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Where to begin... No, they are not raising the price in Philippines to $100 and loose the whole Philippine market. That bad economics 101, and bad business. What publishers will do is to have a select few articles with low price to be targeted for the Philippines market, and then use product differentials to push for higher cost products in the US. If you want to see a clear example of this, look at the car market.

The DVD collection from Amazon might be safe, might be unsafe. If your purchase produce tax revenue for somewhere in the USA, sure, it should be safe. Given how evasive some companies has been in regard to purchase location and taxes, it might be fully possible that those films was actually bought from a location at a tax heaven.

But more importantly, products bought in ebay is NOT located in the US. Any such product is likely to be unlawful. If the product include any form of software, art, or design, then that is copyrighted and you need to get permission from the copyright owner to import it to the US.

Last, cars. Cars and trucks are commonly sold on the international market, often through resellers. They might be produce, programmed, and created in Japan, Germany, Sweden, and then bought and directly imported to the US. Now, that importation will require additional permission. Say, you bought 1000 trucks from a reseller in Sweden and imported those to the US. Now all those are illegal. Imagine being a shipping company and suddenly realizing that all your purchased trucks are now illegal. Imagine the cost that can have.

This is why this is not about buying 1,000 textbooks at the Philippines price and then sell them in the US at the US price. It is the sudden realization that buying and importing goods can now come back and bite.
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The title sounds like the name of a Big Bang Theory episode
Google Docs and Jekyll playing nicely together
I'd thought I'd share how I built a simple directory of football podcasts that started out in Google Docs and ended up as a static site generated by Jekyll. Source code can be found on GitHub.
I'd love for someone to remake vim, in a modern way. With a modern GUI. And with a lot of thought put into how to make vim easier to use for new users. And with a better solution for plugins and customization.

I'd love for this project to succeed, and I was ready to pay for it, but frankly, I'm skeptical, after looking at the product page. He's asking for money equal to 2 months of development. This is nowhere near, not even remotely close, to how much time it will take to get even a semi-descent version of an editor. I'm sorry, but that's just unrealistic.

Also, I'd love to see other projects he's worked on, to see he knows how to build things, before I back a project.
You get the interfaces between the processes right and keep them the same and cleanly versioned. For example with gconf to dconf, you get gconf right the first time (or even better don't use either as they are the spawn of hell).

Look at the C standard library and core UNIX system call interfaces and Win32 for examples. I wrote something (an NNTP client) for Win32 for NT4 that was statically linked. It still works fine now on Windows 8 x64 16 years later without a recompile.
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Why isn't there a keyword stating "don't optimize this!" in the C Standard? If there is is, please correct me. There are a bunch of similar problems introduced by optimizing compilers that could be solved with such a keyword.
Whether memset(), or any other function, gets optimized away by GCC should depend on function attributes (1) -- more exactly on the `pure'; possibly some others. However, GCC (tested with 4.7.1) somehow considers memset() pure regardles of declaration. The default declaration is:

$ echo '#include <string.h>' | gcc -E - | grep memset
extern void *memset (void *__s, int __c, size_t __n) __attribute__ ((__nothrow__ , __leaf__)) __attribute__ ((__nonnull__ (1)));

When replaced by hand with declaration lacking any attributes, it still gets optimized away.

/* will be optimized away for unclear reasons */
extern void *memset (void *__s, int __c, size_t __n);

Contrast that to behavior of any user-defined function:

/* may be optimized away */
extern void * memxxx(void *__s, int __c, size_t __n) __attribute__ ((pure));
/* should not be optimized away */
extern void * memyyy(void *__s, int __c, size_t __n);

IMHO GCC's special handling of memset() is broken...

(1) http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/references/c/gcc4.7/Function-At...
Erlang doesn't scale as in Erlang doesn't scale to larger projects when you require lots of people working on them. I doubt we could put our 2MLOC trading platform into Erlang and get away with it.

It certainly scales from a technology point of view.

Go is simple enough to allow Mr X's code to go through a review by Brad F until Mr X gets the point.
The reason I didn't want to load ALL titles from the page was that it would make an awful amount of requests at once, and also because I wanted to calculate that person rating based on the the first (featured) section. But since some people (such as Wes Anderson, in your case) have a similar amount of titles in more than one section, I made this work. Every section has ratings loaded now, except that they load only after they're made visible. Update your extension and all should be OK

Edit: typo
Completely different achievement here. Backstory: I was fit as a student: I could climb a 15m rope up with hands only, was completing 5c/6a climbs (French grade), was regularly skating around town and on a karting track, mountain biking my bike up 1000m and freeriding back down...

Then I got a stable relationship, a job, and a car. Before I knew it I grew lazy, fat, weak, and increasingly sad and spiteful. It took me a few years to actually get I was slipping down a dangerous slope and a little more to find I was the only one to blame.

It's been four years and I lost 15kg, slowly, regularly. I can ride again to work without turning into a pouch of water, turned from unable to run 1km without panting to death to running 10km not effortlessly but "easily" nonetheless. Food also improved a lot, both in volume and quality. Net result is I feel healthy again, both in my body and in my mind.

Here's the solution I came up with:

- step 1: make it a habit

- step 2: make it a habit (for real)

- step 3: wait

The first thing is actually getting that I do have the time to take care of myself, if only I want to take it. I bounded that time, just to be psychologically sure of it and not skip. First goal was running 2km without panting. Then running 3km under 20min. At some point of course I could run much longer but it would take more time (not that it was really a problem to do it, but it could become an excuse, the easy way out). So I made running the latter trivial, so that I'd have even less of a reason to skip. Alternatively, if I could not run for some reason I'd do some exercise (abs, push-ups, dips) instead for the same amount of time. Again, the goal was to minimize friction, exercises I could practice anywhere, anytime (e.g for dips I use two chairs), without failing the habit, and not thinking about it. The same basically goes for food, where I traded a high fat, high carb, processed food diet for something much much more balanced.

Also, trigger the high. At some point when running (or whatever) you just feel good because of the adrenaline rush (I may use music to help that, and running outside and focusing on your lesser used senses, especially touch, helps a lot). This is important as it triggers the reward system and helps making it a habit for real (and on step 1 it's really easy to delude yourself into thinking you have made it a habit when you really did not). Yes I'm voluntarily hacking my body to make it dependent on something, for my own good. And now when I skip doing sports or eating properly, I miss it, physically, in a very short time (short enough that the habit never breaks), not enough to feel bad but just enough to carry on. And the next day or the following one, I'm back in my habit.

I still got some work to do to regain original fit but I'm on my way there (extrapolations tell me next year), and now that I'm skateboarding, some even farther day from now I'll land a casper-to-casper (Rodney Mullen is a skateboard hacker[0]) and why not, run a marathon. Everything is possible, it just doesn't happen overnight.

[0] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU7s-opqViM
Let's flip this around: Jeff paid $512 and got a logo that's definitely done its job. It's recognizable, tasteful and fits with the site design. The company has continued with this design and has been very successful.

So it's clearly worked.

What may not be immediately obvious is why it worked: Jeff had a clear aesthetic in mind and applied it throughout the contest. You can see that from the feedback process on these designs.

Professional designers offer more than mechanical skills with Photoshop and Illustrator, they bring a few other things to the table:

- A sense of taste (which many business owners lack)

- An ability to synthesize multiple inputs and determine what's important

- Strategies for selling a design to a committee of decision makers who can't agree

- etc. etc.

In many cases, these soft skills are a huge value add to a business or project. In some cases, though - a developer who's got a good idea of an overall aesthetic, no need to convince a big group, etc. - all that's really needed is the mechanical work: show me a bunch of designs and I'll pick the best one. In this sort of situation, there's little value to add.
Is it just me, or is it a bit odd that copyright is used for market control in regards to importation and exportation? I thought most countries used tariffs to produce this effect.

If you want to stop people from buying TV's cheap from somewhere, the state add a tax to encourage local production. Is this somehow not enough to stop people from buying books cheap and sell them expensively in the US? Isn't the solution then to just increase the tax? Are there a reason why copyright can do a better job at this, and are there a substantial difference between copyright regulation and tariffs?
That's actually a good idea, I'll try it out later today.
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HN is a public forum for sharing news with a large group of mostly strangers around the world. Quibb is for sharing news within a very small and private group of people that you work with and all the speech and thought restrictions that implies. That's not very high overlap.

Anyone can convince themselves this is their ideal audience and get some iota of validation by pooping out articles for us.
They're around 70, so depending on how much they want to leave for their offspring, losing money might not be a problem. If they sold their house for $1.2 million (not uncommon in some parts of California), they could continue their current lifestyle into their 90's without touching other assets.

Basically, their health will most likely fail before their money does. It's sad that biology currently dictates such things, but it looks like they're enjoying every minute of the time they have left.
One way to inhibit optimisations we used was to declare one of the variables involved as "volatile". I'm not sure about MS, Intel, GCC etc but ours took this as a sign to not run any optimisation passes over code involving volatile variables.
While I agree that that would be interesting, that seems incredibly far-fetched as every one of those categories of scholarship--even including reading JSTOR to a real extent--is what Wikipedia would call "original research".

Instead, Wikipedia believes strongly that it should only base itself on secondary sources, and thereby would much prefer to cite a New York Times article over a peer-reviewed journal article (which you are technically allowed to do, but the rules severely discourage it).

The problem, therefore, isn't about helping editors get access to these more professional sources, it is making Wikipedia believe that they are even valuable sources in the first place. Until then, it simply will not happen.

(To demonstrate the issue, I have pasted below a section of the rules on the usage of primary sources on Wikipedia. The idea of sending someone to a "military-history conference" with this rule still in place, obviously would do no help.)

> A primary source may only be used on Wikipedia to make straightforward, descriptive statements of facts that can be verified by any educated person with access to the source but without further, specialized knowledge.
You shouldn't. http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/18/kickstarter...

Basically the R&D costs for this type of product are in the tens or hundreds of millions of dollars. Because this is blazing new trails in material science and electrical efficiency of individual components, it's impossible for a modestly funded startup to get the disruption factor by identifying shortcuts or optimizations.
Ask HN: How do you protect your privacy online?
On cryptome's home page ( http://cryptome.org/ ) it has this statement at the top

"Privacy, anonymity and security services are deceptive, protect yourself."

This struck a chord with me because lately I have been becoming creeped out by the way I'm being profiled based on my online activity.

I don't like the fact that google, for example, gives me results that it thinks might be of interest to me or that the ads on sites that I visit for the first time are already tailored to my tastes.

Even if you don't allow cookies or you have a dynamic ip, just the information sent by your browser about your setup can be enough, apparently, to attach a unique identity to your machine.

To guard my privacy I had been thinking about signing up for one of the services that offers privacy but as the old phrase says "who guards the guards"?
Feedback for the author:

The "Back This Project" button send this message: only click this button if you have already decided you want to pledge money.

I think more people would click on it if it was named something like: "Find Out More" or "Visit Project Page".
Ask HN: Where should I look for Affiliates to for generating revenue?
I've made a site that serves pure HTML Weather widgets. Just after two months I am generating 1.25K hits monthly. Now I want to generate some earnings out of it. You can check my service out on http://www.weatherfor.us . I am looking for affiliate maybe or an Ads service that can I can hookup within my widget. There are few important things however, I want single liner text Ad in a particular location see this snapshot:

http://s16.postimage.org/l986s8tp1/Snapshot_29_10_2012_1_53_PM_2.jpg

Plus I have some unique places in my site to place some banner ads as well, Here are existing set of services that I've already tried:

- Ad Sense, doesn't allow or have such formats of methods.

- Peefly provides you with straight links works best but I recorded some clicks and they didn't show me any, plus it introduces overhead of manually going and choosing your links.

- BidVertise totally rubbish opens popups and what not, makes site look like spam

I am new to this ad stuff so have a limited knowledge. Suggestions please?
i think it's to keep the patch(es) easier to read. it certainly feels awkward.
The last commit was 19 days ago, roughly when I installed it on this machine. The whole thing was a miserable joke at the time, with less than half of the "already implemented features" working. Either the author is slipping on his local commits or there hasn't been any progress in the last 3 weeks, JS/HTML or not, 10.000$ or not.

Meanwhile, the old and rusty Vim has had 39 patches pushed.
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It seems to me that Wikia should be an effective disruptor, but it isn't and I'm not sure why. Culture? Stigma? Awareness?

Reasons I think it is: it's very domain-specific, which makes it possible for qualified editors to flock to appropriate domains; there is a separate command structure per Wikia, enabling access on a per-qualification basis; it practically begs you to copy content from Wikipedia as a base; it already has a financial support system in place with the ads, and presumably has solid infrastructure backing it.

I can see how some of those strengths would double as weaknesses, though.
And even more:

http://netlib.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/sec0510.html

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/jul-aug/06-vital-signs-woma...
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As a general rule, using secret sharing protocols, for any choice of n and k, you can split any illegal piece of information a into n pieces such that k of these pieces together can reconstitute a but <k pieces will not give any information about a. It is hard to tell to what extent an individual piece is illegal or not.

Related: http://www.madore.org/~david/misc/freespeech.html (does something similar using XOR, and discusses interesting uses of that kind of system).
Excellent plan. I did this when I was 30.

Or at least a slightly modified version, where you fly back to the US to do a short on-site contract gig from time to time, or (more recently) just work remotely when you need to.

Naturally, if you do this 40 years earlier than the folks in the article, you have a much higher tolerance for cheap living. I notice the article mentions nothing about living in a little hut on the beach in some random backpacker paradise for months on end to stretch out the finances. Or of hitching across the sketchier parts of those countries the State department advises you not to go to (though if they did, they'd probably get a lot fewer worried emails from their parents, so maybe that's an upside).

But yeah, as tech folk, we get the ridiculous three-fold advantage of being able to do 100% of our job remotely, being able to deliver measurable results from short (ie., sub-3-month) engagements, and commanding a somewhat higher rate (ie., 3-10x) than pretty much anybody else with the same amount of flexibility.

I find myself dangerously close to slowing down in my old age. (I actually bought a couch yesterday.) Hopefully some of the rest of you lot will get out there and take my place!
CERT's Secure Coding wiki has more to say on the subject, including portable code for a memset_s() function that can still potentially be optimized way:

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/display/seccode...

https://www.securecoding.cert.org/confluence/pages/worddav/p...
Surely in a Markov process the next state is picked at random with some probability distribution, which may be uniform.
Well. You'll get less fiddling but also a lot less power.
>When the number of incoming stimuli is reduced, the mind gradually perceives finer details in the ones that remain. This is famously true of blind people, but you can consciously narrow your attention to the same effect.

Or starts hallucinating stuff (ganzfeld effect, Charles Bonnet syndrome)

"Open systems communicate and live. Closed systems do not communicate, become non-discerning, uninteresting and die." - Col. John Boyd
Not complaining about the price of the RAM but it is about the thing, how much load the Google apps create on system resources. And that is because it always try to track each and every user activity.
XOR swap algorithm
> How do you attain the skills required to do this while not also learning not to

Half-understood StackOverflow answers, natch.
well. the euro is way more worthy than the us $. that seems a little off.

(10000$/2month still seems like a good salary... for something resembling vaporware for now.)
Except Web Audio API is a W3C standard.
Si it's probably the constant switching of audio clips that is causing the stutter. My first thought was that the audio itself was laggy.
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It's a fun hack done for no money.

With that in mind, do you really expect the author(s) to tackle the vagaries of cross-browser bugs in bleeding edge web-audio API's?
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Arent Big Corporations importing cheap goods and reselling them in USA for a huge profit ? so why an individual could not be able to do the same, even if that good has been produced in US at first place ? why should i pay 150$ for a book produced here while people on the other side of the world get the same book for 40$ ? Because it is not like i can choose the book i need for my studies.
In GCC 4.4 and up you can use the following:

#pragma GCC push_options
#pragma GCC optimize ("O0")

memset(a, 0, 3);

#pragma GCC pop_options

'volatile' should also work, I don't see why there is any need to rewrite memset. Here is a related question on SO:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2219829/how-to-prevent-gc...

Edit: buried at the bottom of that post is another method:

__attribute__((optimize("O0")))
I do not think this works, because volatile has no effect, if you do not access prevent_optimization.

I'm also not sure of erydo's approach. Given "volatile int x", is "(x+1)" a volatile access? I cannot clarify that with ANSI C99.
Some nice stuff in here, especially that about "trans-Atlantic repositioning voyages" which I'd never considered. I'm assuming they have investments totaling over US $2m to be pulling that kind of monthly interest?

It's astonishing that they could spend as much as they do (the picture has details) but I suppose requirements for a retired couple in their 60s is different to a 20-something serial relocator!
Don't build just a RESTful API
Thanks for trying it.

I agree that the sensors are a limiting factor for the current applications and of course Kinect is just the beginning of this technology in consumer markets. The description I provide of a 3-D integrated computer vision processor attached to a high-pixel-count CMOS array will address the latency, power and frame-rate issues. The algorithms and automation of computer vision to hardware still needs to be solved.

Sony is already licensing 3-D integration techniques for their image sensors:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4229507/Ziptronix-bo...
I've just left the UK and am attempting it... so far so good although far more nervous breakdown moments than I'd anticipated.

Life on the road seems cheaper than life in London, but I don't get as much good work done because I'm not self-disciplined enough.

That'll change when I settle in one place for a month or more (right now I'm spending a few days each in various towns in Spain..)
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Increasingly larger problems can be solved in the same time period. Processing is getting wider, but staying a similar speed... except IO - which has gone from 40MB/s to 1000MB/s for fairly cheap hardware. The network has also sped up in a major way, with terabits/s possible. Branch prediction allows us to follow multiple possible serial paths, and the wider our processors the more branches we can follow. Software advances have made it trivial for even beginner programmers to process many events in parallel. Automatic vectorizing compilers have been available for over a decade now. Transactional memory is becoming mainstream, with compiler support and even hardware support. Massive libraries of highly optimized maths and scientific routines are being developed by 1000s of people at once over the internet and made available for free. I don't think it's hard to use up all that power. Even on the cutting edge, gaining a 10x or 100x speed up is not unheard of. Problems are becoming more and more about the functionality required, and the vision, rather than being limited by the processing speed and power available.

tldr; we are ok, and we're going to be ok.
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