skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, it's really two separate things, but related.

1) Satellite launch using a 1-10km long, 1m diameter tube on the side of a mountain in Somalia. Conventional RAMAC. Small impulse, long push from natural gas ramjet in the tube, potentially an atmospheric rocket stage, and a circularizing rocket (probably liquid fueled, using liquid fuel to fill the void spaces around deployables to deal with the 1000-5000G acceleration). This is just a matter of financing and implementation, I think -- the basic engineering and science is pretty sound.

I think this could actually be <10G, and thus suitable for humans, if you had an 8-9m diameter tube. The peak acceleration goes down with longer/thicker tubes. For a 155mm, it's about 50k G. An iPhone is fine at 5k G; potted boards are fine at 50k G (we have artillery rounds which have satellite receivers, guidance, etc.)

2) A long tube, continuous, designed on the same principle. Mag rail gun to start, natural gas in the tube for ramac (continuous or maybe intermittent), and air bearings, and then either reverse-ramac or just steadily increase density to brake. Doing this for passengers is maybe possible. I'm not sure if the engineering works out at all.
Now now, Food Inc is most definitely not a reliable source of information on much of anything. The whole thing was pure biased crap, the authors having a pre-decided conclusion and just using all sorts of unscientific scare tactics to persuade their audience to their way of thinking.
I've got a hp microserver but haven't yet set it up. I've never set up a server from scratch before, do you have any advice or guidance or any good tutorials? Good to hear that they're serving you well though
My grandmother gave me some advice years ago: "Never trust a skinny chef". If you're buying food to keep people from starving to death, wouldn't you trust the fat salesman to have good product?
yeah, it was around the $12k line. but also keep in mind, that cheap LCDs were in the $2k line. So not too much in terms of high end specialized gear.

today low ends are $200, and the high ends for $1.2k are uninteresting at best.
> ...and turned himself into "that guy"

Don't get me wrong, I wanted to blame the victim too, especially when he said "I stopped going in, and would show up whenever", but whatever this guy did, the point is that
"they will work you to death and they will promise you potential, but it is for nothing."
No he got the enabling act passed by arresting and killing the opposition deputies I am sure that roberts rules of order don't suggest murder as valid form of political action :-)
By that logic services like Hoogle (a haskell search engine) are even more likely to cause confusion with other services in the same arena (search). Yet, Google hasn't barked.

I just can't see a scenario in which a person is told about Moz, seeks them out, stumbles upon Doz, and thinks they found what they were looking for. The services may be complementary and even overlap on occasion, but even to a user in a hurry it should be painfully obvious they are not the same thing.

I don't think hamming distance provides a solid legal footing for arguing conflation of trademarks. Their phonetic difference is pretty large. The legal standard is generally based on an idiot in a hurry and I think the differences are large enough than even the biggest moron with no patience will know they are different.
"Who said anything about foreign operations or foreign terrorists?"

Was I supposed to assume that "somewhere in the world" meant something different?

"I asked in my previous comment, "Do you further, or alternatively deny that alerting those people to the fact that the FBI knows about them would harm the FBI's ability to stop them from harming people in the US?" Can you answer this?"

Sure: yes. Yes, the FBI will be impeded when they are held accountable for their actions and when their actions are not secret. This is no different from warrant requirements, Miranda rights, the second amendment, the right to an attorney, etc. A democratic society where civil rights are valued gives up some law enforcement power in order to preserve its democracy and civil rights.

"I have another question: do you believe your/the public's judgement is going to be the best method by which to determine the efficacy of a counter-terrorism strategy, even assuming the program can be communicated in such a way so as to not compromise it's ability to be effective?"

When you are asking to use my tax dollars to fight terrorism, you had better be able to convince me that (a) there are terrorists to fight and (b) that you are effective at doing so. Otherwise I want tax money spent building better schools, paying for universal healthcare, paying for scientific research, paying for competent public defenders, etc. Sorry, but you cannot scare me with hypothetical terrorists.

Since you are a fan of asking pedantic questions, I have one for you: do you believe that the war on terror will ever end, or do you believe that it will always be necessary to violate basic civil rights in the name of fighting terrorists?
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I don't think Doz erred. They went out, probably paid 5 digits for the doz.com domain name months ago, but didn't register it as a trademark. And then seomoz goes and rebrands last week and they are caught off guard.

If moz wants the doz.com domain, they should pay for it. Why should doz just give it up over such a weak claim?
This is one of the use cases we had in mind when in developing Tent (https://tent.io).

Tent is an evented data store for arbitrary JSON blobs which can be typed b the developer. It has the added benefit of operating as a decentralized system that lets you push and receive posts with other users via webhooks.

Tent can be used to create applications and systems from the quantified self to microblogging to cloud-backed file sync to collaborative real-time document editing.
Doctors, for checking activity/sleep/etc.

Friends/relationships, for checking general activity and check-ins.

Potential businesses, for seeing interests and the like. Or, if currently employed, the employer could randomly check to see how the employee has been sleeping (are they going to be tired/cranky today?) or to see how often they check-in at the office.

Aggregated with more data from people doing similar things and you can start to get a look at populations (what if everyone in SF was logging this data? What if a good chunk of those in the US were?).
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And it's not really a similar name. You can't even mistype moz to doz.
An industry wide political interests group (not a labor union) could be useful, but to be honest I expect there would be far less common ground than you might expect or hope.

For every Bay Area programmer that is really into sane standards, open software and minimal surveillance, there are probably half a dozen programmers throughout the rest of the world that work 9-5, have a few patents in their name, and primarily care about their family and (consequentially) their employers stability. They are the people participating in most of the stuff the rest of us think is wrong with the industry, and they don't hate themselves for it. On another end of the multidimensional spectrum you have armies of STEM graduates working/contracting for the Federal government who really do buy into "nothing to hide". (For an example of this attitude, see Bob Metcalfe's recent reddit 'AMA').

I'm spinning these perspectives very negatively because I don't share them, but regardless of my bias the fact remains there are a lot of programmers that the diversity of "what programmers think about stuff" is underestimated.
We don't know what we don't know. Asswholes like you who think they know better are the problem. Genetically modified foods could end up causing problems in the future, maybe 10, 30, 50 years from now. When that happens a moron like you will simply say, we never saw it coming. I rather be ultra-conservative than to believe I know better. By the way, I have a degree in genetic engineering and I still am worried about how we are going to screw up. It will be something that we have no idea it could happen. So fuck you.
I just feel that shifts from a "we're going to legally bully you" to "cmon, we let you know".

If someone were to get a notice saying, "Hey, we're going to drop a bomb on you in 3 months. You might want to leave." and continues to live there stubbornly, then complains a bomb got dropped on them, whose fault is it? Clearly it doesn't mean you didn't get a bomb dropped on you, but it kind of nullifies your right to complain about it.
The reality is that Moz does seem to have a case. Both companies are in the same industry, probably targeting the same clients. At the very least, it is a grey area.
The word for what she is is dilettante. Look it up.
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The living expenses are a real burden, and the average rental rates in the core of the San Francisco Bay Area have increased ~20-30% over the last three years.

They're building new apartments all around the bay now and the greedy realty vultures somehow think it's reasonable to charge as much as $3500-4000USD per month for them (one and two bedrooms). That's easily a mortgage payment on a brand new home out here.

The older apartment complexes have seen this and have been raising their rates as well (the monthly market rate on my apartment went from $2150 USD to $2750 USD in the last six months I've lived there even though it's in the south bay area).

The worst part of all of this is the realization that I'll likely never be able to afford a home out here (median house price is currently ~$500K USD): http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_23249121/bay-area-med...
Do you have any instructional sources for growing cilantro?

I have only been able to keep mine alive for about 2 months before they die.
It's not a fear, it's a legal obligation. If we don't protect our trademark in instances like this, where we are aware of infringement, we can be legally estopped from protecting our trademark in future cases.
What if money was involved from both parties? I do not think it will be a complete solution but was wondering if incentive & penalty variables will keep people committed. Like a deposit structure?
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I have been here for the past 13 years. The cost of living has risen so much that I am considering a relocation. Housing prices are insane, pretty much every else is more expensive than anywhere else too. The traffic is now back to .com-boom levels and highways are constantly congested.

If you are young (20-30), single, and are willing to have roommates to group up into some apartment, then SV may be an adventure for you. However, as you grow in life, you will need a pretty high level of income to feel secure in this environment.

Start-ups would be better off setting up shop in underdeveloped parts of the country, however, as the cost of labour here puts a serious overhead over any fledgling company.
I agree that write once run anywhere is never quite so simple, but

> The reality is, you are going to either target NaCl on Chrome, asm.js on Firefox

is an oversimplification as well. Many asm.js codebases already run well on Chrome, and that will continue to improve, for the same reasons that all browsers are now fast at SunSpider, Octane, Kraken, etc.

But again, sure, if you need full performance everywhere, you may need to target multiple platforms and not just one. Some games might need to do that, but not all.
There is what the future could be, what tomorrow will be, and what today is.

Sometimes building a product is about building the future, but not every product is about that. If you don't have the resources to see it through to the future where what you envision is the default, you will fail.

Think about Netflix. Streaming video on the internet is a 20 year old idea right? They had to start with delivering dvd's in the mail, which is kind of an analog version of streaming in some ways right? Similar idea, but also fundamentally different delivery mechanism. Even if their goal was streaming movies directly to houses, that's not what they built first.

If you can see the problems of today, a way to fix it tomorrow, and maybe what that evolves into in 5, 10, 20 years... awesome. But if you just see a good idea that will take 5, 10, 20 years to be viable... run away unless you have billions of dollars you want to light on fire(like Microsoft on tablets, web tv, home automation, etc...)
You're a good friend.
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> tl;DR not based off DMOZ

Uh?

> We're building off the history of organizations like DMOZ, Mozilla, Chefmoz, etc
If it weren't for some sense of pride, things would never be fixed. Think about your technology work -- you do a good job because you take some pride in it.

American patriotism is the most public, but every country's citizens take some measure of pride in their country. We're the most public about everything (the home of myspace/facebook/twitter/instagram/the internet generally) so it makes sense to me that we're really public about patriotism.
That's what they asked doz to do. From the article:

> I understand why you're upset. This is not the kind of thing you want to worry about. You want to be building product and getting customers. Not disagreeing about trademark law. I'm very sorry that we're in this situation.

Isn't it ironic?
It doesn't matter, you have the responsibility to defend your trademark at every opportunity. If in the future, the court looks and sees that you didn't try to defend your trademark, even in grey or obviously incorrect cases, they could decide that it was no longer a trademark. Trademark laws suck.
Such an api sort of already exists in the form of Fitbit's api which can be found at http://dev.fitbit.com/.

Fitbit holds a lot of the data hostage, but it's at least something that anyone wearing a Fitbit can easily grant access to.
My gut says that yes, they did. However, they may have also said that the world is shaped like a burrito.

Certain jobs encourage the spouting of all kinds of sweeping statements. The ones that turn out to be true will be remembered, the others forgotten.
Hey, shoot me an email anthony@makerops.com, Id be happy to help out.
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You aren't even comprehending it. Even if every single claim I listed is completely wrong, the social phenomenon I am describing exists and must be understood if culture is to become more rational.

I've tried to point out the perception-of-expertise problem before in threads like this, and skeptics always get angry and defensive and dismissive.

MSG is fine. GMOs are fine. There is no housing bubble. That's what the experts say.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10...

How many people do you know whose financial well-being was destroyed by the housing bubble?

Bernanke graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University, among other accolades. You don't get more credentialed expertise than that. What conclusion are people supposed to draw here?

I'm simply pointing out the obvious one, and the one that many people do in fact draw: expertise is bullshit. I don't personally believe that -- I think the reality is far more nuanced -- but I can see how someone could draw that conclusion and I am not convinced that doing so makes them an idiot.
http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html

(aside: how is GoF "high-level/architecture/design"? it is just a collection of tricks for overcoming language inexpressiveness)
Works fine for me, cool concept. You should think about what kind of interface affordance makes it clear that the columns are resizable. Also, I tried to resize them not using the table headers at first (just any old spot in the column) and was confused for a while.
I mean this in the nicest way possible - not as a troll.

The site needs checkboxes for 'are you young and innocent' and 'are you single and/or do you not care about your family and personal free time'

Those are two huge requirements for most companies out here, but they can't admit this kind of stuff by law.
As I see it, Android is the low-cost, mass-market provider. To me, it's perfectly analogous to desktops: Microsoft was the low-cost mass-market provider and Apple was the high-end, premium provider. With mobile, Android has simply replaced Microsoft.
With as many horror stories (albeit some are more amusing than mean) reported at Penny Arcade's from the trenches site[1], the pastebin does not seem all that surprising. Game testers seem to be mostly treated as disposable by the AAA game industry.

[1] http://trenchescomic.com/tales
This does accurately describes the status quo, but I think it is Monsanto's (and others') duty to change it. The tremendous advances that have been made in science in the past century haven't percolated down to the populace yet. It takes time and sustained effort, but the level of scientific literacy could increase.

Actually, I think we're at the stage where people know a lot of new terms, but don't really understand the concepts behind them. Like genes.
It goes to show you, even adults with degress can act like children.

If you had engaged me in discussion, you would have realized that the assumptions you made were incorrect.

Instead, you're the jerk who flew off the handle based solely on assuming my positions instead of asking me about them.

You'll notice I didn't mention GMO once in my post, and yet you attacked me as if I worked for Monsanto.

Weak show, dude.
No offense, but I have the opposite opinion on every point you mentioned.

Well, google glass will catalyze something interesting, but it won't be in the next year, or maybe next 5 years. But I do think that ergonomic wearable technology is a meaningful and reasonable extension of the smart phone revolution.

This is why I think the smart watch (while not great yet) is a good step forward. The ergonomics of taking my fragile and slippery phone out of a pocket to check the time or to check my message count isn't ideal. Putting that notification display on my body is better.

I have a low confidence in Ubuntu accomplishing anything given the quality of the software they have produced. Their NIH sentiments of late (MIR vs Wayland, Unity vs Gnome-shell) are troubling. Historically, Ubuntu has produced relatively little software on their own, building instead on Debian and the rest of the open source community (which is awesome!) but now they are migrating towards a desktop & mobile platform where they build all of the software in-house. Further, they require copyright assignment from contributors who want to work on their software, which has to limit willing contributors.
Dude, hook me up, I would like to move my family to Austin.
Good. If EU wants to have inferior crops, let them have it. Actually, I wonder why won't they go the full scale and sow original, unmodified plants - like wild emmer - and also eschew use of pesticides and herbicides. Of course, there's no chance they could feed the Europe population then, but I'm sure US would be able to sell them all the crops they need, while they enjoy that nice fuzzy feeling of not being contaminated by the nasty modern science.
Its funny to see Moz employee defending their company. This is HN. Most people here is highly opinionated and most has made up their mind. Nothing you say can ever justify what your company did.

Just do what Opera did and take back your lawyer letter. Don't make this mess any bigger and you'd do fine. If you want, you can prove that Moz can do SEO better than Doz.

SEO is irrelevant these days though. Product is what matters
I do see generalization happening more and more, but I think it's a result of more and more smart, but untrained, people entering web development, rather than any natural or desirable trend toward generalization. I invoke Crozier's Rule of 10: when you rank your level of expertise in 2 or more fields, the sum is never greater than 10.
> whose fault is it?

The fault of the guy who dropped the bomb?

> it kind of nullifies your right to complain about it.

No? If you believe the "bomb" is bullshit bullying and there is no cause for you to leave, why would you leave?
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If you're going to paint with a wide brush, "SEO Software" and "Browser Software" fall under "Software" in the same way that "Sandbox RPG Video Game" and "TCG Video Game" fall in the category of "Video Game". I feel there's not an actual likelihood of confusion in either case, but I would argue that there isn't one between Moz and Doz either.
A foreign military's bombs were intended as a prelude to invasion or destruction of the entire military capacity. A terrorist attack is a prelude to ... nothing much.
> Why has this comment not been voted out of existence?

Because when you make a bunch of rude and unfounded accusations against not 'an' authority in the field but 'the' authority in the field you come across as not having done your homework.

It would be like telling PG what hackernews is supposed to be (I think we've had that one) or to tell Abelson why he doesn't understand the basics about lisp or scheme.

At some point appeals to authority are perfectly ok, not every dumb point made in an insulting and rude way needs to be refuted by textbook rules.

And really, not being aware who the players are and attempting to play the game is a-ok with me, just make sure that you have your t's crossed and your i's dotted when you do and nobody will call you out for making a fool of yourself.

And yes, it does matter whether it is Joe Armstrong or not, and how matters regardless of who it is.
Yeah, shame on the greedy realty vultures for charging what the market will bear. </sarcasm>
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I'm not sure how well this is going to work out in practice, but the concept of having multi-region failover could mean that much closer to almost entirely bulletproof infrastructure (if you are willing to spend the money).
Yeah, it might be nice to have a mule for every project (might affect the dynamic well, slow things down etc.) and if somebody specialized in being the mule, it'd be funny, but it might work.
Beautiful execution...congrats Darrell!
I can't say I'm incredibly surprised: any time you're a temp worker (especially through a third-party agency), you're disposable. It's the nature of the beast.

It's upsetting that this man didn't have a fulfilling experience with the studio, but there are a couple of things to consider. I'm not trying to be harsh, just realistic:

- He was contracted through a third-party, and was never an official employee of the studio.

- He was paid relatively little (as evidenced by asking for a $1 raise), so was probably not a senior member of the QA team.

- He is still able to say to any future employers that he worked on Halo 4, and even had influence on map names, etc. Presumably, he did good work there and they might even act as a reference.

- The gamedev industry is very competitive, even in QA roles. This man has now worked at Activision and Certain Affinity, and will hopefully be able to get a full-time staff position at his next job.

I know it seems blunt, but a lot of the problem here is just supply and demand. There are a lot of people trying to get their foot in the door at game studios, and a lot of people that think they'd love to play video games for a living (even buggy ones). That makes studios able to pay very little, and hire temp workers for ramping up their projects.
Here is a list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
Since when does "defending your trademark" means using legal bullying against people with marks somewhat similar from afar in the fog if you're legally blind?