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> Well, many lobbyists advocate your views by giving money, goods or services to public representatives...

Sure, that's a tactic that happens in lobbying, just as its a tactic that happens in people directly advocating their own views.

I am not saying that lobbying is free of corruption. But the reason the two often go together isn't that lobbying is fundamentally corruption, its that lobbying is an expensive form of petition, which makes its community of users overlap considerably with the set of people/groups with the resources to effectively engage in corruption independently of whether or not they were using an intermediary to do advocacy to public representatives.
Well, what's the difference to me if the spread is 0.1% or 2%? Am I really not going to buy?

If I want to buy a security, don't I have to buy it at whatever price is being offered? Sure, some dude can cover the spread on both sides, but if the guys selling it to me just passed it through 50 hands going from the firm that issued the security to get to me, what's the point of all that? Like, I get the point of the liquidity offered by market makers, but I'm just questioning the marginal utility.

How much less likely am I to buy or sell a security based on the marginal decreases in the spread? It doesn't seem like it would be linear. And what effects are caused by having so much complexity between the issuer and the investor?
But if you aren’t collecting money, then you literally don’t know how much any feedback you’ve got is worth.

Even if their comments are well-meaning and made with no intent to mislead or deceive, what people say they would do in a hypothetical situation and what they actually do in a real situation can be very different, particularly where spending money is concerned.
Lobbyists help draft legislation, raise campaign funds, and produce propaganda. The "Lobbying Restriction" in the IRS 501(c)(3) tax code even describes lobbying as "carrying on propaganda or otherwise attempting to influence legislation" (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/501.shtml). And if a politician isn't cooperating, lobbyists will often throw their weight behind the challenger in next election.

Changing this system is Lawrence Lessig's prime objective...

* We the People, and the Republic we must reclaim (http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...)

* On Aaron Swartz and the unstoppable walk to political reform
(http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_the_unstoppable_wal...)
Finally, sensible reasoning. The comments in this thread and the unnecessary publicity this is getting is probably the only thing about this that would lead to the conclusion that this is a push back towards 2.7
Where exactly do you get this "tens of thousands" number from?
Probably this. Submitting patches back to open source is expensive - you have to dedicate engineers to tidying up and submitting patches, for no benefit (other than being closer to upstream, which is of marginal use, especially if there are clear forks) whereas they could be developing new functionality. In the real world, the priority if often to do new development instead.
I chose to learn Ruby in part because of the confusing Python 2/3 issue. I recognize that this is a largely stupid reason to choose a language, but when lots of people suggest that either language is great to pick-up, well, it was another easy reason to lean Ruby over Python.
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It's just XML, what could probably go wrong?
One of the privileges of being a founder is that employees don't get to tell you when to "leave".

It's your company. Consult an attorney and stand up for yourself.
> The distinction usually is that you offering to spend money on their behalf for a campaign

Which is also usually corruption and a violation of campaign finance laws which prohibit coordination between unlimited "independent" expenditures and candidates or campaign committees controlled by them.
You don't think so? That is the implication I got from the tone of the article and the handful of examples given. I heard Clare Malone on NPR talking about the article she wrote, and if I recall correctly she actually used the word "commonplace" to describe the nepotism going on.

We all know how many people get jobs because of connections... the privileged among us just take it for granted -- indeed because it so unremarkable we often just forget how we got there or don't think much of it (I'll confess that I initially got a well-paying job (that I was entirely unqualified for) purely because of family connections). Just think how many of these backroom "hey instead of paying me $2000 for my campaign, hire my daughter who's having trouble finding employment" dealings there are that go unreported and are never found out. I'd say it absolutely is commonplace.
> CCP are evil tyrants destroying the freedom of chinese" <snip> destruction of poverty and rise of the middle class wealth and power.

The two aren't mutually exclusive. In fact, most people believe both are happening. I don't think anyone doubts the middle class in China is on the rise, the question is, "at what cost?" If they're rising because of China's economic bubble, when it crashes, they're going to be worse off than before. Potentially much worse off. Some economists believe that when China crashes, it will be the worst economic disaster in recorded history. Now whether that's true or not is another matter, but the fact that people are even making those claims can't be good. There's some substance there.
I suggest you first consult with a US immigration attorney for these sorts of questions. The internet is full of bad advice. Work visas generally have an emphasis on being a skilled professional (i.e: education and/or many years of experience). FYI - TN status is granted when you cross the border, entirely at the border official's discretion.
> You can use the REPL above to play

I don't see anything like that on my screen (OS X, Firefox latest). It's basically just three lines of code without any interaction.
The spread is a fee charged by liquidity providers (market makers) to traders. Whether you trade every day or only once a year, the spread is effectively money taken from the trader and put in the pockets of market-makers.

If you want to disincentivize active trading (more than the market already does, by awarding outsized returns to funds that don't rely on active trading), a tax on trades performs this function more effectively than high spreads do.

Worth noting: during the times when spreads were as high as 0.25, that was in large part the result of collusion between the market makers, who were eventually taken to court over it.
So, a CTO at an early stage startup who can't be bothered to code wants to oust a co-founder?

If true, that's beyond absurd.
Expensive, and it's not clear that it would help.

Context switching between applications is costly in terms of cache hit and CPU time.

The other problem is you then have to IPC the sensitive data to the other process, which will mean putting in temporary memory, which would expose it to stack crash, or heap attacks. You've also got to worry about synchronizing the different processes.
Don't be gullible. You shouldn't take the antics of reporters seeking page views on face-value, this bill is unreasonable and idiotic:

"The bill would place many of our members in an impossible, Catch-22 situation—be held in contempt of court or be disqualified from contracts with the State of Arizona or any political subdivision"

They are supporting a well thought out bill instead:

http://googlepublicpolicy.blogspot.com/2014/02/its-time-to-r...

https://www.aclu.org/national-security/aclu-strongly-support...
>Changing this mindset is a big challenge and I am still trying to convince some of the potential customers.

Save yourself time and money and find a different market or stop now. If you are a one or two man shop (or similar) with limited resources, you will likely fail. Educating a market is costly and time consuming, and changing mindsets even moreso.

Sorry to be blunt, but been there too many times. Good luck.
It's worth asking, "who's corruption"? I highly recommend the book "Extortion: How Politicians Extract Your Money, Buy Votes, and Line Their Own Pockets" ( http://www.amazon.com/Extortion-Politicians-Extract-Money-Po...), which along with many things I've observed for a long time (e.g. the path and timing of Microsoft's travails, not to mention many of the details of a trial so bad the appeals court removed the trial judge while ratifying too much of his work), makes a compelling case a lot of this is a protection racket.

"Nice company you have here, would be a shame if anything happened to it...."
Can you imagine the scope of the research to meaningfully have insight on how commonplace such a thing is?

The people with the funds and power to connect all those dots are in the set of people who are somewhat likely to have benefitted from those connections. I don't see a big move to get that research funded any time soon.
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Those who lobby the US government must "register" (declare to a US governmental agency they are lobbyists). This registration includes disclosing all of the entities being lobbied for.

Most lobbying does not including campaign contributions. Where campaign contributions are made, they must be reported and there are strict rules against the contributions personally benefiting the person running for office or his friends and family.
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Same thing here, in both Firefox and Chrome.

Edit: Weird, after a couple refreshes it worked, but then I refreshed again and the console disappeared again.
Instead of just baseless thinking out loud, let's turn to some actual facts:

http://www.gnome.org/foundation/reports/

Their 2012 annual report in particular says:

"Corporate sponsorship ... up 41.6% from the previous year."

"Personal donations rose by 45.4% ... this appears to be the highest amount of personal donations that the GNOME Foundation has ever received."

If you've got some real reason to believe 2013's finances are different, and believe the foundation is lying about their reasons for the shortfall, then do let us know.
Lobbying is a way to influence government, except only interests with lots of money can do it. The influence is so great, pretty much whoever has the most money has the most say. Sound like bribery? It is, but it was made legal.

Don’t worry - if you don’t have money, you can influence government by voting! But who or what you vote on is dictated by a lobbyist. In other words, they set the table and you get to decide which side you sit on. Don’t like what you see? You can walk out in the rain with the other Americans who don’t bother voting.

Great example: 2008 financial crisis. Ordinary citizens were opposed to giving the banks bailouts, like 99% to 1% in polls. The banks beat the will of the people because they are heavy contributors to both major parties. Don’t worry - most of the important politicians behind that move are still in power, because there are a lot of stupid voters in this country. Good thing we also take a “one-size-fits-all” approach to voting and force the will of the (proven stupid) masses on all individuals.

And that’s why lobbying works and won’t ever change. You want representation in this country? You better have money.
I discovered Idris when I was playing around with Agda last summer. It's cool to see a systems programming language with dependent types.
That paper only seems to mention heap overflows for purposes of writing to a target object that will later be used for indirection or execution. I don't see how it makes Heartbleed any better to extract a shuffled heap instead of a sorted one. What am I missing?
Same for me (OS X, Safari latest)
The risk/reward ratio is a lot different in those two cases. If a Java library drops support for some API (and many do, in major versions), I will know at compile time, and fix it. If the same thing happens in Python, you may not know until days have gone past and your program crashes. The type system is like a set of unit tests that get written automatically and have 100% coverage.

There is also the issue of how code gets installed on the system. The Python model is that you have a bunch of py files sprinkled throughout the filesystem. In this case, you have a "baling out the ocean with a teaspoon" issue when making a major change. There has to be a flag day when everything changes at once. In contrast, with Go, I can have apps compiled with Go 1.0, Go 1.1, and Go 1.2 co-existing happily on the same system. They don't share library files. (Yes, I understand abut things like virtualenv, but that doesn't help distributions that want to ship your software.)

A big part of why Sun (and now Oracle) has been so conservative about backwards compatibility in Java proper (as opposed to the libraries and ecosystem) is because JDK upgrades have a similar "baling out the ocean with a teaspoon" property. It's all or nothing... you generally only have one version of Java installed, and it has to play nice with everything. If they had integrated the runtime into the binary like Go did, this would be much less of an issue.
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>>Do lobbyists spend money to influence politicians? Yes? Then it's corruption.

I have plenty of issues[1] with the whole lobbying process, but with your definition how does anyone get anything done at all? Ever? This is assuming you believe the system can be fixed while still working within the rules of the system. FWIW, I'm personally starting to doubt that but if anyone can pull it off it's companies like Google.

1. https://twitter.com/SMTDDR/status/418656414697926656
How does Gnome "underpin" Debian?
Alternatives don't help when some other project depend on a package that is not fully ported. And this is a problem. It is still a bit harder to quickly build something using Python 3.x. Check trending Python repos for this month:

* portia doesn't work in 3.x because of scrapy, twisted and scrapely;

* psdash - developers don't care;

* jasper-client - developers don't care;

* ansible - Paramico was not ported when development started, now it is a big task to port ansible;

* scrapy - depends on twisted;

* heartbleed-masstest - developers don't care;

* planout - developers don't care;

* beets - not sure what's the reason, either some dependencies or developers don't care;

* reddit - no reason to move for 3.x for a large codebase which is not a library;

* salt - docs says it needs Python < 3 (maybe the reason is similar to ansible's);

* pacemaker - developers don't care;

* pyjvm - developers don't care;

* sentry - large codebase which is not a library.

That's not bad (12 trending packages have 3.x support, 13 don't). But clearly something stops some new packages from starting in py3, and many packages that people find interesting don't work in 3.x. I think that the only way to improve this is to help porting "base" packages that ecosystems depend on; just providing alternatives is usually not a good answer.
Here is the source code: http://svn.python.org/view/python/trunk/Lib/antigravity.py?v...
Why would you need to save somebody's IP address in a database in the first place? An IP address isn't a unique identifier of a person (many people can share a computer) or of most people's computers (which have dynamic IPs).

Or were they using their database as their HTTP server log?
Test scores are a never-share-to-others type of score.
Yup... just look at HN, no CSS resets going on here ;)
What if the hiring company culled the list down to a set number of candidates and gave them all paid contract work, on something they needed done anyway, as an audition?

This gives both the applicant and the company a chance to see how working together might go. The company gets something on their to-do list done, and the candidate gets paid for their time.
By 2020 everyone will have moved onto OCaml anyway.
> These people live in shoe boxes

So "downtown Tokyo" = all of Japan now? I lived in Japan for 14 months and I can tell you right now they don't all "live in shoe boxes". Hell, my rental flat in Japan was bigger than my 2 bedroom house here on the outskirts of Sydney, oh and it was cheaper.

> and you can never get a straight answer out of a Japanese person.

Let me guess, you got all your information on Japan from Debito or that Gaijin forum?
A while ago I was reading a blog post and I spotted a grammar error. The post was good but it made me a little uncomfortable.

So I decided to make it right. I used chrome developer tools's edit html feature... I edited the html and behold the grammar error was gone. I read the paragraph again with pure delight. I love technology.

Idea Generated:
There are lots of blog posts out there that have good content, but sometimes they are not written well or grammar errors exists because of lack of proof-reading.

What if there was a web-app where readers can correct blog posts or articles. Of course, it needs the approval of the author. There might be a 'Correct me if I have grammar errors' button of some sort somewhere in the post.

The editor is not allowed to edit the meaning of the content, only the typos and/or grammar errors, which of course needs the approval of the author. It's like github for blog posts and articles.
If you are happy with your current job, then there is no need to apply to a different job, so this scenario would never come up for you.
Yes it's been done before and other companies do it - Atlassian is the most successful at this because their audience imho.
Hm that does sound clever. A preparser to determine what language version then invoke that interpreter. And if the 3 is so good people would switch over to usong its features only very soon.

Maybe py3 just doesnt have good enough features compared to 2 for people to make the switch and shouldnr have existed in the first place?

But gradually introducing changes.

Now python is for all intents two languages instead of one.
Email Link: A simple browser plugin which allows me to click it once and it emails me the current url. It would be nice if it gives me the option to email it to others.

Resuscitate Xoopit, a much much better gmail search. Have you ever wondered why gmail search sucks when its parent company is the supposedly the best search engine in the world. Xoopit was a nifty addon that mine your inbox and 1) organize every file and links it found, and 2) gave you a search feature at least 10 times better than the gmail option.

I would pay once for the first tool, and monthly for the second product.
"As long as the block of code inside the if fits in one line, you can also use this shorthand syntax (note the lack of curly brackets):"

My definition of "one line" invalidates this statement. However, I believe "one line" is pretty objective. Javascript will execute anything until it reaches a semi-colon. The following is valid Javascript.

if (foo)
for (i = 0; i < a.length; ++i)
if (i === 5)
console.log (a[i]);

Other than the obvious nitpicking, great article! It clears up a couple of confusing aspects of Javascript.
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[non-Google] "NaCl is also much faster than OpenSSL"
Oh that's nice, keep up the good work then! :-)
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I dont know why people are downvoting me stating a fact.
you have to remeber that in spain we value our privacy very much.
Silicon Valley is a long way from Barcelona.
Sure we are a tech hub but we are also more grounded and realistic.
Not sure what you mean.

It is obviously not worthless since it is required everywhere. So large number of people and organizations hold that it isn't.

> I make it a point to sign something mocking the form whenever presented with a signature box to make this very point.

Again I am confused about that. So you are buying a car, a house or making a deal with an attorney, do you just write "fuck you" in the signature box, put a smiley face in there?
Every sunday:

Product Idea: a gmail app that shows me a graph with the number of mail I sent/receive a day , by person, group,...
Seems like the web site is aimed at consumers. Have you considered institutions? If you can show ROI vs frequent laundering, they might buy in quantity. This would probably mean facilities with medium or long-term stays, to maximize the value. So probably not hotels or hospitals, but maybe cruise ships, certain prisons, or some managed-care facilities. Think carefully about the pros and cons of selling to large companies vs selling to individuals.

Getting back to individual customers, have you thought about RV users? They have limited space and limited access to laundry facilities. That could be a good niche market to explore.
Still sucks when youve got modules with c extensions, lile any usable fast module, the virtualenv doesnt virtualize that.
I have a feeling, that in the future, gaming is going to either see a complete revolution or another crash (and then a renaissance).

Traditional consoles will go out of fashion, and console manufacturers will either 1. fall under, or 2. continue generating a lot of money, but fall out of relevancy in the public eye (much like IBM, Oracle, some would say Microsoft, etc.). People are starting to see consoles for what they are : overpriced PCs with really shitty OSes and very limited software opportunities. Why spend $300 on a gadget that can play games when I have already spent $300 on a different, more powerful and capable gadget that can also play games, but also a lot of other stuff?
Why lug around another portable when my smartphone already has a bunch of awesome games/spend my money on a device sitting on a shelf that basically can only do a fraction of what my PC already does, in a shitty way, too (poorer graphics,more expensive games, no mods, not upgradeable, etc.)?

Before it used to be that consoles had the best library of games, but as the indie scene explodes, we're seeing the best games coming from developers who simply can't afford the inefficient and restrictive console publishing system when they can reach a much larger/much more devoted market by just putting their work on the App Store/Greenlight -> Steam, and then giving Apple/Valve 30% of their sales. Why get in a whole fuss with publishers and console manufacturers and retailers and what-not? Sony and Microsoft are trying to retaliate by being relatively more open about indie/digital publishing, but it's too little, too late.

Gaming will then split into 2 main platforms : Mobile for 'casual', and PC for 'hardcore'. Hardcore gaming isn't going to go out of fashion, no, it's just going to move to a different platform : instead of consoles, the desktop -- fully equipped with keyboard, mouse, and Oculus Rift (that's another thing I see will happen - VR is going to replace the TV for gaming). As PC gaming gets more and more popular and PC-building gets more and more widespread and Valve gets more and more accessible/approachable in terms of the Steambox, Big Picture, etc., people will go to PC whenever they want multiple hours-long sessions of gaming instead of the quick, easy, addictive, instant gratification of the Flappy Birds they play on the subway. And the VR will just enhance their experience 100-fold.
In other words, in global terms what he is saying is that those who have capital and assets that generate wealth (such as a Saudi prince) will always be richer than entrepreneurs who are trying to make capital.

Except if you look at "rich lists", you see plenty of self-made, first-generation wealth. Who are the richest men in the world? Gates, Buffett, Ellison, Slim... All businessmen.

More typical nonsense from the Graun (who by the way, are based offshore in the Cayman's for tax purposes).