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It is the same for Javascript: even though you have an Array object that you can instantiate instead of the more generic Object, they are much the same thing under the hood with both arrays and objects being hash maps [you can use the two interchangably to an extent (if you don't need the extra functinos defined by the array prototype) - references object properies in an hash-like manner or array contents the same way as object properties].

I suspect a number of languages have simiar memory (in)efficiency with their array types because the arrays are implemented this way (and the stuff stored in each slot is untyped so you'll not just store that integer, at very least the engine will need a marker that identifies it as an integer rather than something else).

The high memory use is one of the prices you pay for the type flexibility.
I just can't believe the stall warning sounded continuously for 54 seconds and he just ignored that. WTH was he thinking the stall warning was for?
Leonhard Euler:

Born: 1707

completes masters in philosophy: 1723

lost vision in right eye: 1735
Solved 7 bridges problem: 1736

publish Introductio in analysin infinitorum, volume 1: 1748 [2]

Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory: 1750
Euler's Formula (geometry): 1750 [1]

publish Institutiones calculi differentialis: 1755 [2]

near total blindness: 1766

publish Theoria motuum lunae: 1768

[1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/
[2] http://eulerarchive.maa.org/historica/euler-timeline.html

There's plenty more that's left out. After his near-total blindness, he averaged publishing one mathematical paper per week in 1775. To assume you or I are like Euler is hubris. To assume otherwise is doing a disservice to humanity.
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Christopher is largely dismissive of the life-extension techniques that transhumanists espouse, such as cryogenic preservation

I should have been clearer:

"Christopher Hitchens believes that most of the techniques that transhumanists think will lead to radically longer lifespans will not work."

I think that we are not in disagreement.
It has in fact been shown in countless studies that corticosteroids (stress hormones that are released in situations like the ones I described in the article) cause cognitive deficits in humans and other animals. Here is one slightly strange example:

The present study investigated the acute effects of cortisol administration in normal healthy male volunteers on immediate free recall and recognition of pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral nouns using a between-subjects double-blind design. Two hours after cortisol (10 mg) or placebo administration, impaired recall and recognition of neutral and pleasant words was found in the treatment group, whereas recall and recognition of unpleasant words was similar in both groups.

See: http://ukpmc.ac.uk/abstract/MED/12820857/reload=0;jsessionid...
I don't see how unions could save space, care to explain?
If you have multiple items of which you're only going to store one at a time but want them in the same "structure" then you use a union. (i.e. temporally disjoint)
According to the descriptions the stall alarm sounded for a full 4m30s, 75 times!
I also don't want one, but if someone said "I hope there's a heaven so that he will have gone to it" after I'm dead I wouldn't call that disrespectful in the slightest.
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IANAL, but wouldn't this form some kind of tortious interference? Any lawyers care to provide some insight?
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Read SPIN Selling by Neil Rackham instead of this (crappy) article, if you're selling "major sales".

http://www.amazon.com/Major-Account-Sales-Strategy-Rackham/d... is good, but SPIN Selling itself is a better intro.
You could write the exact same rant about engineers in response to an info graphic titled "Did you know about billions worth of value created by tech startups with technical co-founders?"
Rose Blumkin is the classic American-immigrant-rags-to-riches-by-hard-work story. I loved this bit:

"Omaha retailers began to recognize that Mrs. B would offer customers far better deals than they had been giving, and they pressured furniture and carpet manufacturers not to sell to her. But by various strategies she obtained merchandise and cut prices sharply. Mrs. B was then hauled into court for violation of Fair Trade laws. She not only won all the cases, but received invaluable publicity. At the end of one case, after demonstrating to the court that she could profitably sell carpet at a huge discount from the prevailing price, she sold the judge $1400 worth of carpet."

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yes. The proof that pi is transcendental is hardly trivial. This was one of the three major milestones for my Galois Theory class.

Even proving that it's irrational is nontrivial
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Not sure why I was downvoted. I meant to say I found GP's post to be profound:

The ad is a window into the soul of their company, unfortunate perhaps, but hardly arrogant.
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Your company surely makes a ton of money. Otherwise it would burn to the ground in mere weeks. The story you're telling sounds terribly expensive.
He says that piracy is rampant in the pornography industry but that taxpayer's money should not go towards protecting their IP. He even goes so far as to call pornographic websites illegitimate businesses.

All of this is presented as self evident; there is no need to explain why tax payers money must go towards protecting the IP of the movie industry and not of pornographers.

Just another ridiculous thing to add to the mess that is SOPA.

Luckily, another senator points out that this would pretty much mean that we are allowing some kinds of IP to be rampantly posted and not others, and regardless of personal objections to the material, this is not ok. Unfortunately, all these people are working off of the basic (wrong) assumption that SOPA will actually stop piracy.
This has been mentioned in other articles about the crash, including ones that have been posted in HN.

Under normal conditions, when the flight computer is receiving airspeed and other telemetry normally, the fly-by-wire Airbus operates under "normal law", a mode where the pilot controls the aircraft but the flight computer prevents stalling and other dangerous situations. In this case, the pitot tube was frozen and the flight computer didn't receive proper airspeed data and went into "alternate law" mode, where the pilot controls the craft and there are no computer enforced limits. The co-pilot with the controls had probably not flown the aircraft under alternate law or incorrectly believed that he was operating under normal law, and had never heard the stall warning before. So either he thought that the stall warning was false and just another instrument malfunction or he just didn't understand it's meaning in the confusion.
All these claims are coming from UMG. I am cynical of most things the major media companies say w.r.t. copyright & internet based on their poor track record. So I would not put it past them to be exadurating the truth here.

Is there any word from YouTube confirming this?
Actually, the upcoming C1X standard makes type punning via union legal. In C99, alias analysis works behaves exactly as you said, but using unions to convert between floats and ints is so common that it's legal in C1X, VC++, and I believe gcc.
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Another individual conflating design with aesthetic styling. The article has plenty of merit but it is lost in the continuing abuse of what the practice of design is.
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It's only always a full-blown object in CPython. Smarter implementations, notably PyPy, will do escape analysis, and never actually end up allocating those objects.

(My point is that not having unboxed types does not imply being a memory hog. You just need a smarter implementation.)
The majority of creation in many fields happen without a promise of getting paid.

Only a tiny minority of authors ever manage to sell their novels. Even a lot of successful published novels only gets out there because of the sheer persistence of the author in question in getting past rejection, not because of writing quality (a favorite anecdote of mine is how John Irving attempted repeatedly to get one of the short stories attributed to the fictional Garp published, only to get rejected over an over; in The World According to Garp, the short story in question was rejected, and John Irving had written a rejection letter for it. In the end he substituted one of the actual rejection letters for it. The short story went on to win a price in its own right)

Only a tiny minority of musicians ever get a record deal.

If anything, the current system is so focused on promoting the "big ones" that a lot of great creative works goes unknown because the big money goes towards building a culture focused on the top few.

It might not be the case in all fields (I happen to like a lot of the expensive effect-laden Hollywood movies, for example, and I have a harder time figuring out how the economics would work for that), but it is most decidedly not a given that creativity and innovation would be stifled in every fields. Some are likely to flourish.
I disagree. Many people leave windows in favor of Ubuntu for increased security against virus and malware.

I agree that there could be more transparent feedback to the user who probably will never check to see what's being update and why, but I don't think this reads like comedy at all.
I see. Then I lay the claim that Hitchens did not have enough medical expertise to know what will or will not work, and conditional on something working, he would have espoused it, and conditional on it not working, he would have not have espoused it. As such, I further lay the claim that he would have been in favor of allowing people to evaluate the underlying science for themselves, in case he made a mistake and it does work.
If they can already do stuff like this, the damage done under SOPA in the next few years could be unimaginable. Now I really don't want SOPA to pass, even if it has 30 "improvements"/amendments. The content owners have clearly demonstrated us that they are not responsible enough to use such power over the Internet.

It confirms what I've been thinking that even though they talk high and mighty that they do care about having an equal partnership with Silicon Valley and they want to help innovation, and freedom of speech - those are just words. They really don't give a f*ck about anything else. They just want supreme power to take down anything they don't like at will.

Any new music oriented site or video site that don't pay them as much as they are getting now from their most lucrative businesses per unit of content, would be shut down at launch. Why bother with new business models that could be great for the consumer, but give you less revenue, when you can just maintain the status quo?

And no wonder the TV cable companies want SOPA, too. If they had it in the past Youtube wouldn't exist now, and they wouldn't have had to create Hulu, which has been mainly a painful experience for them, because they really just want people to keep watching TV. Hulu was just a reaction to Youtube.
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This is a fairly straightforward matter of whether his statement is right or wrong, I don't think it's fair or helpful to describe it as "particularly arrogant".

I agree that in general, people's understanding of human physiology tends to be simplistic and wrong.

But Dustin's description here aligns with what is generally known and accepted, and he doesn't venture details beyond what anyone with with a sound understanding of physiology could reasonably claim to know.

If he's wrong, that would be easy to prove, in which cas you should do so, so he can amend his post.
Christoper Hitchens. Rest in Peace. One of the most articulate people, always incisive, even when I disagreed with him.

I saw Hitchens speak at the New York Public Library, as part of their Live! series. Everyone retired to the garden afterwards, to take drinks.

I spoke with Hitchens briefly. He called Mother Theresa "a bitch". I criticized his diction and argued that bitch was the wrong epithet. I don't recall my exact argument, but he conceded my point. I was elated, given that I considered (and still consider) Hitchens one of the most eloquent orators of our generation. In deference to him and his passing, I have mulled my choice of language in this comment.

I am still grateful that I had the chance to engage this great polemicist.
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Great narrative, but factually wrong on at least two accounts:

>If the pilots has switched a button to re-enable autopilot, everyone on board would have lived. But they didn’t. One co-pilot made a single, absurd mistake–for twenty full minutes–that brought the plane down.

First factual error: The button they should've switched is not the auto-pilot button (which they operate many times per flight), but the flight mode button (which most pilots never operate in their career). When the plane lost at least two of the three pitot tube readings, it went from the NORMAL "Law" to the ALT "Law", where the airplane doesn't guard itself against many pilot errors. When the pitots de-iced shortly thereafter, the plane did NOT go back to NORMAL "Law": it had to be switched there manually. The pilots did not do that and it seems to be the consensus so far (can't state that for certain before the official report is released) that they did not realize they were flying the plane in ALT and then DIRECT Law.

Second factual error: the "absurd mistake" lasted nowhere near 20 minutes. The first problem appeared at 2:10:03UTC and flying into the ocean occurred at 2:14:28UTC -- 4 minutes 23 seconds in all.
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I think that when you write for yourself for that many years, you generate a really strong character. If there is an agency involved, then they have really good writers that understand how to write for his voice, which is in itself a huge challenge.

Louis CK is also famous for his work ethic. This amount of copy may seem like a ton to someone that is used to working with clients that always deliver late (not saying you do, but that was my experience when I did web work). I don't think this amount of copy is that hard for a working comedian, especially one as hard working as Louis.
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gcc does in some cases but not all (see http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/Optimize-Options... but not all).

Still, the current standard says it's not legal so it seems like a bad idea to rely on undefined behaviour...
You keep using that word.
I don't think this word means what you think it means.
>> i don't think that's a decision the developers should make for the users

Seeing the current state of security in many non-updated Windows machines has me disagree with that. Even Microsoft is increasingly changing this kind of 'the users know better' policy in favor of deliberatly securing the system.
The thing about 32k is that after taxes and overhead, it really isn't that much. That is 3 people working for 3 months. And the fact that this website didn't fall over when half a million people hit it means that they were doing something right.
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This is pure speculation, but I would imagine this song is getting a lot more publicity because of UMG's attempts to remove it. I certainly doubt that I would have ever come across it without reading about the fight on countless blogs.
I've been using Rackspace cloud for a couple of clients and reckon they're lagging far behind Amazon and the other providers. They've bet the farm on the OpenStack project but given the number of players involved (over a hundred!) the pace of progress is glacial. It lacks really fundamental features (no private backend network, no elastic load balancing, no [public] support for elastic IP's) and these problems make it a pain to use for all but small projects.

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Your essay is well written, I agree with the premise of it and you clearly know a bit about biology. But I still think it's important that when we make these general claims of scientific fact we point to the giants whose shoulders we're standing on. Maybe it's just the ex-scientist in me, and if so, apologies. I appreciate you found a cortisol related article to prove your point, and I agree it's an odd choice as the abstract, which I'm assuming is what you read as well, seems to state little other than pleasantries are forgotten when under a chemically induced stress response.
He's not wrong. I just want to learn more and to have others be able to learn more. Arrogant may be too strong a word, I'll edit that.
> Google is giving the labels way more power than they should.

Should, by what standard?

Legally, under the DMCA, maybe Google has no obligation to provide this facility to UMG.

But as far as I can see, no-one is paying Google to host the content under debate on YouTube. That probably means Google has no contractual obligation to anyone to do so and is free to throw the content out any time they want for any reason they want, including any back-room agreement that might have been made with any big media firm.

If you want someone to do something important for you, and you're relying on free services on the Internet to do it, then you are typically entitled to a full money-back guarantee. Anything else comes with a price tag one way or another.
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It's rather interesting to see members here proclaim in one breath that legislators are money-grubbing old-fashioned idiots who are just out to make a bunch of laws, and in another remark complain of them calling people "nerds". Other groups garnering mentions are corporate, capitalist monsters and economy-destroying bankers.

As I see it, the biggest problem gripping our country right now is a refusal to understand someone else's point of view and come to a reasonable solution that is pretty good for everyone. All we seem to have are multiple sides shouting over each other, simultaneously ignoring everyone else and complaining that no one is listening to them. It is as though somewhere along the way we forgot how to be reasonable adults and have normal conversations. People cease to be caricatures when you understand their concerns and motivations.

I agree that some of the SOPA proposals are way out of line, and I also agree that people passing laws without a full understanding of the ramifications are not helping matters. But we also are not helping matters by trying to oversimplify everything and fit everyone and everything into neat little boxes. That's simply not how the world works.

There's no fundamental reason why Google can't provide media companies and luxury goods manufacturers with easy tools to report issues of copyright and counterfeit goods. Sure, it will cost development money that should be borne by those who stand to gain from the tools, but those are details. The point is, working together we actually have a chance to solve problems. Shouting past each other and appealing to authority (read: lobbying Congress) is never going to solve anything.

So let's try to understand the problems and work together to solve them. It's ludicrous to expect that kind of behavior from our politicians but not to exhibit it ourselves.
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I read Hitchens's letter and the reply.

Hitchens is eloquent and direct in his criticisms. Leys, in his reply, is vague and does not answer any of Hitchens's criticisms with any specificity.

Leys demurs and says he has no space for a reply. He then devotes one-third of his letter to joking about Hitchens questioning the use of the word "obscene". His response includes grating ad hominem, with a snide remark that Hitchens must not own a dictionary.

In fact, Hitchens is right and it is Leys who must take deeper council with his copy of the OED. Hitchens, if nothing else, genuinely cares about his use of language. (Note this excerpt: "To represent her as a woman defiled with spittle for her deeds or beliefs is—to employ the term strictly for once—quite incredible." Simply delightful.)

Definition of obscenity, from Wikipedia: "An obscenity is any statement or act which strongly offends the prevalent morality of the time, is a profanity, or is otherwise taboo, indecent, abhorrent, or disgusting, or is especially inauspicious."

Hitchens, when he coyly writes: "Finally, I note that he describes the title of my book as 'obscene,' and complains that it attacks someone who is 'elderly.' Would he care to say where the obscenity lies?" Hitchens knows what he is doing. Most people nowadays don't think the phrase "The Missionary Position" is obscene. Slightly tittilating, yes, but obscene, no. Unfortunately, Leys cannot discriminate the subtlety and smugness in Hitchens's small linguistic victory, and responds blithely and indelicately.

Side note: Classic Hitchens is him saying that people who say that racists are discriminatory could not be further from the truth. Because how can people who dismiss an entire race possess the capacity to discriminate?