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I don't know much about how TOR works, but could you use it over a VPN so that it's outside of Comcast's network before connecting to TOR? Surely they'd never ban VPN.
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That is good news. 128GB microSD cards are around $100 currently, a shame that Nexus owners can't take advantage of these great storage options.

Data connections are getting more expensive, at least in the U.S., so the consumer needs to have the option of using local storage.
Lenders do rely on a variety of factors when deciding who to lend money to but the credit score (as in FICO in the US) doesn't depend "on where you are and what you're planning to do with it".
Charging constant percentage on the debt is not called justice. It's a rip off.
A snarky comment, but I experienced the same on the golang-nuts mailing list. If you dare to question conventional wisdom be prepared to be shot down rather unceremoniously.

At least by now, they updated their docs a little bit.

I still think the "How to Write Go Code" article, which most beginners will encounter, is absolutely misleading by its advocacy of 'go get' - I cannot envision a universe where 'go get' makes sense. You absolutely have to vendor your dependencies if you want any kind of stability with your project.
That depends what the something is. Of course you don't need a 42" TV when you can't afford it, but whether you have money in the bank or not you'll still need to eat, and travel to work.
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Hopefully enough people wake up and realize that projects like Minetest exist to pivot to. Yeah, you have to redo a lot of work (since it was all in Java anyway) but the core game is there, and it is much healthier to do it all open source and open collaboration.
Well, sure getting into debt to begin with doesn't make you a victim ... but there's definitely some opportunity for victimization once they go into default; it's an opaque process that most people don't know enough about up front. Think 30% penalty-APRs on your credit cards or five-figure collection fees tacked onto student loan debts. To what extent is this the real price of the risk and prices you're exposing the lenders to, and to what extent is it simply exploitation? A clear answer is hard to come by.
>>And the money that is being garnished is to pay back the creditor for the money and/or services that the debtor received. It's called justice.

I wouldn't describe a big CC corp bringing a citizen to near-financial-ruin as "justice". While you are probably factually right and all the legal procedures more or less followed, this article still highlights a problem with our current system. That it drains people who are already weak. Kicks 'em when they're down.
Don't forget these two: "Save when you can, instead of spending". And "don't have kids you can't take care of, so they don't end up starving and unable to pay for 'life-saving medical care' when they're older."
"One in 10 working Americans between the ages of 35 and 44 are getting their wages garnished. That means their pay is being docked — often over an old credit card debt, medical bill or student loan."

Think about how severe of a situation this stat depicts.

News like this really destroys the "economic recovery" propaganda that the MSM trumpets. People have no cash in hand. The income they do have is being ripped from them rapidly via debts of various kinds. The result is society-scale movement towards poverty.
Is this the first product Microsoft will own that's written in Java? They support it on Azure but I'm not aware of them selling a software product that's based on Java.
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Hrm it seems to be working for me now. It wasn't before.

Must just be slow or something.
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Bankruptcy attorneys generally charge a fixed rate, and there are pretty stringent laws about what they can and can't charge.

Furthermore, the lawyer will do all further dealings with your creditors to get the amount owed cut down. If you're in the position where you can't pay your bills, you absolutely need to talk to an attorney.
> Merchandising seems to be going crazy too

They're missing a huge market... children's birthday party crap.
hm, i always thought minecraft would someday be open sourced..
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This is an organization for which a coldfusion webapp to keep track of their rent from the GSA was a fantastic advance.

(By the way, if you know perl and live near Boston, the district court is hiring)
Maybe if you have no dependents and never get ill.

If you have a family to support or have a period of illness, credit is very hard to avoid.
It's like a guy that got lucky and rich and never has to work a day in his life anymore retiring early and doing what he likes to do.

I'll be honest, I'm bitter and jealous, :(
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Agreed. It's not a simple situation, and I tried not to pass any judgements in my original comment. I do appreciate you clearing up some of the finer points.

I'm happy that he can do what he wants now without having to worry about impacting the giant brand he created.

And if he sees my tongue-in-cheek claim to equity and wants to jokingly send me a few thousand dollars, I'll gladly send him my details.
They could, but they won't, because $$.
Icefrog may have stayed away from the spotlight (which is quite impressive), but DOTA has not evolved how you suggested. He is by no means the sole developer, given that Valve is hauling ass behind that as pretty much their flagship game of the decade.

Maybe it's because Valve is near and dear to the gamers, but I think they've been keeping their community happier than if Icefrog was still running this as a solo job on a WC3 mod. I daresay it has been better for the game too.
Unless you've got something newer to suggest otherwise, that's how HN operates. "Downvotes aren't for disagreeing" is an absurd redditism (everyone knows that they are, since upvotes are for agreeing).
Interesting, I know it was released on PS4 and Xbox One. I imagine it was re-written in C++ or, at least, a non-Java language. Porting from Xbox to PC seems trivial if Mojang wants to replace their Java version. My guess is that there will be a new Windows version with a sane mod system and written in C# or C++ soon as MS's first hand-out to fans. The broken mod system and the performance issues need to be addressed and getting off Java is the best way to do this.
That's an interesting story. I know a guy who's a senior developer - probably makes $190k a year. He just codes copy-paste. I think he makes a lot because he puts out products really fast, and clients are really impressed. But, he completely ignores any maintenance. He just hands off the code to some other poor souls who have to maintain it. And, then they look bad, because what used to take hours now takes weeks.

DRY is good when you care about maintenance or design, but to those who don't understand or care about maintenance, it just looks like added complexity.

Or, in other words, a lot more people would rather buy a junky watch with a fashionable aesthetics than a simple-looking watch with impeccable internals.
>>The debt begins with the parents that choose to have kids when they are unsure of their financial wellness and security for the years to come of their child's growth to adulthood.

Having children should not be tied to having X amount of money - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177836
> If your community has a "manager", it isn't being treated as a community and probably isn't a community to begin with. A better description might fall within: a) a con job where someone is attempting to get people to participate on their terms for their benefit while trying to convince them that isn't the case at all and everyone is equally in it together; b) a cult organization; c) a captive audience being actively groomed for marketing purposes ... perhaps a mix of the above. Not, however, a community.

Oh, man... This has been my experience, completely. I was hired as a "Community Associate" and later promoted to "Community Lead" for a FinTech startup in NYC. "Con Job" is the perfect way to describe it. The company's idea to increase user growth was to simply BUY contact information of people in the field the product was targeted for, and add them to their MailChimp list. After getting promoted (well, after my boss was fired), I fought vociferously to end the practice, knowing it would bite them in the ass. I left in October of 2013, and I've kept an eye waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Well, there are a lot of dicks online, but I think twitter rage-storms or whatever seem to affect some people a lot more deeply than others.
Huh? How many people in their 20s know for sure that they're going to be financially well off for the rest of their lives and there isn't going to be a stock market crash or some tragic event that substantially changes the economy?

I have friends who were commercial airline captains in 2000. Then 9/11 happened, and they went on furlough for a number of years and had to work places like Best Buy.

You're saying they should've known that their career was about to get upended and shouldn't have kids because of that?
They agreed to it when they signed up for the debt. I don't get it, just because someone (corporation/rich person) has lots of money, doesn't mean that not giving them back what they gave you is okay. Not giving them back money that you took is the rip off. Is it nice? Could they be a little more compassionate to peoples' situations? Sure, of course. That's why you have institutions that help people with debt-counseling.

On the other hand, why not do what they did here. Make laws that prohibit over-burdening debt from being given to an individual.
Very cool service. I can never be bothered reporting those damn hacking attempts and suspicious behaviour to ISP.
Don't forget to fully anticipate the future with perfect accuracy so you can be sure that you'll be certain of your ability to afford kids.

Life is uncertain and variable. Demanding that people make choices based on unknowable futures is a bit silly.
Purchasing on credit is completely fine, as long as you actually have the money to do so. Assuming that you do, credit cards have some significant advantages over cash, notably receiving rewards for purchases that you'd make anyway, and tracking your purchases more easily.

The incredibly dangerous thing is purchasing something you don't actually have the money for, and paying for it over time, with interest.
Exactly. Justice is hardly found in making it impossible for someone to pick themselves back up. It also seems odd to sue someone who may be behind on payments, but hasn't resorted to bankruptcy court to completely eliminate those debts (save college loans, which is a whole other thing).

It's hardly surprising that people who have never been down on their luck are the first to turn a blind eye or scolding glance towards a fellow human who has fallen from grace.

I'm not advocating for people not being responsible for their debts, but I am advocating for a caring society that helps people back up, not one that puts a boot on their throat.

Also, just a personal grievance, is any bank garnishing wages from a tax payer that took tax payer money during the bail-out.
Charging some percentage on the debt (interest) is in fact just compensation for the time value of money, risk, and reasonable expenses incurred while pursuing the judgement. Money isn't free for lenders, either -- until their borrowed money is returned, they're incurring recurring costs.

It's only a rip-off when they're empowered to charge interest in excess of that.
It's the ideal, maybe; most 'real' game developers would love to be able to do whatever they want like Notch can, but run into practical problems like making money. Notch / Mojang got lucky, being one of the first 'building' games of its kind and the first majorly successful crowdsourced games. Nowadays, there's dozens of game developers that want to follow in his footsteps, but the competition in the crowdsourced world is just huge, so a lot will never get to a level where they can make a living out of doing what they love to do.

You mention it being a big business and all, but like you say yourself, thanks to Notch / Mojang, the rise of crowdsourcing and self-publishing thanks to platforms like Steam, indie game developers have a lot more opportunities than Notch/Mojang did back when he started out with Minecraft.
What has the message to do with the messenger, in this case?
Sure we should be skeptical to all sources - media, individuals, government. Isn't this common sense?
The presented information, however, stands on its own, no matter who the person who delivered them represents.

What exactly would we gain from discussing the messenger?
Would that move anything forward?

What if we found out Snowden was paid by some russian agency. What exactly would that change? Would the guys at Stellar say "Oh, the russians paid him? Everyone stop changing passwords and re-issuing certificates, guys, everything's fine; he got paid by the russians", and the slides with router passwords would suddenly disappear from the face of earth?

I hope it's the language barrier and I'm failing to understand your point.
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It's hard to know exactly goes into the credit score calculation since the algorithm is proprietary but, anecdotally, you can carry a small balance (e.g. <10% of your credit line) without it having a negative impact on your credit score.
Of course the option is to not extend them credit at all so they avoid these Faustian deals. Of course, denying poor people access to credit is going to be politically unpopular.
To see a fellow german talk in my native tongue about learning that he himself was targeted made this so much more real. We europeans really can't trust the US anymore. It's so sad. I really liked the idea of that place, but who hacks their friends?
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Yes, of course, that was a typo from me. I meant to write "... the relevance of the credit score". Thanks for pointing it out.
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For many, choosing not to have a kid means choosing not to have an abortion. So you appear to be saying that having an abortion is the moral high ground. I'm not saying that you're wrong, but I am saying that you shouldn't be surprised when people react vehemently
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As an owner of Windows Phone I cant see how this would work out for them.

Most of Windows Phones are rather smallish and Windows Surface is totally wrong product with their OS and limitations.
>>People don't wake up one day and find their wages garnished.

Guess what? I woke up one day and found my wages garnished.

Back in the day, when my kids were little, I broke up with my wife. I kept the kids. She did not.

Due to a mix-up at child support, since I was the dad, they thought I was the one who left. So they started running up a bill. First I ever heard of it was when my boss told me to report to HR -- which threatened to fire me. I was behind in child support by over four thousand dollars.

Took over 3 years to get the state government to pay me back. Hell, I was a deadbeat dad! (And people wonder why I'm a libertarian)

But to your point, it takes two to tango, a creditor and a lender. The creditor is supposed to be the one taking the risk. That's why they charge you for borrowing money. It's not supposed to be a sure shot. Today in the states, however, the Republican-controlled Congress back in 04 passed something called euphemistically The Personal Responsibility Act or some other such horseshit and the credit card companies can chase you to the ends of the earth. Just like child support did with me.

Look, I have no problem with people paying what they owe, as long as they can pay it, of course. But with this many people getting wages garnished, and the collections agencies getting more and more draconian? The social balance is off. We're making it so if you run a credit agency and lend out money, you're guaranteed something back. Aside from who's responsible for what, that's not the way we want the economy to work.
> I don't know much about Minecraft or whatever issue Notch is referring to in his post. But I'm always struck by how quickly people snap to emotional argument and response

Wow!
Not important, but you probably mean "hectomillionaire" - a centimillionaire would be someone worth $10,000.
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Is this not completely missing the point of the blog post? I didn't read it as saying you should never have someone doing the things you list, but as being about against a certain job spec that get's labelled as "community manager". The test outlined in point A was a pretty good one.
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> I would like to see people like Notch (creative, thoughtful people) having a say in what the future holds.

I don't. I have absolutely nothing against Notch, in fact I have the deepest respect for the guy as a hacker and as a person with, clearly, a lot of personal integrity. However he says quite clearly himself he's just interested in tinkering. Minecraft wasn't a deeply though out, perfectly executed, planned exercise in mass market game publishing. It was an entirely accidental result of pretty much randomly hacking ideas together. He had absolutely no idea what the future held for Minecraft when he produced it. Expecting him to have any deep insights into 'what the future holds' is projecting attributes and expectations on to him that I don't think he'd welcome.
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> And the money that is being garnished is to pay back the creditor for the money and/or services that the debtor received. It's called justice.

Not even close, take the example from the article, the debtor owed 110% of the original debt (7K Vs 15K) and that is with some payments in the interim.

Is over 100% of the original debt "justice" or exploitation? With fees, fines, and other penalties rolling over (i.e. fines on fines on fines) and with no real limits, the system is set up to kick those who are down (often resulting in bankruptcy which nobody "wins").

Even if fines and fees were capped at 100% of the original debt (with only central bank interest being charged above that) I'd call that a win. I'd want to see a 50% cap ideally however (so 150%+interest has to be paid back, no more).

The profits banks make on some debt is criminal right now. They don't get away with this in much of the EU, but the EU (and members) aren't shy to regulate consumer debt.
I think most people voting you down missed the wordplay.
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That depends on what it is. Food, shelter, electricity, water, healthcare, and transportation are inelastic[1] - we buy them regardless of price because we can't live without them. Whether or not we can afford them is largely irrelevant.

Also, don't underestimate change. Buying a house or a car that you can afford now is one thing, but that doesn't mean things won't change in a way that means you can't afford them in the future. Things happen that can negatively impact your income.

[1] http://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/inelastic.asp
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Been there. I now have no debt after spending 14 years paying it off.

14 years lost.
In fact notch has stated several times that he would open source it when it stopped being profitable. But I guess a 2.5 billion buyout rules out unprofitability.
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"Agreed" because they had no choice. Profiting from other's debt is simply crooked, but became acceptable in society.
Nah, he's been releasing little side-projects every so often, none of which were seen as the next big thing. Although that space game of his did get a lot of hype, he decided to pull the plug on that one a while ago because it just wasn't going to work (also due to all the pressure from the fans).
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No, usually people who ask this sort of question aren't looking for suggestions. They're looking for validation for their own choices. Because the question is almost always followed by a statement, "oh, you should use (Angular|React|Whatever), that's what I use."

Most people, even on boards like this that select for technology-interested people, don't make things. Even people who think of themselves as "makers" (ugh, I hate that word) don't make things.

I don't mind people making suggestions (though something that would fundamentally require a complete rewrite seems more like trolling than being a mere suggestion). But when they then act like I'm insane because I don't use a 3rd party framework, then I start finding trouble keeping my opinion to myself.
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Not to mention, bad for the bottom line.
Get back in the designated free-speech zone, plebian.
It's worth noting that the price Instagram sold for was widely considered insane at the time. Now, it's not such a big price, and seems to have been a smart buy.
>Very peculiar seeing this news after Notch was so critical of the OculusVR sale to Facebook.

Not really. MS is also a gaming company. Facebook is in no way a VR or emerging tech company. Are we really going to take seriously this "all big companies are alike" attitude?

I wish the Oculus guys all the luck in the world, but I see myself buying a Sony or MS headset well before I'd consider the Oculus, which would require a gaming PC that dwarfs my current PC. My current PC plays just about everything at high or near high. The idea that I need a $1200 machine to do 1080p (or higher) per eye at 60 fps is kinda rough. From a culture point of view, it fits in with the hardcore gamer crowd. What does Facebook remotely know about that crowd? How does 'the social' intersect remotely with that crowd, especially since that crowd is so sick of tacked on social crap. I share the doubts that Notch has and with good reason.
> He did not say web or browser. He said nodejs.

Indeed; more generally, I said CLI. TLDR of the previous link: it's an interesting general-purpose take on using ssh public/private keys (and methods) to sign and authenticate HTTP requests.