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what are the implications of serious damage to the pipe/waveguide? Either explosives from the inside or outside, or just damaging the support struts.

If it's using the air-hockey principle, I'd expect reduced forward pressure to below the limit on which the vehicle can float, so it starts to skid along the ground, hopefully with enough inter-car spacing that you don't get a pileup.

A less catastrophic situation might be, what happens if the pipe has a relatively minor leak due to subsidence or whatever? Just a loss of efficiency, or loss of function?
IMAP is great. I am now having all my email address forward to Gmail and then use the Gmail app on iOS.

The more that is in the cloud, the happier I am
Noticed my dress suggestions ignore half the population.... Sorry ladies, I have no idea what you should wear. Luckily, neither will your interviewer :) Whatever is analogous to the above is fine, I'm sure.
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Your questions and answers aren't really "yours" on SE. That's the way it works. A bit unusual, but nothing wrong per se. Like Wikipedia, but that you still get credit for what you started.
We are actively working on the incident and have identified the accounts affected.

There will be account balance changes in the Dashboard UI as we address the erroneous billing.

If you haven't already, please send us an email to help@twilio.com so we can keep you directly updated on our recovery work.
"Yes, on a desktop or laptop computer. Not so easy on a phone/tablet."

I've never used Android, but it's dead simple in iOS. Just tap and hold.
While he was working as an advisor for Kirov district governer, he supposedly forced contracts with disadvantageus prices on state owned company with a total of 16 mln rur (roughly 500k usd).
I didn't read court documents, but I wouldn't be surprised if he actually did.
Fact that he blogged about corruption for a few years doesn't make him innocent, but government probably would never looked into it if he'd keep quiet.
If a sixteen year old kid wanted to see his father, whom he hadn't seen in years, you'd have to dig a little deeper?

Seriously?

Like.. Ignoring everything else wrong with this story, that's still pretty fucked up for you to even imply.
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Evernote integrates with Mailbird for yet another productivity boosting addition to a killer Windows email app. It's like the Sparrow for Windows, with a little extra rocket fuel ;)

How would you wish to use Evernote with email?
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I was about to say this too. There was a lot of vitriol on the comments as well, but all of them follow the frustration of being overdrawn. But I agree, if the bank or card company doesn't take this as a genuine error and erase the record, then it's a pretty lousy institution.

Maybe he could have worded it differently and shown less irreverence, but that may be a byproduct of the stress as well. It's a pretty shocking thing too and they're human after all.

My current web host uses them as a registrar for some years and they've been pretty happy with DH services.
Please only do this if you're fresh out of college (or otherwise new to interviewing for tech jobs). Interviewing candidates is hard enough on companies without spending time on people who don't even want the job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_(resin)
It's true... I do carry subversive materials in the trunk of my car: books on Bayesian reasoning and risk management. If they found a chapter on prior and posterior probabilities they might well question their purpose in life.
Why POP? It's designed for "postboxes" which don't keep track of your mail and instead are brief holding areas to permanent storage on your computer. IMAP is instead designed for mail stored by your provider, where they permanently store it and keep track of it.

They aren't two protocols for the same thing, they're two protcols for two very different kinds of service. Apples to oranges.
It's hard to visualize sleeping out on the fire escape in New York City before heavy car traffic. It must have been quiet at night.
Always IMAP (running my own server since several years). So the same mail on all devices, server-side pre-filtering into folders and central backup.
That was a pretty terrible post. Very self centered. Just lots of me me/I's I's in the first few paragraphs I read. Pretty tone deaf to the real issue which would be customers like the above being impacted.
I think he meant in general, not at the interview (though more senior people can get away with it in the interview too).
I didn't even know mobile browsers supported tabs. I would have assumed a desktop or laptop too.
I think that reaction is entirely appropriate in this case.

We just unsuspended the accounts affected by this incident and are currently working on the balances.

If you haven't already, please send an email to help@twilio.com indicating you are affected by the incident so we can communicate directly as we correct these erroneous charges.
Indeed. O2 is much heavier than H2 so if you can scavenge the O2 out of the atmosphere on the way up then the amount you need to carry for the final burn in space is much smaller & the weight savings are huge.

Consider that the Space Shuttle external fuel tank contained 650,000kg of O2 and only 100,000 kg of H2. Save 10% of your O2 needs and suddenly you've got 60,000 kg to play with. The Shuttle payload was only about 25,000 kg.
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Le Pen focuses on immigration to France, the European Union, traditional culture, law and order and France's high rate of unemployment. He advocates immigration restrictions, the death penalty, raising incentives for homemakers,[1] and euroscepticism. He strongly opposes same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion.

As boilerplate modern republican as they come
Why would anyone pick POP, other than as a poor-man's SMTP replacement for picking up mail off some other server and dumping it into another IMAP or other server-side mailbox system?
This is one of the reasons I like to use my credit card over a debit card. Knowing that errors like this don't affect my mortgage payments makes me feel safer.
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Can I ask how the site will work? I guess from other comments you've made here and the fact you haven't just grabbed an open source package and launched already that you have some specific plan on how this community will be structured?
I did everything on POP through the early and mid 2000s when most of my life was on one machine, but nowadays with multiple devices IMAP is the only way to go.
Even more controversy:

* Release of E-Election Software Code 'Did Not Go Far Enough' http://news.err.ee/sci-tech/940d2015-ffe1-4c9f-98e8-6fc60935...

* Architect: E-Election Code Should Not Be a Free-for-All http://news.err.ee/sci-tech/7f244d47-86ee-41bd-a544-87bd756b...
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The general advice is to produce less garbage. Strategies for doing so are specific to the language and APIs involved.
I see this happening in a few comments, so I'll address it here (Full disclosure: I'm a (diamond) moderator on Stack Overflow).

Whether your question is closed by a diamond moderator, or by the community, it can be re-opened with five community votes (or another moderator stepping in an re-opening it, which happens).

If your question is deleted by the community, it can be undeleted by the community. The only time a question cannot be undeleted by the community is when it's deleted by a moderator.

There's a difference between moderators, and community moderation. I see people using the word 'moderator' when they mean that five members of the community closed their question, and this isn't really correct (it makes it seem like a band of 12 people runs Stack Overflow, which is the furthest thing from the truth).

In your particular case, if you improve your question to address why it was closed, it will automatically be placed into the review queue to be re-opened. If five members of the community agree, it will be re-opened. If it still doesn't get re-opened, you can always open a meta question about it ( http://meta.stackoverflow.com ).

I wanted to address this because it's incorrect to say, "When a moderator closes a topic, it stays closed." That's just not the case.

If you link me to the question, I'll be happy to take a look at it and re-open it if it should be re-opened.
The account balance in your Dashboard UI will have some changes as we continue our recovery work.

If you haven't already, please send an email to help@twilio.com so we can let you know directly the resolution for this billing error.
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Damn it, how am I supposed to finish my masters when you reminded me of SS? SSCU Trench Wars, I'm coming back!
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I don't know, I think it's different if you are applying for a job in a big corporation or for a smaller firm/startup. Bigger firms will usually have a more strict dress code (the place where I currently work short pants are frowned upon, except in case of system integrators)

In both cases I usually go for jeans/shirt combo (but not a t-shirt, bigger firms/older people find it unprofessional in my experience), but that's just me.
I agree - this is not our best work.

We'll have more on what caused this incident and what we're going to do to make it right later today.

OP link directs to the board with our up-to-the-minute status on resolving this incident.
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Good about time. The number of times where I have a what technologies should I use do thing X kind of question and there isn't anywhere good to ask.

Might be worth looking at OSQA as platform.
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I have this a permanent tab in my browser for when I need some downtime.

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes
What may be happening there is that Netflix is connected to services provided by the card companies to stop interruptions to recurring billing for reasons like this. Long story short if Netflix receives an error code from the payment gateway that says something like "Card expired/Card changed" it'll make a call out to this service with the old card data. That'll do a look up and return the new data to Netflix who then updates their records and charges away happily.
I hope pg really likes what he's let hn become by indulging threads like this. Wouldn't this submission be [dead] in about 5 minutes six months ago?

Instead, it gets to be front page material for hours while goofy comments like this accumulate.
How do you distinguish Not Constructive from Programmers.SE?
The community becomes to big to be moderated like that. I've seen this happen back in the day for BBSes and the same happens still.
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Thank so much! I wish I could up-vote this comment more, you've given me so many wonderful ideas =D
It should be noted that this experiment is different than the Queensland experiment, which is still going on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch_drop_experiment
A better question and a more interesting thought experiment would be "SMTP+IMAP or something new and better"?
posted without endorsement (from Austin).

Austin has a lot of great stuff going for it but we are not, and will never be, San Francisco.

PG -- you should come visit us at the Capital Factory someday. You know, because it's not
like you are busy or anything.
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The world was not ready for youtube in the 1990's. So whoever tried it then was "wrong" (also called "before your time" - but just because you're a visionary doesn't mean you're right - if your timing is wrong, you are wrong)

If I build a company that leverages everyone's mobile gigabit internet connectivity in 2013, I will not succeed, I will fail, because I am wrong. If I build this in 5 or 10 years, well, maybe the world will be ready.
I can't wait for this. I have fond memories of reading the Calvin & Hobbes strips as a kid. 20 years later I still find myself flipping through the anthologies and appreciating just how well written and imaginative the strips are.
Relative to the frame of reference, it seems to me the sparse particles would be travelling closer to the speed of the craft than the dense particles.

The "density front" travels at exactly the speed of sound, but it consists of nearly static particles (not static from the frame of reference, from the frame of reference they are moving backward at nearly the speed of sound), these static particles are the relevant V.

The sparse particles just in front of the dense ones are accelerating to get more sparse. From the perspective of the reference frame, they are therefore moving 'backward' at slightly less than the speed of sound, making there relative velocity closer to that of the reference frame. So lower density and lower velocity. and that doesn't even account for additional compression which I don't even know enough to do armchair reasoning on.

So, I'm the farthest thing from an expert, but this is why it doesn't seem to make sense to me.
Yeah, then you'd be comparing apples to apples, so to speak.
The same is true for most sites, even Stack Exchange, because of COPPA as mentioned below. If you mention openly anywhere that you're below 13, moderators are obliged to delete your account (since they can't keep your personal information)

> Subscriber certifies to Stack Exchange that Subscriber is an individual (i.e., not a corporate entity) at least 13 years of age. No one under the age of 13 may provide any personal information to or on Stack Exchange (including, for example, a name, address, telephone number or email address).

- http://stackexchange.com/legal
"Primarily Opinion Based" is the new "Not Constructive"
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By itself conviction rate is not indicator because there are different requirements for charges in different countries. It's called "inquisitorial legal system" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system ).
Have you tried to do this?

Reopening usually never happens. Discussions in the comment section is totally useless and wasted time.

Discussions on Meta also just repeat that your question is not for SO.
Yet another manufactured "security" controversy. Valets abuse cars regardless of the TSA.
While the reason was changed ("Not Constructive" isn't very descriptive and not easy to understand), the criteria for closing based on "Not Constructive" stayed around, we just split it into two close reasons that both have narrow-er focus:

1. Too broad - There are either too many possible answers, or good answers would be too long for this format. Please add details to narrow the answer set or to isolate an issue that can be answered in a few paragraphs.

2. primarily opinion-based - Many good questions generate some degree of opinion based on expert experience, but answers to this question will tend to be almost entirely based on opinions, rather than facts, references, or specific expertise.

These two close reasons capture the essence of what "Not Constructive" was meant to be, and are both much clearer to boot.

(Disclosure: I'm a diamond moderator on Stack Overflow: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/users/16587/george-stocker )
High altitude equatorial nations have their perks, I suppose...
While this might look stupid,I have kept up with the Stat 2X classes mostly because I like the instructor's voice.
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Bizarre indeed, they're even less professional security people (no training) than the TSA.

And what happens when you give a valet the, er, valet key, the one that won't open the trunk? Do they break in? If not, what's the point?
We face this problem in our business (a law firm). The current solution is 1Password. I don't know how to share a single data file among everyone so the problem is keeping all of the files in sync as passwords change. And then we have employees who use 1Password for personal passwords. This means lots of hand editing.

We would throw money at a solution to this problem. Give us a shared password vault for the enterprise login stuff while letting each person run his/her personal life untouched by the business username/password stuff.
No.

A related bug would be if you implement Read and (say) ReadByte, but your ReadByte is buggy. Then when you get weird behavior passing yourself to something that expects a Reader (but internally needs byte-at-a-time and uses ReadByte to avoid double-buffering the input) it can take a minute or two to realize that ReadByte might be the problem and not Read. I've only seen that once or twice.
I'm very sorry to hear that, but understand your frustration.

As I indicated above, please shoot us a note to help@twilio.com so we can make this right for you.
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I wish Gmail could use IMAP to fetch mails from other accounts.
The bank was SunTrust. They were very scummy.

As for what's wrong with the post, a ton. This was e-mailed to every single customer. For many people, myself included, this was their first notice that something was wrong with their finances. And it was the author's fault. The line you quoted was at the end of a very long post. The apology should have been right in the first paragraph. Instead in the first two lines he's complaining about how bad this is for him.

Then he makes a bunch of jokes. Then he explains why it was just tiny mistake. Don't feel bad if I missed the problem? I'm not the one being trusted with millions of dollars of your customer's money... [Edit: to me that bit reads as "See? You missed it too! Now why should I feel bad?"]

After all this, finally, he apologizes.

For me, this guy's mistake meant that I now had to worry about how I was going to pay bills/rent, and how I was going to eat. My situation was probably quite unique, but that didn't make it any less impactful for me.

To me the whole thing reads as "I just accidentally removed a few million dollars from my customers banks/credit lines - so now I'm gonna have a laugh with them!"

I can say with great confidence that I'm not immune to the mistakes that caused this to happen. But what I can say is that were I in his shoes, I'd lead with an apology, be very succinct about what happened, and finally list details as to how I'm going to make it better.

Edit: To his credit, if you read the next post he did a much, much better job there.

Edit 2: And also for what it's worth - I still use Dreamhost. Aside from this SNAFU they've ran an excellent service, and (again, except in this case) their customer service has been excellent in responding to any issues I've had. However now I always pay with credit rather than debit, and I don't store my card info.
“Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.” — Henry Spencer (ca. 1987)
Never heard of one. That sounds a bit unworkable to me tho - where would you draw the line? "I fixed your indention. In every file.". And if the parent company could control who got the original source, they could still shutdown alternative uses and thus maintain control.

Part of the central definition of open source is the users freedom; which means the producers have to give up some control.

You either go full Open Source and accept the potential loss of control or you don't (in which case be honest and don't call it that).
Just like the WSJ.

Bullying countries into diverting planes because they might be carrying a whistleblower (Snowden), not a problem.
Trying to get rich people pay their taxes, big problem.
So, if you personally don't like him, then the government can fabricate whatever case to put him in prison? Seems legit.
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Posting to Meta isn't obvious to anyone unfamiliar with SO/StackExchange.
Everybody actually from Russia knows that it's 85 rubles/comment.
I'm not justifying it, he should have been charged before a court of law. What I'm saying is that he certainly knew what he was getting into.
You consider 'Remove that person please' a software discussion? In what world?

Did you even discuss software? I see just an attack against a person and some vague anecdotes, "friends complain too", waive hand.

Note that your post is infuriating, but the submission is worse. This thread is why title moderation has a right to exist (for future reference, given that I hope someone's going to fix the title: It was "Lennart Poettering wants to remove syslogd; use systemd journal instead").
Definitely not nice for anybody.

We will make this right.
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I'm glad to see there are people making an effort to have a place for water-cooler chat and extended discussion. I hope this works out, just as I hope Slant.co ( http://slant.co ) works out. Thanks for taking the time to launch something like this, and good luck in your endeavors.
I agree with most of what you say, though I'd like to nitpick because... because I'm on the internet and that's what my internet manual says I should do.

I understand the concern over appearing "condescending, argumentative, or otherwise unpleasant" but sometimes you need to do that. In fact, if I were hiring I'd find such characteristics totally appropriate and valuable, to a certain degree.

I say, sure, be polite but when you are taken to that limit, feel free to condescend, get argumentative and express yourself.
First world problems: "I get too many job opportunities from recruiters."

There are a lot of people right now who would be thrilled to receive these emails from recruiters, and would reply to every one. Why burn the bridge with a snarky response? Maybe one day you could be one of those people.
Yes, I have. Reopening almost always happens if a question is wrongly closed when you get a few eyes on it from meta. So that removes the moderator-abuse part.
Discussions in comments are of course useless, as it's only you there vs. those that closed the question. As I said, bring it to Meta.

If the discussion on Meta repeat that the question is not for SO, then those closing the question probably did the right thing. After all, Meta is the user's voting their opinions.
I have been reading HN for a long time. But yes i wanted to leave a comment because we all know how media (especially US) is independent. Independent from truth, morale and objectivism of course.
yeah because libraries, which is available for scrutiny of a community (and you), is the same as a function that can run any arbitrary code in your program at runtime.
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Absolutely unacceptable.

As I indicated above Daniel, if you haven't shot a note to help@twilio.com indicating you're affected by the incident, please do so we can communicate directly when this $480 mistake is corrected.
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Background from 2011: "Why does Stack Overflow sometimes seem so eager to close “off-topic” that happen to be VERY relevant to the programming community?"

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/188405/why-does-stac...
If you don't like the idea of the 'cloud' and you check your email from a single device then POP's ideal - just depends on your requirements. I use IMAP though.
Yeah, no...

Read the underlying source article.

It can recognize works as well as a 4-year-old. Reasoning lags far behind.
I would think NASA has even more controls in place and still shit happens. All problems are avoidable in hindsight but it is inevitable that you will have problem at some point.