skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I can't help you with finding dead tree magazines. However, you should probably be aware that, unless you're commenting negatively on the social skills of those older programmers, the word you were looking for is not "neckbeards" but "greybeards."
Link to it. There are lots of movies saying lots of things. I'll make you a documentary implying how ASU eats babies if you want me to. That doesn't make it correct.

(ASU because it's across the street from my house)
That theory sounds bad, man. I'm an bi-lingual Asian from a relatively older age compared to you (10+) and have been living in the US for quite some time.

The 'imagine' part only happens when one is still relatively bad at the language that person is trying to speak. I wouldn't say that I 'imagine' or have any intermediate representation when I speak in English.
> One guy had one bad experience as a game tester (most kids' dream job)

You might want to rephrase this then, your original wording comes off in a condescending "playing games? for money? he should be glad to have a job!" sort of tone to me.
If the lions eat too much, zebra population declines and lions begin starving.

This is bad for both the zebras and lions.
Font scaling works just fine on Linux. The problem is icons. Many Linux programs don't have icons for high resolution displays, so while menus and toolbars look fine, icons are unclickably small.
So far nobody's responded to my core point, which is about human social behavior and inductive inference in the absence of deep subject matter understanding.

People have also cherry picked this or that. I'll concede MSG. That's not the point. So far nobody's cherry picked margarine because there is now very strong evidence for the unhealthiness of trans fats.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans_fat#Health_risks

For a generation doctors told people to replace butter with margarine. Got to avoid those unhealthy saturated fats!

Butter, it turns out, may actually be good for you: http://quantifiedself.com/2011/01/results-of-the-buttermind-...

What inductive inference are people supposed to draw from this pattern? Or are they just supposed to mindlessly trust in people with credentials next to their names?

It's a problem that goes way beyond medical science, too. Every time the president of the United States stands up and lies the country into war, every time a well-respected economist claims housing prices will always go up or a market pundit calls out that "this bubble is different," every time it is said that "no modern reactor can have an accident like Chernobyl" (this was the refrain prior to Fukushima), people lose a bit of their respect for the social mechanisms our society uses to identify and credential expertise.

This is the cause for the increasing mistrust of expertise. The quacks and fanatics and pseudoscientists are simply exploiting it. They didn't cause it. The claimants of expertise in our culture destroy their own credibility quite well, and when that happens people inductively extend that loss of credibility to entire categories of expertise and even to the concept of expertise itself.
Organize for more control over our working conditions. It's not true that one has the upper hand on pretty much every employer. You'll get money thrown at you, sure. Great benefits, sure. But having control, being able to do something you're proud of, not being shit on by management who's more interested in politics than product -- that's difficult in the current environment.

What we need is a kind of guild for developers. We can't improve our conditions if it's all about maximizing our take home. We have to seek control over the way software development is performed, setting new standards for what is expected of clients and developers. We need to take charge of providing better educations for new developers. We need the open source model to become the primary way code is written, instead of something capital exploits in order to free ride on the "commons" of the community.

People who reduce it all to making a salary can go far, but they're not doing anything for the community who's shoulders they're standing on. Right now we have a scarce skill, but people are trying to find ways to deskill programming and make it a mindless commodity anybody can do. Maybe they'll figure that out one day. We should have a backup plan as an industry.
Chrome 27 on Mac doesn't work.
I love the outpouring of empathy in the language of responses from Moz. Too bad at the end the end you still decide to stick to your guns and assert there is "obvious confusion and brand dilution". Really?!?

Are you really supporting the idea that potential customers of Moz, who go out in search of Moz and stumble on Doz, would confuse the two? Sure, they share two out of three letters, but they don't sound the same (no risk of a misspelling leading to Doz) or look the same.

It doesn't appear at all the that Doz is trying to conflate their brand to cause confusion or imply a relationship.

My guess is a company like Doz doesn't have the resources to fight, but they should. I can't imagine a court agreeing that even a "moron in a hurry" would confuse the two.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
It's not just the similarity of the name at play here. It's also the industry and DOZ is very close. DOZ and MOZ sell inbound marketing software and they both seem to have a lean towards SEO (or grew from there).

I had a quick look at Doz and although its different there is some crossover which makes the product sound and look as good as it does.
And the point is...?

He gave up a viable career in music because of one failure. Lacking more productive alternatives, he took on play-testing games. Lacking any inherent forward momentum, not standing out in an abundance of similar applicants, he quit that too.

Supply-and-demand rules. There's a lot of kids wanting to get paid to play games. There's probably a bunch like him, older looking-for-something-anything types overqualified but willing. There wasn't an apparent upward-mobility path, and while he may have been better than average he didn't sound outstanding in a room full of easy-come-easy-go high-turnover types. With so many applicants for a short-learning-curve job, the company has little incentive to keep 'em happy.

Don't mean to bash the guy. He, and his situation, are not horrible - and not outstanding. Work is work, some jobs have a certain degree & type of suck, do it or move on ... he moved on.

What's to strike about? $11/hr to play games? Industry won't pay more because there's plenty willing to work for that pay. Crappy conditions/treatment? High-turnover positions in a high-stakes industry tend to. You're doing a low-training task (playing games) in a rather safe & comfortable environment, paid a decent wage considering the job, and have otherwise little stake in the project; it's not like you risk falling into a sausage grinder or have your life savings tied up in the product's success. Strike? You don't show up, somebody else will be happy to take your seat.
What sort of relays/pumps are needed for the hydroponics control? I just planted a garden and have been thinking about how I'm going to water it.
This is a great "precedent" in both agricultural and patent law. Even if it wasn't a ruling, it sends a positive message.

No matter how you look at it, the Americas are a huge agricultural laboratory, and we're the guinea pigs.

Monsanto should disseminate knowledge about the science behind its products. Their current effort(http://www.monsanto.com/products/Pages/monsanto-science-and-...) is too shallow and simple. Give me hard data, not PR stuff.
They should compromise and get it over with: If SEOmoz think the Doz brand is truly a problem for them, they should pay Doz a fair sum to abandon their trademark.
Imagine if a nation who had a significantly worse obesity epidemic going on that was way worse than in the US. And they were pushing to sell seeds to us.

It's kind of like a hobo who is next to death trying to sell you some health pills while insisting that his poor health is not caused by the health pills he has been taking all the time.
I think it has to do with the fact that Moz and Doz are in the same industry. If I run Poz.com and I sell dog products (I realize the real Poz.com doesn't), I probably won't get a letter.
It's not just the name. Doz in and of itself has no meaning similar to Moz. The issue is the combination of name + tool focus.
It's useful when you have a circuit which needs a high-current burst which is powered from a low current (but high capacity) power source.

One application for this is lasers. I'm part of a team that works on a converter that uses wall power as an input to continuously charge a few dozens ultracaps then empties them all at once to fire very short pulses in the hundreds of kW.

What I find the most impressive about this is that the mechanical engineers have managed to fit this in a 2U rack.
i think that also puts a lot of unrealistic expectations on the job that probably get squashed at some point: i'm guessing they consist mostly of the amount of time spent doing QA related "busy work" (bug tracking, tickets, logging, etc ) compared to time spent playing video games
As an engineer, I can understand the excitement. But I wonder why and who should use that data? I can't see any great use cases.
I was about to register the domain but looks like someone has been using seodoz.com for quite a while. Hilarious!
Oh get over yourself will you?
Slightly off topic, but does it feel 'fishy' and 'unfair' to anyone else that this was published 2 days after the rebranding was announced?
> If you're going to treat people like QA people like they're low skilled, and that they really make no difference as people, then you're going to get wind up with people like that.

I wasn't saying that. What I was trying to say is that this style of Quality Assurance tends to have a throughput that scales linearly. There are a lot of professions like that, even highly skilled ones. For example, traditional hand drawn animation (think Bambi or any other classic disney movie) requires highly skilled artists. And though some of those artists maybe faster than others or more proficient, it is nowhere on the scale of what you might see with a profession such as software development. A few A+ developers can probably build a system that can support just as many users just as fast as a much larger C team. The same isn't true for a feature animated film, in which a single person will hit a physical limit to the number of drawings they can create in a day, or for QA'ing a game, where the number of areas that can be tested or bugs that can be found is also bound, and where the quality of the product created does not directly influence productivity by orders of magnitude.
There will always be bad policies and ridiculous regulations. If you are building technology which fails to take this human reality into account, you are building bad technology.
So Linus Torvalds, widely known for his snarky retorts and offensive remarks, is a dumbass?

I'm in good company then.

But I'd rather think that being a dumbass is orthogonal to caring for tone.
Gee, sorry for trying to be helpful and trying to have an adult discussion.

Right, yeah, whatever; on the question of did X article from Y years ago happen to contain the number 16 then you were right and I was wrong. Congrats.
Really? In Niue you can see the lines on the basketball court. The best commercial satellite imagery I know if is about .5 meters (20 inches).

Now that I look at it though, the Moscow one is pretty fuzzy...
I'd like to know more about the plotter. Any plans or links to share?
Mozilla and MOZ provide pretty different products. If your in a different category, it's often not "reasonable".

It's the same with Mojang's "Scrolls" vs Bethesda's "Elder Scrolls". It's silly, but because they're both in the video game category, it was a problem. If someone sold a product named "Scrolls" that was a gummy candy that looked like a scroll, it would probably be fine.

The law is unfortunate either way.
I don't terribly want to move to SV, but I am a bit curious what this will return.

Sorry if I'm wasting your time customerdevlabs! I mostly signed up out of curiosity.

Obviously, though, if you want to pay me $150k/year, give me 3 months of vacation, let me telecommute 2/5 days, pay my moving expenses, and give me fun problems, I will move tomorrow.
As you suggested, I think this is a great way to expose your data to apps that may be built on top of you.

Also, a stalker would love this :P
I think this blog post, and some of the facts that seem to be missing from it (as Andrew outlined above), shows that doz.com is trying to get people on their side without being entirely transparent. Which is a shame. Their argument dilutes when the moz.com people can come out with significant corrections to the facts.

That said, come on - moz.com (which you JUST changed to) and doz.com? I think you had other options than the "we're going to cancel your trademark" route.
Jen you might want to disclose that you work for Moz :-)

Full disclosure: I'm Jen's friend.
My guess is that it'll eventually make its way into Orbit, the slideshow from Zurb.
Rand. Ayn Rand is the one he's calling a kook.
Your Horoscope
"Even if it is a meritless suit like this one"

This statement lacks arguments supporting it.

DOZ is "Search and Social Media Marketing done by professionals" according to their website, and Moz is "Software and Community for better Marketing". IANAL but I feel like there could indeed be confusion between the two, especially considering DOZ was CapSEO before, and Moz, SEOMoz.

So now it's a matter of trademarks and specifically timeline on who was first, but the details are not provided in the post.
> Poor people make lousy capital allocators

Do they? My intuition would be that giving a thousand people a thousand bucks each would mostly have better results than giving one person a million bucks. Occasionally the rich come up with a Gates Foundation or whatever, but there's an opportunity cost to handing billions of dollars to billg too.
Fines, criminal charges?

More importantly, the USG could find evidence against the individual, even invent something or help the target commit a crime, then "legitimately" say "See, Google is directly protecting real terrorists", which would help the USG far more than Google giving in to the NSLs.
> Now, at this time I had no degree to speak of (as of this writing I am an undergraduate at the Art Institute of Austin, majoring in a BS of Audio Production) so I knew I probably had to start back at the bottom of the ladder. I felt that, if I could get my foot in the door, within a year, whatever studio that hired me would realize that I would be quite an asset for their audio team.

This kind of sadly smacks of someone putting too much credence towards the myth that you need a degree to get hired. Or worse, the kind of person who believes that a degree entitles you to a job.

Also,

> In late 2010, I closed shop on my business, sold off every bit of music equipment I had, and sold off all of my possessions, except for my Xbox 360. I moved in with my sister and decided I needed to start over. With all of my free time, I managed to pick up Battlefield 3 on release (I was already playing Bad Company 2, and played the BF3 Beta to level cap). I would play it about eight hours a day, and eventually saw that I was ranked 3,338 on the Xbox leaderboards. I then made the decision to try and get back into the gaming industry.

Or, he quits his job and plays videogames for the majority of his day. Instead of, perhaps, writing his own scores or producing audio for an open project or a game mod to put into a portfolio (maybe he did do this, but I'm assuming not, since he sold off all of his possessions except his least useful thing - an Xbox).

This doesn't sound like a story about getting screwed over, it just sounds like he doesn't want to put (the right kind of) effort towards something he really wants.
Wow 42 years in solitary confinement for a 'political' prisoner

http://sfbayview.com/2012/hugo-pinell-is-42-years-in-isolati...
>Look into the history of health advice and you'll find the same pattern: something is said to be healthy and people are told to do it. Later it is found to be unhealthy, often dramatically so. Cigarettes and margarine / trans-fat are probably the clearest examples, but there are many others and many outside the realm of food.

Bad cherry picking used only to promote your own point. What about the enormous amount of good advice that has changed our lifestyles over the past century? Do you even know how people lived 100 years ago, how they ate?

What you should say is "some health experts have a habit of not always promoting scientifically sound advice, and many times promoting ideas that fly contrary to evidence. Fortunately as more evidence is gathered, those 'experts' are discredited and a better understanding of nutrition is the result".

When you don't cherry pick, you can find sources like:

The Harvard School of Public Health's Nutrition source. By any metric, "health experts promoting ideas".
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/

Can you take issue with these health experts providing advice? Anything they recommend that you think is grossly wrong? Because this is scientifically validated nutrition advice from health experts, the very thing you're trying to discredit by screaming "trans fats and cigarettes" as if those complex cases invalidate an entire scientific field of study.

Honestly, you're trying to smear the name of "experts" in general, without separating "health experts" (medical doctors, nutritionists, idiot laypeople who label themselves naturopaths, etc) from scientists. I feel like you're trying to find a way to ignore the entire science of nutrition because you got burned listening to a fad or because big tobacco ran roughshod over science six decades ago.
Cloud computing is a perfect solution for a world which is not run by humans. In the actual world, however, cloud computing is only a good solution for data you don't care about very much.
This certainly wasn't their strategy. IIRC, SEOMoz started out as SEO consultants and evolved into a software product supporting SEO / inbound marketing.
There's obvious confusion and brand dilution of Moz that can come as a result, and it's our duty to protect our trademark

I just can't agree with this assertion. There is not a legitimate fear that you're going to lose trademark protection just because someone is using a similar (but obviously different) name. This isn't the same thing as Xerox or Kleenex turning into a general noun, this is just shameful bullying.
ok, your usersnap solution is overkill for this one problem.

but it _is_ a good solution for a wide range of problems,
which just happens to include this one, but many more too.

so i clicked on "pricing". and therein lies the problem.

even considering the wide range of problems that it solves,
your solution is too expensive. oh sure, you'll be able to
get some big companies to sign on, even at the current rate,
but someone will soon decide that they can undercut you and
then you'll be in a competition, one that no one will win...

i think it'd be better for you to start with a lower price,
one that cannot be undercut so easily, and only after that
-- once you've built up some momentum, and a client-base,
which hopefully will create good word-of-mouth for you --
can you raise your rate. (oh, and when you do, be sure to
leave your existing clients at the lower rate, as a reward
for building your ground-floor.) once you have established
your own critical-mass, it won't matter if you have rivals.
indeed, their own push for clients will net some for you,
since you'll then be the leading provider for the service.

-bowerbird
http://www.arte.tv/de/1930194.html
Even though it existed, it only had niche use cases at the time. Mainly viewing high DPI images.
I'm very skeptical of Monsanto and their business practices, but that reasoning does not hold water.
Hey SeoMoz,

Guck Off
I didn't mean to be harsh in my initial reply, and questions are a way to avoid being harsh. If you see yourself often using this HN account to talk about seomoz I suggest putting it in your HN profile, that way if you don't disclose in a future comment, the next person may just make a note. In fact I thought of doing that but didn't, partly because I was curious whether you still worked for Moz, because in most places, like your blog, it just says "Distilled".

And your comment is pretty neutral on the face of it, but if you read between the lines it's a defense of seomoz. That's why I wondered if you were connected to them, since you left the first comment it seemed that you may have received a google alert.

Apology accepted.
Heh, as someone who's only heard about Moz/SEOmoz recently, I did think that they were related to Mozilla in some way.

On the other hand, it could be trademark law that's screwed up, because I understand that there may be dilution at stake if they don't defend their trademark.
I had a similar problem at work getting my external (27" 2560x1440) monitor working with my laptop (a Sony F-series) running Ubuntu. We solved it by lowering the refresh rate used by the HDMI output. It took quite a bit of tweaking to find the right values, and frankly I've forgotten what most of it meant, but this may help you:

In the "Monitor" section, we defined modelines:

ModeLine "2560x1440_33" 164.99 2560 2688 2960 3360 1440 1441 1444 1468 -hsync +vsync
ModeLine "2560x1440_30" 146.27 2560 2680 2944 3328 1440 1441 1444 1465 -hsync +vsync

Then, in the Screen section, I appear to have modes selected from there:

Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+360, DFP-1: 2560x1440_33 +1920+0; # ... and a bunch more that seem to be auto-generated by nvidia-settings?

The down side of this is that I can't connect my laptop to use any of our projectors in on conference rooms, but it's a small price to pay in order to be able to drive the larger screen.
Just an idea... I had a script doing record dumps at a prior job... (there were about 30 joins for getting a single record (denormalized) into json), so having each one in a separate .json.gz file was a useful backup solution... it was about zero cost when doing mirroring to another system for query/display purposes.

In the file system, to prevent too many records in a single directory it was split up per 1000 records... base/00001000/(1000-1999).json.gz ... this was mainly for being able to navigate this structure via a gui. I would suggest if your system can't do "basepath//*.json.gz" that you consider it.
You need rules to guide you on the fact that when you wade into a comment thread about the company you work for, its probably best to make that fact obvious?
Is this a good time already to start building service clones from other countries that have a big stamp on it:

"FBI-SAFE! 100% guarantee there's no ~FBI CRAMPS~ on your private communication, photos, locations, likes, etc we respect your privacy and we care for the future of mankind! Want to live in dystopian 1984 future in just about 10 years? We don't, too!

(service hosted and maintained in Brazil)"
Join Wall Street. Save the world
As a US citizen who has long admired New Zealand from afar, I have similar feelings.
That would explain the "loop" part of the name.