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Yes. In fact his big criticism of antisatellite missiles was that if the USSR knows we have the capability to take down their satellites, this adds additional failure conditions that could be mistaken for a prelude to an attack. So for example a satellite runs into a piece of space junk and is destroyed. Now you have to decide whether that was the result of hostile anti-satellite warfare (and a prelude to a nuclear first strike) or whether it is just an ordinary malfunction.
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Are you on 32-bit, because all his numbers are for 64-bit, except the large table near the beginning, which matches roughly with the numbers you give.
I think they are a little more complex than regular hash maps.

1) They keys can be integers or unicode strings (ordering works differently for these two cases)

2) The keys are not necessarily ordered (see ksort and krsort functions, for example).
There are enough of us in this relatively small community of free-thinkers who were touched by this man's work that, for a few moments, we'd like to pause to remember him.

This has absolutely nothing to do with "intellectual interest": we're mourning, and it's a sign we're all basically human.
You are omitting that laws of physics are not enough, there must be some infrastructure too.
You get the facts wrong.

Depression is intense pain. People usually kill themselves intentionally when this pain becomes unbearable.
Such neatness is contrary to Microsoft philosophy, but hey, I see microsoft making wise thought through moves more and more often. Maybe they will slowly become an interesting company again.
They're still enjoying the aftermath of the great brainwash of the 90s. But to be fair, there have always been interesting things coming from microsoft. So we'll see.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-designer-fund/designer-fo...

Will add a meatier FAQ
HN reply of the year.
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Correction, in 2008, Russia invaded PART of Georgia. If my memory serves, they only invaded as far as one military base, and that only temporary.
This article hits a note with the startup community. It actually redefines design from "look & feel" to "practicality". IMO this is a much needed awakening, given all the media hoopla around path's new button. Nobody buys buttons.
Maybe I'm stupid, but the linked article gives me the idea that JavaScript is requirement to be enabled to allow log-in. Is this true?

I know, I know, it's 2011, but still I feel it's unnecessarily limiting.
He's also Stanford HCI and when I talked to him last at WarmGun seems to be doing a lot of front end work too
Watch it last night. Nothing new of any value. If you read any of the articles when the guy died you'll know the story already. Only interesting bit was steve woz saying how he wasnt bittered but was upset to the point of crying when he read years later than jobs had fucked him over on the money from the split for developing a game in the early days.
It doesn't aim to solve that issue. It aims to solve the issue of maintaining multiple passwords on multiple sites.
The clearest difference in my mind is that BrowserID is much easier for a user to grasp. An email address is something users already associate with their identity.

As far as OpenPhoto, we're pushing BrowserID because we think it's a much better authentication system than something like Facebook Connect. It's open, distributed and secure. We do have FB Connect plugins for OpenPhoto but we believe that defaultly using BrowserID is the right thing to do.

http://blog.theopenphotoproject.org/post/13914931003/the-int...
Are these ideas novel in the first place? Visualizing social sharing, dumping people in your network into piles (or groups as facebook called them)... they've been done before, it's no surprise Google might do them again too.
> ... a group of 83 prominent Internet inventors and engineers

This topic is probably the first thing they've all ever agreed on.
At the moment the BrowserID team provides a Javascript shim but the goal is that it will be supported natively in the browsers. The shim if a fallback (which applies for all browsers atm).
Yes you are. Because others use the same openid in every openid enabled site where you open yet another openid account.
Not to mention that insulting them is sure to have the opposite effect.
you don't have to understand a signal to jam it.

unless it also has frequency hopping when it senses a jam.
Agree see previous comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359246

Goes back to our goal to raise awareness about the existence of designer founders and their diverse backgrounds with data in a fun way that has never been done before (not draw causal claims)
The goal is that others support the verification portion (hence it being decentralized). The browserid.org site is required today because others haven't implemented support on their backends.

Hope that changes sooner than later.
see here for some better perspective:

http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=reddit%2Chacker%20n...
Yes and No. I run a 64-bit Windows 7 machine, but oddly enough the Fedora 14 machine is 32 bit. Yet it yields similar numbers to the 64-bit Windows.
Does anybody else get the feeling there might be some clever marketing agency behind all this?

Louis persona seems so well thought out and is applied in every aspect. I never met the guy but it is astonishing how well he is following his known character in every public appearance.

Maybe he is just a well organized micromanager of himself. But if you think about the slight change of tone from his "Louis C.K." show on to his "Louis" program that brought him all his success. I just can't believe that this is all him on his own.
The guardian 'obituary' is also quite informative (including a reasonably good amount of biography): http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/dec/16/christopher-hitc...
I'm working on a webapp that will be used by not-so-tech-savvy working people and this could be an interesting way to subscribe to the service without implementing generic openid (i think most of them wont understand it) or facebook/twitter etc.. login (it's a service for businessman). I must check if it's more difficult to implement than an all-internal email subscription and verification process.
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If you don't like it use something else.

Copy and pasting usually means you never knew what the code said anyway.

Typing it once means you will remember it till the end of the day but tomorrow? The day after?

Typing it 20 times and saying it out loud to yourself helps it stick. There is no need to run to Google to look up the command. You should know it after doing it this many times. Especially if in the following days you recap with some basic memory exercises.

I have always thought that this is what set's Zed Shaw's books apart. They teach you a language in a way that sticks.

If you don't find it useful or for your style of learning pick up a book focusing more on theory rather than doing.
Here's the perspective of a founder who has worked for big companies. I don't like the "Us vs Them" logic applied to startups - whether it's employees vs founders or founders vs VCs. Everyone is trying to make money and the reason why the upside is bigger for some is the same as in any other business - because they take more risk.

The founders should get the biggest upside, then investors (and among those the early investors more), then early employees, then all other employees. The founders risk their reputation, personal life, money and often friends' money to start a company. Investors put their money at risk at a stage when it's not clear if the company is going to succeed. And early employees put a bet on a company that can be gone in less than a year.

If you're not an early employee, you shouldn't bear with any corporate risk, which means that you should earn your market salary, no discounts. Because of that, the equity share can't be high because you're not really taking much risk.

Some people are more aggressive taking risks then others and that's why the market works

You say "why enrich other people?". Well, everyone is enriching someone else. If you own resources so valuable that others are willing to pay lots of money for, someone will make you rich. Find a way to make yourself indispensable, as a founder, investor or employee, and someone will make you rich.
Has anyone run similar tests on the soon-to-be-released PHP 5.4? From what I understand, one of the changes in that release is reduced memory consumption. Andi Gutmans has said that PHP 5.4 could lower PHP's memory footprint by as much as 35%.
I personally don't consider circles/spheres to be extremely novel, they're just in there to highlight the design process and the fact that there seems to some unexplainable similarities in naming.

I do consider the interactive planner to be novel, as with currents which share the name as google currents.

More so than this, we have developed a system for identity management called Personas which we demo'd in Beijing a couple of months ago. All signs point to google releasing this system in the very near future despite claiming they wouldn't. I predict it will have the same name also.
BrowserID is super easy to implement. It's 8 lines of Javascript and about 8 lines of code on the backend to verify that a user owns an email address.

I've implemented it on OpenPhoto and absolutely love it.
I think this is a feature belong to You and Google. Very clearly, Google did not copy your site, since nobody in Google know your small site.
Python and Ruby both have separate arrays and hashes. They're completely different data structures in both cases.

Python's dict type is a hash table like you'd expect. Python's list is a pointer-array-backed list. (it may inline ints/similar things--I don't remember if CPython does, and exact details are implementation-dependent), and raw arrays are in the standard library if you need them.

From a very quick check, a list of 100k ints in CPython is ~1.5mb, and a dict of 100k ints -> other ints is ~6mb.

Ruby's hash and array implementations are similar, I think, although I don't know Ruby as well, so I don't know the specifics.
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The answer is both on the Distrowatch page [1] and their website [2]:

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I don't think stories can get voted down (at least for me no down-arrow is displayed).

In any case, I disagree with the "the people have spoken" argument. It boils down to "if you don't like it, then leave". It should be the other way round: if you want to discuss this, then use another forum.

HN has a certain purpose, even if it's not completely well-defined. It follows that there are stories that should be deemed off-topic, regardless of whether a large minority votes them up.

I'm not talking about the on-topic-ness of this particular story (though I'd say it's off-topic even though I am a fan of Hitchens), but trying to defend the notion that it's fine to complain about highly upvoted off-topic stories.

PS: a related comment of mine in a recent thread on Stackoverflow:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3357506
"So, with all due respect, I hope he is wrong in his beliefs about the after life because if there is a heaven he's surely earned his place in it."

"all due respect" cannot change the fact that this is the most disrespectful thing you can write at the death of an atheist.
I watched this live so I'll recap that part quickly:

One rep asked that the lyrics of that song be entered into the record, without actually reading of them, while commenting that congress is immune from copyright claims and that he's more afraid of copyright laws than pornography laws.

He then proposes an amendment that states the government should be directed not to aid pornography producers in protecting their copyrights under SOPA, so that resources can be used to protect other copyrights. Presumably those of the industries that paid for SOPA to be written and introduced.
It's sending en-US, but as others have pointed out, server-side user settings should > browser headers and ip address.
“Solve a real customer problem.”

This is exactly what design is.
So you're just dismissing all the things you could learn in an early stage startup?
not exactly what you need; but the boost module for drupal essentially outputs a drupal site as static HTML files
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Yep, I already got some comments on that. You are either using a 32 bit system or a 32 bit binary (at least I think that the binaries PHP distributes for Windows are compiled for 32 bit, so even if you are on a 64 bit Windows you'll still get 32 bit numbers).

The Windows number still is 8 bytes per element larger than the number I wrote (76 per element). This might have various reasons, one could be that it was compiled with head protection :)
php is not unique in having big memory footprint. AFAIC Python and Ruby are also memory hogs. An interesting question is how memory efficient a dynamic PL can be. Given that in modern computers memory access (cache misses) is fairly expensive it probably makes sense to trade instructions for memory.
This one is visible outside of the US. Though maybe not everywhere.
They are ordered by insertion. That's different from for instance objects in Javascript.
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He went in for cancer treatment, so he clearly wanted to avoid death, which is what the essay is about.
because facing up to the fact that other people have different values from you and most of them SUCK is intellectually easy to grapple with, but on a gut level not so much.
I actually did most of my tests with PHP 5.4 and trunk binaries, but also tested PHP 5.3 and the numbers didn't change. PHP 5.2 used 8 bytes less, because the circular GC was introduced only in PHP 5.3.

By the way, you can test that yourself too. The codepad I posted the same on has a switch for PHP 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4, so you can easily see for yourself :)
Well; I guess if they have a contract with YouTube that allows them to take down videos directly then technically they are in the (legal) right.

I assume youtube TOS allows them to pull down your video for 'any reason'; otherwise there might be some liability on youtube's end.

I did not expect this turn of events; and I wonder why youtube would sign an agreement like that at all..
I've been in school too, it is expensive (especially now).

However if my text books costed $24 I would have been insanely happy, most cost well over $100. So if the book is good perhaps its worth it.
That'd be why he said "arrays weren't designed to store integers efficiently".
I greatly enjoyed reading this thread and peoples' well-expounded opinions on history and the Constitution. I can't add much but this quote seemed apropos. The author was a US Senator from South Dakota during the critical period of the late 19th-early 20th century.

"Two per cent of the people of the United States own sixty per cent of the property of the United States. Yet they produced none of it. By legislation, by craft and cunning, by control of Congress and the courts, they took to themselves what others produced. Sixty-six per cent of the people of the United States own five per cent of the property of the United States. Yet they produced all of the wealth and have none of it. Why do not the producers of this wealth have what they produce? Because the making of the laws and the control of the courts is in the hands of those who do not work, and this has been true from the beginning of the Government. The convention which framed the Constitution of the United States was composed of fifty-five members. A majority were lawyers—not one farmer, mechanic or laborer. Forty owned Revolutionary Scrip. Fourteen were land speculators. Twenty-four were money-lenders. Eleven were merchants. Fifteen were slave-holders. They made a Constitution to protect the rights of property and not the rights of man, and, ever since, Congress has been controlled by the property owner, and has framed laws in their interests and their interests only, and always refused to frame any laws in the interest of those who produce all the wealth and have none of it."

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by Senator Richard F. Pettigrew, 1921
pg.407
Even if 99% of consumers use Android devices just as they come out of the box, the existence of escape hatches is still an important check against carriers, manufacturers and even Google.

For instance, nothing like Apple's in-app purchase crackdown could have happened on Android. The big players (Amazon, B&N, Netflix, Hulu, ...) would have just taken their apps out of the Android Market, clearly communicated to their customers where the apps were now and moved on.

Similarly, as I understand it, it was the Android hacking / ROM development community that discovered Carrier IQ in the first place, specifically because they are taking apart the software on their phones and trying to understand every bit of it. Personally, I find the contrast with the iOS jailbreaking community quite instructive. Once they knew there was something to look for, they found the Carrier IQ traces in iOS quickly enough. Nevertheless, without the initial pointer, they didn't notice anything..
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No, the US
Sounds like you're running a 32-bit interpreter on your 64-bit machine.
Designing a better alarm clock, in public
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of those companies are solving relatively small problems compared to Google, Paypal or EBay. They're all video sharing, blogging or design specific sites, and the ones which are successful or important are not successful because of their design (eg. Youtube), or have designs which are painful to use (eg. Slideshare).

By all means celebrate companies with designers, but saying "designers created $billions of value" is a bit of a stretch when there are so many counter-examples.
Are you running a 64-bit build of PHP though?
Religion wise, there's also Christian Ubuntu: http://ubuntuce.com/

Unlike Jesux http://pudge.net/jesux/ I think they're serious.
No it's not. Why wouldn't an atheist want an afterlife?
Ah. Yes. I think you're right. I think PHP is still complied for 32-bit on Windows. That makes more sense.
I call my self a designer, and i bet i assist in every other business process more valuable. I think you're mixing up the college kid who messes in photoshop and the evolved interaction designer/ui/all print media etc.

There is huge value in being able to communicate problems visually that comes with the experience provided by being a designer early career.
i feel you. in 3rd world Brazil we had all that.

here, i kid you not:
- they are just getting chips on credit cards
- you pay your credit card that your own bank manages by transfering money from one account to credit card account... and that can take DAYS to show up. so I usually have to pay my credit card some 20 days before i would.
- most bills came with an envelope for you to mail your check.
- most people i know pay annuity on cc.
Are you serious? With the amount of effort you've spent complaining here, you could have already found out how to do it. And it's a one-time learning thing - once you know, you'll know for next time too. Software is free. Handbrake is popular. You have the hardware. Time is trivial. Seriously, unless you have eight kids, you have the time. And frankly, people had the time before digital downloads became popular over the last few years - society hasn't changed that much.

The only argument you have is 'inclination', and frankly that's an argument against anything. There are people who prefer physical disks because they like the physical entity and find digital-only to be too ephemeral (witness the endless screeds against Steam not existing in the future, for example). Their inclination is the opposite of yours.

Your argument style is simply to grossly exaggerate the point. I also find it amusing that you follow a tech startup blog that markets itself to 'hackers', yet consider learning how to rip a disk 'considerable effort'.
>>> Error encountered trying to complete registration.
>>> Thank you for signing up with BrowserID.

Quite a bit too experimental for me to register I'm afraid
Christopher has stated multiple times that he finds the Christian idea of heaven unappealing.

Furthermore, if the Christian heaven does exist (which in turn implies that Christian doctrine is true), Christopher is most certainly in hell.
Its not exactly cheap but have you looked into the Lego Mindstorm NXT 2.0 set?

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You can build various things with it because its a LEGO product and it allows programming for specific functions. The homepage is here: http://mindstorms.lego.com/en-us/Default.aspx

Let me know if this is along the lines of what you're looking for or if I have the wrong idea. I'll try and help adjust suggestions accordingly.
I think you could say that designers are responsible for the psychological side of a product and developers are responsible for the technical side.

Developers might respond that they created a great product that solves a problem without any designers. To that my reply is that you then you have designed as well.