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>Just a heads-up that the concept that the creditors must accept risk is a very anglo-saxon perspective. The German view is that debts are to be paid back, period.

It's neither Anglo-Saxon nor German. It's a creditor perspective.

The same perspective that brought us debtor's prisons, and even (in Roman times), the notion of bankruptcy meaning "selling yourself into slavery".
Right now account sign up is wide open, but the plan is to move to paid accounts with a free trial period. I'm thinking tiered plans based on concurrency limits (right now all accounts are capped at 1 active instance).

The use case not highlighted by the blog post is is disposable databases for use with automated tests. One of my inspirations was the idea of using a Vagrant VM as a development environment and deleting each night and re-creating it each morning so that the project doesn't accumulate untracked dependencies on environment tweaks. I'd like to enable/encourage similar practices for DBs. For that, I'm working on a Jenkins plugin.
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To be clear, it wasn't banned because of attacks on fat people, it was banned because it was attacking specific fat people.
Side-point; there are many people who aren't actually allowed to leave their country. Its a very Eurocentric viewpoint to just assume everyone has complete autonomy and the resources necessary to relocate. "Don't like your President" isn't a valid reason for political asylum either.
The balance can involve slamming the individuals in jail who enabled Greece to misrepresent its finances before it joined.

Unfortunately, actually prosecuting fraud seems to be a minority view, whereas punishing entire countries (primarily those on a low income, too) for the sins of a few is the norm in Europe.
> I know this is about the firing of a reddit mod, but I can't shake of the feeling that the people behind this petition care more about the banning of hateful subs. This is a retribution for them.

Most people signing seem to be doing so because of the firing (or firings [1]). We can infer this from how slowly the signup count was growing before the firings, and how fast it is growing now.

Edit: it was at 10000 three weeks ago, and 14000 a day or two ago. It was over 100000 9 hours ago, and now is at 125000.

[1] Also fired was the women who ran the Reddit gifts and secret santa programs, which were very popular.
"Bug or intentional design tradeoff? When you choose an inline V12 over a radial engine, you're implicitly choosing to be more sensitive to battle damage."

@Agathos you have to remember history to understand why the RAF selected this design.

The conflicting design problems at the time (mid 1930's) dictating power plant choice? How do we create a fighter with enough power and speed that will allow bombers & fighters to be shot down using the limited resources we have (dollars, manpower and materials) post, "great depression"?

The answer, the Rolls Royce V12, inline Merlin. It did the job. Especially in '39 and 1940, when the only thing separating a full out invasion by Nazi Germany was 22 miles of water and the sky.

References:

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial_engine#Radial_versus_in...

- http://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/2920/why-are-inl...

- http://www.warbirdsforum.com/topic/545-radial-vs-inline-engi...
The studio's response (on the linked Kotaku article) is incredibly classy and well written. Completely unoffensive while strictly discouraging this kind of behavior. Kudos.
Following the same logic, human life is not necessary. Technology, in the broad meaning of the term, is what make us men and not animals.
120,000 people have signed that petition. I'd wager the same number posted comments, up-voted or posted similar threads about the topic on Reddit, Twitter or HN over the last few days. That's not to ignore those actually trying to have a proper discussion about the matter.

If you look at the press that this has generated I would say that, even if they are a minority of Reddit's active users, they have been successful in strengthening an immature image for Reddit as a whole.
Changing countries takes significant effort that could require job changes, visas, citizenship tests, etc. Changing websites doesn't require anything more than a click. Comparing the two is idiotic.
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It's not much of an effort to not click those stories.
I see your attitude as damaging. "Let's remove content which makes me uncomfortable discussing even though it's very popular and a lot pf people want to discuss it" thinking.

I mean, reading one sentence (topic description) and moving your eyes one row down isn't much of an effort even if you were to do that for 2 weeks several times a day. Just do it and leave the topics for people how want to read about it and discuss it.
"Do HP’s or IBM’s whole organization understand the “value” of their service?

It is only a matter of time until a company emerges that truly understands the value of IT service, because that need isn’t going away."

Not a single company but their business is being eaten by all these thousands of new small SaaS businesses that cost a fraction of what they charge for their terrible enterprise software.

We are only focused on a niche but we do it amazingly and we have customers from virtually all big businesses. These companies don't need IBM any more, because employees in these companies can now do their forms on JotForm, their CRM on Salesforce, their communication over Slack, their emails on google apps and hundreds of other products that focus on only one thing but do it amazingly well.
100 years of British oppression have created a uniquely insane breed of online thugs, why do they all use "Sir" online? Do they actually believe they portray an air of dignity and respect?

I know people blame poverty and stuff but so did Taiwan, Japan, Germany, Korea have all gone through far worse state but you never see the same behavior. People leave their cars with keys or wallet hanging out while passed out drunk in Korea, and miraculously you are belongings and yourself is intact. If you don't believe me just go to Korea or Japan.
That still makes no sense. The ACA only requires certain sized employers to either pay for your insurance or give you the cash to buy your own.

If your employer is paying $6K per year, that is additional compensation beyond the $2K per year minimal plan the have to pay for.
This is a response to you, and not a commentary on what's happening at Reddit right now.

The ACLU would disagree. One of their landmark cases involved defending the constitutional right of a group of Nazis to hold a peaceful demonstration in a town populated with more than a small number of Holocaust survivors.

I am a Jew, and I support the ACLU defending the rights of people that hate me beyond reason.

Not because I agree with their point of view. But because I believe that everybody deserves the same rights, no matter how much of an asshole they may be.

We, or at least Americans, care deeply about free speech, not because it protects the weak, but because it is a fundamental human right.
> Because it protects the weak.

Nope. Because it protects everybody, regardless of how the state or the Powers That Be are classifying you - weak, strong, black, white, conservative, liberal, poor, rich, male, female, or neither, or both, any category and any classification - you get free speech. Everybody gets free speech. Once we start choosing - this guy deserves free speech, because he's "weak", but this guy is better shut up, because he's "strong" enough, it's no free speech, it's privilege of speaking for whoever you like.

Now, many people can't handle freedom - freedom means people can do things that you don't like. I mean, really don't like, I mean, things, that positively infuriate you so much you see a wall of red. I can appreciate that, and I can understand - not condone, not agree with, but understand - people that don't want free speech and other freedoms to be around for that reason. It's hard sometimes. But please - if you don't support free speech, don't call whatever privilege structure for avoiding crimespeech and crimethink - "free speech".

P.S. I hope everybody reading this is smart enough so that the above does not need a disclaimer "within the bounds of not using speech to commit actual crimes, such as ordering a hit on somebody", etc. But just in case it's not so, yeah, I know about that.
>Utility is ordinal not out of some deep desire on the part of economists to "appear scientific" but because it reflects a simple empirical fact about humans. "Utility" is a measure of value to someone, and human values are ordinal: I value my children more than my cats, and no number of cats will ever equal the value of my children.

Utility is a bullshit non-measurement that is defined self-referentially. It's not better than phlogiston.
You can slow down youtube videos in the gear menu and it still can't be seen. I suppose you would need 60fps to see that.
Everytime, I read hacker news comments, I feel like the folks in Silicon Valley are dense to the fact that there is an entirely different IT Industry out there providing services to Fortune 500's that are not Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and other technology companies. etc. Cringley is talking about the technology companies who provide technology services to the other companies, not customer facing companies.

>All the colored faces in Google and Facebook aren't there because they are accepting less money than American graduates

No they are definitely not, but they ARE at Verizon, Disney and ExxonMobil.
Does it matter on which string the note is played, except to not get yourself into an unplayable position?
I'm not sure what your point is. I'm reading it as: "You shouldn't be complaining, because you are being fucked, but you are being fucked over less than others. So stop complaining." Is that what you are saying?
Agreed and to preface, not a comment on Reddit: Usually the defense of free speech means defending the less worthy of using it for those times when for when its truly worthy, there's just really no middle ground.
On a Mac, it worked to a point: unzip it with a double-click, mount the .iso with a double-click... but the links break because they're on a case sensitive filesystem. Meanwhile, if the Internet Archive viewer kicked in, we'd be able to post links to the highlights.

And yeah, I miss Dr. Dobb's too.
You can also use / in man to do a search in man. (Assuming your pager supports it, don't forget to use the home key to go back to the beginning for a new search option.)
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Many of those who signed aren't trolls.
It's clear that current Reddit management is doing 180 turn on the policy/principles the site was built on and which attracted a lot of people in the first place.
From "safe space" nonsense through being clueless about Reddit itself to failing at communicating with very people who build the value of your site.
She is a terrible person for the position. In every unhappy crowd you will have uncivilized part making fun of her appearence or what not but it's more than that minority who feel deceived by recent Reddit policy changes.

It's very unfair from you suggesting that anyone calling for her resignation is a troll.
Off the top of my head, Index only scans, overhauled GIN & GiST indices, Trigrams come to mind.
e-mail at its best retains something unique to the written letter, a tendency towards long, frank, thoughtful compositions that are sent with a lot of aforethought and intention. i think if we fully move towards communication regimes where the importance of individual messages is lessened (a chat / forum thread type thing) we might eventually lose this style of writing and the enjoyment of communicating this way.
Yet even the most competent programmers will have UBs crawl into their code where they do not expect them. Sure, C has less pitfalls than C++ ; but it has its own as well. (see previous discussion on HN "What is C", John Regehr's blog, ...)
"Well, Greece implemented a lot of changes, and it's one of the few Eurozone countries that successfully implemented internal devaluation (salaries halved)."

I wish more pro-Eurozone people would consider this one. The creditors were very plainly less concerned with getting paid back than they were with waging a brutal class war.

This is a classic principal/agent problem. The Troika negotiators are not playing with their money, they are playing with taxpayer money. Hence the debt is more of an excuse to push for the reforms that their friends want, irrespective of the very real negative effect it has on Greek solvency.

This, if for no other reason, is why the debt should never be paid back.
This site wasn't too bad, had a few good technical SQL articles. The message "We will bring Tech.pro back online after our team has grown in sufficient size to support the community." sounds pretty open-ended. There is no news on this either.
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No, it was banned because it was bullying people, doxxing, brigades on other subs, etc...
Edgy comedy doesn't have to be derived from covert racism. There are many different ways for the show to be un-PC. It's simply a cop-out for the writing team and the creator. This is also evident when the only prominent black character in the show is a prostitute and the only Latinos are portrayed as thugs.
It's not a comparison, it's a parallel. If you go down that line of thinking that's the kind of things you would say when someone complains about their country's ruler. And I have heard it many times.
Expression is one of those things where either you have freedom, or you don't have it. You can't compromise it. There are a few things that are not allowed because of the possibility of immediate bodily danger. But otherwise once we start veering into accepted and non-accepted speech/expression, we're getting into subjective territory (who feels or gets insulted by what -the pope, the fairy god mother, your doctor).

But none of that matters much in this case where the ultimate arbiter is the company itself. We can argue all we want what should and should not be, whether realistically or ideally speaking, in the end, it's what the company allows. And if they want to ban the word 'water' well, they can do it and it's perfectly legal. That's not to say people should just go on and accept it. No, they can protest online or whatever, maybe build their own community -where they can one day establish their own mores and ban the word ice instead.

That said, a civil community is much more pleasant, though somewhat sterile, to participate in. That's to say, I prefer engaging in cites where people have strong opinions but have a modicum of comportment --however, at times, I can feel they don't reflect daily life where insults are hurled unexpectedly, so, from that standpoint, it's a bit sterile and stiff.

Anyhow, It'll be interesting to see how this works out.
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Racism? Everyone loved Yishan, who is Asian as well.

People feel threatened Pao is determined to bend Reddit's culture in ways Yishan was committed to leaving open. It kind of angers me as well, out of principle, since this narrative appears to have some truth.
I think you're generalizing about people's reasons for supporting free speech. I, for example, don't defend free speech so I can harass people. I never posted or contributed to FPH, or any other hate group. Like you, I don't believe in it. But I believe in free speech enough to tolerate those small groups. I believe WBC has a right to protest, as do other hate groups, because I firmly believe that their disgusting views, when expressed openly, weaken their cause. It's worked well for America, and the government sets an example for its people and businesses.

That said, reddit can do what it wants. I think people do use each new event as a platform for replacing who they see as the root cause, the CEO. However I can't shake the feeling that the issue is deeper. As alluded to in these comments about reddit acting like children, large communities are very difficult to satisfy. Protests will happen now and then, regardless of whether you as a country (China vs. USA) or company support free speech or not. So you can embrace that, expect it and deal with it, or try to make everything perfect. I think Alex and Ellen are trying really hard to make everyone happy. I imagine it's stressful for them and I personally don't feel that's the right approach for reddit. Getting rid of illegal things like jailbait was a good idea, and consistent with American values.
it makes you feel good doesn't it?
I don't go to Reddit that much (practically never unless there's AmA with somebody I really interested of hearing from, which happens about once per 2-3 months), but isn't "the immaturity of the community and the loudness of its most extreme elements" kind of what the thing is for (not solely, but partially) and kind of how it got that big?

Of course, I'm in no way defending the idiots who post vile comments, but I think beyond these idiots there's a legit disagreement about limits of what is allowed, and the broadness of those limits was one of the major attractors to Reddit, or so I heard. Was is a wrong impression?

Also, why "racist"? I don't see anything racist in the petition.
Yeah, it's mostly about playability. It's easy to get into a position where you're playing the notes in the current chord correctly, but there's no way to play the melody of shift elegantly to the next chord. Classical guitar sheet music contains a lot of hints for fingering. Fret bar indicators are quite common, and sometimes you'll see complete stacked fingering indicators. Some more difficult pieces will give you almost nothing, and it's up to your experience (and just brute force) to figure out the ideal fingerings.
They just killed every working, apple based program on 10.5.9
I'm stuck.
No browser works. Won't update, and all their shit just crashes upon open...

Happened in the span of three days.
The thing that is kind of strange, but not surprising, to me is that the thing that they're using as justification for this is the firing of one of the admins, but these people don't know why that admin was fired, and also don't know who did the firing. Is Reddit the company primarily controlled by Ellen Pao or does she have managers that help her and therefore responsible for this kind of stuff?

I get the feeling that a lot of these people don't like is that Reddit is not what it used to be in that it's a "free for all" because it's now more business oriented, meaning that Reddit has to cater to its shareholders just as much as its community. They don't see past the fact that someone that supported them was fired and see the reality that these things happen, and it sucks, but it's a reality of a business. As an aside, if the moderators had such a problem with what was going on, they should have been much more vocal about it and raised flags before instead of acting like children and throwing tantrums by making subreddits private (I call it a tantrum because they made it private for like 12-24 hours, most of that time during the US night where there's not as much traffic).

I'm not saying Ellen Pao is the best person for this job, and while I don't have super high opinions of her, I don't believe all the stuff Reddit says about her either, and she's being vilified for something that could have been completely out of her control. If you want to give a justification for "firing her", at least use the one that she's not very connected with day-to-day of the non-business side of the site, the community and the volunteer moderators, and that she doesn't use the product she's the CEO of. But given they've raised a lot of money recently I'd guess she doesn't seem to be doing poorly to the shareholders/investors, or at least isn't doing a piss poor job.
> The market will decide whether they are right or wrong.

There is no need to antagonize Reddit. It's a fine service that has many uses. Asking for improvements/changes is part of the normal process of having a discussion - if every single time we had a problem with something we had to create a new solution that would be a serious waste of time for everyone involved. Don't re-invent the wheel, just try to fix it first.
> vocal minority

That's interesting because it mirrors Ellen Pao's attitude:

> But Ms. Pao says that the most virulent detractors on the site are a vocal minority, and that the vast majority of Reddit users are uninterested in what unfolded over the past 48 hours.

- (source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/04/technology/reddit-moderato...)

... yet here we are with over 100K signatures and quickly rising. When your largest subreddits and influential content creators take a big chunk of the site down, it's not a vocal minority with zero ramifications - it's you about to become the next Digg.

This isn't an issue for Reddit to take lightly. If content creators pack up shop, Reddit becomes just another cat photo and yesterday's news dump like your facebook feed (read: low quality content). Users will end up where ever your cool content creators defect to.
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> there are many people who aren't actually allowed to leave their country.

Sure - even from a Eurocentric perspective it's easier said than done (language barriers, etc...). Yet there's a number of people who always say this kind of things.
Any arguments that it's racist? I mean one of the problems with silencing/censorship people talk about is that racist card is played too often when any criticism is directed towards someone who isn't white.
>The EU was never to be a transfer union

Then there should never have been a single currency. This is a case of wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

>While I am quite willing to lambast the banks in the states for the mess they got into

Doesn't sound so much like you are, actually. Where is all the hate for Commerzbank for lending money to Greece and then shifting all the losses on to the German government?

>I am not so willing to do so with regards to their lending to Greece. Someone would have stepped forward regardless because state actors are supposed to function properly with fiscal restraint when its apparent their economy cannot sustain their spending.

Everybody is supposed to act with restraint when it becomes apparent that they cannot finance spending.

Nonetheless the Greek government that got Greece into this mess is long gone (and I don't hear you calling for their members to be imprisoned on charges of fraud and negligence).

>Basically the businesses and people of Greece are paying a tax load so high that profit and therefor growth is nearly impossible.

Businesses didn't get that bad a deal out of austerity. They got to cut their wage bill in half and their tax bill still hasn't really budged. So they're the first people you feel sorry for?
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> Yes, it is important, but we defend it for a reason. Because it protects the weak.

Is that why we defend it? I strongly disagree with this idea. There is a lot of distasteful speech that I think we should defend, and much of it doesn't concern disenfranchised or weak groups.

I find it hard to articulate an exact reason for defending free speech. But a large part of it to me is that we grant an _enormous_ amount of power to whoever we let define what ideas and speech is allowed, and disallowed. In an ideal world, you would let free speech be the absolute rule; since truly distasteful things would be seen as such and just be noise.

Pragmatically though, free speech often has real consequences, and in some case real, actual victims and that must be balanced. But understand that if you defend free speech in any venue, you have to accept some level of speech you find distasteful. I think you get to draw the line at showing actual harm or damage to other people; and that harm needs to be more than "It hurt my feelings".