skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it mentions anything about Twitpic as a service. It's only about the trademark.

That being said it makes a lot of sense for Twitter want to control the user experience. The cost of hosting low resolution thumbnails can't be a pressing issue for Twitter. User experience and engagement on the other hand....

I'm not saying it's worth sabotaging relationships with 3rd party developers but there's a certain mindset in which this type of thinking makes a lot of sense.
Yes, I really look forward to some of my friends current attempts.
Thanks for all the lugables. I have a Kaypro IIx somewhere in my collection, although I think I'm still missing software/bootdisks for it. I tried getting a boot disk on eBay a few years ago but I think something happened and the order was cancelled. Anyone have Kaypro IIx disks they don't need?
Anyway, sounds like he did quite a lot in addition to traditional computers in those 95 years.
I suspect Twitter's demand is the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm sure Twitpic use has declined significantly since Twitter introduced their own image hosting. The team has moved on to other projects so there's not much incentive to fight it.
What does that mean? I can generate an infinite amount of nonsense ideas. Or worse, a good amount of superficially-nice-sounding-but-terribly-flawed ideas. You can't consider every "point of view", if only from the fact that there's limited time.
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The Race Gap in America’s Police Departments
Advanced Data Governance
The very first computer I used was a Kaypro. I didn't start programming until I got a Wyse AT though.
It took four years to excavate the skeletons, which were shipped to Philadelphia by container ship

Wouldn't Chile or Argentina want those? Why are they shipped out? It seems cumbersome and unnecessarily risky.
Go has something similar http://godoc.org/ and I use it all the time.
Oh give me a break, you thin-skinned jerk.

You're criticizing my tone because you were wrong on the facts. Pathetic. Disgusting and pathetic.

You should be ashamed of yourself. But you aren't, because you're fucking pathetic.
I'd bump the font size up a few notches and maybe go with #333 or #444 if you're just itching for gray text.
First and foremost: great job shipping it!

Regarding your question: I'd still love one (captivating) example, one 10s video to "pull me in" and convince me to install it. Looking forward to it.
That does seem pretty crazy that they wouldn't just buy another domain and keep things running. My guess is it actually has nothing to do with Twitter or Trademarks. They likely ran out of capital and are giving up.
He was CTO for quite some time, so it appears people were OK with him making technical decisions.

Edit: Also, is there evidence that he was a vastly superior choice? I'd accept sufficiently advanced technology even from a wicked murderer.
A Carrot Company Is Using Junk Food-Style Marketing to Change the Way Kids Eat
I can pull doc strings in Vim by moving my cursor over a function and pressing K with fireplace.vim. I imagine Emacs has something similar. I get a list of functions with taglist.vim.
I think this is true when discussions tend to be quantifiable areas. But I have seen and experienced downvotes purely based on disagreement about political opinion which is why I wish downvotes mandated a comment as to why the downvote is happening.

Other than that I agree with you.
> Why would you ever let anyone have one?

I think that's the real difference here. You're saying "why let someone have one?" and I'm saying "how can you stop them?"
>>> My thoughts exactly. Why is the trademark so important to them?

Because it would protect them from Twitter going after them for infringement on Twitter's trademarks. I'm sure Twitter knew they had no argument for the "Likelihood of Confusion" Test and TwitPic would've been granted its trademark in due time.

From a legal perspective, it looks like Twitter felt if they got trademark protection, they wouldn't have any leverage to sue them to get them to stop treading on their business. Instead of mounting a legal defense in the courts, they simply used what leverage they did have and threatened to cut them off from their API - which is everything for TwitPic.

For you non-legalese folks:

http://marklaw.com/trademark-glossary/confuse.htm

"The terms, "confusingly similar" or "likelihood of confusion" both refer to the standard required to prove infringement of a trademark. Specifically, if the relevant consuming public will likely be confused or mistaken about the source of a product or service sold using the mark in question, then likelihood of confusion exists, and the mark has been infringed.

The likelihood of confusion test is also one of several examinations conducted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in determining whether to approve an applicant’s trademark application. It is worth noting here that even if there is no likelihood of confusion, i.e. no trademark infringement, you may still be liable for using another company's trademark if you are blurring or tarnishing their mark under the state and/or federal dilution laws."
Soekris is not the only game in town.
The idea is that you find what you measure. Standardised tests are highly informative, but should be kept to a minimum to avoid warping the process. Incidentally, one of the major criticisms leveled against PISA is regarding the inconsistent sampling process.
I wonder if they have any advice/suggestions for other communities outside of SF to tackle this. It seems like a worthwhile project.
Realmente hoje em dia tenho muito pouca idea de como as coisas estejam, mas admira-me que a malta toda (que possa fazer apps) não-se tenha despachado prá Alemanha e a Inglaterra.
Yikes, is this policy set by school districts or states? Is any input accepted from parents?
It seems like it has promise, and is a neat idea, though the accuracy seems like it needs a lot of work.

I started off by whistling, then humming, then singing (da da da...) the theme from 1812 Overture and it never got close for me. I also sang a scale and it was not close there either.

I will say though: if this worked well, I would use it a lot! A lot of times I have melodies in my head that I find hard to transcribe, so, this would be great!
Two lessons:

1. Don't base your entire business on another business' product. Especially one that has had such a hostile relationship with third parties. When the other business decides to discontinue your access to its service, or otherwise change things, or basically copy what you do under their own brand, you're screwed.

2. Don't create a similar name that will give you trouble in trademark disputes. (Seriously? TwitPic? I work in technology, and even I thought they were owned by Twitter, though admittedly, I don't use Twitter much and don't use TwitPic at all).
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Anyone Actually Using AWS Mobile (vs. FB Parse or CloudKit)?
the company behind it, yeah.
It's all about selection bias. This particular person went to a foreign school that probably selected for a certain type of student just by being there.

Here in the US, I actually worked as a teacher before changing careers. Most of the students were good, could learn and wanted to learn. The lack of any real authority to discipline the 5% problem kids or the resources to deal with the xyz% ADD kids is what brings the whole class down. You end up teaching to the bottom and simply assigning busy work to the rest.

So I'm not surprised that a small school with certain location bias might be lucky enough to escape a full normal distribution of an American classroom.
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If you write something in another language (and it is not a right thing to do in a international board that obviously use English as only language) at least translate it to make others understand.
To claim that Ted Kaczynski was led astray because of "bare reason" is preposterous at best.
Remove the unsafe package asap, and do database operations the safe way.

edit: For downvoters, the author has the 'development mode' package still in the project which allows you full read/write to the database without any credentials from the web console. All that is necessary is for someone to guess the name of one of the collections.
It's individual choice, though higher education institutes do have entrance exams that can occasionally be waived by high grades.
When they launched I remember thinking they were naming themselves that way for 2 reasons: 1. cause user confusion like you suggested, 2. try to flip to twitter itself.
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Try leaving the US?
Ruby has always been a little cultlike in its approach. I don't necessarily mean that as a negative, I'm just not sure what other word I can use - and it's true of so many other platforms as well, it's not solely a Ruby thing by any means.

I've always viewed computers as lowly tools meant to do my bidding, so I don't really understand this sort of emotional attachment that people get, but it's definitely a real thing that people feel. The only pragmatic way forward is to accept that this happens and figure out how to incorporate it into the larger context of software engineering.
Is Amazon not perfect?
It is easy to buy a book as a gift on Amazon and have it sent to someone. Try that with Kindle! You can buy vouchers but you cannot buy a particular book as a gift for someone's Kindle. Wouldn't that be a logical feature? People have Kindles because they don't want books...but people often want to make personal presents not just vouchers.
Thanks!

I added some screenshots. They're more easily seen in the Github readme than on the website. (I really ought to change to a different Github-Pages theme.)
When does work typically start there? I think you'd want school to start before that. You'd want enough gap to allow parents who transport their kids to school to drop the kids off just before school start time, and still have time to make it to their work. You'd want the gap short enough so that parents whose kids take a school or bus or similar aren't out the door so much earlier than the parents leave for work that the parents have an awkward gap in their daily schedule.
A business product that encourages data isolation, control and non-transparency is not a product anyone should ever want to use.
I don't think those lessons apply well to this TwitPic scenario, since they have been breaking them for 5 years without any problem.
They rolled it out in Canada without anyone getting into a flap. It just happened.

Readers wear out. As people buy new ones they were chip/pin ready. A lot of these terminals are rented as well, making it easier for providers to swap them.
I 2nd his recommendation of Miele for canisters. Very high quality and excellent filtration. And if you read the Whirlpool forum, there also a ton of people who have switched over to Miele after using Dyson vacuums.
Boom:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
The ease at which caller id is spoofed could be solved by the carriers. If sent called id information doesn't match line termination information (geo location and owned phone numbers) block the call.
Good god that thing is hideous.
>The solution is how do you go about "forcing" companies to carry all traffic equally. This is utterly unenforceable and unmeasurable.

I don't understand how it is unenforceable and unmeasurable. We already know certain ISPs do it today and we can test for it. I can test it at my own home by turning my VPN on and off. And the FCC can enforce it like it enforces everything else: fining. You might as well say we might as well allow everyone to use all wireless spectrum however they feel, because forcing them to use certain bands for certain types of information is "unenforceable and unmeasurable". Testing that is also hard, yet we still have rules and we still fine people for it.

>Also, I have a moral problem with your willingness to "force" someone to do something because of your worldview.

First, it's a corporation, not "someone". Secondly, if you wish to do business in most civilized areas, there are certain rules you must abide by. A good example is "forcing" a company to not dump toxic waste in river. Some things are done for the common good of all, and one of the things governments are supposed to do is balance that with interests of the few. Just like how dumping waste in rivers is against the law, so too could the government force ISPs to be a common carrier.

>Stop government from interfering with the market.

Given the incredibly high cost of entry into this business, I'm curious why you think that without government interference, any company would be able to compete. If I were to start up my own local ISP today, I'd be faced with two choices: run my own fiber/copper or lease it from Comcast. Running my own cable is of course insanely expensive, and probably not a good investment. Meanwhile, without the government forcing Comcast to play nice, they would have no incentive to lease their cable to me at a decent price, or at all.

I totally agree that, in some cases, the government does things that enable anti-competitive behavior. Towns signing contracts with Comcast to be a sole-provider, or lobbyists helping draft laws that prevent municipal internet are some examples. However, completely removing any regulation and letting the already established conglomerates run amok is not going to get us any additional competition in this case.
Why we needed co-owned photos and videos
I'm going to push back on this otherwise excellent answer a little bit and raise the issue of company culture. While personal issues shouldn't--in the ideal sense--impact the workplace, knowingly bringing them into the fold could negatively impact the company as a whole. Be it frosty relations between two employees causing others to take sides and create division where none existed previously or direct confrontations that interrupt all other parties.

All hires bear risk that they won't fit it in or they'll have a hard time adapting to company culture. Knowingly bringing in someone with strong personal issues with another employee should require a higher level of scrutiny to ensure the issues won't result in a toxic workplace or destroy internal culture.
Its there, just not published to that page yet. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Changelog/4.0
4 Steps to Get a Raise as a Software Engineer
I agree with you regarding the dangers of consensus. Trust can be evaluated many different ways: through direct votes, aggregation, statistical analysis, and more. We should be cautious about implementing government control with the blockchain and I'm sure the current government will have a say about it when we do.

Whether they chose to arm themselves with a keyboard and coded editor is another matter entirely.

Thanks for the kind words about Utter.io!
I would let the hiring manager know that there are issues between you and your sister. You probably don't need to elaborate beyond "family problems" She doesn't have the job yet, but that at least lets him or her know that there are things to watch out for.

If they do hire her, just be professional. If your sister cracks and starts being unprofessional, then it's not your fault.

The best revenge is living well.
Swapping app images in OS X
Leo Laporte had "twit" first and gave Twitter permission to use it back in the beginning.
It is unusual. 8-10 AM is normal, depending on grade and curriculum. 7:30 is probably due to the climate or the logistics in Quatar (the school is located in an education zone, after all).
Hopefully somone like the Archive Team will at least manage to save most of the images. Urls used for images and links seems to be sequential numbers.
I believe the name to look up in this case is "Trofim Lysenko". This social experiment has been performed once already, and its spectacular and predictable failure should stand as a powerful argument that it need not be repeated.
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I am not saying either. I'm saying "Free as in beer" is not a reason to trust software in this particular field, i.e. the field of security software where one error can undermine the whole point of the software and expose your secret data to the world.

And I never even came close to saying that "something costs money implies with 100% accuracy that it is reliable". You are once again making up words to put in my mouth.

The fact is, a lot of people still believe the "open source == more eyeballs" myth, even though that is a myth. Open source does not equate to reliability. And when it comes to software that requires this much trust, a company built around a product is more inherently trustworthy than open source, as the entire company is on the line with their product (and the livelihood of all their employees), whereas with the open source product only the reputation of the author(s) is at stake.

Please note that, once again, I am not saying this is a "100% accurate" indicator of reliability. There are many factors at play. One important factor would be whether the software in question has ever undergone a security audit. Another would be whether there's proper documentation on the encryption (i.e. 1Password's file format is completely documented, both so third party software can use it if need be, and so the security of the file format can be vetted). A third would be the involvement of anyone who is already previously known to be an expert in the field. Etc.

Edit: Come on guys, please stop drive-by downvoting. If you disagree, comment!
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Just as cool, the full name Dreadnoughtus schrani is partially named after the technology entrepreneur who helped finance the research Adam Schran. I've been looking him up, but wow that is cool to have a Dinosaur named after you! http://investing.businessweek.com/research/stocks/private/pe...
If Twitter killed the API that would put Twitpic out of business - but how is that worse than shutting it down? They might as well call Twitter's bluff, if the alternative is just as bad.
Yes, but only biblically.
Putting a stop to the rip-off is easy. Do what another great American did to turn Ford around from a $3 billion loss into being more profitable than GM:

If your focus is on quality, then quality rises and costs fall.

If your focus is on cost, then costs rise and quality falls.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4315663
I guess stocktwits is next on the chopping block.
They are not. It's just that it IS accurate to say paper destroys trees and hamburgers destroys cows.
Exactly, correlation is not causation. I bet they have an even higher correlation with Walmart.
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An agreement amongst the people: "Blockchain of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth."
It doesn't need it, but I don't see how it is possibly a bad thing? Do you want a textarea that adjusts size based on the content? Sure, you could write that yourself, or you could just `npm install react-textarea-autosize`.

Want to render a sparkline of some data? Sure, you could mess around with existing libs and see if you can get them to work nice with React, or you could just pull in something you can expect actually works, like react-sparkline.
> Twitter doesn't give a fuck about developers now that they have sufficiently used them to build their platform and brand.

I really hate that this is the standard model for building startups these days. Make a free service, grow your userbase using investment money and by encouraging developers to build on your platform, then once users and developers are dependent on the platform, start littering it with ads, selling users' data, and shutting down all your API and all the developers' work. We've seen this happen over and over. Will it ever stop? One thing is for sure, developers will wizen up to this if it continues and stop building on top of platforms, which just sucks for everyone.
amac worked at Google before Twitter.
John Lott found that the more minorities on a police force, the higher the rates of murder, manslaughter, violent crime, robbery and aggravated assault will be. Violent crime increased by a minimum of 3.3 percent every year after affirmative action policies went into effect—and the spike in crime was highest in black neighborhoods. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=231100

The problem was not with black cops, Lott’s study showed, but rather with the lowering of standards across the board, resulting in less-qualified officers of every race. To get more of MSNBC’s “voices of oppression” on police forces, requirements are reduced for all recruits. (Just as quality declined at MSNBC when “voices of oppression” had to be added to their lineup.)
Rough translation: He doesn't understand why those people don't leave the country and go to England or Germany.
> Server down :(

> Well, it looks like this server will be nonfunctional for the next 24 hours or so. Thank for you visiting this site...

Is anyone able to upload the PDF anywhere?
Analysts Predict the iPhone 6 Launch Will Not Be the Biggest Ever
That's simply not true. Numbers without full cardholder info (address, cvv) are nearly worthless.
Ruby is not inherently a slow language. An ideal setting, will be a Ruby open source compiler (similar with what RubyMotion does) that could be used to package your code. I would use the the interpreter to test/develop the code and the compiler to actually package it.
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HipChat's new app for Mac is sexy! Beautiful design. Only a few little bonuses though. Not much improvement in the functionality dept. I dislike the new auto-complete functionality for emoticons. It is slow, and interrupts me while typing. Still prefer Slack.com.
"We value readable code over runtime performance."

Yes, well, that's obvious given Ruby's God awful performance. I think this is a mistake that puts Ruby squarely in the "toy language" bucket.
>- I value respect and tolerance to all in my community

What does that even mean? If a Time Cube guy shows up, does it mean I'm just supposed to politely ignore/shadowban him?

Does it mean I can't use "master-slave" replication?

I think what that line is supposed to mean is "I value not being needlessly abrasive to people" and "I value ignoring unrelated-to-my-project aspects of people".

That is, even if you have some belief or participate in an activity that I find abhorrent, if it's not relevant to the project we're working on, I value avoiding talking about such things so we can focus on the project.
The author seems to be assuming that any files on an iPhone were generated originally by that iPhone. This obviously isn't the case, as I send stuff to Android users, iPhone users, even WinMo users. And thus, photos from an Android show up on an iPhone and, depending on the software used, are then backed up to iCloud.

Another assumption is that it was the celebrity's account and only that account that was compromised in every case. It could have been JLaw's (ex-)boyfriend's iCloud account that was hacked, surely?
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But the school is running their lives, by making everyone be up, dressed, breakfasted and at school by a horrifically early time of day. When I was in elementary school in Australia (9am-3.30pm) I managed to do plenty of sports, public library visits and time running around the street with friends, while also getting to wake up at a reasonable hour (7am) and have a leisurely breakfast and some play time before leaving for school at 8.30am.