skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's easier to understand if you think of it as a military command structure.

He's in charge in the sense that he has the authority to tell you to do something that may damage your future.
Can you file, receive, and enforce a trademark on the app store? Presumably Apple respects that? It's a messy situation and resolving it at the trademark level seems like a fair and reasonable solution.
Is there any way to try iOS apps if I don't have iOS or a mac? An emulator that runs on Linux? XCode in a OSX VM?
FWIW, Facebook also has an app called Pages. :-)
> If you've actually followed me around HN, you know that I'm not at all unwilling to acknowledge when I'm wrong

HAH!

Sorry, continue.
All of those things weren't mentioned in the post I responded to.

> When those paranoid libertarians say "next thing police would be allowed to strip-search and anally rape you because a dog said it's OK" - they are rightfully called crazy paranoid bastards. Then it happens and everybody is like "well, it's only based on things cops were previously allowed to do, so nothing to see here..."

Again, I was disputing the fact that those powers came from the war on drugs.

Most of those as he listed I also agree with, but again, he didn't say "warrentless wiretaps" or "secret court wiretaps" he said "wiretaps". And in the same breath he said they should be required to wear a uniform 100% of the time they are doing official business.
http://i.imgur.com/gWpOFVA.jpg
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I do not mean to say that drug dogs are okay. My point is that there is an amount of evidence that drug dogs do what they claim to do. The easiest way to get rid of them is to bring forward enough evidence to show they don't work as advertised.

Rather than the usual "drug dogs might not work so we should get rid of them" that gets thrown around.
Heh, merged =)
Fwiw I've been finding Firefox (Ubuntu 12.04 default repo version) to be more stable than Chrome when I'm abusing tabs (like 50-100 tabs open, yes I'm pathological). Under such circumstances with Chrome my computer will occasionally freeze and I have no recourse but to REISUB it. Under similar circumstances with FF, things slow down and responsiveness gets worse, but no system freezes have occured yet.

There are some things I use Chrome for, like its JS profiling tools, but every time it freezes and forces a restart I go back to FF. Been staying with the latter more and more lately.
No, it functions fine as a phone.

You said you were looking for an MP3 player with FM radio, and couldn't find one. I just meant that you could've found what you needed by expanding your search to include phones.
If your apps biggest selling point is that its named after a commonly used noun then I think you have problems. Its a similar concept to idea vs execution. We saw the same thing at the start of the internet revolution with domain squatting.
~$1500 for the ship
~$650 for a character

Fitting is harder to say since you can go cheap or expensive but probably another ~$250 minimum.
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Avoiding conflicts when speaking at tech conferences
"Windows"

It all depends on the scope you're trying to claim.
I doubt I'll be able to talk about my job for N years, where N is a significant fraction of a decade.

So what is supposed to happen if you are looking for another job when the job market isn't red-hot? Are you just hosed?

I've never dealt with ultra-secret NDA wrt. getting hired elsewhere, so I'm curious.
Thanks for this!

I will definitely try it out with plex later today.
I agree with the article.
The last thing I want to do is add another layer of complexity to an already complex application.

More layers of software equals increased chances for vulnerabilities and/or bugs.
"Depending on how much content you have shared and how long you have been on Facebook, you will either see the personalized video, a collection of photos or a simple thank-you card, the spokesperson said.

Facebook said users will be able to share the video on their pages after 12 noon ET on Tuesday. The videos will only be available for about a month unless you share them on your Timeline. Only you will be able to view your video if you don’t share it."

So I guess if you don't share it the first time you watch it, you won't ever be able to. I really enjoy the videos and it sounds like they built each one so I appreciate that but it also sounds like a lot of people got skipped over and they kind of dropped the ball on not being able to share past the first view. Hopefully after they have a rest they will change that.
Yes, because I'd forgotten that the Lisp Machine used the word process for threads.

My knowledge is pretty much limited to the free Common Lisp implementations, since I never had a budget for a commercial one, and their threading story has not been so happy. But that's not a valid criticism of Common Lisp.
OpenWRT or other OpenWRT-based firmwares are really easy to get up and running these days.
Trusting consumer electronics manufacturers running on razon-thin margins for your security is pure madness, not advisable at best.
If someone registers the name but it appears nowhere on the store, the name + some string is OK and an existing app can change to the same name and get published in the meantime, it's basically as if there is no name registration.
And in this case, a random # like 53 isn't a common 5 letter word like "Paper". Figure53 is more in the right vs FiftyThree than "Paper by FiftyThree" vs "Paper by Facebook"
Hell, if anything, relevant plugs are refreshing just by being relevant, thanks to the constant background noise of totally irrelevant plugs.
I have considered phones, hence the smartphone comment above in my post. Before this time last year, I'd never owned a smartphone before, and hence they weren't on my radar too much when I was looking for a device that included an FM tuner.

Either way, thanks for the suggestion.
Names should not be distinct like on Google Play and let the best 'Paper' win. There is no reason why app naming needs to be unique like domains only the id and bundle. Unique names are always better but noone should be stopped from using the same name unless it is launched first and there is a trademark etc.
Wow, What a strange place to torrent:

http://i.imgur.com/2S3YeYW.png
The Harsh Realities Surrounding Mobile App Investing
Even experienced developers don't want to wad through unnecessary crap when they first get started with a project ;)
Well, Google does have a higher market cap by some 21%, so obviously the market values Google more.

History is littered with corporate walking corpses that owned markets at times that are are coasting or dead. Just look at how long AOL raked in billions after they long since ceased to be relevant to anything at all. I am not saying that MS is this, but they are feared to become one if they don't find a way to become much more relevant to how many people see the future going.
Nothing in the judicial system supports that at the moment. Reason for action is considered immaterial for fourth amendment purposes across the board.

I was going to point out an example of the complexity of this, but someone else pointed out that the right of cops to search an impounded vehicles is an interesting one.
It's almost as if there needs to be an entire regulatory scheme for dealing with naming disputes, which would allow app developers and startups to protect their brand.

Oh wait, there is, it's called Trademark Law! As such, it's getting really old seeing a bunch of angry parties writing open letters and rants on social media trying to claim they're the morally superior party for [BS REASON HERE]. None of that matters. What matters are statutorily defined factors such as likelihood of confusion, levels of distinctiveness, date of first use in commerce, etc that set forth who gets to use a mark as a matter of law.

As such, it really doesn't matter what these MiSoft people tried to do in iTunes Connect, as Apple is/should not be the gatekeeper when it comes to naming disputes (see the handful of stories posted by app devs who are mad about takedowns). Nor does it matter if FiftyThree is particularly pouty that Facebook came in and tried to use their brand, because their original mark application really only has to do with stylus based drawing apps.

tl;dr: Nothing to see here until the parties in question actually lawyer up and assert infringement.
> they can barely understand my Chinese though

Out of curiosity, has anyone ever articulated why your Chinese is hard to understand? Is it tone or phonemes?
there isn't a green button on my screen. I found a link to a similar compilation called "Year in review" and there is a green "share" button on that, but "A look back" doesn't have it. Does anyone else have any advice?
eSports is a trend where people play computer games (semi)professionally. This goes to the point where global tournaments are organized and live casts are done on the web.

I personally fancy to watch episodes of FAF (Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance Forever) episodes on YouTube, just because the game is so good. I have nowhere near enough time to play to get to that level of proficiency sadly and I prefer to play single player.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_sports
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=faf
I don't think there are documented cases of the SOD information being used as probable cause (in the sense that it was presented in court as justification for a search). Much of the point of the program is to avoid that happening.

It seems likely there are cases of the SOD information being used to target people for abusive traffic stops (the agent in the Reuters article says And so we'd alert the state police to find an excuse to stop that vehicle, and then have a drug dog search it).
My company's product is by a fairly significant margin the most expensive out of the competition, and we've refused to budge -- and I'm fairly certain the company wouldn't be alive and growing if we'd started out with lower pricing. It's also somewhat satisfying to see the competition slowly raise their prices. And yes, the hardest part that we are constantly working on is raising the value.
I'll have to check them out.

Some of my favorite LPs have come from LtMkilla (Dead Space and the ill-fated Bioshock LPs come to mind). His humor probably isn't for everybody (whose is?), but I love his videos.
A simple guide to responsive design
Totally. He's super nice, wicked smart, very approachable, listens more than he talks. He has the Enterprise and Tech chops.
Google told mystery barge ‘needs to move’ from San Francisco Bay
All that work and the findLargest routine doesn't seem to benefit whatsoever from fs.readdir or fs.stat being asynchronous.
I only torrent for medicinal purposes.
titans are useless on their own however, without a large force to back it up, flying it around is inviting almost certain death.
I thought you were agreeing with parent. Then I realized you were also pointing out a product that fits the complaint. We'll played, my good person.
The first congressman to battle the NSA has died
I think the answer is... They aren't.
> exhibiting no common sense or creativity

I think it makes perfect sense to name products with words that exist (like "Sprite", "Mustang", and "Tide"), or a compound word made up of 2+ words. Making up new words ("Pepsi", "Camaro", and "Clorox") can be a lot more risky, especially if it's a consumer brand.

What would you have named Facebook Paper instead?
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I doubt that Misoft has sufficient resources to "lawyer up". That right is reserved to big companies with lots of money. Like Facebook.
Figure 53 acquiring MiSoft would really kick this story up to 11 on the popcorn meter.
Paper is a generic term when it comes to publishing. If you want trademark protection, there are laws for that, and they don't apply to these guys.
Now you can get online from pretty much anywhere
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For a more in-depth discussion on 4 dimensional geometry, I highly recommend the Dimensions films[1], which are available for free download. It's a little bit mind-bending, so to speak.

[1] http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_E.htm
You won't be uploading which would be the case with torrenting.
I like your idea, but I don't know if it is feasible. There are lots of good reasons why cops should be allowed to search an impounded vehicle. Most notably safety, since who knows what you carry in your car.

Again I support the concept, I am just unsure if there are wrinkles in the implementation or not.
Haskell has been used to model financial contracts by a few firms with an eye towards type-level correctness guaranteed by the compiler (that you cannot get with "mundane" type systems found in C++ / C / Java / etc...) That, coupled with Haskell's speed, concurrency features, and other amazing features makes it an attractive platform.

Alpha Heavy Industries is a small(er) SV based firm using Haskell a lot.
I think you meant Mb with a small b.

I guess they would, but this is a matter of providing that speed. I don't think 128+ Mb/s is very common, usually caps around 100 Mb/s in a lot of areas.
Word, Apple, Windows, Pages, Paper, Reader, Brackets.

Noun.
Bravo and thanks to another new and free reference. The non-technical writing has to be tightened up a bit though...it seems that the author, when addressing unknown domains, goes too far in assuming that "oh, everyone knows [this/that]"

Examples from the intro page:

http://sathomas.me/jsdataviz/intro.html

- Even the BBC and the New York Times have noticed: Data defines our world. ...OK, both are certainly old organizations...that doesn't necessarily mean both have been slow on the data uptake...

- Yet according to some estimates, 99.5% of the data our systems collect goes to waste. No one ever analyzes it effectively. - Uh..."some estimates" links to The Register, which has written a story based off of anecdotes...what's that saying about data not being the plural of anecdote? "99.5%" is such an extreme estimate that it sounds like a parody of "44% of all statistics are made up".

- The best visualizations, in fact, impart this understanding subconsciously. Viewers comprehend the data immediately—without thinking. Such presentations free the viewer to more fully consider the implications of the data: the stories it tells, the insights it reveals, or even the warnings it offers. -- Huh?

- If you’re developing web sites or web applications today, there’s a good chance you have data to communicate, and that data may be begging for a good visualization. But how do you know what kind of visualization is appropriate? -- These are all good questions and concerns, but none of them have anything to do with JavaScript, as Edward Tufte was able to tackle this topic before JS was invented.

Yeah, I'm being nitpicky...but the field of data visualization already has too much fluff and confusion. Also, when a writer focuses on a reasonable scope, rather than attempt to play anthropologist/psychologist...there's more time to focus on their actual material.
Seems like it may be an interesting place to work in the coming years!
My mother is (and has been for many years) an officer of the union at her workplace.

I know of many cases where employees were accused of either committing crimes or extreme violations of the "workplace rules" and the Union would not represent them before the company. These instances are the exceptions, of course, and the Union does represent the employee the overwhelming majority of the time -- and are, more often than not, successful in at least saving the employee's job.

This is not a Police Union, of course, so things may very well be different. It is my understanding that the officers in a Police Union are almost always current or former police officers and I would guess that they would represent an officer accused of wrongdoing in all but perhaps the most extreme cases (and, in those cases, it's probably mostly due to P.R.).

In my opinion, an officer accused of wrongdoing is entitled to due process just like anyone else. It does upset me, however, that Police Unions will often do anything they can to save an officer's job regardless of what s/he has done and/or the seriousness of the violation. I realize that that is what they are supposed to do but it ends up reflecting badly on the police department when Officer Smith was found to have done ${whatever} and escapes with little or no consequences.
Impressive speeds. You usually don't see anything over 100 Mb/s here in Denmark.
Yes, but what about:

3. putting together a team of over 100 people, including 25 professors, to act as "spokespeople on Hayes"

5. getting paid scientists to write op-eds accusing Hayes of being a "junk scientist"
ThePaper
tl;dr Silos suck. Inevitably the farmers that control them them make people angry. Money talks. Capricious decisions are made. Today's winners become tomorrow's losers.
History of Paper
I thought most of the Haskell uptake in finance was localized to the UK? This might have more to do with the interests of the high end talent there than a more global phenomena.
Signs that Apple's creating a health wearable
Wait a second. Please don't misrepresent what I'm saying. I never said anything about "get[ting] bogged down trying to get the lexer/parser to work". I never mentioned a full-blown language/compiler.

I'm genuinely interested by your comment. If I'm interpreting it correctly, you seem to be claiming that ensuring corner cases are handled correctly, testing, and maintaining a parser require a trivially small amount of work. What do you use to build your parsers?
You only have a worse grip of the device when you actually use the thumb probably. When I hold a phone this way and do not actively interact with it, my thumb usually presses on the edge of the device, making the grip firm.
What is your approach for generating error messages during parsing?
And I'm totally stoked to learn that Scott Guthrie has been promoted to take Satya's place. Both of you guys are awesome! Now when are you going to open up C#, CLR and buy Xamarin ;)?
After my current job, I'm considering freelancing by pairing up with a good recruiter (an individual, not a firm). I plan to offer a commission to the recruiter for finding me good clients; in effect, using their client base to build my own. Any warnings or red flags to this approach?
They've done some cool open source stuff with Tornado too, very awesome.

This project looks pretty smart as well: https://github.com/dailymuse/catnap
My tip is to be more creative and figure out a decent name for your product. “Browse your Paper with simple, natural movements.” Does this product name makes sense for native english speaking people?
I would assume they don't want to use open source software because of the security headache of having to vet and verify all dependencies.
In this case, it isn't actually Angular.

The delay is actually related to one of two things (I've profiled pretty heavily)

1. When moving between cards (in the card view), the render is very expensive. The code runs in about 50ms, which could be faster, but is good enough to feel responsive if rendering were not an issue.

2. When searching, laying out the grid is, again, very expensive to render. I've cut out Angular from all except for event handling. The grid items themselves are read-only bound (although the collection watch still exists), and I rearrange their position/visibility through CSS. This is, in my opinion, not a fault of Angular's. The other frameworks wouldn't fair too much better.
Guava is the main piece I think about. GWT? Guice? What else?
As soon as they wrote their letter, praising themselves for changing the world, and talking about sending the lawyers I moved from their side.

How is this much different than the "Candy" "Saga" situation?
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»there's less of the "we own everything you think of at any point in your employment" nonsense these days«

Wish me luck, I've just signed to such a contract :)
Haskell is already heavily used in finance, and they chose to go this route because all the feedback they were getting from financial firms wanting to use haskell. Your little bubble doesn't generalize to the whole world.
I'm having a really hard time understanding the sense of entitlement and indignation carried in these name gripes.

Personally, I tend to think of names as a fraction of what makes up an idea multiplier [0].

0: http://sivers.org/multiply
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I totally agree with this. Microsoft would be really smart to cure themselves of all the delusional "we've got the greatest and most innovative people" crap. Sure, sure, pat yourselves on the back for your accomplishments and be proud when you do things well, but don't act like it's because you've somehow managed to hire the Chosen Devs. That kind of thinking just leads to never being self-critical.
Yes that is true. I would add that typically most startups attack a particular niche first before taking on that strong competitor. A niche where that competitor is weak or absent.

Some of the best advice for you question is from Paul Graham: http://paulgraham.com/startupideas.html
You just quoted something saying exactly what I said, while acting like you disagree. Once again, a license is special permission. That is precisely what it is, that is the whole point. Saying "you don't have to have special permission because you get special permission" is insane.
You have 180 days after registering the name to use it - and then you can never register that name again under that developer account.
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I don't even know what Facebook Paper is and don't care. However as you mentioned, compounds, even of the simplest kind, are a GREAT idea. The important thing is that, even if you lack the common sense or creativity, it is completely and fully unreasonable to not expect someone else to make the same bad decision. Open letters, heartfelt emotional addresses and displays of surprise are not a thing that should happen and instead, if one feels the need to go ahead and use one of the top 300 english words, one should be fully prepared for legal battles ahead.

In short: Hire a gaggle of lawyers before using any of these verbatim: http://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/Wiktionary:Most_frequent_1...
This property of ES6 generators, along with Promises, is what enables task.js [0] If you're interested in concurrency patterns for JS, you need to check it out.

Does this mean that we can use Task.js in ordinary web pages now?

[0] http://taskjs.org/
That's a bit of a different issue. To be clear what I was referring to is direct public investment in high tech development. Agencies like DARPA and billions more in government procurement of nascent commercial tech.

Tax breaks can certainly be seen as a form of public investment. But the $22M figure for the Twitter tax break is a bit of a fantasy.

That was supposed to be a break on local payroll tax to the city of SF. Think about that.. I doubt any company in the history of SF has paid $22M in local payroll tax. That would be absurd. So where did the $22M figure come from?

Turns out there was a change passed a few years ago in between the dotcom booms that added stock option gains to the definition of "payroll". Since there were no startups happening at that time, nobody paid attention to this obscure change in local SF law. And it was never enforced and to my knowledge has no corollary in any startup-rich city. (Because it would be insane and drive out all startups.) So that's where someone came up with a "$22M" calculation.. by taxing the gains on early stage employee stock options. Even though the city bears no risk like early stage employees do.

If you were to just look at paycheck amounts as "payroll", Twitter's tax break would be valued at far less than that.

To be clear I don't think Twitter should have gotten a total tax holiday and anyone who thinks they would've moved to Brisbane is a fool. I think the city should have just un-done that dumb stock option tax.