skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just looked up Kelo and Myriad:
I don't know either case well, but
I'd heard of both of them.

Those cases involve really tricky stuff
in the sense that there's nothing
really clear in the Constitution
on how to resolve the cases. So, the
SCOTUS had to 'interpret'. For what
they did in those two cases, I see
no big threat to the US. For Kelo,
my sympathies for the poor guy
who owned the property that got
taken away from him. For Myriad,
I thought that that was a really nice
step toward something that makes
sense in patent law. So, if
invent some DNA, then maybe can
patent it. But if just read some
DNA from a drop of my blood, then
can't patent it. For cDNA, I
saved time by not checking out the
details -- maybe after I watch some
more Eric Lander videos!

But for the NSA getting the phone
call metadata on all 120 million
or so Verizon customers, apparently
once a day, for years, I see
mud tracked over the Fourth Amendment
with no real doubt. And I see
a threat to the US, e.g., another
Nixon "taking the gloves off",
using that data to go
after his "enemies", and
building a tyrannical dictatorship.

So, I can see it now: "Dear
NSA: I'm a good, long time
Verizon customer. I met this
girl on-line, and we met
at a bar and then went back
to her place. I saw her for
six months, and then she told
me that I'd gotten her pregnant.
I don't believe it. So, what
I need are her phone records
so that I can track down who
she was talking to on her phone,
who she was sleeping with, and
who got her pregnant. So, from
you, I need the phone records.
Help!"

So, between the two cases you cited
and the present NSA-Verizon issue,
I see a difference in kind.
There are some bright people
on the SCOTUS, even if they are
lawyers. Maybe they are bright
enough to go above some narrow,
loop-hole infested view of the
law and think effectively about
protecting the Constitution and
the US essentially as the founding
fathers did and intended. I hope so.
I have no problem with people criticizing the US. In fact, it something that makes the US such a great country. US citizens should be holding their elected representatives' feet to the fire when they stray from the constitution.

However, using words like "undemocratic", "despot" and "dictatorship" to describe the US cheapen those words and do a great disservice to the MILLIONS of people who have died under such regimes.
I've watched screencasts from about half of this list (I am a bit of a junkie...) and I can say, without a doubt, that the best one of the bunch is Destroy All Software.

Others may be better if you are new to program and want specific help with a certain tech (Ember.js, Rails, etc) but if you want the most bang for your buck, DAS is where it's at.
Um... the "problem" at hand is apparently whether or not Greenwald "is a journalist" and by extension whether he qualifies for the very broad protections of a free press granted by the first amendment.

Your point is what? That because he misread a powerpoint he should be thrown in jail?
I love these kinds of anecdotes, this is one of my favorites: http://exile.acornarcade.com/devel.html
>no on alive still condones

This is not true.

>Arguing over what countries have done in the far distant past

There are people alive who are still dealing with devastating consequences from the past. There are also people who are living pretty comfortable lives because of the past. It's a lot easier for the beneficiaries to deal with it.
Manchester Museum time-lapse shows Egyptian statue move
That statement is very very wrong. Salt has templates, renderers, grains, while supporting all the data structure languages you can dream of.

In fact, it is the most flexible software I've seen recently.
The story of post-"discovery" North-America is the volition of human rights

The story of everywhere is the story of violation of human rights. If the USA's record is shameful, then the record of the rest of the world is even more shameful.
There are always ways to do more, but in my experience this line of reasoning actually deflates more than it inspires. If someone has 10 seconds to sign the petition, let them sign the petition and go about their day rather than wasting 10 seconds making them feel guilty for not doing more.
There are legitimate uses for uranium (medical isotopes and, arguably, energy production), that I think could lend themselves to a peaceful nuclear industry. Unfortunately that entire industry has been tarnished by violent end-goals from day one. Here's where the fox is guarding the henhouse, in a sense.
> Every professor seems to remove thier notes at the end of every semester and only post them when the content becomes relevent to the course.

might this be possibly done because there is not too much variation in course content from one sem to next ?
Africa-Focused Savannah Fund Graduates Its First Batch of Startups
This is a pretty quick way of setting up basic vagrant boxes. Nice to see this exists.
When newspapers + magazines used to fund content by showing ads before TV existed, imagine showing TV ads as a patented innovation and how that would have destroyed lots of content. It was an obvious progression to fund content online supported by ads. This decision is absolutely wrong. Greed over real innovations.
Self-interests are what drives all foreign policies, regardless of country.

It's a competition/race, and America has been winning at it for the last century.

The others' moral opposition and distaste with the USA is a product of them not finishing first in this race.
> But then there is also a Constitutional definition that Snowden would not fall under.

That's the only definition that matters. "Weakens the state" could apply to someone who complains about their taxes on Twitter.
Using the EULA's buffer to patch sounds very interesting.
How Lindsey Graham and others like him must read this: "Spy and traitor Snowden, seeks help from terrorist organization, Wikileaks"
Common Table expressions are part of the SQL:1999 standard. Most RDBMS can handle them.
Sorry. I guess I presumed that your very first statement of "Snowden didn't circumvent anything" meant that he had nothing interesting in the first place. Which implies that he has nothing to release even if he wanted to.

So if he's charged with espionage, even if he hasn't released anything, does that mean he has circumvented something? Or that access to that information didn't actually require being circumvented in the first place?
How could he possibly "present his case to the citizens of the United States" when he's sitting in jail awaiting trial, and is then imprisoned for decades after conviction, possibly in severely cruel and restrictive conditions that deny him contact with the outside world[1]? He could lead a much more effective campaign as a free man in Ecuador.

Furthermore, allowing himself to be captured and subject to harsh treatment would be an extremely effective deterrent to future whistleblowers thinking of doing the same thing.

[1] See "Special Administrative Measures" here: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_administrative_measure] and [http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2009/June/09-ag-564.html] (bottom of page) and [http://www.justice.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/tit...] (under "9-24.300") - given that he is charged with espionage and the govt would love to make an example out of him, I have no doubt he would be subject to that.

(Edit: fixed typo: it's "Special Administrative Measures" not "Conditions" and added additional links)
Very interesting! I've often got into nasty arguments with people online when I dared to say that Computer science (Computing) was not a subset of math, but rather could be viewed more naturally as a superset. It is good to see serious academic work being done along these lines.
Wasn't Barrett Brown working on something?
Are you seriously accusing Jimmy Carter of moral relativism? of not understanding the meaning of words like "undemocratic", "despot", or "dictatorship"? of wanting to see a weaker US??

This would be the Jimmy Carter who kissed up to Hamas?

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/16/jimmy-carter...
Manning is in the military, UCMJ applies.

Likewise he was held in Quantico Brig from July 2010 to April 2011, which is half again what you claim. His treatment was bad enough that it's not as if you have to lie about it to make your point.

Likewise, he was under formal charges since July 5th, 2010, and has been under the most-recent set of charges since March 1, 2011.

Likewise again, his detention has nothing to do with NDAA. A civilian court could just as easily remand someone to custody for the entire duration of a trial, even if it takes awhile.

All of this is easily available on Wikipedia. Now I'll add some hyperbole: Are there any Manning supporters who don't have to resort to misleading people or to outright lying?
>The same could be said of the US. Surely you know this.

Yes, but the US has much bigger guns in the game of diplomatic bargaining than Ecuador - including actual guns. Handing over political refugees would be an unnecessary sacrifice of reputation for the US when there are so many other tools at its disposal. Other nations already mostly do whatever the US tells them to, and when they don't, a minor play like that wouldn't make a difference.

Ecuador does not have such clout, so political refugees are a far more useful bargaining chip.
The first few lines of the article speak to the closest snake to kill for patent legislation: You don't have to patent an invention, just an idea. This goes above and beyond the typical patent trolling of, "Well we bought the patent for x from whomever built it first, even though that technology is ubiquitous..." to "Let's see what general concepts are so obvious that no one has bothered to patent them."

My brother was starting a real estate app company and was sued for breaching the patent that allowed one to "find an address using a mobile device." The patent was filed in 1989, with no technology behind it whatsoever, just someone saying, "You know, I bet in the future someone will..."

You could patent "a car that flies in the air without touching the ground" today without having any idea how to build it (except I'm sure that's been patented). That should be step one for legislators to kill.
As a developer that primarily works on ruby, I can see it if he wanted 1.9.3. Most of the references you'll find on that tell you to use @environment_wrapper_of_the_month, and those are deep rabbit holes for people who know nothing about the language.
Xen4CentOS6 Project First Release
http://docs.saltstack.com/ref/clientacl.html
Ah, this decision is from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Totally expected, and we need to get rid of that court.

For those unfamiliar with the history, that is the court that all patent cases go to. They've been co-opted by patent lawyers, and decide very much in favor of patent holders. Every so often the Supreme Court takes the time to review one of their decisions, and inevitably overrules them. So in their next ruling they find a way to pay lip service to the Supreme Court while ignoring what that court said.

So the rhythm goes like this. You go to your local court, and win or lose based on the jury. Then if the patent holder does not like the decision, you go to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. And pretty much inevitably will win. If the challenger is very, very lucky, the Supreme Court will have time to hear the case. And you'll get a balanced decision for the challenger. (I mean that literally. The Supreme Court does not have time to hear many of these, so they just pick the most egregious, and issue a balanced decision. But since they picked egregious cases, the patent holder always loses.)

If we could just replace the one court in the middle with one that actually listened to the Supreme Court, then patent trolling would be dealt a fatal blow. I shudder to think of how much its existence costs legitimate business in this country every single year.
Salt also uses yaml for its configuration backend (by default). You can also write your state in Python if you prefer, with all the power that that brings (including pulling data from databases, remote API calls, or whatever you like).
Your logon form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP
> Is it really that smart ? By doing so the president commits crimes against humanity, incentives lots of people to attack the US, kills privacy for the sake of security and does so while violating the constitution. The list goes on and on. Meanwhile, the people (not the government !) end up paying for this madness. Literally and figuratively.

[Disclaimer: this is a foreigner's point of view. US citizens are welcome to step in this discussion and correct my points]

Not all of that follows. For instance, it is not automatically true that the US commits crimes against humanity by not using its own reserves. It can be argued that it shouldn't be buying oil from some countries, but it is really not its fault that the government of said countries is using the spare dollars to fuel their own agenda.

I see no merits at in any terrorist attacks on US soil, even if they resulted in no casualties. If some of these groups had a point, even then the responsibility must be shared between the US and other countries. "Oh, the US did such and such to my country!". Well, aren't we talking about sovereign states here? And again, not all foreign policies are about oil.

Yeah, I agree that it would be even more logical to spend more resources in order to develop alternatives to oil, at least as a fuel - there are other things we extract from it that are valuable and perhaps not as easy to replace, such as fertilizers and plastic. But research takes time, and oil is needed now. Furthermore, with such a huge military force, the US needs a lot of it. I can't imagine an all-electric airforce anytime soon, or electric tanks.

Now, if you want to argue that some (but not most, and certainly not all!) resources could be diverted from the military towards such programs, then I would agree. But I am not so sure that isn't happening already, it could as well be. Some of that research might be classified, even.
Every TV show, magazine or newspaper you liked, watched or read is the result of advertising. The internet is no different except that it is a larger market where you make less with advertising. Yes old model ads suck even on Hulu Plus you get them, but content costs are high without them or may not even exist. Many a good shows would have not existed. Advertising has been an engine to creative entertainment + information.
A whistleblower is NOT a conscientious objector, they are different figures.

The first one just wants to make something which is private, public, but he is not willing to risk even his life (because he does not deem it necessary).

A conscientious objector, on the other hand, is willing to put all aside -even his life- before doing something that goes against his conscience.

Not the same thing at all even though they may look similar.

He wants to defend America, not the legal status quo.
The overhead of spawning hundreds of SSH processes can be pretty extreme as well.
Can someone make an ETF for Bitcoins please? This would help liquidity a lot IMO and also help the competition of the exchanges to get rid of the above-the-market withdrawal fees.

I'm thinking not even a real ETF as in having real market participants that can redeem shares. Even if someone can incorporate a small corporation, have a initial offering of a million shares at 10 dollars. That's a $100 million dollar worth of BTC that one can trade in the over the counter market. I don't mind paying the 0.5% administration fee whatever.

Reddit thread where people discuss this idea: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/19hxuv/bitcoin_etf/

EDIT: Apparently, there are already shell companies listed on OTC for sale so that one can simply take over their tickers instead of filing all of the paper-work.

http://www.mergernetwork.com/index/public-shell-companies-fo... Can someone buy one and then maybe put another 100K worth of Bitcoins as assets? Or raise funds via Kickstarter?
Snowden himself is saying that the judiciary should have oversight of any NSA surveillance programs via specific warrants (among other things), was he not? Does he believe in Constitutional protections or no?

Similarly I wasn't aware that judges and defense attorneys allowed the prosecutor to pack juries with NSA analysts. Has this changed at some point?
Have you tried rbenv? Its easier to setup than rvm and doesn't take too long.
Thankfully, one's legal rights don't depend on how "slimy" you are and abuses of the law remain abuses even when slimy entities are the ones abused.
Time-lapse footage shows an Egyptian statue moving in its glass display cabinet, according to a Manchester Museum.

The museum says it installed a stop-motion camera after reports the carving had started changing position, despite apparently not being moved by human hands for 80 years.

The 10 inch stone statue dates back to 1800 BC.
Bitmaker Labs coding bootcamp shut down by Canadian government
Because if I can take from you without consequence, then that amounts to a great level of control. Normally if I take something of yours without your consent, I am a thief. If I do it at gunpoint, I'm an armed robber. Take away the veneer of legitimacy that many would grant to the DEA, and it, too, becomes a thief and/or armed robber.
I've always thought that if you know someone is suicidal, don't always make it apparent that it is on your mind.

Sometimes they just need to have a person who lets things be normal - someone who knows what is there, but doesn't let it change the tone of every interaction.

That seems one of the most helpful things you can do, in my opinion.
Code Understandability: Teaching An Alien to Make PB & J
Absolutely not. If you can present a clear, thought-out plan, I will consider joining you.

I'm not going to join a movement without a cause, plan or goal.
Is it? It feels more like an "Edward Snowden Goes to Cuba" road trip movie right now.
Sounds like a good idea—enabling the effectiveness of a mailed letter with the ease of an email. Most people don't seem willing to do more than an email to their members of Congress, so this may have real value.
I think the bigger question this points to is the fact that all human perceptions are a mix of emotion and reason. As humans we seem to keep wanting to live in black and white - in a place where we can name and label the cause and effect of things.

As people who build software, we know how complexity explodes with each option - and people are complex in millions of facets. Combine a few people together, and you have intractable combinations of emotions and environmental factors. At some point you have to give up on 'exact' and just go with 'directionally correct'.

My wish would be that we could somehow find a way to loosen people's grip on "this is the right way and I've proven it."
Scientists and alternative medicine, religious, the irreligious, etc. All seem to think that their brain was able to do what trillions of people before could not. I don't mean to say that there is no truth or 'right' in the universe, just that we are such imperfect measurement tools that we need to walk it out a bit more humbly.

It stands to reason that there's probably some good in the alternative medicine movement - since the goal is for people to feel better and get better. And apparently they are. And there's been good that comes from traditional medicine as we've seen.

One commenter on here was lamenting their parents alignment to some alternative medicine beliefs, stating "They believe this stuff even when it contradicts itself, " How ironic, because I think if you look in to any field there is a great deal of disagreement, and contradiction. You have people refuting and arguing in medical and science journals, both sides being convinced that they are 'correct'.

In many ways I think these behaviors are a symptom of a small-ish brain trying to collect and hold all the complexity of the world - and just failing spectacularly. Of course - we mix in some pride and arrogance, and we get what we've got now. :(
I don't see where this is a new rule. This is the exact same thing the DEA has done with large quantities of money or bank accounts.

The US Government's response so far has been pretty good, actually. They're not making new rules for bitcoin. They're making it explicitly known that they're treating BTC like all other forms of money.
Reminds me of this:

http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html
What about web game dev now? We're almost seeing entire operating systems running in JavaScript.

Can we please just keep producing game binaries for the desktop where it actually runs like it's meant to? /rant
Being extremely disciplined about getting enough sleep and exercise will hugely increase your stress-handling capacity. Perhaps even enough to stave off burn-out.
Sorry was that a fantasy of a world in which sales of uranium would be allowed openly because people would only use it peacefully? For medicine and energy generation?

Never let it be said you don't dream big!

I'm not sure you fit into the real world any more than a socialist utopian does, but hey, good for you for having faith in humanity....
Yeah, really. Just anecdotal, of course, but from my own conversations with (and eavesdropping on) normal people around my town, it's clear that some people know who Snowden is and are following his travels but they don't have the slightest clue what he revealed. 'Some military secret to the Chinese' is the best guess I've gotten so far.
Small typo, just a heads up: "Add this to you site"
He may actually make it, which is amazing. This is probably the best outcome Snowden could have possibly hoped for.
The U.S. doesn't get most of its oil from abroad though. We get most of it between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The idea that the U.S. is ravenously hounding Arab countries for their oil is pretty much just a leftist myth at this point.

Most Arab oil goes to China, India, Europe. Even the Arab oil that does go to the U.S. is typically just to be refined and processed so it can turn right around and be exported back to other countries.
> He's afraid of disappearing into a secret dungeon and tortured for decades. Which is a thing the USA has been proven to do. Recently. To people who have upset the government way, way less than he has.

Can you provide some examples of when this has happened to a non-military US citizen? I'm not denying it, I'm just genuinely curious here.
As mentioned, this can be done with Chef, Puppet, and Salt, but be careful about how you go about it. It is important to recognize when it is best to leverage AD for your Windows configs.

It is easy to fall down the rabbit hole of trying to implement things in a CM tool/Powershell combo that could be done in AD far easier.
Taking the internet as a whole, I think what ads contribute negatively more than offsets what small businesses and independent publishers gain from, well, existing and surviving because of ads. If that wasn't an option, we'd be forced to come up with more intelligent business models that would also tend to respect more the end user (i.e. so I'm not the product).

Making ad revenue, e.g. from Google, means you're reinforcing the big corporations who really need to market themselves through ads--those are the ones who could not live without ads (they need the constant intrusive, paid-for flow of unwilling eyeballs to keep their investors happy), not the independ publishers (who I think could.) Niche ad networks are alright, but nevertheless they contribute to making it easy not to think hard (and work hard) to pursue alternate business models.
Plane leaves Russia for Cuba, but without Snowden
I Programmer’s “NeDB - Lightweight Database in JavaScript”
Well, rabbitmq is kind of a pain to get working with it. Additionally, the modules for rabbitmq and mcollective, for puppet, don't really work that well together (read: I had to re-write the ones I found to get them working).
Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance