skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Congress granted the president the authority to arrest and hold individuals accused of terrorism without due process under the NDAA, but Mr. Obama said in an accompanying signing statement that he will not abuse these privileges to keep American citizens imprisoned indefinitely"

If you want to influence someone, it helps to understand their motivations. I can't conceive of what Obama has in mind with pursuing this law against resistance.

Is it not obvious to everyone the unwanted side-effects of this kind of power? Is it not obvious how much this flies in the face of the intent of the people who wrote the Constitution. Or more relevantly the Declaration of Independence? Obama is a lawyer! He's intelligent. What can he be thinking? Did he forget the purpose and spirit of the Bill of Rights as he and advisors schemed to get around its letters?

Those revolutionaries would have all been labeled terrorists today. With the King in England, any colonist would have been an enemy combatant, stripped of rights, jailed or worse arbitrarily, and who knows what else.

Whether the United States has become what we rebelled against is not the question. If nothing changes, it's only a matter of time. This country has gotten rid of slavery and overcome major hurdles of sexual and racial inequality. Let's hope we have what it takes to overcome this centralization of power and unaccountability. And that we act on it.
The best speech on this topic is the following (imho):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw2z9lV3W1g
its a shame there is not such outcry about the many pakistani and other nationality civilians who have been and continue to be killed regularly by drone attacks... they far outnumber all of the american military personnel who have died in service over the last 10 years, except we have indiscriminate proportions of women and children and not people who chose to become tools of perhaps the most evil regime in the world today (at least when viewed from the outside objectively) :/

can we start trying us government officials as war criminals as if they came from any other country on the planet please?
If you have gravity in said hot climate and an atmosphere then it will work.
Also, the title is misleading ("instead"), since systemd logging is already in use for several releases.
I do get the impression there is something different in terms of social and fiscal policies, at least.
For listeners of "patriot radio", there are radio hosts that said, pre-Obama, that Bush was putting into place mechanisms of control and it was the next president's role to put them to use. In this sense, it's not about staying in office but rather getting certain deeds done or mechanisms in place.
Youtube was a bad idea in the 90s, but it became a good idea in 2005. Not knowing about old bad ideas can be a blessing.

Many startups succeed because they are ignorant of the fact that what they are trying is impossible.
An absolute disgrace that a so called democracy can have a list of people its going to kill...
When I read something like this, the question that springs to mind is whether it was actually hotter, or whether the norms of dress forced people to dress less practically and suffer the heat more. It's interesting, because there seems to be a marked contrast between the daytime (linen suits) and the night time (people sleeping in their underwear on fire escapes).

To within a rounding error none of the houses in my part of Boston have central air, and while people complain, nobody is truly miserable when it hits 33/90 and upwards to body temperature. I don't think we've hit 38/100 this year.

I'll concede that we have better refrigeration, and a diet composed entirely of iced-tea, freezer pops, and cold bear is a possibility. Still I don't see anybody wearing a linen suit or a straw hat.

On the other hand, now that some people do have air conditioning, it seems like it would be dramatically less acceptable for people to sleep out on their porches or in the nearby park.
I agree completely... this is even worse in countries where it's quite uncommon for companies to hire independent contractors.

Here in Spain there are a lot of companies (known among engineers as "cárnicas", meat factories) that recruit people as own employees when they see an opening for contract work in a company, ship them directly to the contracting company for short terms proyects, and dumping them uncereimoniously when the contract ends.

They pocket a generous hourly rate, paying the contractor a standard rate monthly salary.

A large part of job offers publicly available here are of this kind...
> the sad thing is that the citizens in those countries would be up in arms about them if they were more widely known.

By the way. These sites in Europe were discussed, could be/are widely known, but I really do not see anyone here up in arms against these sites. On the contrary, a lot of people think of them as something good, as they are clearly there, to get rid of some nasty terrorists. And that only. And as long, as it is the poster-boy for democracy (the US) doing it and not say China, nearly (a very little exaggeration) everybody just goes along.
Interesting idea, and even better name.
A few things I found with getting older;
1. Fear of death actually lessens? At least with me.
In my twenties, I was a walking Woody Allen with a brain
tumor.
2. If my sex drive was like it's been lately; I might
be a billionaire? I spent a lot of time chasing tail.
3. Anxiety will lessen as you age. You will probally
just stop drinking in your late 40's-- just because you
don't need the effect anymore.
4. You will lose a lot of good friends, if like me, you
enjoyed people older than you. A therapist once told me
to make friends with younger people; they will outlast you.
I though it was selfish at the time, but understand now.
5. Treat your mother, or father well. They most likely
were you only Cheerleaders in life.
6. Success has many heads. Meaning some of you might
mike a fortune. Some might find something they truely love
doing in life. And, some are blessed with good genes--yes,
good looking people, many times, are treated well.
7. Your interest will vastly change as you age, at least
for me. I hated computers when I was younger. I loved
philosophy and art.
8. It really goes by so quick it's sad. I really mean that. Don't spend your life in an office, or anywhere
if you are just waiting until retirement. Most guys
die in retirement, only after collecting a few pension
checks. Get used to living on the cheap, if you feel you
just don't like the 9-5 B.S.. The chicks that will stay
with a underemployed guy, truely love you.
9. I never thought I would get old, but it happens.
10. In terms of health-- eat less. That's all I can say.
Forget about working out all the time-- joint damage.
Vitamins--might make things worse? Try to get enough
sleep. And moderation in drugs and alcohol.
11. Stay humble, if you ever were? Don't ever rule out
a nervous breakdown. Meaning, do think you're Superman.
12. If you ever break out of middle class-- really give
back. Most every rich guy I ever met, had a rich parent.
I feel like Discourse (http://www.discourse.org/) would have been a good fit for a site like this.
Haha, I've joked with a few people there needs to be a 'CrapOverflow' as a sort of cesspit of programming 'debate' so it's good to see someone following through. (Funnily enough, I just checked and Stack Exchange owns crapoverflow.com :-))
What's the point submitting project that hasn't launched?

Not to mention there is http://programmers.stackexchange.com which is exactly "a place for the discussions not allowed on Stack Overflow" so really, what's the point?
I’ll Be Watching You: NSA Surveillance and the Male Gaze
Can someone (with better writing skill than I) please write about this story with the names and places changed to an American restaurant with american people inside then at the end mention "The names and places of this real event have been changed to illustrate a point. This is what is happening in other countries every day, I want to bring light to the terrible things American drones are doing on foreign soil" etc.

So few Americans seem to care because to them it's just "some brown people on the other side of the world", showing it in the context of their own homes will make them realize how terrible these drone strikes really are.
> Not Constructive is the place for open, subjective, opinionated, extended discussion about software development.

So...Quora?
I'd love to see you actually respond to scythe (the top reply to this comment) instead of spreading your misinformation elsewhere in this thread.
If a president could only serve one six year term then wouldn't you get the unaccountable second term crap for the whole of that six year term? Surely one thing that keeps a politician accountable to the electorate is the prospect of having to fight an election at some point in the future.
That's a hard problem to solve, how can you be sure that the first and the only term will not be abused?
That page makes me dizzy. I understand they are abusing it.
Ah, why didn't I think of that? We could all just be traveling entirely in private and this would be a non-issue.
It is not something, Government of USA is running lots of programs without any checks and balances necessary for a functional democracy. And surprisingly, this very govt is interested in bringing democracy to other countries.
Or they would actually be able to do something in the first term instead of worrying about/working toward re-election.
The journal has been introduced as the natural way to manage logs now that systemd takes care of all the output of daemons.

> If you are wondering what the journal is, here's an explanation in a few words to get you up to speed: the journal is a component of systemd, that captures Syslog messages, Kernel log messages, initial RAM disk and early boot messages as well as messages written to STDOUT/STDERR of all services, indexes them and makes this available to the user.

While syslogd and Co. just take care of moving the debug statements from RAM to the disk or to a network device, the journal is meant from the beginning as an interface for querying the logs, for example

$ journalctl -u httpd --since=00:00 --until=9:30

[1] http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/journalctl.html
But I take it that the magnitude of the boom will get less severe the faster you go beyond the speed of sound?
We lack a programming culture
Quora is much broader in its scope and also has usage restrictions that make it basically useless.
If you live in continental Europe - Democrats are on the right part of the isle and Republicans are on the right of Le Pen.

Rough approximation.
This is a great idea. I think. There's not much to go on from the minimal page.

Please would you consider changing the font colour for the email registration box? The text was very pale, and so it was very low contrast.

May I ask how moderation is going to be handled? Is there going to be some form of user voting?

What will you do with obvious trolls? Some people like engaging with trolls, and that can be harmful to the site.

How are you going to handle the 'hot button' topics that attract inflammatory responses?
Peru To Power 2 Million Of Its Poorest By Solar Energy
Testing the waters, getting valuable feedback, starting a conversation. What's the point of working on such a project if nobody is interested?
Hopefully it's not a cesspit, rather a good place to ask questions such as "which language is best for building applications such as...etc" or "which is the best of the current crop of JavaScript MVC frameworks in late 2012" or other stuff that isn't strictly technical questions with well defined technical answers.
Kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lernstift/lernstift-the-...

The article doesn't mention that the device aims to aid kids when writing. That change a lot of the perspective of the device usefulness.
That have tried to raise money later?
> What's the point submitting project that hasn't launched?

I agree; it would be nicer if they finished at least an MVP before launching.

> Not to mention there is http://programmers.stackexchange.com (...)

AFAIR it also has some track record of killing interesting and valuable discussions, so actually I think this product is a great idea.
If this works, I wonder about the logic of making it a SF-LA thing? At least, there should be another use case.

Why not go from Silicon Valley to a mountain area where you've bought a large area of land, ready to build on?

You could get investments from all over the tech industry, since it would lower living costs (and increase the maximum number) of the people that Silicon Valley can have (less infrastructure and living area "load").

Use the sales slogan "let's supersize the Silicon Valley!" for this new commuting solution.
Learn to say NO
Why Nice Guys Finish Poorest
Yeap had this ourselves. Auto recharge actually took $500 rather than $20!
So true. I have launched many projects to the sound of chirping crickets. There's a great deal to be said for building the momentum in advance of opening the doors.
Well, supposedly TrueCrypt has plausible deniability, but I don't know if that's ever actually been tested in practice.
- Be honest about your experience, and tell them what you are really comfortable with. If you got 3 months experience in Objective-C, don't say 1 year, and tell them what parts/concepts of Objective-C you have used. Don't get too hung up if your skills aren't what they're looking for. Good employers know that someone with a strong technical background can learn anything given enough time.

- If they are giving you a puzzle, try your best to solve it. Do not be too worried if you can't solve it. Most of them will give you hints. I have been offered jobs when I couldn't solve their puzzles.

- If they're asking about opinionated questions (OSX/Linux/Windows, Git/Hg, Java/C, iOS/Android, etc), they are probably just testing your reasoning. It doesn't matter what you answer as long as you have your reasoning. Telling them you use Hg because your boss told you so is not good. It's always good to have a good lookout on new technologies.

- Go to meetups and talk to people. You will probably find a lot of jobs there. Be open, tell them you are looking for a job.

- Wear a t shirt and jeans. Drink lots of water and maybe a cup of coffee.
Are you reading the comments or just pasting text from a form letter? The industry does not have "blanket immunity." There are specific vaccines on the VIT that the CDC has specifically recommended for children (of which the Lyme vaccine is NOT one) and those are the only ones which the company cannot be held liable for. You keep talking about looking at the CDC data, perhaps you should start.

So your entire argument that class actions against Lyme manufacturers don't matter because "the government will pay the fine" is baseless, wrong, and intentionally misleading.
Dude, wtf? Are u serious? This guy did nothing wrong. He's a journalist and it seems like you don't get the idea of freedom of speech. Maybe it's because of people like you that the Russian government can do whatever it wants.
UK government invests in Sabre air-breathing rocket engine
I would wager that 99% of users would fall into one of two categories:

1) The journal is completely adequate for their needs; or

2) No default configuration could ever be adequate for their needs, since they need to configure rsyslog to ship logs off the box.

I'm curious as to what sort of cost-benefit analysis would lead you to conclude that everybody in group (1) should be forced to install rsyslog as well so that the perhaps 1% of people who "need to monitor / alert on certain log entries in a legacy or upstream system that expects to open and watch a file" can be spared the horror of having to type "yum install rsyslog".
We're hoping people might choose to become moderators. We really don't want a nasty negative trollfest. The idea is not to allow open ended mud slinging matches. Rather to allow discussion about topics that aren't strict questions with one valid answer. Free flowing discussion about software technology and software development.
Do you think that half the US citizenship will ever express an opinion on any specific topic at all? Or even one tenth?
I once sailed upwind from LA to SF over 5 days. I flew home in an hour. The flight gave me a long(!?) time to ponder the nature of time and transport.

In that context, I don't really see a transformational improvement going from one 1 hour to 0.5 hours.
I recommend Screenflick if you need more options than Quicktime provides, along with Soundflower for capturing device audio output.

http://www.araelium.com/screenflick/

http://cycling74.com/products/soundflower/
Good point, but not my example.[1] I found it a bit weak tbh. I think a more common and compelling case is where you need to treat the system log as a file input to some existing tool / system. Sure, you can install a traditional logger if you need it in such a case, but what do you gain by not including it? A little bit of disk space?

I wonder if there's an unstated motive behind the proposal to promote a more pervasive use of systemd. I mean, being honest, admins aren't going to go to the journal unless they need something the traditional log file doesn't provide (which would be rarely if rsyslog and ilk are pulling everything they can out of journal anyway).

Nobody is going to switch to journalctl | fgrep OMGERROR unless they have to (well, they won't have to, but admins are lazy, and if that's the default way, then they will use it rather than installing a new package). Just look how long it took (is taking) for admins to move to ip vs ifconfig/route/etc...

[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/182...
This video is more comprehensive. Was published last year.

Mega Factories - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GtKfOPZRg
"If half of the US citizenship..."

Only, that's not going to happen, is it?
I think anovikov is trying to say that it is futile to fight the Russian government openly.
Prosecutorial Misconduct: Angela Corey’s Checkered Past
Funny you should mention glass. Doerr's firm is backing it too through the Glass Collective.

Doerr has been equally bullish about Google Glass. Still, Glass is fast developing a stigma, and it’s not even on the market yet: It’s been called a “Segway for your face.” [1]

[1] http://pandodaily.com/2013/05/23/john-doerr-doesnt-think-goo...
It was amazing what a big sailing ship could do on a downwind course and with good weather (which for them was storms in the right direction).

The standard deviation in speed would be high, and not all destinations could be managed on downwind courses.

All that said, the length of time the Cutty Sark held its speed record was amazing and inspiring. IIRC it took modern multi-hulls to beat it (sailing).
By that line of reasoning wouldn't presidents continue to perceive their final term -- in that case, also their first -- as the unaccountable one? I'm afraid the problems are much more deeply seated within political culture and won't be fixed by such simple (if still completely unattainable) measures.

Things that come to mind are the absolute restriction to a two party system and the concentration on a leader figure, ie. the identification of the government with one person. But from my limited point of view both of those things are at the core of the US political identity, utterly entrenched.
What can I say? Like many people, I believe, I find the questions that have been closed, usually as "Not Constructive" to be the most helpful.

I don't understand Stack Overflow, but the weird negativity over there certainly keeps me from asking or answering questions there or at most of the stack exchange sites.
Get ready for heavy traffic. I have a search filter on SO for thread with a handy amount of votes that have been closed, mods are crazy on that site.
He preached holy war. Getting blown up by an unmanned killing machine is precisely the sort of thing he encouraged young people to do.
There's a running joke about that.

I feel weird linking to an image macro on HN, but it is sadly relevant.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250x250/34530200.jpg
The Startup Universe
Sorry, let me clarify your statement: You spent 4 hours in the airport (or getting there, parking, getting sodomized by security) and 1 hour flying. Then another 30-60 minutes disembarking. So you spent around 6 hours in transit from SF to LA.

6 hours compared to 30 minutes (or more likely, 1.5 hours including the necessary boarding / unboarding) is a VAST difference.
One of the first things we learned in history and politics in school is that the worst thing you can do is the separation of power and NEVER EVER combining any of Executive, Legislature or Judiciary, because that's what distinguishes authoritarian from democratic systems.

It is something so basic and fundamental that every person here has to learn it and what it means as a child. Every politician hast to have a deep understanding of why that is so fundamentally important, else he really shouldn't be entrusted with any kind of political position in any kind of republic.

It's something that is known since the antique and has been strengthened by any bad government that appeared throughout history, so how is it that such a law (or actually anti-law) is possible and not uniformly rejected in first place?
That applies with almost every government, Their power is "infinitely asymmetric". Nowadays the way to gain symmetry is knowing a lot about computer security...
Sound: a vacuum and a high pressure alternating ... Using wind would be far cheaper and better I think :-)
I mean really really low sound frequencies are the same anyway. (As far as my physics go)
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High speed anything meets the Concorde problem - increasing cost for diminishing returns in trip time.
Hasn't that NY Court heard of the Constitution? Human rights? Or do American Courts usually not take into account international laws for human rights?

Either way, what's scary about this it's that it's happening under normal conditions. At least if they could declare an emergency state, or officially declare the war against those "enemy combatants", because then you'd know that they may get some extra-judicial powers, but only temporary.

But you can imagine this will last forever, because US will never be at "more peace" than they are right now, and it's all because how they are acting abroad. So don't think these laws will ever change unless more people speak out against them and hold their Congress accountable for it.
If this is truly the main reason, then I'm sad that we live in the world full of assholes.

> But when he rides the Segwell, they shout abuse from their cars: "Too lazy to walk, ya fuckin homo?"

> Why do Segways provoke this reaction? The reason you look like a dork riding a Segway is that you look smug. You don't seem to be working hard enough.

What is wrong with people?
While I agree with the general purpose and tone of the email, recruiters are not always a negative. I responded to cold "call" on LinkedIn a few years ago and it got me the (good) job I have today.
I imagine the user will overstrike the misspelled word, use a dictionary, and write the word correctly. That will help form correct muscle memory for writing words correctly.

I'm more worried about weight and size. Children have small weak fingers, and some of them benefit from thin light pens / pencils.

It's an interesting idea though - perhaps they could make a pen that captures everything you write and dumps it out at the end of the day? (I think that's already been done, but I have no idea how popular it was.)
Quora is a walled garden (behind FB) which I sincerely hope this won't end up as.