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Their messaging is incoherent because they are trying to capture all the good feels from supporting "free speech" while navigating the legal minefield that comes with their size.

Never mind that they categorically ban certain types of speech (doxing, stuff that is illegal).

I suppose if you summarize their messaging as "we ban inconvenient speech" it isn't all that incoherent, but that isn't a terribly pleasing stand to take.
As someone who has been on reddit since 2008, I'm in exactly the same shoes as you.

While I agree with them at least for the decision or ban this subreddit, I'm appalled by the communities reaction to it.

That, and the circle jerk of reddit (mostly my local subreddits), lead me it being the first site I've banned with /etc/hosts http://i.imgur.com/Womisb3.png
First video review of Apple’s 4.7-inch iPhone 6 posted online
Why not personal check when you make the payment? Why not a credit card?
Ah... there you have three elective classes I don't think I took, and one I did fail (AI). For the record I don't like memorizing things either.
It is amazing how every government entity has figured out that it is too annoying for them to do something with proper due process so they just carve out their own path to completely skip it - taking the "just try to stop us" approach instead.

Everything from local police all the way up to federal entities, some of which that should not even have legal powers that infinite.
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Please don't over-ride my scroll mechanism and force me to use keys to mystery-navigate - there's no indication that there are panels to scroll to, other than mashing the keyboard and trying.

If you need a pop-up alert to explain to users how to use your UX, it is probably not as good as traditional UX like a nice scroll page.
Is that so? Than I guess you won't mind it either if I walk up to you and order you to hand it over, right?
Because even with traditional privacy addresses, the first 64 bits of your address never change, and you can be tracked that way. If you happen to share those first 64 bits with many other people, then privacy addresses provide value, but that's simply not the case on your home network.

Now keep in mind that a stable privacy interface ID is not a hash of just the MAC address, it's also a hash of the network prefix and a secret that's specific to your system. Including the prefix ensures that the interface ID changes completely when you move to a different network, preventing you from being tracked all over the world. Including a secret ensures that someone can't build a lookup table from MAC address||prefix to stable privacy interface ID. So it's quite superior to using just the MAC address.
Looks like a landing page to gauge interest. Consider me interested.
which skill did you have in mind?
"Cocaine should be legal" is distinctly different from "everyone should do cocaine". If you said the latter, then the answer would be yes.

You seek to deny everyone privacy. That does mean you should deny yourself privacy. But you won't.
Analytics in a web browser extension... its just not a thing I can tolerate. Sorry.
ha! Pretty much all of it, its the same thing with a bigger screen size. A huge disappointment really.
Your acting just like the old factory worker who's pissed that his profession is starting to become more automated. Wake up and smell the coffee, developers are getting more productive and you have to adapt to the decreasing demand that this will cause. Programming is job in the labor market just like a fast food cooker. If you want to make some more money, either learn some skills that most other people do not have and that are needed (low supply, high demand), or start a company so that you can make some profits (which technically have no limit).

BTW, I think you need to look at the salaries of some other professions. I'm gonna be making 6 figures out of college as an SDE, while most of my engineering and business friends are going to be making about half of that. Talk to non engineering/business majors (cough, communication majors, cough) and the pay gets even worse.
Let me get this straight: You have been programming Java for years but you haven't saved any money. Being in a situation without any savings, you take the adventure and go to Portugal to sign a contract that you don't understand. The company you work for figures out you are not the person they are looking for, and fires you during your trial period (in which both parties can end the contract within a week, therefore it's called a trial period).

I don't know you, so I can't really judge, but can you answer this question: Before blaming other people, have you looked into the mirror first and questioned how you ended up in this situation?
Reminds me of http://forio.com/julia/repl/ except the addition of iJulia notebook makes it much more useful.
I watched the video and clicked get started, looked at the screen and left. I still don't know what I should do or why.
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The problem is the 'accepting payments' that you refer to is 'paying by credit card' - where this is usually universally possible - but if you don't have a credit card and want instead to pay with cash by linking your bank account, Stripe doesn't have the mechanism in place to do that yet, in all banking markets in Europe.

Since America is run by its credit cards, I can understand why this is difficult to understand, but a majority of folks in Europe simply don't use credit cards, preferring always to pay cold hard cash. It's just different. And existing payment infrastructures - such as paypal and so on - already solved this problem as well as they can, decades ago, so to be honest its sort of lame to have to be explaining this already about Stripe. Stripe currently has a lot of hype, and as a service it is good for us merchants where our markets are limited to those regions also bound by Stripes' investment into its infrastructure, but outside of that: Stripe is quite a bit mediocre in this market.
While a noble thought, I doubt the ultimate implementation would be amenable to a free society. I fear this would encourage the federal government to step up efforts to seize money. Sure, local authorities would forward the money, only to receive kickbacks from the feds. How that would actually impact the national debt is anyone's guess.
I wonder if today's new reddit users see it as we once did? As a source for learning rather than entertainment.

And in two years, will their complaints be the same as ours?
Actually I am a software engineer. So I know pretty well what I am talking about.
Aren't you ashamed to have such aquaintances?
I would punch the guy in the face as soon as he shared tat story with me.

EDIT: Don't you think you should at least call him out on such unacceptable behaviour?
Yeah you kind of expect that in places like Russia or China but not really the US. I guess by saying 'developed' I was thinking of places with decent rule of law and the like. The top comment on the Economist seemed quite good.

(Government in America is out of control at all levels...
http://www.economist.com/comment/2199268#comment-2199268)
I can also upload files and run them though the console. Or just write the code with vim in the console, in your browser.
One difference between China and the US is that the US Constitution has a 4th amendment that says the government won't do unreasonable searches and seizures. I'm not sure if China has an equivalent. (maybe it does, can anyone comment?). I know you're not defending the US, but I wanted to point out this possible distinction.
I was thinking the same thing - I knew that z-series mainframes could run Unix, but I didn't think they always did - but it looks like valarauca is correct (assuming this Wikipedia article is reasonably accurate: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Services). Wow, that's a whole new attack vector I'm going to have to look into now. Exciting! Thanks valarauca!
It's illegal for the seller to accept cash beyond 3,000 € (see the law above).

Important point: checks and wire transfers are free.
Looks nice, though you might want to name your other account something different.
http://prntscr.com/4kkbo9
My recommendation would be to make your video more instructional in nature rather than "edgy". Go through some real examples. I watched the video and ran a couple of searches and had no idea what the value was or what I was supposed to be using your product for. Sharing search results? Annotating them? Why? I searched for "best falafel" and got a popup telling me I had 3 search maps (what are those?) about things like cheap cars and startups in India.
This isn't ready for public consumption, it was posted to HN by someone unrelated to JuliaBox.
If you think a person who wants to carry or transact a supposed worth of 10,000 EUR or 3,000 EUR or higher, without being tracked, is performing an action befitting of the word "criminal" (and often the harsh, cruel treatment that comes with this word) -- and if you think these actions warrant subjecting the entire society to search and seizure (and the dramatic consolidation of power that it grants) -- then, unfortunately, you don't see what the problem is.

You might not be bothered by it. But I implore you to look past your own comfort and respect that others are bothered -- to at least see the possible problems. I'll reduce the terms. Many people don't want their personal, consensual affairs tracked, limited, and dictated by a central authority. A central authority for sake of discussion is the entity that tends to strip people of their physical and psychological humanity by means of economic persecution, containing people in cages, subjecting people to various forms of isolation and torture, and killing people. Thus, in no uncertain terms, many people don't enjoy increasing the power (i.e. legal and otherwise) of that central authority. They especially don't like doing so, the more they see the system on which it operates as being oligarchical, abusive, and unethical.

How many times must it be repeated through history's political systems to understand that predicating laws upon [search and seizure] is a fast-track ticket to tyranny? The United States has been riding this road for a long time. See: Prohibition / Drug War. Do you see a problem with an economic incentive for subjecting people to searches? Do you see a problem with their labor/value stolen? Would you see a problem if it were a mafia setting terms (hell, they could even let you vote and call it democratic, wink-wink) and then pulling you over to intimidate you and take as they see fit -- or possibly worse? One of the biggest problems is when people don't see the problem.
On screens you are right.

But on paper, with much higher resolution, serif looks more serious.
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PaintCode

As a dev without a dedicated design department (or even when I've partnered with designers honestly) it saves me so much damn time. Get things in vector, change all of your menu icon colors in one shot.

Speaking of which, icons8 (http://icons8.com/free-ios-7-icons-in-vector) has been awesome on my current project.
You said cash is neither convenient nor safe. I've paid with cash, and I find it convenient and safe. It's especially convenient when the seller only accepts cash, since a non-cash transaction would be impossible. I have no problem with France's law against cash (since I'm not a French resident). France also doesn't have freedom of the press, and I'm ok with that.
I certainly don't read it in that way.

Carrying that amount of cash is a high-risk venture regardless of whether these questionable seizures are happening or not (e.g. the threat of theft). The other methods mentioned may cost a bit, but that cost goes towards lowering the risk of the transaction. For someone carrying 5-figures worth of cash, how can those costs be prohibitively expensive?
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I'm a well educated and skillful professional and can do my job from basically anywhere in the world. I wouldn't even vacation in the US. I am terrified of the legal framework I would subject myself to, especially as a citizen. I'm perfectly willing to work for clients in the US, but face to face meeting will take place OUTSIDE the US.
> Granted, not the Visual Studio IDE

And also not the actual Silverlight part: http://davidburela.wordpress.com/2013/11/22/is-it-time-to-op...
Any plans to support the lucene query parser syntax?
What is it? Why would I sign in into something I know nothing about?
Is it? I thought all the torrent search engine shut-downs, napster and its ilk, etc., had pretty much proven that linking to illegal content hosts was in fact illegal.
One of Dinnr's selling points was same day or next day delivery. I think that sort of just-in-time direct from farmer delivery model would have required longer lead times between receiving and fulfilling orders.
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As the other commenters have said, this was incomprehensible to me (I didn't watch the video, unlike the others, but you should be prepared for people not watching introductory videos - I for one hardly ever do).

Does this make more sense in other cultures? I know a wok is a round-bottomed cooking pan - I don't know what that has to do with links or search though. There also seemed sporadically to be some anime characters showing up - should this have been a clue to something?

This could be something incredible, I just have no idea what.
The only way I'd ever use Windows is through Ludovico.
Guys, websrvr has been approved for production by the awesome folks at Dropbox. Signups are open again, woot :)
How do you know what the OP's situation is they may be paying off a huge college bill or had a medical emergency or have had to spend most of there income on just living.

I suggest reading and reflecting on Matthew 7:3 updated for the down voters

"And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?"
Lisp is another option: https://wukix.com/mocl for iOS, Android, and OS X
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This is not meant for public consumption yet, so alternatives will be provided later. Before then, using Google to authenticate is much simpler than making a robust password system, and the tool also can store files on Google Drive - requiring auth anyway.
Would you happen to have a working demo of the webtorrent.js in the browser?
CloudAtCost Introduces “Safe Mode” for VPSs
Of course it does not work ... I changed my two servers to the "Normal" mode. But the setting keeps flipping back to "Safe Mode".

This is what they emailed:

​CloudAtCost has a large user base who uses our servers for learning programming and linux. With this comes a great chance of poorly secured servers and code which leads to servers getting hacked and users loosing all their work.

We have implemented server run modes which will allow a new server to be used for 7 days then shutdown to prevent users from leaving their servers and programming projects unattended. This default mode is called "Safe Mode". If you are running a service you can login to the panel and click "Change Run Mode" and set to "Normal" which is the always on Mode.

At this moment ALL servers are set to "Safe Mode" which gives you a week to login and change this to "Normal" where you see fit.

CloudAtCost recommends leaving it on "Safe Mode" if you are not using this server to serve anything on the internet.

You can view your "Current" server run mode by clicking the Blue info Icon for a server.
You can change the run mode by Clicking "Modify - Change Run Mode"
Its actually functional, but wasn't meant to be released yet and can't scale to this kind of demand. When it is released, I'm sure you'll see it here!
Since they know that the employee didn't speak the language, they could have provided him with an English translation of the contract (specially since the startup is itself a translation service).

To be fair, the employee should have asked for a translated contract upon being presented with one in a language that he doesn't understand.
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So it all right to rip of foreigners then or people not versed in employment law.

Foolish or badly advised people still have rights you know
this is amazing, really!!
It is essentially Julia running in the browser, primarily as an IJulia notebook. Its a way to try Julia, and is good for teaching as students don't need to install anything to get started with technical computing.
Yes, whatever you do, please don't come here on a visa. It's awful. Terrible. A horrible, nasty place. Run away, far, far away while you still can. You should never come here. Tell all your friends.
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I can second the recommendation for The Cuckoo's Egg. I picked it up somehow in 1994 or so and was immediately impressed.

I hear there's an alternate title it's being published under now though, so look for the author, Cliff Stoll.
Yes this wasn't meant to publicly available yet - was up for our own testing and internal use. The maintainer is working on scaling it a bit, but its not really ready to take on the full load of the internet.
Hi, have you used Kivy? I code in Python and have always wanted to build mobile applications. Do you think it is good?
>>Sensei Grid will always be simple and there won't any fancy or extra features than the bare essentials for a data grid.

Nice. I wish more developers took this approach. I've lost count of how many times I needed some specific functionality (that was advanced/complex enough to make me not want to write it on my own) and ended up using a gigantic library that came with a gazillion other features that I never used.
I watched the video, still dont understand. Clicked Get Started, and greeted with Internal Error :(
My experience is that it's a lot less fun in practice than it is in theory. Uncommented spaghetti COBOL code is about as hard to reverse-engineer as an x86 disassembler dump done without debug symbols, IMO.
It is Julia running in a browser, allowing you to try it with no installs. Its not meant for public use yet.

And yes, you shouldn't sign into something you know nothing about - no one is asking you too :)
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I don't think this is a real issue. For the scenario you're imagining, there would have to be an SMTP relay somewhere that met the following requirements:

1. It doesn't require authentication. (If it required authentication, then there would be no way to gain anonymity.) I think this is extremely rare these days.

2. Other SMTP servers are willing to receive mail from it. This seems unlikely, since such a server is almost certainly going to be used to send a lot of spam.

3. This open relay keeps track of the sender in some weak way (since there's no authentication), like perhaps IP address. (If this weren't the case, there would be no reason to use a third-party service to hide your identity.)

If you could find some SMTP server that met all these requirements, then you would have motivation as a spammer to use a third-party service to hide your IP address. But a VPN would be a better way to do that then using something like Webscript. Webscript will be comparatively slow, we're likely to shut down a spammer because their traffic will be heavier than what we expect/allow, and we don't have a lot of IP addresses, so we would certainly just get blocked at some point just as the spammer would have if they hadn't been using us.
"has no legal grounds for complaining."

What is legal an what is right are two separate things. Yes, everything that the company did was legal. Everyone knows that. They still acted in bad faith, though. And this is going to come back to bite them as a developer would have to be crazy to work in that kind of toxic environment.
Yes indeed, the next evolution of the concept. As you say, the IJulia notebook is the "right" way to do it.
Actually, you can have real mutable variables as fields in a type, although you should think twice about doing so in practice as mutable variables are often not the solution. But here's an example!

(deftype SomeTypeWithMutableFields [^:unsynchronized-mutable some-mutable-field ^:volatile-mutable another-mutable-field])

:unsynchronized-mutable corresponds to a normal mutable Java variable, and :volatile-mutable corresponds to a Java variable with the volatile modifier.

They are private by default, you can only set! them within the lexical scope of the deftype definition. If you needed to expose fast host mutation to the public, I would create a setter/getter interface (via definterface) and implement it on your deftype and use set! locally to mutate the field there.
That's implemented on top of Linux Containers.
Just wow. Did you have a competition on how you could tell as little as possible with a video? because that video just won that competition.
Yes it was posted by a third-party, not fully ready for primetime. Its running on AWS so at least no one's computer is likely to get owned due to any glitches! Thanks for your interest - it is a pretty fun tool.
>>You'd think some one in power in the US would say this is wrong and stop it.

They would be no longer in power if they tried that. Their opponents would paint them as "soft on crime" and "pandering to criminals" and "hating our cops" and a bazillion other nonsense rhetoric.
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I'd say GMail deliverability is the new SEO - as long as you're honest, kind, and don't try to cheat/abuse people, you'll be fine.
Unfortunately some of the EU states are happy to take the CAP budget but when it comes to reforming and implementing EU directives only implement the letter and not the sprit of the law.

And Some country's blatantly stack the decks against outsiders non Italian university lecturers in Italy have been trying for decades to get parity with their Italian colleagues.
The site wasn't meant to be publicly released yet - it was online only for internal testing amongst a small set of users. Its under very heavy load now so is most likely unresponsive. You can get a similar experience by trying out IJulia on your own machine though, until its properly released.
Don't come here. Don't even work for US clients. They are nasty, nasty I tell you. I'm one of them.
The law was intended for use against very well financed drug smugglers and their corrupt attorneys at a time when it was political suicide to be soft on crime. Predictably, prosecutors now use these and other laws well beyond original legislative intent. What is amazing to me is the silence and inaction of the judiciary.
I took a look at the LM323 datasheets out of curiosity. As with the 7805, there are multiple designs that are very different. ST Microelectronics' LM323 has almost the same circuit as the LM109/7805, with a bandgap reference. Motorola's LM323 is similar to the LM340, with a Zener reference and a comparator. So you have two LM323 chips that use not just different circuits but fundamentally different physics to regulate the voltage!

As for how the LM323 supports 3 amps, the datasheet attributes it to "new circuit design and processing techniques". I'm tempted to open one up and see what's different from the 7805 (I'm guessing a bigger output transistor), but I've already got too many chips I want to look at.
It's not too bad as long as you're rich and white.