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My point is that I don't accept your definition of "functioning". Was the democracy functioning when only men were permitted to vote? I say not.
The due process of law the Constitution attempted to enshrine was very specifically meant to ensure that justice is carried out by the judicial system. Great lengths were taken in fact to secure that outcome.

The framers were extraordinarily clear on this. You're exactly wrong.
Is this military sniper on a battlefield?

If not, then I would consider it an execution.
Disclaimer: I'm not American.

I believe that if you're willing to let your government kill terrorists without a trial, there should not be exemptions based on where you were born. Americans should not be exempted.

Whether the government should or should not target these people is the real question.

If this is a war, then sure. But the enemy (terrorists) should be considered enemy combatants within an army - a militia. Then all the rules of warfare should apply.
Meh, its pretty accurate with me. First couple of years are the "love" emotion and it wears off. Then it's hard work and effort to keep the passion going.

However the advantages to a marriage are financial (2 providers vs 1), emotional (if I'm down or vice versa, she's got my back), sexual (no more bar hopping looking for sex), disease preventative (if we're both faithful, I don't have to worry about STDs at all, except for possibilities in hospitals), skills (she has one set of skills, I another, combined we compensate for weaknesses of the other. It hurts when we're both bad at something).

Many advantages, MARRIAGE though... idk... it made no difference to us when we got married. We knew that splitting up or divorce was equal in our eyes, the relationship was too important. Marriage gives us also legal benefits, that's all we really cared about.
Looks quite good, when do you anticipate launching more towns?
I don't think of fascism as a state of being so much as a tendency, so yeah, choosing to recognize someone as undesirable is a fascistic tendency designed to disallow someone their freedom of being and/or thought. Throughout history different fascistic societies have sought to eliminate people of all schools of thought, free-thinkers and status-quo'ers alike, which while maybe too abstract an explanation in this context, helps illustrate how designating a terrorist or a "leader of Al Qaeda" is neither a self-evident logic nor an unquestionable act. History tells us that the more important a particular undesirable is to the acts of a government, it reveals actual weaknesses in the society that invests that government with its power.
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Did you read through the document - I took 45 minutes to parse it before commenting on it.

I'm pretty much a left-liberal-pro-individual rights person. 100% opposed to the death penalty for criminals that have been locked up. But, I still recognize that the United States is a nation at war, and has been so for the better part of 10 years. People die in wars. When Americans go join, and, indeed, lead enemy forces, and plan attacks on the United States - this document captures how and when they may be legally targeted.
Thanks Tom, the reason I submitted it here was to get some second opinion and comments. I'm going to try to give both Ember and Angular a few months of run before making a choice, and perhaps, the nice thing is that I don't have to make a choice, time permits, knowing two great frameworks is better than knowing just one. Thanks for clarifying things.
Thanks for the response! Best of luck.
I can blame them for opening a giant security hole without a word of caution.
It's certainly possible to opt out of packaged foods as a way of saving money, but I don't think I know anybody who's done so. I'd go so far as to say most people do it to eat tastier, healthier, and/or more ideologically pleasing food, and usually spend more than they would on a diet of Hot Pockets or Taco Bell.
AQ affiliates literally cannot be "military combatants", even were that a meaningful term; there is no "military" for them to be associated with. The state-sanctioned killing of non-military persons is definitionally execution. That we apply this to people who may or may not have committed crimes (and, let's be honest with ourselves, "may not" is no less likely given the vague targeting used by our military forces) with no oversight or due process is 'unlawful execution' from where I stand.

We will someday answer for the evil we currently perpetuate in Afghanistan. If we are moral, we will be the ones holding ourselves to task for it. I doubt that we are of sufficient fiber.
Just saying that GoDaddy can't do anything about the restore fees imposed by the registries. If they screwed up it should be carried out at the firm's expense but I highly doubt they would delete a domain without being explicitly told so.
Brilliant. My only concern is that the completion suggestions could cover text on other lines that I might be looking at, but I suppose this will serve to encourage me to stay out of insert mode unless necessary.

Edit: Compared to other Vim plugins the installation is a pain in the ass, but it really is as quick as it claims, even on my whoa-fully underpowered eeepc.

One suggestion: when I use SuperTab the name of the file that the suggestion is coming from appears to the right of the suggestion. That would be rather nice to have in this as well, if possible. Otherwise this is perfect, I think I'm finally done with SuperTab.

Edit 2 (sorry): This seems to be ignoring words that are in comments, and not completing anything when editing a comment. Is this toggle-able behavior?
Then define "functioning" positively. I'm kinda curious to see what you come up with.
The tricky part is what makes all the difference. If majority are smart, democracy would suffice. If not, the constitution will just be treated as a piece of paper in a museum and being a republic would serve no purpose.

A chain is only as strong as its weakest link...
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Too American-centric. Also didn't the news corps get all uppity with google because they weren't sending traffic to their pages, since google was summarizing most of the article on google news for free thus denying them traffic? Your site also does this I suspect you will be receiving lot's of letters from newscorp and cnn saying stop, though am thankful for youtube videos instead of being greeted by 'not available in your geographical location'
that sounds like thought-crime
Does what I was saying make sense? I was also wondering how much beer would I have to bribe you with in order to be able get your thoughts on how we should approach those sorts of issues? Love to be able to bounce ideas of someone who understands the issues with what we are trying to build.
My eyes are bleeding from that grammar (although, granted, it was probably written by someone who learned ESL). It's a shame - the concept is good, but the petition author was unable to express the reasoning in a watertight or appealing manner. Which would you be more likely to support: "Buying house which will help housing industry" or a statistic of the multiplier effect on job creation from US-educated foreign students? Sadly, this specific petition is likely to fade into oblivion. I'd rather it did, and let a better-thought-out version, one that could actually convince skeptics, rise to prominence.
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Jawbone is making some innovative products. I think they have the opportunity to make some interesting breakthroughs in HCI.
I knew the AR Drone sounded familiar. When I first saw it, I was concerned about the only flying controls being a mobile device (and not a traditional remote). That said, it looks like a ton of fun and the extensibility options are endless.

Still, my personal preference would be a standard quadcopter or plane with an APM [1]. If only I can free up some spending money...

[1] http://store.diydrones.com/APM_2_5_Not_Assembled_p/br-apmpwr...
It's not surprising. Much of the stock market is chasing an all time high.

The Fed has got bubbles roaring all over the place, from corporate debt to treasuries to stocks to a new brewing real estate bubble to student loans (they directly fund / make possible all of it).

Also, a billion dollars is now worth maybe half what it was in 1998 (some would argue a lot less than that, eg when run against gold, silver, oil, and other dollar based commodities).

These start-ups should appraise their businesses as objectively as possible, and consider selling before this latest bubble explodes.

The cheap money piper will be paid sooner than later.
Ask HN: Inspiring audio/video suggestions like these?
These are two of my favorite talks to listen to while driving, jogging, etc:

Warren Buffet at Univ. of Florida:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H5TjmnB3yk

Ron Avitzur's Graphing Calculator Story:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMyg5ohTsVY

and I'm curious if anyone else has similar suggestions or favorites that can be listened to time and again?
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What do you do when you have 200+ machines of a handful of different types (database, mail, web, etc.) that you want to have named? Having some sort of organized categorization would be beneficial, but it seems like naming them after 200+ different colors doesn't make life any easier.

Naming after the purpose of the box also gets messy if you're not strict about renaming when the machine is repurposed. And if you group by "theme groups" as the RFC suggests, you're still stuck renaming a machine if it's no longer one of your 7 dwarfs (database servers, or whatever). Should the name convey meaning at all, or just be a random label?

A developer I know doesn't see the problem with just having the full location (state, data center, rack, rack location), which I'm against, but we haven't been able to agree on a good middle ground approach that scales. Is location data in a name universally bad?
I left college at 20 and then went back at 26. Both are on my "top 5 best decisions in life" list.

Having some time to get older and know myself (or, perhaps, reflect on the nature of selfness) led me to make great use of the incredible resources and space a university offers.

Everyone's path is different, so yours might vary, but you never know! I don't know if you still carry any fear or shame about the college experience (I did), but you're clearly driven and capable of great success. Don't let any of that other stuff get in the way should you ever find yourself with a passion and the desire for university as a space to focus and invest in yourself. In any case, congrats on success!
Pretty sure that UI concept is widely used. In fact, if your second paragraph had started "Maybe if you are Amazon, Google, or Apple"...

http://km.support.apple.com/library/APPLE/APPLECARE_ALLGEOS/...

I think the iPhone counts as "proven UX".
It's not military standard rules of engagement, but it doesn't seem like standard law enforcement SOP either.

I'm not saying that I agree with the reasoning in this particular document, just that I think it's reasonable to believe that modern terrorist groups are a new flavor of threat and may require new legal frameworks to address them.
I've actually been doing the opposite, migrating my app from Angular to Ember, and I'm very pleased with Ember so far. Angular is an interesting and powerful framework, but it has a lot of gotchas and requires a large amount of boilerplate code for things like object persistence. Learning how $resource and services worked took a lot of time and the documentation is not entirely clear, especially for someone new to javascript frameworks like myself.

It took me about a month and a half to learn the ins and outs of Angular and FuelPHP to get my app to the point it was at. Within a couple of days of experimentation with Ember and Rails, I was at the same point. I'm moving forward MUCH more quickly with deploying the app at this point.

I will admit that the Ember docs are sparse. They're getting better, but occasionally inaccurate or just not there. Still, there is documentation for most things you would want to do, and when there isn't the community is good help.

Both Ember and Angular are great frameworks, but after evaluating both I'm definitely sticking with Ember. Maybe it's just because it makes more sense to me, but I've been able to accomplish a lot more much more quickly.
Your response is certainly fair. I just think it's kind of unfortunate that the competition between JS frameworks has heated up so much of late - I've seen a few potshots aimed at particular frameworks in the last year. I'm tempted to wish that devs/maintainers would evolve their frameworks to occupy distinct, separate niches so they wouldn't have to clash head-on, but that's pretty utopian. (Not that such competition hasn't been happening in technology and business from the very beginning.)

Misko Hevery wrote a bit about dirty checking in Angular on this StackOverflow page linked from the submission: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9682092/databinding-in-an... I think I've also seen a speed comparison/test involving Angular updating (animating) many objects repeatedly. So I'm not sure how much of an issue dirty-checking is in practice.

I'd like to see civil discussion between maintainers of JS MVC frameworks on technical points, but the higher profile the forum, the higher the stakes and the more mindshare there is to gain/lose. In which case I doubt civility would endure. Still, it's better that people hear the cases laid out side-by-side for each framework, which supplements the reviews given by independent bloggers.
We will be slowly expanding out, definitely in the works for some of the larger cities to be launched. A national launch is a a couple of months away still.
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Show HN:I am building a recommendation service for online TV and movies
Hello fellow hackers,

Would really appreciate some feedback on a service that I am building that will show a list of your favorite shows and episodes that have recently become available online. It will also recommend shows from across different TV and movies websites.

You can find the service here - http://tvnow.herokuapp.com/

I am trying to scratch a personal itch with this service. A lot of times I find myself searching for shows on different streaming websites without really settling on something to watch. With this service I can now go to one service and see what is available across different streaming websites.

The topmost question in my mind is - apart from me, will anybody else find this useful/interesting? Would love to hear your thoughts on this.

Regards,
Avilay
These killings are not taking place in the heat of a firefight, they are meticulously planned with the sole objective of killing the target.

You could make the same argument about the use of snipers or bombers. As far back as the siege of Troy, there were arguments about whether the use of archery qualified as a legitimate form of combat since arrows could be shot from beyond the range of normal hand-to-hand combat.

There is no legal requirement that military engagement be limited to pitched battle or that combatants must meet in the field on equal terms. An interesting historical example (that I may have suggested you read up on before) is the ambush on Admiral Yamamamoto during WW2.
Some considerations:

1. AGE OF DEBT: If the debt is over 3 years old, consider ignoring it. Bad marks remain on your credit history for 7 years after the LAST payment. By making any payment, even for $0.01 you reset the 7 year clock. If the debt is over 7 years old - definitely ignore the debt collectors.

2. IMPACT: Is if the bad debt is impacting your life: are you having a hard time renting, or doing anything critical? From your post it sounds like you only "noticed" the debt when you started getting calls.

3. LAWS: The process servers are in many cases doing the minimum necessary. Their ideal case is that you do not show up to court and then they get a default judgment against you. Simply by showing up to court to object, you raise the cost of them pursuing your case.

4. DO THEY OWN THE DEBT? Just because some company says they own your debt does not mean that they really do. For example, do they have clear documentation about how much you owe, including interest calculations, and complete documentation about your account. The banks have gotten very, very sloppy about following the law when it comes to documenting payments, interest calculations, and transferring of debt.

A starter website to look at is : http://4closurefraud.org/
What would you consider "senior AQ leadership"? Do you believe there isn't any?

Cells don't just "form" from thin air. There are people with ideas, people who coordinate, the hands behind the organization, the financiers. Kind of like a crime syndicate. There are foot soldiers, capos, consiglieri and bosses and boss of bosses.

I would say, you watch the organization, follow the trails of financing, ideas, commands, etc. While it's cell-based, like biological cells, they are conected to a larger organism, albeit they can act independently when necessary.
I think I see a problem with the reasoning on the very first page (second para.):

> The President has authority to respond to the imminent threat posed by al-Qa'ida and its associated forces, arising from his constitutional responsibility to protect the country, the inherent right of the United States to national self defense under international law, Congress's authorization of the use of all necessary and appropriate military force against this enemy, and the existence of an armed conflict with al-Qa'ida under international law. (emphasis mine.) <

An armed conflict under international law is a war; and war is a power of nation states, not non-governmental actors (NGAs) no matter how violent. Not very many years ago the US began imprisoning non-Citizens on the justification that al Qaida (an NGA) was ineligible for protection by the Geneva, Hague, and other conventions, and as such the prisoners were neither criminal nor military defendants but prisoners of the President.

Now they are arguing that war does exist, permitting the US government to act violently against a US Citizen despite the Constitutional prohibition against punishment without trial. The administration's actions are inconsistent: despite a state of war now supposedly existing, prisoners of war still are not afforded the rights guaranteed to PoWs; despite the writ of habeas corpus not being suspended, US Citizens may be summarily executed at the order of the President.
For everybody commenting on this article, please take 45 minutes to read the document. It applies only to the following scenario:

1) The US Citizen has to be a Sr. Operational Leader of al-Qa'ida.

2) An informed high level official of the US Government has determined that the targeted individual poses an imminent threat of Violent Attack against the United States.

3) Capture is infeasible, and the United states continues to monitor whether capture is feasible.

4) The operation would be conducted in a manner consistent with applicable law of war principles.

This Document does not consider American Citizens who are not Sr. Operational Leaders of al-Qa'ida. If you are just an American Citizen who has become a low-level Al-Qa'ida terrorist who is planning imminent attacks on the United States, that the government has discovered, and they are unable to capture you, this document does NOT provide justification to target you.

It's a dense document, and hard to read with all that NBC NEWS watermarking, but take the time to read it before commenting on it.
You are right but one must say that language shouldn't be an impeding factor for any reform.
I can confirm this. Oh boy, can I ever confirm this.

Tom, do you know if anyone has written extensively about tests in Ember? Or is the source still the best go-to?
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That's part of their promotional strategy - talk about why nobody's talking about it.
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This article is one of the best articles I read about marriage. It pointed out the bad side of marriage: "Anyone who's been in a marriage or observed one closely knows that these relationships can go through long periods of financial strain, sexual frustration, lethargy, and loneliness."
But it also pointed out some of most valuable advantages of marriage :" It promises that marriage will make two people kinder, more patient, more forgiving, more creative, more selfless"
The Angular guys are incredibly smart (and good looking) and I am not above stealing their good ideas for Ember. It's great having skilled competitors, because it drives us both to build a better product.

I hope you didn't find any personal attacks in my response. I want to be firm about the fact that the article contained gross inaccuracies.

I welcome criticism of Ember.js; as with any open source project, there's plenty to criticize. I would just like that criticism to be accurate.
Yes, the government, with their ability to, you know, just label stuff. Just any old thing, slap a government label on it and Bob's your uncle.
One of the best lines is: "Security vulnerabilities are bugs at [frameworks' and languages'] core, and very difficult to detect." It's a good illustration of why "security" can almost never be a "feature" added on top of software. I try to help my teams understand that security is an emergent property of the system. Thus, if a system is to be secure, it must be accounted for throughout the design and development of a product.

I once saw an application that used Java's standard PRNG to create session IDs used for authentication after a user logged in. They tried to fix the fundamental security flaw by appending a time stamp, and then hashing that value. The powers at the time didn't believe it was a vulnerability until I did some white hat hacking. I wrote a simple app that retrieved a couple of session IDs and calculated the seed of the random number generator from them. It was a simple step then to guess session IDs of subsequent logins and impersonate those users. They quickly moved to replace the whole design with a fundamentally more secure solution.
Well, clearly, we invaded Iraq because it was run by a dictator executing his own citizens, so we were justified.
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For my undergraduate degree in India, I paid $100 per year in a government owned college. Hostel room and food took $30 per month and all that money and more came back in scholarships. So I paid less than 0 in the 90's to get an engineering degree. Later I did my MS in US on a sabbatical, and my company paid 90% tuition fees. So all in all I spent may be $5000. When it was time for my MBA, again company paid 90% tuition fees, so I spent another $5000 out of pocket. That is it - 3 degrees in $10,000- all from good schools - which moulded me to what I am. Public education should be universal and free for the deserving. The expense comes back as tax dollars to the government besides ensuring good quality human resources for the country.
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