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"Lobbyists are there to ensure the interests of the organizations they represent are addressed."

Sure. Some of those organizations have interests that make the world a better place. You do know there are lobbyists out there working against SOPA, right?

I agree that financial influence is a problem, but only part of it has anything to do with campaign contributions and backscratching. Plain and simple, interests that have (or causes that attract) more money can afford to hire more people to actually do the lobbying work from research to face-to-face discussion (this is one reason why wealth distribution issues matter bigtime).

And in the meanwhile, fewer and fewer people do lobbying for any reason other than money. Or to put it another way, maybe the other half of the problem is that we're not all trying to be better lobbyists. I remember hearing an interview with Rep Bill Orton a while back (interesting guy -- a Democrat elected to Utah's 3rd district, one of the most conservative Republican districts out there) where he said his biggest surprise after election was how few "ordinary citizens" came to visit.
The financial industry runs on the fact that a tiny fraction of people have good credit. They love people like you who morally justify gouging poor people by saying "well, it's your own damn fault for having bad credit".

See also: http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-about-...
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Hit that mute button, fast.
I was in the UK when they had their lowedt voter turnout since World War 2. A couple of months later 9/11 happened and Tony Blair was leading the country into war. All of a sudden a lot of people who hadn't voted were saying "hang on... we're not sure we want this muppet in charge during wartime".

The problem is that not all elections are equally important, and it is easy for the voters to either (a) go to sleep at the wheel or (b) vote themselves more pork.
A more interesting headline would be "EllisLab adopts GPL incompatible licence for CodeIgniter 3.0+".
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Back porting native JSON support from SpiderMonkey 1.85 to SpiderMonkey 1.70
* What is "native JSON support"?
- The "JSON" object.
- "JSON.parse()" function which parse a JS object into JSON string.
- "JSON.stringify()" function which generate a JS object from a JSON string.

* Why?
- SpiderMonkey a widely used opensource JS engine.
- But the later version since v1.70 requires MinGW to build on Windows platform.
- v1.70 is the last version which is able to be compiled into a native Windows lib/dll, but it doesn't have native JSON support.

This project is to provide a native SpiderMonkey lib/dll on Windows with native JSON support.

* How to build?
- Open Visual Studio Command Prompt
- Debug build: nmake -f "js.mak" CFG="jsshell - Win32 Debug"
- Release build: nmake -f "js.mak" CFG="jsshell - Win32 Release"
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Since PHP arrays are within a factor of two for the theoretical optimum for a dynamically typed language that unifies arrays and hashes, all these languages (add javascript to the list) should have roughly comparable behaviour unless they do some ugly special casing for hashes where all keys are integers. [edit: see the comment by InfernalH for a measurement that indicates that ruby seems to do this.] You have to look that up in the relevant documentatio and/or source code. Perl on the other hand should fare better, as it distinguishes arrays and hahes.
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I'd bet that the belief of likelihood of prosecution for a drug crime is about the same as being sued by the RIAA or MPAA for most people. They're aware they could get in trouble, but it's unevenly enforced and unlikely to actually happen to them.

Regardless, I don't think the willful infringers are the most interesting group here. If user generated content really does lead to sites getting shut down in an unreasonable way (which is probably unlikely to actually happen), I think it's those groups that would be leading the charge to a next gen network, not the infringers.
Did anyone else even try running his suggested code? I think maybe he has a problem with his setup. I don't get those numbers.

My numbers for PHP 5.3.8:
Windows 7 -
8524568 bytes (using range)
3600584 bytes (using SplFixedArray)

Fedora 14 -
7724600 bytes (using range)
3200568 bytes (using SplFixedArray)

*edit - Added numbers for SplFixedArray
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Someone downmodded you for being offtopic, but I'll answer you anyway.

The name of the var doesn't matter at all. And you can change the type of a var at will. There is nothing at all in PHP that will be better if you avoid changing the type, so just do what is clearest for your program.
There's a variety of places from where we can get our news. For example, I'm super-concerned about the end result of the Euro crisis (which directly affects global businesses, such as the online businesses many of us are building, far more than is ever discussed here) -- but rather than looking for economic insight here, or posting articles about the matter here for discussion, I turn to the Financial Times, and talk to my friends who work in finance.

You have to find the best outlet for information and discussions regarding the topic at hand; as it stands, Hacker News is an excellent place for discussion about technical topics, but if we continue to have more of this mainstream-type stuff because of a more general audience that chooses to use this as their version of CNN, we're going to quickly alienate more technical-minded people who come here to avoid general news topics.

If you want this place to remain special, you have to keep it special.
Mozilla's browserid.org server is used for two things, currently:

- validating the signed authentication token you get back from calling the authentication function. As user "decentralized" points out, this is just a convenience; your service can do this itself if you don't mind getting your hands dirty with crypto code.

- Serving the JS shim for user-agents that don't implement navigator.id.getVerifiedEmail() natively. Once browsers implement this function themselves, and webmail systems can tell the browser that the user owns a particular email address, this won't be needed either.
Javascript also distinguishes arrays and hashmaps.
I am continually baffled, on almost a daily basis, that people continue to argue extremes. The secret to most things in life is balance. A balance between having a great product that solves problems, and good design, is the key. Sure, you can have success on both ends, but to truly shine you need a good balance of both.

Why is such a simple concept so hard for people to understand in practice?
Even Google knows one does not simply walk into Mordor
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Except their co-founder signed as the co-founder of the company. I would assume he's signing as a private citizen to say he's signing because he, and not the company he works for, sees it as a detriment.
This is a silly article. It once makes the fatal mistake of equating design with "pushing pixels". Solving the problem is part of the design process. Silly linkbait is silly.

Did I mention it's silly?
[] IS the append operator. And += only works right if both sides are arrays. If not the right side will be converted. += is really intended for hashmaps, not integer indexes, for those use [].
Bandwidth for the videos was provided by Amazon S3 directly[1]. So if he brought in half a million dollars in 5 days from selling his video at $5, that's 100,000 purchases, and if everyone only downloaded the 720p video at 1.2GB that's 30TB per day, hosted only at Amazon's Northern California location, it would end up costing almost $10,000 in bandwidth (priced as an entire month). Shit aint cheap, but at $5 each, he makes a decent profit. That's just for the 4 days he provided numbers for.

[1] The link download link ends up resolving to http://download.aws.louisck.net/ (even if you stuck the video filename on the end of that, it's a signed URL, so you're SOL unless you go through his website after paying him money)
Google sort of respects the header, but my experience has been that the behavior is odd.

I was working on adding localization to a web site, and so changed my headers to prefer Japanese. I accidentally left this on when I visited AdWords. I put English back to the top, but it took a week or so of manually changing the interface back to English for it to stick. Took one time to get it in Japanese, and about 50 to get it back to English.
Here's everything: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/index/0/
by definition, a high end professional services firm/contractor will probably not require an Elance style of job board site to find work. Simply word of mouth and/or reputation will be enough
You post a story. It gets voted up. It gets voted down. The site is never out of step with its users' interests, because it can't be.

So simple, and yet somebody is always there to complain about what should or should not be.

Why?
If you want something more explicit you probably want array_push($array,$val1,$val2,$val....);
Since we are discussing it here, is there anything in the book or elsewhere that discusses how you handle drag and drop events with Backbone? Specifically ones using jQuery UI? I was playing with it the other day and unable to find this.

If its in the book consider another copy sold.
A choice Hitch refusal to be cowed by the moronic and frivolous: http://youtu.be/HECI4QK_mXA
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Noam Chomsky quite well articulates what so greatly annoys me in the use of term "marxist". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4Tq4VE8eHQ

It has hardly any relation to the original context or meaning of the writings of one Karl Marx.
Anticipating yet another Streisand effect.
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> If you want this place to remain special, you have to keep it special.

I agree with, but this is also #1 story on the frontpage right now, which makes your statement not indictment a flood of "bad" content in the "new" section, but an indictment the HN population for upvoting it. If HNers didn't believe it was relevant content, why vote it up in the first place? HN is small enough that I just have a lot of trouble believing this is the result of user dilution.
Not sure exactly what you were trying. Using the [] syntax is common for appending elements (using the next available key). Otherwise you can use the array functions (array_push/pop/etc). As for plain operators, here is how PHP handles array operators: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.array.php
Didn't Iceland recently pass some exceptionally strong media protection and free speech legislation? I believe Wikileaks helped substantially in the development of the law
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I wrote a static page publishing system in the mid-nighties. They're harder to do than dynamic based systems -- calculating which pages link to a given page and need to be updated, say when a title changes, is a pain.

I think static page based systems are needed less now due better hardware performance and the introduction of memcache.

That said, static page systems are very reliable. Even when the CMS goes down people still get content.

If your site is small enough to export the whole thing on every update there are systems such as Jekyll and Hyde.
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How does it compare to Microsoft Passport?

How does it compare to client-side certificates?
Reposting, the other link seemed to only work in the UK. Hopefully this works.
I don't mean to sound petty or ungrateful for the link, but is there some other source of this, one that is visible outside of the US?

Even better would be if it didn't require Flash.
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Your characterization of both is wrong.
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It's decentralized and the UX is usable, respectively.
Focus on what matters, age isn't probably the main concern. Maybe a 35yr gap affects the expectations that each founder has in terms of dedication and outcome, but shouldn't you be talking about it anyway independently of the age gap?

My advice is to focus on what matters and forget about age. Is it a good personal fit? Do you have fun working together? Do you have the same expectations? Can you agree on equity share? Do both founders add value?

In brief, just make sure you can be good partners.
How much money can I earn from recycling my toner cartridges?
So far in 2010+ GreenTech have paid thousands of recyclers+ tens of thousands of pounds for recycling their waste inkjet and toner printer cartridges.
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It occurred to me why people don't value intelligence as much as perseverance. IQ gives you instantaneous understanding of a problem. However, whatever advantage this might give, the fact that it is intelligence over time that matters. And while the Einsteins of the world may look at a problem and have an instant epiphany, it takes only moments of thinking for every one else to derive the same conclusion. To really have an advantage, Einstein would need to be in an environment where everyone else can't keep up, where an epiphany is necessary to succeed. This is not how business works. In business things are comparatively slow and steady and there is a right course of action that can be discovered in time. While Einstein might see a strategy instantly, Joe average can spend a couple hours and come to the same conclusion. In either case it may take months to implement.
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JavaScript engines have many types of arrays. They do indeed resort to "ugly special casing" for objects in which all keys are integers: for instance, SpiderMonkey calls them "dense arrays". V8 has a similar optimization. Likewise, Lua stores a hashtable part and an array part for all objects.

V8 and SpiderMonkey have optimizations for the values, too. When a value is a 31-bit integer (in the case of V8) or any number (in the case of SpiderMonkey), the value itself is optimized to avoid heap allocation. In V8's case optimized values take 32 bits, while in SpiderMonkey's case optimized values take 64 bits. So an array consisting of 100,000 integers will take 400K plus a negligible amount of malloc/GC slop in V8 and 800K in SpiderMonkey.

JavaScript also has typed arrays, which allow the programmer to use fine-grained, optimized array buffers. Performing this experiment with a typed array will yield a 400K buffer in all engines that support the feature.
I was surprised that Sebastian Thrun is not on the inventors' list. At least two CMU robotics types are among those on the list. Perhaps it speaks to the depth of Google's robotics expertise?
if you're talking on the train, people know what you say, the other side is still pretty private.

with open radio, anyone on the train could be saving a hi-fi copy of the entire conversation.

in your analogy, he would have to be pushing a recorder between your ear and phone. very different from sitting in your door steps.

but i agree, the current system is crappy. I never bother to use bluetooth. but removing pairing instead of fixing is dumb.
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Went to go play soccer with engineers, designers and business folks as a team and come back to this...alas I guess you put out positive energy into the universe and it's natural to get negative too...why would you even say 'design is horseshit,' that's totally unproductive, polarizes people, and disrespects a LOT of people... who would post something saying 'engineering is horseshit'? Just doesn't make sense, and I'm an engineer too...why not collaborate and work together? Our disciplines and skills regardless of general titles are just means to hopefully create meaningful impact, drop the ego...of course I agree with you that a product/service that's useful is better than something that just looks like art, duh, so stop firing up an age-old tired conflict, I think we've evolved past bickering and being bullies by now...instead of welcoming peers who can create value with you... you're comments are what keep designers out of working with startups...

Also, we specifically use the word co-founder in the title and say: "Nearly every designer founder has a technical co-founder and some have technical backgrounds which furthers the importance of multidisciplinary collaboration" and we're encouraging more hyper productive designer-hacker dyads...I think the reality is that most of brilliant people here in Silicon Valley are scared to get out of their comfort zone and work on really hard unglamorous problems, especially those of the other %99, because the feedback loops we've created promote the beautiful novelties and vanity consumerism versus sustainable businesses with positive social impact, so again I agree with you...

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works." Did you read previous comment citing Jesse Schell? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3359218 and specific skills we modern designers in tech need http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3358880

Have you read the software design manifesto by Mitch Kapor http://hci.stanford.edu/publications/bds/1-kapor.html

Highly recommend exploring design ethnography and user research methods that focus on value discovery and value creation eg that's why places like IDEO thrive...

Also do you know we're related through Cookpad? I'm disappointed and surprised by our statements which seem at odds with your company values...
Sure, ip geolocation is a very strong hint about what languge should be used. But being logged in and having set the language should override everything else, and I don't see how a hypothetical shared computer scenario would change that. It's a shame that's not always the case on some Google sites, though you can usually work around it for a while by adding a hl=en URL parameter.
For anyone looking for a quick way to get a handle on who he was search YouTube for "hitchslap".
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I don't think that's the right way to look at it. You doing your work isn't about just making someone else rich. It's about doing your job and hopefully doing something you enjoy or love. Building something you believe in, working with people you enjoy being around, and getting paid an amount you're happy with, among other things.

It shouldn't matter whether or not your work is making someone else richer or not. Just because you believe in a corporate environment it has less influence than a startup doesn't change the equation. You're there to do a job and paid to do just that. If you don't enjoy your work, don't feel you're getting paid what you're worth, or feel dissatisfied in any other way, find another job, start your own company, or do something that will make you happy about what you do and how much you earn.

The fact that someone is successful base on you doing your job should never be a reason to be demotivated, especially if you did the exact same job in a big company or elsewhere and don't feel the same way. It's like getting jealous over someone elses' success rather than focusing on your own success, whatever that means to you. I would suggest finding your own happiness, and pursuing that, rather than focus on things that don't matter.
loads of v high traffic sites run just wordpress (although, most will have a cache plugin). its not really a problem in 2011. having a static version of a site would cause lots of problems. typically have to really refresh every single file on the whole site whenever an edit is made (to make sure everything is up to date. you could work out what pages need to be updated really, but depending on complexity of the cms it could be a daunting task)

just use whatever cms you want to (or write your own) and write even a simple cache script for it, or run something like memcache
An appeal to web developers and producers
An appeal to web producers (and a rant)

When you produce a developer screencast or record a local developer meetup, conference, speech, please spare a momemt to give consideration to hosting. It is not out of the realms of possibility that the end result - the video - will be viewed in dozens of countries, with varying levels of bandwidth, across a range of operating system, display profiles and even different devices, some people might watch some today, some tomorrow, some people might download it for the flight ahead etc..

So please for the love of God, do not use Vimeo or Blip or other niche video site.

YouTube is fine!! Understood?

Why not Vimeo? All others developer celebrities use it?

To me it seems there is a sheep factor following with Vimeo, it is essentially a crappy off the shelf flash video player, pulling video from their akamai CDN account, with various little tricks in place to prevent you downloading the video. Most annoyingly, you cant skip the video until its downloaded, you cant imagine how frustrating this in in low bandwidth when you mistakenly close the tab. If you want to watch the last 10 minutes of a presentation you have to wait until download, this might
not be a problem for those watching from a coffee shop in Silicon Valley, but try South East Asia. This is VHS, without the fast forward. It sucks. Granted work started to improve this 7 years ago, and now
the buggy HTML5 player is showing some promise (skip works some of the time), but for now stick with YouTube so we dont have to jump through hoops.

Why not blip.tv?

Poorer CDN and no player for most mobile devices, Blip for some crazy reason has started developing apps not for specific platform but for specific devices. But at least they got random access (skipping) in place. Works from Android tablet - nope - not invented here.

But YouTube is not cool? SomeRailsBlog, Skillsmatter, DevFanBoy1 etc.. have a paid Vimeo account - i should do the same!

Look YouTube is fine, if you want to send $50pa to Google you still can. If you worry about the youtube kids leaving childish comments then disable comments or embed the video into you site with disqus etc..

YouTube so great?

I can skip the video freely, on both the Flash and HTML5 player. No configuration or setting to change.
I can disconnect from a wifi node and connect to annother, change IP, disable/enable proxy, and then Youtube videos picks up and carries on. Try this vimeo- #fail
A fantastic CDN, probably the best in the world, I spot new unadvertised new edge nodes shooting up across the world every few months (e.g. TOT - Thailand).
Free transcoding down to as low as 240p. Upload in HD and you video will have 3 or 4 rates, not just normal and HQ.
No need to sign in.
There exists a multitude of online downloaders, installable downloader, and even CLI downloader (see youtube-dl) that means I can save a video for the plane, train etc.. try finding one for Vimeo that works for more than a week.

But hey if your content is that important, DRM it and stick it behind a pay wall, not this shitty compromise
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I think the bill makes it illegal for a US entity to do that.