skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Certainly in the UK, it's a defence to use a trade mark in good faith in a descriptive manner. I think this would be a solid defence in this case as the usage is merely describing the character (I assume).

Of course the problem is internet intermediaries who are not interested in the nuances of trade mark law.

In the first instance, I would look to appeal the Amazon decision on the basis of good faith descriptive usage. I'm not sure how much mileage there would be on this due to the general lack of interest mentioned above but worth a try all the same. If it is indeed Amazon UK where the complaint has been lodged I'd be happy to look into the matter further.

In terms of an obligation to defend a trade mark, this is a narrower obligation than is being cast elsewhere in the thread. My understanding is that if you do not enforce in relation to a specific use, you will be deemed to have acquiesced in that specific usage.

It is not the case that failing to take action against all allegedly infringing uses will result in revocation of the mark. You just may not be able to take action in the future against the same offender or offenders within the same bracket.
Business Intelligence users - kills and needs
It's almost like you're describing the dichotomy between military officers and civilian federal government jobs, where somebody can chill in a GS-13 position for 20 years and then retire.
The problem with telling a joke is that if it isn't funny you look like an asshole.
FatFractal supports many many to many many relationships
Preserving a Pair Programming Culture
fact that serves as conclusive evidence of a crime or similar act...

The fact that I'm asserting is that men do not suffer these kinds of attacks suggest the individual was motivated by sexism. I can't say anymore other than to say that you are wrong. I don't think it means what you clearly think it means. Sorry, no snark intended.
well, I meant the military as an example, it's interesting that you bring up evaluation of fitness during peace vs. war time.

One could argue that the U.S. military in particular has had a tremendous opportunity this last decade or so to conduct exactly the kind of wartime evaluation you're talking about. But I wonder if the evaluation metrics are optimized towards peace-time?
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No, release it. It's true that some people would rather write their own thing from scratch but you'll be surprised, many are not shy about forking. The worst thing that can happen is your project is ignored, so please release.
I guess I don't have enough Karma to know how much moderation I could get in HN -- thought it was limited to downvoting. In SO, it gets quite thorough and you also get prompted to do some moderation (approve edits, etc).
I hold my phone (iPhone) in my left hand and it goes in my left front pocket when I'm done using it. Even though I'm right handed, this has always felt natural to me.

My left hand has enough dexterity that navigating menus and scrolling is never a big problem and it frees me up to occasionally do something with my right hand at the same time like write something down.
Pirate Bay Promos Unblocked in Finland, With Music Industry Blessing
Basically, there is no way to keep children from accessing adult content on the internet. No software or age-restricted registration system will absolve parents of their responsibility to directly monitor and if needed personally restrict their children's access as appropriate to their age and maturity.
Great response. At RailsGirls PDX they asked how everyone had found out about the event. I'd found out through a female dev mailing list I'm a part of, but I was really happy to learn that many - if not most - of them had been encouraged by male co-workers, friends and significant others who knew the girl had an interest in dev or just tech, but were intimidated (even by other female developers) and thus didn't take part in existing communities.
I wish there was a Kickstarter like non-profit organization whose focus was finding and defending worthy cases like this. People/organizations submit their situation and do the work of raising awareness and collecting pledges, the organization uses the money to oversee the actual legal case and pay the attorneys, ideally a network of folks who would be willing to consider defending said cases at a reduced or pro-bono rate when possible. Might even out the David-and-Goliath odds of corporation vs. small business/individual.
There is a neural net example benchmark in the topaz git repo. Don't know how representative that example is, but at least
startup time shouldn't be dominating the results...

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.9.3p194 (2012-04-20 revision 35410) [x86_64-darwin11.3.0]
$ ruby bench_neural_net.rb
ruby bench_neural_net.rb 17,74s user 0,02s system 99% cpu 17,771 total

$ bin/topaz bench_neural_net.rb
bin/topaz bench_neural_net.rb 3,43s user 0,03s system 99% cpu 3,466 total
Awesome.

But this is not really related to experience.

It is more related to generalist vs specialist.

Granted, specialists rarely are unexperienced, a guy to be a master at something, must do that something a lot.

But nothing prevents your startup from finding the specialist that you need, inexperienced.

Neither finding a generalist for your early development issues, when you are still pivoting around, experienced!

In general, the more experience the better, what matters is finding the best guy for what you need, and early you lean toward generalists, later toward specialists, you might find in both cases great inexperienced people, and poor experienced people, but usually the more experience, the better a person is at whatever it do.
In production server apps the JVM always running anyway, and under some degree of Hotspot optimization, so for a JRuby benchmark to be informative and worth anything to you, you'll want to account for that.
Does probability come from quantum physics?
> Still, despite the fact that a Starbucks venti coffee has
> three times as much listed caffeine as a can of Monster,
> some people swear they're more wired after drinking an
> energy drink.

Sugar?
Taco Tuesdays. (wasting time vs building culture)
You could use EL wires [0] for a light made into a word.

[0] https://www.sparkfun.com/search/results?term=el+wire&wha...
Well, their stated goal is a 1:1 ratio of men to women. While their actual result of a 40/60 men to women ratio is closer to their goal than their estimated 85/15 ratio, they still didn't reach it.

If having a predominately male crowd at a hackathon is a bad thing, doesn't it also follow that having a predominately female crowd is bad as well?

N.B.: I wouldn't call 40/60 predominate, so to me, it seems like their methods were nearly good enough.
I'm getting "Webpage not available" - the DNS lookup is failing, apparently

Verified here: http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/getlemonade.com
>I too thought I was indispensable, but the company you have in your head can be very different from the managers'.

This is an important observation.

I'd wager a manager who doesn't recognize the way he/she is allowing if not creating a dysfunctional workplace doesn't recognize how/what makes it work in the first place.

The only thing that's indispensable to shitty managers is their own power/security.
Ask @iamwarry on Twitter - Maxime Dantec did the site design. Talented fellow.
Price Is What You Pay, Value Is What You Get
Go maps in action
From my years of meeting, talking, and working with business people, I've learned that those who stand in the shoulders of others end up being more successful. No need to learn everything directly. You can hire someone more experienced who can teach a lot you while reducing the amount of time spent learning. That's why it boggles my mind when startups pay top dollar for programmers, but cheap out on business talent. Stupid mistake.
Actually every job I've left voluntarily I've left because it was at a shitty company whose policies made my job uncomfortable.

Most of the time my manager and my manager's manager are just doing what they've been told because they're not allowed to do anything else.
It's gonna be tough on the batteries. If you want any sort of decent battery life, the charge current must be pretty small - at least compared to the max discharge current.
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Sugar has been proven not to induce hyperactivity, it's a common misconception.

http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/2012/10/31/debunking-a-hallowe...
For what it's worth, the mistakes that happened were completely on our end (actually I take full responsibility as they were under my watch). Zuora was nothing but amazing in supporting us to get us back to health. Luckily, thanks to Zuora and my team, we were able to get things going great. And the team (even post-acquisition) still uses Zuora to this day.
The artist and the machine
Hmm, why do you think that it's ruining the Internet?
what is your 'ruby'?
Left handed Android user.

hold to talk: left hand

operate 1 handed: left hand

operate 2 handed: right hand holds, left hand drives

stored in right front pocket. (keys and money clip incumbent in left front)

I wonder if mouse use in the right hand has any impact on left hand use?
I'm going to be the jerk that says using yoga and pedicures as a means to bring women in might actually be more alienating than welcoming to many of us. I have no interest in any of those activities intermingling, and I think it sends a message that we need to "genderize" things to make them relevant or appealing. Now, even though I'm theoretically being targeted, I feel even more like the odd [wo]man out.

Sell me on the fact that I'll be leaving with a product I want to make - something generic like a blog or a store or a social media site. Sell me on the fact that I will be able to know how to design it, maintain it and expand on it by graduation. Sell me on the fact that I'm also going to be around total novices and where gender ratios are equaled out. Show me success stories of men and women alike.

Everyone has ambitions and dreams. Not everyone wants to do poses and color their nails.
I came to ask the exact same question.

Edit: I have a couple Android Mini PC devices. I wonder if I could do the same or similar with those somehow.
http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v... is probably the best example, because — as far as I know — outside of having reimplemented his Converge in RPython Laurence Tratt is not affiliated with the pypy project in any way, shape or form.
90% of the xp->vista compatibility issues stem from not running default as administrator.
If there were another directory like "Program Aardvarks", then the DOS names wouldn't necessarily be PROGRA~1 and PROGRA~2
I'm not sure about gestures (can they be done with one hand?) but the unified inbox ("hub") sounds like a fantastic idea.

I don't understand why I can't see all messages from all my email accounts in one window, together with voice messages and texts (Tweets may be a little overwhelming, but they can be filtered out).

This really sounds great -- although it's probably not hard to replicate on another platform.
openbsd devs have the same thing called ciphertite except they have source review and you keep the key it can't be used by the corp to sell you out. didn't see any info about who controls keys
Freelancer.com: Crazy or Evil?
(Sorry, I have to rant, even if no one will read it.)

I am one of the people running a med-tech blog Medgadget. We are not developers, we are in medicine, so we needed to hire someone for a WordPress job. So, we went back to our account on ScriptLance, only to discover that it was bought by Freelancer.com. (We used SL for 20+ hiring projects before, with no
probs.) So we created a new project, and after we offered a generous budget, we had more than 20 bids.

We hired a developer NovaStudios, who advertises as being US-based, has good ratings. To make a long story short, all work done by NovaStudios was from overseas. During the first 2 weeks, we paid NovaStudios 75% of the $1250 budget (mistake). Then things degenerated. The site crashed, the developer was gone. We restored the site from DB. Then the developer reappeared, then disappeared. And so on. Nothing was ever delivered. After 3 months, we filed a dispute, to abort the project and get our remaining 25% of money back.

Here's the crazy part. On Freelancer.com, the developer can return the money and himself close the project. And that is even though it was my project, and I paid for it! So, he returned the $250 from the escrow, closed the project, and I couldn't even leave feedback!

My multiple emails with Freelancer to get an opportunity to leave feedback were unsuccessful. See this:

http://medgadgetenglish.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads//2013/02/View-Ticket_-SED-989-67810-.pdf

2 Lessons.

1. Don't use Freelancer.com if you need a developer. Freelancer.com will provide you with no protection.

2. The system is prone to abuse by developers. They can get on many projects, and after 1st payment, they return the escrow money, close the project, and their reputation is protected. Their identity is probably protected as well (Freelancer.com is based in Australia/Singapore).

P.S. A Kicker. Our site was hacked just days after all this.
Wouldn't they really be called something else entirely?

The term marine implies a soldier who specialises in sea based warfare or deploying from sea.
You would generally want to "change the ratio" of something if you felt there was untapped potential or interest that wasn't being expressed, often due to some systematic or structural barrier.

As an example, I can tell you, I go to a lot of startup events and they are often centered around activities like ping pong or beer drinking. I know many women interested in entrepreneurship and try to get them to go with me, but they tell me they don't like ping pong or would feel uncomfortable. And, at the events themselves, there are typically only one or two women who actually came.

Changing the ratio would involve creating an atmosphere that would encourage women who already have an interest to act on it and thus be better represented.
In the US, consumers buy scarcity. They want to have the thing that no one else in the US has. They want whatever they aren't allowed to have. So smart companies release their products in every other country first, then they save their US release for last. The longer they torture US consumers with not having the product everyone else has the higher their initial sales when they finally drop the product. Smart companies also create artificial scarcity by releasing their product in waves. If Americans think they might not be able to get the product because it will be sold out tomorrow they'll buy it today instead of waiting.
The Existential Threat to Dell: Chromebooks
I'm probably in the minority but I would love to see a dialect of ruby that has significant whitespace. Death to unnecessary 'end's
Funny, I had a copy of this on my wall as a kid, 20+ years ago. I reread it today, and the words are still ones worth living by.
$ time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
The program 'ruby' can be found in the following packages:
* ruby1.8
* ruby1.9.1
Ask your administrator to install one of them

real	0m0.060s
user	0m0.040s
sys	0m0.016s
- Converge | http://tratt.net/laurie/tech_articles/articles/fast_enough_v...
> Certainly in the UK, it's a defence to use a trade mark in good faith in a descriptive manner.

Using it in a descriptive manner is something like:

"I have here for sale two boxes of Kleenex tissues and one box of Band-Aid bandages and one Warhammer 40K rulebook."

You are not infringing any trademarks, even though you are using the trademark in commerce, because you do in fact have those things (as created by the original maker, and resold by you). You are using the trademark to describe goods, not to indicate that you are the original producer of said goods.

The usage here is entirely different. She is not claiming anything about any actual Warhammer 40K merchandise. You're right that the trademark claim is crap, but not for this reason.
When you write CLI apps in .NET, for example, handling paths with spaces is a mess (argv splits on " ", even if you wrap arguments in quotes, so "C:\Program Files (x86)" is seen as 3 tokens.
You should record it through the HN rush.
You should make this a blog post and submit it.
Topaz does not, and that's not its point, but technically since RPython is still Python Topaz is indeed a Ruby interpreter in Python. Although a very slow one. Hence the final two lines of the readme:

> To run Topaz directly on top of Python you can do:

> $ python -m topaz /path/to/file.rb
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Energy drinks like Red Bull or Monster are also sweetened. Consuming sugar is going to raise your heart rate...
Last I checked, you could also scan paper into Evernote. Sending emails to the person in the meeting will still work, even if they have pen and paper with them.
kudos for the description and especially for the links, great for giving me a feeling of its "mindview"
The sci fi tradition of calling a fleet of combat starships a "navy" leads to the soldiers who deploy from those ships being called "marines". It makes a certain kind of sense.
I'm not surprised - firmware for ethernet controllers have grown quite complex, with the addition of new features that allow the hardware to do more work on behalf of the kernel.

Could this be a bug in the code of the EEPROM that handles TCP offloading, or one of the other hardware features that are now becoming more common? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_offload_engine)
Agreed, but 95% of the time I'm hooked into an external monitor/keyboard etc. When I unplug, I prefer mobility over productivity but it's obviously a very fine line. For example, I must be able to type at 80% of top speed, and I need to be able to use a text editor like Sublime Text 2. I wouldn't expect to use Visual Studio necessarily.
If you start at Google at a lower level (SWE 2 or SWE 3) your manager can unilaterally shut you down. If you get a bad "calibration score", which is set quarterly by the manager, peer feedback won't matter. No other team will want you, and you may face a PIP, which ends your career even if it doesn't get you fired.

Thus, your manager decides if you have 20% time or not.

There are good managers at Google who value 20% time and will encourage you to work cross-hierarchically with other teams or on personal side projects, and there are others who are absentee so you can pull that off furtively. If you get a hard-ass with a lot of project-specific ambition, you're not going to get away with 20% time.

Google inadvertently makes it worse by conflating project leadership with people management, which means that your boss is also held responsible for the performance of a specific project. That creates a huge conflict of interest, because the employee might be a better fit for another project, but the manager has to eat a loss on the project where he is.
Anyone Up for a Friendly Text-mode AI Competition?
about a year ago i mentioned my irc bot "watson" that plays trivia. one thing it didn't do was spur other people making similar bots to try and improve on low fidelity AI.

i'm pondering announcing an open, bot-focused irc channel to play trivia to encourage people to bring their watson-like creations in and compete in trivia games.

thoughts? would you participate?

basically my thinking is welcome bots (and people, too, if they want) and have a month long tourney. some simple rules, like no disrupting other bots, no disrupting the channel and no hacking the brainiac bot are some common sense ground rules. beyond that ... well, if you can figure out the answer to the questions fairly and squarely and win more games than another bot then why not?﻿
MI5 to install 'black box' spy devices to monitor UK Internet traffic
tl;dr: don't let strangers borrow your phone
everyone here is hatin; this is a rap genius idea and shows great initiative on your part to demonstrate tangible benefits you can immediately bring to the team.

Would be extremely disappointed if the Rap Genius team didn't follow up with you on this
The same, as far as I've seen. RPython is both the VM-framework and the Python subset which exists within (and for) that framework (RPython is not considered and developed as a general purpose language, but as a language for building VMs within the RPython system/framework/toolset).

The important distinction really is between RPython (a language and framework for building virtual machines) and PyPy (a virtual machine implemented in/on RPython)
RSpec Shared Examples and Ruby Metaprogramming
The emails didn't affect everyone, just a few dozen thousand. No biggie.
On Moving to the NYC Tech Scene
I got my Z10 yesterday and I can confirm that the phone (and all the gestures) are completely usable with just one hand.
The phone size was selected pretty intelligently. I don't think the UI design would have worked with a bigger phone.
Well, I bookmarked it, so I'm good right?
Usually a "senior" officer needs some command experience to make it beyond O-6. I know the Navy in particular, attaches qualifications to certain positions which would make it hard for yes-men to get promoted, even if they're on the CNO staff. For example, a CVN Carrier skipper, has to command a smaller ship, and be nuclear qualified, and usually a tour as carrier XO, before they get their command.

For the medical corps, above O-6, they usually have commanded at least one smaller facility, before they get an administrative flag assignment. More than a few have flamed-out at O-5 and O-6 commands.

In a carrier squadron, being XO or CO is preceded by being a department head. Maintenance department is a good one to get a command, but there are other departments.

The Army Medical Command had the problem with senior staff, where they were a large number of senior officers, O-8/O-9, involved in the Walter Reed scandal in 2007, were either fired or retired. Covering over issues with memos and paperwork up the chain-of-command by "yes men" didn't cut it.
IT this morning suggested that it was "probably worse than Bedlam". Haven't seen any shirts yet though.
I'm assuming that you have multiple (throw-away)-facebook accounts? Because you don't give a site that you don't know has any value access to your facebook account? Right?
PHIL ZIMMERMANN WANTS TO SAVE YOU FROM Your PHONE
It's a tough problem. You really want to be able to take advantage of the tail of contributors -- the people who use one particular product, use it a lot, but have never filed bug reports for other products. I do think a stackoverflow-type solution would be worth a shot -- if you post a good bug report, it will be hopefully easy for people to understand or replicate and will get voted up, without requiring previous posts on your part. That's if you have a "crowd" actually willing to look at these things (might work for Chrome, not sure about small projects).
Python Keyczar Now Available on PyPi
No where to hide: What drones won't see, black boxes will.
Intruiging.

Intel 82574L ethernet controller looks to be popular too. Intel, Supermicro, Tyan and Asus use it on multiple current motherboards and Asus notably on their WS (Workstation) variants of consumer motherboards, e.g. the Asus P8Z77 WS (socket LGA 1155) and Asus Z9PE-D8 WS (dual CPU, socket LGA 2011).
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