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I'm not sure I consider myself "left leaning" per se -- I guess it depends on the issue. Before Bush Jr. my nomination for best president of the last hundred years would have been Dwight Eisenhower (R) and my worst would have been Lyndon Johnson (D). Bush has likely edged out Johnson for worst.

Interestingly both Lyndon Johnson and Bush Jr. were Southern Democrats. Most of the craziness about today's GOP can be traced to the fact that they were overrun with former Dixiecrats. Bush was basically a Dixiecrat who ran as a Republican.

The Southern Democrat position combines everything bad about the Democrats (big government, high taxes, etc.) with everything bad about the Republicans (fundamentalism, warmongering). (Bush did raise taxes, just indirectly. Taxation equals spending as per simple double-entry accounting, and Bush raised spending and increased the size of government considerably.)
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Interesting, but not really what I'm talking about. On https://leastauthority.com/ there's mention of development of a "Magic Folder" tool that seems to do more of the sort of thing I'm looking at.
I believe that "dedicated" means that it's dedicated to your account. So, there can be more than one guest, but those guests are your EC2 instances.
I plan on using OwnCloud as soon as I can get a decent setup. My apartment does not allow servers.
I'm not sure about SILE, but for TeX, the algorithm determining the line breaks was exponential in the length of the document. Even on a modern machine, a moderately complex document will take a few seconds to run; in the 80s and 90s, my professors told me it'd take minutes to run a TeX pass.

The reason why Google Docs / Word / etc. can show the line breaks in real time is that it uses a faster (but less "optimal") algorithm.
Or Use Gmail's REST API if you use Gmail/Google Apps:

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In the EU pretty much any of the online T&Cs as well as EULAs are completely invalid. They can say literally whatever, if you haven't signed an actual piece of paper it's not going through in any court.
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Have you looked at http://terralang.org/ ?

It may be a good toolchain if you're targetting static compilation using the LLVM.
You wouldn't necessarily be "writing in your layout". You could do something where you have a separate preview pane that updates in real time. Similar to what Apple showed earlier this year with their Swift playground IDE, only for typesetting.
This is precisely the kind of thinking people need to be careful about. Some data structures are more rapid than others even with more complex operations, because they conform to the reality of the underlying hardware better.
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I think you're right. I set up a VPS last year with a provider based in Buffalo, NY, but for a few weeks, geolocators kept placing my IP in Indonesia. But there doesn't really seem to be anything untoward about moving IPs from areas of low demand to areas of high demand.
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Surely the point is to use an effective language (for your particular definition of effective) and then optimize based on performance testing. Otherwise you lose time writing fast low level code that doesn't need to be fast or low level, and possibly never get to the important stuff.
You really should read your TOS, if not at least skim it. Most have language like this in it:

THIS IS A CONTRACT. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS DO NOT USE THE SERVICE AND CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY TO TERMINATE IT.

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By specifically stating what you are agreeing to is a contract, you're legally bound by the terms set forth therein. Whether a court of law and judge agrees with that is a separate matter. However, for simplicity, it is a binding, legal contract.
Came here for tech discussion because I dropped dropbox for tech reasons. Got sucker punched by politics..
I stopped using Dropbox because I enabled two-factor authentication security, but the SMS would always arrive 8-12 hours later, essentially locking me out of my account. Well then...
Of under-discussed note: those fatalities are almost exclusively accidental. That vs (per current topic) nearly all gun-related fatalities (similar number) being deliberate. Of the two, seems the former is a grossly deficient product more worthy of prohibition; absent the latter, those choosing the action will just find some other tool.
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A lot of our overarching design is based on things they laid out in Out of the Tar Pit :)
I still use dropbox
If France(as is in pretty much everywhere in the EU) any EULA that is accepted by default by opening a product(think MS Windows packaging) is void by default, because courts ruled that opening a package does not constitute entering a legally binding contract,no matter what the packaging says.
by your line of reasoning cars should be outlawed immediately

Cars have lots of valuable uses. The valuable uses of guns are a lot fewer.
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I'm not sure I buy your argument, but even if I did, there is no evidence as of yet that says that fugly functional abstractions provide for lower error rates.

Further, performance is part of correctness for nearly any real word example.
How much math do you know? Specifically of the type theory/domain theory/category theory variety. How many process calculi are you familiar with? Just curious.
People still _perceive_ it as risky - "OMG I'll be in £27,000 in debt after I graduate" - even if it's not actually risky for the reasons you mention!

I've long thought that framing it as a graduate tax would be much less discouraging to potential students.
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local-by-default has serious problems.

It is routinely discussed in the Lua mailing list. Here are some pointers about it:

http://lua-users.org/wiki/LocalByDefault
Oh the possibilities!
This would be super handy.

I'd add SNS support for non-US SMS notifications :p
Then I guess I would not need Pingdom anymore.
A go implementation https://github.com/codahale/sskg
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It just seems strange to me that despite swaths of evidence, people in position of power _still_ think in short terms.

Though we all agree computer science is very important these days, who can deny the societal importance of philosophy, psychology etc despite the job market being narrower. Even fringe studies such as eskimology (the study of Eskimo's, and yes, you can study that in DK) will certainly have value in some way or another, same as going to the moon.

Knowledge for knowledge's sake is important exactly because we don't know it's importance or value.
I canceled my paid account because of the appointment. Dropbox is still kicking around as a free option, but I'm okay with that because they're losing money on my business.

When I get some free time I'll fully switch to SpiderOak as well.
Sorry, didn't know that Quora has a gate up.

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Not that I am an expert on this, but I would say that the final decision is made indeed. And it is a 'no'.

I would advise to move forward, quit wasting time thinking and presenting ways to prove to the investors that market size is good enough - probably not even the most truthful reason they decided to go with the no. Just the excuse they chose to say to you.

Reject any more meetings, reject any ask for new documents. Go back to work on your product.
If you think not, you're welcome to try to take them away from us.

Sorry, but I'm not going to play into your macho fantasies.

And I'll leave the issue of firearm regulation to the several decades of Supreme Court interpretation, which have consistently upheld the legitimate interest of federal and local governments in regulating the ownership and display of weapon types not reasonably related to self-defense.
Any plans to sell the software or open source it?

I see a lot of potential there for a project management tool that might apply to other markets.
I did not drop, and do not plan to. (I did drop GoDaddy a while back, but that was because they offer a shitty product).

DropBox is still the best product, currently I'm in the free tier as well. And I also use the other competitor products, but they don't work well enough with groups of people.
> unlike national security-related demands, law enforcement won't be able to keep their successes or failures at demanding access to this data a secret.

They can and they do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_construction
Do you have a reference to your reference?
See the average speed of Acela trains (time vs distance) compared with TGV/Thalys/ICE

And don't you think Germany has more legacy constraints with a higher density and older tracks?
When buying a phone in China, part of the cost is the service and installation of software that you'd like. As the price differential is so great and the international boundaries so weird, oftentimes the store you buy your phone from will preload any international software you'd ever want, any custom keyboards, any custom anythings you'd like. When iPhones were not actually sold to the Chinese market, there still were grey-market iPhones everywhere being jailbroken and localized via custom jailbreaking services. In fact, it appears some of the more recent jailbreaks have come from within China first (or 'first not sold to security companies'). [google: Pangu iOS]
> I still stand by my statement that literally not a single piece of software exists that does the same as dropbox in terms of stability,

That seems a bit odd, since 4 sentences previously you state that you are pretty unfamiliar with the space "I've heard of 5 of those, I know how to use 3 for storage".
Nice. Clean layout. Much prettier than jira.

When viewing a story, it'd be nice to be able to change the status without going into edit mode. Or something like a transition (aka how mingle does it) to say "start work" or "done with testing"
Nobody but a fool would ever mistake a poll on HN for a poll of the general population.

The entire point of a poll on HN is to poll HN users, not the general population.
Thanks for coming forward.

I fully support your ideas with Eve.

Every time I dig into how Xerox PARC systems worked, my own experience with Smalltalk and Oberon, and then look for what we have, I always think we could have had so much better developer experiences if those technologies had succeeded in the market.

Good luck with your efforts.
Doing powerful things with spreadsheets involves a similar amount of difficulty/learning as hacking some Python.
I am not trying to be glib/mean here, but you should probably see a therapist to learn how to cope. It sounds like you are suffering.
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Well, I didn't downvote you, but you're essentially asking for free work. If you want contributions, you need to contribute yourself first, usually by writing some code (or paying someone to write if you cannot) and publishing it.

A basic version that doesn't work well yet is OK, an empty repo isn't.
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Per that item, and memory, those guys were outside the campus when it started, and only one was armed.

And I think you're missing the point. Absent a total ban on citizens of good standing possessing guns inside (including administrators in this case, or, say an arms locker in the teacher's lounge), the duo wouldn't have had free reign as the police cowered outside (experience shows teachers and administrators are a lot more serious and brave about protecting their charges than the local police were that day).

To take another example, the Colorado theater shooter could have gone to closer or bigger ones, but just happened to pick the one that was so ... severe about being "gun free" it insisted off duty police hired as security guards go unarmed. It was gun free, alright, until he showed up.

One correction to this pattern: the Arizona Congresswoman shooting, where an armed citizen showed up as the shooter was being restrained by people there, but one of them in the line could have been legally armed.
Since you pointed out that Lua strings are immutable you're aware of what I'm about to say, but just to make it explicit:

The efficiency argument is a common one for symbols in general, but in Lua it doesn't really hold because string comparison has constant cost (ie, it's a simple pointer test, since strings are immutable).
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Thanks Soneca for your reply.
Hope is a very bad thing! I will hear a response by next week. Wanted to give a final push. any lead to go forward ?
I've been curious about Tonido (http://www.tonido.com/tonidodesktop_downloads/) as an ownCloud replacement lately. Does anybody have experience with it?
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One of my instances was scheduled to be rebooted between 22pm-2am.

But the reboot has never actually occurred.

It's not that I feel left out but did anyone else experience the same?
"A bit" being the operative phrase. Something like a Sherline with the CNC options wouldn't set you back much more than that (depending on how many axes you need, bed size and height, of course). Not pretty, not overly fast, and takes some manual setup, but it'll keep you well south of the $10K-ish you could otherwise pay for a slick turnkey.
> its a mode of thinking and analysis

Right now, though, that thinking and analysis mostly comes with very little assistance from the computer. We are pleasantly surprised when a compiler manages to guess what we meant when we made a mistake.

I think there's a lot of room to help with the process of thinking rigorously. New models of programming could conceivably allow someone to start down the path of building, and then have an interaction with the programming environment in which it helps to find ambiguities or special cases.

I'm a terrible artist; I wouldn't try to make mockups if there weren't sites like Balsamiq. Even if I tried, they would be too rough to serve as any kind of spec. The right tools allow more (not all) people to succeed in trying their hand at design. Of course they will never be a "real designer", but hopefully they can accomplish more of their goals without help.

I think better programming tools and paradigms can have the same effect.
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Haha, I'm back after I read the question below the title. I just ASSUMED this being a tech site that this was a technical poll. Doesn't political BS polls/posts send a mixed signal while YC & HNers continually talk about meaningful input, relevant discussions & not devolving to the lowest common denominator like some other news aggregator sites? Here I have been making a meaningful effort to keep my opinions to myself, stay my hand when I feel that wise-ass niggle coming on(exactly like right now) and only include pertinent knowledge & experience to the discussions rather than go /b-tard and you went ahead and created an entire thread dedicated to the problematic behavior. Is this a honeypot...?

Edit: -derision
People understand exponential growth, but the US is not conducive to spread of Ebola. The problems found in Africa that prevent effective management of the situation do not exist here: Lack of hospitals, suspicion of outsiders/doctors, general hygiene, etc.
"...doesn’t have to rely on the one person in the lab who knows python"

I'm a long term Java programmer who recently learned Python. Python is sensational. We should encourage everyone to know a language like Python, not pass it off as the domain of "professional programmers".
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I'm skeptical Makarov's main purpose was scaring off bears. More likely a quick way for the cosmonaut to terminate it's own life?
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This is pretty neat. Mucking around with ruby-c connections and python-c++ connections via SWIG have been some of the most nightmarish things I've ever worked on, so it's cool to see effort aimed at making that sort of connection more comprehensible. Are there other similar things you're thinking of doing next?
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And you are still missing the point.

You are equating praying to medical treatement. That is utter nonsense on the face of it, regardless of whether or not an established and effective treatement course exists for an ailment. I'm sorry, it's just plain stupid. Would you pray to Thor, Apollo, the Tooth Fairy, Zeus? Why not? So, pray tell, why does your brain magically stop working when your favorite god is invoked?
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So, essentially, this is a rewrite for TeX. But the reality is that creating complex layouts really, truly requires GUI layout tools. No matter how good the output is for this application, it's entering into an firmly-established market with a few, large, expensive players, and not a lot of action.

Publishing automation tools are nothing new, but one has to give up a certain amount (usually a lot) of control to create a document on the cheap. Even for those workflows that are intensely reliant on templates, designers are still working in InDesign for the initial design, which is then handed off to a person, or more frequently a system, to translate into something to be automated.

Even as a long-time TeX user, I'm not sure what the appeal would be here, but I could have been in publishing too long to see this for what it really is.
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> Lua is uncannily similar to JavaScript in semantics

I see what you mean, but before people run away screaming: the similarity lies more in the way it is amenable to Self-style prototype-based object orientation, and not in the various "wat"-style semantic quirks of JavaScript.
YES, this has been discussed a million times before. Please don't waste our time discussing the population density of the entire US. It's irrelevant.

Can you give us the population density of Southern California vs Spain, for example?
> exactly what we are up against already

There's that pesky collective noun again. Again, you labor under a delusion of a shared struggle.

> one can easily point out attempts that have already been made to protect previously established industries.

Such as a company that's raised over a billion dollars seeking to protect its position in a lucrative market by appointing politically well-connected board members? No way!

> I was able to argue back without resorting to name calling.

And so was I. What's your point?