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Tom, I think you should follow your own policy:

"However, we’ve decided that the comment area will be an Asshole-Free Zone. We’ve seen too many good discussions degenerate into forums for jerks. Because this is our blog, we see no reason to suffer fools and jerks; they can go post somewhere else, like on their own blogs (that we won’t read). So, we reserve the right to delete comments at our whim, if we determine that the comment has that indefinable but-we-know-it-when-we-see-it asshole quality. If someone is repeatedly annoying, we reserve the right to ban their IP address so that they can’t post again."

Your post has, as you say, "that indefinable but-we-know-it-when-we-see-it asshole quality".

Am I the only one that finds it ironic that this post is right above your post titled "Civility doesn’t come for free; or, hammer the trolls"?
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No the feminist bullshit you linked to originally was about the Victorian era.

And the feminist bullshit wikipedia page section on the 20th century contradicts you (and itself).

Money quote: "In the beginning of the 20th century ... The role of men was to support the family financially."

I tire of this. Either you somehow evidence how the hell a returning soldier in 1945 could become a house-husband or shut the hell up.
They most likely have a mom, possibly sisters, the rest are unlikely.
Call them what you will. They are military attacks against military targets. We can debate the appropriateness of particular measures in given situations, like whether or not drones should be used, but I don't think there's a reasonable argument to be made that members of paramilitary organizations that are dedicated to our destruction should not be treated as military targets.

As to why the memo was necessary, I see it as a memo limiting, not expanding executive power. The memo spells out when the Executive must treat an American member of a terrorist organization as a criminal, and not a military target.
If someone is threatening the lives of others as hostages, what degree of force is justified to stop them from taking those lives?
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I think Google+ Hangouts are pretty good :).
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I've never spent money with GoDaddy (and never will), but everyone I know who has done business with them has gone on to regret it.
The paper starts off dealing specifically with high-level Al-Qa'ida operatives. However around page 4 or 5 the language changes to "and associated forces". That definition is too broad to be meaningful, which is a bit creepy.
That probably depends on whether the individual is doing something like, say, fighting for anti-US groups in a war zone. I would have thought this was not the tenor of OWS activities, am I wrong?
Imminent violent threat != association with a group "'recently' involved in 'activities' posing a threat of violence."
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I think the analogy you should have used is "The war is over and the Germans have surrendered. Now let's continue to kill people who were "involved" in "activities."
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This is more akin to copying someone's math test and not having enough understanding of the English language to avoid copying the "Name: Keith Gabryelski" in the upper right hand corner

Stealing a design/style or color scheme would yield a "boo hoo" from me. Get over it -- pretty things are pretty and people will build on them.

Whole-hog copying code so that you copy the Google Analytics javascript deserves ridicule and if they removed the authorship comments I say "hang em high".
Use a registrar that isn't run by assholes:

Name.com, Gandi.net, Namecheap.com
I did 2 years of California Community College too (UCB wouldn't take me as a transfer student though), but be aware that California Community College was very inexpensive a few years ago (< $20/unit); and is still pretty inexpensive at $46/unit compared to similar systems in other states. For example, Wisconsin community college about $215/credit but if you pay for 12 credits, you can take up to 18 (at 19 they start charging you again). Yes, it's still less expensive than going to a state 4 year school, but it may still be too expensive to avoid financing.
This is really a biased source. Reason.com has a clear agenda
The president is black. I don't see how this this story is relevant.
The death of bin Laden does not mean that Al Qaeda is not a threat. Just because the AQ leadership has been decimated does not mean that you cease operations against them, or that its members cease to be legitimate military targets.

Edit: My response made more sense before the parent edited their comment. Their original comment simply asked me to explain how mine was appropriate in the context of this discussion.
In case they change it: "http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/04/someone-just-leaked-obamas...
I'm not sure what you mean by "data models where instantiating a data structure does not mean running arbitrary code". I can't think of a basic data type (a hard thing to define, btw) in Ruby that doesn't have a constructor, but I'm not sure that's what matters. Any attribute assignment in Ruby can be made dangerous if written in a way that wraps dangerous code in a attribute assignment methods.

What I think has gotten Rubyists in trouble is that we forgot YAML really is just serialization. Here's some advice that seems obvious now, but a few weeks ago would have inspired a "wha?" or a "huh?" from a lot of developers.

Don't pass anything to YAML::load that you wouldn't pass to Marshal::load.

Consider for a moment how someone would react to passing anything from HTTP post to Marshal::load. It seems obvious. It is obvious.

YAML is serialization. Whether or not serialization can be made safe is for people much, much smarter than me to figure out.
I feel you are making a assumptions on how "users" will feel about the experience, based on your personal experience, and past experience using another device which you are familiar with.

I experience the same confusion and frustration whenever I quickly pick up an iOS device. Spend some time with Android and you may experience a difference, especially after you have customized it to achieve your tasks quickly.
That's not really the same thing. A better analogy is this: the police have credible intelligence that this person is connected to a ring of known bank robbers, and that ring is planning a robbery, so therefore they have the authority to kill him.
He seems like he was more or less a human from where I'm standing. He did some good things, he did some bad things both of which are entirely subjective based on your values. Remember him for the things he did, good and bad. Let's learn from his mistakes and let's shut up about this and concentrate on building/doing something neat so that the rest of the world has reason to talk about us for weeks on end after we die.
OK, I'll bite and engage a point from what's otherwise a trollish post...Let's skip the well-tread debate over the role of his depression in his suicide or if he was "man enough" to be considered a "real" activist...

The OP argues that Aaron's subterfuge makes him a poor candidate for respect:

> Swartz’s many apologists are, if effect, arguing that his actions should be completely excused because he was morally in the right. I’ve seen the more fevered comparing his actions to Martin Luther King. This is a nearly obscene comparison. King repeatedly risked his life for the civil rights of his people, proudly stood as the leader of his movement, and took responsibility for his actions. Swartz surreptitiously downloaded a bunch of data from a closet, tried to hide his face when he slipped away with the loot, and wasn’t willing to pay any penalty.

IIRC, MLK Jr chose civil disobedience because he wanted to draw public attention to the evils of segregation. Aaron obviously wanted to draw attention to his cause, but I think it's also likely that he cared as much if not more about the actual prize -- the knowledge acquired from JSTOR -- than he did about getting caught to prove a moral point.

What if he did walk into MIT, announce his name and cause, and just started brazenly freeing JSTOR until he got arrested? I suspect his detractors would still use this as an example of what a showboat he was. But what if Aaron's priority was getting the knowledge out to the world, with making a moral stand just an ad-hoc objective?

Combine this with the fact that the FBI stalked him after the PACER incident, which was decidedly both noble and legal...then it's no wonder that Aaron felt he had to be secretive. Whether or not you approve of his tragic strategy to liberate JSTOR, I find it a bit much to label him a coward, as the OP implies.

Most people would've been content with the successful showdown over PACER while secretly shitting themselves that the FBI put forth the resources to build a criminal case against them. Aaron was reportedly freaked out about it. And yet after that brush with the law, he still cared more about freeing knowledge than being safe.

Stupid? Probably, especially in hindsight. But cowardly? Perhaps, but it's at least a little less cowardly than a contrarian-wannabe pissing on the grave of someone they've never met.
Registrar here. In other words competitor to Godaddy.

Not enough info in this story to call out godaddy on this.

Sounds as if the domain was deleted and went into redemption. In redemption registrars are charged $40 plus the cost of registration (.com .net .org .info) to get the domain back. And they mark that up. If you don't pay for a domain it gets deleted. The registrar has no reason to delete a domain that isn't expired. Very hard to believe that godaddy would delete a domain unless explicitly told to do so. Hard to believe that a system that manages so many millions of domains did that either.

Generally Godaddy's TOS should spell out exactly when they delete a domain that hasn't been paid for. Usually there is almost always a grace period.

Regardless of what is being related here I wouldn't say from reading there is any reason godaddy decided to delete the domains if they weren't already passed expiration.

I think what happened here is a story is being related based on talking to someone at godaddy that doesn't understand what is going on with their deletion process. (That's the crime here a bad CSR is the story). That we do run into plenty.
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Well, first we'd need to find a picture of you that made you look like you were from a culture that is currently hated/feared, then publicise that picture to show you are a member of that group. Find a couple of links to people who have links to Al-Qaeda (shouldn't be too hard, you are on the internet after all, and you won't be around to defend yourself) and publicise them (suitably redacted to make them seem ominous). We'd then wait until you were in a secluded, foreign-sounding location and drop a missile on your head, to prevent terrorism.

Did I miss anything?
> I would not be ashamed to kill a baby-killer or woman-murderer.

So your ends justify their means.
Actually, the respective Mozilla and Google WebRTC teams get along quite well. I work at Google on WebRTC, and from what I've observed the joint work as been close, and always positive.
Can someone explain to me how citizenship comes into play for any of these things? I was always under the impression that non-citizens also had basic rights.
That's a completely indefensible statement. My simple statement that paramilitary adversaries should be combatted militarily in no way makes me a fascist.
Sigh. What’s this ideological drivel doing here?

Dragging welfare into this doesn’t even begin to make sense. You do it purely for ideological reasons.
Here's a response from the ACLU - http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/justice-departmen...
That's a comic. He sells a shirt on his site's store that is filled with Unix tips, including "tar -xf # extract anything". I'm not sure this is a legitimate criticism.
Would be nice if they hadn't closed comments before Peter Wagenet, Yahuda, and the rest from the Ember team could weigh in.

I personally like AngularJS a lot, but I also like Rails. Rails 4 has a rails-api project along side of it, which makes it seem like they are starting to spend more time thinking of Rails as provider for a Javascript front-end. Because of Yahuda's involvement, they have also placed more bets on Ember than Angular the last few years.

I think that Angular secretly hides an affinity for backing services in Node, and this concerns me a little. I think their team needs to either provide examples and support for each major front-end framework and not just rely on volunteers to provide those examples that won't be maintained as Angular changes. Or at least be crystal clear about what is expected of a service so that as little code is required as possible on the Angular end to integrate with it. And the same goes for Ember. What good is a front-end MVC framework that depends on services to exist if you have to spend any time guessing what to use on the service-side?
"... having a company parking lot is discrimination against people who don't have cars ..."

Interesting comparison. It's not unusual for companies to offer a cash alternative for employees who don't use the company parking lot.

Maybe child care will end up something like that. For example: providing a cash bonus or complementary gym membership if the employee doesn't make use of the company daycare program.
So, first you make a big stink about people talking about the guy while not knowing about him, and then you go on to make at least 5 or more assumptions about him after you clearly admit that you did not know him well, if at all. Hypocrisy at its finest, ladies and gentlemen.

"But Swartz was offended" - citation needed

"he more or less expected to be let off the hook for his actions" - citation needed

"I had . . . seen how he lashed out at people" - funny how you provide links and evidence for all of the other statements in your essay, but this one is left out. citation needed

"he decided his moral outrage trumped the petty laws of the stupid" - citation needed

Another thing -- no one is making him out to be a "saint". They're just saddened that someone with great potential would go to so far an extent. Also, the anger directed at the prosecutors is absolutely plausible. It's ridiculous to claim that he killed himself because he wasn't "man enough" to survive the 6 months in jail. While his lover did not mention anything about a mental illness, denial is common with loved ones. Another thing -- he had a disease called ulcerative colitis, which unfortunately I do suffer from as well. It is one of the most excruciatingly painful and disabling conditions someone can have. It is known to cause depression in many people. Perhaps that disease also played a role in his death, however miniscule it may be.

I do agree that the comparisons to MLK are over-the-top, but the thing was, he was a kid. A human kid. Humans make mistakes. If he was arrogant, so be it. People have different personalities. Steve Jobs was a total vindictive prick. Nobody gives a damn because he "changed the world." Linus is a royal ass a lot of the time, and nobody gives a damn. Why? Because he's a multi-millionaire software developer. But when a kid is mean to 5 people, oh no! Everybody loses their shit. It's ridiculous.

Also, PACER documents are legally specified to be freely accessible. That's the whole reason the charges were dropped against him. There's so much misinformation in this article, but I won't bother sifting through it. I've wasted enough time on HN today.

My conclusion is that: the author of this essay is someone who fails to present proper evidence to back up their fantasy of how Swartz behaved in the real world, and is also has no capability to empathize with Swartz in the situation he was in. He also is a major hypocrite that needs to take a look at what comes out of his keyboard and how it all fits together. He's just another idiot that's trying to be "hipster" and stick out from the norm.

So, here are my final few words to the author:

Fuck you, Tom Negrino, for being a dick about someone who has contributed a lot more to society than you think, and also fuck you for proudly stating your "facts" without proper evidence.

You're a dickhead, and all the flak you're getting on Reddit and HN is rightly deserved.

-kunai
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You should take that $1k and consult a lawyer. I always find it funny that the Hacker News view is that startup failure is a learning experience that has no consequences.
Not lethal. Lethal force is not necessary in any circumstance whatsoever.
Why the secrecy, if this were really as uncontroversial and cut and dry as you assert? Why would they deny the existence of a document granting additional rights to American citizens in standard engagements?

Your reading of this memo is ludicrously generous.
You're thinking of a martyr. Saintliness, other than the silly Catholic rules, refers more to living righteously. You can be either one of those without being the other.
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I once lost a domain for clicking by accident the 'delete' button. I sent them an email asking then to undelete the domain since it was an accident, got no response. I don't know why a feature to delete your domain was so easily accessible.
GoDaddy do all kinds of things you wouldn't expect, and often they're just one of many frequent snafus. I had a domain go dead for months because they weren't pushing changes to the underlying registry, and they had no idea what was going on. They didn't fix the issue until I'd called dozens of times. Their staff are poorly trained and it appears as though they're prone to lying to get people with complex issues off the phone as quickly as possible.

They're a horrific company and you'd be surprised how badly things can go wrong and how little recourse you have.
It's in my opinion not as obvious as you make it sound -

in a drone strike you kill a supposed enemy combatant who at the time of the strike may not be armed, or may not be involved in an armed conflict. For example, the alleged terrorist is driving in an SUV. In this case, the 1949 Geneva conventions might call this a crime (the US denies this AFAIK):

>Modern laws of war regarding conduct during war (jus in bello), such as the 1949 Geneva Conventions, provide that it is unlawful for belligerents to engage in combat without meeting certain requirements, among them the wearing of a distinctive uniform or other distinctive signs visible at a distance, and the carrying of weapons openly. [1]

Of course, terrorists don't listen to these rules either, by not wearing any uniform, they don't have any.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_war
Do you trust our current and future U.S. government to always define "terrorist" the way you do right now? What happens when some kid who's hacking into websites in ten years suddenly gets labeled as a "terrorist"?
It's not the same thing

They're targeting these guys for assasination for things they might do, or are suspected of doing in the past. It's not like they catch them in the actual act of committing terrorism.

So to satisfy your Strawman it would be the equivalent of finding a bank robber months after the robbery inside his house, and the police blowing it up with his family inside to get him. I don't think that would fly in any reasonable society

Edit: Interestingly here is a RL example that happened today, terrorists caught robbing banks, beaten by the cops then mugshots digitally altered so nobody would see the wounds http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/04/greece-police-lo...
if the terrorist could otherwise not be captured or detained without serious risk to American lives.

I believe you have misinterpreted my objection. I do not object to the killing, I object to the killing without a non-executive legal authority looking over the case. Having a review process and strict bounds on the reasons for which he or she could/should be killed.

Let's say I (an American) am a self-proclaimed member of a terrorist or terrorist-affiliated organization (e.g. Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb). I produce bombmaking instructions for internet distribution, and repeatedly claim my intent to kill thousands of people. There is a request to have me killed should the opportunity arise, and I could not be otherwise captured. It is almost certain that a legal review process would come to the conclusion that I am indeed a reasonable threat, so on and so forth.

Let's say I (an American) am a self-proclaimed Prophet of the Great Gazoob, wielding a Pineapple and a Rubber Duck in mid-day traffic, and repeatedly claim my intent to kill thousands of people. There might be various grounds for legal action against me (state and municipal disturbance laws, maybe a few laws regarding making threats), but it would not include my death. A legal review process would hopefully not label me as being worthy of assassination should the opportunity arise.

Disclaimer: I realize I am dismissively using a caricature of a person of unsound mental state here. This is not meant to be an attack on such people, and is used for illustrative purposes.
>IsAnybodyDown posts revealing pictures, mostly of women, without their consent, along with their full names and identifying information like phone numbers and Facebook snapshots

How is that legal? Doesn't not having the docs to prove the girls age run them a huge risk?

> "We don’t want anyone shamed or hurt we just want the pictures there for entertainment purposes and business," said Brittain,

I'm not sure how the man can't comprehend that someone would feel shamed if a private photo of them was shown to more people. Regardless of your, the reader's, feelings on porn, I hope I'm not off-base to assume that most people would agree that there are a lot of people who would feel shamed to have random people see them naked.

>Photographs are automatically copyrighted by their "author," typically the person who took the photo, as soon as they are created.

While true, your image is still your own, which is why pros need model release forms, right?
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They're not executions just because you say so. That term has legal meaning that doesn't apply to military combatants.
It's even worse that some of these comps not only stole the design but also stole the copy. Shameless.
I wish they supported .io domains!
I think the dude wanted to make a statement by killing himself. Suicide was not the only option he had. In my view, with his fame and all, he was in a unique position to fight back the charges.
Dude, I'm sorry about your debt, but I'm sure you can find a better paying job eventually.

> Here in Brazil the best wage you can get as programmer, is still around 36k (yes, I am not kidding).

Assuming you mean 36k USD, that's about R$5500 per month (assuming you're on CLT=permanent employee, not a contractor). That's on the lower end for a senior programmer [1] in São Paulo. You can certainly earn more than that if you're good and you do some professional networking.

In any case, debt apart, 36k isn't such a bad salary to live on in São Paulo if you're single.

[1]
http://www.guj.com.br/java/263096-salario-para-profissionais...
Meh just a blathering moron... why is this even on the front page.