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Is my sarcasm detector broken? This is a fluffy inaccurate post masked by a bunch of equations any apt high school physics student could have gotten from their textbook.

Nobody uses mica capacitors for high energy-density applications, electrochemical EDLC's have much higher energy densities.

Furthermore switching regulators that can operate the phone relatively independent of input voltage are cheap and efficient.

Yes the other articles about this were bizarre, no, cell phone battery replacement (where nobody seems to mind plugging them in at night, and ED is king) are not a good application for any capacitor in the foreseeable future, but this article is hardly better.

More nitpicks: "The news reports don’t actually state how much energy the storage device can store."

when the story showed up on HN, I searched google news for a few words from the headline and found the ED in one of the top 5 links. I don't remember the exact number, but it was on the order of a SLA starter battery (so lower than a deep-cycle SLA battery). Clearly not in cell-phone territory.
>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?

With a Hamming distance of one between the names, why wouldn't this be plausible?
Here's my favorite part, moz was originally probably used because SEO's favorite directory was/is the open directory project or just "dmoz" as it is known to SEO's. And, in the early days, a great SEO strategy was to volunteer to manage/moderate a category, so that it would be easier to get your own or clients' sites approved.

I'm not sure if Rand was one of those SEO people playing that game, but it's ironic that "moz" came from an open directory and is now fighting about trademarks.

What's next? Patent trolling? ;)
I was about to dismiss this but have thought about it a bit more, and there's something interesting here.

There are already APIs built on top of you. There are the ones you know about, like Facebook and Twitter. There are the ones we know exist but have no direct access to, such as Amazon's backend or your police record. And there are the ones we may never know about, such as the NSA bot scanning this post right now and correlating it to my recent overseas cell phone calls.

I'm intrigued by the concept of aggregating this data. Imagine if the wealth of data collected about you all went to one place, and, most importantly, was controlled by you. Imagine if Company X had to pay you to know about your Amazon spending habits instead of paying Amazon. Imagine if scientists could perform long-term health studies in an instant because the data they need is already collected and just needs to be crunched.

I think the concept that's missing from your blog post is the idea of discoverability.
when google came, i was constantly confusing it with yahoo... because both of the companies have two 'O's in their names.

us customers are so dumb.

finally, i picked a side and chose to use google. this had nothing to do with the fact that google's product was BETTER. i was simply duped into it. goddammit!
I didn't know "a moron in a hurry" was an actual legal concept. Very interesting.
I'm all for the little guy, and I know this must suck for CapSEO/Doz. But SEOmoz seems to me to have acted above board here. I think Doz erred, and suggest they rebrand and move on.
I find myself playing devil's advocate against all the hate being slung at SEOMoz in these comments. Coming at this dispute from an impartial viewpoint (never heard of either of these companies before this story), it sounds like it could potentially be a valid case of trademark protection. The two companies sound like they're in a similar industry, and the names are undeniably similar.

I'm not that familiar with the specifics of trademark law, so I don't know what the legally appropriate outcome is. But after seeing some of the comments from SEOMoz employees, I would be interested in reading a full response post explaining their side of the story.
If Fitbit and all of those types of companies start having Export APIs a service could have wrapper around all of them. Then anyone with one of those devices could join easily. Could be the way to start, since you definitely don't want to be building the hardware and API altogether for an MVP.
I have to disagree on this one. Even if you appeal to a True authority, you're just moving the onus to the one you're arguing with. You're not giving a valid argument, but ask your opponent to go find a counterargument himself. I think many eod consider that a fallacy.
Why do you want to move people physically there? I could work there, but I can afford to choose and I don't want to move my family out, it's not worth it.
It's a trademark issue, but I agree petty IP issues are far too often standing in the way of innovation.
At some point, all those questions needs to result in outstanding improvement in productivity for there to be any viable expectation of upward mobility. I kept waiting to see it in the story, which then ended.
That actually makes me more disinclined to use Moz-- this isn't a snap-retort by an overeager in-house lawyer looking to earn their fee, this is the COO claiming that "Doz" is a trademark violation because it ends on "oz". It's flat-out depressing, and giving overt hints about "Change your name or we'll sue" ahead of time doesn't make this any better.
Sure, but dollars to donuts your ad copy won't convert well. It comes too close to explaining the psychological exploit being used, which will unravel it's effectiveness.
Inspired by this, I think I came upon a startup idea that could actually work.

I'm probably not to pursue it (my job search is going really well and I'll probably take something else) but anyone who's interested can reach out. I'm not afraid to share the idea.
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a statement like "Why not disclose that?" is, most of the time, taken as accusatory and not friendly.

No it isn't, but it belies a defensiveness and paranoia that you interpret it that way. Why not take it at face value?
I don't understand why they didn't just offer him $50K to rebrand. That would be both GENEROUS and EMPATHETIC.

http://moz.com/about/tagfee#generous
http://moz.com/about/tagfee#empathetic

Maybe it should be TAGFEEH +Hypocritical.
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What else do you expect from someone that gave his wife a brain tumor.
Because its a "wicked" problem to put it in SV speak how do you know out of say 10k Suspects who is going to go nuts and behead a squaddie in broad daylight - I am sure that the FBI NCIS etc are worried that something could happen in the USA

Unfortunately you have to be able to monitor suspects and having some judicial oversight is the best solution we have come up with.

The problem is I think in the US that you have the FBI which have mostly a traditional policing role as well as CT and security so you get procedures meant only for serious cases available to you average copper.

Might have been better to split the FBI in two and have a federal police force and a separate version of MI5 - you have so many intelligence services whats one more :-)
More importantly, the people that do the Very Bad Things that we want prison to deter often do not think enough about their actions to consider the possible consequences, and also don't really think that it could happen to them.

When people don't even think consequences will ever apply to them, how can the consequence act as a deterrent?
NoScript is one way.
Video game company mismanaged, film at 11.
Here's a post that Rand wrote about the origin of Moz in SEOmoz - http://moz.com/blog/what-does-the-moz-in-seomoz-mean

EDIT tl;DR based off the [moz] that was so popular years ago that stood for openness and transparency. DMOZ and others are included in this history.
You work for Moz too. The whole Moz company is here defending yourselves without identifying your employer.
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It's not always about reaching everyone as fast as possible. Going wide initially is usually a first time entrepreneurs mistake. Build something, figure out that your value proposition is compelling for your target users. As soon as you have hit "product market fit" go wide.

There is a reason companies are going iPhone first.
Telepathic and empathic abilities will emerge evolutionarily in the hominids through the mixed organization of their organisms and the long-term effects of information on the brain.

" If, during the long course of ages and under varying conditions of life, organic beings vary at all in the several parts of their organization, and I think this cannot be disputed; if there be, owing to the high geometric powers of increase of each species, at some age, season or year, a severe struggle for life, and this certainly cannot be disputed; then, considering the infinite complexity of the relations of all organic beings to each other and to their conditions of existence, causing an infinite variety in structure, constitution, and habits, to be advantageous to them, I think it would be a most extraordinary fact if no variation ever had occurred useful to each being’s own welfare, in the same way as so many variations have occurred useful to man. But if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being preserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offspring similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.
Bless you for your generosity, but too much credit. Its more like some one stopped getting enough attention on usenet.
Strange. His description of the situation sounds like the company treated him exactly the way it should treat contractors. They payed him an hourly wage to do a job, and kept him at arm's length.

That's what contracting is.

They asked for lots of hours, which is fine. They paid for them. They asked for some weekends, which is fine. As long as they pay for them, which they did. And as long as the contractor agreed to work them, which he did.

In short, it sounds like a completely amicable gig. Except for the part where the author is upset about it. He doesn't really explain what he thinks the company did wrong.

I can see lots of places where he did himself a dis-service. Agreeing to work in the software industry for $11/hr is one place, as is agreeing to work hours he would have preferred not to, as is misunderstanding the relationship and expecting mentoring, recognition, training, promotion, etc. But none of that is the company's fault.

You hear a lot of horror stories from the gaming industry. This doesn't seem to be one of them.
Please include the units in the results!
The problem is not with the product per se, but with the uneducated populace they force it unto. I never saw a Monsanto infomercial, but I'm pretty sure I eat their product every day. No wonder people are unwilling to give them their confidence.

That's why I think this story is great news for the general population. It will hopefully push Monsanto to change its lobbying practices. It should, in my opinion, take some years to really educate (not propagandize) the people instead of spending the millions on a couple of political lobbies. It would have a longer lasting effect. And if they're not willing to educate the people because their product really is a health hazard, so be it!
That looks really nice. Is there a live site up somewhere or do I have to do it myself? :)
Time to take rand's cheesy dick out of your mouth.
there may be dilution at stake if they don't defend their trademark

I don't buy it. Give me an example of a company that lost trademark protection because they merely allowed another company with a similar name to exist and I'll eat my hat.
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I don't know the statistical term for it, but the letters are on opposite sides of a QWERTY keyboard.
> with no other option than the action we took

What a strange thing to lie about. Btw, how long after Capseo's purchase of doz.com did SEOmoz file the intent-to-use on MOZ? It's more of a moral question than a legal one.
But where could he actually build such a long, and presumably straight, railway? He said the system has no "right of way" issues.
Working for free sets you up as desperate in the eyes of your employer and treasonous to your fellow competitors.
It's difficult to respond to your core point when you just list off a bunch of kookiness and try to use that as a basis for saying that nearly every recent change in food has been bad.

You first need to demonstrate that food changes have been overall bad before we can even accept your core point, let alone respond to it.
I expect it's because he made a big whiny deal about working one weekend, in a culture where 60-hour weeks are the norm.

Flip side, working for free on an hourly job is...baffling. The arrangement is: you work an hour, they pay you for an hour. You start working more than they want to pay you for, they get concerned that you're going to bill them for it. If they're willing to pay for whatever you can put in, they get concerned that you're not being compensated - nay, refusing compensation - when you should be. Was the time he spent really something they wanted him to do?
Caps tend to explode when they fail, and high energy caps explode violently. You always, always, want to round down when spec'ing caps, not up.

But forget all that. Lets do it differently and fix our math toward the author's original comparison, the 1500mAh battery, not his weird, somewhat arbitrary choice, of a 6V-rated cap which drains to 2.5V after ~10 hours. And instead of talking about electricity, let's talk about what we're really after: energy.

A 1.5Ah battery stores about 22.68kJ of energy when fully charged to 4.2V (1.5Ah×3600C×4.2V=22,680J). From above, At 2.7V, a 1200F cap stores 8.478KJ of energy. 22.68kJ/8.478kJ = 2.675. Meaning we need at least 3 of these caps to meet or exceed the energy storage of a 1500mAh battery.

So we're both wrong in the context of the original comparison. And more importantly, so is the author.

Edit: This 3000F supercap rated for 2.7V would get us damn close to the 22.68kJ requirement, coming in at 21.87kJ of total storage: http://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Maxwell-Technologies/BCA...

Edit again:

I messed up again! The battery energy capacity is actually less than 22.68kJ, because the energy equation I used assumes that the voltage stays constant during the battery's discharge cycle. It doesn't. For a constant-current discharge of a LiPoly battery, the mean voltage is something like 3.4-3.6V (estimating from the discharge voltage curve, assuming discharge stops at 2.7V). So really we're talking something closer to 19kJ of energy stored within the battery. By the figures in her submission, her cap would weigh 262.6g and would occupy 30.8m^2 (no figures on thickness to calculate volume). Titanium density is 4.5g/cm^3. Assuming titanium dominates the density of her material, it'd be about 58cm^3 in volume - something like 10cm by 5.8cm by 1cm. If the density matched that of copper, it'd be about half that size.
I've read (though I cannot find a link) of a homeless (or sick?) person who commited crimes because he felt prison's shelter + food was better than freezing/starving on the street. Reading the account, it was hard to consider than an irrational decision.
I think most people who are anti-GMO really just want to know what they are eating. They just want to see a label on it if it has GMOs in it.

The fact is that we don't know what GMOs can do to you. They might be safe, they might not be. It has to be different in every single case, since in every single case, you're talking about different combinations of DNA. Can that possibly be dangerous in a particular case? It sure can. Both directly and indirectly.
The rest are in various stages of dying.
Yes, because belief in Christ is clearly an indication of mindless conservatism or creationism.
If I don't know exactly what parameters I need it's easier to quickly scan a table than toggle individual options.

Maybe I want some subset of features that aren't available together but I'm willing to compromise on one or more of them.
"I thought I knew what the BSD license meant, but my understanding of it hadn't considered the implications for hardware distribution, and I imagine that's true for most people."

Right, and no offense, but your solution was then to just solve this specific problem rather than ask about what other legal implications you were missing.

For example, ISC specifically only mentions "this software".
If you were to ISC license everything, but also include say, IC layouts, they arguably would not be covered.

Worse, IC layouts ("mask works") are, in the US, a completely separate set of rights that are arguably not covered at all by the "use, copy, modify, and distribute" part of ISC (and have the software issue).

Basically, there are a large set of issues with current licenses and open hardware, and you identified one, and then immediately switched to some other license without considering the other implications as well. It may well turn out for your particular project there are no other interesting implications, but as you say "Details like these are easy to gloss over, but they can have a major impact on whether open-source projects can actually be used by others."

With no offense meant (really), I don't think what you've demonstrated is a good example of handling that well.
On this topic, today HP Cloud opened access to their Akamai Anycast DNS service with 75 edge locations. Pricing is about the same as Route 53 ($0.35/domain + $0.55/million queries). Not as easy to use as Route 53 yet - configuration is via API only.

https://www.hpcloud.com/products/DNS
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I don't see anywhere that gives a clear timeframe of how long this person contracted for a company.

For starters, you're doing play testing for a game. Is it really that difficult to see why you're hired on contract? When the game has been released, what are you going to play test? Sure, there will be other games, but unless you have a crazy EA-style development house (doesn't sound like it's the case), it doesn't make sense to be paying people to twiddle their thumbs for 9-12 months waiting for the next upcoming release to be tested.

Adding to that, the fact of the matter is that every job has a pay ceiling. It may seem like a cold business practice, but there are pay thresholds where an employee's compensation exceeds the maximum value the employee's position brings to the company. Adding play testers full time is a poor business practice for this very reason -- the ceiling is very short, and at a certain point it will no longer be "worth it" to pay higher wages to even high-performing play testers.

The issue of the length of employment is a big one. A good friend of mine JUST got hired full time at a large company after freelancing for them for 5 years! Getting hired out of a contract isn't something that just happens after a few months. Companies that work on fiscal years might have to wait for budget approvals before hiring people. Furthermore, it's not just the title that changes: companies are often paying thousands of dollars more when an employee goes full time to cover retirement and health care benefits.

One last thing: even if you had a shitty time at this company, not showing up to work is literally the WORST thing you can do if you have any interest in working in a particular industry. Your reputation really does follow you and can make it very hard to get anywhere. I personally would never hire a candidate that I knew pulled something like that -- I expect that, when an employee doesn't get what they want the first time, they keep working hard while still being persistent when it comes to compensation. Giving up and slacking off isn't the answer.
It would be nice but useless as 99.999% of people protesting against GMO couldn't care less about science. They don't know the first thing about what GMO are and where they come from, all the know it's some scary stuff that "contains genes" and since it comes from the large corporation it would kill us all unless we march on the streets with slogans. More science helps when there's no information, when there's no interest in information more science would not do a thing.
since there are millions of different competing interests in electing officials, and passing policies, you always risk not having control over government policies and regulations.
There are 2 things:

1. GMO is famous for making crop that produce herbicide or other sort of toxin, terminator seeds, or stuff that resist to things that you would not like to be sprayed on your food. Bad PR. "Technically cool" food is not a selling point in Europe.

2. Recently the industry has proven that they will fraud on actual existing regulation with the meat crisis in Europe and nobody has forgotten the other various food crisis from the 2 last decades. There is a massive distrust of the food industry, and the GMO has as much potential for good than for bad.
I had the same experience, but my greatest area of expertise is in Haskell.
I have decided to rename my seach engine company from SEARCHMoogel to Moogel (pronounced "moogle") and file a trademark lawsuit against Google for being too similar. I'll let you know how it goes. I think we have a winning argument, here.
What did the "moz" in SEOmoz originally mean? It was a strange choice to begin with.
His only duty was to report the bug. He didn't have to look for it. That's what I meant.
That said, I'm going to file an official trademark registration for our brand shortly. We've been using it for a couple of years and should be pretty safe, but just in case somebody comes along and tries to start something... A USPTO trademark application costs ~275.00 USD for one mark and one class of goods, so it's not a tremendous expense. Might as well go ahead and go for the extra protection of having a registered trademark... "better safe than sorry" right?
Fair enough. Thanks for the clarification, Ben. Will add Global Associate at Moz to my profile here.
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If you could afford the monitor the graphic card would hardly be an issue.
"Thank Christ, America is in charge" - a quote like that clearly is...
It also looks vastly less efficient, loading every image size in addition to the one needed.

The server side technique could be achieved in any language really, so it doesn't require PHP unless we use that library.
If you want to stay in office, you do things which gain you political capital--you protect your citizens from threats real or fabricated, you promote the economy through sound policymaking or cronyism, and so on and so forth. There is nothing inherently good or bad about my statement; one simply does not do anything in policymaking without a profit motive, be it for themselves or their constituents.