skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 5 years, if progress continues (and, in all things human, it might not):

1. The top software companies will be running open allocation. It won't get into the mainstream by then, and maybe not ever, because it's not practical for all industries. (You can't run OA easily in finance for regulatory reasons.) However, you'll have to pay hedge-fund money to recruit talented people into a closed-allocation company.

2. Location will be much less relevant than it is now. Right now, "Number 6 startup scene" means none at all. That's changing.

3. Google will either have been thoroughly destroyed (on a cultural front) by stack ranking, or have reinvented itself utterly in a form more like its pre-apocalyptic state.

Anyone who can turn these into startups, share your thoughts.
Operative section of GP's comment:

> because they merely allowed another company with a similar name to exist

reason for genericization:

> lost legal protection as trademarks by becoming the common name of the relevant product or service
Whoa, whoa, nowhere did I suggest applying extra voltage. I was saying you could use them at 2.7, or 2.6 if you want a safety margin. You don't have to use pure RLC and drop down to 2 volts.

It is amusing that the author screwed up.
I'd love to read a blog post on how you set this up, and what kind of work you do!
Yes, if you derive pleasure from ridiculing others, I do consider you an asshole. It is certainly not my only criteria, but it is one.

As to the hypocrisy, I consider myself an adult, and did not appreciate you speaking for all of us, so it was meant as a correction, not ridicule.
The PDF you quote describes the intended ideal conditions. In Germany also every prisoner is entitled to have his own cell and each cell has to have a separated toilet area. But in practice prisons are full, cells are occupied with 2 or 3 prisoners and toilets are only separated by a plank.

Finding work in most prisons can also be pretty hard. There are certain jobs that are always in demand (welder, carpenter, etc.) but if you're a simple academic and not a craftsman you can only hope to get one of the lower level jobs like librarian, kitchen help, etc. That paired with prison overpopulation can make getting a job pretty hard.

The problem is that the prison system in Germany is heavily underfunded and that a good portion of the prison buildings are very old (a few date even back to the late 19th century). Germany would need many new prison buildings with humane sanitary standards but you don't get points in the election for spending tax money on the well being of prisoners.
As a software developer, I have absolutely no desire to "organize". It is a tool to keep me down, so no thanks.
It is self-hosted - one user per instance.
"how do you know out of say 10k Suspects who is going to go nuts and behead a squaddie in broad daylight"

This is kind of like asking, "How do you know who in a town of 10,000 people will murder their spouse?" When did America become a country where people who might commit a crime tomorrow are targeted for surveillance or other investigation?
I can't give an example of one being lost, but thats the same reasoning Ford used for going after Ferrari last year. Whats worse is that wasn't even a real car, the F-150 Italia was their F1 chassis. A bit silly given Ford's F-150 is a midsize truck.
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I see people cite this concern but have never actually seen any evidence. Since it sounds ridiculous, I'd like to see some decent support for such a contention. Keep in mind, we're talking about a service name that many legitimately feel is sufficiently different.
Federating data is a fairly 'solved' issue. Ironically (or not) enterprise IT is ahead of the average organism in this space.

Faced with legacy systems communicating (or not communicating) via various channels, Middleware, ESBs, SOA, message queues, content-based routers, business process management, event processing, and data virtualization have all been created so that a development group can factor these systems into canonical representations of business events.

At that point, the input method ranges from the simple (existing web app to API) to complex (treating a batch-oriented system in a semi-synchronous manner or screen-scraping an ancient smart terminal as a queriable data source).

At that point, the real challenge isn't the input method but master data management and security/authority/privilege.
I only reply because this guy points his finger at Poland and some of his points are clearly wrong:

- flight to Warsaw from Dublin costs about 200 euro and lasts 3 hours so he can see plenty of developers face to face and go back same day.

- time difference is 1 hour... don't see a big problem here

- don't know what teams he has experience with but in terms of talented developers let's check TopCoder ranking. Poland on 3rd place while UK on 20th...

- he mentions problem with checking references but if team is outsourcing to another countries they should have references in those countries, right?
Correct. Many Thinkpads had 1050 and 1200 until 2007 or so. It went downhill from there.
They actually are quite similar words, for companies which it seems are engaged in the exact same business.

I can easily imagine how someone, not familiar with either company, might hear of Moz and, later, mistakenly believe that the company they heard about was Doz (or vice versa).

Don't forget, trademark law is such that you have to protect your trademark or you lose it. If there's any risk at all of infringement, you have to go after it. So although the case that Moz and Doz are similar isn't particularly strong, it seems close enough that I'm not surprised Moz is taking this action.
maybe because its a tumblr site? You must work at a strict company, there is nothing NSFW in the article or the site.
Building off the history of, yes. The history of openness and transparency, not becoming an admin on DMOZ for the sake of a link from one of the strongest domains on the Internet.
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How is NaCL support any different than allowing Java Applets on a page, or Flash, or Silverlight?
Are you really trying to assert that by not going after doz for having a vaguely close name in the same industry you would no longer be able to protect yourself from egregious misuse of your mark?

By not canceling doz's trademark you would be prevented from going after a hypothetical Mozz, who attempts to pass themselves off as moz by using similar branding and product offerings?

You and I, and your lawyer, all know that is complete fantasy. Yes, not going after doz may prevent you from going after similar companies who aren't really infringing your mark anyways... but you would still be fully able to litigate against companies trying to confuse your customers.
And that assumes you're willing to host with those providers, many of whom don't provide computing power. Also, the machine learning service you are using has to pay again for that bandwidth too and that cost gets passed along to you.
She did say "we're", it was pretty obvious to me that she identified with Moz
There are many, many reasons to oppose GMOs:

1) The IP system and the companies who exploit it to essentially disrupt agriculture (licences to grow seeds, cannot replant, must buy seeds annually, aggressive lobbying, regulatory capture). This is upsetting to the agricultural status quo (political and economical) in Europe (their farm subsidies would essentially be funnelled to foreign corporations). There is also the use of courts to abuse the IP system, where farmers who unknowingly grow patented seeds (pollen drift or seed stock contamination) get sued, instead of the other way around (farmers should be able to sue--and win against--GMO companies for contaminating their farm with unwanted plants).

2) The issue of eating the produce of GMO plants. On the health side, many (industry-funded) studies show no effect (surprise, surprise), watchdog groups say the industry covers up any bad results, while some independent long-term studies are starting to uncover problems (though results and methods are controversial). Then there is labeling and the fundamental right of people to know what they buy and ingest.

3) Huge but not mentioned yet: the environmental impact of the large (and growing) herbicide applications required by GMO crops (the glycophosphate-resistant varieties, but ther are other herbicides and pesticides involved). Again, this is a multifaceted impact: water runoff and groundwater contamination, impact on the polinators and other sub-ecosystems, evolution of resistent "super-weeds," escalation to other herbicides such as derivatives of Agent Orange. The fact that Monsanto sells the herbicides as well further muddies the problem (it is biased towards not seeing any environmental impacts). The problem is that environmental impacts take years to build up, become significant, and be pinpointed through studies--and by then it's too late.
I'm pretty sure SEOMoz.org was a play on DMOZ.org, originally.
Wow, I wasn't aware of this at all. Luckily I don't happen to have any student loans, as I was lucky to have parents who could afford my tuition and did some part time work. Of course, I went to a state school and my maximum tuition cost for a semester was I think $1800 at the time.
I would love a better job, but when it comes to the Bay Area I have a really hard time with:

1. Housing costs (too expensive)

2. Transportation time / locality (takes too long to get elsewhere in the Bay Area, probably can't live near the job because of #1)

3. Climate - San Fran is rather cold nearly all year round.

4. Because of 1 and 2 likely would not have a garage or space to do projects in.

5. Sometimes things seem rather legally onerous in CA/Bay Area.

6. Regional tunnel vision. When I lived in Northern California I got sick of hearing how it was 'the best place on Earth.'
I was not being sarcastic, so don't worry about your detector. This was the way a physicist would take a first look at the problem, so I could relate and I enjoyed it. You and some other critics here are taking the author to task for not writing a detailed electrical engineering analysis, but I don't think that's entirely fair. Although the article is not completely accurate in that sense, it's also not "fluffy", and much better than the stuff that caused me to write Wired off until recently. Scoff if you must, but physicists are fond of their spherical cows and mica capacitors.
Send in a pull request! It's on GitHub. That's what I did [0]

[0] https://github.com/garann/template-chooser/pull/20
> It does not state an intent to transition PNaCl to this "fully released" state at any particular time in the future, or without standardization.

Per the GoogleIO PNaCL talk, their goal is to have this out with Chrome 30. Even ignoring the impossible time horizon, let's not kid ourselves that there's any will to standardize this thing.
I want people to understand the why, that's why I'm here. My goal isn't to convince people to change their mind. The truth of the matter is that we were put into a difficult position, and with the information we had, this was what we viewed as our only course of action.
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If you enjoyed this article, there is a fantastic book explaining all of the problems with the American prison system and the 'Felon' Label that goes along with it. It's called "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander. Highly recommended reading.
Monsanto rightfully believes that if GMO products are labeled, and there is one single instance of a GMO product killing a person (even from some kind of rare allergy), then the market will fall since GMOs will be able to be avoided by consumers.

GMOs can have a staggering amount of benefits to this world. But to say that they are safe across the board is extremely dishonest. We simply can't see all the long-term consequences of the new forms of life that we ingest. With enough knowledge, we can theoretically do whatever we want with DNA, including make cells in apples produce prions that eventually cause Alzheimer's. And we can do so accidentally.
This article commits journalistic fraud - it attributes the fact that crops failed due to pests (which can happen to any crop, GM or not) solely to the fact that the crops were GM, and making a false impression that suicides were caused not by crop failures but by the fact that the crops were GM. They imply that "after" means "because", and that's the fraud.

Of course, even GM crops can not protect from all causes of crop failure. But blaming them on every cause of failure is wrong.
Would be cool if you could double-click the column-border to have it auto-size to the contents in the column to the left of the border, comparable to excel.
True. But fitbit can only give health related data - what if one wants to track multiple things in his/her life - finance, health, food habits etc
Are you just the photographer?
I've used inexpensive bilge pumps from Walmart or Sears and a 12V relay.

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Shoreline-Bilge-Pump/16609596
These start at $13 for 600 GPH.

Then use a 5V relay to switch the 12V relay.

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=206248...

http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=124667...

YMMV.
two words Anti trust :-)
Does Moz also claim a trademark for Woz? Moz and Woz are very similar, especially if you are dyslexic.
The OP is implying that there are an adequate number of qualified 'business people' and they just want hires that will do the dirty work.
Source of paraphrasing: http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2013/05/amazon-route-53-elb-integ...
The site should be called: scriptmentor.com based on the language choices available...
To extrapolate form the rest of his post, I think he phrased that part poorly. I think he really meant to advise not to revel in merely being a participant in a startup, as if that should provide you with satisfaction in and of itself. If you're in the startup world and have chosen your position well enough to be enjoying the journey, I don't think you're the target audience. He's really targeting the people who might become entrepreneurial martyrs.
Got blocked for me as well - "Pornography"
>>> If GMO saves a million children it will next need to save ten million children

Are you advocating population control by starving off the poor?
In trademark law, a mark can be "Confusingly Similar." Doz differs from Moz, but it may still infringe on Moz's trademark. Because Doz has a similar spelling and operates in the same industry as Moz, it may lead a "reasonable person" to believe the trademarks are related. The court will hold that Doz infringed on Moz's trademark if a reasonable person would find the two confusingly similar.
I personally think that the proprietary software on Chromebooks is a means to an end -- the functionality provided by the proprietary software appeases retailers enough to get them to sell it.
It's funny that you're talking as if all of HN thinks Moz is in the wrong here. There's plenty of comments on this story that suggest otherwise.
Narcissism reaches a new level (or low, depending on how you see it).
QA does not have a lot to do during most of the production so they should not be employees. If your job is to play the game what are you going to do while there is no game to play?
I have been working on an open source version of this idea: http://www.quantify.io

Right now, things are fairly sparse. You can check the repo out here: https://github.com/jdjkelly/bodyimage

An open source Rails API to track "quantified self" data.

Right now, the hardware companies in this space are storing your data in closed systems. Let's change that.

Take the Withings WiFi scale or the FitBit, for example. Both are essential pieces of the quantified self hacker, yet both store your data in their respective, siloed databases. What happens when one of them goes bust? Or decides to pivot towards an ad-based business model?

This project includes a Rails + MySQL RESTful API to store your data.`

Contact in profile.
By and far one of the most creative projects I've seen on HN. Kudos.
I really like this point. I think there is, generally, a flaw in the thinking that because programmers are good at focus, they are good at prediction.

"Ahead of its time" may be outside of the natural means, on top of being quite possibly outside of the "epistemic network" of those thinkers assigned to the problem.

MVP eludes most, and as we become more democratic in our development practices, this scientific concept of MVP will so too become diluted. The future will likely simply be outlined by material needs. Let's say that ?
Pretty much a lot like I feel. I'd rather not live in the Bay Area, but give a fat enough offer and I'd live anywhere.
Has this ever been tested in court? Interested to see a case where this has actually happened.
> What I worry about is a few years down the road when all of this security state nonsense is used for political reasons.

Everything is political, every decision that affects more than a handful of people are more or less political decisions.

There will always be some people whose freedom and wills be violated, whether through vote of majority or tyranny of the few.

In the eyes of those who truly believe freedom for everyone, the reality is bleak.
Funny, you should read Adam Smith's opinion of landlords:

http://geolib.com/smith.adam/won1-11.html

or quoting from mises.org(!)

Smith was even less kindly to the role of landlords, where he recognized no economic function whatever that they might perform. In pungent passages, he writes that 'As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords like to reap where they never sowed and demand a rent even for its natural produce'. And again: 'as soon as the land becomes private property, the landlord demands a share of almost all the produce which the labourer can either raise or collect from it'.
Its intentional too. Rand specifically choose the name SEOMoz to benefit from the brand confusion.

From the horse's mouth (Mixergy interview):

"Andrew: What does SEOmoz mean?

Rand: When we started up, we were looking for a name that was short. That had the word SEO in there so that people would know what the blog was about. And, I was a big fan of the Mozilla Foundation, with DMoz and ChefMoz. What was the other ones that they were doing at the time? There was, like, MapMoz, there was a bunch of them at the time that were coming out. That were based around this open source, weird transparent.

[...]

So, that was SEOmoz, was taking SEO and combining it with the moz ethos. There you go."

Source: http://mixergy.com/seomoz-rand-fishkin-interview/
Rent is crazy here, no doubt about it, and from the submissions we've gotten so far, it's the #2 concern after visas.

I predict, extravagant housing prices lead to the competitiveness of other technology markets. But for the next 5 years at least, feels like there will be more investors, buzz and energy in SV than anywhere else.

Higher perceived chance of success worth increased rent?
There's a difference between "fault" and "blame" that's not easily expressed in the english language, but I'm going to go ahead and call bullshit on your analogy. If someone is going to do something of questionable legality and warns you about it beforehand, does that make it "more legal"? I'll bet you think that people in high-crime areas should "just move out if they don't want to get mugged", too. But here, I have an analogy too:

I decide, say in January, that I want to change my company name from "Foobaz" to "Baz". Over the next 6 months, I go out to a bunch of startups named "Caz", "Faz", and "Jaz", and say "Hey so you might want to change your name because I'm going to change my company's name to Baz and I'm totally going to drop a legal hammer on you if you don't because I can afford it and you can't". After those 6 months are up, I change my name, and then flip around and start suing because they "didn't take my warning".

The logic here is questionable at best.
but... but... your TL;DR said "Not based off DMOZ" when the actual text does, in fact, say "building off the history of organizations like DMOZ". So, at a minimum, your TL;DR misleads people who didn't read it.
They actually are quite similar words

Only in that they both end with "oz" and sound nothing alike, don't share any common meaning, and have no other obvious connection. Personally, I don't see how anybody could ever confuse those two words.

Don't forget, trademark law is such that you have to protect your trademark or you lose it. If there's any risk at all of infringement, you have to go after it.

"any" risk? OK, great, there is a slight, however improbable, risk that somebody could confuse "Fogbeam" and "Moz". After all, we both do something related to computers and both words do contain an "o". So maybe Moz should attack us next?
To take the spherical-cow analogy further, this article is a bit like responding to a headline of "New non-spherical cow shape way more efficient than spherical shape, promises free milk for everyone!" by doing an approximation with a spherical cow.

Particularly when a tiny bit of googling turns up actual numbers claimed for the cow in the experiment.
I think the danger here is that Monsanto is a private company and is doing shady stuff.

I'm from France and we have to take a course on that at one point in university.

IIRC Monsanto launched several products without testing them and was later forced to stop selling them since they were tested dangerous for health. Seeing that they weren't really testing their products and using biased studies sometimes, Europe just decided to make a lot of laws about testing before using GMOs.

IMO a technology as important as GMOs should never be in the hands of a private company motivated by money and share holders. It should be in the hands of an international association (like the UN).
Holy crap, what can you do with kW lasers besides instantly cut almost anything?
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If anything, Doz has a case against Moz. Up until a couple of days ago, Moz wasn't Moz, they were SEOMoz, which is really very different from Doz. now they've changed their name and they're sending C&D letters to existing companies who have similar names to what they changed to? If they didn't want to be confused with Doz, they shouldn't have changed their name to Moz.
I am interested in knowing whether you are happy with the tablet experience when shopping?
I qualified that. Judging by your past comments I don't think you are foolish enough to believe that the fall of the US would be a good thing.
I object to your use of the word "fog" above. That is confusingly similar to our trademarked term "Fogbeam". Expect to hear from our attorneys soon.
Which would matter if we were talking about likelihood of typos, but we're not.
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Even more so because moz's boss is on record citing Mozilla (and DMOZ, which got it name because it originally was Directory.MOZilla.org) as source of the MOZ part of the original SEOmoz. Part which is now the only thing left: http://moz.com/blog/what-does-the-moz-in-seomoz-mean
Cool idea, Naveen. I would like to contribute and expand it.
Taking a cue from another post currently on the front page; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5799838

If you live in the future, want a job in Austin?
GMO labeling is as stupid as California prop 65 labeling, only more harmful. Every commercial food we eat is "genetically modified", it's how we manage to survive and feed 7 billion people - since the dawn of civilization, men found organisms useful to them and "genetically modified" them to be more useful. Trying to scare people off some methods of doing this would only lead to less productive agriculture and raising food costs - which would do little for the golden billion but have them spend a little more on food and little less on iphone apps, but would be very harmful for those that still live on the edge.
Moz employees, it would be useful if you mentioned that you're associated with Moz when commenting on this thread.