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Some developers have a serious problem with understanding that there are times when an app's problems aren't about checkboxes on an issue tracker. The entire spirit of this app is about infringing on intellectual property rights. Furthermore, the app is so basic that it provides zero value to simply bookmarking the YouTube channel in your browser. The entire concept is so terrible that he had to hide behind an appeal to emotion (i.e., "b-bu-but my kids needed it!") just to sell it.

"Maybe I'm naive" is truly the understatement of the century here. This guy credential-izes himself out the ass (developer since 1991!), yet still can't grasp the concept of copyright infringement? At a certain point, you, as an adult, need to learn to swim or stay 20ft away from large bodies of water. This guy belly-flopped right in and dropped straight to the bottom. Then, Google pulled him out and he went right for the diving board again. This guy was clearly hopeless from Google's perspective and in no way worth the trouble he would cause (assuming that this is truly naivety and not some sort of sympathy trolling). Good riddance.
excelent addictive game, btw, what is the trick in level 15 ? i can't go beyond
> Also, why the hell would anyone give it to the Russians?

If you're concerned about the morality of it, who would you consider "okay" to sell it to? (I'm assuming the tor project itself does not have funds to pay for vulnerabilities)
hum... so how do you link your variety of music tastes in your approach? I personally love headytunes.co and it's curation, but it only fit 1/3 of my musical world unfortunately
Slingshot is dead in the water, having fallen out of the Top 200 for its category.

Facebook must be trying for a round 3.
I don't see this as getting any more interesting than Instagram ignoring this plea.
This looks interesting to integrate with sales apps. What are the demographics of the 600M phone numbers? Mostly US? Percentage of business/residential?
Interesting indeed, but a bit out of date. There's no mention of gravitational lensing by dark matter, for example.

I just skipped around and didn't read the whole thing. What is their explanation for inflation+redshift, and what is their motivation for posting this?
This story is the first 10 second clip of the next Godzilla movie.
Clickable link to the Bolt homepage: https://bolt.co/

I always find it annoying when the blog company logo doesn't bring you back to the company's homepage.
Yeah, the people who actually go offroad use Mercedes Gelandewagen or the less consumerized models from Land Rover and Jeep.
Remember that Jedi Knight was itself a sequel. But I agree, that was a great game (I never played the others). Welding a lightsaber felt just right, using force felt just right.
Maybe people know, but don't care?

I wouldn't mind submitting a DNA sample if it helps the police find a murderer. Maybe it was some distant cousin of mine, and my DNA will help them narrow their search.
I would have liked to see a "create your own" service for the general customer as well, but if you stop and think about it, that is still a ways off for a couple reasons off the top of my head:

1) Customers would need 3D design experience, or Amazon would need to come up with a truly novel CAD type program that the general populace could use. Even products like Google's SketchUp aren't exactly easy to use once you get past drawing cubes.

2) I think most people don't yet realize the limitations of this technology. They're going to be expecting super detailed minifigs and nice polished paint jobs, not rough plastic that doesn't have a great amount of detail in it. There's also the problem with designs that are impossible for current 3D printers to create. In both cases injection molding is still king, IMHO.

I think both of these will eventually get solved, but I don't think it will be this year. 3D printing is progressing at an awesome pace, but it still has to bake a bit before it gets as good as other creation methods. And most people are going to be expecting something better than what consumer grade 3D printing can currently offer. That means lots of returns for a site like Amazon.
These two things are exactly what I had in mind. Lack of confidence in your skills while starting out and a barrier to entry (my patch very well might break something else). Not that large OSS projects are unwelcoming, but a little bit of training goes a long way.
Claiming a trademark is distinct from registering a trademark. You can claim a trademark by just saying "this is our trademark." That will typically be done with the "TM" symbol. Registering a trademark means you applied with the USPTO to get a registered trademark, and it was granted.

You are correct in that they don't make an explicit claim, but I'm not sure if trademark law actually requires you to do that. It would certainly make everything less messy.
Kind of off topic but recently, I broke my washing machine by trying to open it while being locked. The little piece of plastic broke and I can't find a similar one anywhere... So I got the idea to make the thing myself, send the model to some company that provides single unit 3D printing in europe (I'm located in Spain) but haven't found any with reasonable pricing.

Anyone here know of such company where I can send my 3D model and they will print it and send it home to me?
Is collecting data the goal, or simply diversification?

My theory is that Facebook (the company) is preparing for the day when Facebook (the website) goes the way of Friendster and Myspace, and they're attempting to have other lines of business when that happens.
>( or at least a site where you can cause JS to run; such as an advertisement )

So you cannot find the identity of a tor user.

* Either the TOR user is a 'newbie' (no offense), and he will use the tor package wich come with a version of firefox where JS is disabled by default

* Either he is a seasoned user and knows that disabling JS while using TOR is mandatory.
> Imagine how it would have felt if Google or Apple or Facebook had launched a photo-sharing app called Instagram in 2011.

"Bolt" is a short, common word. "Instagram" is not (it's also more descriptive.)

Unfortunately, the days of naming products desirable things like "bolt," and being able to defend them, legally or not, are over.

The strange-made-up-word naming trend is annoying, but at least you're guaranteed a name no one else wants.
We can, with high quality security cameras littered around public areas.
well, don't you listen to each track you attempt to discover? or do you use some kind of playlist like "the next tracks to discover"?
Me too, but this one does: the far right link. I had to click most of the links on the top to figure that out, though.
Don't underestimate your own abilities to develop a business, network, find & manage money. Conversely, it's easy to overestimate those skills in others.
> I don't see a trademark claim for the name Bolt on their website.

This is a very common misconception. Trademarks do not need to be registered in order to be defended (and even registering a trademark does not mean you can defend it).

Registering a trademark might have prevented this situation, but only if the Instagram lawyers took the time to search the USPTO database for marks matching "Bolt" (but even then, it's not a guarantee since (A) the search interface is pretty bad, and (B) they may have decided to go ahead and use it anyway).
http://www.shapeways.com/

You can get your own designs printed, or print other people's designs.
There was nothing named "Bolt" before Mr. Benton's product came around? Really?
I'm rather confused about the capabilities... the terms BLE and (i)Beacon seem to get mixed up several times on the website. So are there any benefits compared to other iBeacon provider (e.g. Roximity , which also comes with an API and Admin panel..)?

I really would love to see full-BLE enabled devices (GATT etc).

Edit:
I stumbled upon the following sentence:
"Once setup, Beacons will continuously broadcast a signal (similar to a radio station) to create a mesh network connected to our platform and API."

Is a bunch of emitting beacons _really_ a mesh network?
The same reason they do everything else: on principle (alone).
ok, idid it!, no on lvl 16
Technically they can. I could register whatever sequence of letters I want provided they can act as a unique identifier for me, and are not in themselves descriptive. If I register 'Bolt' for dog-walking services this is not descriptive and provided I pay my renewal fees I can protect the word forever, and take action against those whose use of it confuses users (for example 'Bolt' for dog food) or takes unfair advantage of the reputation in my mark.

The presence of a word in a dictionary/its length has no bearing on its registrability as a trade mark.
I wonder if something similar could be done with detecting specifically sized images?
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Something else was going on then. Did you have a ticket open with our support team by chance?
Hi, thanks for the question. We don't use any Truecaller data. As a general break down by country, 51% of our resolved calls are from the United States, 4% from India, 9% from Spain, 9% from Singapore, and fairly dispersed after that.
uspto.gov doesn't seem to allow linking directly to trademark filing but search for Bolt and the first two results appear to be from Bolt.co.

One was filed in the 22nd and the other on the 23rd July 2014. Seems like something they should have done earlier but I do feel for them none the less, potentially going up against FB's legal team seems less than fun.

>"IC 009. US 021 023 026 036 038. G & S: Computer application software for mobile phones, namely, software for use in text, voice and video communication between users. FIRST USE: 20131014. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20131014"
Never had a problem in my area with that. I will say a minivan far surpasses an SUV in usefulness though. I liken a minvan to a pickup truck that you can actually seat people inside of. It's great, you can haul anything you can imagine, beds, freezers, couches, and if you're not busy hauling giant appliances around, you can put the seats in and haul around a bunch of people. The gas mileage is on par with an SUV, and you never get any flack from the police. Who's gonna bother a someone in a minivan? Nobody that's who.
"Because I had listened to the leaders at Google say that the open web, open source and freedom are important values at Google, and I fully agree with that ideal."

"All Apple products are banned in my household to make a statement about programmer freedom."

"I believe in freedom, not blind obedience."

This guy comes off as being a bit naive. And/or dishonest in his telling of this story...
Or possibly, as is actually mentioned in the article under discussion, to lay groundwork for a later legal defense of their mark.
Super cool. Only thing, though, is that they should be charging for this. Seeing as how NPR stations rely on listener donations, this seems like a missed opportunity to earn some extra revenue and bolster the budget for stations.
As much I understood, they did tell him not enough, that he could understand what was wrong. Automated eMails are "customer-support from hell".
Not just young professionals but technology lovers who are not millionaires. The car has it's own API and the cost savings verses a normal ICE vehicle could really add up in this newer low cost vehicle. No oil, gasoline, etc.
> I'm not sure if trademark law actually requires you to do that.

It definitely does not. It certainly could influence a court decision (there's always a degree of uncertainty with any court case), but you absolutely can defend a mark that you have not explicitly claimed or registered, as long as you can demonstrate sufficiently widespread prior use.
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Encryption is at the option of the network. Source: connected some cdma2000 mobiles gotten at retail to test equipment without any keys required; connected a DO mobile that probably didn't have any special config, also no keys required.

An attacker couldn't MITM between a mobile and a network that uses encryption, but it could redirect a mobile to the real network if the victim tried to set up a call.
Moreover, there is a moral hazard in negotiating. The higher the sale price and the quicker the negotiation is over, the more and more quickly the agent gets paid. The agents I worked with generally did not give off the vibe that they were phased by this. I think at the scale of what a normal person can afford real-estate-wise, the difference is not huge. My latest agent in fact insisted that I go see more properties before making offers when I said I was ready to go. During this time I found the property I finally purchased, and it was about $50k cheaper than the original property I was interested in.
not sure why, but i had to remove all the certificates and download its from here https://www.digicert.com/digicert-root-certificates.htm
Negative temperature actually has some nuance to it. By the relation 1/T = dS/dq where T is temperature, S is entropy and q is heat added to the system, a negative temperature means that entropy decreases when you add heat to the system and increases when it emits heat. By the second law, entropy always goes up, so a negative temperature object will always emit heat. In that way, something with a negative temperature is extremely hot.
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I signed up last night. I figure that , I signed up. Haven't been thrilled with service yet. I asked them to set up some calendar appointments with my team and I already set up all permissions, etc... 14 hours later, no appointments on calendar.

They definitely need more information on their site and some thinking through process, etc.

To be fair, I'm guessing they got inundated after this went up on YC/TC. And the service looks promising. Here's hoping to some smooth sailing
This looks like a request for public support together with a subtle threat:

> We've been using the Bolt name in the mobile messaging market for a year, and technically we have to "police our mark", otherwise we risk losing it.

> We don't want a legal battle over this, and we think it's not too late for you to consider an alternate name before launch.
That is not in direct competition to Bolt. If Instagram launched a game or a washing service called Bolt, there would be no problem.
I'll explicate a little more.

Obviously, I'm not Bolt and can't know what their thought process was. If it were me, though, here's what I'd do:

I'd be angry that they're probably stealing my app's name, enough to write something like this with genuine feeling behind it. I mean, it sucks. But I'd also realize that (1) they're a big company with no prevailing need to listen to me, (2) any attempt on my part to force them to give up the name would result in lengthy, unpleasant legal proceedings I might very well lose, and (3) without some upset customers, they have zero incentive to do anything but throw lawyers at me till I go away.

So I would take my appeal, which I wrote back at the beginning, and instead of sending it through private channels, I'd post it online. This way, I win (or at least suffer less) no matter what happens. My app gets free publicity (and sympathy), users might feel like they need to pressure Facebook/Instagram to not let this happen, and even if neither of those occur, my company looks like a good and reasonable company.

I believe that if they had tried back-channels and failed, they would have said so in the letter (probably not with details, but with some sort of mention). I don't think they want to be "paid off" per se (i. e., settle for a large sum of money), but I think they want to reap some benefit from this circumstance mostly out of their control, and I don't blame them.
yep, that's precisely the idea! I think I'll remove the parallax to reduce potential distractions.

thx for your tagline proposal, I think it is the best up to now!
TLA and much of the initial research in distributed systems (paxos!) came from Lamport who has been at microsoft for years now. if you look at the references in the document, many point to his work.
US Copyright "Fair Use" is basically a statutory exception that closely follows the parameters of what courts found were Constitutional limits on copyright restrictions imposed by the First Amendment free speech/free press rights, so, no, despite the fact that it is procedurally a statutory exception, it also does reflect the existence of a more basic right that the statute would have no power to infringe even if it didn't encode the exception explicitly.
Yes, I realize this is possible. The point is we shouldn't encourage other developers to use insecure methods when secure alternatives are easily available.
Absolutely! That's exactly my point. And again, I'm not saying that's wrong or bad. I'm saying it's the smart, albeit cynical move.
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Well, zathura is great if you are a vim user, since it comes with all the key bindings and you can configure it like a lot of the tools out there with a dotfile. There's also support for djvu and other formats (although some distros do not have it by default, so you might need to compile it yourself). If you are not a vim user, you are gonna be disappointed, since its major feature is the vim thing imho.
>Unfortunately, the days of naming products desirable things like "bolt," and being able to defend them, legally or not, are over.

I have a feeling the guys at King disagree with you.
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The escalation from written warning to banned for life is a huge leap to make in one step.

A month long suspension would get the point across.
This is the beta of our API and we have pricing plan with SKU's upon request. We first want to get data on what a typical usage of the API looks like.
Relationship is a euphemism for demographic data, and it's a fact that this is the direction that most online advertising is going. Advertisers want access to as many axes of demographic data as possible, and to target narrowly across them. What the article author doesn't realize is that the subreddit system already does that, without giving up any demographic data. You can target any interest, no matter how narrow.
I don't know the exact parameters of the competition, but I doubt pretty strongly if the solution is allowed to manipulate the targeted user's behavior, and, oh, by the way, install a high speed listening device on the trunk of every ISP in the world.

If you have to know already which ISP the suspected user is using, you're not really finding the user, you're just confirming their identity.

And as others have pointed out, running with JS enabled is a vulnerability. If the user is that careless, it's probably easier to get them to load a particular file over plain HTTP and just listening to requests for that file.
I have a strong feeling that they will charge for it eventually. Maybe the app will ask them to donate as they use it?
The US/Israel did get caught with Stuxnet, so either they wanted to be found or they aren't perfect at hiding either. Note that I'm not making any comment on the ethics; I'm just mentioning evidence of the other side's activity.
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Ah - good call. I totally missed that link.
Xbox One.

Pandora One.

Ubuntu One.

NPR One.

Stop it!
They should have just put the proposal on elance
Hmm, I hadn't considered that. It could be. I dunno. Anyway, they definitely want to keep their acquisitions pretty separate for the time being.
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Kind of my point. How deep are King's pockets...?
The incognito trick has nothing to do with the Googlebot. Sites can definitively know the Googlebot by its IP, and Google doesn't care about if other visitors with no referrer see a paywall. The probably reason the New York Times doesn't use a more comprehensive paywall is that those generally have failure modes like accidentally blocking humans who haven't been on your site before. Sites like the New York Times have weak paywalls to be user-friendly, not because it's required by Google.
Yes! This is in the horizon of the product and it would be more likely to be the following step after we get out of beta.
I bought my house through Red Fin. Though zillow gave some interesting data, the Red Fin experience was much better. In fact because the market is so competitive here (Boston) it was a big leg up.

Our house was listed on a Wednesday morning, with an open house scheduled for Saturday. Since redfin had the most up to date feed, i got an email alert right away. That night we got an early tour, and we put a bid in at list price immediately allowing them 24 hours to accept.

Before that we had put in 4 other offers. We kept getting beat by empty nesting baby boomers offering cash. Having that extra time was a big advantage.
They've got the .com though, bolt(.co) don't.
The reasons _why_ something sounds illegitimate can be ideological.

Every single woman could list off a number of things that have been said to her over the course of her life that would sound “fake” due to their horrific content, and relative to normative white male experience.

“The most common thing I hear from other women is: ‘Oh the stories I’ll tell once I’m far enough along that I don’t have to worry about being shamed,’”

Misogyny runs deeper than logic in much the same way other ideological constructs lead to cognitive biases.
For all the naysayers, not understanding DSP is the whole point. The naive abuse of tools designed for other tasks is a powerful thing, its a totally different way of working than deliberate application of reasoned technique.
I'm aware of shapeways, and I think they're awesome. But you'll notice they still require you to design the part in some sort of CAD program. Most of the people visiting Amazon looking to replace a broken part or make a new toy for their kid aren't going to know how to use Blender.
Sculpteo[1] and Shapeways[2] seem to be the two largest printers. According to what I have read[3], they are priced roughly in line with the costs of materials, plus some overhead.

You may just want to find a maker space somewhere near you[4] and go print it there. Plus then you get to play with their kit and meet some cool people.

[1]http://www.sculpteo.com/

[2]http://www.shapeways.com/

[3]http://www.reddit.com/r/3Dprinting/comments/1b1701/is_shapew...

[4]http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/Spain
I don't know if their funding/production model is flexible enough to allow them to do it, but it seems like some great opportunities for IAP here.

For example, if Planet Money produced a monthly bonus episode for, say, $5, I know I wouldn't think twice before tapping "Buy".
Not really feasible nowadays. Too many sites fully rely on JS.
If the hackers were after the Iron Dome, it looks like it doesn't work [1] based on analysis by Theodore Postol of MIT [2]

1: http://thebulletin.org/evidence-shows-iron-dome-not-working7...

2: http://web.mit.edu/sts/people/postol.html
> Model 三

Cute.
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