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Yes, the standards say that the behavior of memcpy, as opposed to memmove, is undefined when the arguments overlap.
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Perl/shell utilities to drive gnuplot come over and over on HN and Reddit. Gnuplot is _slow_. There's a better (and easier) way to deal with realtime data:

http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/trend/

It's already been used for all kind of stuff (https://projects.ardrone.org/boards/1/topics/show/491, ECG, etc).
I can't help but notice you side stepped most of his questions. OoTheNigerian asked about YOU and what YOU'VE done. You hardly said anything about yourself and keep alluding to this "founding team" which you also don't give any details about.

The problem is credibility. How are we supposed to share our ideas with you and do business with your organization if we know nothing about who is behind it. Where are your credentials? How does this being a side project for the "founding team" equal your "secret sauce" to recruiting the "best players in the industry" to advise your companies? If we know nothing about you, and neither do your great advisors, what is their incentive to even be involved, let alone companies applying to your class?

Not to mention that with Dandelion taking 50% equity and your being required to give at least 1% equity to your class, you automatically start out owning less than half of your own company—and if you have multiple co-founders you personally know (verses the ones in the class) and share equity between them, you start off owning a pretty dismal share in your own venture.

I know personally I'm not very incentivized to know that if I have an idea for a product and I start a company through your incubator I enter the game already having lost at minimum 51% stake in my own efforts. I understand that you receive equity in other companies in your class, which is great for investment and money purposes if somebody else makes it big, but for would-be founders such as myself (especially early stage) we're more focused on building our own companies. I would rather have a larger stake in my own efforts than a smaller stake plus small stakes in 99 other companies. I don't think that makes me a selfish entrepreneur, either.

Edit: I notice you added your "More detail about the team is coming." in between when I started writing and when I posted. I would suggest that your credibility would have been helped by having the detail available from the beginning. As the cliché goes, you never get a second chance for a first impression. Still, though, I would be interested to read about your team.
1. Find Lots of brides interested in deals.

2. Offer them a free "wedding website"

3. Add gift registry links to the website

4. Profit from affiliate commissions.

That being said, registry affiliate commissions are tiny. The XO group only did $2.2MM in the most recent 10Q, compared to $11M for local ads (Wedding vendors)
In a Ponzi scheme, you give money to the Ponzi operator, the operator does "complicated" things with it, those who withdraw early do well but at some point there is no money.

How is this different from the bailed-out banks, or an over leveraged banking system in general?
>No, computers aren't very good at creating unique things without explicit instruction on how to do so. But they are very good at replicating things to an exacting standard.

Well there are heuristic approaches...so if a computer could actually determine what a good painting is.....it can keep rearranging the pixels (in a divide and conquer sort of way) to get to a good painting in a finite amount of time.

So I think the problem of making a good painting can be reduced to the problem of determining what a good painting actually is.Now I have read somewhere (dont exactly remeber how) that this is related to the halting problem.
See data retention is (to my mind) a great point to bring up here, as opposed to arguments in principle about whether law enforcement should be allowed to do anything because war! on! terror!

I would tend to think that investigations are "active" or "not active", have case numbers, have a process for being closed and open probably documented in the police General Orders or whatever the FBI equivalent is, and I think the police should not be able to retain information from vehicle telemetry past the closing of a case unless they are actual format subjects of the investigation, and then only consistent with the existing policies on retaining information.

I DO NOT think it is reasonable to use GPS telemetry to passively fine people for speeding or running red lights.
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That's where we're headed. Soon these devices will be so cheap that they CAN track everyone. And if they don't require warrants, why wouldn't they?
> I'm not offended at the presence of the F-bomb, I'm offended that someone with his talent takes the easy way out.

This is silly. It's like arguing "I have no problem with X, but ..." followed by things that you would never say if you in fact had no problem with X.

If the author had never been acculturated/trained to think that swearing was wrong, he wouldn't have written this post.

I.e. where are the blog posts on how you should think twice about using the word "goldfish" in a presentation? There aren't any because people really, truly, have no problem with the word "goldfish", unlike the word "fuck".

EDIT> If you want to argue against swearing in presentations, then do so. Don't pretend that you have no problem with swearing -- it just makes you look dishonest.

EDIT2> "acculturated" doesn't mean what I thought it meant. Substitute "trained"
When you rescale the human body in proportion to how much of the brain is concerned with each part, you end up with this:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2004/12/sensory-homunculus/

The hands are huge because so much of your brain is devoted to skillfully moving and precisely sensing things with your hands.

Your hands are basically the focus of the human body in interacting with the environment around it.

This explains how moving from buttons and sensors to a touch-sensitive experience is a major and hard-to-explain qualitative difference.

It also underscores the great point made here, that we can make devices far more suited still to the primary way we're designed to interact with the world.
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Regarding using RFC 1918 blocks - some of the mid-to-large size carriers have, either due to their size or due to wasteful subnetting, fully used the available RFC1918 blocks and have begun using otherwise unrouted spaces such as the DoD subnets to continue addressing devices on their network. For example, in Canada, Rogers has begun to use the 7/8 subnet for CMTS addressing because the RFC1918 address space isn't large enough. I believe some carriers solve this by having topographically independent networks that re-use the RFC1918 space in different sections of the country, however not all carriers have done this.
Another option is for banking (of the high risk investment banking kind) to be conducted by partnerships, with only natural persons as members, rather than corporations. One's ownership would be long-term, and actions could claw back previous upside.

Goldman Sachs was a partnership until its IPO in 1999. A lot of finance houses were closely held partnerships until the late 20th century.
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See, the thing about this comic is using profanity as a way to demonstrate non-conformance. But this does not seem to be the case here. Nobody here thinks that Zach is going to lose his job due to language.

What I see is the opposite, actually. I started watching Zach's video on the Play app, in which he drops a "play some fucking music" in there. I couldn't help but think "Aww, he thinks it's cute to talk like a brogrammer".

Put that together with the slide in his talk, and I can't stop having the impression that his use of language is more of an attempt to "sound cool" to his peers than to he actually "being himself".

It's the same as teenagers smoking due to peer-pressure.
Google's removal of the + operator explained
"5. You Can Find Google+ Pages In Google Search

With a new feature we call Direct Connect, just type + followed by the brand name in Google Search, and you can see pages automatically display. Type +Pepsi to see Pepsi, and +Dell for Dell. It's that easy."

From https://plus.google.com/101560853443212199687/posts/dcPPWkBbkLY.

Google keywords, anyone?
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Like most of life: Time and Place.

My advice: Do what you want, but recognize you're subject to the rules of the above, and interpretation can vary.
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It appears as if you are irritated that I am not open to using an article about FBI telemetry devices as a fig leaf for discussing Guantanamo Bay.
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Could you point me to the place where you've done this?

Edit: it looks like you disclosed two partner banks at http://www.simple.com/blog/Simple/partners-funding/, but I'm not sure that this is a conclusive list.
I agree, but why are we adding friction to this thing?

By all means lets make it harder for the FBI to get access to Internet traffic, or to telephone logs.

But generally, if the FBI believes it has a car it wants to follow, I'd like them to be able to do that as effectively, cheaply, and safely as possible.

Friction can be a good thing, but I don't think we should add it everywhere just for the sake of it. And remember, one consequence of friction is that it wears things down. The court that says "yes" to hundreds or thousands of GPS tagging requests is more likely to say "yes" to the next search warrant request too; we'd have constructed a system where the "yes" corresponds with the base rate.
If one word substitutes for many, the net result of banning that word would be to raise the vocabulary.

Not saying anything about the validity of the argument, just that objection to it.
Unfortunately, there is little documentation. I have looked into adding this for my extensions, and didn't manage to do it. Same documentation issues I had when I first started to port my extensions for Firefox to Fennec: pieces of documentations here and there, but nothing that clearly explains the differences between the 2 platforms.

That said, their extension framework is by far the most powerful of all browsers.
High court troubled by warrantless GPS tracking
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Maybe the wording isn't clear. But Dandelion only gets half of whatever percentage a founder agrees to give up, which may be as little as 1%.

Please don't submit the application if you are not comfortable (we'll make some improvements to the site in the near future which ought to help). I talked with a lot of people about Dandelion at startup school and the response was pretty overwhelmingly positive, so I decided to post a link to the home page to HN in its current state of completion and polish.

Obviously full trust and transparency is essential. So feel free to email me and I'll give you a call or something to fill in any details (this applies to anyone who is interested).

Obviously the page of the site relating to the founding team is crucial and so I am (appropriately) reluctant to post it in haste.
Agree wholeheartedly with this post Conery.

In the English language we have so many beautiful words we can use and most people seem to have limited vocabulary. Why should we be content with lower, near meaningless words when we can learn news words and use those effectively?

.. and what if people don't understand them? Use words appropriately with who you're talking to and consider what Handel said after the first performance of Messiah: “My lord, I should be sorry if I only entertained them; I wish to make them better.”
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I see the article as pointing to incremental improvements by advocating fine motor manipulations with feedback over touching-glass-and-seeing-the-result (which is in ways harder than hitting a keyboard and at least getting some kinesthetic feedback). But I think we need to consider things in greater generality:

1) Interface designers seem universally fixated on designs that are visually and touch/kinesthetically oriented. What's missing in this is language. In a lot of ways this winds-up with interfaces which indeed look and feel great on first blush but which become pretty crappy over time given that most sophisticated human work is tied up with using language.

2) Even the touch part of interaction seldom considers what's ergonomically sustainable. Pointing with your index finder are fabulously intuitive to start with but is something you'd get really annoyed at doing constantly. There are lots of fine motor manipulations will get hard time as well.
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The difference many people are missing is between moral offense and aesthetic offense. The author is claiming the latter; it's a critique of bad style. You can disbelieve the claim or disagree with it, but it's not prima facie nonsense.
There was another PR release that mentioned Raystream and Netflix together, to ever so gently insinuate they were on the same level or somehow related.
the problem with revolutionary user interfaces is that nobody knows how to use them. when you see a "picture under glass" of a piano keyboard, you know that in order to make noise you tap the keys. if your interface is a minor incremental change from the status quo, it doesn't require education.

this vision of the future isn't just cool, it's relatable. anybody can look at the products displayed there and think "hey, i know how to use that". if you dream up some amazing new tactile user experience, it might be revolutionary but will people understand it?
Nice work, thanks for making pretty things, keep it up.

Disclaimer: I've been brainwashed by working in "enterprise" environments. I understand that is not necessarily your target audience.

Logging scares me when it is a hosted solution like this. I signed up for the trial (for personal use) and didn't see that configuration option. Maildrops are lots of fun, but dumps of your dev IRC chats? Most regulated environments have retention periods, and after that most communication is considered to be a liability and storage concern (IANL, TINLA). I would say that dev chats are useful for about a few months, max.

A non-hosted solution would be nice, but certainly takes a huge amount of effort to layer on something like that to what you already have.

Is there any open community (i.e. a grove.io instance) to join and chat about your product, get a feel for it? Sounds like a bit of maintenance headache, but probably worth it. I can't really demo it well by myself.

Also, I can't imagine talking to my coworkers like I am accustomed to chatting on IRC <ahem>. That's just a random thought.

Edit: spelling errours
Perhaps not a poor vocabulary but at least a poor effort. I don't believe the poster was making the point that people who swear have a poor vocabulary anyway and in one of his examples he simply used the word 'gorgeous' instead of swearing. Gorgeous is hardly an advanced word.
There's two orthogonal issues with "fuck". One is that it offends people. One is that it's kinda weak.

But the "weak" argument doesn't matter. I use weak words all the time. 95% of my words are weak. So why does it matter that I have another one?

I would say that it only matters if you buy into the first issue, that "fuck" is offensive. If you consider that fuck is just another word, then it doesn't matter that you're using yet another weak word.
Even if I leave out my personal opinion on the matter, this post didn't leave me scratching my head in a "wtf, is this real?" manner, but I find it insightful.
Ask HN: Would you want to work at the MIT Media Lab?
Media Lab is one crazy place to do research at. I deferred my application last year to MIT media lab and went on to do neural net research at IBM Almaden Research center.

There's no clear data about what are minimum requirements? How many students do they take etc.? The info is absolutely very less.

Can we form a small group of people who're applying.a private googlegroup would be great. Anyone?
In a Ponzi scheme you have to actually participate to get burned.
The article focuses on "everyday object" manipulation, but he's right about technology too: there are a wealth of common HCI tools that glass cannot accommodate.

- The textual keyboard remains one of the fastest methods of text entry. It can be used without looking, offers high bandwidth, affords both serial and chorded inputs, and works well for precise navigation in discrete spaces, like text, spreadsheets, sets of objects like forms, layers, flowcharts, etc.

- MIDI keyboards are comparable, but trade discrete bandwidth for the expressiveness of pressure modulation.

- The joystick (and associated interfaces like wheels, pedals, etc) are excellent tools for orienting. They can also offer precise haptic feedback through vibration and resistance.

- The stylus is an unparalleled instrument for HCI operations involving continuous two dimensional spaces. It takes advantage of fine dexterity in a way that mice cannot, offering position, pressure (or simply contact), altitude, angle, and tip discrimination.

- Trackballs and mice are excellent tools for analogue positional input with widely varying velocities. You can seek both finely and rapidly, taking advantage of varying grips. Trackballs offer the added tactile benefits of inertia and operating on an infinite substrate.

- Dials, wheels. A well-made dial is almost always faster and more precise than up-down digital controls. They offer instant visual feedback, precise tuning, spatial discrimination, variable velocities, can be used without looking, and can be adapted for multiple resolutions.

- Sliders. Offers many of the advantages of dials--smooth control with feedback, usable without looking--but in a linear space. Trades an infinite domain for linear manipulation/display, easier layout and use in flat or crowded orientations.

And these are just some of the popular ones. You've got VR headsets for immersive 3d audio and video, haptic gloves or suits, sometimes with cabling for precise pressure and force vector feedback, variable-attitude simulators, etc. There are weirder options as well--implanted magnets or electrode arrays to simulate vision, hearing, heat, taste, etc...

Dedicated interfaces can perform far better at specific tasks, but glass interfaces offer reconfigurability at low cost. That's why sound engineers have physical mixer boards, writers are using pens or keyboards, artists are using Wacom tablets, nuclear physicists are staring at fine-tuning knobs, and motorcyclists are steering with bars, grips, and body positioning; but everyday people are enjoying using their ipad to perform similar tasks.

Glass isn't going to wipe out physical interfaces; it's just a flexible tool in an expanding space of interaction techniques. More and more devices, I predict, will incorporate multitouch displays along dedicated hardware to solve problems in a balanced way.
I've never considered the richness of normal interaction in comparison to the "picture behind glass" model. Very eye opening read. However,

"Do you know what it's called when you lose all sense of touch? It's called paralysis, and they push you around in a wheelchair while you calculate black hole radiation."

isn't cool at all.
Whether you like to admit it or not, swearing is and will be taken as a sign of disrespect or superiority. You (99% percent of us) would not drop the F-bomb in the presence of a new boss, for example, unless you had very good reason to think it was ok. It's similar to the fact that the boss teases subordinates, but the reverse is much rarer. Swearing is absolutely a status strategy, even when speaking to groups. For all the people who claim that swearing is essentially as innocuous as any other speech, and only prissy people think anything of it at all, it would be interesting to see their behavior around their professional or social superiors. There'll always be the people who pipe up to claim they treat everyone the same, and don't know what status is, but on the whole, I'm pretty sure the social implications and power dynamics of swearing show very strong patterns. Swear all you like (I do), but please don't pretend that profane language doesn't have different effects from normal language.
I'm sure future investors will love to get involved with a headache of a company that already has 99 investors...
And what about the short term holders of bank shares? Not all market participants are investors, many are traders.
You can be pulled over anywhere at any time without a court order or even the permission of an officer's supervisor. All it takes is a reasonable suspicion that you've violated any of hundreds of fiddly traffic laws. People generally don't have a problem with this; you learned about this when you were 15 and in the classroom part of driver's ed.

There are places where you can be pulled over for no reason, by default, because everyone is being pulled over. These are usually "sobriety checkpoints", but sometimes they come right out and call them "compliance checkpoints". In some states, they're lawful; in others, their lawfulness is more questionable.

I have a problem with checkpoints. Lots of people do. So there's a bright line: you can pull some people over (you hopefully have a reason, but we accept the notion that nobody has time to make sure and then if you're an officer and abuse that privilege there is a process for disciplining you). You should not be pulled everyone over.

There's a slope, I agree, but I dispute that it is as slippery as you say.
> with 4 wheels, I imagine that stairs would be manageable for Justin as well

In theory yes, but not with the current design.

> You might like this too:
Yes, ABB's Frida looks impressive, but so far there seems to be very little information about the technical data.

> I think US industrial/product designers are seriously underestimating the market for consumer-facing humanoid robots.

There is rumor, that Rodney Brooks's Heartland Robotics http://www.heartlandrobotics.com/
will release something similar to Frida soon.
I'd make a slight correction and say that the point of publication is not so others can reproduce your work, it is so others can confirm your results.

Exact reproduction can be problematic in science because if there was a flaw in the original experimental design or method, an exact reproduction could "confirm" that same flawed result. It's better if other scientists can learn enough to understand the result, and design their own experiments to confirm or disprove it.

A super simple example is if I drop something and then report a value for gravitational acceleration. But what if I dropped a feather? If you simply reproduce the experiment, you'll get the same (wrong) result. Whereas if you select your object to drop, there's a better chance you'll pick something denser and get a different result.
Your assessment appears to be inaccurate.
Kinect is an excellent example of what the author thinks it's wrong with the vision. It provides absolutely no sensory feedback.
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I think a better solution for "too big to fail" banks would be to require bonuses are paid in restricted stock. That way if the bank needs a bailout, then bonuses would be automatically clawed back. The bigger the bank, the larger the portion that is required to be RSUs. This would give a recruitment advantage to smaller banks, thus serve as an automatic limiter to bank size.
If you don't participate in the global economy you can't get burned by it. People who subsistence farm are largely immune to problems in the global economy.
A bonus can go "below zero" if you need to get a >0 bonus just to reach your market salary.