skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The managers, people who run the company, have an obligation to maximize the profits (in US, and probably UK), otherwise the shareholders can sue them for loosing their money, even if they did the morally right thing.

Nope. You certainly got it wrong. See the linked posts from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7129788. One of the potential source for that confusion might be that directors decisions can be challenged on the presumption that they are wasteful, but you'd have to prove that paying a decent wage is wasteful which is a very hard hurdle to overcome. Bad faith may be another option - but that's a different story.

Being traded on the stock market provides a lot of incentive to maximize profits since more profitable companies trade better - but it's not a legal requirement.
That bit blew my mind.

I'd love to see some of those point clouds. Maybe Google has an artist-in-residence who could 3D print varies landmark locations?
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It'll be interesting to see how Canonical will respond, if they will respond. Their service is called 'Ubuntu One' or sometimes just 'One'.
There is little connection if any between people speaking Russian and those wanting a "Russian" Ukraine. I come from russian-speaking part of Ukraine myself and hardly anyone here supports current government.
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Well the government does not generate the keys, or access the signed data. The smartcard does, inside the chip. The spec is here: http://www.id.ee/public/TB-SPEC-EstEID-Chip-App-v3.4.pdf

Forgotten who the chip manufacturer is, but basically what you'd describe would be an attach against the chip manufacturer and their key generation algorithms and randomness.

Estonian ID cards are made by Trüb AG, which does id cards also for Switzerland, Germany, Dubai and countless other countries. And the Estonian card personalization if I remember correctly is also outsourced to a private party.
Prince Targets Facebook Users in $22m Live Concert Piracy Lawsuit
indeed .. the numbers should be even better now.
For the employer, especially, the cost would extend beyond a direct financial one. It would be difficult to pursue such a legal path against a current/former employee without other current and potential future employees catching wind of it.

I imagine it would be a massive blow to the reputation and hence recruiting power of any organization that was perceived as unfairly penalizing an employee for working on something unrelated to his day job in his own spare time.
The Classic Client/Agency Concept Is Broken.
Just so you know, Microsoft was forced to change the name after losing a trademark case in the UK.
I'd be curious to see how they're dealing with rack mounting these. I have a vision that looks like a wine rack.....
My craziest one turned out to be caused by World War 2.

Bug report from a bank said that a customer's birth date was not accepted when trying to open an account - they'd tried and found that any data within a range of about a month in the summer of 1945 was not accepted. This was a German bank, and the application was written in Java.

I could reproduce the bug and found that the date was rejected at a very low technical level in the Calendar class (long before any domain validation happened), just as if you'd entered the 30th of February. Some debugging sessions later I found that the Calendar class calculates a lot of internal date and time fields, and the daylight savings time field containd a value of 2 hours, which was rejected by internal sanity checks.

The name of that field led me to a Java API bug report which explained everything: The Locale for Germany is "centered" on Berlin, and in the summer of 1945 Berlin and the Soviet-occupied zone of Germany actually did have a 2 hour daylight savings time (which happened to be identical to Moscow time). Some smartass in the Java development team had "corrected" the sanity check in Java 1.4 because he believed 1 hour DST to be the maximum - but Berlin is in fact not the only timezone which had a 2 hour DST at one time or another. The bug was fixed in Java 1.5
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I don't know if I agree with the notion that the iPad is good solely for content consumption. If you ever have to write in a foreign language, you will note that it is much easier to write on the iPad thanks to terrific internationalization support in the form of language specific auto-correct and virtual keyboards that do things normal keyboards can't (like pressing on a key for a second and getting several accented characters). I have always wanted to write an APL interpreter for iPad because dealing with the APL glyphs on the iPad keyboard would theoretically workout nicely. I have not tried texpad, but their use of customizable virtual keyboards certainly looks promising.
It's really awesome to see how much of the world looks almost exactly like my street.
I agree that keeping criminals out of the streets is the first reason. But also to make an example, so future crimes are prevented. Then, while we're at it, rehabilitation.

Punishment is a barbaric way to look at it. Revenge doesn't mix very well with a legal system. (emotions vs objetive POV)
It makes them less credible, you less credulous.
There's also the Clarion/Dokeos/Claroline line. About 5 years ago I had to decide on one LMS for a site, and I went with those ones (Dokeos a the time). It was simple but feature-complete enough to achieve what we wanted. To the teachers we showed Moodle, it felt like a big screen full of confusing buttons.
Let't see how many votes we got...
Even though I mostly end up in the middle of nowhere this surely makes me want to travel :)
Hey King, fight someone your own size: "Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga".
They should have hosted with Amazon instead of Azure.
Does it actually pick a completely random spot? Because the first one it showed me was a place I visited recently halfway around the world.
Peru just solved as well :)
When you're trying to support multiple architectures and OSes and your ABI took a decade or two to settle down, and all your tools are open-source so you have the source anyways, I can see the instinct to just say "I'll just compile it against the target machine" even if it's absurdly wasteful.
Windows Phone sales stall again -- can anything save it?
It's sort of like being omnipresent, how could it not be intriguing. One thing that's missing - live 3D footage viewable with your Oculus Rift... One can dream.
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Saying goodbye to Octopart-powered HNSearch
HN’s search functionality is now powered by Algolia (YC W14) instead of Octopart (YC W07).

While it’s sad to say goodbye to something we built with love, I for one welcome a new player with the energy and motivation to build a search engine that does HN justice.

When we launched HNSearch it was because we wanted to show the world what we could do with our search infrastructure. We had built a powerful search database (ThriftDB) and we were eager to see how far we could take it. Unfortunately, we never had the time to focus on improving HNSearch or on getting users for ThriftDB so it’s time to sunset those products.[1]

In terms of Octopart on the other hand, the future has never looked brighter. We followed our own path and and now we’ve assembled an outstanding team that’s passionate about opening up access to part data for a new generation of hardware hackers.[2] Our proprietary search infrastructure is still one of the best we’ve seen and we have some ambitious plans for how to make it even better.

HN, thanks for the memories. We are very proud to have powered search for such an incredible community.

Andres

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I believe they have Street View backpacks. Not sure of the specifics, but if I remember correctly you can walk around with the backpack and take pictures of places that cars can't get to and have them added to the map.
I'm about halfway through building my first (public) app and am trying to prep for launching it and this list seems pretty great, several things I hadn't considered. Anyone care to corroborate?
Great! I am getting lots of beautiful scenery. An up vote/down vote or ratings system would be great, and then you could start compiling a list of the most beautiful (or interesting) views.
HTTP/2.0 And You
In 1982, the Justice Department got sick of the scattered laws and, to show how ludicrous the situation was, they tried to organize them. After estimating ~3,000 criminal offenses, they gave up. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230431980... The protest fell on deaf ears, Congress did nothing to clean up the criminal code, and no one has seriously tried it since.
Used to game with John in the nineties. I don't think his contribution to documenting the history of the game can be overstated, and that will probably only ring more true in the future. Playing At The World is kind of an amazing book.
If you want to punish them, torture them. That is what torture is actually good at.
Furnace controller product - optimized energy consumption in a steel recycling furnace. Customer reported the furnace got 'stuck' every couple of hours, the electrodes quit moving so it continued to burn electricity (megawatts!) but wasn't melting anything.

Turned out it was the 'power saving' setting on the PC. To save a couple of watts it slowed down the CPU, and screwed up a furnace that burned megawatts. Probably wasted more electricity in a day than the 'power save' feature saved in the whole US for a year.
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i usually recommend it in my workshops/talks/consulting

the post was already getting to big

i might will do a dedicated post on health dashboards - where they fit in well
Not to mention rack mounting in a way that protects the enclosure from scratches from both rack vibration and when working on or adding/removing neighbouring units.
Looks like a rather shallow analysis.
Semantically, sky wasn't the one needing to go. You don't save memory on the drive (unless they meant the bytes in the microcontroller), maybe on the magnetic disk and not necessarily.

</snark>
Actually, if you each make $200k, you'll end up paying more taxes. Up to a combined taxable income of $146,400, two people making the same amount would pay the same amount of taxes whether or not they are married. Above that, they will pay more if they are married than if they are single.
OP is in the UK. Parties to a court case should show reasonable attempts to sort that out before going to court. Costs can be awarded.

Your advice seems to fit a US, not UK, situation.

(But obviously IANAL).
In those days, the ads were an integral part of the experience and actually _added_ to the value of the magazines. I was also an avid reader of "Byte" and "Dragon". I have several years' worth of Dragons from the 1980s, and was lucky enough to score a copy of the CD compendium during the short window it was available... and of course old issue of "Byte" magazine can be found on archive.org.

And of course, both magazines featured wonderful cover art. "Dragon" had a huge variety of artists and featured some really unforgettable pieces and Byte often featured Robert Tinney who perfectly captured the zeitgeist of the computer revolution with his simple, clean, but imaginative artwork.
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The #1 trade you make in investing is trading "money today" for "money tomorrow". The specifics of how to trade "today's money" for "tomorrow's money" differ in the forms of bonds, stocks, or options... but its all the same.

Someone wants money today, and is willing to give up more money tomorrow for that money today.

If it weren't for big stock IPOs, Angel Investors and Venture Capitalists wouldn't invest into startups. Not everyone is looking to hold stock for 20 or 30 years... especially Angel Investors who are addicted to helping out small startups.

Buying stock from an Angel Investor who is IPOing allows the Angel Investor to invest into another small company, and transfers the ownership of a (used to be) startup, to your control. IE: Facebook and Twitter. Angel Investors would rather own a smaller, more volatile company... while the typical investor would rather own the bigger, more stable companies for their retirement.

Its not necessarily about "winning" and "losing". If an early Facebook investor liquidates his $$$ in Facebook, it allows him to help out another company. He doesn't care how Facebook does in the future, because he's far more interested in helping startups.

Again, its win/win for everyone. Everyone benefits when the Venture Capitalists sell off their stocks to the Stock Market.
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UbunutuOne & OneDrive are quite similar names which might cause confusion for microsoft
It's a little bit subtle but that's not quite what they are doing. From what I understand, King has a series of casual games with the name "<something> Saga." "Banner Saga" fits into that mold, and is in the same market segment, casual gaming, which creates the possibility that customers could be confused and assume the game is associated with King. Think about it this way: here's a list of games, which one doesn't belong? Candy Crush Saga, Bubble Witch Saga, Pet Rescue Saga, Farm Heroes Saga, Banner Saga? Just by looking at the names, a casual consumer might assume they're all from the same company.

That doesn't prevent someone else from using the word "Saga." For example, "LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga" is sufficiently different that it's much less likely that someone would confuse it with one of King's games.

Of course a quick Google search suggests that King's "<something> Saga" mark is pretty weak to begin with, because there area lot of games that are called "<something> Saga", although mostly in the console market rather than the casual online gaming market. But it's still proper for King to file the objection, because trademarks are "use it or lose it." And in a market like casual gaming, the mark really matters because customers are unlikely to do a lot of research into who publishes a game before dropping the $3.00 or whatever they cost.

And remember, this is an objection not a lawsuit. An objection is just a statement saying "we think this mark will cause confusion with our mark," so the PTO can take it into consideration in deciding whether to award the mark.
>working at Google

Maybe he has a vested interest in not protecting people's privacy (or just a cavalier attitude towards privacy).
This is much more informative and complete than any Western media news report. (Disclosure: I grew up in Kiev)
Me too, which is why I used the Kinect, which detects presence without motion, even in the dark.
Not unlike OSX, then?
If they are using it with warrants only then I agree there is nothing wrong as long as they can't keep the data permanently. There needs to be a reasonable point at which the data is destroyed. My other expectation is that the data is not available through a network and is in an evidence room that requires two people to access.

My primary concern is the now known strategy of parallel construction. The FBI could be trolling the emails for crimes then using that illegal evidence to find ways to get a warrant to allow the previously illegal evidence into the case.

If this was Fed Ex distribution center that had been seized it would have been treated very differently. They would collected the mail pertinent to the case and rest would have gone away. If they were to confiscate the whole building holding all of the mail for a later time in case they needed it there would be a huge back lash. But because it was email and we haven't set ground rules most people don't bat an eye, even if it's their mail that's been taken.

As a parent it's really difficult not to be supportive anywhere child porn is involved. It's an issue that is so emotional for me that my first instinct is that I would give up everyone's privacy in the hopes of putting a dent in the abuse of children. Even if it only saved one child, emotionally, it would be worth it to me. Logically I realize that once these systems are in place there is no stopping them, and they will be used for everyone else's emotional/political hot button. I only bring this up because having the reaction I do allows me to understand what other people are feeling when the issue is around terrorists/hackers/fraud/whatever.
One would hope sslstrip would not work against an app!
> Perhaps the parents should spend some time with their children and show them what is appropriate and what is not?

Kids will already know this, the question is whether they still wish to push their luck if they think they can get away with it. If they're anything like me, then they will :)

So I wouldn't trust my kids with an unfiltered internet any more than I'd give them satellite / cable TV in their rooms before a sensible age as I cannot simply assume that they wouldn't watch adult movies / etc, after I've gone to bed.

Sometimes it's better to remove the temptation than to give your kids access to the entirety of the adulthood and hope they're sensible / innocent enough not to abuse that trust. Much like I wouldn't keep junk food in the house if I'm trying to lose weight.

> I have three children, all of whom use the Internet regularly and bar some passive monitoring, I've done nothing. They have healthy browsing habits.

How can you be so sure what your kids do when you're not looking?

> Plus you're going to get goatse'd at some point in your life...

In that case lets also show them "2 Girls 1 Cup" on their 8th birthday; because it's bound to happen one day :p

> Blacklists, censorship, firewalls and control are missing the point...

Actually I do partly agree with this (and the passive monitoring comment I mentioned earlier). As argumentative as I might come across, I do agree that the best form of moderation is to keep the internet restricted to a family PC in a communal area. Not everyone does this though.
Because it does not run on phone. It is survey about mobile operating systems.
I'm actually using my line for home working 100% of the time. However I have a backup (3G card in my laptop and friendly neighbours with different ISPs including different mode Cable and WiFi). I think that is a better investment than an expensive line to start with simply because regardless of who you are with, the end of the line is with OpenReach who are abysmal. The difference between £100/month and £7.50/month is moot then.

I treat my home connection like a coffee shop's WiFi.

The real meat and two veg of my setup is a hosted desktop I RDP into and a number of hosted Linux machines.
You left out an option: start your own business. What the Reuters article tells me is that there is a large pool of available labor for new businesses to use. Why aren't more people taking advantage of this opportunity?
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I am not able to access the blog http://engineering.hackerearth.com/ which is hosted via github pages. It shows the error related to varnish cache.

Error 503 Backend is unhealthy
Backend is unhealthy
Guru Meditation:
XID: 2373250785
Varnish cache server
This is basically the idea behind Google authorship.
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Yes. In a revolution, the population is more or less united against the government. In a civil war, there are two opposing sides, both made up of the general population fighting against each other. One of the factions in a civil war can also be supported by the government, but the point is there are civilians fighting on both sides, whereas in a revolution there are civilians only on one side.
I'm surprised MS didn't pick "LiveDrive" to start with. Although I'm sure someone has that trademarked as well, although Microsoft has plenty of cash to buy trademarks. You'd think, though, that they would also have plenty of lawyers to check out and register trademarks before they settle on product names, too.

Perhaps they should mine their own archives and try some alternatives:

Drive.NET, Visual Drive, ActiveDrive, Drive2014, Drive/286, Drive for Workgroups, MS-DRIVE?

Or better still, we know they own MS-DOS so how about "Microsoft Disk (Off-Site)"? Genius!
Interesting - but to quote from the Android developer website:

Typical good candidates for the NDK are self-contained, CPU-intensive operations that don't allocate much memory, such as signal processing, physics simulation, and so on. When examining whether or not you should develop in native code, think about your requirements and see if the Android framework APIs provide the functionality that you need.
Yes.
https://status.github.com/
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We were happy to finish Startup Weekend 6 in Charlotte with a fully functional site and demo including a compare demo, mailing list, contact form, authentication, user management, and backend demo containing private health provider data demonstrating out of pocket costs to users (a much different number than the frontend medicare data).

We're looking for our first integration with a small to medium sized health insurance agency that doesn't have the resources to build such a system themselves. If you or anyone you know might be interested, please contact me at corey@coreyballou.com and we can discuss.

The website itself doesn't lend itself well to explaining our pitch, but everyone should find it useful nonetheless. Please don't hesitate to ask questions reddit AMA style.
Christ, who on earth do you work for?

That sounds horrific...

I work for a ftse 35 company as a dev and there's nothing close to that, just the usual "Work done on our time or our equipment is ours"
When it comes down to it, it is a matter of whether or not the consumer is likely to be confused by the usage. King's statement seems to say that it is the combination of the usage of the 'Saga' suffix and a similar game mechanic that would give rise to confusion.

The question therefore arises as to what should be done with the 'Banner Saga' application. If King let it go, then this could serve as evidence that they are not concerned about the 'Saga' suffix. If they oppose, then they are seen to be attempting to take control of the 'Saga' suffix regardless of the game mechanic it is applied to.

The main problem is that the trade mark application would be unlikely to specifically identify the specific game mechanic that will be used. It is more likely to include reference to 'computer games' for example.

If King therefore let the application through, 'Banner Saga' could potentially be used with any game mechanic (and therefore serve as evidence that any game could use the 'Saga' suffix). King could have taken this approach and restricted Banner Saga's use via a coexistence agreement (mentioned below)(or by amending the classification), but negative PR aside, there is not much incentive for them to do this.

Further, although they could rely on the above strategy of showing confusion via a similar game mechanic AND the usage of 'Saga', this would be more difficult to prove if they permitted the registration. King are in a stronger position if they are able to say they are actively opposing applications, even if in certain cases this will result in negative PR.

On your last point, companies often enter into coexistence agreements, acknowledging that both parties can use an identical or similar marks (registered or unregistered) but under limited circumstances. This could be the case with Banner Saga for all I know...