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The shop management request a FB identifier as this reduces abuse of their wifi. If that didn't work they probably wouldn't use it - it's basically a way to require work of those who want to log on anonymously, probably enough work that it's easier to just go elsewhere.

The shop staff suggested using a faked ID - but they didn't suggest that this should still be the persons only ID for Facebook. That was their solution as an individual.

They're not even particularly contrary as practical solutions go - the first policy is presented to the public, it works to reduce wifi abuse. The second "policy" is not presented and works to try and avoid confrontations.
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Of course something like "exec /usr/bin/screen -xRR" in your .bash_profile or whatever does roughly the opposite, which is also cool, because you can attach multiple devices to the same open screen session simultaneously.

I believe if its in .bash_profile you want it in a "if [ -n "$SSH_TTY"]; then stanza, it was something about scp or running commands in a ssh commandline would misbehave. One of those things you set up in you dotfiles in the 90s or whatever and forget why you did it.
That account appears to have been hell-banned a while ago, see comment history.
bluekitten, you have been shadowedbanned for 11 days for some reason. You might want to contact info@ycombinator.com to find out why.
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Source Code: https://github.com/tagabek/QuickChat

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Yeah, that blog isn't right, or at least it shouldn't be. (Just because a DNS registrar allows you to set up @ to point to a CNAME, or www to point to multiple CNAMEs on their authoritative servers, doesn't mean that your recursive nameserver will know what to do with that.)

It might be that Namecheap allows you to configure "CNAME's" but actually implements them as ALIAS records or HTTP redirects or something similar and obscures that from the user. Not having a Namecheap account I can't say for certain.

GitHub is correct, the @ record cannot be a CNAME.
The fact that my scroll wheel breaks is really really really annoying.
I wonder what they use at Microsoft. For their sake I hope they don't subject their own engineers to TFS.
Not the way I read it. The previous post seems to be suggesting the NSA doesn't have some backdoor into Windows that Microsoft put there for them explicitly, while the followup suggests that even without such an explicit backdoor, one should assume the NSA can take control of just about any system with a network connection (which is probably not explicitly true, but is true enough that you should just assume it).

The second suggestion being they (the NSA) have a (likely lengthy) list of exploits found in common OSes (and/or firmware or CPU microcode) that they have never divulged and that they have discovered like any external security research would have (albeit one with a very large budget and a very strong incentive to find such control vectors).
Bachelor's degree holders encompass a much larger set of population, with a lot more variance than the set of PhD holders. I'd think that if you can get a set of "people without PhD that could have been capable of getting one" and compare it with PhD holders, the difference would be far smaller, if any.
We lack basic access to affordable health care, we drive too much which causes more fatal accidents/injuries, we don't walk enough so we don't get enough exercise, and we eat highly processed foods. Pretty simple.
They wont change much around, I think. CentOS is a clone of RHEL and there's very little that changes around in RHEL.
A PhD proves one can convince a group of 5 (or so) people that one's efforts are worth signing off on so that the "Big University" will grant a certificate. In other words, it's the same "so sayeth this big university" process you disparage, but in a different sphere. It does not signal, to me, the ability to complete a multi-year project "through the hard yards," in and of itself.

People who are extremely bright and capable researchers wash out of PhD programs all the time for a variety of reasons entirely unrelated to their abilities or desires, and people who would be lost without their committee chairperson guiding their research complete their PhDs all the time.
Looks like macwright broke today. It's now showing an infinite redirect loop. It was definitely working when you posted the link; maybe HN hugged it a bit too hard.
>Too many kids are interested in science. We should stop trying to encourage interest in science as a career, and rather encourage kids to develop interests elsewhere, to reduce the glut. No more kids-oriented physics or astronomy programs on public TV!

Sounds like an edict in Tropico.
Just because the Supreme Council condones something does not mean that it is consistent with the Constitution (which is itself only relevant because it's USG's purported charter).
This is awesome. Those who complaint about encryption and security are probably not your target users...

This is a great tool.
Where do compile-to-CSS languages like SASS or LESS fit into this picture?
It seems extremely likely that it is the same person, but nevertheless, I don't think your comment is contributing to the discussion. I don't think domain squatting (or lack thereof) is relevant to a general offer to do arbitrary work as a journeyman for room and board.
I thought most PhDs go the route of E1 outstanding researcher, which requires a job. Is E1-NIW common?
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> I just hope they don't go the Fedora way on mangling, moving and changing everything around with every iteration.

Why would they? CentOS is RHEL, they'll ship whatever RHEL ships.
Yes, I think many people actually are interested in science (and quite right too!). But it's worth noting that studying science (at undergraduate-degree or PhD level) is also a pretty good preparation for work in -- to take the examples you list -- finance, programming, or petroleum engineering, and I haven't noticed that having a PhD in physics is any bar to success in such fields.
I read somewhere(?) that they where running Perforce with some internal tooling built on top of it.
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The absolute worst that can happen is a return to the state of today. Also, CentOS didn't do anything new and creative and visionary that all. Their goal from the beginning was to replicate RHEL with all the non-free bits (mostly artwork and trademarks) replaced.
Yeah, I thought of that the moment I posted.
For some context of why Facebook choose Hg over Git, here's the mailing list thread where Facebook initially reached out to the Git developers: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/18977...
The giant shadowy hand on the intro video was an interesting choice.
One thing I have learned about myself is that not every learning method works equally well. In other words: Everyone learns differently. Is it possible that your training style, which I am sure worked great for many employees, left others out in the cold rather than a case of them being unable to learn at all?
According to this page, Mercurial project leader is currently working for Facebook:
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/mpm
Perhaps he's more skilled at Windows than at Linux? In which case, if he were to switch to a platform that's unfamiliar, he would be more likely to make an error that would lead him to being vulnerable.

I'd suggest that by using a platform that he knows how to make secure rather than one he's unfamiliar with, he is acting in the best way to ensure the security of his device.
Now imagine if every hosting provider and internet provider had the same policy, such that it was essentially impossible to discuss many viewpoints and ideas via the internet (which is the best - arguably even the only - avenue most people have to disseminate their views to a wider audience). That pretty substantially restricts the kinds of speech that can actually be communicated effectively. Indeed, part of the reason why hosting providers are under such pressure to have anti-hate-speech provisions is because it will make disseminating those views difficult.
Can you point to any benchmarks demonstrating this?
Hmm, so changing gh-pages on a project doesn't change anything, because it redirects anyway? That's sort of a bummer.

Thanks for your insight though, much appreciated.
In a post snowden world, thinking email can be secure and talking about client-server encryption shows a lack of understanding in the snowden revelations.

Emails will be secure only whith a new protocol different than SMTP.

Edit: Sorry my post sounds agressive. It's not the goal. I'm sure you understand the snowden revelation. However I don't think their goal is to provide fully 'secure' email but only quick and anonymous email assuming it is used with a system like Tor of course.
The comment below https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7020134 says build and test in centos will open up, which is great news.
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I just flicked away from this page to wikipedia and noticed exactly what you described on the same version of Chrome. Weird!
> So, in general nothing much will change for users?

Sounds like the CentOS QA process will be more transparent.
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Is it just me or is the OP's page font very difficult to read? On my system it seems low contrast and blurry, almost out of focus. I had to abandon reading the post by the 3rd paragraph, ironically because my eyes couldn't handle the font choice.
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I have an undergraduate degree in an unrelated field (from software engineering, which is what I do). I have never really wanted to go on because the income opportunity loss was too great. But I once thought if I were independently wealthy I would go back. I recently had a chance to do a graduate-level coursework for my job. It was a real shock to remember that "getting the right answer" was more important than learning anything or making something. So if it's about learning something, I think there are better things you can do than get a degree. Especially now that education has become such a business and totally employment-oriented.
am creating a payment platform and am interested in knowing what informs your choices there.
Don't worry, be happy. CentOS was never real competition to RH, instead it was providing an invaluable ecosystem. In a way RH always controlled CentOS since the latter is just a clone.

If CentOS gets shitty you can always move to SL, Puias etc or make your own.
I worked at Google (in a team using Perforce) and now work at a different company that uses multiple interdependent projects using Maven. Using a single monolithic codebase along with a build tool that statically builds everything at trunk has its advantages:

* You immediately get improvements from upstream projects without having to get them manually.

* You can unambiguously answer the question, What code am I using? with a single number. With multiple repositories, you have to list all the versions of each project that you are using.

* Easy API refactoring. You don’t have to worry about coordinating version number bumps across different repositories/dependency manifests when you make major changes to inter-project APIs. With a monolithic repository, you fix all callers of an API using a single code commit. No need to edit the version numbers in your pom files.

* Low cost to split a project into multiple separate projects. With multiple repositories or version numbers, you are reluctant to create new projects because the APIs will forever be harder to refactor (since you will have to worry about version numbers).

* No diamond dependency problem of 2 dependencies using a different version of a base project. Everyone is using the same version of base.

With a monolithic repository+build system, upstream callers are responsible to never make a commit that breaks downstream callers. I feel like it’s similar to the question of optimal currency areas. If your organization is growing in lock-step, then you can all happily share a single gold-standard repository with little friction. But if you can’t trust your upstream projects, you introduce versioning between the projects and have to deal with the mental burden of wondering whether to upgrade to the newest upstream project and whether you’re actually running the latest code.

Edit: added a couple more.
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I know what you mean about 'feeling awkward'.

But think: how could Red Hat 'control' CentOS when CentOS is simply a clone of RHEL produced from the srpms that Red Hat have to distribute under the terms of the GPL?

As Karanbir says, 'we retain an upstream'.

There are other clones: Scientific Linux (CERN/Fermilabs and a lot of Universities) and Springdale Linux (Princeton/Institute of Advanced Study) are two other RHEL clones. And of course, there is Oracle Linux, a third clone, and one that provides commercial support.
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That makes no sense. Facebook specifically said they might have chosen git! They had the same choices as any developer except that a) they don't care about github, and b) they wanted to modify the VCS to support massive scale. Apparently out of git and mercurial, mercurial is easier to extend.
E1 - Persons with extraordinary ability doesn't require a job offer, neither does E2-NIW. Yes, E2-NIW is rather common because it's a catch-all category that does not require sponsorship.
Android hasn't remotely caught up with Apple in revenue/app. They have a huge market share advantage and yet currently the revenue share is hugely in Apple's favor. I think currently it is something like 70/30 iOS in the lead.
Please, please kill icon fonts. Redefining special font characters for graphics is just asking for all kinds of cross-platform browser compatibility trouble.
IIRC (I might search for it later) that was a spambot fix. Apparently it was fairly effective - I presume the bots were smart enough to find the 'login' link on the front page then register an account from there but not much else.
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>my friend has no technical ability

In my experience moving forward, I won't do this again. It is just the little things. You get sick of explaining words like monotonically or whatever that comes up. I don't think you need a hacker/PhD cofounder, but they need to have some tech-savvyness if it is a tech-based startup. It will just make life easier.
It’s not entirely crazy to think about the universe as a hologram.
Does this mean we can finally stop referring to RedHat as an unnamed "Prominent North American Enterprise Linux Vendor"?
Now if they can just get rid of RPM I might come back!
> At the W3C, no spec can reach REC without having two interoperable implementations.

Wishful thinking? Where are these reference implementations documented for HTML 2.0, 3.2, 4.01?

> Also note everyone copying the reference implementation isn't good either — there's no guarantee the spec actually defines enough to recreate the reference implementation then!

If the spec is lacking, whatever the reference implementation does completes the spec. There is no value in having a pure paper spec that someone may be able to implement a correct piece of software with over having a correct reference implementation with full source code.
Let me translate: "if this tool is not exactly like Git, I will not use it".
Android is only split up into smaller repositories because git can't handle having it all in one.
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One question: Are the OECD averages weighted by population, or does each country get equal weight?
If you're using Chrome Canary, shouldn't you try regular Chrome first before you complain about bugs?
> I really wish that, when RHEL/CentOS branches from Fedora to make a new release, they would also keep a snapshot of Fedora's repository at that time

It isn't always so easy. I don't know what RHEL7 is like, but for 6 and 5 there wasn't a complete correlation between a Fedora release and a RHEL release. For example, 6 is mostly based on Fedora 12, except for a bunch of backports from 13 and a few from 14.
Agreed on all points. But market action != market forces. I was not persuaded by a disparity between supply and demand in the market to do a PhD.

My PhD has a very direct route to helping the world, and I chose it because after about a year of searching I considered it the most efficient way to use my skills to do so. My next move might well be in the for-profit world; Ive seen some very effective stuff happening there.

Similarly, the PhD in general doesn't guarantee intellectual freedom, but mine does. This was a major factor in choosing my supervisor (there are ~20 in the consortium I wanted to work in, and I rejected several).
Yes (according to one of the core devs).
It looks like a really interesting idea. I'll check back in a few months, see if there's more information than that two-second elevator pitch of a website.
>With perforce, you can reasonably expect to run into this brick wall somewhere in the neighborhood of terabytes of metadata and dozens of transactions per second. That changes depending on what sort of beastly hardware you are willing to throw at your version control team.

>Git of course hits a brick wall much sooner, somewhere around single-digit gigabytes of data (depending heavily on the average size of every object in the DAG), even ignoring throughput.

if you use Git the same way you'd use Perforce or Mercurial - one central server handling everything ... you'd better stay with Perforce or Mercurial. Corporate dev process is usually built around notion of "central" repo (and they equate it with "master") - just replacing Perforce server with Git server wouldn't change anything.
whats the over under for companies that get purchased by google/yahoo/apple/microsoft and never see anything more from them?
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90% of people choose Git because everyone else uses it. Noone has been fired for buying IBM.
Do come back, it's better than the competition nowadays. :)
And if you need multimedia codecs, a version of VLC that works properly, and if you live somewhere where it is legal to play a DVD on a machine running linux, there is the Nux desktop repository.
Seconded. After having tried the headset, that was exactly my thought. Just put a cam in front and a way to switch view quickly to be able to also see people with the headset on if you wish.
I think you and I must not agree on what the word "serious" means.
In the beginning, there was Red Hat Linux[1]. It was sold in boxes at stores such as CompUSA (remember?) but was also available for free download from Red Hat.

Then, Red Hat decided they could make more money by spinning off Red Hat Linux into a separate enterprise-only product called Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), which they declined to make available for free in a ready-to-install binary form. Fedora[2] was also spun off at this time, as the free successor to Red Hat Linux that was supposed to be only suitable for home users. Fedora development was/is sponsored by Red Hat but they did not offer end-user support, in contrast to RHEL.

Meanwhile, there was demand for a free version of RHEL. Since it was built with GPL software, Red Hat was obligated to make it available in source form, but their trademark policy prohibited anyone else from using the Red Hat name. Therefore, a group of volunteers took RHEL, removed Red Hat trademarks, and called it CentOS. To avoid confusion, CentOS explained the origins of the distribution on their web site. For their efforts, they were threatened by Red Hat's legal department and forced to remove all mentions of Red Hat and even links to Red Hat's web site from the CentOS web site. CentOS complied and began referring to its Red Hat derivations using the euphemism PNAELV[3].

Now, Red Hat has again decided they would benefit from being more directly involved in providing an open-source, freely-available enterprise Linux distribution. We've come full circle.

(Flippant depiction aside, I intend no antagonism, but merely find the history of these projects interesting.)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Linux
[2]: https://fedoraproject.org/en/about-fedora
[3]: http://www.pnaelv.net
Breaking Bad actually had relatively little violence as far as contemporary TV shows go. Most of it was tame, with very few instances of grislier brutality. That and it all perfectly fit within the narrative, rather than being wanton and gratuitous for no reason.
Right, but "dev-marketing" is a different word than "developer marketing".
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It's fine. On my screen (Windows 7, latest Chrome) it's a readable serif font with decent contrast. Text is sharp, though I personally don't favor serif fonts for main text.

I always wonder at all these HN comments about impossible to read sites, is it the computer, the software, the display or the thing that sits between the keyboard and the chair?
I had completely forgotten about Eastern Europe and the end of the Cold War.
I think "route" was the wrong word. If you set up CNAME in github.com/jdan/jdan.github.io to jordanscales.com, then accessing jdan.github.io/cleaver will result in a request to jordanscales.com/cleaver.

If your repo github.com/jdan/jdan.github.io has a cleaver subdirectory, then it will direct to the directory in the repo (masking the gh-pages branch). However, if you do not have a cleaver subdirectory (which is the case at the moment of writing), the gh-pages branch will be visible
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Good point. Didn't think of that!
I'm not sure how much is a change of opinion and how much of it is an erosion of the decision by Democrats to simply deny the issue to Republicans after the Administration fumbled the political optics (or, arguably, was a victim of deliberate, highly-placed sabotage from within on the political optics) to focus on other areas; if you look at the politics of the 2009 vote, it wasn't that both sides were opposed, it was that the Republicans were opposed and doing a full-spectrum attack, and the Democrats collapsed after the administration -- which was pushing to close Guatanamo -- showed incoherence with the testimony of FBI Director Mueller raising concerns of attacks in America if prisoners were transferred to the US. Even simultaneously with the near unanimous votes to block funding for closing Guatanamo, you see many of the Democrats who voted to block funding saying that they supported closing Guatanamo and would vote for it given a specific closure plan that addressed security concerns.

I think the gaps always been there, but a very specific event threw a monkey wrench in the political viability of the Democrats pursuing what was clearly their preference all along.
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I don't think he was talking about performance. I think he meant lightweight in the sense that a branch (in git) is just a pointer to a commit.

It's conceptually lightweight.
The linked demo doesn't work in mobile Safari :/
What do you mean that changing gh-pages on a project doesn't change anything? The github pages for the project will continue to be available, but they will be available at www.example.com/project instead of username.github.io/project.
Well, good thing I have a few accounts handy.