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Ask HN: Why Doesn't Red Hat Fold CentOS and Make RHEL Free?
Now that CentOS has official Red Hat backing - why continue the CentOS project at all? Why not just make RHEL free for download and use - and sell support contracts?

This is close to what Red Hat already does - and seems it might align more potential users. If you're using free CentOS, and get into a jam - there's no-one to call for support, other than forums and your knowledge. But, if you had RHEL proper, and got into a jam - you could call Red Hat, and pay for a support package. They could even charge a high hourly premium for out-of-contract support calls, and offer to upgrade you into a support contract, etc.
The interesting part about that to me is the authorities seem to break the law with impunity under the guise of enforcing the law.

Seems a bit disingenuous to do this.

Why not sell drugs as a cop to arrest people for buying them... er wait... they do that too.
The pricing page still lists the usual plans https://help.meetup.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001620472-Organ...

Is this effective October and applies to the next months?

Edit: I found
https://www.meetup.com/lp/paymentchanges
Ah, total cultural translation fail. To me anything very "dark" is bad bread. I really enjoy the sort of "medium light in color multigrain" my local bakery makes, which includes whole grains like millet and flax, with a slightly chewy texture. Here are "good" breads from my local bakery in small town USA: clockwise from top left, semolina sunflower, multigrain, country white, and cranberry walnut. Scones, muffin, and cookie are bonus. https://photos.app.goo.gl/Prcba1K99yioxNVU9
This poor VR headset didn't stand a chance commercially and unlike the Oculus the lack of devs on the Daydream VR platform already sealed its fate for failure.

It has been known for a long time that mobile VR on the consumer level wasn't really going to work out given the limitations Google explained in their statement. Apart from 'training' applications or very niche games, I'd be surprised if this became an instant hit on mobile.

I think Google must have been dreaming a bit on this, but it looks like this is the reality for others attempting to enter the mobile VR headset market.
Additional box with WD Red drives in Linux RAID5 software raid configuration.

Rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/), run via cron, nightly, pulling backups from the other machines that need backing up.
There are addons for RSS support that are much higher quality than the built-in support.
It's great that OpenAI has continued to exist as an technological organization with no clear revenue expectations. At the same time I am not sure how long they can sustain doing what they are doing OR whether there is this new found feasibility for private research organizations to exist in this space provided they produce clear high-quality output like OpenAI is doing.
As already said, this will use beam forming, which means that the radio energy is focused at the receiver.

This means less interference to others around, and higher capacity.
I mean if there are still renters able to pay then it's not unaffordable.
You certainly don't need to be drowning in student loan debt to reach that. You could go to a state school and get an excellent job. That's just poor financial decision making. Where I live you could go to UVa, VT, or maybe VCU.
What insights would alphabet agencies hope to gain from detailed statistics on page load times?
The first image sensor was created at Bell-Labs, so just creating a camera using one didn't really give them any advantage.

I think a lot of people get caught up in the idea that a company is a living breathing organism that should fight for its life to the very end. In reality, its a collection of investors and employees all with their own interest, and sometimes it's best for everyone to part their separate ways. It's not like the same people were at Kodak when the digital sensor was invented, as there was when they finally gave up on film.

The change to digital was a very slow one, and film remained a very profitable business for Kodak for a long time. IMHO, it would have been insane for Kodak to invest in semiconductor fabrication facilities from the start. Meanwhile existing semiconductor companies could leverage existing tools, employees, and facilities to produce image sensors with relatively low cost and low risk. By the time it made sense to invest in semiconductor tech, they were already too far behind, and it just made more sense for the company to milk the Kodak brand for all they could.

I see it as more like Edison promoting DC over AC. He certainly knew AC was the way to go, but he could only gain financially from DC, so that's what he promoted.
How much did you pay for your home?

$100k/yr gross household income would make it rough to own a 3/2 single family home in South Florida.
There is a fundamental, irreconcilable tension between the need for people to be able to protect themselves against abusive governments and the need for governments to be able to catch criminals. While it seems good to consider the full impact of anonymity, it's not going to generate any meaningful discussion. You can either be anonymous online or you can't. There isn't much middle ground there. There is no balance that can exist.
I've only ever been to a few, but I found at lest two really nice: a Perl meetup in SF that wasn't really social at all but had great tech talks; and a Perl dinner (at a conference) in Vienna that had Very Odd Devs who were also super fun to talk to. People working at small regional banks can be way more eccentric than you'd guess!

It seems like all the problems you list are easy to solve, except odd devs, and I'm not sure that's a problem.

Admittedly, I'm too busy/lazy/unmotivated to solve them myself, but I can't believe there aren't some fun ones out there.
Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm?
> for exemple do not forget that a married couple pays more taxes than two individuals

Not necessarily, it depends on details like the canton and the income of each person.
How Apple's Screen Time is outsmarted by kids, frustrating parents
Okay, but how do you know Duck Duck Go is privacy orientated?

Duck Duck Go is:

- A privately-owned, for-profit corporation based in the U.S. and subject to its laws

- Closed source software that is not open to the open-source community

- Not doing third party privacy or security audits to verify claims of privacy

- Basically a reskin of Bing (and Yandex) search engines while trying to masquerade as one

The social media (and HN) comments promoting it are nearing creepy levels considering there is nothing to back up it's claims of privacy. Throw in their online promotions across Quora and other sites and their privacy-oriented branding efforts are suspicious considering they don't back them up.
Binary WS data inspector with an ASCII decoder would be useful: the current trend is to use binary WS socket data to obfuscate/prevent scraping (e.g. NYSE.com real time quotes)
It sounds to me like your evidence is entirely based on one friend. Anything else you've noticed might be confirmation bias. Personally I haven't noticed any such expectation, and I have a girlfriend who tugs me forward if I walk too slowly.

Spend some time on a treadmill, get used to walking faster, and you might find that people don't give you funny looks after all.
Plex is nice for kids, Buy a inexpensive USB blu-0ray drive and you can legally rip and put in plex
I lived in Central America in the early 2000's volunteer teaching. Many of my students were on Hi5.
I really hope there's an incompetence (as opposed to just not caring about doing their job right) based explanation for this otherwise it calls all of ABC's other reporting into question as well as that of every similiar media company.

Edit: I'm genuinely curious why this getting down-voted?
I would think the US takes more notice than most countries as all citizens regardless of where they live and if they've ever actually visited the US are required to pay US taxes.
I´ve used Ionic for both mobile apps and PWA (web sites that access the device hardware).

It is pretty straightforward to do both in Ionic.

As a side comment, the other day I wanted to do a very simple single page "app" (I jog, so I wanted a "sonar" kind of app that told me how far to my target speed I am, constantly).

I thought I was going to give native Andriod Studio a try... as this was a very simple app and I was going to use GPS functionality, it sounded right. I was badly surprised by the way UIs are built in Android Studio, it is so fugly, it took me back to the AWT/Swing framework I worked with in the late 90s. After battling with the ConstraitLayouts and other bullshit, I went back to Ionic to do a simple HTML layout and had the app working in 1 hour.

I can't believe in 2019 that is the way Google is making people build interfaces in Android.
are there unemployment statistics for software engineers? The overall unemployment statistics are probably way off from the subset of professionals and or software engineers.
Well it seems that at least some movies are in 4K HDR: https://www.amazon.co.jp/Lupin-III-The-Castle-of-Cagliostro-...
If I remember correctly I watched an interview with Google engineer working on whitespaces technology and he indicated it was internally killed due to potential fear of competing with android clients (cellular carriers)
Sampling can be faster than optimization
It's kinda hard to get those statistics, as new cars havent been driven that long, yet!

But you can probably get a good estimate from extrapolating the red curve in this plot using a power law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle_fatality_rate_in...

Also you can look at the safest countries worldwide, compared to the US, to get a feel for what's achievable with today's tech. Looks like Norway is the safest, with 4x better safety statistics than the US. That's probably a combination of better drivers education and safer vehicles, so not straight forward to compare. So really, you would need something like a 50x improvement over current US rates for it to be a notable achievement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-r...
Well they just raised $1B, so I hope they can exist at least a little while ;).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20497548
I hope they do a kit.
When was that? Everyone's got to start somewhere. I was the only web developer for a really big moving company back when you were just called webmaster. Ran it off Mac OS X Server 1.2 on an original iMac for a while.
So, your point is that the US government has not bothered to put up cameras in small towns?

Doesn't matter, they still track your location using your mobile and make a copy of all of your phone calls, text messages, emails, corporate-managed voice calls (Skype etc.) and so on. Small town or not.
Btrfs is the default filesystem for OpenSuse. I use it all the time and it's very stable.
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

Give it a try, it's part of the kernel and it works really well.
I was unemployed in my early 20s for over 2 months during the 2008-09 recession. My bank account was overdrawn and my credit cards were maxed out. 2 $20 McDonald's gift cards from the "random stuff" drawer was a God-Send. Double cheeseburgers were still 99 cents then, and had nearly 500 calories. I'd get 1 a day and supplement that with some flour-water mixture I pressed into a cookie sheet to make hardtack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack.
1) Statue of limitations doesn't apply to government debt (or actions). (With some rare exceptions.)

>confiscating independently earned money from your children

2) The "child" is only involved because the welfare benefits were claimed using her as a dependent or claimant. That same child's Taco Bell wages put them over the limit to qualify for benefits, but those wages were also not included on the application.

This probably falls on the mother for claiming a child that was no longer a dependent. Or purposefully excluding income in order to qualify. But it still is attached to the child. And for all we know, the child could be the one who lied about her income.

Assuming it was the mom's fault, it was shitty of the mother to do, but the child is still liable. Just as if the mom opened a credit card in the kids name and ran up debt.
> 1) english dubs generally suck, imho

Long gone are the days of 4Kids unnecessary censorship of Yu-gi-oh and One Piece.

There was a time when good English dubs were few-and-far between. Maybe Cowboy Bebop and "The Slayers" were probably the only good 90s dubs.

But modern anime is much better about dubbing quality. Madoka Magika was a pleasure in both English and Japanese for me, and many find the My Hero Academia dub / sub to be fine quality as well.

Even some "difficult dubs", like Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumia, ended up being quite good because Kyon's voice actor was superb. (Crispin Freeman). One or two "star" voice actors can really carry a dub and elevate the experience to a new level.

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I don't understand much Japanese personally. But it seems like Japanese voice-actors over-rely upon "vocal tics", like a character drawing out a particular sound or having a catch-phrase.

Ex: "Dattebayo" from Naruto, "Arimasu" from Shana, "Nyan" from many, many cat characters (Hellsing Ultimate, Stein's; Gate, Log Horizon), "Desu", etc. etc.

English dubs typically remove the vocal tics, and rely upon more fundamental voice acting to differentiate the characters. I think it helps me get drawn into the characters more.

Ex: English Dub audience didn't like Naruto's "Believe it" as a translation to Dattebayo. The dubbing community just outright rejects vocal tics. So yeah, its a different experience, but its more "realistic" IMO.

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My experience with Disney's Studio Ghibli dubs has been extremely good. Disney is a top-notch studio and hires big-names like Billy Crystal (Calcifer) or Mark Hamill (Mayor from Nausicaa)
> - Why were they not using automotive grade flash?

Cool. I did not realize there were such products.
Reminds me of Prince not allowing the videos of his music and concerts (the prized bootlegs) not to be on YouTube depriving newer fans from appreciating his musical genius.

Yes it is the right of an artist to decide how his work will be presented but why such silly restrictions , why bother making stuff for public consumption at all if people can't get enjoyment from it ???.

Fortunately his estate is far more liberal in allowing his material to be enjoyed.
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation
Interesting comments for anyone concerned about the privacy implications of having devices with cameras and microphones everywhere these days, particularly when it's other people's devices that someone might not be aware of and has almost never given consent to.
So long as it isn't used to disenfranchise people from a single vote, there's no problem. Now, things get complicated and we would have to do work to get it right in that we have inconsistent rules on residency in terms of students and temporary housing, and we have a significant number of people who don't want to see a national registry of citizens (see issues with using SSN as a national ID) but there's nothing specifically that Democrats would object to philosophically.

The problem comes when we start trying to purge the rolls and there are false positives. The bigger problem is when those false positives are disproportionately citizens of color. Similarly, voter ID cards are not problems philosophically as much as these ID laws disproportionately affecting poor people and people of color.

If you want an ID law, you make IDs free, you account for many of the edge cases like elderly people who don't have birth certificates yet are clearly citizens, and you bend over backwards to make sure everyone who can vote gets one regardless of it costing a little more.
Enabling DNT is worth it, but not for the reason which seems obvious. The DNT header was created so Internet advertisers could point and say, "only 0.1% of users have enabled DNT - this is evidence that people don't care about or even WANT to be tracked" in the face of scrutiny by regulators. It's a single extra bit of information about your request; I wouldn't worry about "de-anonymization" resulting from enabling it, but would suggest enabling it as a token gesture anyway.
I will never ever buy a phone without a fingerprint scanner on the front. It might be under the screen or a separate button, I don't care. It just has to be, and it must be on the front side.
btrfs pools can use different sized disks, which can be useful.
And of course you could store the results on Postgresql!!
And you've reached this conclusion how?

The sense of security in anonymity is not false as long as the dark web continues to proliferate its services.

Your conclusion is invalid without providing further proof. If you want counter-proof, just visit the dark web one of these days. it's as vibrant as ever.
I can attest to the genius that is MobX. Having worked on a frontend project built with RxJs + React for nearly two years, I feel like I have kept all of the benefits of reactivity and discarded a lot of complexity and learning curve that mostly came from RxJs.

The API surface of MobX is a breeze, and it kind of pushes you into the pit of success.
Yeah, I like Pass the most in this space, but it doesn't encrypt the index of logins/items that you're keeping. I.e. it's a folder tree of encrypted files, so you can see the sites, logins and other things that I'm using. That's kind of a deal breaker for me, though I'm pondering if I'm being practical, or just overly cautious.
Heineken actually, briefly, ran an experiment where they made the bottles more rectangular, so that they could be filled with earth and then cemented together as glass bricks: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-heineken-bo...

Glass is a pretty good insulator and generally weather-proof, UV-resistant etc, and cheap to produce.
I wish I knew this 2 years ago, going to have to migrate to something that isn’t down every month.
You can get a USB blu-ray drive pretty inexpensively and rip a copy you own. I guess you you also just buy a blue-ray version of the movie and download a copy from any of the thousands of high-quality online sources.
There are more instances of credible or plausible media manipulation specifically regarding Syria, e.g. the story of gas attacks in Douma:

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/syria-chemical-attack-g...

Edit: This, attributed to the same author, is even clearer:
https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/05/27/the-evidence-we-were...

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"For in the last few days, there has emerged disturbing evidence that in its final report on the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime in the city of Douma last year, the OPCW deliberately concealed from both the public and the press the existence of a dissenting 15-page assessment of two cylinders which had supposedly contained molecular chlorine – perhaps the most damning evidence against the Assad regime in the entire report.

The OPCW officially maintains that these canisters were probably dropped by an aircraft – probably a helicopter, presumably Syrian – over Douma on 7 April 2018. But the dissenting assessment, which the OPCW made no reference to in its published conclusions, finds there is a “higher probability that both cylinders were manually placed at those two locations rather than being delivered from aircraft”."
China is wealthy in spite of the CCP and its strict control, not because of it. And until they get private property rights figured it out, they could fail to stay wealthy.
Ask HN: Why There's No Redis Labs / MongoDB Company for PostgreSQL?
They did get input, but it's not clear to what extent that input was respected in the purges: https://radio.wosu.org/post/ohio-voter-purge-will-remove-tho...

Besides, if those checks showed that a large number of people were included in the purge for demonstrably wrong reasons, it would be prudent to assume that a lot of additional purges would also be suspect.
Auto-backup alternatively to two Time Machine disks. Off-site backup using Crashplan for a portion of content critical. Manual regular cold storage to S3 Glacier.
My main problem with Ionic (having used it for several apps) is that it is very difficult to find answers to question on the web. Reference sites are full of "this is how I fixed it" that work on v1 or v2 or v3 and most of all don't work for v4.

Unfortunately the speed in which they are changing things make community references obsolete quickly.
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6334178
The 65 Best Inventions of the Past 65 Years (2018)
Continuation-local storage (CLS) in depth
Law enforcement will always chafe at the chains of privacy. Hell, if the police could read your thoughts, they would.
> Is there a way to get those records expunged?

Really?

"Yes sir, we have entirely expunged your data and you have the US government's solemn promise that we didn't make a copy of the files we're not telling you about."

Effectively, there is no such thing as expunging digital data. There's always probably some extra copy somewhere.
no one employs perfect opsec at all times and all it takes is one small mistake. ross ulbricht (sill road guy) caught caught because of one silly forum post that linked his two identities.
If you're just looking for people, wouldn't Facebook work?

I would think that self-hosting is preferable in that things can better reflect the character of your meetup instead of everything being generic (I never liked Meetup.com for that reason).

Also, it's good to avoid lock-in.

So what about an aggregator for everyone's meetups? Maybe an API somewhere that you hit with your meetup info and that's a place to find the audience, but the aggregator tries to push them to your site?
Ionic was a huge velocity-booster at my last startup. They caught some (unfair) flak for being Angular-centric when React got hot. Glad to see them constantly improving things!

P.S. Can the creator.ionic.io get more love? 0:)
> I’ve never in my life felt going to a department store I’d be met by someone knowledgeable in an area other than makeup.

Coincidentally, this is likely the highest margin department in the store.
The US Government developed Tor so that covert agents around the world would be able to effectively hide their internet traffic. See https://www.torproject.org/about/history/

They need other people to use it to be effective. They aren't going to shut it down until they have a replacement. They might even control >50% of the network.
Really thoughtful piece from someone we rarely hear from when startups fail, an early employee.

To me the money quote is one of the best description of a founders responsibilities I've ever read:

The founder must be a gardener, treating its people and processes with a delicate touch, ensuring the company is growing healthily and sustainably. The founder must be an architect and know when to hack and when to build, always aware of the foundation beneath the surface. Most importantly, the founder is a navigator sailing into uncharted territory.
Yes, You Should Estimate Software Projects
Ouch. That Sears is what I remember K-mart looking like in the 80’s. If that’s what most Sears have been like lately, then I’m not surprised they went under.
"Loff" is terrible! I didn't even like it as a kid. To be sure, not all Norwegian bread is great, I was really speaking about the general difference in the availability of good bread.