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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.

From its context, I'm guessing samdk is saying:

> Ruby's hash and array implementations are similar [to Python's dict and list]

not that they're similar to one another, which would make absolutely no sense considering his comment starts with:

> Python and Ruby both have separate arrays and hashes.

so I'd say you agree with him and misread his comment.
here's why: http://business.financialpost.com/2011/09/08/why-many-contes...
You are right about the 4 min, but there is no such a thing as a flight mode button. Normal, alternate and direct law change automatically depending the number of computers or inputs available. There is a big red ALTERNATE LAW at the HSI, also a big red STALL. The problem is not that they where in alternate law, is that they used the wrong maneuver to recover the plane.
I'd go further and suggest that a lot of atheists would echo the hope that there is some kind of fabulous immortality beyond the grave, it's just that the concept is, upon examination, absurd.
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I'd say that piracy creates way more jobs than it does destroy them. Maybe not only American jobs, sure, but we live in a globalized world. Nationalism won't do away with that, either.

Also, who's loosing their job, really? RIAA lawyers? Entertainment industry bureaucrats? Excuse me for being snarky, but oh no what a tremendous loss for society!
While not relevant, the yellow color while selecting text makes it unreadable. (Yes, I select/highlight the text that I'm reading.)
Prior to WWII, though, pink was usually associated with boys' clothes and blue with girls' clothes. So that doesn't fly.

I find it interesting how many people assume the current cultural preferences that are less than a century old have some hundreds-of-thousands of years of biological conditioning behind them...... Why is there a need to ground these things in biology? Why not look at culture as culture, and recognize that large parts of it are entirely biologically arbitrary, but that they fit together in meaningful ways?
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Seems like Twitter censored it from the trending spot; a pity.
Atul Gawande wrote the Checklist Manifesto (http://gawande.com/the-checklist-manifesto) which goes into a lot more detail about all this. I would thoroughly recommend reading it if you want to improve how you get stuff done.
But which should also open up UMG and / or YouTube to the restraining order which MegaUpload have asked for. If the takedown wasn't anything to do with the DMCA, then they can't invoke DMCA rules governing penalties for abuse of the takedown system.

So, far as I can see as a non-lawyer, UMG are in trouble either way. If it's a DMCA request then they've perjured themselves because they don't own the content. If it's not a DMCA request then they're open to standard civil court provisions and restraining orders, and will likely get sued for restraint of trade or similar.
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We need to know what your goals are before giving answers, customer acquisition and company exposure are two different goals with two different strategies.
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Am I the only one to think that is nothing but free advertising?

Come on, a link to 'click here to buy' page? I don't understand how this got to the first page. This is not so honest because the title is totally misleading. The link does not point to recipes with backbone.js. A more honest title would be "buy recipes to backbone.js", which is what the link actually point to.

Might be a great book, but this kind of marketing totally puts me off, I will not buy a product that is advertised with such techniques.
Cool thread, I like the new CSS layout of Reddit here.
The same, btw, is true in Germany. Germany has western law, which means that before you are responsible 3 things have to be true :
1) you must have violated the law
2) someone must have actually lost money, life or property. Trespassing is perfectly A-OK in undeveloped desert.
3) there must be some direct causal connection between 1 and 2 (this is in practice the trickiest part)

This means that the parent poster is not right. There are tons of cases where nobody is responsible in German road accidents. For instance, an emergency vehicle somehow causes 2 other vehicles to collide. Result: nobody responsible, government pays (even if the emergency vehicle was not part of the government, e.g. an ambulance of a catholic hospital)

The problem with these laws is a little further down the road : who is responsible for algorithms that get lost under perfectly predictable conditions that are forbidden by law ?

An example would be an autonomous car driving off a cliff because a road led straight to the ledge without the government having planted the legally required indicator on the road (same for road works ...).

Or autonomous cars having unavoidable accidents, which are due more to the state of the road (doubly complicated on private roads) than to any property of the car or driver.

And what if an autonomous car is accepted into society, and after a few years every type of accident except one is almost unheard of. The one that is heard of ? Human error, of course (and human malice). Probable result, in a machine-human collision 99.99% of the time, judges will simply blame the human (as will everybody else btw. "Why were you even driving ?"). Eventually imho this will lead to outlawing controlling your own vehicle (just look at what is considered safe driving in "I, Robot". Wouldn't you agree that it's extremely irresponsible to drive yourself under those circumstances ?)

What with autonomous cars with hacked algorithms ? Hacked by the owner, or worse, a third party. Worse even, an unknown third party.
very interesting concept. Very neat UI. A quick way to get what people are thinking on various social nets.
how would the satellite in space detect a jam on the ground ? we're talking gps jamming. state your source
There are three of us and we span three generations in terms of age. The age doesn't 'matter as much as the motivation and drive to succeed as has been said. The younger ones have the tech savvy, the older ones accumulated business acumen, I think there is a nice balance with that diversity of experience but then again, I am in the middle of it.
The OpenID spec divulges who you are.

How so? As far as I know, the only mandatory information is the OpenID identifier (the URL you need to input to authenticate). While more information can be exchanged, that's completely optional and up to the user. For example, MyOpenID always asks what "persona" - if any - you want to send when you authenticate.

BrowserID is no better: you need to input your email address.
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Ask HN: I'm looking for a good graphic illustrator
Criteria:
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- Can add/improve/rework an existing concept
- is great with type (also retro)
- has humour in their work

- Can design for web (but does not necessarily need to implement) and work with someone who'll do the tech bits.

- flexible on price...

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> Unlike car accidents, which are often blamed on driver (and thus human) error, airplane crashes are considered engineering failures...

Forgive me if I'm misunderstanding something about the way these accidents are investigated and understood, but directly after this the author goes on to cite Air France 447, which many of us have by now read about in Popular Science, among other sources I'm sure, wherein it's made clear that that particular flight fell into the ocean for no other reason than a persistence fault on the part of the copilot who had control of the plane. So how does that qualify as an engineering error and not simply human error? Could the author mean by "engineering" such an abstraction as the engineering of flight training?
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Forget design. I want performance and reliability. GUI's failed to deliver. Some users avoid the command line at all costs. I avoid GUI's at all costs. I've found the costs are minimal while the benefits are substantial.
The OP links to the Popular Mechanics article in the first paragraph. I don't think it was intended as a replacement for the Popular Mechanics article, but as an addition to it.
The christian concept of heaven is not very attractive if you are not a christian.

While there are different interpretations, the common is that heaven is an eternal non-physical state of being together with God (the god of the Bible), perhaps even "absorbed" by this god.

The god of the Bible is racist, jaloux, blood-thirsty and opposed to critical thinking, and among other things calls for human sacrifice, genocide and killing babies. (Read the Bible if you dont believe me.)

Now, if you are christian you might think this is all justified and fair, but for an atheist, an eternity of being together with this being (without any possibility of rebellion or critical thinking) might seem more like a never ending nightmare.

Furthermore, it is generally agreed that there is no kind of physical pleasure in the heaven - no sex, no sunshine or rain, no books, no Johnny Walker Black Label. The only pleasure is being together with and eternally worshipping the aforementioned god. Who would in good conscience wish this for Hitchens?
Hey - I like doing this but find the power consumption of my laptop goes through the roof, and it gets uncomfortably warm. Does anyone have any tricks for beating this? I've just upgraded to latest vmware but haven't deliberately tested this yet.
Dang. Fixed the TOC. Thanks for pointing that out. Nick and I will discuss making the intro available.

We are targeting intermediate / advanced Backbone.js developers. That is, you should read this after you've read the tutorials and after your first Backbone app.

The recipes are real life lessons learned from a highly traffic'd Backbone site. These recipes comprise what we have learned as we made the leap to the next level of Backbone coding. We hope they will help others do the same.
Does python have standard implementation of odict already?

It's nice that Python and Ruby have data structures that trade some features for some memory and/or performance gain.
Are we supposed to hold off on improving our averages while we wait for other countries to catch up?
Uh, from the "How BrowserID works" page:

The user stores the keypair and certificate locally.
Microsoft once more does a fully automated update? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

On the same note, it literally pisses me off how companies decide to intervene with my software installation. Allowing an "opt-out" is worth as much as Google allowing me to opt out of mapping my access point by renaming it.

We are observing a notable shift where personal(!) computers and devices are being turned into consumer devices that we have no control over. Not to speak about the privacy related side effects.

Please, please, please let there soon be a pro-version of Linux on the desktop before the support cycle of Snow Leopard runs out.
Graphic design is multi-faceted and isn't just the process of creating pretty pictures. It's a holistic process encompassing form and function
If we're to argue that citizens could allocate up to $50 spread between candidates in any election in which they are eligible to vote, and that shall be the only permitted funding, what's the point in having votes at all; have we not just defined a preferential voting system?
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Or in Galois case a duel.
And I feel it adds nothing to it, plus it hurts my eyes, for reasons explained in my second link.

Also, pretty pathetic I'm downvoted for personal preferences and opinions.
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And yet Firefox and Chrome have no problem releasing modern browsers that work on XP.
Soon as I get a working ruby 1.9 (hello Ubuntu Hardy!), I'll be giving this a good going over. Looks very handy.
That's what I've been thinking. And I think that's something that should be promoted more. Laws like this, aren't going to break the internet per se, but they might break it in the USA. Politicos should learn that laws like this threaten the USA tech sector. Might as well move your servers & companies off shore.
I agree that the PDF formatting leaves something to be desired. We are using the OSS git-scribe (https://github.com/schacon/git-scribe) toolchain for producing PDF, Mobi, and ePub. I have already put a ton of work into the toolchain to make it better (http://japhr.blogspot.com/search/label/git-scribe). Most of that work, however, was to help get the Mobi and ePub versions up to snuff.

I plan to take a week or so in the very near future to again focus on improving the toolchain. Hopefully some, if not all, of your valid criticisms will get addressed.
Well, people can go download jdk7 themselves... but that doesn't really solve the problem that the article is describing.
Most MPs were not present for the debate, but simply voted according to their party line.

That's the case in UK politics. The 'party whip' is used, and only in uncommon cases is a 'free vote' allowed.
Thank you all for the advice. I've installed PHP, Python, and RoR. PHP took the longest to get up and running properly so I would have just wasted all that time if I didn't at least try to use it right? Also just looking at the number of applications that use PHP versus the others, I guess I will start with that. I used to know HTML/CSS pretty well, but that was 5 years ago. I never went much deeper into the web development world.

Again thank you all for your advice.
I find that a stimulating comment because for me, not one tiny iota of what is good and bad about us comes from our genes. Our genes are the cards we are dealt with when we are born. How good and bad we are is seen in how we respond to that initial start.
To say it's our genes that make us good sounds close to the stream of thought that believes in certain races being 'better' than others etc.
It was some form of:

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on an Apple ][ GS when I was ~6 years old.
I watched this last night, really good viewing. Especially poignant was the ending where the protagonist traded in his morals for a comfortable life and fame. It evoked feelings of disappointment that he was so cheaply bought off, the same kind of disappointment i felt at the end of 1984 when Winston was re-educated.

In some ways it was a case of reductio ad absurdum, but the more you look how popular culture is evolving the more it seems like a logical, yet depressing, conclusion - people's constant pre-occupation with celebrity culture and seeking fame even if it means selling themselves cheaply. I also enjoyed how it captured how people like Simon Cowell are exploitative and manipulative when it comes to shows like the X factor, it's audience and it's contestants.

The big irony was that i watched it online, meaning the show was interspersed with adverts which i could not skip. Made me laugh, i expect Charlie Brooker foresaw this as to further solidify his vision
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The case lays out the current understanding of Congress's power over commerce:

"Consistent with this structure, we have identified three broad categories of activity that Congress may regulate under its commerce power... First, Congress may regulate the use of the channels of interstate commerce... Second, Congress is empowered to regulate and protect the instrumentalities of interstate commerce, or persons or things in interstate commerce, even though the threat may come only from intrastate activities... Finally, Congress' commerce authority includes the power to regulate those activities having a substantial relation to interstate commerce, i.e., those activities that substantially affect interstate commerce."
I found Podio to be pretty good. You can manage several projects. you can download templates or roll your own.
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Keep your money then, we do not discuss drag and drop in the book :)

Have you already seen this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7328265/jquery-draggable-... ?
That's too much of a simplicistic view. I'll give an example.

A family brings their children to McDonald's, often. McDonald's blasts large amounts of marketing in the children's head.
The children grow up and become adults.
The adults frequently go to McDonald's.

Is fast food what they want? Or is it what the past generation's powerful marketing wanted?

It's a grey area, without any obvious answers.

Naturally, kudos to Steve for his pompous rethor... ahem, for his powerful and revealing words.
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I assume so. If the integers fit in 31 or 63 bits, depending on your architecture, they are inlined in the pointer.
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nobody's ever heralds a well-functioning program as "functions well" though, they say it's designed well or has good usability.
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3. The end user will have to sign away any legal rights to recourse and/or the government(s) will have to amend statutory rights accordingly before the first cars hit the road.

Since the end user will probably not be the plaintiff "The care you made owned by my neighbor ran over my son!" it will have to be a statutory fix IMO.

Question: How do you get "hundreds of thousands of lives per year?" How much safer do you expect these to be and where do you expect them to be driven?
In that case they only hurt Dwolla, not any merchants or payers. Their money seems to be legally secure:

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I don't know what it's like in the USA, but setting up a "phony bank account" depends on a small list of crimes to be commited before...
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"After 15 years it still ran perfectly", that's because the language is still 15 years old.

Java is at best, write once, test everywhere.
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Here's the problem with the "plenty of startups are successful with virtually no design at all" argument:

It ignores the special nature of the customer.

To talk about these successful startups, or design in general, as if there is one true answer is like talking about price. You can't have price without value, you can't have value without the exact customer in mind, so gabbling on about it in the abstract is an utter waste of time.

SOME customers are totally insensitive to good user interface, good flow, good product education, etc. They don't care if there are features which are pleasantly surprising. They don't care if they have to wade through poorly laid out, confusing forms, or configure things when smart assumptions could be made for them instead, etc., etc., etc. They are so desperate, or otherwise so used to using crap, that they just don't care. These people are also insensitive to visual design.

And ALL those things distinctly fall under "design."

MOST customers do not act like that. They crave software which is a pleasure to use, that anticipates their needs and provides them with things they never would have thought to ask for but later cannot live without, software that saves them massive amounts of time, software which prevents or eliminates anxiety & stress, software that doesn't make them do shit work, etc.

Software, in other words, which is well-designed.

The visual styling on top is a bonus -- these customers like pretty things -- but as long as it's not butt ugly, software with all those other features will do well with the majority of potential customers.

If it's pretty, the effect is multiplied. Some customers don't care or even actively dislike attractive things, but they are not the majority.

Whether or not total crap design will work for you wholly depends on who you're trying to get to give you money.
If it isn't the Thoughtbot one, could you please provide a link to your book?
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Honestly, I hope there isn't immortality in heaven beyond the grave. Forever is a really long time. The first 1000 years in heaven might be interesting. The billion years after that? meh
"So there was very little I agreed with him on.
But I'm terribly upset about this and I'll tell you why.
Because of his willingness to debate."

Thank you for this -- too many people value protecting their own beliefs/friends more than they value critical thought and challenging ones own beliefs. R.I.P. Chris
Probably because client-based SSL certificates have been around forever, but no-one uses them.

Probably not a coincidence either, my bank used to rely on client side certificates but gave up after, I guess, an insane amount of support calls.
I love this one: "MY PHONE CRASHED AND I NEED MY DATA. CAN’T FIND MY BACKUPS. PLEASE CALL ME!!!"

I've seen reviews like this, it boggles the mind.
So. You definitely know the difference between visual design and interaction/workflow design.

Why the flamebait?
The thoughbot book is available here: https://workshops.thoughtbot.com/backbone-js-on-rails. Great stuff going on there -- heartily recommend it.