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Stock photos that don't suck
But... but... funnies!
This is ridiculous! The provisional trademark "Candy" should be refused under Section 2(e)(1) Refusal – Merely Descriptive. Simple as that!

"...A mark is merely descriptive if it describes an ingredient, quality, characteristic, function, feature, purpose, or use of an applicant’s goods and/or services. TMEP §1209.01(b); see, e.g., DuoProSS Meditech Corp. v. Inviro Med. Devices, Ltd., ___ F.3d ___, 103 USPQ2d 1753, 1755 (Fed. Cir. 2012) (quoting In re Oppedahl & Larson LLP, 373 F.3d 1171, 1173, 71 USPQ2d 1370, 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2004)); In re Steelbuilding.com, 415 F.3d 1293, 1297, 75 USPQ2d 1420, 1421 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (citing Estate of P.D. Beckwith, Inc. v. Comm’r of Patents, 252 U.S. 538, 543 (1920))."

King.com must've bribed the trademark officials. Disgusting!
Comcast: view your monthly bill as a narrated movie, with motion graphics
By that logic neutron stars should be black holes. But they're not.
There was this response by one of the devs:

http://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/1vh94e/dagger_upda...

They seem to be moving away from Dagger:

"We will switch our PoW from Dagger to a hybrid PoW/PoS system to be developed via a bountied competition conducted by our university partners and open to the general community for participation." https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=428589.0;all

Whether this instills confidence that they are agile and not ideologues or shows inexperience is your call.
Actually I reposted it because before it had an obscure title and passed unnoticed, I changed the title and reposted it
I think he is saying the gravity is not even enough to have that effect and therefore would be points that are escapable?

I always wondered if a black hole could become completely visible again if it collected enough mass to spread its surface area out so that gravity would become thin enough for light to escape again. Kind of like how only the surface of a pond sometimes freezes.
"App deletes/uninstalls – How many users deleted the app and a way of identifying them (an ID or equivalent)"

That's none of your damn business, app developers.
This was an interesting part of King's history. Years ago back when they were just a skill gaming site they used to license flash games over at FGL.com which spread virally and funnel traffic back to your site from other gaming websites that host the game.

I forget the exact details but some friends of mine made the clone after the originals' licensing deal went to a competing portal at the last minute.
See the protocol diagram here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=321228 (alice and bob can be played by the same party for a cross chain transaction). There are some additional timing considerations for reorg safety when multiple chains are involved, but simply delaying all chain operations by enough blocks to make a reorg infeasible should be sufficient.
Why? Shutting down the shuttles is only going to "prove" to the protesters that their protests are working, which will lead to them trying to go farther.

Giving in to and placating the protesters isn't going to make them stop, it's just going to make them try for more, and potentially more outlandish, things.
I don't understand why they don't do this automatically. For any image where you provide both retina and non-retina, strip out the one that isn't needed when sending it to a device.
I think with all of these sorts of outsourced items you have to factor in risk and quality.

Having this very narrow niche lets them really keep the quality level high as they can tweak and QA across multiple jobs doing the same thing.
Engineering Particles on the Nanoscale to Redesign the Future of Medicine
Ask HN: What are your best tips for organizing conferences?
Getting speakers, finding cheaper venues, engaging attendees, etc.

Compiling a list for the startup I work for, BusyConf.
Feds Infiltrate, Bust Counterfeit Card Shop
If you are using rails or Sinatra I am a fan of cloud66. It manages deployment and you can back it with a half dozen different cloud providers. If you have load balancing enabled you can hook up to multiple servers from multiple providers.
How about user profiles so a family can share an ipad?
No, they're worried that the new construction is not as durable as the old construction. There are some fairly major changes such as moving to unibody aluminum from a ladder-frame steel. Fundamental changes tend to illicit worries in something that is as well known, used, and liked. Surprises are unwelcome in tools.

Your statement is just ill-informed crap that disparages others.
But these fees are only paid to miners— not all the other nodes validating the transactions. If only miners validate, what will keep miners honest (e.g. from writing themselves a blank check for more coins).
Would be good if you could enter your location - mine got Esquimalt, which is a neighborhood about 5km from me. Apparently it's foggy there, but it's bright and sunshiney where I am.
A hybrid system sounds reasonable, but I'm more interested in how they think that Dagger is ASIC-proof. I can't tell without a real description of the algorithm, but what is presented doesn't seem hard to parallelize.
...the wealthy will keep acquiring real estate as an investment long after their need for it as an actual place to live has been sated.

Negligible problem. SF has a very low vacancy rate. Worry about it if it happens.

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/san-francisco-vacancy...

As for (3), we are nowhere near the point where that is necessary. No developer should ever clean their own house unless labor is scarce. Yet strangely, we have people claiming they can't find work, and we also have high costs for domestic labor.

The real problem is that taxes and transfers drastically reduce the incentive for people to do low skill work: http://johnhcochrane.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/taxes-and-cliffs...
So wonderful no one ever chooses to use it outside of Apple Land.
Sorry I didn't mean the sol sun, I mean a sun with enough mass to become a black hole.

Neutron stars are in a sense "failed" black holes because of not enough mass. I wonder if they could eat more mass and achieve that status though.
You seem to be calling out Hibernate as the problem, but really the problem is the developers that either don't understand or refuse to interact with a major component of their application (the SQL database). A good ORM will make CRUD actions quick to implement and will get out of the way when more complex queries are needed.
Daniel Kahneman’s Favorite Approach For Making Better Decisions
Not to go too deep into the weeds, but there are comparable trade-offs, such as premiums being a percentage of pay instead of a flat fee. The German system is without a doubt better, but I think (and hope) that the US is closing this gap with the ACA and a general awareness of the problem.

But we don't need to compare ledgers to show that 80k USD in Berlin, Munich or Frankfurt won't go nearly as far as 200k in SV or SF. That's what exchange rates and the big mac index are for, and that's why I converted the currency to USD in my original comment. You can argue the rate is maybe 10 or 15% off, and I can argue for 10-15% the other way, but no way is a dollar (0.82 EUR) 2-3 times as powerful in Germany.
Ive built about 4 apps in Xamarin now - nothing major though.

I love the ability to write apps in C#. The language is amazing. However, it can be exceedingly difficult to use 3rd party libraries in your application. It is possible - you can generate bindings for static libraries, but sometimes you run into solutions you just can't solve.

Also, all the tutorials you run into on the web are using Objective C. So you still have to know the language. The Xamarin community is practically dead compared to the vibrant native ecosystem that iOS enjoys.

Ultimately, I'm rethinking the decision to go Xamarin, and I am considering going native.

What I'll miss:
Ability to have Android and iPhone apps sharing a common codebase.
C#.
How is that not relative to the motions of all of the other masses in the universe?
I'm referring hardware/performance parity among the platforms. I sat through too many Apple events where they marched out some obscure crazy benchmark proving their (IBM) crappy CPUs were 1 million times more powerful than Intel's. Fast forward a few years and surprise! Apple moved to Intel because of their "superior roadmap" Notice how that implies that moving forward Intel is the performance winner but historically was not.

For fun read this, 2 yeas before the switch to Intel: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2003/06/23Apple-and-IBM-Intr...
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It's also closed-source.
And that picture is “Road to Point Reyes”, created in 1983 by the Lucasfilm division that eventually became Pixar. http://alvyray.com/Art/PtReyes.htm
it just turned 2014 and last quarter of 2013 is old news?
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I agree that identifying them feels like a huge privacy issue - but geographic information would be interesting.
I was actually playing around with this idea. You think it would get used?

I'm also slightly torn on whether each upvote should just be equivalent to like $.01 in doge or let people tip whatever they want.

I have a good idea of how to make it happen just not sure it is worth spending time on.
CarrierWave better storage path. Solve problem "Too many links"
Really? I suspect that someone said this about the first companies to use lighthearted branding. Look at McDonald's. Using a goofy image to win over consumers has been a thing for at least 100 years. SRSBSNS-people could really care less if it helps them make money. That being said, DOGE likely has some technical problems that will crop up in about a year.
All C is also Objective-C. If you're writing it in a .m file, it's ObjC, technically.

Any line you draw between "C" and "Objective-C" is going to be arbitrary and generally useless. The only line that's supported by objective facts is assigning "C" to everything in the C standard, and "Objective-C" to the additions, but then that means that things like if statements, return statements, and variable declarations are "not Objective-C".
How is that imperative in the slightest?
Right, they automated the manual process of gathering email... which I think is still automation?
Oh, right, I forgot the flattening effect. That makes me feel a bit better.
That's the same argument about non-mining Bitcoin nodes. Those who choose maximum security have to perform thousands of ECDSA checks and store the whole blockchain. For everyone else there's Masterc... mobile app. Your argument is valid, but not (imho) specific to Ethereum.
I'd show support by buying it if it ran on something other than an Amazon Kindle Fire DX. :-( Rumor has it that one can side-load it, but I'm not going to hassle with that only to find out it has issues on a Galaxy Note 3.
This is actually a link to, and summary of, a paper by a world famous physicist writing about an interesting topic.

I imagine it has actually been reviewed by some of Hawking's peers before he published to the internet. I know that's not the generally accepted usage of the phrase peer review but I think it is probably becoming more normal practice.
OS X is free, if you buy a $3000 dongle ;)
Satoshi controls about 14% of all BTC, and 7% of all BTC that will ever exist.
Directly from the report linked off that page:
"In 2013, pickups held a market share of 13.6 percent of light-vehicle sales and 26.6 percent of light-truck sales"

From the accompanying graph, it looks like the definition of "light-truck" includes crossovers, SUVs, vans, and pickups.

https://www.nada.org/NR/rdonlyres/AAD0D79A-7C46-489F-B738-81...
"Look at all these devices with curated lists of shortcuts, now look at this browser that has...the ability to create a curated list of shortcuts"

The only way Google is killing bookmarks is by being useful.
So, very dark grey pits might be more likely?
I presume that's percentage change from August as a baseline.

(The title is still awful)
I agree, and I don't want to make it sound like Uber isn't doing anything interesting or innovative. I just don't think that what they're doing is interesting or innovative enough that we should consider it all an original idea that others could "clone".

Taking smartphones and eBay-style ratings and integrating it into a smartphone app is great! But imitators, if they are "cloning" anything, are cloning eBay and car services, not Uber. The combination is extremely useful but ultimately nothing special.
How about replacing property taxes with a land value tax? http://qz.com/169767/the-century-old-solution-to-end-san-fra...
You can still send it for free, but if you want me to read it you'll have to pay! ;)

Actually, if the amount is a flat or mostly-flat rate then most e-mail exchanges would be effectively free (send message, get response, net cost = 0). I'm not sure how it would work with mailing lists/groups though...
And rather expensive - their recommended pricing is 1000 dollars per developer, per platform, per year...
Or a reason to use something like tripwire.
This sets a dangerous precedent. Soon there will be laws written that you cannot criticize the policies of the federal government on a website. And so on. I would gladly defend this guy, even if he is a scumbag.
The desktop GUI system (Workbench) was more Xerox than Macintosh, and stayed stuck in 1982 for a long time. But the Amiga was far more than just a games machine: Its multimedia capabilities were so far in advance of anything else for a decade that it became to music and video what the Mac was to design and publishing.

The best example of this would be the Video Toaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_Toaster For much of the 1990s, it was the king of real-time broadcast video production, unsurpassed until the advent of hardware-accelerated PC graphics late in the decade.
IIRC the rationalization he used was that the person who uploaded the photos, not the subject, was the copyright holder because they were the photographer, thus there was no copyright infringement. I don't know how he verified that, if at all.

Now, hacking into email accounts and stealing photos is another matter...
This scheme didn't hurt Doom though, far from it, so what is the difference?

Is the change in platform somehow making the difference? Is it that Doom was perceived as technically advanced, while these smartphone games are not? Has the audience just gotten less mature, and more entitled?
The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Conversation With Steve Jobs
To celebrate the 30 year anniversary or the Mac, Steven Levy released an unseen and raw interview with Steve Jobs.
Even non partner lawyers get paid much more than software engineers - the number of lawyers that make partner is tiny.
other incentives like what? The only thing I can think of as a reasonable incentive would be to create something that heals the sick but... ohhhhhhhhhhhh..

Seriously though I want to stab that guy. Maybe we should ask the scientists who put in the real work who they think should have access to the drugs.
Agreed. There's a commit fest going on right now, anyone should feel free to jump in and review a couple of patches with us. Even if you don't know C.

https://commitfest.postgresql.org/action/commitfest_view?id=...

Review is a good way to learn about new features, by the way. That's the main reason I'm able to actually write recursive queries, for instance.
> 1) Device testing without a dev account or jailbreaking.

I wish they would let users install their applications without a dev account. I really don't want to pay $90 just to be able to do that. Being able to sell your apps on the App Store would justify the price, but otherwise it's quite unreasonable.
The repairability score of 7/10 seems unfair. Opening up this computer could kill you! Surely that deserves a 0/10 ?
And we're still stuck on 1.4.2! Surprisingly difficult getting rid of older versions if your plugins all depend on an old version...

we've got to rewrite 4 plugins due to API breaks to get anywhere near this version.

Will never import any community plugins again. jQuery and jQuery UI only.
Wikipedia Usage Across Time And Different Language Zones
I absolutely loved this course! Paul Hegarty is a genius and a wonderful educator.
Hacking a More Comfortable Mouse
Apple doesn't really treat its developers very well. It focuses on consumers. Some of the things on this list are shockingly bad design decisions from a developers point of view. And they are minor thing to fix. The fact that they haven't been fixed, this many years after the launch of the App store, tells you something about Apple's fondness for developers. Remember, the original iOS device didn't even have an App store. Jobs had to be convinced to let you guys onto the platform.

I think that in the long term that attitude is going to come back to haunt Apple.

Say what you will, but Microsoft always treated developers like its customers, not as some annoying beggars to be dealt with only under geneva convention standards, and no better.
Well I guess in theory since you could build clang/llvm for Windows and Linux you could build the iOS cross-compiler toolset. The code-signing (not sure if that one is open sourced already for OS X) would need to be ported.

App installation could work over https similar to TestFlight.

SO yeah, lots of missing pieces in there too I'm sure, but doesn't seem impossible if you're feeling up to the challenge.
The devise forms / stylesheets deserve a litte more love...
I don't think it is a matter of intelligence, just skillset. Query planners could go a long way with a few people with strong relational logic skills that could prove logical equivalence of expressions.
Show HN: I open-sourced my web app alternative to Illustrator
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Unless the computer you are upgrading is more than what? 3 revisions old OSX wise? Seems analogous to Service Packs doesn't it?
Think All the Best Domain Names are Taken? Think Again.
Usually I agree with the whole slippery slope angle but I don't think you want to hang your legal hat on THIS case.

Wait for a more redeeming party and case imo, there's value in having some sympathy for the defendant. These are the defendants you're looking for.
iOS has support for something called XPC. IIRC, it's how the mail composer, etc is invoked by apps (behind the scenes). I'd be very surprised if the API isn't made public in the next version of iOS, which would help facilitate some of these things - it would at least allow easier app-to-app integration.

More info: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...
The Hacker Guide to b2b lead list creation
If it works, why not implement it? Do they have to disregard anything Google does first?
If you are using C#, have you ever also made an app for... Well... windows phone?
Having submitted to a nature journal, the peer review process took several months with new experiments and new theory being requested. You are wrong to say that the paper went through blindly.
Huh???

How do you use Cryptsy and multipool at the same time? multipool converts to BTC automatically and only pays out in BTC. multipool also doesn't mine Dogecoin all the time, just the most profitable coin, and keeps which coin it is mining a secret from the user.

Your story doesn't add up.

EDIT: Hashcows is similar to multipool except it tells the user what it mines, has a slightly lower fee, and allows users to keep the alt coins or auto convert directly to BTC. It hasn't mined DOGE lately, here's what it is mining.

https://hashco.ws/stats/
This Landing Page Gained 12,000 Paid Subscribers in just 24 Hours
I don't work in startups to get rich. I work in startups because when I have an idea it's a part of my personality and mindset that I have to attempt to bring it to fruition. Some ideas wind up terrible, some great. Some fail, some succeed. It's about having the confidence that I can in fact flesh something out and possibly create something sustainable.

That and the whole thing about hating working a 9-5 just to warm a seat.
Interesting. I have been thinking about this in terms of SSH more so than HTTPS. So I own a domain, and I want to be able to set up a bunch of hosts in that domain for access by a bunch of users. I don't want to keep trying to distribute server key fingerprints all the time, much less trying to keep them up to date. Two solutions I found that would actually solve this problem:

a. Use a DNS TXT record to store the fingerprint [1]. This is all great except unless I can be sure that the DNS response is authentic, I cannot trust the TXT record. In fact this is worse than just keeping my own known_hosts as now I don't even get a warning when someone is actively MITM'ing me.

b. Use Monkeysphere [2] and get everyone to do the same. The problem with this is that support for this requires the users to know what they are doing. It also requires everyone to securely exchange GPG keys (don't even get me started on exchanging keys. Working remotely is a nightmare for this).

I think if this can be solved for a decentralized system like SSH where you control everything about the key (generation, expiration, revocation, etc.) It can be solved for the web as well, but I have not found a solution that's less of a PITA than the status quo.

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4255

[2] http://web.monkeysphere.info/
No; adding mass doesn't make it less dense (well, it's a singularity, so it's always infinitely dense. But even if it weren't, normally when you add mass to something it becomes more compressed and gets denser, not less dense), just heavier.

(Of course, singularities don't make any sense - which is part of what Hawking's talking about. But that's the classical model of a black hole)
Janky way around it: bundle your assets separately and put them on S3. It's a crappy user experience, to be sure, but it at least doesn't waste disk space. Granted, you can't do that with all your assets (default.png and icons).

I'm not saying that Apple doesn't need to fix this, but there are some other approaches.
From what I've heard from colleagues, and seen while working on projects there, Munich sucks precisely because it's so expensive and the pay does not track the cost of living. Working in Frankfurt pays better, and living there is just slightly cheaper. Berlin's cost of living is catching up fast.

You're right that 90k USD (~65-70k EUR) for a dev is not unheard of, but it appears to be the final stop on the salary train for that profession, unfortunately.
The distinction for Bitcoin is that a smartphone can keep up with the maximum possible computation load from validation.

The design is very purposefully limited to keep the validation computation so cheap that it is effectively free, and no amount of fee paying can convince miners to allow more computation since the limits are a property of the system enforced by all nodes just as the supply of coin is limited.

I think it's a less useful mental model to think of what Bitcoin is doing as execution. What a Bitcoin script is really is a witness of an execution that the signer performed— proof that he executed it faithfully— rather than the computation itself. It's just a product of engineering that the simplest (to implement) way to verify execution is to perform it again, but its not intrinsic.
True. Hibernate isn't really the issue - more the existence of Hibernate sometimes creating lazy engineering. I guess I'm old school - my preference (even with simple CRUD) is to build the queries myself if nothing else to avoid object models in code being translated into often flawed data schema by the ORM (if you happen to let your ORM create database objects for you).

Even with simple CRUD I've had to unwind faulty implementations where a smallish (50GB) database was being eager fetched into memory because of poor ORM config and overuse of FK relationships - when a user did something as simple as logging into the app.

And I'm not talking junior developers - some of these guys were 10+ years at Amazon.