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There's a subtle shoutout to The Checklist Manifesto - that book is amazing. I thought it was another GTD-style productivity book but it's not, it's a lot more than that. It studies several seemingly unrelated fields like medicine and construction to bring together unique insights into group collaboration and workflow on complex projects with lots of stakeholders. The chapter about venture capital has a bit of a Moneyball vibe to it.
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I somehow asumed that the article was about the human's memory works, and tips on how to maximize your (programming) efficiency by better exploiting your working memory.

I guess I'll have to wait for that. Bummer! hehe
I stand corrected :/
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I think Gurdle is not really a great approximation. The German ö is pronounced somewhat like a cross between an o and a u. Wikipedia has a pronunciation: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fd/Kurt_g%C3...

People who pronounce it like "Gurdle" end up using an American "err" sound which is really just as far off as Go-del.
I think there is no need to hack the signal. It can be done by capturing and delaying signals. What you need for that is

1) the location of satellites. You can probably get it from the commercial signal.

2) transmission system, which overpowers signals from satellites. Many amateurs have it too.

3) location of the receiver you want to distract. I have no idea, how this works, but apparently it is possible.

4) program that calculates right delays for each signal so that plane will locate itself incorrectly.

Maybe the droid was programmed so, that GPS overrides other locationing devices, if it is working and the droid thought that GPS was working.

As jgrahamc says: "I realize that as a Westerner I shouldn't be rooting for the Iranians but if they did spoof GPS, jam the rest of the communications and get this thing to land thinking it was at its home base then it's at least a neat hack."
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What do I think? I don't know what to think, I cannot base my thoughts on a start up on an knowledge of a 35 year age gap alone. Ergo, if you're asking if it matters, I do not think it does. It could even be advantageous to have the different views of two different age groups.
One might be led to think that the First Amendment amends the original text and should therefore prevail if in irreconcilable conflict with Congress' right to pass copyright laws, but you're right that judges try to harmonize the two as much as possible, though they recognize the inherent tension between them and try to balance both.
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My daughter feels no stigma about playing with the "boys" LEGOs, in fact she does not particularly like the girl oriented Bellville series.

She likes other girl oriented things, so I wonder where LEGO failed with their girls series.

Also, you can still buy regular general LEGO pieces as in the old days, you do not have to buy the latest Star Wars or Harry Potter set.

Problem, with the general LEGO pieces is that about $100 or so can be plenty enough for a kid, while with themed series you can continue selling.
Here's another time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm3whAxMgdc. I'm pretty sure I've heard him use it a few times.
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> At least not if they ever want to use the "Do No Evil" line in public again.

Why would they stop? The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist.
It's mind boggling that you are downvoted. Sad that many HN readers exhibit this holier than thou attitude.
I'm not an Airbus engineer and I'm not privy to their research (undoubtedly many thousands hours involving scenarios we can't even imagine) and the reasoning behind this design. This catastrophe is rooted in human-machine interface and we should wait for the official investigation report, which will come very shortly and will include recommendations to aircraft designers (including UI aspects), training procedures and crew management procedures, to mention just a few.

My layman view is that the first step in principle "fly-navigate-communicate" could be accomplished by placing the aircraft into the "pitch an power" configuration: 5 degrees nose up + TOGA. This didn't happen. But this is my layman view: I'm down here in a comfy chair with a cup of tea, and they were up there, in a thunderstorm with flashing warning lights, frozen pitot tubes and 228 souls behind their back. We shouldn't judge them: we should only learn.
> But the law does grant exclusive rights to media
> content

I'm thinking that people here are of the mind that the law needs to change. "The Law" isn't an absolute moral high ground.
Because this one is the letter from internet engineers. Google had to enter the lobbying game, but the view point of individuals should be more important to a society than the “money as free speech” of corporations.
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>Apple isn't "forcing" anyone to accept their terms, people choose to accept them in return for certain products and services from Apple.

The thing is, many people do not even know about, much less understand the ramifications of buying from Apple. And I find it sad that someone who does is still willing to castrate his own freedom for no gain whatsoever.
Lua is actually closer to PHP in how arrays are used in it.

"Until Lua 4.0, tables were implemented strictly as hash tables: all pairs were
explicitly stored. Lua 5.0 brought a new algorithm to optimize the use of tables
as arrays: it optimizes pairs with integer keys by not storing the keys and storing
the values in an actual array. More precisely, in Lua 5.0, tables are implemented
as hybrid data structures: they contain a hash part and an array part. Figure 2
shows a possible configuration for a table with the pairs "x" → 9.3, 1 → 100,
2 → 200, 3 → 300. Note the array part on the right: it does not store the integer
keys. This division is made only at a low implementation level; access to table
fields is transparent, even to the virtual machine. Tables automatically and dy-
namically adapt their two parts according to their contents: the array part tries
to store the values corresponding to integer keys from 1 to some limit n. Values
corresponding to non-integer keys or to integer keys outside the array range are
stored in the hash part.

When a table needs to grow, Lua recomputes the sizes for its hash part and
its array part. Either part may be empty. The computed size of the array part
is the largest n such that at least half the slots between 1 and n are in use
(to avoid wasting space with sparse arrays) and there is at least one used slot
between n/2 + 1 and n (to avoid a size n when n/2 would do). After computing
the new sizes, Lua creates the new parts and re-inserts the elements from the
old parts into the new ones. As an example, suppose that a is an empty table;
both its array part and hash part have size zero. If we execute a[1]=v, the table
needs to grow to accommodate the new key. Lua will choose n = 1 for the size
of the new array part (with a single entry 1 → v). The hash part will remain
empty."

From "Implementation of Lua 5.0" -- http://lua.org/doc/jucs05.pdf
anti-competitive how? MegaUpload might be competing for 'hearts and minds' with their campaign, but I hardly think that it's possible to have a legally recognized monopoly on them.
I take it you've never bought manure. Selling shit is business.
>> These guys aren't corrupt, the system is corrupt.

I disagree. I think that all systems are perfectly capable of working just fine. The people that run them (on every level) are the ones that distort them and corrupt. Maybe not because they have ill intent, but simply because they don't act as agents of the system but of themselves, their interests which are often conflicting with the role they should be playing.

As long as there are people involved, there will be corruption. I'm also not suggesting that people should not be involved, but rather that we acknowledge the role of individuals in the system and work toward restraining influence and power leaks.
Oh, I totally agree that the law needs to change. Copyright has been distorted from its original purpose, and until it's restored to a more reasonable balance it will never command popular respect.

However, I can't help wondering where all these well-funded anti-SOPA lobbyists are when it comes to proposing changing the underlying system, rather than the half-baked non-solution of campaigning to prevent current legal rights from being effectively enforced. Something is backwards in this whole debate.
Every site exhibits some kind of bias which appeals to a certain class of people making the site better in the eyes of that particular group.

Every reddit and 4chan user would tell you that their site is superior to every other similar site.

Generally, this is good for everyone.

There are many comparisons that could be made between different sites that share some traits, but which one is the best is not something you can quantify.
The question isn't so much about whether you're as qualified as the courts to interpret the Constitution, but rather that particular debates have been litigated already and a particular interpretation chosen.
> Smarter implementations, notably PyPy, will do escape analysis, and never actually end up allocating those objects.

Objects in a collection (which is what we're talking about here) escape kind-of by default.

Until type-specialized collections are merged in PyPy (if they are not yet), it'll have the same issue as CPython.
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Good info about Python, but you are incorrect about Ruby. Hashes and arrays are totally different in the Ruby implementations I know of.

EDIT: Sorry, I misread you. Ruby MRI and CPython are indeed similar.

At least in Ruby MRI (the mainline) arrays are implemented as a struct with a size and a pointer to a normal C array which contains the object references (references in MRI are pointers to object structs which use the lower bits to inline integers of <= 31 or 63 bits, true, false, nil and symbols).

Hashes in MRI I have not looked that much into but I believe they are a hash tables which in ruby 1.9 retain insertion order using pointers like a singly linked list.
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"Design is about how things work"

True, but this definition is a bit vague. Even if we think that this is not vague, then people with graphics design background should stop calling themselves designers, and engineers (who have years of training on some aspect of how some things should work) could call themselves designers. There will always be a debate on what exactly 'design' is, and who exactly a 'designer' is, because this is a bit artifical terminology in my opinion. (Long years ago, when engineers created mostly buildings engineers were also meant to be designers.)

I am an engineer/programmer, but I would feel extremely sad, uncreative, and a worthless biorobot if I could not see myself a 'designer' if we take the meaning of design very broadly.
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Yes, I read your caveat, but the overall gist of your article is still that designers create billions of dollars of value. I just don't think there's enough evidence to warrant that implication - particularly when there are other startups which have butt-ugly, hard-to-use websites and make even more money.
You seem to split hairs here.

For me, using a reference to a sexual position as a title of a book about a respectable worldwide admired nun /is/ "Disgusting or repulsive", which is definition number 3 in http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/obscene

NB: I am all but a puritan, I like some disgusting things sometime. I don't care how Hitchens title his books. I just deeply dislike bad faith, a more traditional way to describe trollism.
Don't feel bad about it - the C standard can be quite subtle, and I've been known to spread lies about it as well.

Things about which I have stumbled somewhat recently:

* restrict-qualified pointer-to-const parameters do not guarantee that the pointed-to object won't be modified as restrict only applies if the pointer is actually used to access the object, which calling code can't know (ie restrict only enables optimizations in the called code and not reordering in calling code)

* functions with differently qualified, but otherwise compatible parameter types have compatible type (which is only mentioned in the last, parenthesized sentence of section 6.7.5.3)
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That's actually an interesting anecdote, because it demonstrates a willingness to admit when he was wrong, something that is often uncommon among so-called "great thinkers" - especially when they're engaging with a member of the "ordinary public". (My apologies if you're actually quite extraordinary.)
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SOPA is so far out there that companies that wouldn't normally be worrying about lobbying/campaigning are forced to, because to just wait for SOPA to pass would be suicide.
Well, maybe, but now I am using thread upvote mostly to promote themes I like to see on HN, and comment downvotes to push down thanks, me-too, or otherwise empty answers.
Digg hit its peak and began to decline in May 2007. This is exactly when the HDDVD fiasco happened. I believe this was Digg's first major user revolt and it was responsible for many users (myself included) moving over to Reddit.

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This seems forgotten in most discussions.
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You don't need to have a monopoly to be anti-competetive. Having the power to take down content that doesn't belong to you, on the worlds largest video sharing site because you disapprove of it - does constitute anti-competetive behavior on UMGs part.
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In that context, communicate is scoped to flight crew outside, not within the cockpit crew.

Surely, the notion that if you have a departure from controlled flight, or are lost, that each crew member must refrain from speaking to each other is silly.

That guidance is instead intended to say "ATC's questions and needs can wait; tell them 'Standby' and fly the airplane."
The whole argument here is that UMG in this case DID NOT hold any rights to the content they took down. They just didn't like it.
If I'm not mistaken the authors of Smalltalk realized that metaclasses were a mistake long before they appeared in Python. Yet they were added to Python anyway.
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I'm guessing the purpose of the title "Design is horseshit" is to attract attention. It's not much different than saying "co-founders with a background in design create billions worth of value".

If you actually read the article the author basically says "Design enhances value, it does not create it." and there's nothing to argue about that - it's a fact. Another fact is that "programming enhances value, it does not create it".

In other words, the tools you use to create value are secondary to the actual value created. Talking about our tools we use is something we like to do. Too much talk about our tools, and too little thought on the end result, sometimes leads us to think that our tools are most important than the end result
That would mean the goal is not escaping death per se. The goal could be escaping a painful death or particular kind of death. There was a hint of a false dilemma.
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I find metaclasses philosophically unsound. If one introduces metaclasses, what about meta-metaclasses, meta-meta-metaclasses. In this regard Self's prototypical oop seems more coherent - there are only objects. Even object/class duality looks philosophically more attractive than object/class/metaclass trio.
Interesting list. Where I live there are electric vehicles, and McDonalds sells salad. There are even record labels that sell not so shitty music. You're probably rigth on a global level with respect to Barbie though.
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I don't know if you visited the countries you mentioned nor if you have any idea of their academic standards for example.

Many people in here are used to american technological society and have no idea what it's like in other parts of the world.
In countries like Iran the huge majority of the population never red a book, can't really read and write much more than the very basics, most of the people haven't assimilated the concept of multiplication, just to give you an example. I'm from a country way more developed than iran in technological/scientific terms and I always have trouble to explain to Americans, Canadians, British, Germans, etc. how non tech-savy other parts of the world are.

I wouldn't downplay _the lack of_ technological capability. That's more like it.

I don't know what happen with that drone, but so far I've seen zero evidence and 100% speculation. That is a fact. I might be wrong, but there's no single bit of proof of anything.
Much better article about the crash: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/aviation/crashes/...

I don't feel like this article has any substance, and I am particularly annoyed by the lack of contrast.

Also, see http://contrastrebellion.com/
"empirical evidence and the scientific knowing of reality"

Not sure what you mean by this, do you really believe that science validates a specific view on what constitutes reality?
And somehow HN still manages to find a way feel superior to both. Meanwhile, other people will somehow manage to create value, ostensibly the goal of HN posters, without writing snarky comments, they will succeed to create something truly new and inspiring.

Maybe it's posting on HN that is horseshit.
And automatic parking is one of the unavoidable expectations of self-driving cars.

Actually, I would be perfectly content if I only had to park my car, but it drove itself from just outside the source parking lot (or street) and the destination one.

And just not having to drive on freeways (a much more controlled environment than usual roads) would be incredibly useful :)
Not sure if you got his point. But design much harder than programming is; that's highly debatable. Sure, a lot of people can write code which kind of 'works', that's not really what I would call programming (and I don't think anyone here). As it takes about 10 years to really master writing great code and then get a lot of experience in the trenches, I believe this process is hard and takes a lot of time. Less than learning design. And you can do IA design even though you cannot make things pretty; a lot of people have a feeling for it.

If I (programmer, no design education or talent whatsoever) sit down with a pen and paper and draw a user interface (1 page) 100 times, the 100th time, it'll be quite optimal, consistent and nice. After that it goes through the pretty machine, an artist who cannot do IA, but can do pretty. It's a great combi. With programming, you cannot really do the same trick; you'll end up with crap.

I do agree that it an be a greater catalyst than pure engineering. I don't think it can be much of anything without engineering and value and that was the author his point. Of course when you made a product you want to make it look good and work well ergonomically, but you want the value and the engineering in place first. After reading the article I felt like his real beef is actually with nonsensical vaporware looking pretty to attract investors and morons signing up anyway.
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Am I just a cranky old geek or does anyone else find Zed teaching CLI skills mildly amusing? Or is there truly a large population mentally bound by the graphical interface?

Know the basic commands of getting things done isn't just for the experienced admins/developers like myself who have been using keyboards and terminals since the early DOS and VMS days. Ordinary users were able to create documents, check mail and write simple Excel macros, etc. Coworkers shared tips, people had books and kept notes. None of this has ever been rocket science.
Culture is not determined by biology though. If it did, third-generation Chinese immigrants would be more Chinese than American.

The problem here is that culture determines gender. Some cultures have two, some three, some even have more. Many cultures treat children as genderless and initiate them into genders in rites of passage. In some cases gender is contextual, so among the Norse and among the Greeks, there was a specific gender-based stigma attached to being the penetrated partner in male-male sex. Male-male sex was not stigmatized, only crossing the gender line and being penetrated as a woman.

I think it is a grave error to look at one's own culture and assume that it is biologically determined.

As for the "gay problem" we have to recognize at some point that every culture addresses human sexuality differently, and human sexuality is remarkably malleable. For example there are tribes in Papua which make young boys give oral sex to tribal elders as a part of a rite of passage as a way of them literally ingesting manliness in order to become men.

Once we look at our own sexual taboos involving who and what we are forbidden to have sexual relations with, and we recognize that these are socially contextual, not innate taboos, things change a great deal.
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Considering PHP's scope and its limitations (lacks things like threads for example) I would say that is an extremely rare scenario. If you're storing 100.000 integers on a PHP data structure you're most likely doing it wrong.
The whole thing is a strawman. The blogger defined design as a "nice looking user interface" and then proceeded to knock it over.
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