of getting nailed with something worse, guilty people make pleas before prosecution can get enough evidence to push for a full sentence or to get it dropped from felony or not to count as three-strikes.
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WHAT DID YOU DO WITH ALL MY FAVORITE ADS?
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Exactly my thoughts. It's funny it ends with "lets focus on a functional and engaging user experience" - that's exactly what Facebook does right now.

In terms of graphic design, it's a huge improvement, not so for usability/ux. The timeline is chaotic. Small type. Navigation/content areas undefined, too much layering.
The only winning move is not to program AI?

Here's an interesting discussion about AI, rules, morality, etc. http://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/y9lm0/i_am_luke_...
He's betting that they'll stay lowish, or at least lower than whatever return he's getting here (not enough information in the article to tell). If you treat this investment, in return for a 20-year guaranteed rate, as sort of like a 20-year bond, it shares the characteristics of long-term bonds that you're betting against any unexpected increase in interest rates. If interest rates increase more than was priced in at the beginning, e.g. there's a big rate spike in 2017, then you would've been better off keeping your money in short-term bonds where you can take advantage of any upwards movements, rather than locking in a fixed return for 20 years.
Maybe porn is more relevant to the company culture ;) (Niel was running adult services on minitel before starting an ISP)

And it might also be part of the negotiations to get Google to pay for peering that's been going on for a long time.
Aesthetically petty, yeah, but horribly designed. The best design is no design.
On the other hand, I find engineering very undisappointing. That's why I'm a scientist, since science has a higher standard for being interesting. Call it hipsterism or whatever you will, I upvote thee. (This is an engineering result, not a science result.)
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i transfer all parameters via json to php and redo the rendering on the server with the GD library.
Additionally, contingent fees are banned for most criminal attorneys in the US [1]. This means that their pay is hourly, and thus when they go to court they get paid more. It's really in their best interest to fight the charges.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contingent_fee#United_States
I'll enjoy the ensuing hilarity within google if "Unlimited Resources(tm)" leads to a request for a datacenter full of GPUs...

Just sayin'...
curious: can entity B file an application after entity A for the same Standard Character Mark? Or does the USPTO only evaluate applications one at a time? Let's assume the time differential is a two weeks.
Interesting. Should be a pretty good hedge against inflation, assuming the prices aren't fixed (couldn't tell from your link).
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It must be really boring to be a designer theses days. This looks like garbage.
> It's true that cleavage and nice smiles were there

Well, 50% of the people on Facebook don't have cleavage. The other 50% are doing duck faces instead of smiling. You can't design around some abstract ideal.
It strikes me as being officious to judge a person's actions as "inappropriate" without having the proper context (what their NDA says, what Google considers confidential, etc).
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Exactly. Where are the Farmville, Bejeweled, <insert app X here> updates in this design exercise?

Oh and where are the ads?
Can we use the play descriptions to find corresponding clips on Youtube to reconstruct the entirety of the past 10 years of the league? :)
Just wait until Google, Microsoft and Yahoo all block Free.fr IP blocks until they cut this out.

It's one thing to piss off your competition, but pissing off the people who supply the only reason why you have customers is kind of stupid. Sorry, but if I couldn't get Google I'm switching ISPs tomorrow.
Does it means that C++ compilers which use LLVM can finally be compiled to Javascript ? If so, it's a great news !
Submitter here. I read about this in Haaretz (http://technation.themarker.com/1.1899600) in Hebrew. For the non-Hebrew speakers here, I'll try to explain.

Basically, the app (Windows and rooted Android only currently) uses your computer/phone when idle to share your internet resources with other users of the app, by sharing your bandwidth and using your computer as cache for content. They say this will make your internet faster and more secure (since they encrypt 100% of communication passed by the software). As a Mac user, I cannot verify it. The concept reminded me a bit of SETI, only for your internet communication.

At the same time there is a Firefox/Chrome extension which allows you to circumvent geographical blocking of websites (BBC iPlayer, Hulu, etc.) since they can route the request through an exit node in the country where the service is not blocked. I have tried the plugin to access the BBC iPlayer, which I used to access using a proxy, and it's working great. Definitely faster than using a proxy (free or paid) and definitely cheaper than paid proxy (since it's free). They currently unblock the following websites: Hulu, Netflix, Pandora, BBC iPlayer and ITV Player. You can request more websites using their Facebook page and they say that soon they will allow users to set up unblocking for whichever websites they want.

Edit: formatting.
Is there any product that mimics this one but free software?
To achieve this, I quit using Facebook.
Yes, that's the right idea (assuming it has lower entropy when it's frozen than when it's liquid). In the context of the liquid you describe, and assuming it has otherwise normal properties then yes you can't warm it up (= add energy) and make it positive again. And if you took it outside, the temperature would first become more and more negative and then flip to positive. However, as long as we are talking about exotic stuff it is conceivable that as you add energy, the entropy first decreases (i.e. negative temperature) but if you add more and more energy, the entropy starts to go up again. For example lets say that if you add a lot of energy to the frozen stuff, it becomes a gas. I'm not sure if a system like that where you go from positive to negative to positive is physically possible, but I don't currently see any reason why it wouldn't be.
what about "rent capture" and "fiat risk"?
This is very cool, but it seems to require explicite configuration of each client. I'd like to see something that allows more on-the-fly use, perhaps using tmux or dynamically configuring ssh.
Not hard to get command line switches wrong

http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/145gw8/warning_easy...
This seems like a pretty common mistake among designers. As a matter of fact, Facebook made this same mistake themselves not too long ago. When they release the "cover photo" feature, they showed off how great it looked when applied to a bunch of professional designers' profiles. When normal people started uploading low-res, vertically oriented images, it was instantly clear how silly of an idea the cover photo is.

Facebook seems to acknowledge this since now if you view a person's profile, it automatically scrolls past the cover photo so you don't even see most of it.
Show HN: Holiday project: Send thank you cards from the web
Put this together to make my own "thank you" cards easier to do. Got it done just in time for Christmas.

thankerin.com
Clickable: https://thankerin.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority is still a fallacy, even if you said it a while ago.

If Google wanted to build AGI, we'd hire Eliezer Yudkowsky and Luke Muehlhauser. Kurzweil is an evangelist and a public figure, but do you honestly think he is actually going to design an AGI?

(disclaimer: I work for Google, but this is all my own unofficial opinion.)
I use Zombies Run. The map is cool but the nike+ map which shows your route with speed as a heat map is one small step up.
> I don't understand your terminology

I think you do :) Probably you disagree with the characterization. I don't see why rent capture generally has such a negative connotation outside of finance circles. Its a perfectly legitimate strategy. And who has a larger moat than BNSF or Vestas or SunPower ? Even if you were a Zuckerberg you couldn't build these things in decades. Takes forever just to buy the land, spec out these things & get the specs approved by regulatory bodies. So if you could buy these concerns outright, you would. You would buy, whether it was making solar power or your underwear. ( He owns the largest underwear maker Fruit of the Loom ). Given the asymmetric info advantage he has, he's sold millions of puts expiring in 2019 & is sitting on top of billions in premium ( while simultaneously telling the American public that derivatives are instruments of the devil :) Got to park those assets someplace, otherwise fiat risks accumulate. His stock purchases for 2012 are quite ho-hum...utilities, banks, big media ( http://static.cdn-seekingalpha.com/uploads/2012/12/4/sauploa... )
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For the unblocking/encrypted features of Hola there is Tor, but in my experience it's more complex to install and much slower.
>>> A demo site wouldn't need a scalable infrastructure to show off these ideas.

You can also get actual FB data via API.
Whitey Bulger is on approximately the same plane as Al Capone. Just ask John Connolly, the FBI agent convicted of conspiring with him.
It is a bit worrying, but it's worth noting that this expected future is as much of Yelp's (et al) making as it is Google's. Google Places in its original form was essentially a search interface optimized for places (like the search results of a vanilla Google web search of ten blue links). This original incarnation avoided "subpar results", but Yelp specifically requested that they be removed from these results. Of course Yelp had solid reasons to do so, but from Google's perspective, the choice became one between a subpar interface for Place search and subpar content, the important difference being that meager content can in theory be improved, while a subpar interface will always be so.
Yes, of course, getting out of jail and hiring a lawyer is not the end of the process.
NoScript will take care of that, but it is a pretty big hammer.
Love how it works, possibly a new way to create memes...
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Ok, this is at atomical level, it is possible to increase the energy of the system till you freeze the electrons? What would happen then if the particles are organized at subatomical levels?. And below that? Could it be a way to study matter properties?(in place of the cern way)
Cool! I found it difficult to place the call-out in the right position because a smaller version is showed while dragging.
But isn't that just as fascinating (as long as you know what it means)? I just finished my first college-level physics course a few weeks ago and I'm already fuzzy on the thermodynamics stuff, but the entropy of this gas shouldn't decrease with increasing energy, should it?
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Never has been, never will be.
All art is quite useless
- Oscar Wilde

Perhaps "pointless" or "aimless" might be better than useless, but a useless item can be a item which exists merely to delight the mind/spirit. Of course, internet pedants and other cutting edge point-missers would likely argue that this is in fact itself a use. Such is the way of things.

Maybe "intrinsically motivated" would be a more HN compatible term.
Your last point is a huge problem with the Google+ Android app. I like the normal g+ website, but on the mobile app it assumes that every single post is just a pretty picture. That app is a usability nightmare because they failed to grasp how people actually use social networks (which is strange since the design on the normal website seems to understand this just fine).
This is awesome great work, please do a follow up post on how you built it :).
Sounds like http://www.bytemark.co.uk is exactly what you're after. Highly recommended.
Got fixed.
Why are you concerned? Things we have always known are healthy- vegetables, moderate activity levels, etc- tend to improve your quality of life too.

It isn't like all humans, upon hitting 80, automatically have low quality of life. My grandparents are not as spry as me, but they are always cheerful and probably get out more than I do.
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Are the terms of these contracts public information? And if so, can that be used to give us an understanding of what "interest rate" Warren Buffet is getting on his purchase?
Whether or not Tycho understands your terminology or not, I don't, and I bet a whole bunch of people don't. You use a lot of jargon (not in the negative sense of the word, but in the sense meaning highly specialized vocabulary). Could you actually answer tycho's request?
I don't know exact details about the content delivery process for loading various pages on Facebook, but this doesn't seem to follow the standard they've set at all. It mixes together parts that make up the various content blocks that load asynchronously.

It's really pretty and nice to look at, but it's one of those nightmare designs that didn't get much development thought.
>> but still seem to be a summation of current design trends rather than any sort of innovative new way to display the information

>> I also agree that it looks a lot nicer because of the high-end stock photos.

Exactly. This looks like a first-year design school project for these, and so many other reasons.

This design would fall apart without visually simple photography that tailor fits to the grid. The right way to approach a redesign would be to collect an aggregate of typical facebook photos, and use them as examples.
I'm well aware of FB purity, but if enough people were doing it, FB would learn to embrace it - probably as long as you didn't nix their advertising.
Ask HN: Where can one find random images for testing?
What are some alternatives to placekitten?
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An object with negative temperature is hotter than an object with positive temperature. So it's not possible for the cup of negative temperature liquid to be "cooler" than the ambient temperature of the room. The liquid's temperature will get more and more negative until it flips from negative infinity to positive infinity, and then cool down from there until it equilibrates with the ambient environment.
Yes, but what group of people drinks exactly 1 drink a day?

I'm aware this could be a just-so story I've explained to myself.
As someone that stopped using Facebook shortly after they rolled out the Timeline (ironically after I spent hours setting mine up in Developer mode), I have completely missed posts someone made on my wall, only to have to reply with an apology weeks to months later when I was more thorough.

I think my 'timeline' should be representative of photos I've uploaded, posts I've made that I want to highlight and events I went to. My 'wall' should be a straight-forward top-to-bottom feed of stuff I've posted and stuff people are sharing with me.
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Facebook tests free voice calling in Messenger app
Consider that the alcohol thing isn't necessarily fantastic (in the difficult-to-believe sense). I've noticed that people on good terms with alcohol tend to be cheerful, sociable folks, and it seems to be fairly well established at this point that being relaxed, happy, and sociable are positive factors in both quality of life and longevity.
It's a great work of art from a Silicon Valley marketing perspective since it looks so attractive. It's a design disaster.
Mark Forster's time management systems are interesting. Did you see Autofocus version 4? Of all the ones I've tried, it's the one I like best, though his "Final Version" system has been growing on me the more I try it.

http://markforster.squarespace.com/blog/2009/9/5/preliminary...

There's also a nice "animation" of AF4 in action:
http://autofocus.cc/public/data/af4-demo.pdf
This article significantly misconstrues Buffets investment style. He does invest for value. But he doesn't even think whether a stock has "bottomed in the market price". Predicting when a stock has "bottomed" is not possible as it's dependent on the whims of an irrational market.

The first half of this statement is correct and the second half is completely wrong:
"He only buys when he's sure that an asset is undervalued and is likely to have bottomed in market price."
Pretty chill. I'd use that over HTML any day, and I don't see what technical advantage JSON would really have over this.

And nice touch with the "|", by the way. I really prefer that over ":".
Cover photo a bad idea? Thats a weird thing to say because after facebook made cover photos available twitter got a header cover, then google plus, and even app.net... The cover photo tells a lot about the person
My hunch is that voice recognition and text-to-speech are the least of the concerns that Kurzweil will be dealing with. My guess is that his insights would be more applied to semantic reasoning using massive datasets (i.e., the Web), to build the engine that does the reasoning and answering rather than just the input/output layer.
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One suggestion: A quick check, if Cancel is really what the user wanted or, if the site gets reloaded or the user leaves it by accidentally hitting a bookmark display a notification, that he/she might want to save first.
Sadly, it's often a good idea to preface "Show HN" submissions with this nowadays so that someone else doesn't tell you how useless your project is in the comments thread.
If you haven't seen any evidence of results from him, then you haven't actually been looking. Because his results speak volumes.

For example, the Kurzweil K2000 synthesizer illustrates exactly how he approaches problem solving - brute force - 64 MB of memory in 1991, utterly wretched price/performance ratio but awesome performance if considered on that dimension alone.

And the above is 100% consistent IMO with google's approach to solving problems - throw hundreds of thousands of computers at it. He should make an excellent cultural fit. Because today's ridiculous brute force is tomorrow's low-end cell phone.
Microsoft still doesn't "get" consumers
Instant headache
You can see the pins list at

https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/net/base/tr...

Those are the sites that they're currently able to do it for. :-)

If anyone reading wants to have your own site added to the HSTS preload (or perhaps cert pin) lists, I think the Chromium developers are interested in hearing from you. I know they'll add HSTS preloads for any site, but I don't know for sure whether there's a size or popularity threshold of some sort for a cert pin.
Maybe you'd be willing to empathize with me, then? :) The business I work for lives off ads, and is actually a good business and supplies a lot of fun to millions of people a day. And as far as paying customers, most of our userbase are kids, so that's not going to work very well.

Also we are a global site and get a good deal of traffic from overseas, so this French ISP is actually affecting our business (it's not going to get anyone laid off though).

Just something to think about -- the internet is working relatively smoothly as it is. Playing around with the basics like this will have more effect than you may realize.
You don't have to be on social media to reap its benefits
Rent capture: landlords collect rent on the house they own the right to. Similarly, lets say the government or any contracts grants some body special privileges, the money they earn on those privileges in excess of what they would have otherwise is a rent capture. EG: lawyers get more money because only they are allowed to do certain legal work. The rate they collect in excess of what someone unlicensed but qualified would charge is a rent capture (rent seeking activity?[0]).

Fiat risk: inflation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
Eh, I'd tend to agree with you in general, and that was probably the weaker of my arguments, but the recipient list is pretty impressive: Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, Gates, Jobs, Wozniak, David Packard, etc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Medal_of_Technology

It's definitely not a Cracker Jack prize.

He's also racked up a pretty impressive list of Inventor of the Year and Lifetime Achievement awards from more technically astute sources like MIT, Carnegie Mellon, etc..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_kurzweil - under Recognition and awards

I guess the main point I was trying to make is that he's definitely not this dilettante interloper that some of the more off-base commenters are alleging here.
Maybe it's the way I've got my Facebook setup but I always get a notification on Facebook when someone posts to my wall, so there is no chance of missing it.
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Both flickr and google image search can be made to return only CC-licensed SFW images.
Maybe I'm using the term "accounting" a bit loosely. It's not the accountants job to monitor day-to-day cashflow, that's more a bookkeeper's or manager's job. If they're crooked, it's a bit harder to catch (especially if they are able to offset cash losses with by opening secret a line of credit with a supplier).
too much going on...need to simplify it!
Doesn't this violate the spirit (if not the letter) of net-neutrality principles?
This is something I was thinking about last night, prompted by the recent resurgence in awareness of government wiretapping and some of the responses of "use SSL everywhere so it's not a problem."

Does anything prevent a government from privately coercing a CA into issuing certificates that enable a MITM attack?

It may be that the difficulty of getting a gag order for a CA could be greater than the difficulty of obtaining a warrant on the destination, unless the destination is foreign--but it still sounds feasible for a government to do.

Am I off base about that?
Lucky you! I am an experienced developer who really wants to do the whole startup journey. I am confident in my development skills, but ideas are something that escape me!
Adblock can do them too! You can either add them manually or subscribe to a filter that has them all already - I use "Fanboy's Annoyance List".
No honestly I just wasn't sure I fully understood what you were saying. I wouldn't ask you an insincere question.