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Where I live (Brazil) there has been widespread debate about state funding of political parties. It happens at the moment (I think something like 400mi USD is invested in it), but the issue with it is that it has prompted a load of small, socially inexpressive political parties to be founded to get money from that fund.

Debate also spins around prohibition of donations from companies or from donations over 2000 reais or something by a person (around 950 USD). Some would argue that company interests are valid and that prohibiting that would just generate that sort of funding illegally; others would say this sort of company funding is the root of a very corrupt system. This should be one of the main points of a try at political reform in the next four years.

Not necessarily is "being a parliament" a problem -- after all, parties are together for a reason. Except they are usually ideological in most countries (liberals, social-democrats, socialists), and not a group of people that got into parties to get, as noted by the article, in the party most convenient for the district where you come from.
That's one out of two ways to change the constitution. It can also be initiated by the states without the involvement of Congress. See [1]. This is the strategy being adopted by the Wolf PAC[2] which is seeking to pass an amendment abolishing corporate personhood & publicly financing elections.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Five_of_the_United_Stat...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_PAC
Unless you're a bank. http://observer.com/2012/04/mr-brownstoners-crown-heights-cr...
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I thought it was an old boring Java/C++ place, but it seems that they can have some fun :).
The thing I fear more than the Congressional institution that we're currently burdened with is a constitutional convention.
>The title is very misleading...

Yeah... but... I think it's kind of obvious. Not sure where the line is between "enticing" and "bait" but BMOW isn't selling crap, so it's not like you had to tolerate some nasty popup surprise or ad spam or anything.

>he went to Alibaba which is essentially the Amazon of factories... definitely not the "best price" you can get.

Good enough for a first approximation. Maybe he'll at least figure out that he can probably bargain that down quite a bit.
Your conclusion isn't exactly the truth. According to Anthem, they used that site to host other information prior to the breach.

Via Twitter @Antheminc:
"Previously, http://AnthemFacts.com hosted information about our mental health coverage: http://ow.ly/IzcZr"
I personally do like the single-payer approach, where you get coverage on a no-fee basis purely by showing you're a citizen/resident; and that's how it's done here in Denmark. But it's not the only way of providing universal care, even in Europe. Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands are typically considered to also have universal healthcare, but it's administered via health insurance, not as a single-payer model with direct state provision of services. There are various options for coverage, but having some baseline coverage is mandatory and intended to be universal (with subsidies for people who can't afford it), somewhat closer to the ACA model than to the Scandinavian or Canadian model.
Deuterium is not quite as easy to get as hydrogen.
>One thing you can do is go to brokers.

Those guys will skin you alive if they can. I'd almost rather take my chances making a production run... almost.
I'm wondering how this relates to LLVM or JAVA bytecode.
I get the idea, but i'm afraid to say that it's completely unrelated, you can't compare learning a language to a developing or framework syntax. Because sometimes it could be easier and others harder, i speak and write in french English and German so i'm talking from experience. And nothing is simple or easy because there is always a new layer of depth behind the language that you could get into, and the further you go in the bigger the possibilities get. And my question was never how to learn, but how not to forget
Commissioning a custom production run is an insider thing. But, yeah AliBaba was a good place to start if you have no contacts.
$200 for a phone that relies on new HTML5 apps to be better than a phone at half of it's cost?

I see another failure in the making...
Just to point out that, as much as the CLR was specced as cross-language, it's damn hard to run Java on it, Python and Ruby are abandoned, no-one's even tried Haskell.
Maybe for the US you have only 2 choices, but Europe actually has quite a few "new" parties recently. UKIP[0], Podemos[1], and SYRIZA[2] (and many others I'm not well acquainted with) have all cropped up in the past few years, and have had quite a lot of success.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Independence_Party
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podemos_%28Spanish_political_pa...
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Radical_Left
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At some startups, Friday is so casual that it’s not even a workday
Interestingly, it seems the 404 varies with the url:
http://www.bloomberg.com/a
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/a/
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16% boost in [new] HIV infections, or a 0.7% increase in HIV cases.

Of course the title makes it sound 23 times more severe.
I suppose you can still focus on a few technologies when looking for new projects and freelancing. At the beginning it should be quite complicated since you won't like the idea of letting a project go just because it requires some new framework you don't know, but it's a price to be paid in order to have more expertise and experience using your skillset (proper financial planning might help in this transition).
If you keep learning and relearning things for each 2-weeks project you find, you'll end up without much depth in any of the technologies you have used. The question then is: which technologies/frameworks/languages should you focus on?
This has to be Joshua Topolsky's idea!
They're not Amazon, but they've eaten a heck of a lot of eBay's lunch, and that's a big lunch.
See also?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._H._Holmes#Chicago_and_the_.2...
Where can I read about how it works? I played and two people walked towards me?
I'm curious about your reasoning why it shouldn't work - I haven't had a deep look into the claims of Rossi but I understand why it's unlikely to be a nuclear reaction. It shouldn't work as is. If the effect is chemical, deuterium is a perfect substitute for hydrogen.

But if it is a nuclear effect (extremely unlikely) and it does work - there are mechanisms involved that aren't explained by current particle physics, how can you be sure that 2H won't show any effect?
> Articles like this is exactly why I'm discouraged and each voting cycle I get less and less inclined to go out and vote and just stay home and code.

I still vote, because while a single vote by itself doesn't make much of a difference, and even which flavor of shill who wins doesn't make much of a difference, the fact that a population votes does (I think) make a difference, regardless of the outcome.

If we collectively don't bother to vote, then we the people become all but irrelevant.

If you're too disgusted to vote, it's probably because the votes for people are between two equally repugnant choices. So go out and vote "anyone but those two." Vote third party. It doesn't matter what third party you vote for, because what you're really doing is showing up. It's a holding action, to preserve the vote, until we've figured out how to make it work again.

Think hard about holding on to your right to vote. Right now, in Congress, they still hold "voice votes," where individual votes are not counted, and instead the person running the vote decides based on the volume of "yeas" or "neighs" which side of the vote won. Before modern technology there were practical reasons/excuses for this practice, but now it's just a way to a) allow voting members to be anonymous, and b) the leadership to have undue tie-breaking influence. And it's lazy.

Who's to say that Congress won't eventually grow the balls (or have paid balls attached) to declare that they know how a district would vote anyway, based on blah blah blah, and just declare winners, because people aren't voting anyway.

At least force them to continue to lie. Don't just give it to them.
Holding defense spending against the U.S. while comparing it to Europe doesn't make much sense. The U.S. subsidizes defense for Europe. Look, Europe spent the last several hundred years warring with each other, then stopped suddenly with U.S. ascendency. They didn't evolve beyond war. It just became unimaginable when the U.S. has all the guns and will enforce the status quo.
To most hiring managers, a bootcamp graduate isn't even entry level - far less qualified than a raw CS grad who's built a side project or two. Doesn't matter how old you are, age is just a number and you're changing careers -- you're a newbie and probably unable to contribute in any meaningful way without at least a few months of very closely supervised real world work. Bite the damn bullet and take a (paid) internship. Then look for a real entry level job. Which, btw, are mostly with larger companies. The small ones typically can't afford to invest in nurturing and training.
Sunshine kitchen and bellagio's are probably all right. It is probably the only time to prefer chain resteraunts, especially ones that aren't franchised. Element fresh is pretty safe, and...well, just remember you get what you pay for.
Run a current through this for pure deuterium gas: https://unitednuclear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&c...
What's the real reason for using threads today ? Why not use multi-process instead ? Or even OpenCL/CUDA if one needs to crunch numbers ?

The only real use-case for thread I can see right now, is for large game engine that need to process sound, graphics, networking, and inputs, all at the same time. What other type of application does need to make use of threads ?
That may have been true 50 years ago, but not now. The future of military defense is the future of technology: genomics, information systems, robotics, self driving and flying vehicles, nanotechnology.

A constant investment in technical capabilities and human capabilities is needed to defend against future threats from aggressive actors.

Those investments require money from tax payers.
I mostly see people reading, or texting, or trying desperately to keep their eyes closed.

You're not the first person to claim this, so I have to wonder: is there an unspoken guideline for finding the "DRM-free video watchers car" where I can hang out with these VLC-using folks?
Huh.

A quick and dirty way to avoid having to do much of any stats. Interesting.
I agree with you about the (original and most important) meaning of "socialism", and I agree with the majority of the declarative sentences in your comment.

However, that's not what the "socialized" in "socialized healthcare" means. Nobody uses it that way, that's not what it means.

"Socialized healthcare" means that the cost burden of providing (some aspects of) healthcare is borne by the society. "Socialized healthcare" is fundamentally about wealth redistribution. That's how people use that phrase; that's what that phrase means when people say it.

I also am highly skeptical that the U.S. system of healthcare is "one of the most socialist systems" in the first world. More socialist than healthcare in Uganda, sure, perhaps. The means of production of healthcare are primarily owned and operated by private companies. Yes, they are regulated, but that's very nearly orthogonal to capitalism or socialism. And yes, there are socialist aspects to the American system, but my understanding is that they tend to be corner cases (admittedly large corner cases). I think you would be hard-pressed to find a first-world system of healthcare that has as much private ownership of the means of production of healthcare.

As for the fix for the established fact that Americans pay around twice as much for slightly-inferior care (relative to other first-world countries).... Your claim that it's over-regulation is wildly citation-needed, although you might be right, and I think it's clear that there's room for SOME savings in things like nurse-practitioners. Nonetheless, the first and most dramatic thing that everyone notices when they compare the U.S. system to the systems that work better (e.g. every other member of the G8) is that the U.S. system is full of adversarial friction, where many private corporations each strive to take a piece of the pie. Good for private profits, bad for everyone else. Not a value judgement, just a difference from other first-world systems.
But most developers i know are proficient in multiple frameworks and languages, that's why i'm trying to be at least good in them, i suppose the only way to do so is to create a repo for each new thing i learn in github and make sure to put a new project in each rep every week
I can see where you're coming from. For my particular apication that's not a concern (and I have sequence numbers to know when I've dropped data).
I agree. If you want something done, don't bother with Congress. State or local is the only way to make a direct and timely difference in our lives.
And blu-ray only works on blu-ray players, not Motorola StarTACs.

I don't get most of the arguments on this thread. And I'm very much on the fence about DRM as a producer of licensed content, and a consumer of it.
+1.

btw, are you having some laggy (high load avg) using yosemite?
#LETTER4U If you're looking for the truth...
> but the IRS somehow knows exactly what you owed them and why

They know how much you owe them before deductions.
I wish they would put the mic on the front of the device so peole could hear me when I speak.
If you don't actually believe the tech will be useful for you outside of that one job, the solution is simple: charge them for the time you spend getting up to speed.
I think Stallman is personally threatened by LLVM.
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> I believe the entertainment industry as a whole...is no longer viable"

How do you rationalize the movie industries increasing year to year profits with the idea that the entertainment industry is no longer viable?

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140328/11442826721/pirac...

Although I don't have numbers, it is my impression that many more musicians / songwriters are making a full time living at their music than in the past. In today's world it is a lot easier to 'go at it alone'.
They're safe if you spend the money, but you have to spend the money.
Massachusetts man rents out igloo on Airbnb for $10 a night
FUEL, the Factor mode for Emacs, allows you to do almost exactly this: it shows you the stack effect of any given word when you're hovering over it, and you can ask what the cumulative stack effect is at any given point. The only thing missing here would be providing names to what's on the stack, but you can do that by using the lexical vocabulary along with the above.
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Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

> Why is top-posting still something to avoid?

Gmail "embraced" it because their editor started out as a textarea and they had no choice. It's a consequence of their programming environment and not some kind of aesthetic choice they carefully considered.
Hacking Printerest Android app to get API secret key
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That's my concern as well.
ObjC and Java both have weaknesses. I routinely think about what is wrong in the mobile frameworks (Activity is a god object, null is a pain in the ass in Java, the various lifecycles you have to constantly worry about...) but if anything JavaScript looks like a big step back.
You're still young, so I'm guessing you don't like saying no, perhaps because you need the money. But the longer you're doing this, the easier it will get to say, "well, actually, no, I only do X" and in fact get paid more than a generalist, and be in higher demand than a generalist, because people like paying for experts. That's not an answer to your immediate predicament, but it does pay to think where you want to be a couple of years from now and how to start moving in that direction.
Don't learn everything. Pick something that makes you happy/money, and be very good at it; instead of trying to learn everything and learning it poorly. Heck, people who refused to learn anything but COBOL make more money than many of us (http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/cobol-programmer-salary-SR...)
>I am not sure what the alternatives are.

Refuse to use Netflix and co.!

>Lack of such feature set HTML5 backwards

No, giving in on DRM set it backwards. The web is intended to be "free and open", which means that DRM is not welcome.
Isn't this a general problem of cross-language VMs? Different languages need different object models, and different data representations. [0] At least according to one Parrot developer, the Parrot object model was one of the biggest pain points for porting JS/Ruby/Python to Parrot... Where that object model was meant to be universal, and work for any language. [1] That said, IronPython does still semi-exist [2], and I'm not sure how well JRuby handles interoperability with Java or Jython...

[0] One former dev on one of the Iron* languages posted on reddit about how the CLR failed on its cross language ambitions. I can't find the post, but they gradually found it was mostly C# centric anyways, and ports of other languages were mostly incompatible and second-class

[1] http://whiteknight.github.io/2015/01/15/parrottheend.html

[2] http://ironpython.net/announcements/ for what it's worth...
Most people do end up specializing but since you feel that you can't at the moment the best way is to understand the underlying concepts.
One thing I've found helpful is to keep example applications and work you've done locally on your computer. I keep mine sprayed by project type ie wordpress, joomla, angular. It's helpful to start building generic utility libraries that are usable across projects.
The key point is to be able to reuse techniques, code patterns and hopefully code across multiple projects.
I've also seen friends blog what they've learned so that they can quickly relearn what you need
Pitch my Idea, find a mentor
I want to pitch my to a possible mentor, Investor or a anyone who can help get some insights.
How can he not be? In an attempt to protect user freedom, he rejects and blocks useful features in his compiler that users want/need. When he sees them flocking away to another free alternative compiler, he sees it as a sign that LLVM is out to destroy GNU. RMS does not realize that he is planting the seeds of his GNU's destruction.
If Europe comes out ahead partly by defecting in a farmer's dilemma[1], it hardly seems fair to hold it up as an example of what the US should aspire to.

(You might argue that the US doesn't need to spend that much on military. But you didn't argue that. You argued that Europe doesn't need to spend as much on military as the US, because the US does.)

[1] I could have sworn the farmer's dilemma was a standard term, but I can't find it on google. If two farmers have fields next to each other, and one of them irrigates, then both of them benefit. They can split the work, or one can say "I'm not going to bother. What are you going to do, let your crops die, just to spite me?" So the second one irrigates.

Then people look at the first farmer and see that he runs a successful farm without working as hard as the second, and they assume that she must be doing something wrong.
>Without EME, Netflix would be relying on proprietary browser plugins forever

And they should! They distribute proprietary software, so they should be able to deal with relying on other proprietary software.

This idea that we must sacrifice the ideology of the web for the benefit of large corporations like Netflix is completely insane.
Even though the OP talks about learning new technology, his meaning is actually very different from yours. You're talking about understanding things. The OP is talking about getting up to speed with something and using it productively.

Learning a programming language is easy. Learning how to use it productively includes everything from architecture to testing to style to knowledge of all of the popular libraries and so forth... understanding any of this is not the problem, using it productively and keeping up to date is. And knowing CPU architecture and physics isn't going to help you with that.
You tap/long tap on 'debtors' on the map to shoot. They will fight back. You kill them and collect loot.

The closer the target the higher the chance to hit.

Your effective range will increase with as your weaponry advances.

If someone launches the game nearby you will see him/her around (players' icons have white outline). You can also kill them.
Complaining something is bad because the low/free price makes crime feasible is...baffling. Like banning spoons because they're cheap, making it easier to get fat.

The USA does provide free tax software: http://www.irs.gov/uac/Free-File:-Do-Your-Federal-Taxes-for-...
"a decent, simple 3D C++ rendering library " - 3D rendering doesn't really get any more simple than a blank OpenGL context window. If you want "simple" as in "easy to use" then Unity/Unreal Engine are both very easy to use.
I definitely read a long and interesting article about Majorana, and I was pretty sure I had found it from HN. Some searching finally dredged it up:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7870344
I'm not saying you can only know a couple of frameworks, but it 's hard to be an expert in Python/Django, Ruby/Rails, Node.js and Java. You can do the same for frontend stuff. For example: I think it's a better option to be a Django and Angular.js expert, good at Node.js and Backbone.js.. and kind of ignore projects related to Java, Rails, Ember, React etc. You can pick anything you want, it's just an example. You can still work on side-projects with the trendy stuff and migrate depending on your interests and the market, but you shouldn't transition into new things every month. Just my 2 cents, best of luck. :)
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Maybe I am no fun, but I find this error page disorienting and a little disturbing.

Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that.

Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat?

https://github.com/404
https://github.com/500

Edited for clarity
Threads are one of the easiest paths to responsive applications. One thread for GUI and many for asynchronous background tasks(network, disk, compute heavy operations). Communicating and sharing between processes is more complex than between threads. Generally it is more OS-specific and processes have much higher overhead.

One easy example of a sane place for threading that would resonate with this crowd is HTTP servers. A thread pool to serve requests and a few asynchronous threads to handle DB operations and message queue interactions. Most frameworks are doing this for you (with real threads in languages that support it like C C++ Go Java and green threads in languages that don't Python Node/JS Ruby).
And video file formats are not physical objects you put in a physical disc player. False equivalence makes your point idiotic.
Hard to believe how customers are willing to accept more and more of this bullshit, vendors did a great job at brainwashing them.