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A new tool for creating, sharing and iterating user personas.
I'm currently Working on a new product aimed at UX professionals and collaborative teams. Most personas created these days are not designed to make the reader care about the user, and take substantial time to develop and iterate after testing assumptions. Stakeholders need a better tool that enables them to make better design decisions, faster. So that's what I'm attempting to build. You can check it out at http://userforge.com.

Just trying to get the word out there, get some feedback, make some connections and further test my own assumptions about my intended user groups. Comments and questions welcome.
To be fair, all we know is that prosecutors can threaten to split families apart for a single, momentary stupid, virtually riskless act. The mother agreed to a plea-bargain because she didn't want to find out if they actually could.
I'm a little confused by the domain names and trademarks relations.

If I use a trademark, say Ziglou, can I expect to have a right to every domain names with Ziglou?

Ziglou.com, Ziglou.net, Ziglou.org, Ziglou.some-new-top-level-name...

Can I expect to also have right to a top domain?
Ziglou.ziglou?

Inversely, can one expect to have an established trademark just because of a domain name? In this case, HealthKit?
shorteners should be called that way only when the result is actually shorter.

Otherwise "interceptors/tracers" seems a better name.
Meh, I can't see anyone honestly getting confused between the two. Apple's HealthKit (http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/health/) is for developers to work with, and this other HealthKit (https://www.healthkit.com/about-us) is for patients and medical practitioners.
Also no permalink to the blog post is a horrible path. The old published content is already lost in the void.
In what country, Australia?

I don't think Apple is too concerned. If HealthKit had filed for trademarks internationally then they'd have a leg to stand on.

Instead they're left moaning about how Apple has named some technology, not a packaged product per-se, with a name similar to their company.

Apple's legal team was no doubt aware of HealthKit, had done some analysis, and decided that there was no real issue. HealthKit can do their thing in Australia.
Apple missed a perfectly good opportunity to call it "MedKit" if you ask me
In Bulgaria this is called "Monkey" (маймунка) or "Monkey A" (маймунско А) i've also heard few people cal it "rose" (розичка)
A good point. In a parenting class I went to recently, they showed the standard classical conditioning diagram, and then said roughly: "Now, while we know that there is more to human behavior than this box represents, it does describe a lot of it, and remember, that's not just your child, but you as well."
Milestones would be so much more effective.
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NOVA Point of sale 4.5
Hi, I want to buy Point of Sale software and system for my retail shop. My friend suggest me to buy NOVA POS 4.5. Can any one suggest me and give feedback about this pos software or if you use some other than also suggest me.
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From http://blog.daemonl.com/2014/06/healthkit-apple-stole-our-bu...

> But not only HealthKit, The whole 'Kit naming scheme

Apple's been using the "kit" naming convention for a much longer time (AppKit, IOKit, WebKit)--I think it originates in NeXTSTEP, if not earlier.
I wonder if a lawyer really caring about his client wouldn't straight up say "just forget about it".

If the company you're criticising doesn't like critics, doesn't care about bad PR, and has to feed their lawyers, you won't have a good time any way you do it.

Some rare occasions you might be better off with a strong public opinion supporting you and people coming out of the bush to help your case, than trying to do it the sneaky way and still get caught in a hell of legal troubles that not much people really heard of, and you get cast as the little guy trying too pull money from the big corp because of the narrative sold to the media by your opponent.
Regarding the trademark issue: if the other company does use its name as a brand as well as a trade name, it may have trademark rights in its name, even if they have never applied to register it. [1]

It was certainly well known by Apple that healthkit.com was already registered and in use by a company already working on a very similar product.

As for copyright, it does not apply to names: What is not protected by copyright? ... Names, Titles, Short Phrases, or Expressions [2]

Finally, Apple seems to think it's easier asking for forgiveness than permission when it comes to naming products [3]

[1] http://www.quora.com/Trademarks/If-someone-has-a-company-nam...

[2] http://www.legalzoom.com/intellectual-property-rights/copyri...

[3] http://www.itnews.com.au/News/71042,cisco-expects-deal-with-...
EBay study warns search ads have 'no measurable benefit
Want to share a PDF on the Internet? Not as trivial as you would think.
Circle: Answering the most popular questions from our launch
And if you stop smoking crack, you're cured of addiction! It is saying that we don't have any reliable way for an obese individual to restrict their diet to X calories per day other than bariatric surgery.
Pacemakers have a remote exploit bug ?
If you can get this close to my heart, you might as well stick a knife in it. The only difference is the one will look like a failed pacemaker and the other will look like murder.
Australia's tech darling Atlassian in sexism row
Med / medical related to doctors, diseases while health is more about better living.
Many iOS frameworks are named with a "Kit" suffix (UIKit, MapKit, StoreKit, EventKit etc.)

There is nothing odd in some new iOS frameworks following a similar convention.

If anything, I think Apple's new framework is going to generate a lot of marketing/PR value for the company. I think they realize this :)
Consider the old casino trick: One person takes out a lot of money, "loses" it at poker to someone else, that person cashes out.

How can you possibly trace that? Sift through the casino's financials for deposits and withdrawals of a similar size?

Sometimes the trail goes completely cold.
As with many other addiction based ailments, you aren't cured from obesity, you are simply in remission. As the cure for alcoholism is essentially to Just Stop (tm) being an alcoholic, so the cure for obesity is to esentially Just Stop (tm) being obese.

I'm sorry, there is no easy path. It's all up to you. Deal with it.
"Health" feels positive to me. "Med" feels ameliorative. Stay Healthy vs Stay Medicined...
And observe how large our brains have to be to achieve that, and how many calories it requires.
But also significantly less traceable back to the murderer.
I thought it was becoming more universal, but now I'm not so sure.

grep on the Mac used to use PCRE regexes if you used the -P option (`grep -P ....`), but beginning with OS X 10.8 the -P option was removed, so an important place that used to offer PCRE (default grep on a default Mac) actually removed support for it. They didn't replace it with something better; they just took it away. Maybe a Unicode issue?

Not only is PCRE not universal, overall support might even be waning.
Interesting. When you say 'So the compiler is indeed able to keep performance for these small structs on par with primitives', is this based on your experiments or on some theoretical analysis? If the former that's indeed impressive - I would guess that behind the curtains it uses some kind of macro based approach rather than actually implementing it as a struct where you're always going to have some additional integer ops to calculate addresses? If the latter I don't quite get how you arrive at that conclusion, could you expand?
Okay, so, in the same vein then: "Crack research confirms long-term crack smoking prevention almost impossible". Sounds kinda off, no? It's a mental thing, and by mental, I don't mean "It's all in your head", I mean "It's (literally) all in your head".
Funny but... Some time ago Apple was after Polish grocery store [1] since they have an apple in their logo (not even closely similar to Apple's logo) and use domain name a.pl...

I think that hilarity of above mentioned action still remains unbeaten, however, as I see, Apple is trying very, very hard.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2409669,00.asp
It's something analogous to Occam's razor combined with the principle of least surprise applied at a very large scale.

Given our observation of the 'laws' locally the assumption that they hold universally is the simplest explanation. It would require something a lot more complex than what we generally observe for such laws not to hold universally.

The places where the laws break down (big bang, inside black holes (do they) and other extremities) are as far as we're concerned not places we are likely to visit and are nice examples of how forceful you'd have to be to get out of the set of laws that we observe locally. It's probably safe to say that any place where the universally observed laws do not hold are places where energy levels are in play that we'd do best to avoid.
My personal wiki is powered by Org mode[1] and includes more than 2,000 documents. No other note-taking solution that I've evaluated comes close to meeting my requirements as well as Org mode does.

Before I switched to Org mode, I evaluated many of the note-taking solutions discussed at the OutlineSoftware.com forum[2]. If none of the recommendations here at HN meet your requirements, you should consider browsing that forum.

[1] http://orgmode.org/manual/

[2] http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/tlist
wow, ACT3 syntax from 1999 re-invented. ACT3 was the template / programming script of the austrian national news agency.

instead of JS we used PERL as the inline script language. oh yeah, in the end i wrote a templating language using this templating language until we ditched it for something sane, namely PHP 3 at that time.
Correct, the app is called Health.
Fair point about the series, but apple own i* and *Kit. Anything else?
I think I finally get why people actually want to live on Soylent. It's the "abstention" cure for food addiction.
Yeah it's the same for the Danish version. It's literaly "trunk-a" or just "trunka".

I'm actually from the Faroe Islands, which is an autonomous contry in the Kindom of Denmark. We speak Faroese, another nordic language, and here it's "kurla". Which is literaly the Faroese word for curl. Just happens to have the a at the end.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kurla
You have to change who you are, then you will move towards the equilibrium weight of that new person.
It is arobase, with an 'e' at the end.
I'm currently in Kashmir where everyone always says in full
"... at the rate of..." in the middle of their email address. So far I've not met many twitter users.
Could a textarea tag work too?
This can be helpful in Project Euler challenges.
No, the study is saying that there is no reliable way (within the norms of modern western society) a third party can convince an obese individual to put down the fork.

It says nothing about whether an obese individual will lose weight if they do choose to eat less. Clearly they can - gravity is not causing food to fly into their mouth whether they want it or not.
Life After 'Life': Aging Inmates Struggle For Redemption
Do these numbers take into account that most of the information reaching the eye never reaches the brain? It is amazing how little information is transmitted from the eye to the brain - the vivid images that we "see" is to a large extent product of the brain's own imagination, with impulses from the eye to a large extent only provides limited, 'corrective' information to ensure acceptable coherence with reality...
I think they're preempting a problem that doesn't exist. There's many APIs that don't own the .com of the same name, but it never causes much of a problem...

angular.com
cocoa.com
node.com
flask.com
bootstrap.com
backbone.com

etc.
HipHop: A "Popcorn Time" for music
There seems to be a fundamental misunderstanding here about what Apple's HealthKit is. HealthKit is simply the name for the API framework Apple is making available to developers, following in the naming conventions of UIKit, WebKit, SpriteKit and so on.

HealthKit is not, however, a name that consumers will ever actually come across in using their device. Apple's own app on top of HealthKit is simply called "Health", and I highly doubt the string "HealthKit" appears anywhere in that app's UI.
Ask HN: Why Duckduckgo is faster than Google in China?
I'm living in China and I saw that:
1. Duckduckgo is WAY FASTER than Google (when you can access it)
2. Duckduckgo is not censored (at all)
3. You can still find on ddg the content of why Google is blocked

Does anybody has an idea ?
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"Works Everywhere And Is 0.8 KB."

Everything is gzip/compressed. It is more interesting to know the real file size.
Just losing weight is fairly easy.

Keeping low body-fat % while maintaining decent amount of muscle is what is really challenging.
It is my opinion that a primary function of school is to teach individuals to be submissive to authority. This helps the capitalist classes maintain control. So when you turn up to work on your first day, you are already a nicely preprogrammed little robot.
MediaCrush runs a relay (72302D1D0BB2C2667DC7DC5E4DA138B547D5C115) as of today, and has run a hidden service for a long time: http://mediacrs5ujufxog.onion/
Very interesting read. As italian, I agree with our "exotic" gestures which follow the spelling of email addresses when it comes to 'chiocciola' (@)
$1.50 CPIs? Try 2-3x that, even more at enough volume to get to top 5 -- where the chart position really matters
Are you trying to say that you have felt threatened, unsafe or like you were going to be alienated because you had to friendzone a female? Because I can't say that I have. And I honestly have a hard time believing that you have either.

I wasn't being snarky, but you appear to take this subject much more lightly than I do. That's fine. I was being serious about what I said. The commenter above mine was either or troll or someone who actually thinks that men have it harder because of the women's rights movement. If it's the latter, he needs to know that it's not an okay attitude to have in our society.

I'm not a hyper-affluent white male, so unfortunately I'm not just confirming his hypothesis.
It isn't clear. It says :

'Traci Mann says the emphasis should be on measuring health, not weight. "You should still eat right, you should still exercise, doing healthy stuff is still healthy," she said. "It just doesn't make you thin."'

So even if you do eat well and exercise, you still won't lose weight because we have evolved to put weight on, not to lose it.

What I take from this is that there is more of a biological component to this. If you take two people one who used to be obese and one who has never been obese, feed them exactly the same food, put them on exactly the same exercise - the ex-obese person will put more weight on than the always skinny person.

The article gives no indication that there is evidence for this.
Let's say that "http://www.cocos2d-swift.org/" isn't that complete with content..
Parent is making a game / DOOM pun.
1488 bytes for the minified js and 3773 for the "development" version --- I'll add that ... ok done.
You can get the CPI of $1,5 and even $1,2 if you track sources of users and analyse their actions within the app. Then you filter out sources of traffic that sell you the dead users. You can do it manually (i.e. a small army of marketeers). You can also use automatic tools such as AppInTop.
Workaround for ssh on a bad connection
you're looking at quotations and inclusion being transactional links instead of copy/paste. These links possibly involve micropayments. iirc, for Ted Nelson, this had the side effect of solving the copyright problem (for text, I guess) when viewing a document = following all the links to include quotations and other inclusions = micropayments.

Or at least that's what I remember from Literary Machines.
No need to involve the media. Call the police, and make an anonymous death threat towards a well-known person with a pacemaker. They will have to investigate. Then send them your POC anonymously.
> Personally, I don't find ultra-specialized databases very interesting (speaking generally here, not necessarily saying that Vertica is ultra-specialized). I basically see two reasons to use something specialized: (1) replicate data into it and run queries (i.e. an accelerator); and (2) put lots of low value data in it, that you'd otherwise throw away, and try to extract some signal from it. (There are a couple other cases, like real-time systems, but that is outside of what I ordinarily deal with.)

Pretty much. We had a specific business requirement of near real-time statistics and historical statistics available at an entity / day level of granularity for advertisers and publishers using our platform.

Vertica occupies a very sweet spot for us in that regard, but it requires a lot of specialised approaches. I've managed to break its tuple mover a couple of times when loading historical raw data in large quantities.
And how much they earn?
I must say that I've been the 5-2 diet (intermittent fasting) for nearly two years and It has worked for me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5:2_diet
Thanks for posting. It's fantastic to see a cryptocoin where the mining isn't just wasting cycles.
This paper by John Cook has the inequalities: http://biostats.bepress.com/mdandersonbiostat/paper54/
The domains you've listed are all common words, so claiming exclusive use of them would not be reasonable. HealthKit is not a common word, so it seems more reasonable for an entity to expect exclusive use of it as a trademark.
Imposing Security
The whole 'weight loss' movement continues to focus on two things: nutrition (either calorie counting, or some permutation of low carb dieting, or some other fad eg. Palio) and exercise.

This over looks some important facts. Basal Metabolic Rate; Thyroid Function; Adrenal Function; Sex hormone balance; Epigenetics; Neurohormonal response[1]. Without addressing the whole person weight loss is likely to be a losing battle.

So long as your diet is predominately: fruit & veg; nuts, seeds, legumes, and whole grains; fish, eggs, and animal flesh, then you're eating relatively well. Avoid whatever doesn't agree with you, or as your beliefs dictate. Learn to eat intuitively: 'I feel like a carrot' is intuitive eating, 'I feel like a Mars Bar' isn't.

1. The Nurohormonal response or axis is about the understanding of how the mental / emotional sphere of life impacts hormonal / neurotransmitter activity in the body / brain.

Edit: speeling and gramur
That's such a good idea.

Tor really needs some more relays. With this it could be more interesting to companies as a business model.

One thing I could be worried about is abuse - could a scriptkiddie deploy a botnet and earn TorCoins with this, like it's done with bitcoin miners (although not that effective any more).
What would give "TorCoins" value? It is obvious relays would sell their coins on some altcoin exchange, but who would be purchasing these coins? It seems that the only people purchasing TorCoins would be people looking to donate to Tor relays (this is a totally valid use case, but I was wondering if you have something else in mind.)

Looks really cool by the way.
Medkits go at least as far back as Wolfenstein (1981).
nice pitch
Nudge economics: has push come to shove for a fashionable theory?
Not really sure I was expecting something about fat cells never dieing/shrinking half way through it sounded like a metabolism adjusting thing but then it left with no actual conclusion just that "there is these numbers, see, and they're bad"
Ask HN: Should I continue with this partnership?
Short version:

I came on board over 3 months ago to a small business that is developing management software for their niche industry.

They had been developing the software for almost 1.5 years although it's not that complicated. They chose the wrong vendor (and were cheap) so hence the delays.

3 months after coming on, I've got the development moving forward again but haven't really heard much from the other two partners.

I asked what they've been doing and got a vague "We've been networking and talking and getting a list of potential customers together."

I asked about why they aren't setting up meetings to demo the system and keep potential customers up to date. They didn't think it was a good idea as telling potential customers would lead them to Google where they could find a competitor and use them instead.

Should I continue?

I would have 25% vesting over 3 years. There is a market for this but I don't see much effort from the other two partners. Would it change after the software is ready? It's tough for me to tell.

Any suggestions? Anything specific I should bring up with them?
You don't have legal issues for running relays. Traffic is encrypted so can't be analyzed and since you're not an exit node there's no risk of performing illegal actions with your IP address.
I'm in the same boat as OP, but with an extra requirement.

It should support tagging and searching in text to be of any use.
Oh, and rectangles and apples.
If you look at the chart within the post, the last column shows daily revenue (in-app purchases). The advertisement revenue or offline revenue (e.g. selling of the posters made with those photo apps) are not included in the stats.

So, of course, Instagram does not have in-app purchases. And the Pic Stitch makes $824 per day (annualised to $300K). So the question is: is the app business about in-app monetisation, which works rather well for the gaming companies. Just use free AppInTop Spy service to look the revenue of gaming companies in the US (register free, press SPY icon on the top left hand side of the dashboard). Some make over $100,000 per day. But then the cost for the prime spots and the battle against King.com and Supercell costs much much more.
I spent a couple of terms at university in a hall of residence that was based on the design for a Swedish prison. This could have been an 'urban myth' however the limited access to the building (one door, no fire escapes), the layout and the room dimensions made that myth believable. I actually had some great times there, it was where I met my best friends and where I studied hardest.

We did not have toilets in our rooms but we did have wash-basins. The windows did not have bars on them and the doors were normal doors with handles on the insides. The grey lino flooring and the grey brick walls could have been 'prison', however, with a few personal touches, e.g. posters on walls, some colourful rug on the floor all was fine. No students committed suicide on our block or had to be put on Prozac.

It would be very interesting to see this prison converted to some type of college/university facility. Clearly some courses cost more than others to teach, however, I would be very much surprised if it cost more to teach than to imprison.
I've used cocos2d for my iOS app, Kodable, for two years now. It has worked great...for the most part. If I didn't need to support iOS 5 and 6 for schools, I would have already switched to SpriteKit.

The biggest problem with cocos2d now is that SpriteKit is slowly making it irrelevant, at least for iOS-exclusive apps. Apple basically ripped it off and remade it and packaged it with iOS. It even has the same mode/scene structure! Cocos2d has almost nothing that SpriteKit doesn't except for being open source and a few extensions.

Why would I use cocos2d with swift when SpriteKit has such close integration with it already? There's still a place for cocos2d, but with cocos2d-X, the C++ cross-platform version.
not if the document has an existing <textarea> (and thus </textarea>). <plaintext> is rather final ... see here for a demo I just threw together: http://getpostdelete.com/plaintext.html

The HTML interpreter packs up its bags and goes home - you can't "close" a <plaintext> tag if it's existing in a plain HTML page.

However, you can still manipulate it through the DOM.