skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
King.com, makers of Candy Crush Saga trademarked the word "Candy."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7090913
Then maybe you could have just ignored it; you effectively Streisand Effected it for me with 2 of your 3 paragraphs devoted to that.
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I am happy that their next thing is totally useless since my facebook usage is really really rare for last 6 months!
I agree that common words should be used pretty freely, but if you're Facebook you can do a bit better than the name of an App that's garnered a reasonably large amount of press.
Should Corporations Invest Directly in Startups?
> I can't see that being confusing at all.

I literally thought this was what that was linking to before clicking.
What's interesting is in the original "i got hacked" post[0]. The email from the hacker says that he called paypal and posed as an employee.

That may not be tough to do, i.e. if you call a call center, select the wrong department and request an internal transfer, it is quite possible that the person receiving the call would not be able to distinguish between an internal call or a customer call.

So if the hacker told them he was Jack from xyz department, who would know the difference, better still, would they log the call at all?

The alleged breach could in this situation be quite easy.

[0] https://medium.com/p/24eb09e026dd
As far as I understand, this advantage of AMD was only -or mostly - present on its 5xxx and 6xxx series of GPUs. The new 7xxx (and 8xxx) ditches VLIW: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4455/amds-graphics-core-next-p...
> distance themselves from their repressive government

How does one do that, short of changing the government?
Didn't try it. Quite satisfied with 'Saved' for iOS and Android: http://lentor.io/saved/
CPUID is available in /proc/cpuinfo (or whatever the /sys or modern equivalent is, my Linux is a bit rusty)

Not sure re: UD2 though.
So you accept that a simulation is a valid experiment, but feel that refusing to tell science press that natural phenomena fit the exact parameters of the simulation is pseudo science?
New startup from Latvia (Baltics) – Dressque
Some quick searches indicates that Huawei and LG have ~4-5% of the market each, and Sony and HTC around 7% or so each.

Meanwhile Samsung is above 30%

Motorola + Lenovo has a shot at 11%-12%.

So no, Samsung doesn't really have any really solid competitors. Especially given that most of the above are not making much - if any - money on their Android phones at the moment.
I've just realised: if the age of the stereotypical american tech worker is 23 or so, that means these people have only been able to drink for a couple of years.

Suddenly these posts make a lot more sense.
This could be a replacement for beer Friday. I agree, why not?
ask an ye shall receive: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bj%20%EC%82%AC%E...
I believe they're not selling ALL the patents.
"That said, I have a "I could learn that but I have stuff to ship" mindset about Javascript"

amen bro...amen.
Facebook is trying get in the market of successful concepts like Flipboard and Pulse. Why wouldn't Facebook like to mine what people (and their 'Friends') 'like' and show them relevant news when Flipboard and Pulse connect to your Facebook, churn what you shared in the past and show you news which you might like.
Nine Things to Expect from HTTP/2
Is there a conflict? It seems probable the only purpose of surviving is to increase the odds of a successful reproduction.
This website really is not desktop friendly - it was annoying to browse through it.
I also can't think of any adult men who would be interested in a pissing up a wall contest, so it's a particularly pointless analogy.
Snarky strawman time: I'm sure the author thought the average reader would, by dint of puritanism, be repulsed by people smoking weed at a conference.

I suggest using crack or heroin for reefermadnessed analogies like that next time. No, go nuts: Krokodil. Let the reader imagine people using krokodil at a conference.

* * *

It's "unprofessional". Never do anything in your spare time that does not further your career and company.
It's done all the time with class actions.
I guess an electron is "an actual point".
Just went on a fact-checking expedition: http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3161

> CBO estimates show that the federal government will bear nearly 93 percent of the costs of the Medicaid expansion over its first nine years.

> The additional cost to the states represents a 2.8 percent increase in what states would have spent on Medicaid from 2014 to 2022 in the absence of health reform.

> This 2.8 percent figure overstates the net impact on state budgets because it does not reflect the savings that state and local governments will realize in health-care costs for the uninsured.

So no, I don't consider my statement to be partisan, given that the facts back it up. Your government just doesn't care all that much about you getting insured.
People can choose to drink or not whereas race is not a choice.
I was thrilled when I read about CPS, now my favorite "crazy thing" is logic embedded eval, see evalo (eval embedded in minikanren logic) http://youtu.be/fHK-uS-Iedc?t=27m35s giving you naive bidirectional evaluation. Too funky.
In my experience there is usually a civilised meal, and then excessive drinking afterwards, and nobody is thought badly of for leaving after the meal, regardless if they have children to look after or if they simple don't like drinking.
> All tech companies/startups are starting to look the same.

I think it's more that they are just starting to advertise the same way that all other companies do. More and more they're evoking emotional responses from the ads' viewers, rather than listing technical features and productivity measures.

Apple was probably one of the first, really. Look at the early Macintosh ads:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCL1c8JCepg

I, for one, thought the video was pretty well done. If I had a Facebook account that I frequented, I would certainly be interested. Hell, it makes me a little envious of people who have genuinely interesting things pop up on their Walls (do such people exist?).
The same pompous shit that come from these companies. Holy fuck I don't care.
Take a timeout, come back in 20 and reread your post. Is it really worth it to get so angry and malicious? And protip, if you're going to get this angry, don't post it. It makes you look nuts, and does nothing to anyone about how they might feel about PayPal.
Equality, roughly speaking
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I know that I don´t know!
Yet another way to view text, images, and video. For me, really comes down to the content. Does the content interest me? - I can't tell by the site.
When DistroKid launched, I put a song on iTunes, Amazon and Spotiy. So far it has had no sales, but 3 streams, earning me 2 cents.

I highly suggest everybody streams 'Goatsemon - Penis Bird' or buys it on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Penis-Bird-Explicit/dp/B00FQS30W6
For people who grew up not drinking in a culture that emphasizes drinking (often in excess), it can be hard.

Perhaps you should look at this problem from another angle: Maybe it's not that all these people who have personal problems are trying to get people to stop drinking, but instead it's that we should educate and encourage non-drinkers to still attend our events and not drink? Clearly there is a group of people who still think they're being pressured to drink, and some encouragement will make them more comfortable?
This is a silly analogy. Racism causes serious damage to people's lives. Participating in racial discrimination perpetuates racist attitudes and that is why all forms of racial discrimination that negatively affect minorities are seen as morally wrong in our society. ("Positive" racial discrimination is not seen as bad - see the Focus 100 hackathon.) It is not quite the same to cater strongly for people who drink versus those who don't. I like to drink, so I tend to choose friends who also like to drink. There's nothing wrong with that. It would be very different if I only had white friends because I disliked non-white people.

I'm not saying it wouldn't be more professional to be more inclusive with regards non-drinkers, I just think this analogy trivialises the issue of racial discrimination.
I might be interested in cloud backup service which would backup my "keep forever" stuff, put them to optical disc and then mail the discs to me when they fill up.

Could be also an add-on service to existing online backup business.
Windows Mobile may have been a horrible OS, but at the time the main competition was not iOS type devices, but Palm Pilot, Psion/Symbian and the like, and the devices of the time - regardless of OS - were horribly hampered by hardware (I spent '99 working on a tablet running Linux - we got something halfway decent for the time, but imagine a tablet with resistive touch-screen, 486 level cpu and 32MB RAM, at the cost of an iPad).

I agree that if they'd tried to enter that market from scratch after the iPhone, with Windows Mobile, they'd still have problems. But at that time, Windows Mobile did not look all that bad for the market "everyone" were targeting, and the competing OS's were abysmal abominations to work with (I spent '98 in part working on an app for Palm Pilot; I'm still trying to forget the memory management horrors)
I once did a "shutdown -h now" on a remote server on a customer site with nobody there who knew anything about the server when I'd meant to do a reboot....
those kind of animations wouldn't be so smooth on mobile devices, especially older ones.
The blog turns 20: a conversation with three Internet pioneers
>they can't rely on physical dominance to counteract the dangers that come with a large group of uninhibited men.

I cannot think of a single occurrence of physical violence or rape that occurred at a technical conference. Your projections over all women here are unwarranted.

Maybe you feel this way because men are much more aggressive with other men? That would be a fair statement here.
Maybe Ryan Duk should organise a "dry" conference, for those who share his dislike for alcohol and those who drink it. I'm sure it would be a massive success although, as an Irishman, it wouldn't be my cup of tea.
I look forward to seeing it, once it quits 503ing.
We aren't convicting them here - this isn't a court. It's just pointing out that, once again, as always:

PayPal

Not only did they screw up; but they also can't man up, tell the truth and be transparent - as usual. Shit happens. Slamming us with a denial that shit happened is implying that you aren't going to do anything about it; admitting it is a clear statement that you are not proud of it and will work to make sure it never happens again.

It's come to the point where if someone said that PayPal are responsible for climate change; I would be inclined to believe them. No matter how much they denied it.
Well the content is created by your facebook friends.
Indeed. I don't know specifically what kind of confs the OP actually goes to, but the geek/programming/tech ones I go to the culture is one of individuality - people RELISH in being different and "not with the crowd".
I don't think that's an overly strong argument. But there is some meat to it. When people are at a party and booze is present that's one thing, and even if there is hard liquor it can still be possible to avoid drinking and have a good time while connecting with others. But there is a transition point where drinking becomes the focus of a party rather than just a, sometimes, part of it. And those sorts of parties tend to become exclusionary just by their very nature. As a mature adult, even one who drinks, it becomes tiresome and very non-fun to go to party after party where booze is the main attraction, where it's difficult to have a conversation because it's too loud or most people are too drunk to converse with, and where people get so trashed they start to have a bad time (not being able to stand, puking, passing out, whatever).

The problem is that the boundary line can be difficult to discern objectively. And when people who enjoy boozy parties try to judge them it's all to easy to dismiss the problems because it's just so damned much fun for them. But it is a serious problem, especially in a professional industry.
Perhaps, but consider there is a shocking number of professional developers who have never actually built and shipped something. They have only done maintenance on existing products, and for all you know they are NNPPs hiding out in a large team under thick blankets of political management.
I agree. Its become almost formulaic: cue hipster/light-hearted/playful music, show several emotionally engaging images with over-the-top DOF blur, narrate about how some mundane product that sucks us away from "real life" activities is tied to making the world a better, more engaging place.
Swagger API: A framework for visualizing RESTful web services
I didn't expect them to come forth and accept it. If it's an employee mistake, and not a standard broken process, they can erase the tracks.
Long lunar night wait for China's malfunctioning Jade Rabbit moon rover
Alternative option, thief has an insider at PayPal, or even worse, works at PayPal.

But PayPal is probably just trying to cover their ass.
That's a good point. In the UK people can buy alcohol at 18 or drink it at home or with a meal earlier than that. By 23 everyone is 5+ years into their "drinking career" and (mostly) know their limits. "Getting hammered" for the sake of it is kinda passe at that stage too.

If US tech companies are full of people with the alcohol maturity of a British 19-20 year old then I can see why that might end badly.
>Explore and share stories from friends and the world around you.

Stories...? Or memes and ads?
Oh, so THAT'S why it repeats tracks! I always assumed that the radio feature just wasn't very smart.
I would say that the Box model is unintuitive.
Social Learning: How to Engage with Online Collaboration
Same. Looking forward to go through it.
When the girl in the bath came on screen I remembered I was watching a video of a bunch of people who are addicted to their f'ing iPhones. And then I felt like I was watching an episode of Black Mirror.
Recommended. Sure beats outdated/incomplete documentation + curl.
Terror Suspect Challenges U.S. Surveillance Program
Half the posts on HN and Twitter make me feel excluded for not being a dick in one way or another.
And Sky News & Skydrive...
Over quota, btw, i found the source here:

https://github.com/zodiac/isicp
So, then.. no?
I keep thinking that's the most ridiculous thing ever.
/r/startups: What is the best startup video out there?
Wrong browser/OS then. On Safari/Mac it runs on an aging dual-core i7 Macbook Air with around 20% CPU
It makes me feel bit ashamed for liking beer.

Discussing while having beers has been excellent source of new ideas for me. While it hampers the ability to think logically it makes thinking outside of the box easier. And it makes the conversation more fluid.

I, like so many others, am so unsocial when absolutely sober that completely alcohol-free events are actually really hard.
The set up time is important- it seems to take too long to really get Mint set up to the point where it's useful, and then you still spend a lot of time recategorizing transactions so that you can know where your budgets really stand. I know that's not an easy problem to crack, but something with less detail that can encourage better overall spending/earning/savings trends would be pretty useful.
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They are off limits for purchase if the Chinese government does not want to allow them to be sold, is the point. If the government sees them as strategic means of growing China's technology sector, good luck.

AFAIK, foreigners can't legally own a Chinese telecoms corporation at all.
http://porngram.sexualitics.org/?q=pizza%2Cdelivery%2Cplumbe...

Teaching and prostitution clearly dominate.
But... Hipsters...
Can you even try it? I mean, I didn't see any download link to any app store. I think he just "designed" it.
You aren't paying attention then. There was a very high profile case of sexual assault within the tech industry, and at one of these booze filled conference parties as well, only a few months ago.
> they don't have children / spouses /

No they don't - I definitely wouldn't respect them if they took a risk like that.
Or pictures of food and selfies at the club?
That's brilliant, he captures it perfectly. A pity if he does no more.
The most important skill in a programmer is his search ability.

I don't know anything, but I know where everything is.

And I know how to search for it.
Hey m3mnoch, you asked me to remind you to tell us about the time you ran a database query on production that nuked the entire website for the publicly-traded software company which relied on -- wait for it -- the website to do all its commerce!
The motion to suppress: http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/world/defendant-c....
Needing to scale is a good problem to have.
Yes- those with large patent pools. IBM and Microsoft, chief amongst them.
Pretty sure the whole stradivarius thing is just audiophilia all over again.

EDIT: yeah, pretty much: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradavarius#Comparisons_in_so...

EDIT2: "just" was the wrong word. Obviously they're fabulous pieces of art in themselves, and doubtless beautiful to play. But like other art, they aren't valued based on how good they sound/look. I'd like to point out that I care about this a lot less than the tone of my original comment might imply.
As a new frontend programmer, what kind of libraries did Facebook use to create a page like this with full screen video/the "explore" page which has thumb moving on it? Was it a type of JS? Was it Flash? Just wondering...
Do the adds also come in fullscreen?
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So Singletons are bad, then what?
Probably depends on the registry. But two scenarios I see likely as happening:

1. Registry has a deal with registrars to sell premium domains at inflated premium rates (eg .tv domains)

2. Once sunrise period for TM holders is over, they are opening the registry and all the registrars offering pre-registration are treating it like the expired domain drops and hammering the registry to try and secure domains the millisecond the registry opens up. People bid/pay registrars to do this on their behalf.
Is it me, or is it just facebook with news feeds and a nice big handful of gestures. Their must be a massive increase in RSI due to hundreds of apps/interfaces with different gesture controls. I don't know if my muscle memory has anymore room for this app. Im going to end up loosing important things, like konami codes...
It has a Jobsian ring to it. Insanely conventional.
The handful of Philly tech meetups I've been to haven't even had 1/5th of the attendees go to the bar afterward. I'd like to think we have it under control here.
I'd rather download it off the Pirate Bay.
Then there's something wrong with either Firefox or your drivers; latest Chrome on a 4 year old machine (Windows 7 x64, Core i7, 12GB RAM) with a newer graphics card (GTX670) needs barely 10% CPU on a single core.
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"apps for the curation and creation of content"

That seems overly broad too and I suspect courts would distinguish between creation vs curation. The 53 app is about the former whereas FB's is the latter.

Also think about someone searching for an app to draw and paint. It's unlikely the FB's Paper would show up in the results. Even if it did, would most people confuse it for a drawing/painting app?
Point of data: nearly all conferences for all industries revolve largely around drinking.

I worked in the outdoor industry for 5 years and went to the Outdoor Retailer trade show on the floor of the Salt Lake City convention center, which houses huge brands from all over the world. And what happened at 4pm every day of the conference? Every other booth or so tapped a keg or opened their coolers. They gave out free glasses ("swag"), free beer, free bottles.

And during that time, people knew that all the real connections and business was happening. You'd get far more networking done over two hours of beers and mingling than you'd accomplished all day trying to sell yourself to people with your best poker face and laptop demo.

It comes down to this: for the human species, it's more genuine to have fun together and build social ties based on real emotional connections and shared experience than to focus on a topic in isolation. I think this is the effect you notice, and it's not at all uncommon. In fact, I'd say compared to other experiences I've had, from college to the Outdoor Retailer trade shows, to now two companies I've worked for where alcohol has been present and accounted for, the programmers are the mildest of the set.

I get it, I really do. I've been there and I've been frustrated by the alcoholic focus of social gatherings, I've been frustrated by friends' desire to go to dingy bars just to drink, I've been a wallflower at frat parties watching the puzzling behavior of the curious species in front of me. I've done that thing, this thing you're frustrated about and writing about.

And then I grew up. I'll do the same thing, go out to bars, have just one drink, be stunned at all the drunk people, but I can also look at it from their perspective. These are all people trying to have fun in a life in which it's difficult to find meaning, trying to form connections in a world where being alone and cold and digital has become the norm, trying to break down the walls of their own frustrations and insecurities and be someone they didn't think they could be, but most of all, trying to stop trying so hard.

I don't know. It seems to make no sense, and yet it does in the context of a little experience and empathy. There's balance and moderation in everything, and certainly I agree that there's a little too much focus on excess, even if it is just a vocal minority being very obvious and loud. But a beer or two now and then to help you relax and enjoy life just a tiny bit more is certainly not to be discounted entirely as a negative, and the effect it has in a group setting is sometimes stunning to watch. So I feel some balance is required in this perspective.
Clearly there is a group of non-drinkers that do feel excluded from drinking events, even if that feeling is imagined. One possible solution that doesn't take away drinking events would be to explicitly welcome them.

"If you don't drink, there will be plenty of sodas, water, juices, etc. at the bar. We want to hang out with all of you regardless of what you're drinking. :)"

Two years ago, as a non-drinker who felt a lot of non-existant peer pressure, just that line would've made me much more comfortable in attending one of these social events. If nothing else, it's a good first step that costs nothing more than the breath to say it out loud.
There's plenty of actual harrasment to be found in this list of incidents: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/index.php?title=Timeline_of_in...

Keep in mind that this is just the subset of women who were strong and determined enough to come out and risk retribution and damaging their career prospects.
Why you must never generate your own promo codes
It's not just Sky news.

BSkyB (trading name: Sky) are gigantic (over £7bn yearly revenue) and have fingers in many pies. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSkyB
Why do they need Coinbase? Just give them your address, which is public information anyhow.
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Yeah, at first I thought that it was their product. I have app as well as their Pencil and I got confused for a second.
This is my biggest issue with them: bill payments. They don't match up bill reminders with transactions. So, as you said, something you've paid still shows up as due and once the due date goes by, if you haven't paid it, it just disappears off your list even though it's still outstanding. They really need to fix this.