skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's time to get beyond the shock and outrage at the stone-walling occurring, now, at every level of government, and take a good hard look at what's motivating Holder. We are asking him to empathize with us - the least we can do is empathize with him.

First things first: Swartz is small potatoes. Holder deals with a lot of things, not the least of which is fielding questions about the legality of drone strikes on US soil [1], or writing memos about Gitmo or torture [2]. The handling or mis-handling of a single case is nothing to Eric Holder, especially since his boss is not up for reelection.

Second thing: the default position for any government leader is to back up your people. It's easier that way. If everyone in government backs up their people, coupled with unapologetic denials of wrong-doing, you have a much more comfortable government for one and all - at least between elections. But hey, 4 years of total autonomy is far better than suffering constant public scrutiny and having to react to it. This is even more powerful if you have the judiciary on your side and, since you're all on the same team, that's more likely than not.

In summary, Eric Holder doesn't care about this case, and has assumed the default position of someone in his station: deny-everything. It would have been quite remarkable, in hindsight, for him to have done anything else.

Clearly this is not a good outcome: we want an Attorney General who shares our sensibilities, and in this case, we wanted someone in that role who perceives the fact that the federal prosecutor overstepped their bounds and drove a sensitive soul into oblivion for actions which caused no-one any harm. We want someone who understands that merely to be prosecuted is a severe punishment in time and treasure. We want someone who understands the difference between someone who breaks the law out of a heartfelt spirit of doing the right thing, and someone who breaks the law out of malicious, selfish intent.

Sadly, I can think of no other way to address this problem than to keep this in mind for the next election.

[1] http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/05/173572444/pre...

[2] http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/06/pentagon-iraqi-t...

EDIT: P.S. I really like looking at inexplicable/horrible things like a software bug. Rather than indulge in pointless, impotent anger, treat the anger as a signal that your understanding of the system is flawed, and think through the forces at work. It's hard to get in the head of an insider, especially right after they pissed you off - but chances are they didn't want to piss you off. They didn't care about you at all.

Then, when your cogent analysis is through and you understand the system and how it can be fixed, you turn your anger back on a little and RIP THAT SHIT APART AND FIX IT.
"Coming soon on mobile. Check it out on your desktop or laptop." Really?
That, coupled with the fact that MVC (the classic, desktop MVC) seems shoehorned in webapps, makes me weary when frameworks tout their MVCness before stating their distinctive features.

BTW, I'm much more adept of removing the controller and going to a tightly coupled stack of view-model with the use of the observer pattern where needed. Controllers remind me of that extra indirection that seems useful in design but is never really used and is thus just unnecessary complexity.
Martin Owens declares Ubuntu Community dead
Many of them are adults and trained professionals, but many of them are also literally teenagers.

As for Paul, reread what I wrote. I said something specific, and you generalized it to rebut something else that I did not say.
How can Meteor be taken seriously with shit like this?

This site barely works... Simply hangs with spinning jewish logos...
>"Ridiculous arguments are ridiculous."

So where is the line where it is no longer ridiculous, then? $999? $500? $10?

Labour is an input cost of production; when the input prices rise, so do output prices to compensate.

I'd vote for no minimum wage but with a minimum income subsidized by the government.
It's a complete and utter fallacy to say that the government doesn't have the authority to kill people without due process. The police and Federal law enforcement do it all the time. It's called justifiable homicide.
Feel like providing a workable alternative, or are you just content to stay in your cloud of idealism with other thoughts like "everyone should change passwords for everything every 90 days"?
From Wayfinding to Interaction Design
If you purchase at $30/bitcoin, and by the time the bank transaction goes through the price has risen to $32/bitcoin, you still get them for $30.

Similarly, if the price drops to $28, you still pay $30/bitcoin.

So you're locked in at the exchange rate at the time you place the order.
All of my data points that they are leaving money on the table.
AWS Case Study: Parse (YC S11)
Flow Free: Bridges, with nicer graphics and a better soundtrack. I like it. Controls could be a bit smoother, but nice game overall. Great start.
Design of a 100mph electric plane
Apple already sell a relatively cheap desktop computer in the mac mini. I don't think they could make anything much cheaper without digging into their margins.

Microsoft's value in the business market is their suite of server desktop & cloud products and the integration between those. Adding all of that stuff to OS X would be a big undertaking and would probably take away a lot of the simplicity of the Mac.
No other considerations seem to matter.

He was caught red-handed, so to speak. Any rational jury would have convicted him on evidentiary grounds had he chosen to go trial. There doesn't seem to be any record of his defense counsel arguing before the court that he was unfit to stand trial.
What you describe is not targeted assassination. Your scenario depicts incident response. For example, "neutralize the several people that have hijacked this plane." Targeted assassination is, as the name suggests, aimed at a specific person, not because they are currently engaged in firing guns, hijacking planes, taking hostages, and so on, but because "intelligence suggests" that this person has been or could be involved with threats at some point. While we most all of us can envision situations in which targeted assassination is an appropriate response to a threat, the problem is that there are currently no inter-branch checks on the process that determines who is a threat. While due process doesn't mandate a trial or situation-specific court review, it's hard to argue that it doesn't demand input from any other federal branch at all. The criteria are currently determined by executive fiat and are not subject to general review by the judiciary or to modification by legislature. It's not just a matter of "drones," though the use of drones makes these issues more salient. It's about the balance of power distributed throughout the federal government.
Maybe the answer is just to sell a version of OS X that is licensed to run on commodity X86 hardware, then just charge $1000 for it.
I encourage you to watch the filibuster then, because Rand Paul is explicitly claiming that he is not concerned with a person " engaged in some sort of military-style assault upon the US" being killed by drones. His concern is explicitly that there has been no clarification that drones will not be used to kill non-combatant citizens on American soil. He has directly said his concern is with non-combatants. Multiple times. How can there be any reasonable opposition to this?
I'm almost 100% certain that anything properly designed these days will be better thought out than bash - but, 20+ years of bash knowledge in my fingertips is hard to say goodbye to.

If I was starting out now on windows - I'd spend the next 2 to 3 years training my fingers on powershell (there is a difference between book knowledge, and instinctive "finger" knowledge), and I'm sure it would serve me well. But now, I just want to leverage my existing knowledge.

And yes, I realize that makes me a relic.

With regards to "it is better to use the GUI" - scripting configuration of dozens (hundreds?) of remote servers through the GUI is probably possible, but not something I would look forward to. Once again, old habits die hard, and having 30-40 ssh sessions open to various environments is like a good fitting shoe - it's just comfortable.
I think the most common is you have a single password, but you hash it with the name of the service you're logging into.

For example, if you're password is "puppy" and you're signing-up for HN, your password would be:

pHuApCpKy

And, if you wanted to make it stronger, salt it with some special characters.

p~Hu!Ap@Cp#Ky$

... which is just the shift-characters on a number row in order.

This way, you only have to remember one password, and it is service specific, and pretty strong. No password manager needed.

Of course, I don't do this. I use a 1Password and KeepassX.
I totally get that it's different to what's in other frameworks (the router is similarly different), it's just that, for the most part, on the surface, it pretty much serves the same purpose (other than some relationship stuff that half works). That is, it's the same the same part of the framework, just with extra features. Oh, and with a whole load of undocumented coventions in it.

Btw, is there a diagram or something that shows how it's put together internally (I'm pretty comfortable with how to use it from an API perspective, but find myself having to dive into the source code fairly regularly)?
Is there any way to be added to your mailing list or something to be updated of new features in the product? If so, feel free to add {my username}@gmail.com to it.
> What do you mean by "Scared kids"? These soldiers we send into combat are adults and trained professionals. If anything they should be better able to assess a situation in combat with boots on the ground, not flying above the area thousands of meters away firing missiles.

I believe we have some combat veterans among the HN crowd; you might ask them whether you've got a realistic view of the stress of a combat situation.
Hell yes! Well said. This makes me feel much less jealous of all the conference hoes running around acting like you need to be at a conference to get great things done.
Paul's own words prior to the filibuster, from his written question to John Brennan, to which Holder responded:

The question that I and many others have asked is not whether the Administration has or intends to carry out drone strikes inside the United States, but whether it believes it has the authority to do so. This is an important distinction that should not be ignored.

(Em. from original).
They don't. They hemorrage money in an attempt to get some claim of silicon valley gold.
>If your application doesn’t require a high level of user privacy, then you should be able to log into your site as a given user. Odd problems will pop up that only affect one user.

when the hell is this ever ok? even for a to-do list app. The closest we will come to this is a screen-sharing session with the customer
Path 3 is out
>The easier it is for people to skate through life without working or working effectively, the less incentive they have to contribute.

We do not currently have a problem with people not wanting to work. We currently have a problem with people being unable to find work.

>The people that pay for this life will decrease and quality of life will decrease for everyone.

That's why the system has to be dynamic. If you have a surplus of jobs, you reduce the GMI so that people have to work more. If you have a deficit of jobs, you increase the GMI accordingly.
See this discussion [1] for example where they say this explicitly. Passwords and logins and other sensitive details are encrypted, but item titles (including note titles) and URLs are not.

They have a new keychain design [2] in which most metadata (including item titles) is encrypted. This is currently used for iCloud syncing, and they plan to roll it out for other sync methods and perhaps local storage as well [1]. I am guessing this will happen in the new OS X version.

[1] http://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/12237/metadata-i...

[2] http://learn.agilebits.com/1Password4/Security/keychain-desi...
Bitcoin is going to be extremely volatile. I don't think that has a lot of significance for its long term viability.
You should add the links to the HN discussions alongside the links to the articles.
If you look at the 6 month chart it's fairly obvious there's something unsustainable going on.
I don't agree completely but thanks for clarifying.
USA is not in a war. There has been no declaration of war authorised by Congress. Therefore there can be no 'enemy combatants' - as (legally and officially) there are no war enemies; and drone-striking any US citizen is simply murder.
Can I just say real quick that when I said "scared kids" the thing in my head was Kent State? I have a generally high opinion of people who serve in the military. I couldn't have done it. I don't think they're all dumb kids.
I liked the article a lot, got excited about giving Meteor a go for our next project, but then I checked out your website and got bummed. It takes +10 seconds to load ... the "loading " message. And then it just sits there, spinning the jewish logo.
> None of them like doing those shitty jobs so much that they'll turn down a wage rise, or a funded unemployment, or a higher-paying job, to "protect" their particular employer.

No, but I'm sure they like them better than not doing anything, since they have the choice to not do anything right now. If the minimum wage is raised above what they are capable of producing in value, they will no longer have the choice at all.
Uh. They're not making a moral argument. They are motivated by morals to make a factual argument. So you do have to deal with the argument.
#6secondpitch contest on Vine for coverage at SXSW, and VC meeting.
How about just someone who understands that a felony is a lifetime sentence? That is what blows me away. He defends their offer of "3, 4, 5" months like its totally reasonable to permanently disenfranchise a citizen whose misconduct was so negligibly harmful.
Ask HN: How should I make best use of my last year in college?
I'm a CS major at an Ivy League college and I've secured a great internship at a well-known software company for my last summer. With slightly more than a year to go before I graduate, I'd love to hear any advice about how I can best use my last year in college to prepare myself for life after college and a career in software.
Authorea: Write research papers inside your browser
The last thing you want in a trading currency is extreme volatility.
We want someone who understands that merely to be prosecuted is a severe punishment in time and treasure. We want someone who understands the difference between someone who breaks the law out of a heartfelt spirit of doing the right thing, and someone who breaks the law out of malicious, selfish intent.

Those determinations are for the judicial branch to make, not the executive. Under article II of the Constitution, the executive 'shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.' Under article III, the judicial power rests with the Supreme Court (and such lower courts as it has created). Prosecutors do not have the power to set aside the law, and even where plea bargains are made, they must be approved by a judge first.

I think there are severe flaws with the adversarial legal model that obtains in the US, but the Constitution is extremely clear and explicit about this.
The simple fact that if your startup has minimal capital (if any at all) and no revenue should indicate that spending a small fortune (potentially $2,500-10,000) to travel to a week long party (that's what SXSW is anyway) will only put you further into the debt hole that you need to make up for later. Who cares if you make $5,000 later on, because you're effectively still negative.

Some of these ego-whores are at every meetup, conference, mixer, breakfast, etc. Imagine how much of the startup's capital they are effectively wasting. All in the favor of "networking" --- 90% of which never pans out because most people at these events are all talk.

Sure, the events are fun, but they're not as productive as hunkering down and writing some code, reaching out to a potential customer, showing off a demo, or reviewing some feedback.
"Highest-rated articles of January": could you tweak things to display the point-count/comment-count?

What exactly does curated mean? Are these hand picked as the highest-rated, or automatically selected based on point-count/some other metric?

What does the 'ABC' metric mean?
I like the sites which takes you to the main input field of the page after pressing a single tab. That way, the page still has the focus when the page is loaded and you can easily get to the search box or login id by just pressing a tab.
This could be anything, and be completely unrelated to meteor or related in a way that has no bearing on the claims of the article. He did just launch, after all.
I really wish that Apple would go back to licensing its OS for clones: say they charged $2-300 minimum or 10% on a $1500 minimum selling price. This would enable almost reasonably priced powerful hackintoshii, while not cannibalizing their current products too badly.
Sorry, I missed that. Thanks for the info. And cool that he got hired.
At this stage who is buying BTC? Who is the marginal buyer?
The Mac Pro lets you have up to six. That's more than I personally need, but those who need that many need them.
I'm curious how easy it's going to be to (1) download the git repo from the backend, and (2) format the articles to meet specific journal requirements for submission.
of course he also believes in using drones to hunt and kill US Citizens, whether they are within our without our borders. A bad person can do terrible damage, if left to run free (speaking about the AG here).
What market crash? I don't see it[0].

0: http://blockchain.info/charts/market-price
Thing is, quite a few of those 75% things are created by the 25%.
False. Public Law section 107-40, Section (2)(b)(1).

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-107publ40/pdf/PLAW-107publ...
Stripe for au? :)
You can get many of the benefits of SPDY today by using Cloudflare:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-spdy
So, in your opinion, people who cannot produce at least $12 an hour of value should not be allowed to produce anything? That seems to be the logical consequence of shutting down all businesses that need to pay less than that...
I find it hard to trust a closed source app with all my passwords.

Also: https://grepular.com/LastPass_Vulnerability_Exposes_Account_...
I watched this for three minutes and in that time its value went from 37 to nearly 40 and back to 37 again. Several times.

How in the world can you use a currency that changes value by almost 10% every 60 seconds?
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True, but what you are saying is only complex applications need to be secure?
Stop using this and start using Sodium, which is more secure than your wrapper library in significant ways that illustrate why people shouldn't think of this stuff as "jargon" that they can just write wrappers for; for instance:

* It generates encryption keys insecurely instead of using a cryptographically secure KDF

* It leaks timing information on the MAC comparison

* It makes verification of messages optional; verification should never be optional (in your case, when verification is disabled, I think you have the CBC padding oracle vulnerability)
Don't you diss Danielle. I'll have you know she is a remarkably effective conference ho.

Also nonsense is one word.
Why are you still running spinning metal drives on your developer machines?
This is a common argument, and it makes sense in theory. (I don't mean "in theory" snidely, I mean it in the real sense -- it's a defensible theory.) But here's the thing: there are states across the country that have higher minimum wage than the national minimum, and cities that have higher minimum wage than their states. This has been true for more than a decade in most of these places -- so there's been enough time for us to gauge the effects by now, right? If the theory was correct, most of those localities should have measurably higher unemployment rates in low wage jobs than surrounding localities, and most of those rates should not be able to be linked to other factors beyond the legislated minimum wage.

As it turns out, there's no substantive evidence this has happened. California does not, it seems, have a statistically lower number of minimum wage jobs per capita available than other states. That's true even in San Francisco, which has the highest minimum wage in the country.

In fact, there have been studies done on this. A lot of them. Generally they show either no effect on employment caused by raising the minimum wage, or at worst case a small negative effect. There's a fair amount about what economists think at this NYT article, including links to a few of those studies:

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/what-economists...

While the polled economists are rather evenly split on whether they think raising the wage is likely to be overall negative or positive, there was stronger agreement that "benefits of raising the minimum wage and indexing it to inflation outweighed the costs."
Pretty sure she knows about it...

http://screenhero.com/img/email.png
That is quite coincidental.
Right, this is explicitly why I referenced what he is currently saying. He has said multiple times in the now 40 minutes I have spent watching that all he wants is explicit clarification that drones will not be used on American soil against noncombatant US citizens. He has publicly said if he receives this he will end the filibuster.

I am discussing what he is saying right now, during the filibuster, in an article discussing the filibuster. Claiming his previous statements accurately reflect what he is currently filibustering over is incorrect.
Statutory maximums are not the same as mandatory minimums.

> A prosecutor forcing someone to admit guilt by threatening a life-destroying cruel and unusual punishment if they do not admit it - why, that is the very essence of using torture to extract a confession!

I count at least 7 fallacies in that single sentence. Impressive.
I've had a couple of my sites hit by Hacker News before, it's not that much traffic.

But I am perhaps a bit biased, I already think Meteor is a joke of a product.
Can't access as my phone gets redirected to an empty mobile page.
It's not the money supply. It's the money flow, which you can model as a product of money supply and money circulation speed. A $1000USD minimum wage will increase circulation speed and from there induce inflation.
I posted my own Meteor app to HN the other day and it held up under traffic just fine: http://hnwishlist.com

So don't blame Meteor :)
The U.S. does not need to declare war to be engaged in hostilities, nor does the U.S. need to be in a declared war for people who take up arms against the U.S. to be enemy combatants. This is a practice that is as old as the Republic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unite...

Holder's analysis was based on the AUMF, which as a Congressional authorization of force is as much as the U.S. has ever required.

As an aside, a declaration of war is a diplomatic issue between nations. It's not even applicable in this context, in hostilities against non-nation entities.
And describing someone as an x doesn't always mean they are a repeated doer of the x-act. Eg, dictator: do you think only someone who was a dictator of multiple countries can be legitimately called that? If you say, as you did for murderer, that 'this example is too loaded', then you are recognising that the reaction is different for acts of different impact, and therefore your analogy of 'singer' is irrelevant until you can show that people view 'singing' as something having the same impact of 'sending DMCA takedowns'.
Most big things start out as jokes. (I don't hold an opinion one way or the other.) But you have to admit they are doing something semi-interesting.