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>All this litigation via social media is happening exactly because these are small companies that don't have the resources to litigate via the courts.

No, it's because they want free publicity for their application. Someone with a history of not wanting to work with people to settle trademark issues (see smm2000's post) isn't doing it on principle. Trademark law is nowhere as time-consuming or unapproachable as you make it out to be.
Sounds like a lack of bottom-up entrepreneurship in science, such that the only way to participate professionally is with the permission and employment of large organizations. And maybe those organizations are also not led by people with an appreciation for the craft and discipline of science (ie the actual lab work).
Depending on where you live, that may not be enforceable. In California, for example, stuff you make on your own time, without using your employers resources (etc.), belongs to you, and your employer has no say in the matter.

(I am not a lawyer and don't have a citation for this, so take it with a grain of salt.)
>>"but are the ships hard for the player themself to fly?"
Not really - flying ships in eve is less flight simulator, more spreadsheet. You usually choose another ship/structure from a drop-down menu and choose approach, orbit, etc. Most battles are not about individual pilot skill at all (especially very large ones like this).
Edit: Note that document #1 is the most recent while #20 is the first chronologically. The goods claimed changed.

http://tsdr.uspto.gov/documentviewer?caseId=sn85622695&docId...
The question is, how will you take immediate action to confront this injustice when you wake up tomorrow morning?

I suggest, as a starting point, that we distribute the contact information for the members of the Iowa police department in question (available online) to start a targeted messaging campaign aimed at their households.
Ex-NSA Computer Scientist Creates Tool To Let You Take Back Emails
I didn't have a share button either. I typed in this link and it worked. Hope that helps some of you. https://m.facebook.com/lookback/share
Figure53's claim is that FiftyThree's original application was not

"Computer hardware design; computer software design for use in graphics, namely, software for use in writing on smart phones and tablets with either a stylus or a finger; technical support services, namely, troubleshooting of computer software problems; updating and maintenance of computer software"

But in fact:

"Computer graphics software; computer hardware and computer programs for the integration of text, audio, graphics, still images and moving pictures into an interactive delivery for multimedia applications; computer software to enhance the audio-visual capabilities of multimedia applications, namely, for the integration of text, audio, graphics, still images, and moving pictures."
I was just about to comment the same. Right-handed but mostly use my left hand to use the phone. Because my right hand is often doing more important things! Using a mouse etc.
Your arguments are perfectly valid until the first time you arrive to your business meeting w/o your bags.
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Marketplaces, Rating Systems, and Leakage
Was under impression that strongest supporters of police state are 'suburban soccer moms'.
That doesn't make a difference for trademark rights though. Priority for trademark rights would be based on the first date the name was actually used on an available product/service – or, at the very least, the date an intent-to-use trademark application was filed (which MiSoft does not appear to have done) – NOT the first date it was thought of or worked on.
Interestingly enough, the number of non voters in 2012 was higher than the number of votes for either Obama or Romney.

So if all the people that didn't vote (many because they feel that their vote doesn't change things anyway) voted for a third party candidate, that candidate would win without having to take a single vote from either of the two main party candidates.
I remember when Paper by FiftyThree first came out, I went to the App Store and searched for "Paper". The first result was some other simple drawing app called "Paper" (not miSoft's). There was definitely a "Paper" app in the App Store, for drawing, before Paper by FiftyThree.
Thanks for the response guys - I've found someone to take this on :)
For many years I successfully defended our trademark in the app store(google play too), was even called a trademark troll. But hey we have owned said trademark for the past five years and if you don't defend it it's worthless. If you do defend it faithfully it could possibly be worth something you can sell.

Well that was my theory until one of the biggest celebrities on earth created a semi similar app and used our trademark. We tried to defend it but they didn't have any respect for our work and started to lawyer up. We had to back down!
Yes! TP-Link is awesome :D

TL-MR3020+OpenWRT = <333
Bill Nye debates a creationist (LIVE)
I use https://github.com/bpowers/psm every day at this point. Simple, fast and filterable memory reporting. disclaimer: I also wrote it.
It's not a debate in a vacuum... The problems people have with the Second Amendment often arise from citizen-on-citizen shootings...both the shooting-rampage variety, and the There's-not-enough-money-to-fund-the-police-so-criminals-go-rampant kind.

I'm not saying gun rights should be abolished or limited...I guess I'm just despondently pointing out difficult (and money-based) of an issue it is.
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Let's say you were a company CEO or head of HR, and decided to hire untrained people and then train them. How would you handle the following:

1) The reality that life is uncertain, and the company might be bankrupt a year from now. There's no sure thing in life, even huge companies disappear. If training a new employee would only pay off in several years, would you still do it?

2) At-will employment, where the employee could stick around for the training, then quit as soon as that's done. I think forcing the employee to stay for N months/years after that is a raw deal.

3) The fact that that employee isn't contributing as much to the company, but you're still paying him/her market wages. Would you offer them lower pay during the training period?
Policing is a state issue.

No executive order is going to solve this problem.
Ask HN: Have you ever had a mental block and don't know what it is?
How do you deal with mental blocks when you don't know what it is? I am a guy that learns the social norm by reading books and watching people, so it takes time for me to understand what is going on emotionally even within myself.

I suppose when you find whatever your mental block is, then you can have a plan to deal with it.

Would unravelling something like this possible by our own self? After all, its possible that we tend to smart ourselves and having coach can help the situation better.
Similarly echoed in the OpenWRT talk from 30C3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-OlUxeS57E
Agencies like DARPA and billions more in government procurement of nascent commercial tech.

While this is true, it has nothing to do with supporting commercial enterprise. Not even a little bit.

DARPA funds stuff because it costs the military less money in the long run to do so. That's it, nothing more. It's the military, and they want advanced stuff. So they pay for it, and they do so as economically as they can. That means funding research.

FWIW Every last penny DARPA had spent on research until then was more than paid back during the first gulf war due to the logistics improvements that came from software. DARPA has (and continues to have) enormous success relatively to the money it spends. It is absolutely not some form of corporate welfare, as you seem to imply.

Same with the Internet. DARPA does what they do for themselves, i.e. for the military. That private enterprise takes what they learn doing research projects for the military and runs with it doesn't even enter into the calculation of whether DARPA would do what it does. It's not some kind of benevolent tech incubator spending Uncle Sam's dough on worthy commercial causes.

I guess what I'm saying is that "government" doesn't do anything to help the technology sector, and whatever help they do get is completely inadvertent. The government wants the best military they can get for the money, and that means that agencies like DARPA fund research, because it achieves that goal.

Furthermore, it's not government at large, it's the military, and its entirely so that the military can do a better job with the funding citizens are giving them. I, for one, think they're doing reasonably well and specifically believe that the money DARPA spends is very well spent, and would still be well spent even if generated $0 in secondary economic activity.
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I struggle with picturing 4D rotating objects, I find it easier to deal with slicing the object up and picturing that. To clarify if you think of a single picture from an MRI it's a slice of a 3D object and you can move up and down the object to see each slice. If you move through all the slices you can get an idea of the 3D shape. With the 4th dimension it's similar except each of the slices is a 3D shape. So a 4D “sphere” sliced up this way would look like a 3d sphere that gradually got bigger until halfway through the 4D “sphere” then gets smaller again. You can also somewhat consider it a 3D object that changes shape with time but since time is a dimension you can go back and forward along it. That's how I picture 4D objects which is admittedly not as well as some people do.
What's worse is that the older generations were not necessarily an improvement either (IIRC). I think the amount of persistent memory of the device in later generations was reduced to lower costs and that some later generation models don't have enough disk space for OpenWRT.
Because cmd.exe is a fixed width based on the character count. You can drag the height down but not the width sideways. If you right click on the black C:\ icon in the top left and go to properties, the layout tab will let you set the character count width and in turn change that, or alternatively set the font size which will scale the window to suit the character count at the new font size.

You might have been facetious to prove a point but surprisingly few know you can change those settings there, and I like making my terminal oldschool-hacker-green :)

edit: Actually, I've no idea what I've done but now I can drag the window arbitrarily and it'll just show more characters. Maybe I set a font and now can do it? I don't know!

edit 2: I made it go to 160 characters, then set it back to 80, and now it'll let me drag it out to 160 but no more? This is so confusing Microsoft is on drugs

edit 3: Oh, ok. Screen buffer size sets the 'you can resize to this maximum' whereas screen size sets the 'you start at this size'. I'll stop making edits now.
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Oops. Although I wasn't really trying to keep this a secret, it's just something that's very much still in-progress. It certainly hasn't been edited yet. To be honest, I'm more worried that the material will fall out-of-date before I can finish it. But comments and criticism (kind or otherwise) are still very much welcome. I really do intend to spend more time on this starting in a month or so. Who knows, it folks are really interested that might be enough of an inspiration to finally push through and finish it.
If Wikipedia's to be believed, OnLive has a datacenter here in Georgia with me, probably in metro Atlanta. This same machine I used to try OnLive has a 10-12ms ping to my Linode here in their Atlanta datacenter. It's not going to get much quicker than that over the WAN. If they can't give a decent experience to someone like me, I wouldn't want to see the average user's experience.
Or Microsoft and Twitter having drama over the use of the name Vine
The title of this post should be Adobe's slogan.

Here's an example... If I call AT&T right now, or my cable company and say that I want to cancel service to switch to a cheaper company, all of a sudden they will offer me a lower price to keep me from leaving. The ol' a customer is cheaper to keep than to acquire mantra I suppose...

What these people (and you) don't understand is that if you (or AT&T) called me out of the blue and said, hello sir, we've noticed that today makes your 5th year as an AT&T customer, we'd like to take $50 off your bill every month from now on(which is the offer they give me when I threaten to leave) I would be ecstatic.

- As a satisfied customer I would be shouting your name from the mountain top.
...in the main, they're geeks just like you who a) got good at something and b) started charging appropriate amounts of money for it...

...and c) had sufficient sales skills to make a credible pitch to potential clients or attract clients enough that they made the approach and d) had sufficiently broad understanding of their chosen industry to interact with non-technical people at the client whose problem they were going to solve and e) had sufficient patience, diligence, legal and accounting knowledge, and general acumen to successfully run a small business...

...in their spare time, when they weren't doing what they thought they were actually going to be paid for.
Ahh, so if I'm the only one taking pictures that night, then the app won't know to include my friends?
I defended FiftyThree really hard in the other thread on this topic but I guess I have to eat crow because they really come across as jerks by doing this to another smaller company and now what looks like initiating the start of legal proceedings on this very issue.
Anybody got a youtube link? My ad blockers are telling me this is not kosher.
In a nutshell, find the main/entry method, then walk the tree from there. That takes you from most general/big picture to most specific/granular and helps in mapping out the structure.

Obviously for big code bases you can't do it all in a day, but just having a big picture model in my head when I resume on subsequent days helps fit it all together.
How do those situations play out such that the homeowner lives to see themselves vindicated?
> I firmly hold the belief all that will happen when the current crop of crappy old people in power die.

What prevents a new crop of "crappy old people" from simply taking their place?
If they (MiSoft) had filed a trademark application for "Paper" around the same time they reserved the name with Apple, they might have a case. But reserving a name with a retailer – without actually using it, and without anyone (other than Apple) knowing you were planning to use it – would not to my knowledge have any legal effect with regards to usage rights.
Wouldn't surprise me. This is the same company that for months refused to support the Adonit Jot Touch 4 and gave absolutely no reason for it. Until, of course, they released their own stupidly overpriced and proprietary writing implement as well.

As of now, they still have no plans to support third-party styluses, and while I get it might cut into their business model to support the AJT4, they're jerks for not doing so. It's clear they're their only first concern.
With Paper, Facebook thinks like a Media Company
Mining on all four cores of my CPU with CPUminer gets me about 80 kh/s, while mining on my GPU gets me about 270 kh/s. The GPU also uses about twice as much electricity when it's mining, so the CPU isn't completely terrible in comparison (although my CPU gets a lot hotter while mining, and the fans get a lot louder). However, I have an Nvidia GPU, which is less good at mining than an otherwise comparable AMD GPU. With an AMD GPU the disparity would be a few times greater.

CPU mining isn't really profitable unless you don't have to pay for electricity. I just do it because it's more fun than using a space heater for warmth.
> zero-sum detrimental finance games

Except:

1. Fortunately we have taxation to turn highly profitable zero-sum professions into slightly less profitable positive-sum ones.

2. If doing stuff for the quantitative finance industry means more resources for building generally useful Haskell libraries, then everyone wins.

3. If you make a lot of money playing zero-sum detrimental finance games, then you can (a) retire and do more interesting or socially-useful things (like contributing to interesting software projects) and/or (b) give a pile of it away.

On 3b, I'll remark that although I don't work in the finance industry (I've spent most of my career doing R&D for small technology companies), my salary has never been very large by present-day Silicon Valley standards, and my charitable giving isn't especially heroic, I think it very likely that I've done more net good to the world by giving away some of what I earn than I ever have by doing my actual job. If I were to move into finance (which isn't impossible -- I'm a mathematician and quite a lot of mathematicians do that) then it would probably be a net gain in global utility even if everything I did could correctly be called zero-sum detrimental finance games.
Although very interesting the Special Operations Division (SOD) is probably not what was redacted:

1) It is a legalization methodology not a unit of the DEA. The other items mentioned FISA, CIPA and parallel construction can all be used to make illegally obtained information legally usable in court.

2) It is a word/phrase that is approx 12 letters long. "SOD" and "Special Operations Division" do not fit and while "SOD tip-offs" fits it does not sound like terminology the DEA would use.

I suspect it is either some executive order[1], presidential directive[2], presidential finding[3], secret memo or some other secret bullshit they just made up and that lawyers at the DOJ and White House (and perhaps some judge) decided was both constitutional and could be kept secret. I'm thinking along the lines of Obama's kill list[4] and Bush's torture memos[5].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_order

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_directive

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_finding

[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targeted_killing#Obama_Administ...

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_Memos
I think SOME of the cause of the militarization is due to the increased availability of military grade PRODUCTS police has access to.

These products are often derivatives of military grade products. The makers of the military grade products need to increase revenue and diversify, which leads to the corporation intensely marketing to the police departments.

And once the police depts buy the new shiny toys, they need to have an excuse for using them some how...

Just a personal observation.
I am a game developer...

I think I should make a game that is named "game"
Microsoft appoints Scott Guthrie new Cloud and Enterprise chief
To be replaced by a new crop of crappy old people in power.
Edit: Removing my original comment because I was reading the PTO's site backwards. Note that document #1 is the most recent while #20 is the first chronologically.

The "technical support services" part is also problematic, because it's so general in scope as to cover all software companies that support their products (as Figure 53 does).
My solution to level0 accounted for about 10% of the total process runtime (measured against an empty `int main() {}`. The rest was process/libc setup time.

I realized after the competition you can compile with -nostdlib or -nostartfiles and halve the process overhead, which would almost double any of the top 10 scores at that point.
What if you're at a concert, or the Superbowl? Will everyone at that location receive your photos?
Reminds me of scenes from a Russian TV series about life in Moscow under Stalin. At any moment a bunch of guys dressed in black could burst in, arrest people, cart away papers etc. and there was no recourse. This was the NKVD, later called the KGB.

Unfortunately, eventually the criminal gangs discovered that they could do the same thing, and since their victims thought they were cops, the criminals got away with murder, intimidation, etc. After the fall of the Soviet Union, these criminals became known as the Russian Mafia and exported their criminal operations to more lucrative countries like the USA where they still operate today.

How hard is it for modern criminals to get a hold of uniforms and vehicles to impersonate a police SWAT team?
And Bing has 33% of domestic share.
Just to clarify some of the facts.

Dogecoin uses scrypt like litecoin, but this proof of work was first used by Tenebrix. It also employs the random block reward (vs fixed for litecoin) pioneered by LotteryTickets (which includes the ongoing 10k block reward feature). I'm not exactly sure which repo it was started from, but the wallet client, namely the 1.5 release inherits all Litecoin updates since 0.6.*.
> Don't think of it as impossible, 20 years ago Ross Perot received around 20% of the vote. All it takes is someone 3 times more "popular" than Ross Perot.

Right after that, the two factions of the big-business party collaborated to ensure that no other party could mount a serious challenge. This involved forming the Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) in 1987, which re-wrote the debate rules to effectively block challengers from participating. Out of sight, out of mind.
Since Plex transcodes to Chromecast friendly format, this bookmarklet will only cast if your original files are already in MP4, OGG, or WEBM format. So, don't expect your AVI files to cast with the bookmarklet.

Plex is awesome, though, and they deserve that $5/mo for making the Chromecast actually useable.
You can add the friends who didn't take pictures to the album so they also get the photos. Even though it's a manual step, it's easy to do.

Radu
The executive in each state controls statewide police, in smaller jurisdictions either sheriffs are elected or appointed by the executive.
HN's generations will take power believing they are so much smarter, and would not call themselves crappy
Appropriate, but can you point us at some of those elsewheres?
Hold on, let me rename my racing game "IceOne Racer" :-)
> The 'controllers/directives/services' grouping is straight up moronic

I tend to agree, and this is how I'd organize a larger Angular app, but to be honest I don't think it makes a huge impact in the long run. Rails apps are divided into dirs for models/controllers/views/etc and while I would rather have them organized by feature, they're still easy enough to navigate with modern code editing tools. It's certainly not one of the main contributing factors to how horrible big Rails apps get...
Not to mention basically telling C users to buzz off, they won't bother with C99 support.
So far, no one seems to have come up with an economic system that's more effective in harnessing the collective skills of the human race to improve the world (on balance) for everyone than the one we have at the moment.

It has the regrettable feature that it strongly incentivizes some very smart people to spend their careers encouraging people to click on advertisements, and some other very smart people to spend their careers arranging for the profits from exploiting subtle equity mispricings to flow to one random set of rich people rather than another. But the net effect is pretty good, or more precisely less depressingly wretched than that of any other system found to date.

(And some of those very smart people get rich by encouraging ad-clicking or exploiting equity mispricings, and then use their money and/or freedom to do neat things from which everyone benefits. Is that such a bad way for things to work?)
It's not really a "mystery barge" anymore is it? That makes for a good headline, but it's been a couple months since Google revealed it's actual plans for it [1].

[1] http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/06/tech/innovation/google-barge-s...