skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm currently doing research on the text. Here's the Linux policy: http://www.linuxmark.org/faq.php . It's quite a bit more permissive: it would have allowed your site to exist without applying for a license. On the other hand, if you'd started advertising your project under the trademark "Free Linux Hosting", you'd have to apply for a Linux license.
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It still works great for me for discovering new things going on in my city (if people I follow tweet about them).

Also I do sometimes twitter what I am doing.
All boils down to the fairly generic statement in the last line:

Logging is an integral part of organizational security policies and best practices and well it should be. But don’t make the mistake of thinking that logging access to records is the same as securing them.
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There was an original LISP dialect; a quick Google search / Wikipedia session yielded this memo about a LISP 1.5 compiler written in 1962:

ftp://publications.ai.mit.edu/ai-publications/pdf/AIM-039.pdf

Also there's LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual dated August 17, 1962 which is quite an interesting read: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/book/LISP%...
i don't recall reading where he claims it will sell more. you're defending status quo on this, but in reality, i'm sure zappos had to try a lot of different things to get where they were. so did a lot of companies. and yet you're criticizing this designer for the very thing you're doing: making a bunch of claims, which you can't really back up (or if you have, i haven't seen it).

really, testimonials are bad? i think if done right, they can actually provide some merit. maybe it's just placeholder text right now--but who knows, maybe the new york times found something compelling about zappos, beyond that they just "f*ing sell shoes!" (dhh reference)

i thought the design rocked, and this would definitely improve my perception of zappos.
The preamble says that this policy was created in response to "the questions received by Dries Buytaert from various persons and companies". That in itself makes it sound like most people have been playing nice and have asked for clarification before launching a product that might infringe on the Drupal trademark.

Have there been any specific cases of an individual or company willfully infringing on the trademark?
They can help in prosecuting offenders, and in that way be part of a deterrent that improves security.
If security is measured in a way such as (average leak size/mean time between leaks)
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(I had to look at your profile to see if you worked where I do. I don't think you do, but it's hard to say.)

It's absolutely amazing what wins in A/B testing sometimes. Like the parent poster, we do split-run testing continuously and consistently. I often have my own pre-conceived notions of what will win or lose big, and am often proven wrong by the people that matter: the ones out on the interwebs buying our products.

Side, but related, note: watching customers interact with your site in a facilitated session is also very informative (bordering on mind-blowing sometimes). In our new building, we built a specific lab for this, but we used to and you could easily do it via closed-circuit TV. We've found that having one facilitator in the room with the customer (past customer or in our market but not familiar with the site) and the rest of the observers out of sight (but disclosed to the participant beforehand) works the best.

(Many) People think that computers are magic devices, following no discernable rules or patterns. We've had users try to drag this "thing" over there for 3+ minutes (an eternity when you are watching them struggle) and when it finally works they are giddy with a sense of accomplishment and report "I don't know why it finally worked; it's magic!" but they aren't pissed off in any way. (Obviously, we work to improve this experience, but my point is: what you, as a competent accomplished computer user, expect, prefer, want or will tolerate doesn't trump what Joe Main Street wants/expects if he's in your target market more than the readers of HN.)

Take a spin around our website and you may very well see 10 design WTFs, 7 of which likely have statistically significant test results backing them, 2 of which are in test right now, and 1 of which we don't know about or aren't yet testing.
I had a friend in college (I'll call Rob) who would shoot hoops, play golf, or play table tennis with anyone at any time. But he would never play anything else. He wouldn't play touch football, softball, bridge, or even shoot a game of pool. I could never understand it until I finally figured it out: he wouldn't play anything unless he knew that he would win. How sad, I thought.

I just realized (to my horror) that years later, I am just like him. I don't push boundaries like I used to. I don't call on that extra customer, volunteer for that project, or apply to programs like yc if I think there is any chance I won't win. There's always a reason: the software is missing too much, the demo sucks, there are 14 other things that have to be done first,... You get the picture.

I never thought of this as "fear of failure". I just got so used to succeeding in everything I did that I didn't want to do anything else where I didn't succeed. I became Rob without even realizing it.

I've got to change this stinkin' thinkin'. A good failure would probably do me good. Or maybe I should just try something I would have never imagined a month ago.

Thanks OP, for the perspective.
I wonder how that license dealt with use of the term prior to the existence of the license.
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This entrepreneurship as self-improvement trope is getting downright weird.
To be a bit more precise: The policy states that you're not going to be granted permission by the trademark holder to use the trademark "Drupal" in the domain name "drupalsucks.com".

Whether or not this "prohibits" you is a more complicated question. First, you can always ask: The trademark holder can always grant you an exception if you make your case eloquently enough.

Failing that, you can use the trademark without permission. If you don't get sued, you'll be fine. If you do get sued but a court decides that a sentence embedded in a domain name is a form of fair use, you'll be fine.

The policy goes so far as to explicitly clarify that you're allowed to write the phrase "Drupal sucks" in a blog post as often as you like, without having to ask permission. That's fair use. The law is clear on that.

But domain names are special: A bit less like newspaper articles or diary entries, a bit more like signs in front of a business. Their trademark status is less clear -- whether a specific domain name infringes a trademark is a complicated matter, full of grey areas, questions of intent, and questions of interpretation, that must be adjudicated on a case-by-case basis. And this policy reserves the trademark holder's right to take that question to court in certain cases.

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DISCLAIMER CENTRAL: I am not a lawyer. I am employed by a company, Acquia, that was founded by Drupal's trademark holder. I do not speak for my company, or for Drupal, and my opinions are entirely my own -- and, where they touch upon the law, they're probably all wrong.
Interesting read. As a developer design is definitely one of my pain-points. Fortunately, my current project is for developers! Lucky me :)
(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah.)

Absent any agreement with X, is "Xsucks.com" a trademark violation? I don't know.

If it isn't, then no worries. If its not a trademark violation then X have no hold over you.

If it is, then what is the complaint against X? That they they are not helping people attack them by witholding permission to use thier trademark?

Say I owned the trademark "billpg" and someone was asking my permission to register "billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com". Is it morally wrong of me to tell that person to go do something unpleasant?
The IPv6 deployment strategy with relays means that IPv6 in itself is a workaround for CGN, as long as there's enough relays.

Deployments of CGN might even boost IPv6 use for that reason, if IPv6 + Teredo becomes the most convenient way of bypassing an internet connection that is otherwise neutered..
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What If Everyone Makes Money Except Twitter?
If anyone had machine learning startup ideas that _would_ implement themselves, Eliezer Yudkowsky would probably be interested.

Tangentially, there seem to be a lot of computer vision startups--there's a company called Cortexica with an unreleased iPhone wine label identifier, and Evernote's nonpareil handwriting recognition makes me wish its algorithm were open; open-source alternatives seem to focus only on printed text.
Maybe I'm missing something, but let's summarize the changes:

- De-emphasized search, which is probably the way that at least 50% of the users navigate the site.

- Added a customer testimonials banner that should and would be immediately overlooked by everyone who visits the site, but pushes the product categories down. You're right that the site should have a clear visual hierarchy, but the product categories in this case should be at the top of that hierarchy, not the bottom.

- Added a second brand navigation - I'm not sure why.

- Removed all of the quick links to most popular products, etc. People who scroll down this far on the page have not found what they were looking for in your main product nav, and don't believe they can find it in search. There's no reason to show them a bunch of brands here - rather, zappos' understated text links give them an alternative way to navigate that is clearly lower in the hierarchy. Additionally, i suspect SEO is of major importance to Zappos, so having a link to "wide shoes" on the home page is probably rather important.

- Expanded the section about culture. This would be nice on a site that sold services like an agency site or mailchimp or some such, but is unnecessary with zappos. Most people come to the site looking for a product, not looking to comparison shop retailers.

All that said, your design is more visually appealing. I just wish it had accompanied a post called "My Interesting Alternate Take On The Zappos Homepage" and not "You're Killing Me, Zappos".
Maybe I'm the only one, but I think pagination is evil and should only be used when absolutely necessary (like Google search results... no one wants to see a million things at once). Pagination on articles is just ridiculous.
Yes, the front-end stuff is already available under an open source license. Something about AtD that amazes me is there isn't a lot of code. The data and the rules do most of the work. (although there is a lot of stuff to manage the training and testing processes)
Funnily enough, my cofounder is an architect. And from the tales he (and his architect friends) tell me, yes, architecture clients are just as fickle.

They have loads of self-contradicting stakeholders too (particularly for larger buildings). And they change their mind about the costs. And they get architects to design something to get bids in and then change their mind about half the building. And they want everything, done quickly, cheap, and the highest quality. And they change their requirements. And they expect the architect to adapt to this. And if the architect makes a mis-step in this complex client management process, they will typically get sued and lose money.

I think one way in which architecture is actually much more difficult than software development is that architects often have to pour their heart and soul into a project to design the most amazing building, only to have it cancelled at the last minute. It's a common practice for developers to get architects to design a cool building and get planning permission for it, only to raise the value of the land (by showing that cool stuff can be built on it) so that they can sell it on to someone else (who will of course want something completely different).

To me, that would be very disheartening, because those buildings are often quasi-artistic creations that take a lot of creative energy, and giving it my all time and time again only to have my projects regularly canned and forgotten would just depress me.
One of the lessons learned was that there was another option, he simply didn't see it (ie. tell his commanding officer about his problems -- ask for help).

Running away was the best option he could conceive of, not the right one.

Thanks for sharing your story Daniel.
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Has anyone else tried opening.. and then saving.. a Quicktime Movie directly in Safari? This one is a no go. I suppose this is not 'good' user behavior.

All in all Quicktime-X smells bad. In Safari - it won't play much for me. The same videos that load in QT7.. are either broken icon's or just a blank page in Safari.

Example..
google some random movies (google: index_of .mov OR .avi)

pick a movie and click away. If the movie loads, "Save as..." is disabled. Now you say you can just right click on the link and then save as.. yes.. but sometimes you don't get a nice link to click on. Seems to be a added 'antifeature'.
> Show me an open source encoder with GPU support

Have you tried Fluendo? I think it has GPU support to a certain extent. Not sure if this is a help, but here you go:

https://code.fluendo.com/pigment/trac/wiki/GPUSupport
Perfect! I am sending this to every one of my customers now.
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Applying these hurdles to software would be senseless, because the cost of bad software is infinitely smaller than the cost of bad architecture.

99.999% of software is never in a position to kill someone if it fails catastrophically. 99.999% of buildings are.
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If I'm reading this right, "Dave does Drupal" is allowed.
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(Author here.) My writing has frequently been at the intersection of my academic and start-up lives, and has been of interest to HN. Hoping to kick up some discussion on this post.
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Change the name then. Its not like you've been building up a brand name with reputation if your project is just called Drupal-Something.

Register JaquesmDoesDrupul.com and move on with life.

(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice, blah blah blah)
I made a mistake in the original problem definition. Try:

graphics.beginFill(0xFFFFFFFF);
graphics.drawRect(10, 10, 100, 100);
graphics.endFill();

The extra "FF" for alpha triggers it. But change any one of the entries to FE and it's fixed again.

Edit(2): I just realized that this must stem from the behavior of Flash's unsigned 32-bit integers. Doubly odd since you'd think they'd mention this.
Well imagine if MS did hold an auction and invited parties interested in promoting Linux. What would the reaction have been like? I can imagine lots of "MS screws Linux via extortion 'auction' process" stories flying around on the internet on such a day. Or how about, "Proprietary software company stifles Free Software innovation using Patents".

Regardless of their intent, there is no way MS will ever get any positive reaction from the majority of the "open source community" (I use that term lightly - I think everyone who reads this will know which, very vocal parties I mean though).

It's hard to do business with people who are constantly demonizing you. Is it any surprise MS wont make much of an effort engaging with such parties?

Patents + Linux = PR disaster for MS no matter what. The best they could ever do is minimize the damage.
Sounds like Firefox/Iceweasel -debate all over again. It's still FLOSS, even if you don't have free rights to the brands which the software is distributed under.

Just to repeat: trademarks do not conflict with software freedom.
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Unfortunately the article starts off:
"Boom! But it was only an early mile marker in Sweeney's career; in 2000, she showed that 87 percent of all Americans could be uniquely identified using only three bits of information: ZIP code, birthdate, and sex."

confusing whether we're talking binary bits or unique pieces of information.

33 bits is presumably from the world population being < 2^33 (WolframAlpha puts world pop. at 6 Billion in 2007).
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Thanks for the explanation; but I don't really think that hyperlink anchors, block quotations and lists (ordered and unordered) qualify as "fancy-pants". :)
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I think the poster answers his own question of how twitter will make money.

He says "In other words, what happens if hundreds of businesses are created using Twitter’s API but the entity supporting them – Twitter – can’t make revenue or, at least, enough revenue to be viable."

Why not monetize the API, and do it to the extent that heavy users pay a heavier burden. Give away some free access every month, but once an app hits some critical mass and hopefully becomes profitable, then start sharing in the money. Twitter is at the point that if it were to do this, there would be some backlash, but it certainly wouldn't be an end for them. It would just drive all the "Feeder" companies to figure out how to make money quicker.
Absent any agreement with X, is "Xsucks.com" a trademark violation? I don't know.

I'm not sure anybody knows, and I'm particularly unsure that anybody can know in advance. That's why this particular legal agreement doesn't concede the point up front.

The question of whether "billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com" infringes on the "billpg" trademark involves questions like: Are customers being confused? These are not questions that you can answer in the abstract. If I merely register the domain but it doesn't get indexed by Google and I never show it to anyone, the answer is probably "no". If I put up a site at the domain that looks exactly like the official "billpg" site and then drive traffic to it, the answer moves towards "yes". If I deploy enough SEO tricks to drive billpgIsAPatheticVirgin.com to the top of a Google search page for "billpg", the answer is even more likely to be "yes".

It's got to be hashed out in court, if it comes to that.
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> (You're tired of the canonical link, so here's a much more fun one: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/perlisisms.el)

From there: "Recursion is the root of computation since it trades description for time."

I don't get it. Is recursion supposed to be slow?
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GHG emissions are an economic externality so vast that they're driving the planet's climate into crisis. Sooner or later those costs will be internalized one way or another. In the meantime, the cost of living in places like Mississippi that have extremely high per capita emissions benefits from a huge artificial subsidy that isn't being taken into account.
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Log files have never been about improving security.
The normal/common use is simple.

The rest I hope to learn myself, with time. :-)

The largest problem for now imho, is the startup time.
Sigh. HN mangled the quotes out of the query string but it still seems to do the job.
To defend the PS3 ad, he didn't say the Nigerian scammers, he said Nigerian millionaires. He left it to the viewers to fill in the rest.

To defend the article, that's what it is about.
Drupal has become a known brand over the years, seems no more than prudent to protect it.

The stakes are far more important than this sentence would suggest. Drupal's trademark protection is the lynchpin of its security, for example.

Without careful trademark protection for the name Drupal, there's no law which stops me from opening up a site called "Official Drupal Upgrades" and distributing module upgrades full of deliberately-introduced security backdoors. I'm legally permitted to write insecure code. I'm legally permitted to distribute insecure code and to encourage you to install it. I'm even allowed to base that insecure code on Drupal, because Drupal is GPL. [1] The only way to stop me from confusing Drupal users, possibly in a very dangerous way, is to enforce the trademark.

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[1] I do have to give you the source code, and if you do a security audit on that code you might find my security backdoors. But how many Drupal users read every line of their modules' source code, let alone understand it all? Eliminating the need to bestow loving care on each and every line of your source code is one of the Drupal project's major goals.
If you want something that is still joined but without all those funny loops, you might also find the simplified cursives used in german elementary schools interesting:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vereinfachte_Ausgangsschrift (yes, the lowercase e if funny, our kid's school uses this script with a more classical e like in the following link:)
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulausgangsschrift
Well, I'll defer to your greater knowledge of the financial industry. I'll just note that not only are patents not easily comparable, they aren't usually substitutable.
Old "news":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804585

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=804794
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