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> In recent years -- including all of the Obama presidency and the latter Bush years -- the Congressional budget process hasn't produced regular appropriations bills and has delivered only irregular authorizations.

This uses an unusual distinction between "appropriation" and "authorization" (usually, policy language is "authorization", and then actual dedication of money to be spent on an authorized purpose is "appropriation"; CRs are appropriations, not authorizations.)

> The process is supposed to produce at least twelve openly debated appropriations bills every year with participation by all of Congress. Instead a new system of continuing resolutions that limit all spending power to the president and the Senate majority leader and the House speaker in secret conferences has taken hold.

CRs are appropriations. Congress votes on the rules by which CRs are considered, and on the CRs themselves. The negotiations for CRs, as those for regular budgets, often involve the White House and leadership from both Houses of Congress in various configurations, but if Congress chooses not to debate them thoroughly, that's a choice Congress makes. The power is still with the whole body of Congress, even if that body (by a majority in each House) chooses to defer to the leadership in each House.
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A dystopian version: http://i.imgur.com/dgGvgKF.png
> You have a choice of only two parties to represent a population of 310M people of diverse backgrounds.

That's simply not true, and a drastic oversimplification of American politics.

It is true that there are two mainstream America political parties. However, anyone is free to run as an Independent or under the banner of any other party they choose, whether that be the Green Party or the Libertarian Party. Here is an example ballot, showing that more than just Mitt Romney and Barack Obama were on the 2012 federal election ballot: http://www.sos.ms.gov/links/elections/home/tab1/GE12%20Sampl...

As you can see, the Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, and Reform Party also appeared on the ballot.

It is true that voters seldom vote for people outside the Republican or Democratic parties. (Two notable recent exceptions are Bernie Sanders, formerly Democratic Socialist who switched to Democrat, and Joe Lieberman, Independent) Why is this? Because for the most part, people are happiest with one of those two. How's that possible? Because there's an enormous amount of political range within a party. Basically anyone can up and announce that they're a Republican at any time, and that's that. Ron Paul and John Kasich can be in the same party and nobody blinks an eye. That's why you hear expressions like 'Tea Party Republicans' or 'Blue Dog Democrats' or 'Southern Democrats'. There's a lot more variety in the party than you see in European parties and party members are free to do basically whatever they want while in office. They don't have to vote in blocs.

At the same time, Americans vote for damn near every position imaginable. Federal government is largely divorced from most people's everyday concerns; you get a vote for President/Vice-President, two Senators, and a Representative. The policies that affect the average American most are legislated and executed on a local and state level, not a federal level. States have enormous power in America politics. And take my state, for example: I get to vote for Governor, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, State Auditor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Agriculture Commissioner, State Senator, Insurance Commissioner, Public Service Commissioner, Transportation Commissioner, Supreme Court Justice, District Attorney, and House Representative. On the county level, which is also where an incredible amount of decisions are made, I elect a Supervisor, Constable, Sheriff, Justice Court Judge, Tax Collector, Tax Assessor, Chancery Clerk, Circuit Clerk, School Board Member, Superintendent of Education Coroner, and Prosecuting Attorney. And the more local you get, the less party matters at all.

There isn't a democracy problem in America: most of the most important decisions - education funding, infrastructure development, criminal laws and prosecutions, law enforcement, taxation, utility management, etc - are made on a state level or a hyperlocal city or county level. The reality is that the federal government has comparatively little to do with most people's lives, beyond getting a federal income tax return, the military, Social Security, and Medicare.

The problem is with the people.
There is no level on which I agree with you. To me it's self evident, but it would seem your beliefs are fixed so I won't further fight against them.
It's not so much empty/finished, it's that values are produced at particular times, perhaps as the user clicks the mouse, or as messages come in from the network or over stdin.

Maybe you're writing some web page analytics software. Let's say you've got a stream of values representing the (x,y) positions of mouse clicks, you want to filter out any that are more than a predefined distance from a particular point, then remove any that occur 200ms or less than the last one, then every time you have 10 of them you want to post them to the server. How would you do this with iterator adaptors?

With transducers, the exact same filter that removes points further than a particular distance away in the event stream can be used on any source (e.g. an iterator).
In one sense yes, but GCC the utility is an optimizing compiler.

Would you call a sed script which converted Java to ES6 via regexes a compiler, even though not an ounce of compiler theory was used?

I would define transpilers as a subset of compilers that are are only interested in high level language conversion.

It's the difference between say, translating books between foreign languages, and being an editor who rewrites a book to be better.
Thanks for putting this out there - looks fantastic for hackers like me with partners who suffer from epilepsy.

If you are interested in wearable tech and epilepsy you should also check out the "Embrace Watch" [1] - It measures electrical conductivity across the skin of a person wearing the watch and is able to use that as a proxy for heightened electrical activity within the brain (which can be indicative of a tonic-clonic seizure). It pairs with phones to send SMS messages to nominated contacts as alerts.

It was developed out of MIT and is now being commercialized. I'm currently waiting to take delivery of this watch (from an IndieGoGo campaign last year), so can't speak to its effectiveness but I have high hopes, particularly since it doesn't just rely on motion. Motion detection is helpful, but by then it is too late for the person having a seizure as they have no warning to make themselves safe.

[1] https://www.empatica.com/embrace-watch-epilepsy-monitor
This is interesting too

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Although Numba might beat Julia, that's far from saying Julia would "run like a pig".
Probably, one criminal found this site, then told others about it, who adopted it.

I wonder if the techniques for promoting adoption can be used in reverse, to deter adoption?

While keeping it familiar and convenient so as not to deter customers.
This "article" is a great advertising win for this company. Clearly, independent.co.uk picked this up from another site which probably originated as sponsored content or a press release.

>The company started marketing the product in China less than two months ago, but now that the first shipment of 500 bottles is sold out, another of 700 bottles is on its way.

500 bottles, at less than $30 bottle, in two months, in China. Thats not impressive in the least. Proportionally we are talking about a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the urban Chinese population, for a good sold online that is far from "luxury" pricing.

Jesus, there are probably self-published Kindle eBooks about Sonic the Hedgehog fanfic that have sold quicker than that.

When legitimate websites give attention to insignificant products such as this, they are creating the trend, not reporting on it.
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It's more about the willingness to say "we represent the poor". The more progressive US politicians will only go as low as to claim they represent the middle class, but no lower. The poor are just temporarily embarrassed millionaires anyway, right?

The closest thing to European style left is Bernie Sanders, but he's such an outlier that he's considered a commie in the US, while in Europe he'd be center-left.
Black Mirror is a great British TV series which explores exactly that: https://youtu.be/7tMXKQdc5ZM?t=8m44s
I totally will re-listen to Mad Men's jazzy intro music every time...
Accessing iTunes libraries over the Internet
True, but the upscaling hardware in most monitors and especially TVs sucks and adds extra frame(s) of latency, so ideally you'd upscale the picture on the FPGA to the display's native resolution (or at least something common like 1080p) to get the best quality (pixel doubling if possible) and lowest latency (a scanline or two) possible.

Something I didn't consider when I posted was that a lot of people will want to use this with a VGA CRT, especially since there is lots of Amiga software (including the Workbench itself) that changes the pixel clock midframe, which would pretty much require upscaling hardware to produce a signal that a modern LCD would accept. VGA+a CRT requirement becomes a much simpler solution in light of this.
Given that the GP is complaining of feeling excluded by such things, it's hypocritical to do the same in reverse. The GP is basically deriding all people on high salary as being pseudo-intellectuals.

The problem I have with the GP is not the literal words (I have no problem with style), but that he's complaining of being stereotyped while spreading a stereotyped anti-intellectual message.
> Why not accept that C++ isn't a functional language, and realize that many die-hard C++ users won't use these features

I'm a die-hard C++ user, and have come to love functional programming for a very C++y reason: improved performance that comes from lock-free parallelizability (if you never modify values, you don't have to synchronize access).

But I also love the simplicity that comes from not having to think so deeply about lifetimes and which portions of code can see which objects in which states. The abstraction of data-structure from algorithm is nice, the terseness is nice, the regularity is nice, but it's the lifetime and visibility simplification that helps me the most.

I don't know Haskell or OCaml. I wouldn't know a monad if it slapped me in the face. But functional C++ makes me happy
The reason many economists are unsure or against the minimum wage is not because they're some agents of bourgeoisie capitalists, but because arguments in favor of it tend to be moral, not economic.

For instance, here's a case for the minimum wage presented by an (otherwise very knowledgeable, I'll grant) Post-Keynesian economist: http://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-e...

It's pretty weak. The first two are very flimsy normative/moral arguments that, even if true, do not at all imply minimum wage is the solution over say, basic income, unionization, community-based mutual credit or a variety of other initiatives.

The third one is a can opener assumption. "Oh, minimum wage might work, but only in the case of Post-Keynesian full employment with buffer stocks of labor." You might as well speak of spherical cows in a vacuum. Followed by an unsourced claim about post-WWII prosperity being strictly due to Keynesian policies, when there's no consensus what factors exactly caused it.
I don't understand the pessimism in this thread. Google owns two of the most important pieces of the puzzle: maps and the mobile OS/app store in 80% of people's pockets. Not to mention lots of software and hardware IP related to autonomous vehicles. There are plenty of car companies in the world who can provide car frames, windows, leather seats, four wheels, and yes even an electric engine. I see Uber, Google, Apple, and others going head to head in this market, ultimately to the great benefit of consumers as transportation prices plummet. Imagine an airport run from 3rd and Market to SFO costing $15 (technically only $13 after 20% discount for paying with the UberRewards Capital One Visa Card), or a 4 hour trip (time to watch a long movie and send some email) from Santa Monica Pier to the Las Vegas Strip for $50 (or for a limited time, $55 if you stop at the selected partner gas/charging station for pre-paid lunch and bathroom break) - it will happen and sooner than most think.
We'll see where things get in the future. If I wasn't sure where I was going yet, I might hold a few things close to the vest initially too. There's a short-term value too, where he has to ensure Google or Tesla or Uber doesn't become too dominant first. I really hope self-driving systems are an ecosystem, not a monoculture.
It's "A Beautiful Mine" by RJD2, incidentally.
> That's simply not true, and a drastic oversimplification of American politics.

It is in practice quite true even if it is not nominally true, and not only that it is true, but the connection between it and the particular kind of poorly-representative electoral system the US has been established by comparative study across democracies.

> There isn't a democracy problem in America

Yes, there is, largely to a very poorly representative electoral system. Lots of elections doesn't make a well-functioning democracy, that takes elections which produce governments that are effectively representative.
They already had a supply from Huron before. They disconnected from it about a year ago. Now they are hooked back up to Huron but much of the damage has already been done.
> To buy something, first you have to produce something worthy of exchange. Everyone has to start from this point.

But so many people from the Marxist-leaning schools just don't and refuse to, because at its core this belief destroys pretty much every argument they make about moving from a market-based system to a collective one.
It seems to me like Microsoft is trying to position themselves more as a Google-type entity. In the past, they were a massive proprietary corporation focused on Windows.

Nobody cares about computers anymore (thanks smartphones, tablets!), and so Windows will go down the drain eventually. Not to mention Linux and OSX market share increasing. Not today, not tomorrow, but the writing's on the wall.

Open source to get devs on board again, switch to subscription-based models, record more user data, and create more products.
Reminded me of the difference in airplane refueling.

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2007/11/-quot-...
If I have to be responsible for AI and mechanical errors, I don't want an AI driving my car.

Either I want to read a book or take a nap, completely zoned out, or I want to be alert and paying attention to the road.

Sitting there doing nothing bored and disengaged, not able to read a book, not actively engaged in the activity of driving, and also held responsible by the state for failures is the worst of both worlds.
Didn't catch the Republican debate last night eh? Unsatisfactory does not begin to describe the situation with American politics.
> Those beliefs may limit your capacity to effectively perform your job.

Sounds like an unsubstantiated belief to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christians_in_science_...
Because being listened to in a reddit discussion isn't a right that anyone has and not having it doesn't hold anyone back in any way. My views wouldn't go down well on a religious forum. Am I bothered? Do I look bothered?
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Minimalism in Design
Most of these people have passed the stage of caring about the desktop itself. I would say they are simply interested in a bash shell that sits on a reliable, well maintained, stable distro with good community knowledge.

When you spend all your time at a prompt you don't really care about unity vs cinnamon vs anything else.

Debian is stable and has fantastic package management, and Ubuntu builds on that with a vibrant community and wide support. For these users, Ubuntu 'just works' and lets them get on with what they want to do. It's about as simple as that.
I was working with some larger companies that ran internal hackathons to see if they could create smaller product improvements or advantageous changes to internal processes.
One of the "prizes" that the teams one was having their product funded and getting to take the time to build it.

R&D employees seemed to get a large boost of energy and optimism from trying these events while the company harvested innovation and efficiency.
Not to mention that you can verify the Luhn checksum on CC numbers and immediately catch ~90% of all typos (and 100% of single-digit typos). Don't even need a server call.
Have you looked at Sandstorm.io? It runs instances of EtherDraw (I packaged it) as well as things like ShareLaTeX and iPython, which are pretty popular for education.

They're still working on ways to connect apps to other apps, but it'll be similar to an intent/capability system.
I often lazily wonder who builds all the office space in large cities. I'd realised it was megacorps who are in it for the long haul, didn't think of it as backing pensions and similar assets.

I wonder if a property startup might be possible in countries where property is far, far cheaper. Micro-loans, divided and pooled investments, that sort of thing. Particularly if funders from comparatively wealthy nations want to invest in "business with a conscience" type startups. In the charity sector, even.

The returns might not be large, but that's not what all startups are about. For the more cynical, there may be off-shoring and tax benefits.
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The solution here is to clearly tell those apps to fuck off.

Though, the latest version of android odes allow you to "allow" or "don't allow" features like that. Its the only reason that I finally installed the facebook app.
Yes, and Techdirt exploits that to get you to click on their site, even though they're almost always wrong.
Lots of good stuff there. Caches(including i-cache and d-cache), volatile(and how it gets mis-construed), pointer-aliasing, float to int overhead, alloca. I don't think I've seen so much good performance stuff in a single place.
I have been working with Microsoft technologies, especially with Azure for a while. I discovered that there is a gap in diagnostics space. Logs of your Azure services are not easily accessible, let alone searching and filtering. It is a real headache to get a quick view of your service (any problems, exceptions etc). Surprisingly, the existing solutions require you to depend on a long list of binaries and go through many steps of configurations.

Pour is a platform for simple and secure Azure log management. It solves this fundamental issue of developers with a simple, secure and fast solution. Please take a look and let me know.
As a Japanese, I recognize it as a brand. Bit snobbish naming I admit.
Avoiding Forced Irrationality
So, did you get up and leave out of solidarity with the Republicans? If someone pulled that stunt here I'd be out of there. Politics are people's private business (unless they hold a very visible function, then it becomes relevant again but for folks just doing a job somewhere politics should be a non issue).
I'm considering a bit going to some platform like Shopify, because I'm writing way more Python doing my own platform anyway. Integrating some solution would be just a few clicks if I were on some platform that they already support, instead of another API integration.
Building blocks for the virtual reality web
So we're not forced to pay taxes or refrain from murdering people?
I'm not a rubyist but it could be that their jaded with the current state of Ruby and constant performance struggles with Rails. Elixir has a similar community that's focused on testing, tooling, and quality.

However I agree, very little Ruby syntax, just def & end for the most part.
Nice article. I haven't experimented with PowerLoom in many years. I will check it out again. I have a JRuby wrapper for PowerLoom on github and I should make sure that works with the latest snapshot.

BTW, there was a mention of PowerLoom on the iPad, but I searched for it in the Apple Store and couldn't find it.
> Do you consider being a Christian something you do or is it a trait?

It doesn't really matter which, given that the GP was in response to a post about it being understandable to have hostility to "those with strong religious beliefs" not because of what those directly receiving the hostility do, but because of various things that "many with similar beliefs" do.

Whether or not "being a Christian" or "having strong religious beliefs" is "something you do" or "a trait", if you are hostile to people to which the description applies because other people who share that description do other things which justify hostility, that's bigotry.
I think we typically get around this by writing things like "122 degrees", "50C", "122F", etc. in informal settings.
Neat - well I have. Maybe it's a southern Georgia thing. I also don't "look" like someone that would work as a developer, in their eyes.
You know you can change the function of the hot corner (or simply disable it), right?

(In case you don’t know how: go to System Preferences → Desktop & Screen Saver → Screen Saver → Hot Corners…)
I take that to mean that for the first time in his life he read the papers and fully understood them without needing additional background, not that there isn't more to learn outside of those papers.
Knowing how to change a flat is not "highly useful" knowledge if you have a AAA membership. The reason changing a flat is considered "beneath" knowledge like understanding Socrates ideas is because it takes time and effort to comprehend complex, abstract topics. Whereas changing a tire is an easy skill to learn for any person.

In fact, a scholarly person refusing to learn how to change a flat tire is of benefit to society because it frees their mind to contemplate more complicated matters and allows for less the less ambitious or less capable to still have functions in the economy.
Isn't that the same for most self-driving technology? Computer vision toolsets aren't new. Obviously hooking up to a car's drive systems isn't new, full-size RC cars have been built for years for various reasons. None of the rangefinding hardware equipped on self-driving cars is novel.

Where's the sudden breakthrough? All of this is built on technology and work that came before it. The whole field. It probably only really started being worked on in earnest from a business context because big tech companies like Google had more money than they knew what to do with, and were willing to spend it on ventures with no likelihood of profit any time soon.
What if you want to run vendor provided Windows-only binary drives for some weird hardware?
They would probably just start generating FB accounts, because a similar thing happened when I started requiring valid email addresses: they just went ahead and generated a bunch of gmail/hotmail accounts to use.