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On the legality of terminator-seeds:

>Initially developed as a concept by the United States Department of Agriculture and multinational seed companies, Terminator seeds have not been commercialized anywhere in the world due to opposition from farmers, indigenous peoples, NGOs, and some governments. In 2000, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity recommended a de facto moratorium on field-testing and commercial sale of terminator seeds; the moratorium was re-affirmed in 2006. India and Brazil have passed national laws to prohibit the technology. [1]

How binding is a moratorium? I have no clue.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_use_restriction_technol...
I clicked the picture of bacon at the bottom of the article hoping to see a massively blown up photo of a pile of greasy bacon, and was actually redirected to the app!

I would be interested to see click-through data on that... :)
Ok that's good.

From a business perspective can you scale that approach? I would imagine it takes a fair amount of effort and time on your part. Are you planning to get community involvement in the vetting process?
What if Game of Thrones were a 1984 miniseries?
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I agree! I am not sure why they have yet to learn from the past.
I was going to say 'what about online banks, they're free', but realized that that requires a computer, internet connection, and tech literacy. Things more likely to be lacking amongst the disadvantaged.
Surely this would be acceptable as satire on his part?
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Was this Tweet the only one made @United from the account before it was blocked, or were there others?

https://twitter.com/PublikDemand/status/309093527697104898

If that's the only one, that's very surprising. It doesn't seem like the sort of thing that would spur an instant block, even from an overprotective overzealous social media rep.
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Did you catch Jonathan Borwein's talk?
They were most likely upset that I called their emergency press line in order to get the mother help. After I gave United the contact information for the mother they refused to talk to me further. They blocked us the next morning.
If their crops are producing unlicensed copies of themselves, shouldn't Monsanto be suing the crops?
I also tweeted at the from my @CourtneyPowell account on Twitter.
It's definitely safe to adjust pricing after launch, even for subscription products. The key is to grandfather users in at their current rate if you are raising prices, and to charge them less if you are lowering prices.

You can probably even do a direct A/B test on price if you want, although you have to be careful and considerate if you do so.
Am I the only one who just wants a list of updated articles and possibly an unread count? I don't want social in my RSS. I don't want to "discover" feeds. I don't want to be told what to read. I don't want to follow people.

For me, the whole point of RSS is that I find a site I like, I add it to my list, and I'm told when there's a new article.

I've tried several alternatives in the last 24 hours, and most of them ignore my actual feeds and give me a whole lot of machine learned articles I couldn't care less about.

It's not always the topic that's interesting, it's the writing style, or some kind of imaginary connection I've made with the site or author.

If I want to 'discover' articles, I'll browse HN or Reddit. If it's something I think I'll want to keep updated about, that's when I add it to my RSS.
For me, I have no problem running my own contacts/calendar server with calDAV/cardDAV support. I really hate running email servers though - and it's really nice to have your contacts and calendars integrated with your webmail.
Based solely on what seems to be a technological advantage to those who desire content to be un-DRMed, I'd say that scenario is very unlikely. At least not without an extensive world-wide police state enforcing it.
Besides the style of what corresation wrote, it would be a really good idea to answer why you think he is completely off.
Because to me, who doesn't know Marco Arment at all, he sounds kinda spot on. And he did indeed write what corresatiion quoted [1]. So in case he is completely nuts, just downvoting this makes it seem that Marco is indeed "funneling his minions in here" to the casual observer.

[1] http://www.marco.org/2013/03/09/google-webm-infringement
much ado about nothing: if f is a linear function and g a non-linear one, it is not surprising at all that f(g) != g(f)
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If Samsung intended to generate headlines like this, which they probably did, they have certainly succeeded.
Interesting. It would probably be seen as a Proto Indo-European root rather than anything else. They were the folks tottering about Central Asia at the dawn of history. There's an amusing bit of video about them at the start of the BBC's History of India series, featuring a crazed Russian archaeologist who has been career-excavating early sites in Uzbekistan, and the neverending human quest for intoxication!
I use Kerio (which is available either hosted or you can do what I do and self host). I'm technically a reseller, although I've never sold their hosted product. I think pricing is lower than Google Apps for Business, but who cares within a factor of 2 or so?

It's exchange/activesync. Works great.
Not a surprise: a mega-corporation fucking you over. A sad, sad surprise: parents negligent, downright stupid, and naive enough to trust their 11 year old child with a mega-corporation for $150.
I agree that people usually think of Monsanto suits in conjunction with plant patents, but the point that the article raises is valid. How can one tell? If you can tell, don't we all owe money to the heirs of whoever invented corn, and whoever invented wheat? After all, copying is theft...
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It seems like there's an opportunity for someone to package technology for this audience in an easy-to-use way. I forget were, although I saw it somewhere, that someone packaged an ipad, a sqaure, and a receipt printer together as a bundle, I think that may work here as well.
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It's remarkable how differently adapted our learning mechanisms are. If you gave me the choice between one page of math symbols and ten pages of English prose, I'd take the prose and call it a bargain.
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I got my MS about twenty years after my BS. The primary value I got was a fresh appreciation of the "science" in Computer Science. I went in planning to focus on software engineering and bioinformatics; two very practical offshoots from my professional career. What happened instead was I fell in love with theory -- automata, theory of computation, and graph theory in particular. I don't know if my MS has been particularly influential in causing companies to consider or hire me, but it has certainly deepened my appreciation for what I do professionally, and it also influences the topics I pursue personally.
What direction do you think I should go? I played around with some Django, rewrote some of my stuff in Flask with SQLAlchemy. Bit JavaScript, bit CoffeeScript (gave up on that one, don't like it). Used SASS. A bit backbone.js (thought about writing apps, never came up with a good idea). Handlebar.js and Jinja2 in the mix.
One could swear to never fly United, if one hadn't already done so for American. Airlines have the worst customer service of any industry. Their horror stories are actual horror stories.
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Re: the question on scaling. Our system is built to allows companies to simply respond to complaints we automatically share with them via Twitter. We then send the company's response back to the user receive that response via SMS so the conversation can be continued without our involvement, although we retain the conversation data privately on our site. This removes us from the typical dialog we see on the majority of complaints. I only personally get involved when we see something of an emergent nature.
I'm somewhat surprised that the regulators are not cracking down on these incidents. This is not the first time we've heard of kids being stranded and not getting the chaperone that parents paid for. Refunding the chaperone fee is a bit like choosing to refund the cost of insurance rather than pay a claim -- the fee is far more expensive than the usual value of the services, and it's only paid to protected against unusual situations like a flight rerouted.

This is a bit like a hosting company offering a 24/7 support hotline for a monthly fee but never staffing it, and only refunding it when people complain after failing to get through to the support hotline.
There's actually a "We The People" petition on this: "Force companies to change language from "buying" to "licensing" when dealing with DRM-restricted goods." https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/force-companies-ch...

Before you derisively dismiss this, you might want to take a look at their response to the cellphone unlocking petition: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/make-unlocking-cel...
Airlines need to start charging enough for their child chaperone service to operate it with the level of care and communication required. $150 seems low for a high touch personal service with brand/life-threatening failure modes.
Again, the use of senones instead of monophones or diphones is just changing the output targets is not a novelty per sé.
No, not really actually. They went to several carriers and Cingular was the only one that would deal with what apple wanted, and that was reluctant.

Google could have pushed harder, but they miscalculated.
For people with lots of savings, the general liability policy that comes attached to homeowners or renters is probably a good idea.
I propose a solution to this and all related problems. It is a law that every legal entity in the United States must maintain a public, permanent record of any and all complaints against it. They may choose to publish individual responses, but this is not required.

This would solve the problem of aggregating complaints. The first line of defense of a large entity is information asymmetry: they isolate the customer, make them feel like their problem is unique, or that it's no big deal, no-one else cares, etc. In this case, United (correctly) realized that PublikDemand's twitter account was successfully serving as a de facto complaint database, and acted to remove it.

Knowledge of other customer's complaints is a powerful weapon for any customer with a problem. It tells them that they are not alone, that the company has a problem, and opens the possibility of combining forces to take action against the company: the cost-burden of legal action against the company can be shared between plaintiffs, a kind of psuedo class action suit.

As it stands, only the most sensational horror stories are seen, and they are not reported in a way that is easily searchable or usable for the next customer that is abused and whose abuse is buried by information asymmetry.
Part of me feels bad for United here.

They're bound to make some mistakes when flying millions of people around the planet every day. But thanks to social media, all it takes is one of those mistakes to turn into a viral blog post -- and now you've got a PR crisis.

Not defending United or saying they didn't screw up. They did. But dang it, as an entrepreneur, that business seems really f'ing complex and I feel for them.
And now Continental's just as bad. Almost makes me want to move to Singapore.
I was pretty pissed looking for an apartment in LA where every sign had a QR code for you to get the apartment info. I think by you doing this they suckered you into creating an account and/or paying for it. I have no idea how to scan a QR code. I think I searched once in the android store, downloaded an app and it didn't work. They're basically just glorified short urls which doesn't interest me (gratuitous use of technology much?). The cool application I see is to actually transfer real data, but not too many people do that.
This sounds much like my family's experience with United as well. I will never patronize them again in my life. Blocking on Twitter is taking it to a whole new level.
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Looks very cool! Sharing features look better than the original google reader, before they removed them. Have you added yourself to these comparison lists going around?
This isn't how you go about finding which is the best. This is how you go about finding which is the most popular.

Voting is inherently skewed towards popularity, which is not always correlated with quality.

From the headline, I had assumed you spent all night learning the ins and outs of every option and were going to present your findings. I was disappointed to find this was just a poll.
Like I said, if you want to argue that there is no possible validity to a plant patent, that's something I'm not prepared to litigate. I'm just saying that accidentally planting a RR plant in your garden or even your commercial farm probably won't get you in legal trouble, because you aren't going to spray them with glyphosphate.
Here's the HN thread on an earlier, equally egregious error on the part of United. This one also involves United taking money for their chaperone service and then failing to follow through.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4379599
How are you guys processing the tweets to show the results? Would love to know more about that.
Christian, I am going to be blunt with you. All of us giving advise is not going to help you. You are going to feel good about for a day or two - you asked for advice and that's the first step to solve problems. But you won't be taking any action. You are there thinking I am trying to solve my problems, but you aren't. (been there, done that)

The only way you can change is to change yourself - discipline yourself. Change your routine. Change your diet.

1) Why don't you have more friends?
2) Why don't you have an idea about 'working'? Have you never worked before? Why?
3) Why think about a girl who judges you based on your current situation rather than the person you are?

I am not sure if I should apologize, but if I were beside you, I would ask you something similar to 'shake' your current thought process.

Fellow HNers: I am genuinely curious to know - what's the relation between living between parents and failure? Why are people living with their parents associated with failure? What if I work a decent job and earn well, but live with my parents?

In the 'east' - mostly asia, it's not looked down upon if you live with your parents. From what I hear from friends, it's similar in Russia and parts of eastern Europe too.
It has nothing to do with children, that merely makes the underlying behavior more obvious.

It's the difference between treating customers like cattle and like human beings. It's the difference between a company that assumes it is entitled to the business of its customers and one that believes it has to earn it. Sadly there are far too many of the first category.
Surely they were depending on representations by the Japanese companies they were fronting for. Although as we've seen in the anime market, those, at least implicit ones, can be very iffy (Pioneer/Geneon, Bandai).
Absolutely 100% spot on. Amen!
That's a good question. Ultimately, it all comes down to you, but as mentioned by the other commenters, the double ending 'n' (which is uncommon in English, as far as I know) and the fact that there's an established OSS project with a very similar name would make sure that people don't talk about your project as the "Hugin with two n's" or the "Huginn that's not the photography thing." Google will also helpfully redirect queries for "huginn download" to the other project[3], though that's probably because your project doesn't have many links to it yet.

That being said, they're not in a related area, so I doubt anyone would be excessively confused between both, as opposed to say, Go[1] and Go![2].

What I'd do, personally, is try to find another name and only keep the current project name if I can't find a better one that's not already taken. It makes it easier to rank well on Google and is less likely that someone will apt-get the wrong project.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=huginn+download
It's more like it's a circle of both fifths and fourths, in both directions.

For example, C-G is a fifth if you go up, or a fourth if you go down. C-F is a fourth if you go up, or a fifth if you go down. So it can be a circle of fourths clockwise or counterclockwise.
I feel bad for the person who's going to have to defend United as a company. I don't feel as bad for the several people who are going to get fired over this.
It is a complex business but this error wasn't caused by complexity. It was caused by a combination of dreadful management, low quality standards and bad reporting.

There are so many examples of people being badly treated by United that as awful as this story is, it's probably also acting as a nucleation point for the general anger and disappointment they have created.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Breaks_Guitars
What is this hysterical nonsense? Fine, UA should have called the mother to let her know what was going on. Someone screwed up. But they obviously went to a lot of effort to take care of the kid, putting her up in a hotel to wait for the next flight, with a UA employee of the same sex chaperoning her.

The case was seized upon by what appears to be a professionally outraged busybody trying to "monetize" shrill complaints against big companies, and they get banned. So what?

I am no fan of UA but this is a storm in a teacup. The mother should just chill out, and "PublikDemand" should learn that a kid not talking to her mother for a couple of hours does not constitute a national emergency.

edit: Just read the "complaint". http://www.publikdemand.com/blog/letter-to-united-ceo-jeff-s...

I feel sorry for the kid, yes - because of her irrationally overprotective mother. And the exaggerations amount to lies in my book - at no point was the child "stranded", nor made to stay with an actual stranger. One wonders, if "strangers" are so inherently evil, what the mother was doing sending her precious little angel onto an entire plane full of strangers. Stranding her on the plane, even!

Yeah, UA could have done better, but it's not like the kid is dead, for fuck's sake. Can we have some perspective please?
I might feel some small smidgin' of sympathy if it weren't for (1) the fact that this isn't the first story like this and (2) they charge money to chaperon a minor and simply did not do it.
This is a difficult problem to solve, one that we have been working on for a while at PublikDemand. We have hoards of people with the same complaint against a company and are trying how to best unite them and allow them use the collective voice to demand change.
This sucks and United should really get a bunch of bad PR over it, but the real message that I'm taking away is: don't trust a %$&*#! airline company with your kids. I barely trust them with my suitcase.
I feel like this is the norm with airlines these days. They're saving pennies, pushing customers around, delaying almost every flight... It's hard to justify flying for small trips.
I didn't go straight from undergrad, took a few years off to work in various places, then started a master's degree in CS/math. The first year was mostly coursework (some were good, most were meh) and a bit of probing to find interesting fields for research. Unlike undergrad, some courses you take in graduate school are incredibly specific and cover whatever material the professor has been researching lately. The second year is typically more focused on doing research - you find an advisor and start diving deep into some specific problem. Though, the exact schedule can change from place to place.

I'm really enjoying myself and continued to a direct PhD track. It's the best job I've ever had. The work is interesting and the freedom is amazing. Your milage may vary.

I'm not sure what is the "value" of a master's degree is. It certainly looks good on a CV and might help you get a higher rank at some megacorp. Google for example is known to be very fond of advanced degrees. If you want to make software for a living I don't think it matters an awful lot. Particularly in the smaller companies and startups. Taking advanced courses will teach you some new tricks and acquaint you with fields you've never even heard of. You'll probably relearn some things from undergrad and understand the better. But the main point in a master's degree is to get a taste of academic research and see if you like it or not. There are a lot of interesting fields in CS and doing research in most of them is entirely different than being a professional programmer.

My recommendations to you, if you think you might be interested in research:
1. Try to get into a very good university (e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Turing_Award_laureates_...). No point in doing an advanced degree at a mediocre school. Some of those places only offer PhD programs, but you can leave in the middle and get a master's degree.

2. If you have a specific field that interests you, try finding a school with several professors working in that field. You'll have more options that way.

3. Don't do it if you're burned out! You can get a job instead. If you like learning and solving difficult problems, after 1-2 years you'll probably get that itch again.

4. In my experience 2-3 months of travel is enough to completely recuperate from any feelings of burnout and to start getting excited about "regular" life again. This shouldn't cost more than a few thousand dollars if you fly to somewhere far and cheap.
I couldn't find this bit about the airport and the same-sex chaperone in the article... The only relevant bit was:

"The little girl ended up staying ten hours, overnight, at the Denver International Airport before being rerouted through Houston."

Did they in fact put the child in a hotel with a chaperon? That might sway my opinion a bit.
I wonder if this could be applied to writing programs. You can't really keep the word count metric for programming, but you could go for total size of a solution (functions, modules, time from first commit to last commit, etc).
On the other hand, I think that a prefix notation more closely resembles the way natural languages are spoken in the aforementioned parts of the world. For example (+ 1 2) if read aloud would become "add 1 and 2", which sounds like a verbal instruction. Reading infix notation aloud in many ways strikes me as less natural, perhaps it's something that is learned from an early age and thus appear natural.
Where I come from, you ask a man if he wants to grab a BEER. Much more productive conversations that way :)
Down the bottom of http://www.publikdemand.com/united/ckmnaguilar08/my-daughter...
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Yeah, sorry. Had the misfortune of flying with United some time ago, and it was just one fuckup after the other. Out of 5 flights only one went without problems (the international one), all national ones were foobar.
This is a great answer. I think it is important to note that all of the information you have provided is already available on the web, so you aren't really revealing super secret information. You have provided a very well written and properly structured guide for information which could have been gathered anyways. I went down the dropshipping information wormhole recently it was a super annoying process. You're guide has definitely helped provide a strong structure the information I gathered.

Thanks!
Also relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdxkVQy7QLM

I don't think it's in the list of songs analyzed here, which is unfortunate.