skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. This an over-simplistic view of how companies function and, frankly, a bit immature. I started my career as an engineer and I felt at times many of the sentiments expressed in this post. However, since then I've launched my own start up and had to take on the CEO role, which required me to do sales, marketing and manage people. Having to shoulder those responsibilities has really changed my perception. Everybody is under different pressures and until you are in their shoes it is often hard to understand the decisions they're making. We've since been acquired and I'm an employee again. As a result of these experiences, I'm much more sympathetic to my bosses and people in non-technical roles.

I'm reminded of why McArthur was removed from the command of the UN forces in Korea. McArthur came out strongly against Truman in the press, because Truman refused to use nuclear weapons against the Chinese, who at the time were not a nuclear power but were successfully driving the UN forces out of the peninsula. Truman was forced to sack McArthur. McArthur then went on a national tour talking about how Truman was basically an idiot and losing the war. McArthur suggested that if he was elected president he could bring the war to a speedy conclusion. Truman started taking a real beating in the press as a result. Then the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs came out and publicly said that while McArthur's strategy would drive the Chinese back, McArthur didn't appreciate the wider political implications of his strategy. China, at the time, was an ally of the Soviet Union. A strike against China could have forced the Soviets into the war or at a minimum destabilized other areas of the world, such as Eastern Europe. The Chairman's defense of Truman basically shutdown McArthur's political aspirations.

I don't mean to imply that the McArthur case is what is going on here. It's very possible that this person's managers are all just idiots. What I'm suggesting is that he take a breath and try to better understand the pressures and perspective of people he works with. I find that the majority of people I work, even those I'm not impressed by, mean well and cursing them out isn't moving the strategy, profits or even that particular conversation in a positive direction. (That doesn't mean I haven't gotten mad and lost it. I have. It's just those aren't my proudest moments.)
No Opera fans in this thread yet so I'll contribute a report. Opera wasn't logged in to HN when I started the browser this morning, but simply logging in again worked, no cookie clear needed.
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>You can trademark anything that isn't already trademarked //

That's absolutely wrong in the UK and USA. In Germany their English language guidance notes say:

"The following are also excluded from registration: promotional statements, general advertising slogans and word sequences that have become customary in the current language as fixed expression."

So it's wrong there too.

>"the due diligence when filing is on the filer for the most part"

In some jurisdictions but by no means all.

I'm surprised there were no oppositions filed, guess TM registrations are off most peoples radars. Of course the TM lacks distinctiveness and so is probably going to be struck down, doesn't stop them wielding it as part of a shakedown though.
Amazon has a 24-hour cookie. So you get paid even if someone clicks on your link and buys something else later in the day. I wouldn't be surprised if this accounted for a huge majority of their affiliate payouts. Cases where someone buys a product directly from Amazon after reading a review are a minority, imo.
What about this...? A simple tool might be useful as a first line of defense against silly filings. First, the tool could monitor trademark filings. Second, it could compare against common words, perhaps from a dictionary. Third, it could score filings using a 'frivolity' score. Fourth, perhaps it could expose its a moderation queue via a mailing list or web interface. Fifth, maybe it could be gamified?
I didn't watch the video, but is this referring to people sharing accounts?
Prepare for lots of database locking exceptions :)

You may run into issues when the background jobs run when you import feeds or if you are trying to use the app while it is fetching stories every hour.
Let's see if this submission gets more attention than when I submitted it just two months ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5278887

That got two upvotes, and no comments.
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You're already storing the code so why not just join the invite with the email and when the user logs in with an email flagged with an invite the user's state is already known?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5650671
I said "maybe". I'm savvy to discussion lists. I can see times when you want to edit the subject. It is still possible. It takes two clicks...... Yes it could take 1 click.

What about copy and paste is that beyond normal humans too?

Frankly, this article was about power users and my responses were from my own personal point of view. I couldn't care less about if these changes are bad for ma's and pa's.
If you want your SNES emulation to be accurate, this won't cut it I'm afraid.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2011/08/accuracy-takes-power-o...

But if you're just doing run-of-the-mill SNES emulation, it should be great.

The raspi does have analog video output, but it's composite. If you're an old school gaming purist you'd want something with analog RGB output.
So it's being used as a substitute for the well-worn "literally." When did everyone become so incredulous?
>The killer feature that we wanted it to be private to our company

Seems like selling private subreddits (much like github sells private repositories) would be a really obvious and easy way for reddit to increase their cashflow, since I'm sure more than just companies would be interested in that.
World of Goo (90%), Machinarium(90%-95%) and the PC Gaming Alliance (90% for high end titles) have all claimed piracy rates of 90% or above.

Also there seems to be a gap in your reasoning, going DRM free didn't cause the overload on their server, unless you're claiming that going DRM free caused people to pirate it. The huge pile of (previously) DRMed media currently being pirated would beg to differ with you. They did use accounts (or a code per game), so the pirates were unable to log in to the server, but the fact that they were trying to is what was causing the problems (from the update at the end of the article). If they'd had DRM, it would have been cracked, people would have pirated the game, tried to contact the servers and they still would have fallen over.
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> I wonder if this has to deal with some external factors, like availability of a good free book

The Django documentation is absolutely fantastic[1]. It and PostgreSQL are my personal gold standards for documentation.

[1] At least from my experience playing with it. I have not tried to use Django in anger, but it feels like the docs will hold up well.
Well, somebody's paying.
I'm normally pretty easy to please with UI changes, but even I'm a little frustrated with some of the new compose quirks.

Personally, I've had a very hard time putting together bulleted lists in the new compose. To start the list, you need to click the underlined A (for Additional Formatting), then the familiar bulleted list icon. I can live with that, though I'd certainly prefer one click.

To do a nested list, though, I often get confused and frustrated. With your existing list, you need to click the underlined A, then click what appears to be the left align icon, which is the Align Menu. From there, Indent More is what you're looking for. It took me quite a while to figure this out, and I still find myself forgetting it frequently. Even when I do remember, I'm frustrated by the maze of clicking I have to go through.

I also have trouble with hyperlinks, often clicking the attachment button instead of hovering over the plus to reveal the chained hyperlink icon. I don't know that I've ever used the attachment button (other than mistakenly), as I always drag files onto the message to attach instead.

For me, pretty much the only formatting options I want are lists and links, and those are pretty inconvenient to access.
Gotcha. In general I detest html email so your #4 problem isn't something I've faced. My answer of dragging and dropping isn't actually something I do very much either. I normally just copy and paste the link into the email and don't format it in anyway.

I'm totally with you on subject editing and accessing email addresses from the header. Adding clicks purely to minimize the design seems like a poor move to me too.
I missed pycon, but got a Pi anyway.

Mine is currently a part time camera host for the (hot, young) chick cam, and rapidly getting the electronics and control programming to run the door on the coop. My long term plan is to have a few webcams in the coop and do some computer vision for chicken detection.

Pulling in the Shenzhen thread -- I wish I had the lab I had in HS 20 years back to do this: a bench full of scopes and power supplies, meters, and a parts room that was open for use. No paying retail + $10 shipping and waiting a week for parts.
I actually could never log in on Chrome and Chromium and today, suddenly, I was already logged in! It used to work fine on Firefox (don't have it on office machine, so can't check right now).
How difficult would it be, though, for Google to hide some advanced options in settings for power users to enable? Always Expand Header, Always Expand Collapsed Content, etc.

When you're handling more than one or two emails in succession, every keyboard-shortcut that became a triple-click-drag adds up and takes time.

I don't believe the author is an extreme minority - Google should cater to all of its customers - requesting that Google add a few options to enable power user mode isn't unreasonable in the slightest.
We've had a bunch of reports of problems logging in. We're investigating.
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You suppose correct; obviously that might change, but for now it's the case that in 20 years of email not one single legitimate message has had a non-7 bit ASCII subject line, whereas there's always plenty of ⋎Іǎḡɾǎ, ѵἲàɠṝà and ѷἰẫǧʀẫ to go around (in the form =?utf-8?Q?=E2=8B=8E=D0=86=C7=8E=E1=B8=A1=C9=BE=C7=8E?= of course)

Pro tip: if anyone is trying to block this shit without blocking legitimate Unicode, you'll be wanting Unicode::Normalize and something like

utf8::decode($rawSubject);
my $normalised = NFKD($rawSubject);
$normalised =~ s/\p{NonspacingMark}//g;

to strip the composing diacritics before you reach for the regexes. Good luck.
Brendan what was the game you played at JQuery UK a couple of weeks back? It was Unreal Engine 4 right?

Thanks! (also thanks for JS, it is neat!)
I assure you we're not for sale. There's a lot to be done to replace e-mail and I can't see anyone trying.
Honest question, why would someone use the gmail ui at all, even before the 2013 changes?

I have rules setup in gmail, and sometimes when I need _very good_ search I will login to search, but everything else Outlook covers fine/better. Mac guys at the office use Mail.

I've always thought of gmail.com as nice for vacations or using someone elses or crazy times when I dont have laptop/phone/tablet by some act of god
Excellent. Fraudsters deserve jail time. Cookie stuffing is clearly fraudulent.
English has roughly 100,000 words, so that password scheme has 10^15 combinations. Suppose the latter scheme incorporates the 96 printable Ascii characters. log96(10^15) is 7.5, so yes the latter scheme gets ahead on entropy at 8 characters or longer.

But it's not a question of maximizing entropy. It's a question of maximizing entropy relative to the human brain's ability to remember it. The brain handles words as single units, so it's a lot easier to remember three of them than eight or more arbitrary characters.
Regarding email formatting, I'm pretty sure that for a given message once you click on the formatting tools once, the bar stays open because they know you are formatting things.
I have addressed this already.

Yet you still seem to be shocked that she is being punished. Your previous posts equate this to just 'kids bring kids'.

Even if we accept that what she did was horrifically dangerous, that does not mean a felony charge is in order.

I have never once, in all my replies, said this deserves a felony. I have defended the zero tolerance policies in schools but I don't think an expulsion is the same as being a felon.

This might deserve a misdemeanor with a fair amount of community service. She should do it at a vet home to see the consequences of real explosives and why they aren't to be played with.

You don't think that an apparent intentional act of vandalism is going to attract more attention than standard accidental damage?

I think you are either full of shit or simply mistaken

I tell a personal anecdote and I'm either lying or mistaken? You are just being obtuse for the sake of being obtuse. You couldn't possibly imagine that there were overzealous campus police when you are commenting on a story where we are obviously seeing overzealous prosecution? What a double standard.
There is a story here, but it is not as interesting as it seems. Current Netflix policy is pretty liberal about sharing, and they are considering tightening that up.
Yep, for the last few months I've been able to find a working 50% off coupon code for all eBooks.

http://www.retailmenot.com/view/oreilly.com
The dirty secret is that 90% of e-commerce affiliate revenue is generated by coupon toolbars. Its like what Shawn Hogan did, except it involves every single e-commerce affiliate program instead of just one.
Hackathon doesn't appear in any dictionary.

Maybe you should use Google Search result count. If a phrase doesn't appear frequently online, its ok to trademark. If there are 10 million results, it should be flagged.
How about mixing languages in the words chosen. English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, etc. Are they using multi-language dictionaries? Also, are they looking for typos? Voluntarily misspelling words would not make it harder to remember yet it might be harder to figure out.
Doesn't the entropy just measure the difficulty of brute forcing a password though? From an entropy perspective, "password" may be more secure than "r&E2pX@", but I doubt anyone attempting to crack passwords in a practical manner is going to adopt a direct brute force approach.
Not sure about German law or how much research they do into words before they allow the trademark. It does seem a bit of due diligence was missed.
There's a really rich set of analyses in http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic... . "Times he likes to send emails" is a poor description for that body of work [I know the people who worked on it, and they worked hard and smart on it for a long time].

While I like neither buzzword, "data science" is probably better than "big data", for the following reasons:

1. not all data needs to be big to be interesting

2. the majority of 'science' that is typically done on data, both by enthusiasts and corporations, is both stereotyped and shallow. it won't be long before this is disrupted. unfortunately "big data" makes it sound like the problem is an engineering one -- in reality, the problem is cultural.

3. like 'traditional' science, data science is irreducibly hard. You need to be smart, creative, to know a diversity of methods, and you need interactive tools that allow you to explore and test hypotheses.
I've got a Raspberry Pi set up emulating a bunch of NES and SNES games like you plan on doing. I had to overclock it pretty far to get SNES working at all, and higher-end games (particularly those using the FX chip like Star Fox) really struggle. The emulators can't really use the Pi's better video card as far as I know, but I think the stronger CPU on the BeagleBone may give it the edge.
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An EdTech adventure into working with the big boys.
Doesn't a trademark have the same rules of a patent, i.e. "prior art"?

Don't do anything. Let the company try and stop you.
I pay for netflix and don't watch it.
North Korea, Potemkin villages
At a company I used to work for we ran our own reddit server and hacked it to use ActiveDirectory for authentication. It was really cool.
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We know they've existed in the past (such as the voting ring around The Atlantic), so are you asking if we've succeeded in catching them all? I highly doubt it.
Fair enough. I just hate it when people give up their dreams.
Various sellers from $40 and up. The free shipping ones from reputable sellers are close to $48.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00ALSZNLW/ref=dp_olp...

PicUntu http://ubuntu.g8.net/ seems to got Ubuntu booted and running on the device.
says more about overproduction of Rails books then it does about lack of Django...
My personal response:

I use outlook for my work email, where I am an "inbox zero" guy. I get an average of around 10 emails a day, so this isn't hard.

I use gmail for my personal email addresses (I have a heap of gmail and other hosted accounts all pointing to one central gmail account). I get HEAPS of emails a day. I read the important ones and skim the rest by having my browser window nice and wide and just reading what is displayed on the inbox screen. I treat my gmail inbox unread emails count as a highscore. I have 12,440 unread emails in my gmail inbox. I'm winning my little game.
Sorry I meant #3. Either way, I like to format my links.

If there's a shortcut to pop out the message to compose mode, I'd totally learn that.

I wonder what the gmail team is thinking with this new UI...
If you're using a third-party payment provider like Authorize.net or Braintree to store CC numbers, you'll be given a unique token from the provider when you add the CC number. When you add the CC you can also have the provider run and immediately void a dummy transaction to verify the card is real, too.
No problem with Firefox 20.0
If a hurl falls in a forest, and only a mocky is around to hear it, did it happen?
Oh well it does, it has happened to me a lot as well. That said, I think the duplicate is due to the difference in URLs of our submission links. Of course, timing on HN matters a lot as well.
power/weight ratio: Sausage mcmuffin and other items are 400+ calories for US$1

I have noticed that many suburban McDonalds only care about serving drive-throughs quickly and you could easily wait 6+ minutes for your commodity Indifferent Meal(TM)
No memory leaks is like no cock roaches on the table.

I'd pay for that.
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@josefresco Really haha? I thought it was just because I have a cheap hosting service. But yes, advice would be great :)
>Actually, likes and shares may
make people feel like they did
their part and can move on.

That is true.

Perhaps people who donate can share a different message. Not everyone on FB may be able to donate, but they will help spread the word which may prompt someone in their network to donate. Ignoring this base might not be smart, but yes, the message should be to donate instead of like/share/retweet.
Spread the word? To who, exactly? The millions of people who simply did not know that children are dying from preventable disease?

Awareness makes sense when you're trying to trying to affect the democratic process. But in charity, the problem is, when you're the kind of person that could trivially afford a $N/month recurring donation, "raising awareness" is NOT the best way you can help the cause. Signing up for the donation is.
Last line in the article since it has been updated: "We've also obtained the police report from the incident. It shows that Wilmot was mixing toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil."

Link to police report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/138927259/Wilmot-Arrest
The security angle is a bit of a canard, though. Most compromises involve compromising running applications, not OS-level filesystem exploits.

This would improve security and reduce the potential attack surface if this were used for ephemeral mongodb instances, but only in that it would prevent poor programming practices from lasting beyond a working session.
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Does that mean I can block companies from using any word I like, by trademarking it in Germany, since they seem to let you trademark any words?
Looks solid
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Sure, so was Germany, and they still are. Though we can probably attribute a lot of that pre-war dynamism to the abundance of untapped resources: land, water, minerals, etc. - which is about as arbitrary as being the last man standing industrially.

Liberal immigration policy and real opportunity (because of the previous) lead to an influx of people probably above average in their motivation / skills which probably helped a lot too. I wish we'd remember this lesson today...

I'm not trying to discount American culture / ideals. I love living in San Francisco because of this - most of the good of American culture without many of the downsides.
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You can hold shift while you click on "Compose" or "Reply" to open it in a new window (if that's what you meant).
My only criticism of the Django docs is that every sentence has equal weight. That makes it difficult for someone starting out to distinguish between things that are absolutely critical and those that just nice to know. However once you are up and running they are great but they do need re-reading for the same reason.
In the end isn't it just about having fun? Whatever format is most efficient for the developer to deliver fun, let them run with it.
Hopefully Carmen Ortiz won't start filing indictments...
I can honestly say I've never used text formatting in an email, so I realize we're coming at this from two different directions.

If I need a list of things in an email I'll do this:

- step 1
- sub step a
- sub step b
- step 2
- etc

Which gets me thinking about how cool it would be if gmail accepted and displayed markdown formatting..... Would that be a winner for you too?
It looks like this is not a general purpose mail client, but rather something specific to your own hosted domain.

If you're looking for a usable IMAP/POP mail client today, try Inky (http://inky.com), which has a lot of these features already and many more on the roadmap. It's available for Mac and Windows right now, with Linux support coming soon (http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/05/inky-pens-linux-support-o...)
shift + r

Alas, you'd then still need to click the formatting and header to make the changes you're talking about.
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I would suspect the idea started out just as one of wondering how flawed eBay's affiliate tracking system was. Then, they figure well may be I'll be able to do this a few weeks or a month, they'll kick me off and I won't get paid. But, that doesn't happen and instead commissioned account reps (I am assuming they are on commission) keep encouraging it.

A lot of things fall under wire fraud rules. A lot of very common and routine business practices qualify as wire fraud. The fact that that is the only charge is very telling.
Indeed - at the time no one else had reported problems, and it was a taster/teaser to see if it was just me, or a system-wide problem. I wasn't asking for support, or reporting a problem to HN, just seeing if it was a local SNAFU.
Per se the product looks interesting, but having all these new accounts praise it, looks a bit odd.
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