skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh yeah, in the case where you already know the number of characters, a proportional case font definitely gives you more information. That's a good point. I was thinking more of the general case where any number of characters might be redacted from a document.
* my business partner and I

:)
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Also: http://www.theawl.com/2014/07/all-the-new-yorker-story-round...
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but surely checking if the name is taken on twitter and whether someone owns name.com is a decent point to consider in the brainstorming?
The classic "a wizard did it" defense. :) Come to think of it, that's just about the only potential appearance of Q in Enterprise I would have tolerated. "Oh, they look different? Hmmm. Q did it."
You can do that the way you'd expect:

var strings = new ArrayList<String>() { "red", "green", "blue" }
Was wondering why this is getting flagged off the front page, and hitting the search I see it was already much discussed a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8058247
Here's what I don't understand: either you need to modify it within its own package (so you can use package-private to prevent anyone else from accessing it) or you have to leave it available for potentially anyone to modify, as you already are when you make it protected (hence: public). To be clear, I understand why people want protected. I'm just not sure it's strictly necessary from a permissions / invariants standpoint.

(Conversely, your scenario can be precisely solved without violating encapsulation by passing in step2 as a function, and passing in any information it requires as parameters. I suspect most of the usecases for protected go away with first-class functions).
Once he used the logo he was in the wrong.
I wonder if this has been made possible by the improved support for ODF in Office 2013. I generally find it to be very good. Much better, at least, than LibreOffice 4 supports Office Open XML.
I say it's a dynamic Lisp environment with a UI based on textual buffers. Compare it with Squeak, for example.
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> I was planning to definitely tell my supervisor through the contracting company in person (although I have only really seen him once since being hired).

I wouldn't go out of your way to do that. Once you have the job, these contracting agencies serve no other purpose than to skim off your paycheck every week in exchange for having gotten you in at the gov't agency. A phone call is more than sufficient for them - they won't really care about the social niceties as you're just an income stream for them at this point.
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The Verge likes to cover stories that aren't about tech. Their readership gives them a hard time about it, because they really go to the Verge site for tech news. This is just being defensive about their decision to run non-tech stuff.
I always thought of The Verge as Joshua Topolsky, Nilay Patel, and Paul Miller... It's been kinda of a so-and-so website in the past year, so I'm not surprised he's leaving before the whole site goes downhill..

Good on him though, excited to see what he writes about. Fingers crossed we get some good podcasts though!
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This is an absolutely brilliant idea.

Wearables like Glass solve the problem of people having their faces glued to their phones by gluing their phones to their faces. And people use their faces for social interaction. So face-mounted tech is immediately noticeable and obvious, especially around eyes and ears. Hence, the nickname "glasshole".

Vibration is not new. I recall seeing video of a belt fitted with multiple vibration motors that always vibrated the motor closest to true north. This allowed blindfolded people to navigate across the test field to a predetermined destination.

This puts the same concept into the least noticeable spot on your body: the soles of your feet. Shoes are nearly impossible to forget when you go out, and we are already well conditioned to tolerate wearing them.

Obviously, it has lower sensory resolution than a visual or audible interface, but it is going through a completely different channel. Over-eye or in-ear wearables have to compete for bandwidth in already cluttered channels. Tactile wearables have a wide open channel, just begging to be used.

Add in an interface for foot-gesture inputs, and you could do a lot more than just navigation and pedometry.
From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html :

If they'd cover it on TV news,
it's probably off-topic.

I suspect, in part, this is why. Something like this is regarded as news-worthy, so suddenly there's a dozen submissions. It's not specific to hackers or hacking in any way at all. Yes, it's of general interest, but perhaps HN should be limited to things of interest to hackers, and of less interest to the wider public.
Send them a link to iPython Notebook, either host it yourself or use http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ . Should be easy to teach them to modify the input data and re-run the script from the web UI.
> I'd like to bring in a good friend of mine who I believe can contribute...

Work to keep him as a friend. Channeling Steven Covey, it would be helpful to first understand what he would like to get out of the business arrangement and what he's committed to invest on his end. Beyond a mutual agreement, find a win-win scenario.
I think that might be a good bet. I'd be curious to see what more experienced clojurescript folks would say.
There is a lot of material on why "waterfall is bad", but it is as important to know the specific reasons your management is "pushing agile".

What is their definition of agile? Is it disciplined, or seen a a quick path to bypass all that tiring and troublesome planning?
I like no registration required!
Trademarks are heavily contextual, so still nope.
This is the middle of Germany. "Off road" means "across someone else's property, destroying a large strip of it". It looks like they had enough trouble getting it the last 7km.

I presume the height of it means it won't fit under bridges on either road or canal.
A developer who is curious enough to try Lisp is possibly more intelligent than average

This is the kind of exaggeration that makes a lot of people to avoid even trying Lisp. Any programming language that uses a different programming paradigm than the one you are familiar with will make you a better programmer.
I definitely gave this some thought, I think it's not so straightforward though. There is a bit of an impedance mismatch between the things that a bug tracking system emphasizes and captures and the things a project management system captures. Simply porting bugs over isn't a clean solution and can lead to confusion among non-developers when the bugs are highly technical. Github makes it especially hard because there is no support for dependencies so you can't roll up a bunch of individual technical tasks under one umbrella without lots of extra effort.

To be clear: while I can describe the problem, I honestly don't have any ideas what the most elegant or clean solution is. I have never found a satisfactory solution. I end up keeping lots of stuff in my head and writing summary emails.
Thank you Patio for that reply, it really helped. As for writting IOUs for cash alone, why not my time spent working as well? I am guessing since my vesting schedule started 3 months ago, that would cover that correct?

Also, being new to this, excuse my ignorance, what does vesting prevent? what does it encourage? First things that come to mind is if there were to be a fall out, the equity would remain under the one who stayed. On the opposite side, it encourages a long term commitment?
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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).

I'd also say having the source doesn't mean it's portable. The code might have a number of legacy dependencies (references to old DOS libraries etc) or even weird code tweaks specific for that platform (eg the Pinball game bundled with earlier versions of Windows wasn't ported to Vista because the source was in 32bit assembly) which would mean a direct port would be less practical than a reimplementation.

If developers / studios wish to release the code for research or academic curiosity, then kudos to them. But I don't think old games necessarily need to be open source.
I'm a user of both Nitrous and c9.

What I love about Nitrous.io is the speed of their console and the power that seems to be allocated to each box.

What I really don't like is the editor component that they use which likes to interfere with my coding style. When I ask it to indent certain lines it seems to take that as a license to make its own decisions as to what the appropriate tab stop should be.

Recent versions of CodeMirror have improved this a lot, but I remain a much bigger fan of the ACE (http://ace.c9.io/#nav=about) editor component used by (and open-sourced) the c9 team.
Especially when they're made up of two common English words.
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Not to be confused with the Gosu 2D game dev library

http://www.libgosu.org
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Unless you are in fear for your safety, I strongly advise you to give two-week's notice. It will be better for your boss, as they will have some time to find a replacement, and better for you, as that will give you a bit more money for you to have while you hunt for a new job. If you're already having personal issues affecting your work then your boss probably won't be too shocked.

They will just want you around so that you can wrap up any loose ends you're working on, prepare documentation for your replacement, and be available for any questions the bosses have while preparing for your exit. In my experience they aren't going to expect you to be working at 100% during this time, they just want you to be available.

I don't want to sound condescending, but as a new grad it seems like you might be blowing things out of proportion a tad with wanting to run out of there immediately in anticipation of what your boss will think when you quit. As you gain more experience you will realize that this is just a normal part of working jobs. Sometimes you find some that aren't a good fit, and there's no shame in admitting that. It's better than burning yourself out by trudging onward or eventually getting fired for lack of productivity.
This is a weird case. I can see why he is pissed but you don't have global rights to your name let alone your internet handle. Ask anyone who suddenly finds themselves with the same name as a famous person. Google-slapped!

Should the company have considered this? It is a toss up. If a lone person using an internet handle is the bar to avoid any naming conflicts you're pretty much screwed in coming up with a name for anything.
I'm happy to see this service growing up and getting a real revenue model. In today's world it seems that to succeed you have to be free, get tons of VC money and sell your users or operate on a loss and exit.

That's not how great _products_ are built, just short-term sexy companies.
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Parody is allowed under US law.
{FU isn't really a logo, though. It's not even in the same font.

Also brubaker you're hellbanned and I can't figure out why.
The new version absolutely has SSH workspaces. You can SSH into your own machine or get an SSH box from e.g. digitalocean.com and use that with Cloud9 if you like.
He didn't use their logo, he made a satire on the logo to comment on the situation. You can't be passing off if you are doing commentary.
Account suspended – lol.

https://twitter.com/futurestack
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Same here. This is deeply unsettling. Given our history and aspirations to high moral standards, we should be ashamed.

I want my country to work with other countries (including the USA), but while respecting human rights.
Me, too. We started using it and it pretty much made software management as simple as managing a McDonalds. I simply put in orders for code into Trello and watch as the items move from left to right. Then, we just booted everyone who wasn't finishing during their shift so we're running lean and mean. I can't believe people used to think of writing software as a "craft," and it's frustrating to me that it took so long for people to realize it, but I guess this is kind of like the iPhone of software dev.
Unless you have a relevant trademark, there isn't really much you can do here.

He doesn't really have any claim to exclusive rights to this particular mix of words.
I really hope we get one more vergecast with all three of them.
Indeed-- the Doom & Gloomers (Harry Dent) predict a Great Depression like scenario. I'm regular guy who pays attention to news & trends. Frankly, I'm surprised we haven't already followed the path of Greece. Hope you're sitting on some cash, canned foods, & ammo.
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The new version is based on a completely new code base. We have a new core and eventually ported and rewrote most of the old plugins one by one. We're working on the APIs and documentation right now and want to bring the new version to github again pretty soon.
Russian does not have either "th" phoneme.
I would have been more amused if they'd called it "Luke".
A trademark is exactly what it sounds like, a mark that is used in trade. It has to be in specific markets, and you use it or you lose it.

As this guy doesn't run a tech conference he has zero chance of defending that TM.

A guy named Joe Blogs similarly has zero chance of stopping "Joe Blogs(14)" the conference
Here are some of the previous submissions of this story.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078780

Algeria 'loses contact with plane'
(bbc.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078899

Algeria lost contact with Air Algerie aircraft
(independent.ie)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8078976

Contact lost with Air Algerie plane carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079069

Algeria airliner missing on Sahara route from Burkina Faso
(bbc.co.uk)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079109

Air Algerie loses contact with flight from Burkina Faso to Algeria
(theguardian.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079401

AH5017 crashes in Nigeria
(rt.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079655

Missing Air Algerie plane from Burkina Faso has crashed
(reuters.com)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8079790

Air Controllers Lose Contact With Air Algerie Plane
(nytimes.com)
Ok, wow, I stand corrected then. I apologize. For some reason I'd always assumed he was half-human; I don't know where that assumption came from. Maybe it's a bit of mental conflation, given how frequently other aliens-on-the-bridge in Trek series are half human.

Even still, I do think he was choosing between two worlds. Pretty much every time he encountered Klingons in TNG, they made comment about his wearing a Federation uniform and serving under humans. And there were several occasions where the derision went the other way: humans (or non-humans) would chide Picard for having a Klingon officer. Whether we choose to call this trope "stranger in a strange land," "choosing between two worlds," or something else altogether, the fact remains that Worf was an atypical Klingon in atypical circumstances, often forced to choose between whether he was to pursue his Klingon heritage and familial obligations to their fullest, or whether he was to be a Federation/Starfleet officer -- the requirements and laws of which often ran in direct contradiction to Klingon ethics. That was, indeed, a major source of drama for Worf throughout his character's appearance on TNG.

In DS9, yes, you could say he chose to be a Klingon. And by the end of the show, he made that choice unequivocally. Even still, it would have been nice to have had some remnant of the conflict remain. If only because that conflicted forces tradeoffs.
Parody is a defense once you have been sued.
When I click the "UPGRADE TO PREMIUM" link on my dashboard there's huge text proclaiming "$19/month".
I'm not a lawyer, but I'm fairly certain that trademarks are not all-contextual, as trademark infringement requires likelihood of confusion. It's certainly possible that there's enough likelihood of confusion here, because it's a web dev conference and the guy is some kind of web dev, but it's certainly not all-contextual.

Also, trademark creates a legal right. Whether that creates a moral right likely depends on your take on moral philosophy.
Having his twitter account suspended is way out of bounds. Shame on them if they were involved.
Is the concept that abstractions leak so difficult to grasp?

At some point, the abstraction of "separate content and presentation" gets too complicated. Then you need to use a table for something that's not data (ohhh, the horror!) or spend a weekend trying to do with CSS what a table can do instantly and simply.
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I first analyzed the % of commit messages with F-bombs by hour and day of week of commit to see when developers are most likely to swear: http://i.imgur.com/9MqqhcC.png

As a sanity check, I looked at the raw data itself, and it made me laugh.
The complexity of the platform's capabilities and the complexity of the toolchain don't seem to be necessarily related to each other; in fact, by pointing out the sophistication of the platform, you're sort of making his point for him. Writing a GPS mapping application for the Commodore 64 would be a vastly complicated undertaking, but writing one for a modern smartphone should be trivial precisely because the phone has an integrated GPS module and the processing power to parse its output in realtime without having to implement a vast set of hacks and optimizations. The point is that relative to the platform's capabilities, his desires aren't any more complex than those of the basement coder on a C64 thirty years ago, so why does he need to contend with excessively complicated development and deployment tools to implement them?
This guy completely misunderstands how intellectual property around brands and names works.

Copyright doesn't protect your brand name. Trademark does.

Trademark doesn't give you blanket protection that stops every other person on earth from using your trademarked term. What you get instead is a highly context-specific protection. A trademark protects the use of your trademarked term in a specific service/goods segment. When you see trademarks like Ford, Apple, or Google, that seem to have unbelievably wide protection for their trademarks, that seems to span across wide spans of the market, that is because their brands are very well known, and because the use of their brand by a third-party could create a confusion in the consumer as to the origin of the goods/services.

If there is no confusion in the minds of consumers as to the origin of a message/good/service, then the use of a trademarked term is not restricted.

In this case, this guy is virtually unknown. Not a single person thinks he is the one running this conference. Its clear the conference is being run by other people.

You cannot claim an absolute property right to a silly sequence of words just because you think you said it first, and because you made a domain.

Yes, the domain and the twitter handle should be yours by right of first occupation. But nothing more.

edit: changed "absolute nobody" to "virtually unknown" to address rudeness concerns.

edit: with regards to the charge of rudeness leveled against the conference organizers: In a world literally flooded by brands and names, name collision is not rudeness, it is almost inevitable.
Are you kidding me? It's in the same damn market/space! Its not like someone is promoting Futurestack bouncy houses or lawn furniture.
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Well, this is easy to answer.

Most major wars since WW2 have been initiated or led by the US, who have not signed the ICC treaties.

Yugoslavia has had its own court, as well as the Khmer stuff and the Spanish regime.

That only leaves African wars to be dealt with.
Thor? Marvel beat you to it. Thor's gonna be a woman.
You should check out the zed editor. Its something you can run locally (stand-alone or chrome app) and has a remote code component.

I've used these cloud IDEs, but haven't like any of the text editors they supply. Zed is amazing compliment to these services.

http://zedapp.org/features/edit-remote-files/
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Maybe Wikipedia should have a higher zoom by default (equivalent to zooming in your browser), but otherwise it's pretty good. I'm always viewing HN on 200% zoom and Wikipedia at 125%, so Wikipedia isn't the only site who could need a bit of amplification.
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I think especially with management tools like Trello robustness is a huge factor, everyone seems to have their own series of cobbled together processes that kind of work for them, but with the feeling that maybe if they could digitise $PRODUCTIVE_METHOD it would be more productive. Trello's robustness to this helps make it really valuable.
Wait, I though we all wanted to read reviews for terrible romantic comedies.
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I started reading The Verge back in 2011 when it first launched. The creativity (as shown in their very detailed exclusives; one example: [1]) they had at the time was pretty incredible.

Unfortunately, I have noticed, and I think others as well, that they've kind of been in a downhill stretch for the past few months at least. Maybe not creativity-wise, but structurally and even grammatically. It's been a bit disappointing.

Hopefully Nilay can begin to refresh their vision and work on bringing overall quality back to where it used to be.

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2504531/jetpack-history-fu...
Ahh, good. I'll register Rackspace as my tech conference, because that's a totally separate industry than Rackspace the infrastructure provider.
And certainly this too.
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I took the "we" to be "we as US citizens", but even without that, a Spanish court under the principle of universal jurisdiction famously indicted Augusto Pinochet for crimes against humanity. Pinochet was then arrested in the UK.

That's lead to worries "that Spain's judicial system was being hijacked by activist judges pursuing a political agenda. " http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4149/spain-universal-juris... (Kissinger, of course, doesn't like this idea one bit.)

In that same link you'll see mention that "In March 2009, Baltasar Garzón, Spain's most high-profile judge at the time, invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction to investigate six former Bush administration officials for allegedly giving legal cover to torture committed at the U.S. detention center in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba."

So in principle a court in, say, Switzerland could indict the US president for war crimes and attempt to prosecute it.

Thus, I still think the definitional interpretation you gave is incorrect.
He literally tried to fake being this conference to steal some of their followers and redirect them to his blog post.

That's pretty uncool.