skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No but suspending someones twitter handle because you accidentally named a conference after their online identity is still a dick move.

How hard is it to goggle something before you name a conference after it.
It's not 100% clear yet and there might be other factors (eg gas leakages or harmonic-induced damages to relays), but it seems the main effect is rapid internal heating caused by stray magnetic flux leakages from the saturated core [1,2]. Hot spots beyond a certain threshold end up severely damaging internal components, rendering the transformer inoperable --or at best sharply reducing its operating lifetime [3]. Repairs in these cases pretty much entail retrofitting the whole damn thing, so the months-long disruption is all the same either way.

[1] http://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indus-act/reliabilit...

[2] http://fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/spaceweather.pdf

[3] http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/lloyds/reports/emerging%20risk...
They could build a wide platform beneath it so the anchor points would be further apart.
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Well, I hope that authors that currently publish in The New Yorker such as Dr. Atul Gawande, Dr. Jerome Groopman, and Malcolm Gladwell switch to a different publication such as Slate so that everyone can read their well written, very important articles about healthcare and other fields.
Good unique handles are only getting scarcer as the internet grows older. I wonder what people will do 20 years from now.
He started to impersonate the conference. Having his account suspended is fair game.
I spent 5 years learning and using vi (n perhaps a dozen different Unix-like OSes, so they were all different, meaning I could only use a core set of features.

I then spent a few years working on Windows where I had Vim, but other editors I used were, well, 'standard'.

Then ViEmu came along and I now move between Vi-like editing in VS and Vim, and 'normal' editing in other apps.

It's not too bad, to be honest. I'm editing in a non-vi-like-manner in this comment box. I could probably install something to make Chrome do vi-like editing here, but my brain is happy to switch modes, if you'll forgive the pun.
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.
Drake for god sakes.. like why? This is who gets quoted..
Awesome to hear! Looking forward to checking it out. Are you guys still using Architect? I love that module but I always felt it had a lot more potential -- wasn't sure if there were plans to enhance it at all.
Also note that all of our work on Ace was done directly on the open source repository <http://github.com/ajaxorg/ace>.

An update open source version of the IDE will follow soon.
It's statically typed.
How you feel as a founder when techcrunch is writing about you…
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You probably shouldn't be continuing to submit these tumblr-esque .gifs because they are very low quality.
nice idea! local social/twitter
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In general anybody who's really good at data analysis and is willing to be collaborative need not worry about finding employment in the foreseeable future.
The same damn market/space as conferences? That's quite a stretch, no matter what the conference is about.
There is more than a likelihood of confusion. He showed several examples of _actual_ confusion in the marketplace in his blog post.
"You're not allowed sarcastic metaphors any more."

"Why not?" asked the scientist.

"Because you haven't learned to employ them in a way that doesn't alienate the very people you are trying to help. Now please send in Dawkins on the way out, we need to discuss internet memes with him."
It sounds very much like RoboRally, likely with dramatically simplified rules.
Or combine both, and you get a Piasecki PA97 Helistat.

It worked poorly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7jENWKgMPY
It's not easy to stop an identity campaign once it's been started but it really seems like the conference people at least tried a little bit with their fs14 and "{future}stack" branding.
I started playing with programming when I was about 7, I know of people who started with 5.
You don't need to formally lodge a trademark application to gain protection. At least, not under UK law. I imagine it's similar in the US.

Not only that, but he can clearly demonstrate both confusion and priority, in the same field. I don't think it's particularly clear-cut which way a judge would go.
Where is faking being the conference? Starting your own conference with blackjack and hookers is not the same thing. Every quoted tweet makes it clear that he's not the conference. Are there other tweets you're looking at?
Wow. I guess we'll never know the full facts, but I didn't think that was a move which the Josh Topolsky I thought I knew from Engaget/ThisIsMyNext/Verge podcasts would have made.

Just goes to show: you never really know people. Or, of course, that every man has his price ;)

Unless there's going to be a techie Bloomberg podcast - I'll miss Josh's work.

@TheVerge: hopefully you can now put all this behind you, and crank it into second gear. There's still so much potential in what you have.
I'm hoping so.

I got a MS degree in Bioinformatics and for the past three years the only role it has served is collecting dust in my closet upstairs :)

I was the young bioinformatician in 2006 and when working in a lab it felt very isolating. The PI and Postdocs just had me solve simple computational problems (or even IT problems). It felt very much like I was a cog in their grant writing machine rather than a collaborator that deserved any kind of authorship in a publication.

And looking back there was no one to teach me about good practices of writing software like source control, SOLID, testing, etc. Or even storage of our microarrays.

I eventually went to work for a biotech consultancy but I discovered that biotech software was a gimmick used to hike up the prices on software. Sure it was a niche field but we would charge clients hundreds of thousands of dollars for software that was barely functional.

I think a lot of Research groups were badly burned by this and eventually started trying to do everything in house. I eventually became disillusioned/burned out and left the field entirely.

I've been out of the field for four years now but still feel badly as I felt I've wasted my training. I still have a retainer client as a way back 'in' back into bioinformatics.

It would be nice to find these 'bioinformatics groups' and see how they're successfully collaborating with other labs/research groups.
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Or possibly stop with the death penalty all together.
Use different websites.
He specifically said he did it in order to gain twitter followers from those confused by the relationship between him and the conference.
Methodology? How were the respondents selected?
A developer claiming trademark over a developer conference. It's funny how things can be interpreted to fit one's will.
Structuring files/folders this way is great for managing dependencies and compiling sub-apps (eg. with requirejs).

If I find myself in a situation where I need to load MainCtrl but I don't need AnotherCtrl, why would I load both?
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I love trello and use it every day for everything from my day job to side projects.

There are a few things I feel could be tweaked. The number one would be allowing users to create more than 6 labels. It has been asked for a number of times on their uservoice page and always gets the response "we want to keep it simple for newbs".... I don't understand how allowing "expert" users some way of creating more labels impacts on newbs......

Most other features which I feel trello could do with have been plugged up by the amazing trello plus chrome extension. Trello should probably just hire the guy who makes it.

https://plus.google.com/109669748550259696558/posts
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> When the coders of DF die in an airplane crash tomorrow DF is pretty much dead as well and that's the big problem I think. If I invest my whole life to create an awesome piece of work, then it should surpass me in number of years.

What reason do you have for your belief that the community's development of DF (after the plane crash) will be according to the founder's great vision? I openly say that it's perhaps better if in this case the further development of DF is ceased than developed into a direction that is opposed to the original developer's goals.
I don't really have any desire to try lisp, and every time I see that kind of lisp advocacy I have even less.
Right, but you can't use their logo, you need to specify it's a parody, etc. See: https://support.twitter.com/articles/106373-parody-commentar...
A "tech" conference is still in the tech/development sector. Because its a conference doesn't suddenly thrust it into another market.
Never new free speech was optional. Since times of the middle ages were hectoring kinds with various success.
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If the question doesn't already answer itself, the first pull quote kills any doubt: "Dropbox wants to keep its image as a Silicon Valley playground."

...and because they invited The Verge inside to write this fluff piece, you can be 100% sure they no longer are.
The work is part of building the company. As a founder, the company does not owe you $125/hr for every hour you worked.

However, if you "loan" the company $4,500 to pay a designer for something, it absolutely owes you that money back.
>I became more afraid of the sustainability of newer editors [such as Textmate].

I'm not afraid. After 22.5 years on Gnu Emacs, I'm considering a jump to Textmate 2.

(I probably would not be considering a jump, however, without the boost to sustainability caused by Textmate 2's having been open-sourced. ADDED: also, being able to edit files on remote hosts is not important to me.)
Right. The better way to look at is is that once you exceed the size of the roads, land is extremely expensive to cross, while water is extremely cheap. So a 8993 km water journey + 7 km land journey can easily be cheaper than a 400 km land journey.
Heroku seems to be down
Why is it titled India's answer to Google Glass? Possible explanations:
1. The editors know that Indians are susceptible to jingoistic patriotism. "Wow Indians did this? Really?"
2. The editors think that Indians as a collective are not a piece of the flat world and their accomplishments are more surprising than routine.
3. Now that China has pulled itself close to developed nations, India represents "The Third World Asian Country".

I am not offended. IMO all of the above are true. But I guess it can't be too hard to refer a product by the company name rather than the whole nation.
My favored approach would be to just do it off-camera.

One episode right at the end, Klingons show up looking de-Klingon'd. "What the hell happened to the Klingons?" Klingons won't say.

Sometimes, the audience just doesn't get to know.
I have spotted this totalitarian streak among some of my friends who went to med school. We should ban smoking, force everyone to do this or that. As bad as they can be, we're probably better off with lawyers in charge.
Heh. If her electricity bill is so high I wonder if they're mining bitcoin or the like?
HN is actually a reasonably good place to follow the history of this story. Here, have a look at the titles and dates:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hoverbike#!/story/sort_by_date/0/h...
Can anyone share what they feel are their top 3 greatest workflow improvements in productivity going from a point and click IDE to a shortcut based IDE like emacs?
>nginx comes from them as well

Nope. It was Rambler.
The MD-80 was wet-leased from Swift Air[1]. A wet lease basically means that you not only lease the aircraft, but also the crew, maintenance, insurance, etc[2]. It's basically a turnkey way to add capacity.

Because all of the operational responsibilities really belong to Swift Air (with Air Algérie basically only responsible for footing the bills for fuel and airport fees), it will be interesting to see which airline gets the most backlash for the incident. (Of course, Air Algérie is at least partially responsible in the sense that it may have put its passengers on a flight operated by a unsafe contractor)

[1]http://web.archive.org/web/20140724115952/http://www.flightg...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft_lease#Wet_lease
this! its easy to forget this sometimes when you are knee deep in work and the paychecks cash every week...
As someone who shares a name with a famous person where I have the obvious Twitter username, I'd suggest that this isn't confusion, it's people not understanding Twitter.

My photo is me, by bio describes me and expressly says I'm not the musician (and gives their actual username) and yet I get mentions all the time.

That's people not understanding, not caring or not bothering but it's not really confusion about our two identities.
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> Performance isn't an issue with the age of many of those games (and the overhead of emulating hardware for DOSbox is pretty negligible given todays grunt).

It's far from negligible, especially if you're not using a platform which supports dynamic translation of x86 code. Even so, you can easily run into performance issues. There are many dosbox games that run like shit on my PC, which is only four years old.

> I'd also say having the source doesn't mean it's portable.

You're right, and I'm well aware of the fact. Which is why I said giving people the source is an important first step. If you read my other comments in the thread, you know I know that the game's developers can also affect the portability of their code, if they care.

> which would mean a direct port would be less practical than a reimplementation.

Sorry but this is very uncommon. Even with weird unportable dependencies, it is almost always easier to take existing code and port it than to completely rewrite it (reverse-engineering the original in the process). If you think otherwise, you're grossly underestimating the amount of work it takes to reverse-engineer and make a game.

> I don't think old games necessarily need to be open source.

Games do not need to exist in the first place. But people want them (this is why GOG exists). People also want them to run well on their computers (this is also why GOG exists). Why shouldn't people enjoy old games, just like they can enjoy old books and movies? This is what GOG attempts to let them do. Why shouldn't game developers agree? Why not make it easy for people to enjoy their work any time? Why should games bit rot to hell? I'm talking about all games, not just old games.

I brought up an old game as an example because it shows off what open sourcing the game can do. There is a vibrant, active Doom community to this day. New map packs are being made, new source ports are being made, new mods are being made. There's new stuff and there's improvements to the old stuff. And it really makes a difference. I don't think the current community could exist if we only had DOS Doom. I know for a fact I wouldn't be playing it anymore.

My PC can't even run it in dosbox well enough. Performance is an issue.

And yes there are other old games that are very difficult to run properly on anything modern. If there isn't enough community around it to hack around all these problems, these games will slowly be forgotten. It's sad.

> If developers / studios wish to release the code for research or academic curiosity, then kudos to them.

Do you really think research and academic curiosity is all the source is good for? Maybe you do not care about old games and all the new games that have spawned as a result of old engines being made available to us. That's fine. But for a lot of people, it's much much more than a code museum. People really do play source ports of old games, or new games that are built on the sources of old games.

EDIT: If someone knows of a port or reimplementation of the original System Shock, I'm interested. I'd love to play the game, but not in dosbox, and not without some UI tweaks.
I remember thinking this a few years ago... that cryptocurrency would be to banking what Napster was to records. This is particularly going to be true on the international scale.
Finding buyers: the market at this stage will be other shareholders & principals. Assuming you're on speaking terms with your old friends, start with them.
First thing, relax! As others have pointed out, this won't be the first time that someone has quit a job without notice.

In the early 90s, right out of college, I was sent to a godawful temp assignment in Austin, Texas. The temp agency told me multiple times, "Call us when you arrive." I arrived at the job, and the company didn't have a phone that employees could use. They directed me to a payphone in the lunch room. At the lunch break, I left the building and drove home. I called the temp agency to let them know I wasn't going back. They were pissed.

As others have said, I would be professional. Don't just disappear. Call, email, speak with both bosses and explain you've got personal issues. If you possibly can, work two weeks. If not, let them know you can't.

Good luck!!
Confusion on what twitter handle to use is not marketplace confusion. You can have one twitter in the paper bag industry and another in deep-space fishing and you'll find people tweeting to the wrong ones. People make a guess as to a likely address and don't check.
"In this case, this guy is an absolute nobody."

He's an artist and musician who seems to be actively performing in the chiptune / computer music worlds.

Even if he wasn't, there's no need for name calling.
I'm a believer that fiat state controlled currency is fundamentally flawed and destructive for societies and economies. And bitcoin is a global phenomenon - China can do all it wants to block it, and the market rebounds just fine. It can work without the US as well, albeit there will always be black markets.

But bitcoin is a step towards approaching the ultimate forms of value exchange. It eclipses its predecessors in every regard, especially considering anything one might find "lacking" in btc can be solved by businesses built on top of it (chargebacks and instant confirms at coinbase, etc).

But centralized currency will always have the implicit inefficiencies of central planning. I don't think bitcoin is necessarily the right algorithm for a money meant to replace the day to day currency of an economy (peercoin or doge are much better equipped to do so, with either reduced blockchain maintenance / size, or increased monetary base expansion without a finite limit) but the concept, money backed by cryptography, is the best solution we have to provide universal exchange semantics between human beings. Nothing else even comes close, and like others have said, that is no more apparent than trying to buy or sell goods or transfer funds outside your fenced in economy running in some local state currency.
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He started changing his account to look like theirs. So as far as the Twitter rep knew, he was infringing.
> The real benefit is time of transfer. ACH is infuriatingly slow. If you'd like a payroll run to arrive in employee accounts on a Friday, it must be initiated almost a week prior.

Ya, this isn't true. the ACH spec does say 3 business days, but 2 of those days are for redundancy. In all normal cases a transaction submitted today can and will post tomorrow. Your bank may not allow this for individual transactions, but it isn't because ACH can't accommodate it.

Source: I run a payroll company doing $1B annually in ACH transactions.
He admitted he was trying to impersonate them on Twitter. Thats the type of move that will get anyone suspended.
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There also doesn't seem to be any clear way to make a bulk purchase for a company instead of per individual.
I agree. I should have said something more like "diminish their efforts" rather than "minimize their accomplishment". My point is the marketing claim that these titles are appearing on Linux for the first time is a stretch.
These languages, such as Scala are the main reason why Java 8 is so good.
I suppose that's sysprogs.com/VisualKernel/ ? I'm amazed that this exists, but more power to them! :)
Have we considered that the reason for the account suspension is likely because the logo is FU?
It isn't legal in most US states. Almost all states have laws that dictate employees working within that state have to be paid in US currency
Going along with your analogy, it's very possible that if this central Asian George R. R. Martin was deterred from writing Game of Thrones in his native language because it isn't "reasonable" for others to expect to read his works, then maybe it would never have come into existence in the first place.
Look, I understand your point but sometimes when you want something done you don't mess around and care about what other people want. You just do it in whatever way is easiest for you. Saying you "hate" these people who actually have CREATED these things that have added value to people's existence seems really rather immature. It's not like lives are going to be saved because DF was open sourced.
I think it really boiled down to the fact the market for "paid Twitter" was too small to support the kind of network effects required to create an entire ecosystem.
Just be sure to get all of it. It's pretty common that people leave a few pixels. How not to do it: https://imgur.com/ZaCIY5P
He said he began to impersonate them to try to gain some of their followers... That got him suspended.

As someone who is involved in naming things for big companies sometimes, it's actually quite hard to find a name that isn't registered as a trademark.

I don't like the idea of someone claiming all uses of a name forever. Very few companies (McDonalds, Disney, Coca-Cola) get that right over all uses of their name, and it should remain very few.
You're young and in a sensitive space. It's not as bad as it feels, and you're not alone.

Communicate. Your everyday boss - who probably senses something is wrong - will be able to find a solution for you. That's part of her job. It might mean trying to keep you on and rearranging things for you. It might mean you give a two-week notice, or shorter. Maybe you get fired on the spot - not very likely, but you're ready to quit anyway, and it would be a mercy. You won't know until you talk about it.

Also - since you're young and not terribly experienced - don't worry so much about what your employer deserves out of you. They will take everything you give them - all of you, if you let them - unless you set boundaries. This is the nature of many relationships, business ones included.

And yes, I've quit jobs with short notice before. In those cases, I wanted to stay longer and see the business to success, but it had to be done. Everyone was better off, every time.
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For the beginnings of a new guide on how not really deranged running a tech company (those who already do are beyond hope) see http://www.petitecloud.org
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The sarcastic metaphor and the exasperation that motivates it comes after centuries of scientists being ridiculed, persecuted, and even killed by ignorant people.
I suppose it was bound to happen.
It's ideal to get those, but for a good name it's not always required.
Well, just one person here.. but I have this problem fairly regularly, which may be because I live in NYC and frequently go to new places within the city. I'm not sure how large the market would be, but I suspect there are others like me.
You're being reductive, The refusal to read the pamplet while demanding impossible assurances is symbolic of the willfull idiocy of the scientific illiterate making impossible demands on society.
I feel this way about non-technical management calling the shots on software projects :)