skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. It has always been plausible.

Just perhaps not a SWAT team, specifically.
Full report here: http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-14-81
Doesn't that contradict your previous post?
"They expect continued support and upgrades not a dead forgotten project 3 years down the road."

Go is open sourced for like the last 4 years and has its own separate community. There isn't such a possibility either down or up the road.
awesome this is great news. The jQuery and Twitter js libs kept me from using it in the past, cant wait to update some of my projects with it.
I can imagine the nausea induced by a game like mirrors edge would be off the charts. I'm looking forward to this though!
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In what way? Have you looked at bookmarks?
I might have read this wrong, but safety for newbies doesn't sound all that bad to me.
> Oh for gods sake, are we still discussing this? It's been almost a hundred years.

Chill out buddy, not all of us were alive in 1917.
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The whole point of a PhD is that it is a third-party-backed proof that you're capable of doing independent research on a novel topic.

Compare: "I'm good at doing this, trust me", and "I'm good at doing this, so sayeth this big university". It's a form of vetting, and we're all familiar with people who say they have long experience in something and are good at selling you on that, yet they wouldn't know their arse from their elbow. Or lack the deep knowledge a PhD would require of the topic.

Of course you can be awesome without a PhD (and far from all PhDs are awesome), but it's a credentialled form of vetting. A PhD also proves you can complete a multi-year project through the hard yards, and most of them run into plenty of difficulties.
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A dumb digital thermostat needs no power from the house, there's usually a small replaceable battery (like a 9V alkaline) to drive the relay and switch the control wires. The even dumber mechanical/mercury ones worked totally without power.

Not every system provides the 24VAC red/common wire from the HVAC unit to the thermostat. There is a small amount of current between the hot wire and the control input, which is why you can't usually use solid state triacs/SSRs in a home thermostat. You need an old-fashioned contactor relay.

Twoodfin is referring to the Nest parasitically drawing current from those control wires to charge the battery.
Thanks and yes. We have no exit strategy nor would we be able to go public, as we are non-profit foundation. Fast growing and doing good in the world is a good place to be.
Well, Luban essay cites newspaper sources as well, it's not a problem per se.
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I think your math might be a little off. The idea isn't to give basic income to everyone. The idea would be basically give it to anyone who can't afford basic living expenses. Not to everyone. It's not 25% of the entire population that isn't working, but only 25% of the poorest people being provided income and who probably weren't working anyways
some of these remind me of what I felt the first time I played Myst.
I've been doing exactly this for the last few months. I estimate I've mentored around 40 start-ups in the last two months alone.

You're likely to get more leads from MicroMentor.org , Clarity.fm , SoHelpful.me , PopExpert and Quora.

Feel free to contact me if you need more details. Contact details in my profile.
In addition to being an impressive demo, the type and range of experiences represented in these is interesting. After some random clicking, I saw a:

- walkthrough of a wealth manager's office
- boat cruising around a marina
- a walk through an exclusive shopping district with an Hermes and Louis Vuitton.
- a duomo in Florence.
No front-facing camera yet? That would give you some of the advantages of augmented reality, cost next to nothing, and allow gamers who are physically sitting together to interact more.
It's expected that your supervisor pays your tuition because he has grants. This is important signalling. No stipends means no grants and a worthless program.
This is market action. Market != money. You're making a value choice between different outcomes and exercising an unrestricted choice to pursue what you want out of a marketplace of options.

You should also consider that nonprofit != "helping the world". There are lots of non-profit efforts that don't wind up helping one bit, and just consuming resources. (for that matter, this happens with for-profits, too).

And, having been through the mill, A PhD does not guarantee you intellectual freedom. I'd say it might even be worse in some sectors of the academe.
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Thanks for the tip! But this allows you to move your perspective outside of the rail system, but doesn't change the fact that you only have images established on the rail system itself.
Well, said ice cream shop had a fully open wifi before going through the hassle of creating the captive portal by themselves two years ago.

The thing that really irks me is the assumption that nowadays everyone has facebook. Isn't it surprising that in a country that finds national IDs liberticide the problem of identifying people is being outsourced to a corporate monopoly?
Sure, all of those things are true.

Then you run into someone like me whose eyes are not as young as they once were, and who doesn't care to be abused with whatever happens to be the stylish designer's font palette du jour, and who therefore uses his browser settings to apply a minimum font size and a set of preferred typefaces which page styles aren't allowed to override, and then everything goes to hell.

Can you argue that it's my fault, not yours, that your page doesn't render well under the requirements I impose on the web content I consume? Sure, you can so argue. But every time you have to make that argument with a user, even if you win the argument in that instance, you're still both limiting your potential user base and risking a perception that you're less concerned with your users' needs than with satisfying your own desires.
> if (err) return callback(err)

> That line is haunting me in my dreams now. What happened to the DRY principle?

iferr = (succfn, errfn) -> (err, a...) ->
if err? then errfn err else succfn a...

show_user = (id, cb) ->
db.query ..., iferr cb, (user) ->
...

FTFY, no promises needed. (not to say that promises don't have other advantages, but that specific complaint is easily fixable with an higher-order function to abstract it away)

(JavaScript version: http://coffeescript.org/#try:%20%20iferr%20%3D%20(succfn%2C%...)
I've worked with more pleasant systems, but they are not public and I don't feel comfortable talking about them publicly in much detail.

Basically though, repo is good for a single project ("Android", as a collective entity) but a company looking at working with many repos will want something designed with handling many unrelated projects at once. (For example, all the repos for "Android" and all the repos or "ChromeOS" should be able to live alongside each other in this system without any developer hassle, even though they may not have anything to do with each other).

Also repo is really only one part of the solution a company should look at. Properly done, the sort of system that I am talking about is really several systems that are all basically on the same page. Your build servers should understand how to get the code they need to build something, your internal code search/browsing tools should understand where code lives, etc. Re

Furthermore, allowing different types of repos to exist alongside each other is a good idea. That way each team can individually decide if they want to use Mercurial, Git, or even SVN.. To my knowledge, the repo script is only good for many git repositories.
Oh well, time to remove aviate from my Android phone... Why do they have to go screw things up for us all the time?
It's a horrible thing indeed, especially when trying to use a print-optimized font. Luckily the canary version uses the fancy Windows font rendering pipeline so it's merely a matter of time.

We ended up applying a text shadow of 0.15px to smooth out the eaten-by-mice effect. It's a bit softer, but a good compromise. Fonts with good hinting seem to work better.
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It appears the link has changed (used to be http://www.centos.org/about/governance/ ), so all is well but I wonder how.
Challenge HN: Build a Search Engine
Before HN went down there were 2 articles that made it to the front page in as many days with comments overwhelmingly favoring more/better search engine competition.

Today another post popped up on the front page of HN...this time a link to a new search engine. Predictably, the comments are overwhelmingly negative, not constructive criticism, but mostly thoughtless (e.g. this will not work; not another social network; this has been done before and bought/closed by Google). To be fair there was a sprinkling of positive and thoughtful critique in the comments.

So...I challenge you to do better. Who am I to judge or challenge? Well I will say this much, I am an attorney and otherwise what HN would refer to as "non-technical", but even I launched my own search engine (cir. 2010). I might not have changed search or even gained traction - I did get tens of thousands of search queries from day 1 and a record of 225,000+ on day 4 - but at least I got the experience of completing something.

If a non-hacker can do it, what is stopping you? If it helps for motivation think of this as an unofficial, unorganized HN Hackathon and build your search engine or at least do not just sit around demanding a new search engine or worse yet tearing down others work (again not talking about constructive criticism).
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In a lot of fields a M.S. is a requirement to start a PhD. It has nothing whatsoever to do with coursework. Instead, it's a matter of research experience. (Also, at least in my field, you usually do your B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. at three different institutions.)

At least in the geosciences, it's something like:

B.S.: Basic coursework and a senior thesis

* Senior Thesis: "Here's a well-defined problem, here's how I'd start, why don't you think about how you'd do it and go solve it"

M.S.: A class or two and a Masters Thesis

* Thesis: "Here's an relevant, unsolved problem. Go solve it."

PhD: Research (and lots of seminars)

* Dissertation: "Come up with 3 relevant, unsolved, and interesting problems. Then solve all three of them."

The big difference is really in finding your own interesting problems (and often finding funding for them as well) as opposed to being handed a problem.
What an utter idiot
Additional useful highlights:

> - Some of us now work for Red Hat, but not RHEL.

> - Red Hat is offering to sponsor some of the buildsystem and initial content delivery resources

> - Because we are now able to work with the Red Hat legal teams, some of the contraints that resulted in efforts like CentOS-QA being behind closed doors, now go away and we hope to have the entire build, test, and delivery chain open to anyone who wishes to come and join the effort.

> - The Red Hat Enterprise Linux to CentOS firewall will also remain. Members and contributors to the CentOS efforts are still isolated from the RHEL Groups inside Red Hat, with the only interface being srpm / source path tracking, no sooner than is considered released. In summary: we retain an upstream.
I choose the word draconian because I thought it was the best word to describe the idea I was trying to convey. If I had to rephrase, I suppose that all of 'strict', 'harsh' and 'excessive' would be fair words to use in describing it.

As to your original comment, it can be both draconian and effective. The requirement could be that in addition to your facebook account, you also must upload a photo of yourself, holding government-issued ID, standing in front of the store, etc etc. That would make it even harder to use the wifi anonymously (abuse their system), but would clearly be a draconian measure.
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I think the recent xkcd about symbols is very relevant here, interestingly. As more and more folks were having fun with icons, whether fonts or otherwise, to represent things, it is hilarious how many more slight variations of a symbol I had to learn. Only to usually have sites revert back to using the words at some point.

http://xkcd.com/1306/

That is, arguing that symbols are random seems silly. The whole point is that there is a large base of agreed upon symbols affixed with meanings already. They can even be combined to form different already agreed upon symbols.
Microsoft has a budget of around $9 billion dollars per year for Microsoft Research. I'm pretty sure Photosynth falls under that umbrella?
So, in general nothing much will change for users? Red Hat is introducing stability by employing core developers to work solely on CentOS and possibly streamlining changes between RHEL <-> CentOS. Or, if you prefer to view it like that, Red Hat is exercising more direct control over CentOS.
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"We could have spent a lot of time making it more modular in a way that would be friendly to a source control tool, but there are a number of benefits to using a single repository. Even at our current scale, we often make large changes throughout our code base, and having a single repository is useful for continuous modernization. Splitting it up would make large, atomic refactorings more difficult. On top of that, the idea that the scaling constraints of our source control system should dictate our code structure just doesn't sit well with us."

I remember reading about their Git troubles awhile ago, and I still don't buy this argument that it is better to have one large repository. One reason modularization is important is for the precise reason they are trying to get around it: removing the ability to make large scale changes easy and thus increasing reliability.

However, my understanding is that their desire to have one large repo is reflective of their their "move fast and break things" philosophy, which means not being afraid of making large scale changes. So I would be interested in hearing how they mitigate the obvious downsides given how many people they have committing to their codebase. It seems like you would just end up having to create constraints in other ways, so which constraints end up being the lesser of two evils?
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Typographical symbols work in part because they exist within a specific problem domain whose practitioners are trained to understand them, and also because the constraints of their native domain privilege function (expressing some directive regarding how a given chunk of text should be typeset) over form (the look and feel of the glyphs themselves). Neither of these properties seems likely to be guaranteed for the much more general domain in which web icons exist.
The proverbial two-edged sword there.
A point you repeatedly make in your OP is that everyone uses torture -- not just the bad guys -- and that it's just a tool to extract information. So it seems certainly relevant that your selection of examples are all of bad guys committing torture on the "good guys" or otherwise innocent victims.

Fringe, especially in its earlier "monster of the week" seasons, has a very clear distinction between the "good guys" and the "bad guys". Since only the bad guys are committing torture, it seems more plausible that the writers of Fringe think that the audience will view torture as something bad people do. However, it does not support your point that torture is a tool used by everyone.

There's one plot line in season 5 where Peter tortures an Observer. But it was depicted as a moral failing of Peter to commit torture, opposite what you suggest in your OP ("In fact it’s often portrayed as a moral failing to not do anything it takes to get the results you need.").

The entire plot line is very dark as Peter's grief over his daughter takes him down a bad path. It is supposed to be (and was for me) uncomfortable to watch.
Would you be willing to chat about it via email? I'd love to know more, as I'm starting to look at implementing something like this and it'd be nice to reuse any work that someone has done in thinking through mistakes before I make them...

(my email is listed in my HN profile)
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So is this blog incorrect in stating that you can simply change CNAME at your domain's registrar and still take advantage of github's CDN for "apex" domains? http://davidensinger.com/2013/03/setting-the-dns-for-github-...

Github stated that if you use an "apex" domain your only option is to set A records to their IP but that doesn't seem right.
I think it's you who has misunderstood basic income. Under most schemes everyone gets it. That's the whole point.
I have a strong feeling that you're going to be yearning for a long, long time.
I am not sure if i feel happy or not about this. I just hope they don't go the Fedora way on mangling, moving and changing everything around with every iteration.

I don't see what interest has RH into Centos except for trying to disrupt the base and push that way more businesses and customers to RH.

Maybe i'm just biased but Centos is doing pretty good in my opinion except maybe the late code changes and updates.
I think the point is it's useful enough for many situations.
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I really wish that, when RHEL/CentOS branches from Fedora to make a new release, they would also keep and provide a snapshot of Fedora's repository at that time, just like what Ubuntu does when they sync with Debian Sid (i.e.: packages in 'main' and 'restricted' repos are supported, all other packages in the Debian archive are imported and made available in 'universe' and 'multiverse' repository for your convenience).

That would work a long way to make CentOS a viable Linux distribution for everyday use. In my experience, EPEL isn't enough and rebuilding packages seems like a wasted effort since they were there when they branched off to prep a new release.

Add a somewhat predictable release schedule on top of that (again, in my opinion Ubuntu hit the sweet spot with 24 months here) and that would be the icing on the cake. Heck, RHEL 6 was first released in 2010 and there's still Python 2.6 on that!

I know that I could shut up and use Ubuntu (I do), it's just that I like RedHat way more than Canonical but they don't make it easy for me to use and love their products (speaking as a former Fedora user and contributor).
True, but the prototypical modern terrorist doesn't need robust or safe, nor does he need to get the device airborne. He just needs a detonation, which (once you have the uranium) doesn't require sophisticated machining.
I see this as RH not wanting competition and/or wanting to somehow control CentOS. It's no wonder, honestly, that Debian is gaining in popularity as they are the last of the main Linux distros who control their own destiny. I feel very awkward about this news.
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Let me make a wild guess, that whoever convinced you those are bad things to be avoided, personally financially benefits from your lack of a stable job, lack of vacation and lack of a good lifestyle?

I think you're missing the point that most PhDs will never attain that state via the 'conventional pathway' in any case, and the professor is seeing the outcome for the student as being some sort of entitlement just because the professor had it easy. It's borderline fraudulent behavior.
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I'd say it paints a rosy picture for Node putting async event driven architectures on the same level as green threads. They are not even close. In one you have to manage all the details yourself, whereas the other results in a far cleaner implementation with much fewer opportunities for bugs.
Is it possible that tools meant for ships/oil rigs/trucks are built differently from those that have the luxury of sitting on a stationary floor?
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There's a solution to this. Git submodules.
Add to this some cultural issues. One of my relatives got a science PhD in the US to fulfill the dreams of his Chinese parents. It's not that he was fascinated by the subject, nor did he need immigration help (he had a green card.) It's just that he, the only son, had an obligation to his long-suffering parents to add to the status of the family as judged by other Chinese.
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So she's going to try to port over google now except she's trying to do it through aqui-hiring.
The first day I hooked the Rift Dev kit up to the Razer Hydra I nearly broke my monitor trying to juggle virtual balls. It was awesome.

One of the most incredible experiences has been playing as the Team Fortress 2 pyro. Perceiving the 3d-volume of the flame flowing out from the gun was a serious "wow" moment.

There's a lot to be excited about here. It sounds like the resolution is going up and the latency is coming down significantly in the next revision. Carmack's devlog tweets[0] are just fascinating. The team is filled with incredible devs. I'm cautiously optimistic that believable VR is possible and, if so, I'm pretty sure Oculus will make the thing that fools your brain first.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack
> I suspect this is the case for a chunk of that $10B.

Why? AppStore sales keep going up year after year. That would suggest most people have a good experience. I think most people might have more realistic expectations. Your gripes are basically with software in general. Occasionally you get a dud app, crashy game, or otherwise regret a purchase. This has been my experience with software for the last I dunno 25 years or so. It takes some effort to find the good software for any platform. We all put up with it because we know there is very good software out there. It's worth the effort to seek it out.
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What if he worked for local police, which help keep order around the NSA headquarters? Or chooses to operate a US based company, sending more tax money to fund the NSA?

At any rate, if the NSA wanted to continue to participate, they'd just hire people not officially associated with the NSA.
And some more here http://community.redhat.com/centos-faq/#_centos
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Show HN: QuickChat - An Open-Source Snapchat clone built in 5 days
Hi HN,

My name is Taylor and I built QuickChat - an app similar to Snapchat - in 5 days to challenge myself. I shared the entire process publicly on my blog, taylorbeck.me, and I have received amazing support and feedback from everyone following along.

The source code is available here: https://github.com/tagabek/QuickChat

I am also a full-time iOS consultant, and am actively looking for work. Feel free to connect with me via email.

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