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A concrete real-world example rather than abstract hypotheticals would be very helpful to your point here. Considering the extensive time period before McCain-Feingold took effect there should be many such examples. Do you have any?
Oh, we'll be having that fight, but it won't be over corporations. It'll be over sentient programs.

Also, is that 25 years objective or 25 years subjective, in the case of an AI that grows up faster than real time? (To the extent that that even has meaning outside of a direct human brain simulation.)
For the majority of the S&P 500, the major shareholders are funds. The people who pay into these funds are employees, who, for practical purposes, don't have a meaningful range of choice or voting power.
In this case it's the reporter.

I think it's fair to say Richard Cobden SC has a complete command of how this works.

During the trial he made the argument iiNet does not own, control, promote or support BitTorrent software; that the film studios have contractual relationships with companies that allow illegal downloads, including BitTorrent, Inc., and despite this there were no warnings on the sites about downloading copyright material.
You do realize that JavaScript was originally named LiveScript before the marketing goons licensed the name and added the curly braces?
Make sure to click the 'Listen to this article' link at the bottom - many Wikipedia articles are much funnier if someone is reading them to you.
The real problem with lambdas in Python isn't that they're restricted to one expression, but that Python's implementation of closures is clumsy (due to a scoping ambiguity). The argument about whether lambdas should be named or not is a canard. In languages that make heavy use of lexically scoped functions defined on the fly (Scheme, ML, etc.), they're often given local names. The problem is that Python's locally defined functions are less expressive. Apparently making heavy use of closures is not "pythonic".
Will this be faster than lets say... django?
Isn't the Federal Government our (the citizens of the US) representative?

Constitution preamble: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
I might be wrong, but I really can't mention any other group of people trolling Perl discussions.

Everyone is out trolling the Perl discussions. PHP developers hate us, Java developers hate us, Ruby developers hate us, and Python developers hate us. I think this is funny, because we generally don't hate the other languages, we just embrace and extend their good ideas for Perl. (The Perl community has come up with a few good ideas on their own, but the best ideas have been borrowed from other languages. Moose is from Smalltalk and CL; PSGI is from Python; Plack is from Ruby; Catalyst is from Java; etc. I think, in general, the stolen ideas have been improved upon in Perl; I like using Moose a lot more than I like using CLOS -- and I like using CLOS a lot.)

The only place outside of the Perl community where I can admit to liking Perl (and not be flamed) is #haskell. But everyone is nice there.

(I've even been trolled in real life over my like of Perl. I was going after some girl, who apparently had a friend that was a Java developer. Perl came up, I came up, and it was resolved "he must not be very good at programming if he prefers Perl over Java". Guess who got the girl? Not the Perl programmer.)
I dunno. I think this was a fluke in how educated the judge was.

Do you really expect lightning to strike the same place twice? Much less three times? The odds are significantly worse in those two branches, methinks.
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Will this be faster than lets say... mongodb?
I decided to fact-check you, and according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_stagnation_in_the... , "In recent years this [incumbent reelection rate] rate has been well over 90 per cent, with rarely more than 5-10 incumbents losing their House seats every election cycle."

So, uh, consider your fact duly checked. :)
"'the people within it' --> a company does emphatically not speak for the people within it."

I did not say it necessarily did, though it's certainly speaking for its leadership, who answers to the human shareholders and is voluntarily associated with the other people in the company.

"This is in stark contrast with a political party or other groups joined by individuals for political purposes"

Indeed. It's a group created for other purposes. Political involvement is a valid avenue for pursuing those purposes, as the political system affects the group.

"If a corporations can run for a seat in Congress, and, if they are the voice of shareholders, and these shareholders can be foreign, where does that leave our democracy?"

That's not a concern, that's open-ended rhetoric based on a publicity stunt. EDIT: One based on a facile misreading of legal principles intended to confuse the uninformed.
Will this be faster than lets say... nginx?
An example: Page numbers are considered obvious nowadays, but they are still in a lot of published works.
I'd hardly call an @import statement "really clever".
Seems clear where they are going then.

Yeah, exactly. I don't think Theora will ever see the light of day, and most users will just "pirate" h.264. It's a shame.
Huh? oauth hello? It's not exactly rocket science to implement
The capital costs per kilowatt of average power generation are surprisingly good for nuclear. I don't have time to look up the figures now (sorry) but last time I checked, wind was more expensive to build average capacity than nuclear, even when you compared the cost of just the wind turbines with the complete cost of nuke plants.

> If you use a Brayton-cycle gas turbine for a nuclear reactor, for example, now heat exchange to the gas becomes the biggest issue. And even the most optimized gas peaker turbine plants cost $500/kw.

Heat exchange to the gas is an issue, but it's the sort of issue that nuclear reactor designers have a lot of experience solving. The Chinese pebble bed reactors, for example, are cooled with helium gas, and they don't seem to have much trouble with that.

As for the cost of the turbines themselves, in general Brayton-cycle gas turbines are cheaper than steam turbines, and supercritical CO2 gas turbines are remarkably small, so they'll probably be cheaper than the conventional ones. Even conventional gas turbines would work, though.

Of course, when competing with natural gas burners, the fuel cost is a huge issue. Natural gas fuel costs are vastly higher than those of nuclear plants (per kilowatt-hour, of course).

I'm not sure I answered what you were saying, but I hope I covered something interesting.
I really do not get this. Sorry to state the obvious, but if comments are that annoying just don't read them, problem sorted.
Ironically enough, I'd been planning on citing OpenSecrets, and I respect the fact that you did. I'll find something and post tomorrow.
You can be pro-free speech and against an absolute interpretation of the 1st amendment. Similarly you can be deeply religious and still object to a literal interpretation of your sacred documents. I do not believe I misrepresented jsyedidia's position and if I have I invite him to correct me.

I most certainly am not trolling. You would know that if you read past the first sentence of the comment you replied to. Clearly you did not. I will quote myself again here in the hope that you read it this time: "I think rejection of absolute interpretations is an essential prerequisite to a constructive debate, which is why I bring it up.".

I believe our exchange is past the point of being constructive, as you appear to be ignoring significant parts of my comments. I think I'll stop replying to this thread here, although I will certainly read your reply if you post one.
Maybe in the future we will all have our own certificate authorities.
And how will they be able to do these things? Using technology established with government funds perhaps?
I don't think it's really been dissed, although we can sometimes be a tough bunch of people to please.

They're always really useful interviews. It's like having several more long chapters in the "Founders at work" book.
Please rank the following organizations based on their total political contributions (federal and state) in 2008:

National Education Association, PG&E Corp, Service Employees International Union, AT&T Inc., Bank of America, American Federation of State/County/Municipal Employees, Microsoft Corp, Chevron Corp

Bonus points for providing actual donation values.

* Spoilers: http://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/list_stfed.php?order=A
Then the company will become a vessel to voice the opinion of the corporate charter.

The charter was agreed to by all shareholders. Those who found it unacceptable chose not to buy shares.

Again the company now is acting as an inhuman entity. It has interests characterized by a charter, not by a human being's potentially malleable opinions.

The company is acting as a group of people who have agreed to devote a certain amount of their wealth (their initial investment) to work toward a certain purpose (whatever the charter says).

The "company" doesn't actually exist - all there is is a set of contracts between shareholders. The "company" is merely a legal facade to simplify interactions between the shareholders and other parties.

Yes but some of us can't say no to an iPhone. Should we be forced to indirectly support segregation?

If you choose to buy products from companies supporting segregation, that's on you. Steve Jobs doesn't have mind control rays. He neither forced you to buy shares or an iPhone.

Also, the issue if your trading partners spending money on causes you dislike is not limited to corporations. For all you know, the owner of your local bakery is a secret racist sending money to the Klan.
Symbian phone operating system goes open source
"The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free."
Title is totally misleading. Hotta has come up with a theory, but hasn't tested it and hasn't "discovered" anything new.
Very true. In fact Adam Smith in Wealth of Nations makes this very point. Every job sits at the confluence of a number of factors including recompense, status and unpleasantness.
Giving people concise syntax for passing anonymous functions allows one to implement a lot of control-flow operations, and combinators from functional programming, as libraries, rather than language constructs.

In python, although they could technically be done as libraries, from a syntactic point of view, having to declare named functions and pass them explicitly as arguments rather defeats the elegance of the approach.

So instead we have special features and syntax added to the language, like with statements and list comprehensions, which are limited special cases of what can be expressed more generally with a nice syntax for passing closures as arguments.

Not that it necessarily matters, there's always a pythonic way to do the equivalent thing. Although a lot of the time it's more imperative, and my taste is for functional programming idioms where possible.
You can't make up your own mind?
Listen to the interviews and judge for yourself. I think it's a life-changing site for sure and you get to hear from industry veterans first hand about a lot of relevant info. What more do you want?
I think you're absolutely right, here. Once you know one, you'll probably have much better returns from time spent learning a very different language (such as Erlang, OCaml, or C) than learning the other, barring exceptional circumstances.
> Sure, if your "domain" is some Turing-complete language.

Which is exactly what Smalltalk is. Pick any other domain, and you can use the same syntactic elements used to build the base language to extend it into that particular domain.

Ruby DSL's control structures tend to look nothing like Ruby the language's control structures; Smalltalk DSL's control structures look exactly like Smalltalk the language's control structures.
Emacs lisp is handy for toying around with the editor, but it's a horrible Lisp. It does not even have lexical scoping. You are much better off in terms of entertainment (through learning interesting stuff) with e.g. PLT Scheme or perhaps Arc.

(My comment about pure languages above was meant to highlight the joys of Clean and Haskell. Curry may also be worth a look. And Prolog, if you dare.)
In the words of Dave C. "Haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love"
Excellent question. It would certainly violate free speech.

I am not trying to make the claim that money is not related to speech. Instead, I am claiming that since money is related to speech, any government regulation of money is regulation of speech. Therefore, if we were to use "abridging the freedom of speech" as the major criteria for declaring laws unconstitutional, we would have to strike down many, many laws that relate to the collection and regulation of money. I point out the extreme case only to show that it is unreasonable.

I instead advocate for a different approach where we interpret "abridging the freedom of speech" on a sliding scale. In doing so we can declare the more egregious laws unconstitutional while still allowing for some common sense regulation.
When I signed up for my pension fund, I agreed that money would be spent as directed by the fund managers in a manner consistent with maximizing the size [1] of my investment in 2050.

This was my choice. If I disliked this, I could have made no contribution to the fund, or even quit my job.

[1] I oversimplify. They try to maximize an objective function which penalizes volatility, particularly volatility at the end of the life of the fund.
"Isn't the Federal Government our (the citizens of the US) representative?"

And so...?
Yes, and Clean.

I just like to counter those smug Lispians. Lisp has nice syntax, but the underlying semantics is nothing to write home about any longer. Add tail call optimization to Python (and perhaps continuations) and you have something similar to Scheme modulo syntax.
I wonder what McCain makes of this.
He's been flip-flopping quite a bit recently.
Yeah, especially as online-publishing is a freedom of speech issue and unless Berlusconi rescinds Italy's membership in the European Union, he'd have to be able to prove that essentially banning access to free-speech online isn't a violation of freedom of speech European Court of Human Rights. Any judgement by the court is wholly binding on the member states and legally has to be complied with or they can ultimately be forced out of the EU, but would likely be subject to sanctions and receive no 'rebate' from the taxes their citizens pay to the EU.

Being forced out of the EU would mean all their citizens working in the EU, outside of Italy, could potentially lose employment immediately due to not having work visas. Every Italian citizen living in the EU would have 6-months to return to Italy, and by how most immigration policies work they would be unable to apply for a work visa or even citizenship within their country of occupation. The exact same would happen to any EU citizen living in Italy, which could potentially be devastating for the economy in Italy.
Everyone I know seems to have. :-)

Personally, I'm a bit disgusted with the git hype. I love the git idea but the interface is horrible.
ComScore: Netflix Now A Top 20 Online Video Site
http://twitter.com/stevenf/status/8605087781
Looks nice. I'm interested to see how this performs in comparison to classic IIS/asp.net.
No mention of Kiko :(
Reading comments can be addictive.
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You may be right. That's why I only talked about the stuff I have some experience with, and that's the civilized Haskell cafe mailing list.

I guess that may (or may not) show that a single language can be part of different cultures.
DHH just make it 57% less enterprisey - http://github.com/lifo/docrails/commit/c833bd79ecb1d60a2618c...
And that article would be very easy to write, but not at all analogous to this one.
The short answer is no - unless they depend on Italian cusomers (or bank via Italy). The longer answer depends on Italy's relative sway with the EU versus your 'home' nation & the significance of what you're doing, but is a qualified 'no'.
"Clearly you did not."

I did, and I found it unconvincing. You are representing the mere discussion of free-speech principles as absolutist and fanatical. If this is not towards the end of something you believe is undermined by someone else's free speech, and it is not intended to provoke, then it is a puzzling misrepresentation.

As it is, I believe the involvement of people with different degrees of attachment to principles is a useful thing. The more compromising people buffer the excesses of the stalwarts, and the stalwarts in turn help keep them honest.
Okay, not so much the use of the CSS @import rule as much as the mechanism used to deploy the rules. I haven't seen a lot of user installable stylesheets that "phone home." Seems like an under-utilized technique.

UPDATED: Yes, I understand @import is used frequently on the web. My point being A) You don't see a lot of browser-installed stylesheets and B) the few that I've seen haven't made use of @import.
Intelligence is inference over evidence.
I rather enjoy the comments on the blogs I read. Especially my own where often someone will bring up a correction, addition, etc and just in general add value to the post.
Joojoo tablet now in production, will support full Flash at launch
though I dislike having to type function() { and }); all the time, and scoping rules are a bit confusing, I've rather gotten use to it. Maybe you should read, "Javascript, the Good Parts"

http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/
Resig's js tutorial also helped hammer in why people like js and what's so special about it.
Public campaign financing would be exactly that.
Starting salary for hackers? My ex made starte in that range with just her modest fluency with html. In fact, the more I think about it, the more I think that number is really low for NYC, in my personal exp.
First, thanks for the specifics on "legal personhood". Definitely helpful for me.

I do not believe that restrictions on corporations violate the individual rights of the owners. Aren't the owners are allowed to participate in politics individually, just as every citizen can?
It's used all the time by many people. I use it to let affiliates skin their own sites on apps I host. Referencing a stylesheet on another server is hardly anything inventive.
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This guy completely misses what computer science is about. Sure, nobody studies "Toaster Science" just like nobody will ever study "iPad Science". But plenty of people study mechanics, electrical engineering, thermodynamics and other fundamental academic fields that have enabled humans to design and mass-produce toasters.

At it's core, Computer Science is the mathematical study of computation and algorithms. Some of the most important results in CS were discovered before computers even existed (like the Church Turing Thesis). A new device with a slick form-factor and usable interface will not at all make CS obsolete.

If it could efficiently solve NP problems...THEN perhaps some computer scientists would out of work ;)
Well, since the government is the representative of people, then when you say "Better not to give government that power at all", what does that imply?
Surely this only happens in films ?
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I'm more dismayed that the USSC decision has been so thoroughly misrepresented by people like the company in TFA that you would ask that question in all seriousness and good faith.
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I'm not sure if I understand what you're trying to suggest. Indeed, someone could make a machine that executes PHP natively. It's a Turing-complete language, just like C++ or x86 assembly for that matter so it should be possible to build a (weak) universal machine that executes them directly.
if you would spend few minutes of your time looking what Andrew Warner gives for free on Mixergy you'd probably never ask such stupid "serious" question.
Poll: Does having anonymous usernames within a forum cause too much trolling?
On one hand I think anonymous usernames allows some people to be more honest/opinionated/engaged, but on the other hand it also allows some to troll more than they normally might.

I relate it to driving. Many people are comfortable to honk when aggravated on the road while in an armoured car capable of driving away, but face to face they would never say anything.

With the hacker news forum being up for a while and me being new here.... I am interested in your thoughts.... my company has an option to have a forum, and I can decide if usernames need to be real or not.

Thanks.
"That's not a concern, that's open-ended rhetoric based on a publicity stunt. EDIT: One based on a facile misreading of legal principles intended to confuse the uninformed."

Uhm, huh? Let's say Exxon runs for a seat. During its term, 20% of Exxon is purchased by PetroChina. So now the seat is no longer under American control. The person who was elected to Congress is no longer the same person; legally it is still Exxon, but in reality it is a different person since the new shareholder, who is a foreigner, exerts significant influence.

Or is my reasoning bogus?
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I'm just happy at least one person feels the same way I do about these stories..
I assume he means "nanotech makes everything happens with a poof of magic smoke."
Using a dynamic loadable C library from Ruby is neat and easy.