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Source please? I've never seen a legal opinion that declining to answer something constitutes a "leak."

Ron Wyden also gave him multiple outs and heads ups before his testimony if he wanted to get out of it.

What makes you think the Justice Department wants to go after Clapper?

Agreed. I share the concerns that the author expressed, but I thought the seven sins angle was distracting because they are poor descriptions of what was being articulated.

Why? Is it any different than Amazon having to research sales tax laws in every municipality it operates in?

You will notice the difference if you ever want to move your music to a better format in the future (due to transcoding losses). With FLAC you would not have this problem.

Well-said, and very similar to what John Gruber refers to as "Bending over Backwards":

http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/bending_over_backwards

> The whole thing is a crock, an example of trying to be fair/balanced/objective by bending over backwards to find negative things to say about the [subject of article].

Why are judgmental quotes like these "obligatory?" The whole thesis of the article is that regardless of the value judgments of what McCandless did, it was not in fact arrogance that killed him, nor was it possible to correct his ignorance until a scientific discovery was made two decades after his death.

Congrats! Stoked for the new line, loved the first [Kickstarter] package.

Only slightly? How do you manage that?

I don't know. Even engineers who don't know right from left seem to grok it. ;)

(http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/wp-content/uploads/2013...)

The irony is even more inescapable than that. It was founded by a guy who invented explosives and, who only created the prize after reading an incorrect reporting of his own death and being frustrated at how he was eulogized.

> The obituary stated, Le marchand de la mort est mort ("The merchant of death is dead")[1] and went on to say, "Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday."[11] Alfred was disappointed with what he read and concerned with how he would be remembered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Nobel

To make this point even further, a lot of what Manning leaked were mundane diplomatic cables of no national security or criminal consequence (e.g. Clinton discussing how they book frequent flier miles for diplomats). In these instances he was merely a saboteur of otherwise private conversations.

Great work and thanks for building this. There's a lot of room for improvement in automating manipulative photoshop exports, and I look forward to seeing what people do with this, especially in terms of building command line tools.

The good news is that the law notwithstanding, the politics of arresting a journalist in a situation like this are unfavorable to the Justice Department. Holder recently gave Congressional testimony saying he thinks it would be a bad idea to charge journalists in leak cases. His words were: "That is not something I've ever been involved in, heard of, would think would be wise policy."[1]

Whatever you make of the rest of his testimony (and whether he lied about investigating Rosen), it would be harder for him to go after journalists after saying that to Congress.

[1] http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/05/31/justice-dept...

If a car did that, you could just put it in neutral.

The headline is very bad though, and seemingly oblivious to that point.

"Is Snowden a hero or a traitor? Stay tuned if you can only hold one simplistic juvenile idea in your head at a time."

https://twitter.com/pourmecoffee/status/344202042019045377

You can use a variety of other software products on Mac OS to accomplish this. A better analogy would be that the architect leaves you a free table that doesn't suit your needs, so you complain about the way it was built.

What about people who use esoteric words?

What is crazy about mutable strings?

My goal at my first startup was to optimize for learning and it served me very well for that. The perks I got:

- Met investors and learned about the entire investing process

- Got immersed in metrics/data-driven product development

- Had a ton of autonomy even as a non-senior developer.

- Made a name for myself in the local ecosystem.

- Got to spend my time developing a product I loved and believed in.

Thanks for catching this; I updated accordingly.

You can request an offer that specifies your stock options as a percentage of the company. You won't know what it's worth now, but 1) honest founders will tell you, and 2) either way, you'll be able to do the math on what it would be worth in varying exit scenarios.

The problem is that he's not a stockholder. He doesn't become one until/unless he exercises the options.

Not if the company is privately held.

Your options agreement should tell you how many shares you have rights on and what your strike price is. The company, if run honestly and transparently, will tell you how many shares are outstanding and what the current valuation is. From there you can do the math on potential outcomes. If they won't give you formal disclosure of that information, assume the worst.

Wish I could give you all of my karma for this comment.

Nah, seems like a volume play a la Urchin/Google Analytics. See point #3 here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5132089

I'm sure you've seen it, but just to be sure - there's an IntelliJ plugin that gives you vim key bindings: http://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/?id=164

It would be cool if you updated the page title to reflect that of the page in the iframe. That way if the page title changes I can see it immediately in the browser tab.

It's actually about 120 watts (a food calorie is actually a kCal), but those 100 calories are being spent through a lot more than your legs. Humans burn over 1000 calories per day just by living, so the additional amount that you're burning from walking is only a fraction of that 100 calories that get burned in the hour (assuming 2 MPH). Some of that fraction of effort is directed downward while some other fraction pushes back against the belt and moves it backwards, and then of course to your point the efficiency of capture is never 100%. The law of conservation of energy also tells us that adding a motor to capture output will add resistance to the belt, requiring you to expend more effort to walk the same distance. This is because you don't exert force against a motor in place of the ground/belt, but rather in addition to it.