skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I worked for a company that required CJIS(Criminal Justice Information Systems) certification to work on their products. The software dealt with law enforcement so we occasionally had access to live criminal records.

Every year we had to re-certify and one of the major points they emphasized and re-emphasized was that it was a felony to search for anything for a friend or even out of curiosity. You only had a legal right to access and view information if you had a specific reason dealing with a current case.

So, if they let her access any of those databases it was most definitely a felony. But as others have said it could have been public record databases and not something protected under CJIS.
The comparison isn't between "what Android could be under Google" and "what Android is under Google".

The comparison is between "what Android could be as an independent company" and "what Android is under Google".

I think ultimately Android is doing a lot better for a lot more people than it would have had it remained independent. I'm also having a hard time imagining anyone else that could've acquired them and achieved substantially better results (see: Microsoft's handling of the Danger acquisition).
Nope; if you have a device in people's houses you basically have to configure them to pull. NATs and other connectivity tricks mean they can reliably initiate communication with you but not the other way around.
It isn't a non-event; you may not get some (or any) security fixes because the vendor didn't provide the latest Android update.

Given how much many people depend on their phones and how much information they usually have on them, I think security is pretty important.

That's why I got a Nexus 5; I'm confident I'll continue to see updates for some time.
> You could get the same benefit from a device for $30 of electronics.

… in theory but there's no evidence that most people actually see those benefits:

http://www.energystar.gov/ia/partners/prod_development/revis...

I was going to say that you should start a company to produce that competitive $30 thermostat but then you confirmed that you have no idea what you're talking about:

> The price doesn't justify the energy savings or by product manufacturing cost

This might be true if you live in San Diego but in much of the country people pay many hundreds of dollars every month during the winter or summer. If a smarter thermostat saves 10% of that, it pays for itself in less than a year.
Yup. A bonus of the cli utility is that you can pass a program argument to it, so when another script is done the "constant wake" state is ended. The man page has more info.
Please mind that wrapping code in a try-block will send (at least some) JS-engines directly into interpreter mode (no compile-mode, no JIT-mode) and this will have severe effects on the execution speed. I would not recommend this for production!
Why not combine both?

Every feature/user story has to go through a workflow of selected for development -> UX design(If required) -> Development -> Unit Tests(Or the otherway around) -> Staging -> Load Test -> Acceptance Test -> Production -> Analytics(To see if people actually use it) -> Learn from analytics -> back to start if required.

The goal is to get as many issues through the workflow as fast and rigoursly(no shortcuts) as possible at a sustainable pace. Have a continuous flow of features rolling out through this process. Ideally with continuous delivery to automate the majority of it.
I don't think you can improve a google product without sharing more data.
Even respect with a doctorate might not cut it.
Nest has built an expensive thermostat that is engaging. It certainly doesn't take $80 Million to do that. So perhaps they also spent their money developing a cheaper version after proving that people like it and more importantly proving it can save money and eventually pay for itself.

I would spend a ton of money putting everything on one chip, getting the cost down to $5 or $10 for the same user experience. Maybe put in a cheaper display if needed. Now this wireless device in the house can pay itself off in very short amount of time, making it a super easy decision for consumers. The current offerings of thermostats are clunky and have horrible user interfaces that require modes and buttons and such to program.. forget about daylight savings time!

If people can buy Nest functionality for $50 then google will have a solid foothold in people's homes. From that they can sell camera's that show up through your google TV device and get into the security market.

The dial on Nest is a universal interface, as the original ipod has shown us, perfect for scrolling through menu's and long lists and for changing volume or choosing music. Might as well put a microphone in so people can ask the internet things.

Still not quite sure it's worth $3.2Billion.. perhaps there was a bidding war?
I wonder what their play is. One neat thing about Nest is that they are doing what many products failed to do before, and
that's to kind of become a platform for the "internet of things." It's a thermostat and smoke detector now, but it could easily
soon become more stuff, sensors and actuators, and it could easily all work together toward enabling a smarter home. Yes if you are
a hardware/microcontroller geek you can get the same functionality for $100 but you will spend 100 hours on it and it will look
vastly inferior to the Nest designs. It is also amazing how much more successful it could be than the
million crappy little X10 and zigbee gadgets with their 1960s UX.

Another amazing thing to me is how well and how fast they managed to build prominent industry relationships: you can get rebates
from the electric company, they are on Home Depot and Lowes shelves, advertised on NPR, etc.
While I agree with the statement, lately Google's action has been concerning (with things like Reader, Google+ push, and what not).

I just don't want to see Google dominating the world. Competition is nice.
I would say it's time to get confrontational.

One thing that separates a start-up from a regular company is that you shouldn't have normal office politics. You both (probably) have equalish equity so the only things preventing you from confrontation are the social norms and stigma against that.

At Paypal, people used to wrestle to settle arguments. I'm not saying that physical dominance is the right way to get things done, but I do think there should be a "no fear", open environment where people can be completely up front without worrying about hurting/offending their peers.

It's ok to say, "look, we need to have a no-excuses deadline, and we need to pull consecutive all-nighters to get it done."

It's also ok to spec out exactly what minimum requirements your product needs.

I can also say that I've been on teams where people weren't up front about problems that they had with me. It led to an unhealthy dynamic, and things didn't pan out.
Yes, you have a point. Even if products have different market sectors, if there are something similar, trying it out may help for feature design and product enhancement.

One of the features we are building is to share the useful links among various friends circles, but don't have discussion in design yet. It seems very advanced feature.

Let's see if Branch will gain a fairly big market, then it really makes sense.
The built-in commands are aliased, which is probably the most infuriating part; clearly they thought it necessary to name the listing functionality 'Get-ChildItem' and refer to it by that in all the documentation so as not to blow our pretty little sysadmin minds when we discover ls/dir could list more than directories now. Who knew Microsoft was fractal in nature?

Anyway, if you have to suffer PowerShell at least do it in the ISE.
Smart Grid tech has still yet to make the splash it's capable of. Google has been investing in many alternative energy production projects worldwide. To accurately predict and shape grid demand you'd need a bunch of sensors in the homes, quite like Nest products. I can see it being part of their planned foray into energy projects.
I have a Galaxy S, first generation and CyanogenMod works really well on it.

Unfortunately it only has like 384 MB of RAM or something like that, so many apps are problematic on it (e.g. I've had problems with the mobile versions of Firefox and Chrome, which need at least 512 MB). I do understand why Samsung stopped supporting it after Android 2.3 though. The phone's specs just can't keep up. I can say the same thing about an iPhone 3GS that I've got lying around.

Now I have a Nexus 4 and I can say that the best Android to get is always the latest Nexus - good hardware specs at a good price and it's the reference. Even if Google stops supporting it, heck, if CyanogenMod still supports the first-gen Galaxy S, then you can bet that it will work on a reference Nexus phone for a long time.
That's the client pulling, not the server pushing. Pushing would be "when the owner makes a change on the website, notify the appropriate thermostat to change its settings". This would be way more efficient, but too many Nests aren't going to have suitable internet connections.
How about donating a dollar to some charity if you cant make it on time
Different ways to implement flags in bash
Nothing equivalent. I just replaced it with the standard programmable timer thermostat that was there before I got the Nest. It was partly the fact that the presence detection wasn't working for me, and partly the fact that I had a sudden cash flow problem and was still within the return window :)

I haven't invested the time into setting up a proper home automation rig yet, but it is on my to-do list.
>As (or if) Android matures gets closer to the point where each new version matters less than the last,

Android will never get to that point. Technology, hardware as well as tastes and expectations change, and Android will always need to stay current. Some releases will be small, others will have huge rewrites, or additions.
In a world where you replace your phone every two years, and you may get only one OS update in those two years for even a well supported phone, it's surprising how much people care about this. For tablets, I think it matters a bit more, since I think they'll have longer lifetimes.
Monster’s Keys To CES Success Are Celebrities, Style, And Hype
It's sort of abandonware now, isn't it? There's NerdTool, which works well enough for me, but also hasn't been updated in a long time...
That's a savings of $60 on heating per month, for five months. The laws of thermodynamics continue to be enforced regardless of bubble or not, so I think it quite impossible to save more than 10%. So you're averaging $600 or more to heat. Averaging...

I live in Wisconsin where I would be hard pressed to spend $300/month during the worst imaginable weather (and this is five months... the worst imaginable weather is .. January. Three months earlier or later isn't too bad, back to $100/mo or less). With the recent polar vortex event settled right over my house, maybe this will be a $400 month for me... maybe not.

I assume by "bay area" and spending $600/mo on heating you mean Prudhoe Bay on the north slope of Alaska?
I'd pay a few dollars more, maybe. At the end of the day as long as it isn't garishly awful I don't particularly care.

For example, this one does everything I need and costs 10% of a nest: http://amzn.com/B002RL9BIM

It actually has a backlight which is a step up from what I have today. It's just not important to me. Definitely not $250 important.

I could definitely use a smarter thermostat, but my vision of the future is a wireless dumb thermostat paired to a home PC that is connected to other sensors. While those dumb devices could be made to interoperate with a cloud service (this is probably where Google is playing), I'd rather keep that control in-house (haha).
I was thinking about getting am HTC One to replace my nexus 4 since my contract is up. one thing I was worried about was updates. so this helped me decided not to make the switch.
I think the much bigger problem than the minors not being able to vote would be the problem of apathy. 3/4 of American voters don't vote for whatever reason. Of the 1/4 that do, most don't know foreign policy from a strongly worded statement about Christian values. The reality is that voters are much easier to influence than they imagine and elections are not won on the fundamentals of the party but on the way that the team spins the personality of the candidate.

Now, as for the referendum thing... It's not my idea, I'm paraphrasing an idea that is twice as old as I am. I think it can be tuned and refined. The idea behind it is that war should be declared only when a majority of the country's draft-age people are willing to lay down their lives for the cause. What we have now is that a few hundred people get to decide to send a small minority that is the military into harm's way based on any reason they want. Making people more directly responsible for declaring war is a good idea.

You are right in that we have not had draft for the past few conflicts. Also remember that the United States has not declared war since WWII [1]. The rest of these conflicts were not wars but "military engagements". And the military probably does not want to get an influx of draftees who have no idea what they are doing either. They are going to be much more likely to die in the conflict due to lack of training, etc.

All that aside, I think the idea here is more valuable than implementation. The idea that if you decide to do something so major as to declare war on a foreign country, you should feel the consequences more immediately. Perhaps if you vote yes, and the majority wins, then your taxes are raised to pay for this war. Or maybe if you vote to raise taxes, then your are raised by double of what you voted for one year (not for/against raising taxes, just using it as an example of a major change).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war_by_the_Unite...
I generally inquire about the 'dress code' either to the recruiter or whoever is contacting me for an on-site interview, and dress just one level up.

I found that if you're interviewing for anywhere in finance sector or public sector a formal suit is a must. For a 'tech' company a business casual(so a khaki and a button-up long-sleeves shirts with a base white t-shirt in) has never failed me yet.
An alternative: Use Google to find the person's last name, and then search on LinkedIn using their full name. Their full profile will then be displayed.
Do you have details on which engines will have this issue?

In the actual Bugsnag notifier we avoid adding try/catch in Chrome/Opera because they don't need it (it also breaks "stop on unhandled exception" in the console).
New cyber-attack model helps predict timing of the next Stuxnet
Great.

Now there's another Google product that will never hit the UK.
I believe what they mean is 3rd-party apps have the same access to the phone that our (Google's) apps do. The core apps aren't getting special treatment, Google is just deciding to update them more often than some of the 3rd-party apps out there.
No, but I've been through 8 years of religious education and can hold an intelligent conversation about why evolution and the Big Bang are the same conclusions I would reach as a scientist, so I get a bit miffed when people confuse my faith for irrationality.
Idea: Make a post-mortem startup website, where recently deceased startups can open-source their documents to the whole startup community.

Pivot for everpix maybe?

This somehow has the same vibe as the becoming of Mattermark to me.
I think youtube wouldn't have managed to continue operations without a company like google stepping in. It was running massive bandwidth costs and did not have the ad network in place to monetize.
I saw this too... It looks like when you opt-click above the current line, it jumps back in your history by... the same number of lines as your cursor is above the current line? Sort of an unusual feature. Nevertheless, when I'm careful to actually click on the current line, it works as described.
There are so many factors that can combine to influence this rule, and it's hard to generalize or even predict which ones will impact it the most.

I co-founded a company that built and managed private online communities for large brands, and the fact that the sites were private/invite-only and facilitated meant the engagement levels were often much higher than 90-9-1.

Here are some of the factors that we noticed could change the ratio for our clients - private/public forums, ease of content creation, whether the site is moderated, anonymous accounts, commonalities between members, site usability and the difficulty of registration (setting higher barriers to register can actually create higher engagement).

Your mileage will likely vary...
Why not build such a service on top of a cloud storage provider platform?

Their own servers would run their code, searching/indexing, and thumbnails up to 1080p which are very small.

A user's cloud account would only be used for the originals and to generate search indexes/thumbnails as needed.
the only thing I'm pretty certain of is that phones from Google will be supported longer and you'll get the updates before any other manufacturer.
I think that's a necessary approach. The first time I encountered Rust, in a treatment that covered unique and managed but not unsafe/raw pointers, my impression was: ‘You promised GC was optional, but I can't even write a DAG’.
Poe's law explains why sarcasm doesn't work on the internet:

"Without a blatant display of humor, it is impossible to
create a parody of extremism or fundamentalism that
someone won't mistake for the real thing." [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

(edit: Poe's Law always reminds me of this SNL skit where Fred Armisen tells Jimmy Fallon that the right way to tell a joke is to use a "catch phrase": http://video.tvguide.com/Saturday+Night+Live/Weekend+Update+...)
Google already has massive server deployment around the world – the incremental cost of keeping some sockets open seems unlikely to noticeably increase load when they already have Android, Chrome, Google Talk, etc.
> Pixar is still making (some) good movies under Disney.

Pixar movie quality seems to have dropped, while Disney's have gone up after the acquisition.

http://i.imgur.com/H2s4hVL.jpg

Cars 2 was clearly a release for money (they make more money of Cars merchandise than they do from films), but the other films?
oh, no. there's definitely no bubble.
> Dude, leave them alone. If that is what they want to do, let them be.

If they're using violence to get what they want, you can't really leave them alone (morally or practically).
To get

[NORMAL]

on the right side of the terminal like in Vim, I put this in my .zshrc file:

function zle-line-init zle-keymap-select {
VIM_PROMPT="%{$fg_bold[yellow]%} [% %{$reset_color%}NORMAL%{$fg_bold[yellow]%}]% %{$reset_color%}"
RPS1="${${KEYMAP/vicmd/$VIM_PROMPT}/(main|viins)/} $EPS1"
zle reset-prompt
}
Funny, I would have held Pixar and YouTube up as counterexamples.
The real problem with Android: Bugs, not Fragmentation
They're not that bad with Playstations either. Especially recently, much of it is based on open source code recently (FreeBSD, GCC, curl, Mono, etc.) and publishing is pretty easy.
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I have zero technical skills and I would do this for a mere 85 million.

I'm pretty sure for 85 million, I could assemble a crack team of devs to knock this out as a more competitive price.
literate programming https://github.com/saml/lipl/blob/master/src/TCheck.lhs
> Time to join the 21st century and push for universal healthcare.

No it's not. Source: I'm a Finn.

Compare two scenarios:

A) Healthcare is run with money that's just taken from people.
B) Healthcare is run as a business, with people paying for it voluntarily.

Which one do you think will be better quality? Suppose you're running a car repair shop, but your "customers" are just forced to come to you and pay for your services. Are you motivated to: 1) provide them with good service, 2) keep your costs low, 3) maintain high standards?

The obvious answers are: No, No, and No, and that's exactly what happens with everything that's run by any government, because it's always with someone else's money and the "customers" aren't actually customers - they have no choice.

It's rather unsurprising, then, that Finland's public healthcare system is of poor quality, and that we have to wait for weeks or months for an appointment.
Yes, it is doubtful that Google would up and kill a product they just paid $3.2B for.

But I'm human, and I was a heavy Reader user. That particular debacle -- along with the NSA revelations of last year -- have affected my perception of the company in a negative manner.
I do love their strategy where if you already own a Nest thermostat, buying the Nest Protect smoke detector makes your old product work better. Very clever.
> Politics, bureaucracy, mismanagement-- this policy has been a failure.

So you are saying the governments attempts to do this have failed for historical reasons.

> Time to join the 21st century and push for universal healthcare.

And now you are saying that the government should have a bigger part of the industry, by absorbing it completely.

This logic is faulty, you cannot use a failure to recommend an entity takes a bigger part in something.

Additionally how well the website for finding healthcare works is unrelated to whether or not we should have universal healthcare. Heck the $90 million maintenance is not unheard of for a $400 million+ product, nor is it a lot in the scheme of a government program.
Please educate yourself on choice paralysis and its implications, learn about the fundamental reasons (cognitive capacity, cognitive bias, etc) and only then worry about our wonderful, adapting, intelligent species.
> Within the Android space they are exemplary

You will often see this with someone coming into a new space. HTC used to be like this, very consumer friendly, then when they start to do well they change and become assholes.
Can't get the Nexus 5?
The Temptation of Vaporware
Perhaps you misread "yet" as "yes". I'm curious if there's a power issue as well. I don't know how fast wifi can turn on/off and reconnect to a network. Nest has to be low-power as its only power source is one of the tiny wires from the HVAC system and that doesn't supply enough to run the device offline, let alone online. It uses that wire to charge an internal battery instead.
In your estimation, how much would it cost for them to do the KitKat update?
Fair enough. My main point is that those in power should be held more responsible, not less, for their actions. Currently, in the US, those in power very rarely feel personal consequences of performing poorly.

On the other point, yes, it's an old old idea that you should give power to those that are refusing it the most. Ideally, once again, a transparent government where everyone is held responsible individually, not in their position, will fear its people and will be much less likely to become corrupt.
The really disturbing thing is this is almost certainly _not_ an isolated incident. It's just that this is the first time that a government IT project has received so much scrutiny. Makes you think when politicians insist that taxes and fees need to be raised.
Google now able to collect more data points about your home too!