skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RERI-NUKA is so much better than Pine Hill?
Sound to me like they are trying to see if Twitter is willing to change their mind when they threaten to shut the service down and break all the tweets. Rebranding would be an obvious option but they would still have to keep to current domain alive in order to not break the links. Could they abandon the trademark and still keep the domain or could Twitter just grab the trademark and based on that later also try to claim the domain and maybe restore all the links from a backup?
Oh yes, and the Roman characters. I was thinking about that. I'm pretty sure in China, loads of popular websites are just number strings. I can't imagine that this UBI system would be better for them. So knock off 1 billion people right there. hah.
Forgive my ignorance - is it possible to make this work for chords (ie play a piano and have it transcribe)? Or does that already exist somewhere and I didn't know? Because I would love to have something like that - play piano, and have an application transcribe what you're playing, perhaps automatically detecting key and meter.
> 1. All parties MUST use a key length of 2048 bits for their RSA keys.

What is the point of this? Seems to me there'd be no problem in using 3072 bit RSA keys, which makes more sense given that the lowest security symmetrical encryption algorithm permitted for use is AES128, and the difficulty of breaking AES128 is roughly equivalent to breaking 3072 bit RSA.
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I thought "chick" was the female version of "dude". I guess it could be "dudette" but that just seems dumb.
...and the fact that the people doing the teaching have actual legal authority over the students, not that I would advocate that for general education. :) It doesn't get much more apples and oranges than this.
Yeah, they really should have just looked at rebranding. A few Instagram-related services (e.g. Webstagram, Statigram) had to do so recently, IIRC, and I don't think they're significantly worse off.

Thing is, even if Twitter tacitly condoned it for years, the name "TwitPic" is pretty obviously derived from "Twitter" and is trading on their (Twitter Inc.'s) reputation. Even their logo is styled similarly to the old Twitter wordmark. The blog post didn't even say Twitter wanted to force them to stop using the name, only that they shouldn't attempt to register a confusingly-similar trademark (though granted, forcing a rebrand might well have been the next step).
Ok lets compare to the US...

Alcohol is banned in many places in the US. In the US you can be executed with out trial by jury. If you're a cab driver you can be sent to a torture camp. Police routinely execute citizens with out fear of punishment. Up until 2007 it was illegal to be gay in many states. Religions other than christianity are discouraged. And women can be imprisoned for wearing the same clothes as men. (topless). You can be imprisoned for life for stealing a pack of cigarettes, or smoking a joint. The government operates near slave labour camps where people are paid 25 cents an hour.

Sounds like a great place to raise your daughters. Even a shitty education system can't overcome the oppression they will likely see in the streets on a daily basis.
Does it work with multiple accounts? I have a work vs. personal account, each with blocks of time on them when I'll be busy.
Thanks for the feedback Enrique.
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At what point do you forego patents for the sake of usability. Twitpic has been around for so long and they have tons of media hosted, all of those Tweets are now essentially broken. Twitter should instead foster a relationship with Twitpic.

Twitpic is DEPENDENT on Twitter to work, it's not taking users from Twitter at all (other than hosting media). Truly sad to see.
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I realize that the "S" in ANSI stands for "Standards", but I think it is obvious to anyone who cares that the things which come from ANSI are produced by a non-profit national standards committee ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_National_Standards_Ins... ). As the Wikipedia page says, ANSI "oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel".

I don't really see this as a valid comparison to what the folks behind "Standard Markdown" are doing. I agree with others that the Standard Markdown name was a poor choice. For me at least, it feels like they are saying "We're taking over now". I don't know if that indeed was their intent, but that's the way it comes across to me. I think they should choose a different name.

For the record, I really don't have any skin in the game here, as the controversy doesn't really affect me much.
It may have to do with daylight hours in the north. But don't young children wake up that early anyway?
Yes, this brochure from the wood-paper lobby notes that a tree takes 10-20 years to grow and that trees are grown specifically to make paper, http://www.tappi.org/Bookstore/Public-Outreach/Earth-Answers...

Hemp yields more pulp per acre than forests, needs less acid & chlorine (environmental impact).
It's really easy to make reusable React components though, the boundaries are well defined (props) and the state is confined to the child. Pretty much what Web Components aspires to be, but it already works and you can leverage today.

I have a couple components I can extract from a running project and publish there without any changes (Google Maps, Google Autocomplete, Tagging input, ...) and it will just work.
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I am an Ignition user and at first I got 6 months free Pro license and then they sent a "clarification" saying that Pro wasn't required to continue using Ignition after these 6 months. Ignition basically remained as it was - free (though they did butcher the communication about that).
Floppies, how advanced, I still have a box of C15 cassette tapes with my data from the 1980s on them!
It sounds more like she was concerned that the schools wouldn't crush her kids.
Wow:) looks like my usage limits for calling recipes exceeded for the day! I have very limited calls, otherwise I'd have to pay out a lot per month to increase. Might have to if more people start using it.

Thanks all
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My thoughts exactly. Why is the trademark so important to them? And as I read it, Twitter never demanded that they stop using the name, just that they do not apply for the registered trademark. This decision seems rash.
All I need from Ruby is an extension that allows sections of programs to be completely static typed thanks to explicit type hints. Not for the speed, just for the ability to catch errors at compile time.
I don't understand why Twitpic would be shutting down. If they are growing and doing well, then why not just change the business name? Or is it that things aren't going well (usage dropping drastically) and they've already been thinking about shutting down or moving on, and maybe this trademark issue was just the last straw?
Hi, just a quick correction - the Berkeley RISC-V team are not one and the same with the lowRISC team. We collaborate with them, and we have Krste on our technical advisory board. We are of course also using Chisel though.
Under Todd Park the role was more of an "entrepreneur in residence" that helped shepherd some of the practices from the private sector into government. Some lean practices, small prototype testing before major program deployment, and changes in policy that provided more flexibility. That had the side effect of also impacting the ability of small businesses to engage with government. I hope they keep the role moving forward in a similar way.
ditto on mac safari.
On the surface of it, I don't mind that they recruited from the industry.

However, if the CTO is in a position to influence government contracts or other spending towards Google, then I would be against this - same principle applies to ex-Goldman Sachs execs taking up key finance related Government positions.
I've read through the blog, the comment would have been useful on differentiating Matrix from XMPP. Also, sort of off topic, but Skype has a XMPP bridge and WhatsApp is built on XMPP (they just don't support federation).
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> An open and "accepting" community should also accept people they might not agree with..otherwise you should't call yourself open, accepting, or inclusive.

Being "accepting" does not imply being accepting of those who are themselves intolerant, and indeed the meaning and value of liberalism dissolves into something toothless and even dangerous when interpreted that way.

If the Russel's paradox aspect of this you bugs you, then label the position "accepting of all other beliefs except those which are themselves intolerant." In practice, this is what most liberals, even die-hard ones, subscribe to.
Also when you publish a presentation it is really better off just give the non-animated version (even the pdf version with 4 pages to just load from pic 1 - pic 4 is still not a good idea).

Just my 2 cents.
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> Even if its been rebuilt since the property rights were acquired

Everywhere I've lived, cable companies don't own the rights of way, but instead pay municipalities or power companies to run wire along public easements or power lines.
There is no mention of patents anywhere in the post. This has nothing to do with patents.
Not all houses in the UK have numbers, especially in rural areas. If you don't live in a village or larger, it's pretty common to have a house name, and no number. (Edit: I just checked the village I grew up in, and was surprised to find that out of 48 houses covered by the postcode, 41 of them only have a house name, no number -- I'd have guessed closer to a 50/50 ratio).

Even in cities, it's not particularly unusual to have houses that don't have numbers, especially older houses -- in my parents' postcode, two of the houses only have a name.

House names are fully supported by correctly implemented postcode lookup systems -- for example, in the common online use-case where you enter your postcode and a list of houses is brought up, the list will include the houses that only have name identifiers.
Ideally, the census would sample DNA and use that for aggregate statistics. (Pretending we could somehow do this while keeping privacy.) It'd be useful knowledge to know how certain clusters of genetic traits relate to socioeconomic ones.
When a bunch of people have nothing to lose they can do impressive things. In this case, nothing to lose means that they don't have good employment prospects not because of personal failings but rather macroeconomic or structural problems. When there's little to no opportunity cost to trying to start your own business it shouldn't be surprising that so many do try.
As am I! Its the only way we as a society can move past stuff like this.
Right, I was just saying it is funny that the people who are championing the non-standardized test based education in Finland use a standardized test as the evidence of success.
Big company, lots of money!!! Expensive lawyers! That what big companies do!!!
Not nice Square!!!
Anecdotally, my four-year-old daughter wakes up that early on weekends, but will happily sleep to 9AM or later if there's school that day.
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Of course not, I am sure it served an ... educational purpose.
The upload functionality seems broken right now. The site says my upload went fine, but I can't see the photo.

Are their image file servers getting hammered? Weird.
There's that bit at the bottom of the Agile Manifesto: "That is, while there is value in the items on the right, we value the items on the left more." I think the spirit of it is to try and discourage outright dogmatism. That said, I'm coming to think of the Agile Manifesto as a collection of four rather ugly false dichotomies. It's the assumption that those 4 pairs of things are somehow separable that's what's really dogmatic about the manifesto.

For example:

Processes and tools can often be one of the best ways to improve interactions among individuals. See Scrum, which is hardly a panacea but sometimes it works wonders.

For a large project, comprehensive documentation is essential to producing working software. Ideally the documentation should be so comprehensive that it pervades the very fabric of your application in the form of good factoring, command-query separation, etc.

Contract negotiation can be an important first step in customer collaboration. Everyone needs to know where everyone else's needs, boundaries and comfort zones are.

Without a clear plan, how can you be sure of the best way to respond to change? See: Duke Nukem Forever, WinFS, RIM.
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I wonder if Wordpress includes (in core or as a plugin) a static site generator yet? This would cure great many users from Wordpress-related troubles :)
I can't find their changelog (http://codex.wordpress.org/Category:Changelogs), anyone else know where it is?
Lesson to learn: don't tie down your service and/or brand to an existing brand/service. Otherwise you're both dependent of that service and/or at risk to get sued sooner or later.
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Caching plugins basically mimic a static site (e.g. wp-super-cache).
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I think you might be confusing "tradeoff" with "compromise".

"I'm willing to give up some valuable-thing-Y in exchange for more X" is a textbook example of a tradeoff.
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USPTO: US Patent and Trademark Office. P is not the relevant letter here, T is.
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First: Thanks for creating this!

Second: IMHO, I really do think this suffers from being a single page app. It's essentially an HN clone. Would HN be better if it was a single page app? No, it would probably be worse.
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Will the indie games market crash and burn?
But many countries only have ISP competition because of "wire neutrality" (local loop unbundling), so it's more a matter of picking what layer you're going to regulate as neutral.
What's wrong with it, besides the very limited answer space? They should let you check of multiple boxes or fill in rough percentages. That allows finding things like "people with 15% or more X ancestry tend to do better on Y".

It's not unlike asking "What culture are you?" Providing useful answers may be difficult, but it's not fundamentally a wrong thing to ask.
I must not be paying enough attention, because this doesn't make a lick of sense from Twitters side. If I had a company that was willing to host images instead of me, at no cost to me, and no restrictions on me, I would be a barking mad idiot to disrupt this relationship. Unless I was about to sell...
Why would a town that historically has not needed street names have a need for convulated "street ids"? Small towns like this dont have street names because they are superfluous. Mail arrives, people find places.
Do the tests play into the decision of whether the student goes into a vocational or academic track, or is it an individual choice?
What you've described is a Very Hard problem. :) Dozens of researchers around the world are trying to tackle it, with varying results.

Piano is actually one of the easier instruments to automatically transcribe, in part because the notes decay in a predictable way and there's (generally!) no vibrato or changes in tone once a note has been struck. Unlike, say, a clarinet or a guitar, where pitches can be bent after the initial note onset.

Context: I run Soundslice (http://www.soundslice.com/), an interactive sheet-music site, and I've investigated this deeply over the last few years.
After 10 years of not having a single positive detected by my anti-virus program I uninstalled it. If you already have a certain amount of PC knowledge it doesn't really improve your security any more. AV-scanner find the kind of malware that spreads via e-mail attachments or warez downloads and those can be easily avoided. And if someone is really after you with a hot new exploit your anti-virus is probably the last to recognize it.
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You're a newer user, I believe. They gave 6 months after the Ignition users flipped out about having SEVEN days to upgrade their accounts. I've had Ignition for 3+ years.

It's been awhile, I could be misremembering things a bit.
Are they just playing chicken with Twitter here?

It seems odd that, because Twitter are being trademark jerks, they're going to just take their ball and go home. This feels more like attempted blackmail.
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They do and it's very helpful, however, since they are technically "savings" accounts and CapitalOne 360 (like all banks) makes more money the longer we keep our cash in one place, they limit the number of transactions out of any of those accounts to 6 per month.

For that and other reasons, I think the proposed system is worth exploring.

I will say though, I'm a very happy 360 customer.
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The fact that the Qatar World Cup was mentioned as a positive thing invalidates anything else this person might have to say about Qatar. :( The death toll is the most tragic element, but so many aspects of that whole situation (blatant corruption, incompetence, etc.) are unambiguously horrific and reflect very poorly upon the country. FIFA should be held responsible as well, of course.
unrelated, but are you still actively maintaining Folyo?
Disproof by counter example is not disingenuous. I pointed out that what vampirechicken wrote was clearly wrong then tried to get at the heart of the issue. I did not say to count each dollar of maximum bonus (or even expected bonus) as the same value as a dollar of salary, in fact I said the opposite. The value of a bonus is the expected value minus the cost of volatility. You correctly point that you should also subtract the cost of delay.

When you are comparing your current compensation package to the industry standard the better one is the one that is worth more to you. You might put an unusually high or low value on risk or the cost of delaying compensation till the end of the year. You might value the free lunches or health insurance more or less than the average worker. Since you are the one receiving the compensation package what matters is what it is worth to you.

The bottom line is that market rate is total compensation, not just salary. If a company offers you a 'market rate' salary with no bonus and no benefits then that offer is bellow market rate. If an offer has lower salary, but great benefits and a huge bonus then (if you will actually get the bonus) that offer is above market rate.
I stopped updating socket.io on production after 0.9.0 as i've seen lots of problems like closed connections without any notification. I've tried 0.9.x and 1.x.x versions. It got me 2 days to figure out that problem was from socket.io.
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These breaks seem incredibly important to me. My kids come home from school exhausted and stressed out.

My kids have 4 minutes to get between classes, which are sometimes on a different floor and several hundred yards apart. This means they have to carry their books all day long because they don't have time for lockers, and barely have time to visit a restroom. The teachers only give 3 bathroom passes a quarter, so if your kid has a nervous bladder and takes a bit of time to pee you have to get a doctor's note. For lunch they only have 20 minutes total - which includes standing in line for their food, eating lunch, and then more time standing in line to dump their trays. If they're late to the following class then they get a tardy slip and detention after school on Friday.

The current schedule for schools in the US has more in common with prisons than any real workplace environment.
Considering myself a minimalist I have tried to do this on a much smaller scale: for myself.

I ran into a big problem: how do I label/organize this mess of both physical/digital memories? What are your thoughts on that specific part of the problem? How would you solve it? More importantly, how would you automate it?
Say that again? 200k for a new grad? Where may I ask?
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The Twitpic homepage[1] is also 404'ing big time, perhaps it's just a devops issue more than them pulling the plug before the sunset date?

It almost seems like they're playing a little hardball and showing everyone what things will be like if they disappeared from the web, which seems to be what Twitter is threatening them with since they're unable to secure the use of their name and yet millions of images are linked based on that (domain) name.

Still, we've seen this story before, Twitter doesn't give a fuck about developers now that they have sufficiently used them to build their platform and brand.

But, what's funny is, it was the use of "tweet" that Twitter frowned upon for 3-rd party names -- "twit" was considered fine...

[1] http://imgur.com/YLOEKEs
"Pine Hill" is excellent information if the parties involved agree on what it means.

You can say that it's meaningless to a person that doesn't, but in a context where everyone does you can't argue that it's "low quality information". In the same sense, totally disregarding that people sometimes share a cultural heritage, personal history or conversational context and use this to their advantage, "Yes" or "No" would be really awful information. Nothing is a good conveyor of information by itself.

What does BAJASU-BONEXO say about anything before I stuff it into a computer that arbitrarily translate it to a set of coordinates (an existing system invented to solve the same problem)? If everyone needs a device to decode it, what advantage does it have over just sharing the coordinates?

With 1 meter granularity, what prevents people from assigning different names to what is essentially the same place, in a way that potentially prevents either of the hundreds of thousands of names generated for a 1 km^2 Pine Hill from ever catching on?

Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat idea. Turning coordinates into pronounceable words means that you could easily share an exact location over a phone line. It's just that I think that it's arrogant to say that the tradition of naming places is somehow inferior to what essentially is a totally different thing. To present them as something that is meant to replace an "old algorithm" (referring to a practice that is mostly non-algorithmic) is big-headed and geographically and culturally ignorant.