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Depends on whether you know a bored or up-and-coming trademark lawyer who's willing to defend you against the inevitable lawsuit. Companies with trademarks have to defend them aggressively, or they can lose the right to enforce them at all. So even if they don't actually object to google-my-shmoogle.com, they may launch a suit to get the issue in front of a judge who can say whether that's infringing or not. If they don't, a genuine infringer like gooogle.com may point to g-m-s and say 'well you didn't sue them, so you've effectively abandoned your trademark and now it's free for the taking.' Unlike copyright, trademarks can last indefinitely; but also unlike copyright, if abandoned or left undefended there is no automatic or minimum period of legal protection. Also, the usual copyright arguments like fair use or parody do not apply to trademarks in the same way.

As long as you are not competing in the same market and there is little or no risk that consumers will confuse your brand with that of the famous brand, derivative brands like this will often be allowed to stand. The point of the big brand owner has been made, the big brand has been defended at law, and can be defended in future against attempts at infringement. With the examples you provide, I'd suggest a 50-50 chance of success for the first one but only a 5% chance of success for the second. There's no hard and fast rule; trademark litigation can get very hand-wavey. It has to be said that some companies launch and then switch to a plan B name...after they've accrued a bunch of free publicity by incorporating the famous brand and declaring themselves to be shocked - shocked - at the subsequent legal action. It's a nice reliable David-and-Goliath story, especially effective if the David company is some little cottage industry focused on kids/kittens/kitsch.

I'm not a lawyer, and certainly not a trademark lawyer, so don't treat this as legal advice.
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Think of it as micro-jobs. It's a service that allows you to post small tasks for a small amount of money. The pay ranges from anywhere from a few pennies to a few dollars and takes anywhere from a few seconds to a few minutes to complete.

I believe the parent was suggesting you post the job requesting people signup for and install Dropbox. It's a flawed idea since it violates both service's TOS.
"I don't think that watching TV is categorically bad, i.e. the content and the amount is important."

That's just plain false. The content does matter between ages 3 and 5, but before age two the content is irrelevant because of the video deficit.
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I don't, what about you guys?
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Its a service offered by Amazon where you can hire people ("crowdsource") to do simple tasks, like post a review of a service or answer a quiz or whatever.

The name is based on a chess-playing 'computer' that was actually a man inside of a machine, who was outputting the machine's moves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
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> If you choose to click on an ad appearing on our search results page, your browser will continue to send the relevant query over the network to enable advertisers to measure the effectiveness of their campaigns and to improve the ads and offers they present to you.

What's interesting to me is they have a double standard: if you pay for placement, you'll get keyword data. If it's organic placement, you won't get keyword data.

I have no opinion, just thought it was interesting.
Android isn't as closely tied to raw screen resolution as you'd think. The device is probably normal-hdpi, which would match most other high-end devices. I'd suspect most apps will work without any tweaks at all.
That is true on 64-bit Linux too, but on Windows64 sizeof(long)==4. See LP64 versus LLP64.
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It's also nearly the same number of pixels as my laptop.
I love TH (though not as much as metalua and metaocaml), but I've never had the occasion to use it. I've used a library that uses TH to parse out my prop_foo into a main method that will run all the quickcheck tests, but that's about it.

Is there any particularly well-done TH being used somewhere in the real world? (You don't have to show me the code, just what problem you had that TH solved.)
Documentary about Somali Pirates. Never seen footage.
torrents anyone ?
Spend your time and money to "earn" the pleasure of being more engaged & reliant on DropBox.

I bet a very high percentage of people with high referrals wind up spending ~$100/yr after burning through that 16gig.

Not trying to be a cynic - fun hack, but don't under value your time unless you want to use this as a learning experience :)
And that is the fundamental fallacy. Trade secrets are far, far less harmful than patents. If you keep your work a trade secret, your customers still benefit and in the worst case you have at least done no harm. Patent trolls destroy far more value than they steal.
What about gold itself? Sure, it has some real world usages, like semiconductors and such, but it's priced way above it, simply because people have faith in it as a currency, nothing more.
Exactly. 'Legal tender' is just a matter of perspective.

If tomorrow the US economy flops, US Dollars plummet in value. In a fictitious world where government-controlled money lost all value, bitcoin is the alternative. And sure, bitcoin has yet to prove significant adoption.

But please don't preach that bitcoins are useless just because they're 'mined on GPUs'.
That security has significant price tag attached to it:
Losing search query information would degrade usability on receiving web sites.

Currently my web site highlights keywords that user was searching for on Google. It will be impossible anymore for users who logged in to Google.

Is it possible to opt out from SSL search on Google?
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I understand your point, but the concept of personal contact with a student on their personal phone is a very fine line that could be viewed very negatively by a very small, but vocal subset of parents.

Also, the software that you're referring to, in my experience, is targeted for the parent, rather than the student. Its twofold better in that there's less ethical liability in parent communication as opposed to student communication, and these tools include the parent in the education process. They know about grades, attendance, and other things and can then take a more targeted role in their child's education.
You are mistaken (as is _delirium). Pointers to arrays are fundamental to how multi-dimensional arrays are implemented in C, and this question is designed to test your understanding of them. (It is most certainly not about a fancy way of getting a pointer to the first element after the array, since this pointer has a completely different type.)

Multidimensional arrays are arrays of arrays, not arrays of pointers to arrays (as in Java). Therefore when manipulating, say, rows of a 2-dimensional array you are dealing with pointers to arrays like &x in this example.

It's not an every-day thing but it does come up, and in some specialised fields no doubt it is very common.
Microsoft's competitor for Dropbox has been Live Mesh for quite some time now. And unlike FolderShare, it does do online backups. Unfortunately, many of us need solutions that work on multiple platforms (your macbook, windows desktop, iPhone etc). Unlike Dropbox, Live Mesh doesn't even come close to serving that need.
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When I took cs142, it was actually a web security class. It seems that the last few weeks of the class will still be devoted to security. The introduction to Rails was done solely to get students to implement safeguards against the attacks they had learned earlier in the course. The class appears to take the reverse route now, possibly due to student feedback.
Is that the first product of Motorola under Google's ownership? Seems a very convenient product for running. I don't think it will come cheap, though.
In fact, 7 of the 9 specific examples of prohibited activity [1] would fit this task

"HITs requiring disclosure of the Worker's identity or e-mail address, either directly or indirectly

HITs requiring registration at another website or group

HITs that directly or indirectly promote a site, service, or opinion

HITs that violate the terms and conditions of an activity or website (for instance asking Workers to vote for something)

HITs that generate "referred" site visits or click-through traffic

HITs that ask Workers to take action to manipulate a website's behavior or results

HITs that require Workers to download software"

[1] https://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=policies
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This is a bit of an idiotic question because one is not testing knowledge of computing or software systems, but rather trivial knowledge of an arcane corner of the language. Indeed, this question is an interview anti-pattern that I have historically labelled the "where-is-the-bathroom-in-my-house" question: if someone has not been in your house, they would not know, and if someone were in your house and had to take a leak, I trust they could figure it out. In my experience, these questions are most likely to be asked by intellectual midgets who themselves would not be able to answer an equivalent (but different) question.

So in the spirit of performing that experiment and exploring this interview anti-pattern, here's my counter-challenge, which I argue is intellectually equivalent:

#include <stdio.h>

void
foo()
{
printf("in foo\n");
}

void
main()
{
void (*func)(void) = foo;

(************************************func)();
}

What does that program do? Yeah, exactly: you just ran it. And you're surprised, aren't you? And most importantly: who cares? Certainly not I when I'm interviewing you -- where you can trust I will ask you deeper questions than language arcana...
That's precisely the error I made in this quizz :)
You say that the algorithm and maths are the key to your return, but what are you afraid of here? Someone reverse engineering your algorithm?

As far as I can tell nobody's come that close to reverse engineering google one yet and beating them at it, so if it necessarily complex to create, it will probably be equally tough to crack. Being first is good in any event.
I have no idea how long this has been around, but there is another one that is exactly the same: remind101.com
The third answer's explanation could be better than whats given :

" That is, whenever an array appears in an expression, the compiler implicitly generates a pointer to the array's first element, just as if the programmer had written &a[0] "

http://c-faq.com/aryptr/aryptrequiv.html

Also remember that much fun could be had by studying the pre-processor up close .. another source of mind-bending fun.
This is awesome! Haha! Really impressive what can be done with a bit of advertising and some good tools. Reminds me of 2 articles I read a while ago.

1. Advertiser/marketer got his ads in front of the people he wanted to interview with: http://mashable.com/2010/05/13/job-google-ad-words/

2. Reporter got inside information on a murder through her blog and Google analytics: http://lauraamico.tumblr.com/post/11316313807/online-investi...
Is it similar to Fiverr.com?
It is hosted by Pearson. It is a cloud based service just like Google Apps. They do have a revenue model, although I am not sure it has been completely released yet.
It depends on your platform AND on your compiler, so just saying "Windows 64" isn't enough information. Conceivably, there are compilers for "Windows 64" such that sizeof(int) == 8.

Your point (that int isn't a qword on all 64bit architectures) still stands. But your statement is potentially incorrect.
Indeed, and if you use -Wall -Wextra -ansi -pedantic you get:

pointer-test.c:7:3: warning: format ‘%p’ expects type ‘void * ’, but argument 2 has type ‘int * ’

Same goes for using -std=c99 instead of -ansi, although casting to (void *) does get rid of the warning.
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I pivot on wednesdays, when I think, oh shit my start still isn't making money, time to go do some contract work. The great part about my startup is I've started to get a really nice consultancy going.
I really like Dropbox. I wish they were actually encrypting users' data in a manner like they originally advertised they were. This is my only concern with using their service.

I understand that they wish to save space with deduplication and that this requires them to look at your files a fair bit prior to encryption. I just prefer they let users opt into using their own private keys.
I'm acting to limit my daughter's exposure to TV, and this is a topic I'd like to make a more substantial post on, but until that happy moment, I'd just like to note that: "The real World often has a slight liberal bias..."

edit: just sneaking a few minutes on HN while she watches Nihongo Quick Lesson on NHK (via Roku). Only a few shows actually really engage her, but this is one of them... She shouts and dances with the Mime guy for example.

I think as with most things, the key is moderation, and a couple of hours of TV seems unlikely to do substantive harm in the context of a day that involves lots of play in the nursery, lots of reading with daddy and mummy, running about in the yard for an hour etc.
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> I hate to be the one to point that out, but... does anyone really care what exactly the Galaxy Nexus looks like?

As someone who likes their Android phone, and has been waiting for an upgrade, yes, I do care what it looks like.

I don't think anyone is going to doubt that Apple makes great products, but the smartphone market is large enough for more than one player.
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Easy partial screen modals on iOS
Erm, am I missing something, is there a reason why dropbox seems to be inhabiting the top of hackernews today? Is there an IPO in the offing that I've missed? Why the sudden PR offensive?
sizeof(char) is 1 per definition and also one byte, but not necessarily 8 bits.

Apparently some DSPs cannot address an 8-bit quantity -- they're not easy to find but I've found a comp.lang.c posting where Jack Klein mentions a 32-bit Sharp DSP with CHAR_BIT = 32 (so sizeof(char) == sizeof(int) == 1 !) and a Texas Instruments TMS32F28xx DSP with a 16 bit CHAR_BIT.

On such a system, C99 might not define int8_t but you could use int8_least8_t.

My guess is that they are more common than 64-bit ints but they might be supported by their own weird C Compiler/toolchain.
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Yes, it will harm your child. Children can only pick up language by listening to people in the room, they can't pick up language by listening to the radio or watching videos. They also can't pick up language from people in the room very well if there is a radio or TV on in the background.

No one is really sure why this is the case, but it is very well proven. (It's called the video deficit, even when you're just talking about audio.)

If this weren't the case then you would be able to teach your kids the phonemes of other languages just by playing audio tapes of native speakers for them, but unfortunately this doesn't work so if you actually want your kids to be bilingual then you need to sign them up for an exchange for age one.
More specifically: USD are the currency of choice of the biggest spender, and biggest collector, in the the United States, (probably in the world.) Even if they weren't the designated legal tender, that alone would make them more desirable as a value store than the likely alternatives.
From the article: "Watching television or videos is discouraged for babies younger than 2 because studies suggest it could harm their development, a pediatricians’ group said Tuesday."

But you say: "There is a balance is that balance is unique to each child."

How do you know that there "is a balance unique to each child"? Do you have studies to backup your assertion similar to those cited in the article?
If you're taken from one https to another https location, doesn't referrer still get passed? So possibly what it means is that you need to implement SSL. Google's choice here will hopefully motivate change around the web.
So Google says 'we will play the game just like everyone else' and not report to you organic search terms coming from SSL (even though we have access to the data), but we also have a product (webmaster tools) that we can show you who is searching for what to get to your site, albeit slightly more obfuscated? It certainly sounds like a win for end users, not really sure it helps webmasters trying to see inbound search terms though. It sounds like it makes people have to put a little more value on the stats that Google provides via webmaster tools.
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agreed that it is a bit light on novel content, but I'm excited to see another big player push awareness of html5
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You are correct, Android does run fast on the Touchpad.
The problem is that in casino games, you put the payouts on the board. The payout table basically is the algorithm. No matter how complex the route is to getting there, or how hard it was to find the perfect balance of fun/volatility/payout/profit, once it's out in the world it's very easy to rip off.
I agree that limiting screen time is important, and my wife and I are careful to limit our son's screen time and not expose him to "second hand TV." That said, I take issue with the following passage from the article:

"Even so-called educational videos do not benefit children under 2 because they are too young to be able to understand the images on the screen, the doctors’ group said."

My son watches a DVD from the "Baby Signing Time" series 2-3 times per week. At 15 months, he sports a 30 to 40 word signing vocabulary. While my wife and I work to reinforce many of the more useful signs (more, milk, eat, etc), there are a number that he has picked up straight from the video (banana, coat, cat, etc). As much as I'd like to believe that he's a genius, I think its much more likely that the doctors' group is just wrong about what children can understand on screen.

In the article one frustrated-sounding doctor says no one is listening to the message. Maybe that's because they're preaching zero tolerance rather than moderation. Perhaps that's because they're worried that parents will take moderation too far and they think zero-tolerance is safer. Either way, to say children under two can't learn from a screen is simply wrong. I see the evidence every singe day and the doctors are welcome to see it for themselves.
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I don't understand your question.
Is HN giving you 324 when accessing from a GoDaddy VPS/Dedicated?

HN is acting a bit slow right now... maybe thats the reason.
I definitely agree with the risks, but I also have a couple friends (mid 20s) that are high school teachers that have many of their students numbers stored in their phones cause they encourage the kids to text them if they have a question or a problem. This has rarely led to some inappropriate texts from students- which could certainly be a risk.

Having an intermediary certainly won't eliminate risk, but it might mitigate some of it. I don't think it's a tool that all teachers will use- it's going to depend a lot of teaching style. My gut instinct says enough will use it to make it an interesting tool, and anything that adds to a teacher's box of tools sounds good to me.
My son is 21 months and we have never sat him down in front of a TV with the express purpose being education (so no Baby Einstein DVDs...what a joke) nor babysitting (passive viewing of a cartoon). He has been exposed to my iPad, my wife's iTouch and both of our phones, and Cablevision provides a 'Kids Music Channel' which plays a variety of kid-friendly music while cycling through a dozen or so static images including ballons, a rubber duck in water, and a car.

The only line in that article that I take issue with is the following:
Even so-called educational videos do not benefit children under 2 because they are too young to be able to understand the images on the screen, the doctors’ group said.

Maybe it's because we read to my son daily and have incorporated teaching him sign language from the time he was 4 months, but he most definitely can recognize the images on the screen and frequently both speaks and signs the correct image on the screen (balloon, duck, dog, car). If we had never done any of these activities with him then I highly doubt he would be able to recognize the images on the TV, and there might be a distinction between understanding and recognizing that I am not making, but he most definitely is displaying some sort of connection between the images on the TV and the books/drawings/in person experiences he has.

I think the key take away from this, or other studies of its kind, is that passive media should not be the influential experience that a child so young should be exposed to.
our brain development was triggered when the ape discovered how much effective stone and stick in fight and hunt, and it [weapon development] has been the primary driver of the human brain since then.

>Why cannot it be invented in this positive context in the first place then. I can imagine the reason is money and in that sense it just shows how screwed up our world is.

Animals - libido.

Humans - libido plus ability to kill at will (mortido is partial, very incomplete, identification of that fundamental driver) .

Super-humans - libido plus ability to kill at will (highly developed and extremely self-controlled, necessary to avoid the fate of Neanderthals who lost to the much more violent and better at weapons development species - Cro-Magnon) plus the ability you're talking about - the ability to invent, more generally - create in the positive context, ie. "creatido". Creation for the sake of creation, exploration, ...

A few humans through the history have manifested the basic elementary "creatido" thus providing us with the glimpse into the future human species which would evolve from [and will overtake because peaceful co-existence with bloody Cro-Magnon is just impossible ] ours species.
Ask HN: Should I switch to a new stack professionally?
Hi all. I've been reading Hacker News obsessively for quite a while now, but this is the first time I've ever submitted a question.

I'm a senior software engineer living and working in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I'm 36 years old. For the last 10 years I've been working on the Microsoft stack (mostly C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server and more recently ASP.NET MVC). I've been doing a lot of tinkering with more open source languages the past few years. So I have two questions:

1) Is it worthwhile to considering switching to a different stack like Ruby/Rails or Python/Django at this stage in my career?

2) If I were to switch, how do I go about doing that exactly? I mean, I have no professional experience in other stacks so I would guess it would mean a significant reduction in my pay.

I'm interested in hearing all your thoughts. Thanks.