skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this public?

It seems possible that he'd get acceleration and be retained through other means (retention bonuses/etc.).

Also, for a company in Mint's position an earn-out is somewhat common (although it would be hard to argue that this would be the case when Aaron is taking over all of Quicken Online).
And if pink is considered a status symbol, they've never seen the bridge and tunnel crew ;)

This is why Bridge and Tunnel folks (and their equivalent in every other major city) are an excellent example of what's being talked about in the article -- they are the low-status people trying consciously and desperately to indicate high-status people. However it doesn't quite work, since they appear to have only a limited grasp of what high-status people are actually like.

They know suntans are high-status, so they fake-tan themselves 'til they're orange. They know high-end brands are high status, so they wear Ralph Lauren shirts with polo logos twelve inches high, or carry loud and clearly fake Louis Vuitton handbags. And they heard somewhere that wearing a pink shirt is totally masculine nowadays, so they continue to do so even though the people they seek to emulate moved on about ten years ago.
Google Releases A Nuke. Apple Won’t Win This Fight.
And they also look rather strange. Not a big deal, but it could keep people from buying it. I know I wouldn't want those things on my car, they look like something straight out of a bad sci-fi movie.
The Age of Stupid Gets Smart on Enviropocalypse
‘That Guy’ - Terminal Man Gets Busted
If it's across all Blizzard games that makes far more sense, but the context of the talk is WoW: "...Blizzard Entertainment's J. Allen Brack and Frank Pearce took the stage to offer a detailed look into the inner workings of the genre-dominating World of Warcraft."
One a larger scale, fashion is a reflection of the current cultural mentality - its a physical representation of reactions to current events, trends and ideas. In a very real way, it is a socially-conscious art that you can wear. Fashion forecasters look analyze things around them: "Green" inspires the color, current wars inspire military elements in clothing, and more currently, the recession inspires deconstructed black pieces.

There is a stigma which casts Fashion as vapid and illogical, but a serious look at avante-garde and haute-couture designers will show the opposite. Designs are highly intellectual and innovative, encompassing all variations of form and function, and the interactions between elements. Very commonly, a single stitch or element is given as much deliberation as a core feature in a programming language or a chip in a circuit due the angles which it must be analyzed.
Cover their ass from what? They repeated exactly what they said before.
Scanning dead salmon in fMRI machine (2009)
SKA telescope to provide a billion PCs' worth of processing
Sorry about that. Dreamhost moved me to a different server, and I haven't had a chance to get everything working again. In the mean time, I've copied it to: http://apgwoz.com/hacks/fisheyeedit.py

EDIT: The actual link is working again. which is actually much more up to date.
Sorry. I explained in your sibling comment. I put it here: http://apgwoz.com/hacks/fisheyeedit.py
just remember that when you register a domain, to get private registration. Also make sure its a new domain, if you already registered it with your real info, changing it to private won't help, your old info can still be found.

Also there are a few extra things you need to do, to protect yourself:

a) dont' use the same Google Analytics and Google Adsense account on that website as on your other sites.

b) When you answer emails for that site, always do so after accessing the email service through a proxy.

c) Make up a fake name for your persona for that site. Make it be completely irrelevant to any of your other identities. Make sure the name is very common, but something less less obvious than John Smith.
There's a difference between popular and better.

I'm not saying that Craigslist isn't good. I'm saying that if it wants to redesign, it should redesign because its creators want it to be different.
One of the confusing parts of this thread is that the FCUK brand has different associations in the US from what it has in the UK or Australia.

It's pretty rare to see a FCUK t-shirt in the US (apparently they only have 19 stores nationwide) whereas they're ridiculously overplayed in the other two countries (14 stores in Sydney alone).

Of course it's not "high end" anywhere, but it's not so chavvy (or local equivalent) in the US.
We’re offering a free TechCrunch tshirt to any Google employee that forwards that screenshot to us. No questions asked.

Anyone left on HN who still wants to stand up for Arrington's reputation as a journalist?
Hello,

Thank you for starting this thread on Trademarkia! I am Raj Abhyanker, and the CEO of Trademarkia (www.trademarkia.com), a 2 person startup here in Palo Alto, CA. We just launched this Monday September 14, 2009 the TechCrunch50 Demo Pit.

We have only indexed USPTO trademark data from 1870 till December 31, 2008. We have not yet indexed the 2009 data, and that is why the mark recently filed in August 2009 is not showing up. The 2009 data will be indexed, and the site will be refreshed daily in about 1 month.

You are correct, our revenue model will be in the filing services for new marks (state, federal and international), and the re-filing of expired and abandoned trademarks by new owners. Because we automate and simplify the process, we are able to offer a lower cost, highly reliable method for these services.

In addition, we will provide infringement monitoring against new trademark filings. With regards to logo marks, we have developed a unique search engine for things inside of logos based on never before indexed legacy USPTO classification codes. For example, you can see inside logos here: http://www.trademarkia.com/trademark-logo-design

After we are funded, we plan to indexing all 50 state U.S. trademark filings, as well as those in as many international countries as possible. We are currently looking for partners (domain name registrars, logo design companies, etc.) that might want to create interesting and cool APIs between our site and theirs.

If you have any further questions regarding Trademarkia (or want to help), please feel free to call me at 650-965-8731 or email me at raj@trademarkia.com

Thank you once again for starting this thread. YCombinator is a great resource.

Respectfully yours,

Raj

Raj Abhyanker
CEO & IP Attorney
Trademarkia.com
Alrighty then. Using out Django Debug Toolbar has been on my list of things to start doing for a while now, but after seeing this, how could I not start immediately?
crazy egg runs only $9 a month on the low end and is well work it, particularly if you are trying to see what users are clicking on.

If you have a process where you try to get users from one page to another, no matter if you want users to sign up or just continue reading, or click on your contact information Crazy Egg is invaluable. Often you will start to see how you are bleeding users, by distracting them from the goals you want for them, or they have for themselves.

It is keep and the have a money back guarantee. And I don't work for them I just use them a lot.
Animal Metacognition (and Ethics)
I expected the TechCrunch readership to not get a little jab of humor, but here too?
Opinions on picking future teammates' brains over lunch?
I have a big interview scheduled and lots of time to prepare for it. I'd like to know what I should be focusing on in that time - that is, what competencies this company in particular values, including the ones that I wouldn't have thought of just by reading their website. So it occurs to me that the best place to go is the brains of the people who are already there. If I took them out to lunch, got friendly with them, found out exactly what a Company X employee is expected to be able to do, I'd have a big leg up. This also shows that I care about the opening and am willing to allot some of my own time for it, and serves as good PR.

Or does it? I don't want to be viewed as some kind of ingratiating snake, trading sushi for favors. This is worrisome enough on its own, but I've already been informed that the nature of the interview will be heavy on earning the impressing my future teammates. How can I communicate that I'm interested and gregarious but not devious or compensating for lack of skill?

This is a Bay Area startup made mainly or even entirely of young geniuses, for what the demographic matters. Treating an employed programmer to lunch and picking his/her brain is something I've been meaning to do for a long time outside the context of learning about a specific company; I've just never, you know, DONE it. So what do you think? Good idea, or going too far?

Oh, and what are YOUR tricks?
Ask HN: What do you use for Dental Insurance?
I am a contractor for a major company. And with that am offered no dental insurance. What do you guys use as cheap && reliable && quality dental insurance.
Thanks for clarifying, Alex!
I find that a little funny. By wearing the free t-shirt, wouldn't everybody know what it's you that leaked said screenshot? Unless everybody at google regularly wears techcrunch clothing, which probably isn't likely. He should probably offer something which doesn't implicitly identify his source.
So true ! Loved u'r violin example. Let me state my experience. I used to code in BASIC when I was in school, when shifting to C++ in college it was a pain in the ass. Later I learnt python by choice, although initially indentation stuff freaked me out. I had gotten used to C syntax. Recently while learning scheme I felt handicapped. Once we'r used to certain languages, familiarity makes the task seems easy. I found that Java code easier than scala because may be I'm unaware of scala syntax.
The fact that almost everyone in the college codes in C++ because they are using it and they are so used to it that they feel problems while switching languages !!

PS. I'm much happier now that python had replaced C++ as my primary language :)
Wow. Fortran II was my first programming language.
It isn't funny. Arrington seems to think it is, but apparently all he's laughing at is his own lack of ethics rather than at any intended jest:

i mean, sure, we’d take the docs and deliver the tshirt. but we do have one or two other ways of getting information.
Hello, you are correct. We havent indexed 2009 USPTO data yet on Trademarkia. Will be indexed in about 1 month, we are in the process of doing this now. Once 2009 data is indexed, we'll be updating the site daily. I wrote a detailed post below. Raj
Good forum on the topic: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/900803/cost-and-ownership...

I believe in CA the following holds true (from a comment in the above thread) but am not a lawyer and DO NOT KNOW FOR SURE:
"The normal situation with freelance programming is that the client will own the source code. That being said--depending on jurisdiction and many other factors--if it's not specified in any contract it will often default to the freelance programmer."
We had nothing more than 'call -151'
Hello, we are not scraping the USPTO site. We have actually obtained the data legally under the Freedom of Information Act. I wrote a more detailed post below. Kind regards, Raj Abhyanker CEO of Trademarkia
I'm surprised that this didn't get more press.
Aliens use map/reduce for telepathic communication!
There are few reporters who wouldn't accept leaked documents. Some of the most famous news stories were based on leaks.
We haven't indexed the 2009 data yet. We will be doing so in the coming month. After that time, we'll be updating the site daily with the latest USPTO data. Trademarkia will soon be just as accurate as the USPTO, with much more deeper/interesting search capabilities. Stay tuned. Raj Abhyanker CEO of Trademarkia
I'm new to github. When I go to download it ("Downloads" tab at github) and click "latest" "tgz"; why do I get "petdance-ack-$extremely_long_number.tar.gz" instead of "ack-1.9.0.tar.gz"?

Same thing happens if I click the curvy-cornered "download" button with the little green downward-pointing arrow.
Can someone point out the lie? This seems in line with Apple's prior statements to me.

Yes, there is a difference between Apple saying they're still considering it and Google saying they rejected it--but that's expected, given that Google has no idea what is going on inside Apple. I don't see how that constitutes a lie. From Google's perspective, it has been rejected, but I see no claim that that rejection was said to be permanent and inclusive of all possible implementations of Google Voice for the iPhone (which is the real issue). Hence, from Apple's perspective, it's still an open question.

It seems like people have chosen this one application to assume that all rejections are permanent, even though there are hundreds if not thousands of examples in the App Store of applications that were initially rejected for one reason or another, and later approved with or without modification.
In case you are interested, here are all U.S. trademarks of Hasbro. They have more than 4000 trademarks :

http://www.trademarkia.com/company-hasbro-inc-544799-page-1-...

Also, here is the details for the Connect Four mark referenced above.

http://www.trademarkia.com/trademark-details.aspx?tid=730199...

Raj Abhyanker
CEO of Trademarkia
yes, for now. We eventually want the search to be for trademarks in all 50 states as well as in international countries. We allow users to purchase 'recycled' trademarks (e.g., trademarks abandoned by their previous owner) by re-reregistering for them and easily finding expired marks. Raj Abhyanker CEO of Trademarkia.com
I believe in good UFO research, and I believe that there are cover-ups, black ops, etc. But I really hate delusional crap like this. Every major scientific advance is "the aliens". Fiber optics, transistors, ICs, superconductivity, and on and on and on. Morons.

It makes me wonder if some of these guys are really part of cointelpro operations designed to make any and all black-ops researchers look like crack-pots. But of course, there are enough delusional people in the world that "they" probably don't need to bother.
There are hopefully considerably fewer offering explicit quid pro quos for said documents.
I don't see a problem with this.
"I posted Google's last bargaining chip on Tech Crunch and all I got was this lousy T-Shirt."

At least do what the other mediocre tabloids do and expect to pay a bounty for Bat Boy pictures.
Excellent! Thanks for the tip. It scared Thunderbird into pegging the CPU until I killed it, but it worked great.
Putting aside that we're talking about a shirt, what is unethical about buying leaked information, as long as it is legitimate news?
Ask HN: Why is Prototype.js so inconsistent?   
I would consider myself a very experienced front-end web developer, I usually use jQuery and can almost always get it to do exactly what I want in a very intuitive way. I am forced to use prototype/scriptaculous for a small project (really just some light animations/dom manipulation on a page), and I have to say that I am really shocked with how inconsistent and confusing it seems. I know that this combination is very popular within the Rails community and I am wondering if I can get some help on a few issues I am having. I think I must be doing certain things wrong but I cant seem to find the answers anywhere.

Below is a list of oddities that I am running in to, I would really appreciate anyone familiar with prototype to take a read through them. I am not interested in starting a JS library war, only in knowing why I might be finding it so difficult to use.

- Why does $('element_id').getStyle('height') only return a value if the value has been set with inline css (ie by doing something like style="height: 40px" on the element). If the value is set in an external CSS file or in the HTML head, the .getStyle function returns 0.

- Why can't I do an Effect.Appear (and others) on an element by class name, I know that prototype should let me do a $$('[any css selector]'), but with something like Effect.Appear I apparently have to set an ID on my target element and use that. I can do "Effect.Appear('idname');" and "Effect.Appear($('idname'));" but not "Effect.Appear($$('.classname'));" Does prototype force you to use IDs for every element you want to interact with?

- Why is it "Effect.Fade" (capital F) but "Element.hide" (lower-case h) - I know that one is technically prototype and one is script.aculo.us, but come on.

- Why doesn't this example work consistently? http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/128280/prototype-test.html The small box should always start animating at the same position, it works if you leave your mouse off the box for a while, but if you bring it back over within a few seconds or so it starts animating at the previous ending position and flickers a lot.

- Sometimes i have to do "new Effect.something" and other times I don't need the "new". Eg: I can just do "Effect.Appear" but I have to do "new Effect.Move"

- I always use Firebug for catching typos and debugging my jQuery code, but I immediately noticed that with Prototype, many errors just cause the rest of the JS to not function, but no error is listed in Firebug. This is frustrating, especially for a new user who is not comfortable with all the various syntax. Is there anything I can do to catch these errors?

Thanks!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_effect
I'm in the "t-shirt was a joke" camp, but this does cause me to wonder: is this alleged screenshot also a joke?

I mean, in the context of the t-shirt thing, just how credible can Arrington's screenshot claim be, anyway?
I hope the shirt says, "I leaked evidence in my employer's multi-million-dollar lawsuit and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
It's not legitimate news. It's confidential correspondence. Arrington is seeking to bribe a Google employee to betray his employer by breaching his NDA. If the document were evidence of wrongdoing on Google's part, it would be a different matter -- the employee would be a whistleblower and his betrayal would be laudable. But that's not what we're talking about. Google is the victim of the alleged wrongdoing. If the information gets leaked, they're victimized even further by being deprived of a bargaining chip with Apple.
More than that, I was wondering: Who would do that for a T-Shirt? Its just disgusting to me (and indicative of why I don't read Tech Crunch) that they are so full of themselves that they feel even a T-Shirt from them holds significant value.
Screenshots are evidence because you'd really have to be lame to spend the effort on a perfect forgery?

Is it that they do feel shame and won't falsely claim forgery on top of what they're already caught at?
Okay, it is installed. And it is awesome. I'm a bit sad I didn't start using this before. Had similar feeling about command extensions and south when I started using them.
What strikes me as worrisome is that, at least by the tone of the article, there is no possible doubt in Arrington's mind that the screenshot exists, and that it is EXACTLY what was claimed to him, and he hasn't even seen it.

I'm sure it's a somewhat thin argument, but I personally would think they'd start reserving their over-committal in the wake of the Facebook-picture-fax thing. I mean, they bought that hook, line and sinker, and that was a hoax they at least SAW.
Why economics condemns 3D to be no more than a blockbuster gimmick
Why would they lie? Rackspace is not some fly-by-night operation. They are, by some measures, the largest and most successful hosting provider in the world, and they have an excellent reputation. Lying to you to make a tiny sale like this would be just stupid.
You should prefix your question with an "Ask HN: <question>" to differentiate it from a linked article.
Apple II games in your browser
Anyone have a copy of any bona-fide Apple App Store rejection notice?

It's possible both sides are playing semantic games. A "we can't include this app at this time without tweaks" could be seen as a 'rejection' or merely a 'request for info/changes' depending on your perspective. I wouldn't put it past Apple to have carefully worded all 'rejections' and 'approvals' so that there is always wiggle room in both directions.
Debate: Science reporting: is it good for you?
AppTrap detects when apps are trashed and asks if the user would like to trash prefs as well. Very nice solution, way better than AppZapper.

http://onnati.net/apptrap/

Don't see whey we can't write a project that solves this problem on a general level with a similar method. When a .app appears in specified folders ask to move it to an applications folder. Watched folders default to ~/Desktop and ~/Downloads and the app folder defaults to /Applications.
My bank account. Dental care simply isn't expensive enough for me to consider it something I would insure for. Insurance, to me, is for catastrophic events (and medical care, because the US health care system is so screwed up that even day-to-day care is vastly overpriced). Dental care can never cost more than a few thousand dollars in a given year, even in the event of horrible problems...and mostly it's less than a couple hundred each year.
This is disproved by the fact that at least 10 perfectly photoshopped screenshots had to have been submitted in the first hour, and have not been posted.
Clearly. Page Rank is so genius, so complicated, that it could only have come from a mind greater than mine.

Therefore: aliens.
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Lock up your secrets their giving away t-shirts. What employee is going to risk their career for a t-shirt.
Would it be possible to use something like http://www.wikileaks.com/ to expose the fraud?

wikileaks has held up against some tough opponents.
Get back to me after the soon-to-be-released wave of 3d TVs and monitors have been out for year or two. I think gamers will buy them, they'll make porn for them, and I know a ton of indie filmmakers who want to shoot in 3d and have been hacking together ways of doing it (it's not all that hard).

People said the same thing about color - it was really crap for many years. And I still like black and white movies. I think 3d is doing just fine.
What about compilers that stick in NOPs to keep pipelines in sync?
I don't think I'm a high-profile user in any regard. I think we have whatever pricing plan is second or third from the bottom.

I will try to dig up the email thread, though it was quite some time ago. I just gave up on trying to use the email to comment feature, and as a result offloaded most of my personal to-do management to Outlook (which kinda sucked) and then Evernote.

I don't remember exactly why I was unhappy with the support. I do remember the support person asking me for more information and not having the foggiest idea why she (I think her name was Sarah) couldn't just look it up somewhere herself.

Regardless, I didn't mean it to air any dirty laundry. They have a reputation for poor service, which was my real point.
Wrong. Page Rank is so genius, and so far beyond my understanding, and yet I am one of the few who can see the real truth that has been covered up for years while most sheeple drift along in the fog. If I can't understand PageRank, how could they?

Therefore: aliens. You are educated stupid.
It's a joke. Up to you whether you think it's funny or not, but as grounds to question his credibility? Lighten up.
Why did you switch to whatever you used next?
The creation is scalable, but the support isn't. What if WoW had one billion players? They could still crank out the same content with the same 250 developers and designers and deploy it to all their players, but they'd need proportionally more GMs and customer liasons.
We don't, it's a joke. I am having a hard time believing so many people on this site didn't catch that.
Wow! Thanks!

http://south.aeracode.org/wiki/About

http://ericholscher.com/blog/2008/sep/12/screencast-django-c...

Edit : Holy Shit!