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> Good thing America's lethal injection poison the whole body and render it completely unusable even if they wanted to donate.

Are you really sure you want to defend the Chinese system and criticize the American system on utilitarian grounds? Let's run through the general structure.

Only a fraction of the Chinese executions result in organ donations; some will fail, of course, and only a fraction of those donations result in the equivalent of a life, 30 years at the most optimistic the article says. Given the ages involved (younger men being executed for their organs' use in older men), we can expect each execution to save significantly less than one life on a lifespan/QALY basis.

The value of each execution would not be significantly better in the US and the same logic applies.

Wikipedia lists rates of Chinese execution at 5000-10000 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Peop...) a year during the 2000s; the estimate is difficult as it is a state secret. It is not in the US, so we have more solid numbers in the 30-50 range for the 2000s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unite...).

Keeping in mind the previous logic, this indicates the number of lives saved by organ donations from all US executions would be under 30-50.

Now, let's compare that with the Chinese system. At 5000 executions a year, the profit and other perverse incentives in place would need to result in only 1% of prisoners being unjustly executed for the benefits of American organ donation to be completely eliminated.

And actually, remembering the point about QALYs, for every person unjustly executed for their organs, they represent a net decrease in welfare. We all know how many the US incorrectly executes, and that's with the state benefitting not at all from the execution and wasting a tremendous amount of money going through appeals and a strong civil society and many groups opposed to execution like the Innocence Project.

There is no reason to think China does not have a significantly worse false execution rate even before we add in the perverse incentives of organ harvesting.
You'll be embarrassed by their banality.

We're talking of things like photographs of Sonia Gandhi with a moustache drawn on her to photographs of nude women with Sonia's face superimposed.
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If engineers see a whole bunch of compiler warnings, then they don't think twice when they see just one more and it could be a really valid warning

As a real life example of how this can happen, PHP 5.3.something release had a serious bug with MD5 hashes essentially not working. (cf. https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=55439 http://www.php.net/archive/2011.php#id2011-08-22-1 ). Apparently there was a unit test for it, but there was ~200 failing unit tests, so they ignored it.
I wonder if money paid to people like this is an attempt to get time with them and change their mind or alter the bill.
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How about you make it a Disqus free zone too?
Of course; is all a conspiracy and Google is the secret original creator of SOPA... or you think this is evil because they understood how the congre$$ works?
I think the worlds oldest profession has offered a case study in this speculation for quite some time. It's been answered via so much history and through civilizations that it should be a law. Something like the Perverts law.

The Romans went as far has having sex, act like the gold standard on the Spintria. With all the recent talk about the gold standard, maybe the Romans had it right, all the flexibility of a fiat currency with a tangible asset that most any man would see in a matter of seconds, there where probably not many who question the value of those coins, anyone who saw what they could get would immediately value the coin in their mind. Further because it was based on an act, it was not as constrained by physical resources. Maybe we should back the dollar in the same way, we may see a quick repatriation of the dollar and a sharp drop in oil prices.
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Yep, came here to post that too.
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How much money is $17.5 compared to how much Google gives other lawmakers? How much is it in comparison to what the lawmakers get from other people?

On my first reaction that doesn't sound like very much, could be wrong though.
Could always embed it under your skin.
This isn't so much of a case of Google getting a "free pass" as it is a simply a coincidence that they have provided campaign contributions to a politician who happens to support SOPA. I am willing to bet they have made more contributions to other supporters as well.

Did you actually look at the distribution table? The donations occurred on 11 separate occasions in amounts no larger than $2,000 over the past 5+ years.

This is a non-event, and IMHO does not belong on the top of HN.
You should try locking the tables first. Maybe other people connecting is slowing it down, so a full table lock would be a good idea.

Remember to keep the lock alive after the query finishes, just in case you need to query it again...
What if people pledged to reduce what they purchase from Comcast? Maybe turn off cable but keep internet services. It would not have the same impact, but it would still hurt their bottom line.
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In the global scheme of things, almost all US press is right-wing, NYT too.
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Are there any competitors that openly oppose SOPA?
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17.5k is like finding 2 quarters in your couch cushions in the world of politics. Relax.
(some perspective from an Indian living in India). This will be challenged in higher courts and almost certainly get overturned. I wouldn't worry too much. It is actually better that the Supreme Court rules on this (if it goes that far). Lower courts sometimes have dumb judges but the Supreme Court has judges of a relatively high calibre.

Also, from a purely pragmatic perspective, settling the legality of this will take years, and Google et al can afford some seriously good lawyers.
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The temptation here to go on a tirade against a party or the government is way too overwhelming (it is a private criminal case), but I would urge everyone to take a different view of this. The laws and the legal system in India are ill-equipped and not adequately trained to understand the nuances of the digital world. I had a first-hand experience of this a few years ago at my last job when we were dragged into an investigation that was looking into defamatory comments posted against a particular individual.

We had to work with the cyber crime cell to help them find what they were looking for and found the officers to be well-meaning and nice people. The only downside was the training given to them, which was next to non-existent. We eventually wound up helping them out a lot and also worked with them to help them get a better understanding of the issue at hand. I actually felt quite bad for them. The office we went to had a handful of ancient PCs of which only one was connected to the internet - a far cry from anything that you'd expect.

The same thing applies to courts, judgements are often handed out without a good understanding of the digital world. A judge when shown awful content will almost every time order its removal, there is hardly anything surprising about it.

This certainly won't be the last word on this, but we have a long road ahead increasing awareness and training of both the legal system and enforcement. By the time we finally get there, there will be a lot of mistakes arising from totally unintended consequences, but I am confident that we'll eventually get it right.
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It's not so much as a "free pass" as it is "watch and wait". There's not nearly enough information to suggest anything at the moment.

I'm trying hard to avoid Politics and partisan side-choosing.

Giving small amounts of funding to all politicians is better than picking a side and giving large amounts to that side; it helps even out spending wins. Funding pro-SOPA politicians at least gives you an edge when you talk to them: "We hate SOPA, we like you, we even gave you some cash,but this SOPA thing is awful. Please, let us explain why."

While I'm here: I'd be really really interested to see a pop-economics analysis of votes and spending; a bit like "Moneyball" but for politics.
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Forth can be a pretty good way to go about implementing a Lisp, actually. I have a book[1] that uses Forth to build a set of list manipulation facilities inspired by Lisp and then in turn use those to construct a Prolog-like DSL for expressing expert systems. I've actually been tinkering with a pair system in my own Forth dialect that could be interesting if you've ever wondered what recursive list operations would look like in a concatenative language.[2]

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I honestly don't see a problem with this, it's just a 30 days "we can get out if we want" and/or covering their asses clause from the business providing the service. I don't see anything sinister about it.
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Sure, but the bug in this case is that there wasn't a comment specifying the reason for the unconventional behaviour.
Exactly. The question is how much more Google and friends need to give to this guy to get him to change his position.
This could conceivably have had something to do with the Leahy-Smith patent reform statute, and be totally unrelated to SOPA... there were some anti-troll provisions in that law.
Come on. Google would love SOPA. It's right up their alley of 'do no evil'.
To all: no, I don’t think Google supports SOPA – what you explain here might be reasonable, there are other reasonable positions in other threads.

I am noticing the fact that people here are taking the “watch and wait” approach, trying to explain that an explicit donation doesn’t necessarily mean support, or finding all the possible ways this could be seen as defensive, while other companies have been profusely grilled just for not explicitly taking a stance against it.
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Reminds me of the old strategy of hiring all the divorce lawyers in town so your wife can't find a good one.
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Think that's something, how about Paul Graham contributing numerous times to Rick Perry.

http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZ...

Oh, okay, be picky, it's not the same Paul Graham :-)
It's not a free pass. They explicitly do not support SOPA, this is the same as being told you're a co-conspirator in a crime committed by a homeless man because you gave him $1 when he was sitting in the street.
I wish more people would push back on these kinds of open-ended vague clauses in consumer agreements. When I represent big clients in arms-length negotiations, I usually take the position that my client will comply with laws – no more, no less. That leaves the definition of what is "objectionable" up to the (in theory, objective) standards of the law.
> Gandi: $17.94/year

$15 even is both what's on their price list and on my bank statement for the domain I renewed this month. If there are fees, I think they're included.

But even if I'm missing something, an ~$8 difference kindof proves my point. Sure, it's a big proportional difference, but the only reason that's the case is that the price of domains themselves isn't much in absolute terms -- it's not hard to spend more on dinner than any of the domain prices you listed, and the difference between Gandi and GoDaddy/Namecheap represents lunch, or a couple of coffees or sodas.
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Do you know anything about Tibet? Or dGe Lugs Pa? Or anything at all?

Old Tibetan system is exactly how force kids turning into monks and abey the teachings of Dalai Lama (note: not only the 14th).

What the Communist did wrong in Tibet, is not about exile Dalai Lama, but replacing the old ruling ranks without providing more options. So if anything thing went wrong, blame the Communists.
I’m sorry but in this case is like if that guy had a sign that said “Angry: need money to buy bullets”.
I don't disagree with point 1, but I will say that Namecheap has always been very good about warning me if a renewal is coming up. It's hard to miss their warnings if you've got some simple filters on your inbound email.
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> I sometimes wish I had types in Python.

You do. They're not statically checked, but they're there.

> I love Pyton/Ruby and other dynamic languages, but I miss the C++ type system when using them.

Why not use a language less syntactically heavy than C++ but still statically typed then? (and C++'s type system? not really going for the stars, are you?) Because a major part of Python and Ruby is indeed that they're not statically typed. A nominative static type system would yield quite different a language, probably something close to Cython[0]. Alternatively, you could fork Python or Ruby with a structural type system, this could be interesting but still — I think — different languages than their originators, not merely dialects. It also would be nothing even remotely close to "the C++ type system" (not that this would be a bad thing, AFAIC). And you probably wouldn't know "what types you're comparing" either.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cython
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True, however it has been considered not true. There are example, Werner Heizenberg is one,

http://michaelnielsen.org/blog/malcolm-gladwell%E2%80%99s-ne...

that people made genuinely great discoveries without needing 10,000 hours, and there are other examples where people did 10,000 hours of deliberate practice without achieving results. I actually found a critique (can't really find it now) which convinced me that he fudges data to support his claims and sell his books, author examined his references that support MG claims and found many to not be quite supportive and that it is a pattern that is present in most of his books.

His books are entertaining read, well written and all, just not reliable scientific information.

There is discussion on Quora where some of the criticism is voiced as well:
http://www.quora.com/Malcolm-Gladwell-author/What-are-some-c...
They've also contributed $43.7k to congresswoman Zoe Lofgren:
http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZ...

And $20.4k to senator Ron Wyden:
http://transparencydata.com/contributions/#Y29udHJpYnV0b3JfZ...

Both strongly opposing SOPA/PIPA.

So I wouldn't read too much into that arbitrary data point the OP chose to share with us.
Hey, that is pretty awesome. I had zero Java experience, but I felt inspired by your post, so I searched "java without ide" and got an XML parser up and running in approximately 20 minutes.

For the curious reader, here's how to do Java entirely from the command line:

1) install the JDK and add its "bin" directory to your PATH. For me this was "jdk1.7.0_02/bin"

2) copy and paste http://pastebin.com/R47bwDZx and save it into a new file called "test.xml"

3) copy and paste http://pastebin.com/Ut5dKBkn and save it into a new file called "ReadXMLFile.java"

- note, this is not my code. It's just a snippet I found from the 'net. Feel free to clean it up. =) My goal was "to get up and running as quickly as possible". Production code would be cleaner than this.

4) run these commands:

javac ReadXMLFile.java
java ReadXMLFile test.xml

And the XML file is parsed!

So why go through all this trouble, when you could just write it in Python?

Deployment comes to mind as one reason to go with this approach; fewer systems have Python installed than Java runtime.

So therefore when you deploy your app, you'd have to either 1) make customers install Python, or 2) (more likely) ship the contents of the "Python27" folder along with your Python app, and invoke your app via a shell script, or something. I'm not sure.
I wasn't trying to argue that it would be the correct approach, just a possible explanation.
My reading of this is not the same. The clause says "after thirty (30) days", which to me means they can cancel it any time after an initial 30 days.
This seems ridiculous to me. Does anyone think these corporate dinosaurs really have enough intelligence on this topic to organize a mass conspiracy to gain control of the Internet?

I'm sorry but no.

SOPA is prime evidence of the knee jerk reactions these companies are making in order to protect their age old business models that no longer work.
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I would have preferred an in-depth examination of a few examples, rather than a very brief look at a single part of a dense infographic. Errors are not forgivable, but there's a difference between a single error on a sheet that contains three dozen facts which are sourced and many deliberate distortions on a sheet with a few facts, none of which are sourced.

I'd agree that many infographics are just awful at conveying information; people aren't trained in stats to create or read these graphics.
I live in Cedar Park, which is Judge Carter's district. I called to see where he stood on SOPA, only to find out he's not only a supporter, but a cosponsor. Williamson County is a similarly safe district, so it doesn't cost Carter anything to support his buddy. My goal for the next few years is to make sure that it costs him a lot more than he anticipated.
Unfortunately this doesn't surprise me too much. I'm a Mac user and eagerly awaited the Mac release, only to find it had terrible performance and game breakage bugs. I emailed the developers and received two replies.

Tommy, the developer quoted here, started his email implying my complaint was faked, then saying they couldn't reproduce the issue of the game crashing every time you entered a warp zone, although they said they were working on it. His response made me quite a bit madder.

Edmund, the other developer, replied separately. He was apologetic and mentioned that the person they had originally paid to port the game fell through so it had to be done very fast. This was the kind of email I was expecting. It wasn't confrontational at all.

They later released a patch that fixed the crashing issues, but performance is still a major problem. The Windows system requirements are listed as a 1.4 GHz P4 with 768 MB of RAM. On the official blog, they list a dual core 2.6 GHz machine with 2 GB of RAM as the minimum requirements for the Mac. The game is officially supposed to support the 360 gamepad, but a note was left on the Steam forum that despite the promise it's not possible to support it correctly on the Mac, so the problem won't be fixed.

I thought the binding of Isaac looked interesting, and it has been getting good reviews. But after my experience I'm not going to play it. Super Meat Boy was a lot of fun (even though it didn't perform well on my Mac), but after my experience seeing the response to this issue doesn't surprise me.
Well, it is dishonest to conflagrate the two issues - organ harvesting and the Uighur situation.

Harvesting organs from condemned criminals is kind of messed up, but you can see why they do it. China has a big shortage of organ donors. It's fucked up if they are doing it in an inhumane way, but it has little to do with the Uighurs - most of the "donors" will be Han (though Uighurs will be disproportionately represented for a few reasons).

The Uighur situation is also complicated. If China didn't invade, Xinjiang would probably be some basket-case like Kyrgyzstan or Tajikistan (both have a GDP per capita of about $850 / year). China has a GDP per capita of over $4,000, though Uighurs may be below average. On the other hand, the China hasn't always been a barrel of laughs. I'm not sure there was ever an "intent to destroy", which is part of the definition of genocide, but you wouldn't call the accusation "bullshit", either.

I don't like the way the two issues are being packaged together, though.
It seems that Tucows doesn't have a clause like that, unless I'm reading this incorrectly.

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Apparently the article can't be trusted. Read comments on reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/mw542/the_signal...
So instead of paying for my television programs, I should pirate them?

Are there any media sellers who do not support SOPA?
This is one of the main reasons I dumped my HTC Android phone (to buy an iPhone). It became painfully clear that the OS was never going to be updated, and the value of a market of apps becomes very low when they all stop supporting your OS.
I don't understand his points about the Princeton graphic. from the Princeton page he links to:

> *The projected budget increase in the financial aid program will continue significant enhancements the University has made over the past 12 years, including replacing all required loans with grants that do not need to be repaid. This year the average grant for a student on financial aid is $36,000. These efforts have dramatically increased the economic diversity of Princeton's student body. The 60 percent of this year's freshman class on financial aid is a striking change from the class of 2001 -- the last class admitted before the enhancements to the aid program -- when 38 percent of the freshmen were on aid.
Registrars have rules set by Registries (For example, Verisign is the registry for .com, .net). I would assume these rules go back to the original issuers of the domains.

Regardless, I think that any registrar would have to have some "we reserve the right to shut down your domains" clause given the number of botnets and other uncool stuff on the net which use lots of domains (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conficker#Payload_propagation for example)