skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many years ago I was on a contract and got a call on a Friday morning asking if I could be on the other side of the country by Monday. It would effectively double my rate and was a major career shift to work with which I had no experience, but wanted to be doing. I called the contracting agency, they called the customer. Customer came over to my desk, kinda gave me a hard time (somehow they expected me to become a lifer for them, even though I'd only been there about a month...) but when I said simply "look, this is a significant career opportunity for me" they backed off.

That gig shaped the next 6 years of my career, so I wasn't kidding. About three years later the agency recruiter (who I thought we had been on friendly terms...) called me about another gig - she couldn't even remember that we had previously worked together! And, when I tried to refresh her memory she had no recollection of my leaving on short notice.

Point is same as others in this forum: it's a business transaction. In a couple weeks you'll probably get another call from the contracting agency asking you if you want a gig, the government customer will probably already be moved on to a new developer, and if their schedule slips it is due to poor planning on their part. Obviously you don't want to make a habit of leaving on short notice or leaving customers in a bad spot, but if circumstances dictate it, you get at least one free pass per career ;-).
We are planning new features for those products, but we've already been selling those things for over a year: https://trello.com/business-class https://trello.com/enterprise

We also have no plans to make an in-house solution. While the tide has not 100% turned, in most places at big companies like Amazon and Microsoft, they can already use SaaS solutions (you sign a big contract, but even if your app is on AWS, msft employees can use it). For the companies that cannot, the added complexity to development and support is likely not worth it (for us).
Shouldn't this have been better planned out before they built it? Or was there no other choice?
You don't actually have to register your trademark with anyone. You just have to use it and defend it like a badger sow in front of a litter of pups.

Nowadays, that effectively means putting an IP lawyer on retainer and subscribing to a brand monitoring service. Any one of those worth their salt will advise you to register your trademark, simply because it makes their job easier if anyone attempts to infringe.

The net result is that it is only worthwhile to pay for the maintenance and upkeep of a trademark if it is actually making you money. Individuals and smaller entities should instead rely primarily upon their own names, to build up reputations and personal relationships using trade dress that can more easily be enforced by the secretary of state's business records and management staff. Impersonation of someone else's actual identity can prompt criminal prosecution, rather than a more difficult civil suit.

This guy at futurestack does not quite grasp the legal concepts involved. Based on actual usage, he could make a case for a trademark over journals and periodical publications. If he found a newspaper or magazine calling itself futurestack, he could force them to change their name. As we know from frequent patent industry complaining, adding "on the Internet" to a thing does not make it a different thing. Blogs are categorically the same as newspapers.

A trade conference is not a newspaper. It does not matter who attends. A trade conference for plumbers and steamfitters is categorically the same as a conference for web developers, or one for science fiction authors, or one for sasquatch hunters. There is no confusion between the actual things. No one arrives at the conference and says, "Hey, where are all the blog posts?". And no one visits the blog and says, "So where do I pick up my name tag?".

So the instant he decided to impersonate the conference with his own web presence, he was infringing upon their trademark. Bad idea. They have more money and more supporters. He needs to back away immediately, apologize, and attempt to create some measure of cooperation. It couldn't hurt to add a disambiguation header to the blog that redirects accidental conference-related visitors to where they actually wanted to go.
The confusion is in the opposite direction to that protected by trademark law. He's not losing customers/whoever because they're going to the FutureStack conference by accident, when they were intending to go to his house.
There are plenty of parody accounts out there. Impersonating someone is different.
Try the minimal mode from the Welcome screen. It's pretty minimal: http://postimg.org/image/csdk4b85f/. And you can always use Cloud9 with any SSH machine of your own you like.
As someone who's worked with micro biologists I can assure you it's not a straw man.
What you mean?

I too perform work for enterprises, getting payed to work with and in all things Linux, Java and Python.

Just because its freedom software doesnt mean there is no money to be made or make.
> The interceptor would be breaking several laws.

The interceptor is already breaking a whole bunch of laws regardless. I don't think "oh no, intercepting this hard drive would be illegal! I should find another way to steal this person's data and illegally use it for my own personal gain." is going to even be an afterthought to such an entity, let alone a dealbreaker.

> Even if you aside that breaking the law is not a problem for them, there are far easier and less expensive ways to access your data. Like accessing it through your internet connection or breaking into your house.

Unless your interceptor happens to be a disgruntled UPS employee who managed to score the route delivering the packages to your facility, in which case he/she has managed to land the easiest data theft opportunity ever.
There is an implied ownership claim, otherwise there would be no basis for the charge of rudeness.

In a world literally flooded by brands and names, name collision is not rudeness, it is almost inevitable.
How a Jewish Doctor in a Concentration Camp Duped the Nazis With a Fake Vaccine
Groovy allows you statically typed variables also (if you want it).
Congrats on the funding from a happy gold member. I use it to manage (and not forget) all the many small things I need to do or to keep track of ideas for the future. One of the biggest features is that is does not mandate a workflow because it's just boards with lists with cards. I use it in ways partly inspired by Kanban, Getting Things Done, and the typical calendar.
Sure, parody is allowed under US law. But is it allowed under Twitter's terms of service? And to what extent? Because when you play in their sandbox, you play by their rules.
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Like the quote "Pivoting others’ mindsets can be an uphill battle" :)
In the US there is common-law trademark protection

http://www.bitlaw.com/trademark/common.html

It is not as strong as have a federally-registered trademark.

But, as others have pointed out, the problem is in showing the likelihood of confusion.

It's _possible_ that this musician could prove this, but I believe it can be quite expensive, and there's no assurance of winning.

My gut feeling is the the idea of confusion is not so clear cut. If you apply for a trademark you need to specify the specific field of application, and there are quite a few and remarkably segmented. Even having a registered trademark as a musician may not stop another from getting a trademark on a tech conference.

His best bet might have been to try to ride the wave of inadvertent attention, promoting his stuff to people on Twitter who followed him by mistake.

Perhaps some number of them would have become fans/customers.

But I can understand the anger when you think someone is stepping on your identity.
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Wasn't the twitter-wannabe just one of a number of applications on their platform?
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That's a fair critique and I hope my post suggested an understanding that I wrote from a rather exposed position.

The reason I chose to call these "the" types of data is not because there exist no other reasonable mechanisms for defining things like types and data but instead because there's such a strong relationship between this presentation of types and the foundations of intuitionistic logic. You can also find these types in category theory (given a sufficiently nice category) which further cements their conceptual power.

Further, you can refine this presentation to make a dependent type theory and end up with a really wonderful place to express something like your relational type system.
Agree. Also, it'd be nice if abandonware somehow got legal recognition. I don't think it helps anyone that there are games which are not being sold, not really owned by anyone (the company went bankrupt), not generating anyone any revenue, and not legal to do things with.
You have to use the trademark "in interstate commerce"[1]. Simply registering a domain or a twitter account is not commerce and you get no protection until its used in commerce.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_trademark_law
I pay money and... they don't keep trying to stuff monetizing junk all up in my twitter feed.
Mainly because of the Open Type System:
http://devblog.guidewire.com/2010/11/18/gosus-secret-sauce-t...
I'm 24, I've read all Joel's stuff in the past year.
I know that for some people, this is an issue. The problem is the cost of switching to another name. For a ten year old product, the cost is IMMENSE. It can definitely be done, but it's a hard problem.

Naming is also really hard. We spent TONS of time picking out the name Trello and just narrowly avoided naming it something really stupid by serendipity. (The code name was Trellis, but all the domains were taken and we insisted on having a dotcom url).
To me, it was two things:

1. As a Twitter replacement, it solved the wrong problem. They seemed to think that the flaw with Twitter is that it's free. In my opinion, the flaw with Twitter is that it's centralized.

2. Every time I mention how the Twitter replacement isn't compelling, people would talk about how that's not what it is, it's a general platform for Stuff that just happens to be something you can use to build a Twitter replacement. But they never really explained what it was, just that it wasn't merely a Twitter replacement.
Actually they can try to trademark the term and then make a play for the domain and twitter account. If he gets to keep the domain in the case that they have a trademark he can still be prohibited from actually using the name on the site or for email addresses (not a lawyer but I've seen this play out in court). To best thing for him to do is probably to trademark it himself which might work out a bit cheaper than contesting their trademark application. His first and ongoing use might trump their investment in the brand.
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So, it BitCoin still a viable Currency? I thought it was going down hill...
Right, which is all the more reason to take the high road. To set a better example.

Also, because trading vitriol with religious fanatics and ignorants accomplishes nothing. Knowledge is the antidote to ignorance. Not smugness, defensiveness, or indignation (well-justified though all of those things might be).
The "strawman scientist" has tenure--I'm sure they can take it.

Given the behavior and stories of lots of PIs and advisors, and how they treat grad students these days (especially in biology and medicine), I'm not sure that we need to be sticking up for them.
Everything you want to know about App.net is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Caldwell

It's an interesting project!
I know where it comes from, with my scientists hat on, I completely agree with the piece. But from a literary perspective, it is like being repeatedly bashed round the head by a moron with a length of 2x4.

This conceit can be done well. Mitchell and Webb's little old lady job-justification hearings are a particularly good example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbXTBPN1HhA
API is locked down, my instances (PX) seem to be running fine though.
I don't think I am. He mentioned Copyright, and he seems to think he has some sort of claim over a sequence of words, outside of his domain rights.

He may have a proprietary claim in the area he practices his arts. He has no other claims.

If he actually understood this, he would not be moaning to us today in this post, which is obviously trying to name and shame the conference.

Well, I'm not cool with this BS name and shame game, that is why I wrote my comment. And I think the comment was pretty level-headed given this guys complete lack of thought into how such accusations might play out in a court of public opinion, where people don't actually think about the consequences of automatic IP rights for "first speaking" names.
Checking for existing trademarks is basic due diligence if you are buying a domain. It is pretty much unusable if someone else has trademarked it.
Wait, the site already says you're using UPS for this. Is that a typo (like the HIPAA one I pointed out earlier)?

If it's a typo, then I guess there's another stumbling block until you do eventually offer UPS...
I remember back before I knew how to use vim (I was an Emacs guy then) it was a nightmare when I would forget to set my EDITOR variable and get dropped into vi to write commit messages; I couldn't edit my way out of a paper bag and could never remember how to exit without saving, though after a while ':q!' became the only vim command I knew.
FWIW, it's just going to be a metered paywall, similar to the NY Times (ie "You have read 1 of your 10 free articles this week."). I for one hope that people decide their well written, very important articles are worth paying a little bit of money to support.
I wonder if the "producer at the BBC" reference was from the BBC not giving air time to climate change skeptics in debate anymore?
More importantly in the short term: are payroll taxes due on the face value of the IOUs? You've gotta pay taxes in cash...
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I was half expecting you to realize that you answered your own question before you asked it (why do you implore novices to try out the command-line?). But what the hey, I'll throw out some links that go better into why Emacs is still a very viable contender for your editor of choice.

Steve Yegge wrote a classic programming read "Tour De Babel"[1], which has a bit on Emacs under the Lisp section. He also wrote "Effective Emacs"[2], which just the intro tries to explain why you should use Emacs. Lastly, there's Vivek Halder's "Levels of Emacs Proficiency"[3] which will either amuse/awe you or scare you.

[1] - https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/tour-de-babel

[2] - https://sites.google.com/site/steveyegge2/effective-emacs

[3] - http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em...
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I recently did almost exactly the same thing. I'd switched positions within the company (a federal contractor) from one division to another, leaving the "intelligence support" division for the "engineering" division. It wasn't a good fit, and much like you I felt that I wasn't getting done what they deserved.

However, upon giving notice, that crushing guilt was lifted. Since I knew there was a solid end date, finishing the time was very bearable. And since I gave notice, other positions with the same company are still available. I can still use my coworkers as professional references (some of 'em, anyway).

If, on the other hand, I'd dropped the bomb and said "screw you guys, I'm leaving NOW," I'd have had to deal with the guilt of leaving both the contract lead and the task lead with a hard-to-fill slot and no warning. In exchange, I'd have had a relief from two weeks of ultimately bearable work.
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This is so telling. The sheer arrogance is plainly visible, as is the doctor's complete lack of empathy.
There are plenty of ways to motivate people, and this is most certainly not a good one. You don't get a mule to move by pushing it.
You're wrong, because there is no argument that can convince someone who doesn't care about evidence.

That sounds reasonably falsifiable, especially with some nice biscuits.
People die because some idiot parent didn't vaccinated their children, so I say yes, enforce it or don't live in society, go to some isolated island because you are causing harm, it's as totalitarian as allowing people to play Russian roulette with other people's children (actually you'd go to jail so I think we're too lenient with these parents).
A more computational crowd might enjoy "You're not allowed bioinformatics anymore": http://biomickwatson.wordpress.com/2014/07/21/youre-not-allo...
This was discussed at OpenStack Summit Atlanta: https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-20...

The main concern seems to be customers reflashing the firmware which they want to prevent with firmware signing.
No. This article is from 2012.
I haven't worked through it yet, but I've heard Benjamin Pierce's Types and Programming Languages (TAPL) is one of the go to books on the topic.

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/tapl/
I gave Sublime Text a shot (20 years emacs), but ran into the same thing that has kept me from using emacs x11 for more than a few weeks at a time, which is that I spend maybe 30% of my time editing files on remote machines, connected over ssh, often through complicated tunneling arrangements that make using Tramp a pain to use.

I keep thinking that what I really need is to switch all the machines I use to Plan9 to abstract away the remote sessions, I guess then I'd have to learn Acme :)
This is awesome. It doesn't seem to deal well with jobs posted in multiple locations - mine from April only shows up in DC when it was for both DC and Boston.
Where did App.net go right? I generally like the vision that App.net was promoting, but when you are trying to build something that relies on network effects for success you need to remove every impediment to attracting users. They've had several glaring impediments since day 1.
The author is right to criticize the current state of data sharing and analysis. However, the solution is not to have experimentalists collect their data and then pass it on to someone else. That would be good for the people doing data analysis (provided they know enough to understand the experimental procedures, which is not always the case), but remove many of the incentives to be an experimentalist. Science is much less fun if you don't actually get to make new discoveries.

The problem is that in many fields there is a weird dichotomy between people who know how to get data and people who know what to do with it. This is not a sustainable situation. Proper experimental design requires knowledge of how the data will be analyzed.

My proposed solution is to require that the leaders of research groups have expert knowledge of both experimental procedures and data analysis, because that is the expertise required to pick an appropriate hypothesis and supervise the corresponding scientific project from start to finish. Because students 1) work in a lab with diverse knowledge and 2) desire to become professors themselves, they are likely to acquire these skills as well. Aspiring professors who have substantially greater aptitude for either data collection or data analysis should form a joint lab with a researcher with the complementary skill set so that their students can learn both fields.
Lockdown is normal in an incident. It helps protect the running apps from more issues.
In Scotland, I can see that being a difficult case for McDonald's to win. But then in the U.S., they win a case against a guy trying to market "MacDimSum", as they claim consumers would be confused that its a McDonald's product. They won that case, so food products cannot have the prefix Mc or Mac. Trademark can sometimes grant vast powers to famous brands.
I think in any other context, that would be insulting, but since the poster was specifically talking about how popularity affects trademarks with respect to extremely popular brands like Google, Apple, etc, it is fine. I had to re-read his message after seeing yours because my first thought was, "What insult is this person talking about?"
"None" looks like a cool location at the center of the map with many openings :) Joke aside, you did a great job, this looks nice.
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EC2 itself is having some network issues.
I don't agree with what you wrote at the end. It's not a "mistake" to bootstrap and have a much higher probability of success with a lower possible return. I know that's probably not what you meant, because you wrote earlier that we could have been "more successful", but it also ignores what would have been a much higher risk and loss of ownership in your assumption.

Joel and I are naturally conservative in nature and having succeeded at Fog Creek with what we set out to do (building a successful company where devs wanted to work) allowed us to swing for the fences with Trello and Stack Exchange. The risk is much higher. The reward is bigger, but we own a lot less of those VC funded companies.
i don't care if it expresses a totalitarian view, it's just not very good writing.
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The mother in the narrative is requesting to be informed. A pamphlet does not inform, although it may. Face-to-face conversation has the opportunity for an asker to ask questions for an authority on the matter to answer.

However, more to the point: is this pamphlet science or marketing? Many such pamphlets about medicine blur that line quite well...
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This story has no more connection to HN than any other political, human rights, or current events story. There's a whole Internet full of venues to have discussions about these kinds of stories. They don't need to be on the HN front page. Which is why the guidelines say they shouldn't be.
Currently cohabitating. Eventually will likely move. (Same as Stack Exchange's history).
The telegraph network back then had very poor shielding as did other electic components. We've come a long way in 150 years.

When there are ice storms in North Carolina where I grew up transformers would explode by the dozen each night but this didn't keep the power off for more than a few days. I doubt a flare would destroy transformers wholesale but even if it did we'd probably not be too bad off for long.
If you had a heart attack and spent a week in the hospital, the project would just need to deal with it.

Mental health issues are often not treated the same way... but they should be. If you are mentally incapable of working on the project, then they must just deal with it.
I've been reading Spolsky's writing since he began, and it's strange I still think of his company as having 10 or so employees.

Honest question: what do the 30+ people on the production side of Stack Exchange do? This frankly seems like a huge team to me. On the other hand, maybe that's what's required for sane scheduling and clean code. My experience is with 1-5 devs doing any mad hack or taking known-shortsighted actions to meet the current deadline.