skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How about the Bill of Rights?

"The whole of the Bill (of Rights) is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals.... It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." (Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789)
Well, no. Americans have due process rights under the US Constitution. Foreigners, generally, don't.

The question here is: what process is due when an American leaves the country and takes up arms against the US. It's reasonable to say that they aren't entitled to full judicial process, but they are clearly entitled to something.
> Democracy does not rest on a limitation of power.

Democracy doesn't, but liberty and civility does. It's not even about an explicit limitation of power, but a perceived limitation.

If something is unthinkable, it's irrelevant whether some piece of paper somewhere says you can't do it ... it's unthinkable, so it won't happen. The reason all of this is happening is that not only is it very thinkable, but it is outright tolerated by the populace at large ... even glorified.
Every white paper I've ever seen has the words white paper in the title.. but I don't think its expected, just a convention some organisations use
I don't agree with all that you've said but fuck if you ain't spot on about brightness.

Swipebright is my poison.
I cannot believe it is the registry issue because

a) I renewed the domain before expiry. Before that I had unlocked it for transfer but did not complete it since I realized that this might take a couple of days

b) Godaddy charged me for the domain renewal which effectively confirmed me as the owner for another year.

c) After 2 days, godaddy abruptly cancels the domain and transfers it to the registry even though my ownership is confirmed for the next one year.

It doesn't sound like any body else is here to blame except Godaddy.

From what I understand, they either

a) Did this because I initiated the transfer or
b) I removed all credit cards from the system because I did not want renewals to happen without notice.
The wording is key. The reasoning in this paper is pretty sound. I think the bigger issue, if there is one, is that the AUMF in 2001 grants the President too much power to determine which "nations, organizations, or persons planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons."

That wording is a bit of a recipe for endless war (as written a dozen years later).
Executive decision. It's far from a perfect system.
A recent example of this is Egypt.
Historically, a White Paper is an informal position paper, whereas a Green Paper is a request for comment.
Copying and doing better isn't as easy as it looks, and has already been mentioned, this is exactly where competitors come from. There's nothing wrong with copying and improving an idea as long as you don't steal anything proprietary (obviously).
This memo spends the entire time talking about the 'evil' al-qa'ida and how even if a US citizen joins them then legally they should get to kill them. It goes into deep detail about this scenario for a number of pages.

But it skips over, in 5 lines at the very beginning, that it also applies to anyone they arbitrarily say are associated with al-qa'ida. No details about that.

The important issue isn't the legal justification of some mythical US al-qa'ida as this document tries to stress. It's about the fact that they decide who is an 'associated group' they can also kill and that decision is secret and arbitrary.
I believe the answer is "'Members' of Al Queda are whatever it is that allows us to treat them however we wish.".
This should have been fine and unsurprisingly, GoDaddy appears to be at fault.

I hope you never give them a penny ever again and fingers crossed I can toast to GoDaddy losing another customer!
Was this any less true before the advent of drones?
You mean "Executive decision with no judicial oversight".
You can make subtle political comments. Long ago I was very comfortable with my assigned workstation, so I named it "bag-end".

Then owing to a stupid management decision all in my group were required to move to machines of an unfamiliar and inferior sort. I named this one "crickhollow".

I don't think anyone in management got the reference but I felt better.
> Dragging welfare into this doesn’t even begin to make sense.

If the state feels it's appropriate to take from one and give to another, then it must also feel that it is appropriate to simply take and eventually, not to merely take property but life itself. It's the taking mindset and mentality that's the problem.
Like this:

<ul>
<li ng-repeat="name in names">{{name}}</li>
<li ng-show="!names.length">There are no names in the list</li>
</ul>
Nice to read a treatise on how the Fourth Amendment doesn't prohibit executing citizens without trial. Neither does the First Amendment. The Fourth is about "searches and seizures". That it applies to taking possession of someone's life so as to extinguish it is a pretty twisted premise.
Game Theory: Sale Time - Why so few soccer players change clubs in January
Everything is ideology if you are consistent in your train of thought ("An ideology is a set of ideas that constitute one's goals, expectations, and actions. An ideology is a comprehensive vision, a way of looking at things").
Surely I wasn't the only one looking at this for something like : 1,920×1,080
It has been brought to my attention that I missed a 'not' in your sentence, rendering my previous reply... nonsense.

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Enough, Already
Telecom Corporations Are Trying To Stop Free 'Super WiFi'
Warming and cooling are both physically possible, but they can't happen simultaneously. One or the other is more likely in the near future.

The climate has such a huge impact on human society that we cannot invest to mitigate all outcomes equally. A major reason to fund scientific study of the climate (beyond the intellectual joy of finding things out) is to rigorously and continuously quantify the likelihood of potential climate changes, so we know where to invest.

The overwhelming conclusion right now is that warming is the most likely change in the near future. If you surveyed 1,000 climate researchers tomorrow, I'd be surprised if even 1 said that imminent glaciation is more likely than imminent warming.

Now, that could change, but if it does then the same scientific research that warned us of global warming would warm us of global cooling. But right now it's not, so it would be wasteful to start sending parkas to Florida.

Now, you might ask how we should invest our money in the face of coming warming, and that is a very good question. How much should we invest in changing our energy sources vs., say, building sea walls around low-lying cities like New York or Washington, DC?

To have such a discussion we would first need to accept the information we are getting from scientists--but it is here that we are stuck as a society. People simply do not want to accept it, so right now there is little investment in any direction.
Let's turn this around. Suppose that an American citizen believes they're on the list, and the president is plotting to kill them. In what circumstances should it be legal for them to assassinate the president?

The president is supposed to be just another citizen: one who's very certainly plotting to kill Americans. It's curious how few people apply his reasoning to his own case. Do people believe in some kind of divine right of presidents?
Well if this justification is somehow valid for senior al-Qaida members, it would hold for senior al-Shabaab members, senior Zetas in Mexico, senior Capone members, senior Bloods and Crips, senior LulzSec and Anon, etc.

Then you apply the logic which hinges on it being a foreign country and parallel that to a condition in our own country and it gets ugly. After reading this whole memo, I actually see very little about geography or why this wouldn't be legal in the US. The bottom of page 4 and top of 5 seem to actually justify executions within our borders.
I couldn't really even get started the last time I used ember.js, their website w/ their examples were all worthless since they kept updating their code-base on literally a daily basis. I think I'm going to really take a serious look at angularJS now.
I'm just going to quote directly from the post:

The holes in Rails XML and JSON parsers for different
vulnerable versions have been fixed, and some have asked
why they weren’t detected and patched earlier. The simple
answer is: security is hard. These issues are only
obvious in retrospect. Rails and Ruby aren’t any less
secure than other frameworks and languages. Security
vulnerabilities are bugs at their core, and very
difficult to detect. There is almost guaranteed to be
insecure software on your laptop/phone/server/garage-
door-opener somewhere – it just hasn’t been discovered
yet.

I don't disagree with the last 2 sentences. But I don't agree with the first part of this paragraph at all and I have to call it out. I don't agree my example was a strawman, Rails has a track record of introducing 8 code execution vuln and 8 SQL injection vuln. Django has 1.

The fact is, it's not just this article that was making excuses, it's the Rails devs that have their bottom-line at stake that have come out of the woodwork since Jan that have pissed me off. Example: This guy who wrote a response to the "What The Rails Security Issue Means For Your Startup" post:

http://isotope11.com/blog/what-the-rails-security-issue-shouldnt-mean-for-your-startup

They are also prevalent in the past HN threads discussing Rails vulns.

Note to Rails devs: if you want to secure your bottom-line, you should probably do your part in writing secure(r) software.
The Bill of Rights was not conceived to limit states, only the federal government. It was the 14th amendment and some clever reading by SCOTUS that extended it to states a century later.
you have it backwards. if governments that identify and eliminate undesirables are fascist then pretty much every government in history has been fascist.

ie, all men are mortal, but not all mortals are men.

words have meaning.
What about the security angle? The registrar should log these transactions with the IP address and probably the UA string so they can tell the customer what computer they were using when they did it. And if it wasn't them, then investigate how their password was stolen or security was breached.

Does your registrar log information like this?
Not sure why this is suddenly newsworthy, it's a pretty old and inaccurate blog post.
Yep! A lot of us care a lot about the JSON API case. Since you're mentioning Rails 4, here's the contributors list for the release: http://contributors.rubyonrails.org/edge/contributors

You can see the large overlapping of names there.

Also of note, rails-api includes ActiveModel::Serializers, too: https://github.com/rails-api/active_model_serializers/graphs... You can also find a lot of big names there, as well.
> *Danilocampos, you're quire renowned here on HN, I find your post to be the lamest thing you have ever said.

Gosh, are you sure? I've said tons of lame things – not sure this even nudges the needle.
"Because I feel like it" would be less vague than this travesty.
Reading the original 2001 AUMF explains where this language comes from.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Milita...
My point is that we had a functioning democracy for a century before we decided everyone had ferderal due process rights against state police power.
Pre 1.0 this may have been true, but now that it's approaching 1.0, this is happening quite a bit less. Now that the new router has landed, there shouldn't be very many API changes, if I recall correctly.
Good point. Fortunately, it's easy enough for individuals to opt out. And there seems to be a trend in urban cores towards this.

If you opt out of pacakaged foods and car ownership, you have a lot of surplus money to spend on whatever you want, or save. Ditto for owning a large house, or an oversized apartment.

Edit: to be clear, I didn't mean money is the purpose of opting out of these things. But it's certainly a significant side effect.

How can you afford grass fed beef? With the money you save not paying for oreo's marketing budget.
Thanks for the addition. So, would it apply in this case to limit such Federal government propositions?
> It IS stealing. I don't care how you sugarcoat it.

If you're going to alter the definition of "stealing" to cover things that aren't stealing, then why stop there? Why not call copyright infringement "arson" or "murder" too?

Making an unlicensed replica of another person's non-rival good is not the same thing as depriving another person of a rival good in their possession. You can even hold both to be worthy of legal censure without having to advance this disingenuous prevarication.

If you're in favor of strict IP law, do you not see how playing these semantic games actually undermines your credibility and therefore your argument?
You can also give it a full-screen button. And a save to [insert read later service here] button.
> Assassinating American Citizens

> lethal force [..] against an American citizen

Wherein lies the difference?
Do you run Windows, OS X, or iOS?
I don't know. Some people have real difficulty discerning the difference between welfare, socialism, communism, and dictatorships.
Here's a list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Al-Qaeda
The strength of your principles is only tested at the extremes. I hate Westboro Baptist Church, but I'll support their right to say what they want, because that's how much I believe in free speech. And even terrorists deserve the right to a speedy and public trial if they're American. It's part of our constitution, something we're supposed to stand for as a country. It even makes me sad the way we handled the whole Osama Bin Laden assassination. How much of a bigger statement would it have made to the world if we had pulled him out and made him sit trial for his crimes? What happened to our principles that we used to care so much about?
Looking for UI Elements for illustrator
Anyone know a free or premium UI Elements for Web App for illustrator (there are many available for PSD, want it for AI)
Udacity launches Intro to Parallel Programming. Sponsored by Nvidia  and AWS
Now all we need is a really natural text-to-speech and some stuff like FCC licenses and we can start building fully automated Alex Joneses.
Growing Numbers of Start-Ups Are Worth a Billion Dollars
Would you agree that by the same logic someone could identify the senior leadership of bit torrent?
The Iraq did not have approval of the UN.
Good job with the citations
The idea behind Circcle is to create a new way for people to get news.

- with due respect to citizen journalists, we focus exclusively on news videos from professional agencies.

- we think a balanced/unbiased view is important, so we collect videos from multiple sources and put them next to each other for viewers to decide what to believe, which also saves people's time to go to different websites or keep switching TV channels. Diversity is valuable when it comes to information business.

- we think mobile is the future, so we focus on getting the basic operations right and keep things as simple as possible. Circcle's mobile site allows people to browse and watch videos on the same page, instead of opening up a new page for video playing.
The API has been frozen and we're very close to our 1.0 release. The advantage of changing APIs frequently before 1.0 is that you get a much better product. I'd love it if you reconsider Ember.js and take another look now that it's stable.
Google does this quite frequently with their commercials for products like Google Hangout, search, e-mail, calendar, and more.

They seem to show ways on how to use the service rather then telling you all the stats about it.
> Because of Yahuda's involvement, they have also placed more bets on Ember than Angular the last few years.

To be clear: I want rails-api to work well with any JS framework that wants to work well with us. Obviously, Ember is a big target, as conceptually, Rails and Ember are very close. That said, I'm a server-side guy: I don't care what is consuming my JSON, just that I serve the JSON up well. If someone who's big in the Angular world wants to come help make Rails super badass at serving up the JSON Angular wants, I'm all for it.
The whole idea is to make sure the war is never over. Which is why America is now in a state of permanent war. Can't go on spending a trillion a year on 'security' and 'defense' if there's no war to rally around.
Awesome! Do these work with the Google Voice and GrooVe apps?
"I can call it fascism if I want to and you can't stop me, neener, neener."
Seems legit: http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/Markov%20chains/MTcyMjc
Yes, I am aware of what dark pools are, and I'm not trying to imply fear. It's irrational to fear things you can't change, and it's unreasonable for me to deplore someone else allocating their money in an interesting fashion. I don't mean Dark pools are inherently bad because they're dark. These Dark pools expose society to unmanaged risk because of the implicit guarantees of support from the general population.

It's not so much evil as it is secret, and secrets with public shares are interesting secrets indeed.

As I said, I don't live in fear of Dark pools or any financial instrument, but it's important to understand that there is a significant difference between the normal sale and purchase of securities and the activity which happens in Dark pools. Otherwise there would be no need to draw a distinction.
I was paying about 80$ for 50 megabit a year or two ago around here. I just think the rates here might be a bit better.
"Whether the alternative was worse or better does not even matter, the system is doomed"

It wouldn't show that it was not bound for the same fate, but at least it would show you have the minimum level of self-respect, pride as a nation, and awareness needed to fix the issue in the future. Money, charm, and favoritism shouldn't drive and win a political campaign. Idealists should be able to get attention and be elected, instead of being hidden and smeared: establish a number of TV slots at random, say 10 or 20, pick candidates at random (if there are more than the available slots), and let them have the same air time. Also, corporations shouldn't be allowed to make donations to finance political campaigns. That's bribe in our faces. Teach the basics of economics in schools, so they understand where inflation comes from, and how it's not a natural disaster.
Well, swap out "robbery" for "mass murder, usually using bombs in crowded civilian areas".
> ... it's unthinkable, so it won't happen.

To a certain degree, that's true, till someone interprets that as a loophole, thinks it and does it. It's why law constantly evolves --to adapt to new exploits (as well as for get rid of outdated laws.
Maybe you did not get what I mean.
I am saying there is no such thing as Scientific certitude just on the basis of people agreeing with each other. Scientific certitude is driven by an explanation of what is actually occuring, experimentation and reproduction of experiments. There is no way to "experiment" with Climate Change therefore all your models are just models and cannot be proved by experimentation. They are just theories, like Einstein's theory of relativity, which took a long time to be actually proven by experimental data.
That's really fascinating! I might have to look more into this. Last time I looked at Go, it was stuck without multi-CPU support, which was a show stopper for the project I was working on. Probably worth revisiting.
Against a Stupefying and Narcotic Culture
I randomly got "The Truth About North Korea: North Korea has been planning a silent invasion of North Korea for quite some time." I'm not sure if this is a bug that should be fixed, or if that's just what North Korea wants you to think.

http://www.verifiedfacts.org/i/north-korea/MTcxNDc
While this feels like a "quis custodiet ipsos custodes"
situation, does the judicial overview always need to be prior the action?

In other words, consider soldiers on a battlefield. They do not need judicial approval to kill people they perceive to be enemies. However, they are not given a carte blanche to shoot anyone they wish, or use any means they wish. In cases of soldiers executing questionable judgement, there is a review after the fact.

Police officers are also given more leeway when it comes to killing people. I believe there is always some sort of review after the fact, but I don't think that investigation is the same as a court case (i.e. it may occur entirely within executive branch agencies.)

Therefore, so long as there is process (read: a paper trail) then the people involved in these assassination programs can undergo judicial review should their decisions be questioned, e.g. by whistleblowers, when the documents are declassified, or if a review is mandated by congress.
> Ember.js does dependency injection too; we just roll it into our conventions so that new developers don't need to learn what dependency injection is. If you have to learn a ton of comp sci terminology to start learning a framework, they blew it.

I've been using Angular for months now and although I already knew what dependency injection was, I didn't have to understand the term to use Angular.

> Additionally, Ember is fully unit tested.

Not to start a flame war, but I'm not sure this is a plus. Full unit coverage is nice for confidence, but can be balls and chains when it comes time to make changes. Just as an example, Rails is not fully unit tested by any stretch of the imagination.
Chatroulette is the 1st application that comes to mind...
Or, if you don't want the "no names" item in the list at all when it's inapplicable, instead of merely hidden:

<div ng-switch="names.length">
<ul ng-switch-when="0">
<li>There are no names in the list.</li>
</ul>
<ul ng-switch-default>
<li ng-repeat="name in names">{{name}}</li>
</ul>
</div>

Either way you end up with an ugly dom.
Not getting into a good college is the biggest mistake I ever made.
> who is a senior operational leader of al-Qa'ida

Reading comprehension, mostly.
I've always been a fan of your username, but this post really put it over the top. And your point is 100% correct: the whole claim about 'leadership' is based on a model that doesn't even apply to these organizations, which makes me really question the competence of those making such proclamations, and even _more_ uneasy with their judgements about extrajudicial killings.
Yet somehow America managed to survive two centuries without the desperate need to assassinate its own people being enshrined into law.

Terrorism is not some new tactic that calls for a radical change in legal powers. These laws are nothing but an extreme power grab.
Not CSRF. XSSI. It's actually completely different
I've long been a fan of collective nouns, you could almost never run out even if you choose only birds .. Murder anyone?
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site certainly worth "learning", but copying completely is just lame
Does a military sniper execute his targets?
> We should be protesting war in all forms, not just assassinations.

Honestly, I agree, but there were millions of people all over the world protesting the war, and it didn't change a damn thing.
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W/re WBC, I think while they have a right to hold views, express them, share them, I do not think, and others have agreed[1], that they have the right to disrupt other people's proceedings (funerals) as part of their right to free expression.

[1] http://www.kansascity.com/2012/10/16/3870092/appeals-court-d...
Not to start a flame war, but I'm not sure this is a plus. Full unit coverage is nice for confidence, but can be balls and chains when it comes time to make changes.

Ask any of our pre-1.0 users; they'll assure you that the pace of change was breakneck and certainly not hindered by our unit tests.