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Actually, since st1 is a char* and the sizeof char is 1, that is a valid declaration. It just probably isn't doing what the writer expects. It allocates 5000 bytes and then moves the pointer to point at the very last byte.

edit: Though free()ing it would not work so well until you move the pointer back to the beginning of the 5000 bytes.
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Dont be so upset! I dont know what vertical youre in but if youre in CS then just read up, analyse the tech details you didnt get and apply to other companies. Theres a bunch of companies doing interesting stuff.
That, and any campaign has the built in risk of simply driving a lot of sales forward, but not to increase the total sales volume by much, and that effect can only be established a long time after the campaign has run.
earplugs, sleep mask, ambien.
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Dr. William Davis, whom I follow for his cardiology related advice, also advocates taking vitamin D for optimum heart health. He notes that most people lose the ability to synthesize vitamin D as they age. Here's a typical post on the subject:

http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/getting-vitamin-d-...

My own report is that after taking 6000IU/day of vitamin D, I rarely suffer from afternoon drowsiness, whereas before it was so bad I'd sometimes go take a nap in in my car in 90+ degree heat around 3pm.
Ask YC: I am going to kill my HN account, can I give my karma to someone else?
I'm assuming no, but maybe distributing karma after you leave might be an interesting thing to think about.
From a comment:

>Didn’t show any alerts when I hit google.co.uk

Which probably means it's just looking for links to "google.com" in the page. In which case I'd doubt it'd catch connections in flash files, and it probably false-positives if you have blockers in place. (edit: checked the JS file, that's exactly what it does. Looks for URLs of: google, gmail.com, youtube.com, blogspot.com)
I think it's because his indignant demand of the Cygwin team to fix this "bug" and make it work for him. Basically it's the attitude that I know my way is the right way, now fix the platform so that my program runs.
What's wrong with extending the DOM
Sorry, I checked out the template and... what? Do you think this is a nice one?
Have you checked themeforest.net. They have some good templates. Look at them. Feel the sleekness and the brightness. Buy one or hire one of the good designers.

For the logo you'll need a separate designer, and that itself can cost $500.

Just my opinion. What the HN crowd think of it?
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Building the first Open Source Scanning-Tunneling Electron Microscope
What % of that 99% of America do you think are capable of starting and sustaining a business?

Assuming that all of them are smart enough and have skills to do so.. who do they sell stuff to, if 99% of everyone is broke? Where do they get initial capital?
The monocle decorator is really cute.
itistoday, do you agree that atomic clocks appear to run more slowly as the gravitational field gets stronger?
These ads certainly had better aesthetics than most, but something dies inside me when an advertisement is considered art. I also don't understand why you would view buying Old Spice as a charitable donation.
Wow this is pretty cool. Didn't realize that.
While I'm not the GP, I do practically live at the beach. During summer, I spend an average of 20 hours a week playing beach volleyball during summer.

So I'm pretty sure I'm not Vitamin D deficient.
This track pad probably runs on the same tech as the iPhone (multi touch capacitive glass interface), so this comparison is probably relevant: http://mobiler.co.za/smartphones/3308.html

If average PC track pads are as good as the average non-iPhone touch sensitive screens (yes, a fuzzy comparison, but probably the right ball park), then you'd expect the Apple ones to be better.
For the past couple months, I've been running a few miles every day. It really does feel good, and it's the right kind of addictive; if I have to skip a day or two for some reason, I don't feel as good, physically. My new baseline is healthier and better-feeling than it used to be. (Plus, this habit caused me to lose weight to the point where I went down a shirt size.)

The key word here is habit. You have a finite amount of willpower, so if you want to live right, you've got to make habits. When you write code, you split complexity into functions so you don't have to think about its implementation details; you just have to remember what the function does, so your mind doesn't get overloaded. Habits are similar, and just as essential. When I run, I don't make a decision to go out and do it; I just think "Oh, it's time for my daily run," and I start running. Trivially easy.

(But yeah, if you're looking for a specific habit, breaking a sweat every day is a great one.)
Ask HN: Best Idea you never followed through on?
Over the years i have had a lot of ideas, as i'm sure many of you have. So, i pose this question to all of you.

What is the best idea you had that you never followed through on that is now hugely successful?

For me, the year was 1999 and i had an lighting bolt of an idea. I should put all my music on my computer and share it with all my friends. Remember Napster, that's where my idea could have gone. I cant say i'm bitter, because idea's come an go.
Secret information sharing between government departments is not "transparency."

If the government didn't classify stuff like this in the first place, it could easily share it between departments without worrying about whether it would get leaked or not. That would be transparent.

The information release didn't endanger people. It just endangered policy. If the government would stop doing things that are unpopular and embarrassing, it could stop classifying so much.

Maybe then we'd once again have a government "of the people, by the people, for the people."
>And the more important question, why should there be an effort to lure women into computing?

well, that's a fair question but what about the opposite? "why should there not be an effort to lure anyone into computing?"

there are a lot of people who have a genuine interest in computing, but don't enter it because of either lack of role models or social pressure. so, they are really missing out on something that may make them happy as adults, and for reasons beyond their control. not beyond their ability.

another factor i've noticed a lot in my career, working as a programmer but interacting with a lot of creatives, is that a lot of people, perhaps young women, are not interested in spending a huge amount of time alone, which may be the only pre-requisite to learning computing - being interested in finding out how stuff works more than going out with your friends and/or succumbing to peer pressure to be sociable. computing isn't something you can do with a group of people. you can sit in the same room but ultimately you need to focus for long periods of time without distraction. i just haven't met a lot of people in my life who can/want to do that, and aren't already in a field that needs that focus.
I'd venture to guess that most startups don't know how to start an affiliate program. There aren't many simple solutions that they can integrate easily (via an api or something) and aren't super costly up front (not all startups have $5k to dump into CJ). Jason's company is touching on this for SaaS sites, but there is definitely a big hole in the market there.
> People steal from their companies in the US too. It's a matter of if these aspects appear more or less than in your culture

Is stealing from companies so prevalent in china? Has there been studies on this?
Useful stuff, everyone should do it.
In fact, I just did the same thing with an event-driven GUI application in Ruby.

I'm wondering, it says it's designed to be portable between frameworks, how much is actually framework-specific? Is there a useful library in there that's completely agnostic to the surrounding event loop construction?
Can you explain this at all?
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The senior credit officer at my company will give you a long rant about the inaccuracy of credit scores if you ask about it. They use it as informational only (really high or really low might tell you something worth investigating).

Each business is different, and a competent risk analyst will build an algorithm based off the portfolio's actual history.

The problem is the credit score might have meaning in some cases, like unsecured debt, to show how likely you are to payoff what you have little incentive to return. It's a measure of all financial behavior, but all loans are not the same.

A credit score isn't going to tell you how likely somebody is to make their mortgage. Unless there are really desperate circumstances, most people will pay their mortgage. A middle-of-the-road credit score really doesn't tell you much about how likely somebody is to have desperate circumstances. That makes it a poor predictor.
>The short walk down a plain street is more difficult for me to understand... what does it really change?

It changes you. What wasn't said is that during that short walk down the street you need to leave all your devices and gadgets at your house. Then, simply walk down the street and observe. Be in that moment of walking and focusing on all that is going on around you in that very moment.

It sounds easy, and is a very zen thing to do but is a lot harder than you think. My mind is always racing with everything that needs to happen so that it's easy to become vapor locked. I take a walk outside and focus on feeling the warmth of the sun, the sounds, the visuals and everything that I need to do simply unfolds in front of me. It's hard to explain, but works.
Since the government already owns 60% of GM, why not simply make the car cost 35 grand and cut out the middle man? The 40k+ sticker shock will inevitably drive away buyers, even if the actual cost is lower.
http://thestartupdigest.com/ is useful for finding out about events like this in advance.
My understanding is that we lose the ability to synthesize vitamin D as we age.
Have you considered that maybe it's not that Old Spice is really cheap cologne, but all the other stuff is stupidly overpriced cologne? The fact that most of the mainline colognes bear the name of extravagant product lines or music superstars should be a clue.

As an example to support my argument, I'm in the process of making a classic cologne that requires some alcohol, (preferably very hard alcohol), some things from your spice cabinet, a few leaves, and more alcohol. I decided to grow my own leaves, and thus am currently in the 'grow the tree phase', but really that's not even necessary.
Ha. No Android-proper for US developers
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The short answer is that he's doing low-level stack-twiddly stuff using inline assembler in C. It's one of the standard perils of mixing languages: the C compiler assumes (and attempts to ensure) that it's the only thing manipulating the stack pointer, and the inline assembler violates that assumption.
I second the idea of not drinking soda for 30 days. That stuff is unhealthy in various ways, and after a couple weeks, you won't miss it. It's a clear easy win. I did this in high school and have not regretted it.
Isn't the existence of the entire advertising / marketing industry predicated on being able to influence consumers?
I meant faith as in, "I have faith in the economy". I think we all know that proofs are a central part of every field of science.

But history has shown that a lot of laws were discovered to be wrong (or incomplete) in the past. Things like the laws of gravity by Newton come to mind. People had a lot of faith in those laws, we're able to send rockets to the moon based on those calculations, but still Einstein managed to show that everything is a lot more complex with his theory of relativity.
Link for those who don't want to scroll down:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/h3/superstimuli_and_the_collapse_of_...
The percentage change may be questionable based on the objections raised by pkaler & jacquesm but I still think there's an obvious effect and it may not be just due to "easily convinced consumers".

In the past, my impression of Old Spice was that it was old fashioned, for seniors, etc. I'm just one consumer, but if this was a common perception, it looks like Old Spice identified their weakness and targeted it. If you ask me today what my impression of Old Spice is, it's quite different. They're a company willing to make unique commercials and take some risks. They have new scents are targeted at a younger crowd (I remember seeing After Hours in stores) and I no longer view the company as "old" Old Spice. Even though my perception has changed, I don't view it as being convinced or tricked as a consumer, but a reinterpretation of a company based on their actions. I've been wrong before.
Never in my entire experience as a software developer have I seen a case where a database should fail silently. It's bullshit and you know it.
Sounds more like Skynet coming true. The computer play music when they want to!
I am a she by the way. :/
> Because there is an implicit cost to being in a contract. It restricts your choices.

Given the balkanization of cell phone hardware in the US (i.e., most phones only work on one carrier) is this really a factor?
i'm glad to read your comments, as i feel the same way. i get remarks based on my gender from both men and women. the fact of the matter is, i am female but i am also the type of person who likes to spend a lot of time alone thinking and controlling my immediate environment. thus computing appeals to me. i also was introduced to computing at the right age, before adolescence when being sociable wasn't so much of an urge so even though i didn't code much through my teenage years i was able to pick it up later very easily and with confidence. i think it's really this simple: a blend of personality type, circumstance and privilege.
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Wouldn't it be completely useless to prototype something in python? Both memory and speed would be completely different.

For automated testing, redis is easy enough to start and stop. It compiles without dependencies and a simple "make" does the job :)
Apple Magic Trackpad as Multi-Touch Input, and Cross-Platform Multi-Touch
As one of the founders involved (from Reducify), it would be great to get some feedback from the HN community on our startups!
I use one, though I didn't buy an expensive stand up desk. I just had an old dresser that was about the right height, I put a thick piece of wood on the top to give it a bit more height and now it's a desk!
In this thread I realize that I have been a bit vague. I want to develop the skills of visualization and in depth understanding of math for a reason. I want to learn how to make systems that exploit machine learning and use statistical techniques to infer patterns from data.

In the future some day I want to work in A.I. and create something beautiful with the knowledge I have gained. This is why I want to lay down the foundations to understand the beautiful advances in it I see around me.

Thanks a lot for commenting!
"making unrealistic assumptions elsewhere (like the possibility of there not having been a Big Bang)"

I'm not sure I agree with this line. Copernicus made the "unrealistic assumption" that heavenly bodies and motions were not spherical, and Galileo made the "unrealistic assumption" that earth wasn't the center of the Earth.

This type of thinking hampers scientific progress.
I hear you. But is that backed up by real evidence or is this just the naive "But Blizzard made me happy when I was young. They wouldn't possibly change for worse" feeling, mostly created by the common theme of holding ones past in favor?

It was better, back then, right? Now - was it? Or was there no way to pull off a restricted, overpriced release at that time and no way to go for the "online only" approach without broadband? Or was it impossible to create this amount of hype with TV commercials for your next big thing (tm) everywhere without having World of Warcraft to back you up?

What about "Money corrupts"? How much is WoW bringing in these days?
Can't someone whose role embodies a certain culture and philosophy not have a title that fits that goal? How would you define DevOps?
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If you like a commercial, odds are decent that it came from Wieden + Kennedy, perhaps most famous for creating "Just Do It". Remember: heading into the '90s, Reebok dominated Nike. The coining of "Just Do It" and the attendant campaigns were perhaps a major factor in propelling Nike to the forefront of their market. W+K also made Honda's famous "cog" commercial.

They're also doing some work that may be interesting to the HN crowd over at http://www.wk.com/incubator. If I were a far more brilliant and creative person, I'd love to just hang out with their directors: they do a consistently good job in an area that's very hard to get right again and again over time.
Sometimes I wonder if DevOps isn't really just those who would truly prefer to be developers but don't mind sysadmin work and, for whatever reason, started out doing the latter.

I, too, cringe a little when I hear the term, perhaps because I've always viewed myself as a "pure" sysadmin. That is, this is the kind of work which continues to bring me joy after 2 decades. Application development, on the other hand, despite an ability to code, does not.

CM tools (current and their predecessors like cfengine) as they tend to be implemented strike me as a way of avoiding administering the whole system, by focusing on a single component (servers) and reducing them to a lowest common denominator.

It also fits the pattern of trying to solve problems entirely in a custom software solution, a trait I associate with developers, not sysadmins. This is the source of my inference of DevOps' true leanings.

The reality is that the system consists of considerably more than fungible servers[1]. There's the underlying hardware, the peripheral hardware like disks, database software[2], network hardware and configuration, and service providers.

These are all traditional sysadmin areas, with plenty of room for professional growth and overall benefit. So much so, that I have difficulty imagining why any SA (not a developer in SA's clothing) would wish to do more dev at the expense of increaaed mastery of the infrastructure.

By way of example, something I wrote on LinkedIn, in response to why I'm not a fan of puppet:

I'm uncomfortable with any system that attempts to maintain state in place
on a running system, as well as possibly override the native packaging ethos.
That the client takes its own local file inventory on a fresh system, rather
than trusting the one the package manager has, is wasteful at best. What's
worse, to me, is that it creates yet another system to administer. I haven't yet
found anything similarly suitable for the Ubuntu/Debian world, but I very
much liked Cobbler a couple years ago, as it was primarily a wrapper for
what could otherwise be standard, standalone services (kickstart, package
repo). Even without such a wrapper, yum/rpm or apt/dpkg can do nearly all
the work"

[1] Virtualization and "cloud" notwithstanding, as anyone who's experienced an outage with a hosting provider or an i/o perofrmance issue with a cloud server can attest.

[2] Which can be like an encapsulated OS itself
Bug? I can not click on links in the upper right hand corner of a website while it is enabled. I went to amazon and tried to click "My Account" in the upper right and it was as if there was something invisible not allowing me to click links up there. Several disable/enables of the plugin later and it seems like that is the problem.

Anyone else experience this?
I'm hardly the only one who's mentioned it: http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/15/please-wont-somebody-th...

Part of the problem is that Synaptics and Alps Electric together supply the vast majority of PC trackpads, and I've got no problem calling them out for poor quality. Why worry about performance when you've got a duopoly and your customers are OEMs who only care about price?
That's the goal. FTA:

Ever had someone ask you why you play plastic guitar instead of learning a real instrument? Now you can tell them you ARE learning a real instrument. Rock Band 3 empowers players to develop actual musical skills through the fun of Rock Band Pro gameplay. Start at Easy and work your way up through Expert on three different Pro Modes, just like you did with the plastic guitars and plastic drums.

It applies to drums (adds additional cymbals), keyboard (though it's only two octaves), and guitar, which according to promotional videos, if you play through expert on Guitar, you're playing every real note on the guitar.
I had the exact same idea a few months before Napster became really popular. Instead of a separate client/server, my idea was to use IRC (and a specialized fileserver) for sharing mp3s.

One night while I was working on this project (I got it to a functional level), I turned on the TV and saw a special report on the old TechTV talking about Napster. I gave up on it a week later.

Even if I pursued the idea, I don't know if I would have gotten very far. I had no money for servers/bandwidth and no way to get venture capital. Not to mention that most of the filesharing clients that were around during that time were sued out of existence.
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A cologne purchase is different from a computer purchase or something in that if your peer group thinks it's cool, that actually does make it better than the alternatives.

(edited to remove ambiguity)
Again, they were testing the market with the true believers. The music industry viewed the 2-3 million mac users back then as a nice microcosm they could experiment on. If it failed, it wouldn't get much press because back then nobody used macs.
Thanks a lot!

Can I ask you a more detailed question? Can you suggest resources to tackle machine learning and statistical inference of patterns in data? I am currently going through (http://www.amazon.com/Data-Mining-Techniques-Implementations...) and there is so much depth in it that I want to understand. This is why I wanted to strengthen my fundamentals first before moving on to the fancy stuff.

If you're in this field or have any idea of it can you suggest me a gentle introduction to the depths of it?
Oh, I'm completely on board with the happiness! Sometime ago I quoted "loud music, alcohol and girls" as the closest thing to "eternal values" or "meaning of life" that I have :-) But I live in Russia and can see the misery of others, because I'm not blind. Alcoholism is a huge problem here.
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I want my cologne to be associated with expensive stuff, not economy.
The whole thing with "support companies you like, provide positive feedback to business models and ideas you support." If you, as a consumer, support a method of advertising and want more companies to do it in the future, there are two main ways of encouraging it: writing a letter, or buying the product. Writing a letter and not buying the product encourages them, but doesn't factor into cost analyses; buying the product factors into cost analyses, and both writing a letter and buying the product (and mentioning that you bought it because of the advertisement in the letter) provides ammunition for anyone at the company who supports the advertising method.

It's like the people who spent upwards of $500 on the Humble Indie Bundle: providing positive feedback to encourage things like it to happen in the future.

Treating it as a donation doesn't make sense, of course, and I have to agree that advertisements shouldn't be considered art, except in the most dramatic examples. Perhaps the meaning of art is a bit narrow, though; advertisements can certainly be artistic.
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