skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lemme give you a crazy, absolute bizarre scenario. Lets say there is massive acceptance of sexting pics among US youth starting tomorrow. Youtube is flooded with penises & vaginas. Then the churches start filing lawsuits against google because youtube is actively promoting pornography. You see what I'm getting at. For youtube to be relevant, it has to cater to the youth & not actively censor content especially stuff that has mainstream acceptance among youth

Yeah, that's pretty crazy and actually self-serving and disingenuous. If ratings labelled themselves "free-expression platforms for Math PhD's who don't guarantee nothin' but garbage-in, garbage-out" well then they'd have no obligation beyond that of youtube. But they signed up, actually put pen-to-paper and got money, for the responsibility of being "the adult in the room". You seem to think that their failure to actually be that is just a terribly unfortunate coincidence that they should have no responsibility for, despite their claiming that it earlier.
Why does automated testing keep failing in my company?
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I disagree. I think about up votes in terms of their impact.

I upvote if I think something is worth talking about, or deserves the attention of the greater community. Because that's what it literally translates into -- raising the position of a post on the front page.
Your point doesn't have a point. If the question is "is there global warming, and are human beings substantially responsible?", the answer is "yes". You're saying "but it could always be no".

The answer is "yes", and some point past that is where the discussion currently exists.
The Truth About Monsanto and Dead Parrot

All products made by Monsanto are produced using Dead Parrot and its derivatives. It's intentional: they want that stuff in your bloodstream.

In 1851, Civil War general Robert E. Lee reported a strange disturbance in the sky over the Potomac. A squadron of six men who had been sent to investigate disappeared for 12 days, and when they came back they had no memory events that had transpired. Lee wrote in his diary, “Our inspection of the men turned up nothing, but their forearms were branded with a curious unknown symbol: 'Monsanto'.”

Talking about this kind of thing openly is likely to get you put on a no-fly list.

Did you know that toxins created during the Dead Parrot manufacturing process also turn up in children's toys?

Invested parties have done a lot to make sure this stays under wraps.

Rich and powerful bankers have aggressively invested in and exploited Dead Parrot, despite the danger it poses to ordinary citizens. Chances are they took a hint from Communists.

After setting up this website with these startling facts, I have been contacted by FBI agents three times.

Apathy toward this issue will be the death of our civilization. Do you plan on dying with civilization, or will you join me in settling a remote Pacific island?
Well, I am sure someone thought this but you should not be using a mainstream service like godaddy in the first place. You could be right/wrong but because they are huge they will never care. There are lots of small domain name services try them and good luck.
I believe they have to take tests to get certified as foreign medical graduates (probably more rigorous than the ones taken by American medical students). After that, they have to go through residencies in America.
Just curious...do people usually title their white papers with the words "White Paper"?
I had already stopped before you jumped in, jackass. I've been saving some pretty severe words for you, but they should wait until I'm not seeing red anymore.
I'm the opposite. I don't want to use anything except Skype for voice chat. Nothing comes even remotely close in sound quality. If I had the same cpu/crash issues as you I'd be loudly cursing it's name. Luckily I don't and until something can provide better quality I won't be using it.
I almost upvoted this post reflexively based on the title alone, because I think debate is helpful and even as a huge admirer of Aaron's, I think extreme hagiography is never a good thing.

Unfortunately, the OP doesn't fit the bill, and sounds like it comes from one of the many annoyed people whose computers lack the ability to not click-through to a story they know they won't enjoy reading.

I was hoping the OP would be half as interesting as the bait title, but I almost stopped at this paragraph:

> I don’t think I ever met him (I might have, at an O’Reilly conference in San Jose years ago); I may or may not have ever corresponded with him many years ago, and I can’t be bothered to look through my email archives to check. I know I read a bunch of his words at one point, possibly on a mailing list or on his blog. But I had no personal connection with him, as far as I can remember.

OK...

> My personal view is that killing yourself and leaving your body to be found by your lover is a profoundly horrible, selfish, and unforgivable action, and one that deserves our disgust, not our compassion. I’ll reserve my compassion for the woman whom he presumably loved, but he knew would find his corpse...The Saint Aaron bandwagon so many people have piled onto nauseates me.

OK, I guess if people are going to calling Aaron a "saint", I guess that justifies judging his suicide like the Catholic Church would...?

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edit:

What really leaves a bad taste in my mouth is how the OP uses personal flaws (personal flaws that he admits he only knows from hearing about on the Internet) as the primary strike against Aaron being a worthwhile person to remember. If that were justified, then Steve Jobs should likewise be pissed on...not only did he break as many laws as Aaron (such as selling blue boxes), he was indisputably a more prickly person. Hell, if you really want to rank someone's worth by their personal foibles, MLK Jr. may be considered as despicable by the OP's standards.
For the curious, translated as "Of the dead, nothing unless good"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_mortuis_nil_nisi_bonum
Fun :)

Would be awesome to bait conspiracy theorists with these.
What would be interesting is to have two buttons -- one to raise awareness, and a second button labeled "me too" to indicate agreement. Maybe have it where both can be clicked by the same user, or where only one or the other can be selected. Not sure which would be better.
There's nothing evil or even sexist, IMO, about reinforcing stereotypes. However, given that there is a shortage of tech workers, and there are fewer women in tech than would be predicted based on accomplishment in other fields (bio/chem/pharma/med, specifically), I think it's reasonable to make an effort to be inclusive and try to reach out to women when recruiting or conducting other professional activities.

It's even more wrong to criticize someone aggressively for sexism in this case, but overall I think there would be net gains to everyone by attracting and retaining more women in technology. So, while it's not evil or sexist, "beards in technology" is counter to one's own interests even as a male in technology.
Chattanooga: Silicon Riverbend.
if you can't read the short flags, you shouldn't be reading my code.
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there's always a "man" page (and Google) to look it up, stupid.
Does I need to know if you agree outside of you wanting to raise awareness? If you want to comment sure :) but that metric means what outside of raising awareness.
Neither was my brother. Doesn't mean I will go on about his flaws after he died. He was human. Aaron also was. They both made mistakes. Give people some time to grieve before writing things about him. You are hurting people. Whatever Aaron did, he had a family, partner, and friends who are deeply saddened by his tragic death. Posts like these don't help. Let time heal the wounds, and then talk about it.
Sometimes you have to kill people. One hopes that, as a nation of laws, the United States does so within reasonable constraints and at the appropriate time, and for the appropriate reasons.

See: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/05/us/boy-is-safe-after-alaba... for a tragic example today.

I've skimmed through the entire document - it spends a lot of time talking about things that must be tried prior to these targeted killings - including multiple references to the fourth and fifth amendments of the constitution (Unreasonable Seizures, Due Process)

There doesn't seem any reason why this document shouldn't be made public. Seems pretty much reasonable (if somewhat overly legalistic for this layperson to totally follow)
You can be the first to drag to the courts.
By the way, what's the current status? Any improvement? Or did they restore your domain back to you?
Any company with the resources GoDaddy has, if it had good management, would have an order of magnitude better user interface. Instead, these assholes burn their cash on advertising and an army of customer service reps who get paid to stonewall over a simple issue for half an hour. I can't believe anybody still does business with GoDaddy, especially HN regulars who read a story like this every month.
> Well, that's the problem I'm trying to highlight. They probably assume no such thing.

That's true. It's a good thing someone points it out, then.

> Here's another example: when Nike uses a photograph of a tall black guy to advertise their basketball shoes - are they being racist, sexist and disrespectful to short people?

Yes.
Can you explain what's so good about it? Is it just a reminder that they start playing baseball soon, or is there some joke there?
The thing that most people don't realize is that the government will label real information as a conspiracy theory as an easy way to discredit it. So that word is actually an important propaganda tool. Once you realize.that, jokes.about.conspiracy theories arent so funny.
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Full deregulation of business seems like the best possible solution, until the point that companies become so big that they form monopolies that stifle competition. Then the government has to come in and regulate them until they are no longer monopolies. From your comments, I assume that you agree with this, let me know if you have different views.

Well, I don't think natural monopolies exist (as we discussed previously), only regulatory monopolies.

So, I don't think companies can become so big that they become natural monopolies.

I had written about some example cases that help support this (IBM, MS, Bell Telephone), but it was too long and probably not worth it, so I removed them.
I don't get it. Is it some baseball joke? I don't watch it.
I stopped reading when the author revealed his cluelessness about the appropriate countermeasure for rainbow tables:

> There exists databases FULL of every single password hash (for each type of encryption / hash approach) that can be compared against recovered passwords – think 2 excel tables .. search for hash in column A and find real world password in column B.

This is a good description of the attack vector, and the fact that this attack vector exists is why any modern application should hash each user's password with a different salt when storing it in the database.
Looks like you have many domains. My unsolicited advise - do not keep them all in one place and NameCheap is not the only better one. I am from India and use BigRock(Indian) and Name.com. No problems till now. Choose at least 2-3 and distribute. Keep a track. I am sure you have made calendar entries to track their renewals &c, or maybe there's some automated service for that(would love to know, if there's one).
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Enabling tethering is a strong motivation to jailbreak.
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I had a similar experience with a monthly recurring billing, and the helpful lady at the credit card company suggested getting my credit card reissued with a new number (effectively by marking it as lost / stolen).

Unfortunately pre-authorised recurring payments are not interrupted by this method. They will continue to show up on your statement against the old card number until you either pursued them to stop, or cancel your credit card entirely.
Nobody cared about Swartz before he died- it's almost disgusting how people who disparaged his case and never once considered donating to his legal funds are now praising him as a a saint. He was a saint, but the majority of people saying that now weren't saying so before the fact.
I've asked before what's best to upvote here on Hacker News:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065084

I'm always happy to hear advice on how to upvote better, to make the discussion here more informative and interesting and to make the community here more civil and thoughtful.
I haven't read the book but I worked in DC during bailout and sat in on the Senate hearings with all three of these rating agencies. I tell ya, Hank Paulson was much more confident during the meltdown than the head of each agency. I'm not surprised these guys are under the gun, they've playing stupid and deserve this suit.
If that were justified, then Steve Jobs should likewise be pissed on

He pretty much is, at least on techie fora like HN, Reddit, Slashdot, etc.
"a great competitor to technologies like Java Web Start."

Java Web Start was never widely adopted - trying to come up with a 'competitor' to that was stupid. Not even in hindsight - that was a stupid reason in 2007.

MS should be defining the future, not playing catch-up to out of date software. Their continued failure to do so is contributing to their decline in relevance.
If both of you have Apple devices, I highly recommend FaceTime. In my experience, it has better video quality than Skype.
Good stuff. Reminded me that the Postmodernism Generator is still out there as well, and as equally, gloriously incomprehensible : http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/
> I’m fed up with the Aaron Swartz hagiography and subsequent bullshit garment-rending from people who didn’t know him

> I don’t think I ever met him .. I may or may not have ever corresponded with him many years ago

Tom Negrino, you're an idiot.
If I recall correctly (although this was a couple years ago, my memory has faded) I think when you deleted a card it took you to a list of domains to configure for auto renew and it wasn't clear if you were canceling auto-renew (now that you had no billing info) or if you were canceling the domains entirely. For added confusion, clicking a button when anything was checked didn't do anything immediately (because of some background DB batching) and so as a normal user you would assume that things weren't sticking and you would click another button to see if it worked... by the time the UI refreshed, you had killed all your domains.
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This unchecked expansion of executive power is happening all over the world. Enabled by technology, but also lack of public outrage, soft, welfarish* dictatorships are in the works. Outwardly, it looks democratic, but the democratic principle rests on a limitation of power. Currently, there is no limit, so long as the right language and people are targeted (whistle-blowers, traitors and ultimately, "terrorists"). The public is not yet aware of the danger and by the time they are it may be too late.

*In a "guns and butter" sort of way
I think Slashdot was one of the few to get it right.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot#Slash_and_peer_moderat...
Cool, thanks for thinking of us. It's crazy how much of a time sync domain names have become!
As I said in my post upthread, I agree that there are plenty of good reasons to reduce fossil fuel use regardless of where one stands on climate change; if we'd been smart we'd have made eliminating dependence on Middle Eastern oil a national priority in the 1970's.
The title of this is really, really misleading.

The first paragraph:

This white paper sets forth a legal framework for the...use [of] lethal force in a foreign country outside the area of active hostilities against an American citizen who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida
Yeah, AFAIK they only very recently started offering that value plan and marketing to people who would bring their phone over.
I'm not sure what's scarier here;

1. That the US willingly kills it's own citizens without trial

or

2. That you found a way to justify it and you're OK with it.

What a crazy, crazy place.
Nuclear weapons are the key (if not _the_ key) bargaining chip when dealing between governments. There is a distinct and clear difference between the approach taken when dealing with nuclear countries and non-nuclear ones.

So one cannot deny that nuclear weapons are part of the "arms" definition of today. If you wield them and can convince others that you can and will use them (without privately actually intending to use them) you can get all kinds of concessions and a great leverage politically.

For anyone to be able to bully or threaten the US govt. they need to be a credible threat. That's why "arms" were allowed, militia with muskets where pretty darn dangerous back in the day because the government also didn't have anything else except muskets. 1000 displeased citizens were a really huge problem in that day. They wanted the government to never get comfortable, they wanted it to be easily overthrow-able and replaceable if needed.

That's the idea. Without satellites, drones, serious weapons semi automatic assault rifles and pistols are just kids toys and do nothing but let drunk family members shoot each other.
> Sometimes you have to kill people.

This is not true.
I bet if I gave you one you wouldn't misread 'I bought a tablet'.

:D
Definitely! We support this via email. Facebook was a natural choice since Kickstarter uses it for campaign owners.
Who else uses Trello and how do you use it?
I think it's just a light jab at the blackout situation with the "this brief pause" bit
Great suggestion. A lot of people followed this and played with the demo!
You know what? Seems reasonable. An American citizenship should not be considered a writ of special treatment for a terrorist. If you're going to say that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview, which I think you have to, then you can't say that doesn't apply to those terrorists who happen to be American.
Interesting thought. We let the shop owner decide the model.
I am just wondering but can people in Occupy Wall Street be targeted for assassination just as well as as a 'potential terrorist' in a foreign nation who happens to be a US citizen? If so we may be seeing a new form of US Government.

BTW I thought President Jimmy Carter made assassinations illegal when he was President? Has that law been lifted?
I have hey@pushbullet.com on the Play Store for feedback, and yeah I should get a contact page up on the website too.
He was a saint

Oh?
Bleh. To be honest, the interface just feels like a spam website. The fake "google" look (from the map, search, etc.), the huge amounts of information that just show up and have nothing to do with me (or my current location), the ads. It all seems so spam-ish.

Additionally, I didn't watch the video when the site first opened, and now I have no idea what it does. Not a clue. I hate watching any videos at all, and forcing me to watch one to see what this is supposed to do is awful.

The "what" page is okay, but could use improvement. Just learned what the website is maybe supposed to do, but I can't do any of that. I'm assuming the two cities are test cases.

All-in-all, make it cleaner! The idea is neat, but honestly I don't know how I would use it. The feel of the website is just so, for lack of a better term, "icky", that I couldn't bear to use it for long. Too cluttered, lack of control, big ads, etc.
Imagine a bank robber killing 5 people and holding 20 people hostage. As soon as he takes one step outside the police will shoot him on sight, WITHOUT any trial. It's the same thing basically.
This is what the George W. Bush Administration believed and the masses of the majority of the Internet were in an uproar over it. Why has it changed now?
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"pre-authorised recurring payments are not interrupted by this method. "

That depends on the nature of the authorization. The easiest way is to just terminate the card
"gotta have hope"

Ehhhhh, I wouldn't hope for "digital recreations" based on someone's subjective impression of a person :p

Some of the rest sounds nice, though!
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The logo is really a home-made product by our developer, which has no design degree. We are not satisfied with it, and hope it won't drive people away.

At some point, we will definitely re-visit this issue.
I would respectfully disagree here. I can't remember, and won't bother to look up, how to recursively use cp / mv / scp / rsync / whatever else... but I'd bet it's -r, or -R. I'm not positive how to tell a shell program "I REALLY MEAN IT!", but I''d guess it's -f (unless it's kill, and I'm not going to sympathize with gripers over that one odd case :) ). There really is an (admittedly idiomatic, but still present) intuitive nature to these things. There are loads of counterexamples, for sure. But still - say I want to use extended Regexp in grep, or sed. I bet it's "-e" or "-E", right? Plus you can always search the man-page, without bothering to read it all.

Reading man-pages does do a lot for you. And in my experience, I don't spend a lot of time while on the same engagement/project/whatever writing shell code across BSD/solaris/GNU-linux/etc.

And honestly, if you can write a sophisticated sed substitution for BSD without reading the man page, is there really THAT big of a barrier lying between you and writing the same thing in GNU/Linux, or non-POSIX-compliant sed, or whatever else? You read the man page for 10 seconds and find the flag that means what you want to use. If it's different, you explore.

This is totally not a rant at you, and I sincerely hope you don't take it that way - I just haven't found myself utterly foiled by the differences between say, RHEL v SUSE v BSD recently. There are differences, but hell - there are differences between versions of languages, between terminal emulators (scripts that work in bash but not in zsh and vice versa), etc.
Maybe, but no joy getting state wide franchising in Illinois. In fact, 65 ILCS 5 (Illinois Municipal Code) Section 11-42-11 specifically grants municipalities under 2M people (i.e. the entire state except Chicago) the authority to negotiate and execute CATV franchises.
Isn't the most common contemporary definition of 'saint' a person who loses their life in pursuing a noble cause? How does Swartz not fit that definition?
Congratulations, you're a Facist.
The policemen would be guilty of murder in any reasonable society.
> If you're going to say that terrorists can be killed without judicial overview, which I think you have to

Whoa whoa whoa, hold up there. Explain that bit to me.