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Downvotes on HN are... strange and capricious. Things that are downvoted for no apparent reason do tend to get voted back up, though.

(I wish there was a meta.n.y.c where we could discuss things like this. Alas.)
"complementary", you fucktard!
Never done it. But I don't think anyone claims you get hot code replacement for free. You have to plan and design your app to support it. That said, it's actually intended for downtime-less upgrades, whereas Java's HCR seems intended for debugging and development.
So... there are no actual links on this page to anything that describes Keybase. The only way to get directly to the site homepage is to edit the URL.

This is pretty annoying if you're somebody who doesn't already know what Keybase actually is.
The trouble is that any regime change could be worse and the full tools of oppression are already built...
> The author is a "long-time SF resident" and pretending that an SF judge would want to jail somebody over renting out on Airbnb illegally?

It seems like giving judges that power because "they obviously won't use it" has gotten us into a lot of trouble in the past.
With that in mind, in the future perhaps you could think twice before posting snarky comments based on your experiences from five years ago.

In a rational universe that would be a reasonable request. Too bad we don't live in a rational universe.

Bad experiences weigh much more heavily on us than good experiences. For example, there is a chain of stores I won't go to, because I bought some inferior products from them over 35 years ago. Is that rational? No. But it is human nature.
Cool! Do you have any plans to track historical changes of geospacial areas? What reference frame are you using for labeling areas? (places America considers countries vs what China considers, for example)
I mean, this is pithy and all, but it obviously doesn't rebut my point. You could apply the same logic to any disparate collection of engineering problems.
> the data must be destroyed

A single 1To hdd may contain 10Ko of information on every UK citizen. So while we clean, we'd better check every single pocket of every employee...
While we acknowledge some people might think they want this feature, it's been something we've been unexcited about helping them with it for the reasons stated. Having the ability to quickly deploy security fixes is fundamental to Chrome's ethos. This is as close to a point of religion for the Chrome team as you can get.
Thanks for reminding us of the importance of efficient updates!

As outlined in "SOURCE.md", one part of the update process should be to continuously compare to the latest Natural Earth data.

Apart from that, we're totally open to contributions and ideas from the community!
Please Google release an "Echo" and I'll buy it right away...
I've always thought you should take care of yourself first, then help others, because that was the only way you can help people in the first place.

Perhaps there's a way of maximizing human flourishing in which we go as far as we can go and somehow train ourselves to truly be dispassionate to friends and family and just be globally concerned and not weight our children's welfare more than someone else's children. There's a thousand ways to tune the variable of selfishness versus altruism.

Some people think it's morally/emotionally normative to privilege your family members over strangers. I wouldn't want to care just as much as the stranger on the street as my family, and I wouldn't want to take as much joy in his presence as in theirs, because that would seem to somehow deflate the significance of my relationships to my family. But if you take drugs like MDMA or do meditation practices like love and kindness, you realize that love really isn't transactional or personal in any important sense, it is a state of consciousness, a state of being you can inhabit to one or another degree and in our normal mode, we only tend to get glimpses of it. When one's experiencing these states of consciousness it's not like one loves ones children less. It's possible to just throw open the gates to that state of mind, and doing that, you wouldn't see any good reason to relinquish it if you could effortlessly stay at that place.
You have a right to your opinion. Care to elaborate on why you think this way? What makes you think you are above everyone else?
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Tesla Model S is interesting example actually. Initially it was imported into EU with something of a waiver from full ECE regs due to few number. Some of the earliest ones in EU have 8 airbags just as in US (larger dual stage front airbags), then more with ECE front (dual layer) airbags. By MY15 all had only six airbags, the knee bolsters were removed. The reason for this is that in US models with dual stage airbags the knee bolsters deploy in unison with the seatbelt pretensioners to keep the front occupants positioned safely when the front airbag deploys an since they are dual stage units it is very important that happen. The Model S is a big enough car that with the smaller less forceful ECE airbags it is not so much of an issue if the occupant slides under a bit and has abdomen closer to airbag as it deploys. This was likely done for cost as it did not provide enough ROI in terms of safety in EU markets. There is a digit in the VIN in fact that codifies these differences. In addition there are a number of other safety systems that differ between US and EU models of the S.

Tesla did make a very safe car, but they did not do so blind to varying regulations in different markets as well as the demands or running a business profitably.
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Thanks! If I read https://www.recurse.com/blog/90-zulip-supporting-oss-at-the-... correctly Dropbox has helped to open source it but will not dedicate engineers to it. In that case it is interesting that you'll have to sign a Dropbox CLA to contribute https://github.com/zulip/zulip#contributing-to-zulip. But even with that, the code is under Apache 2, it is great that Dropbox took the time to properly document everything and open source it. At GitLab we now bundle Mattermost and we're working with Rocket.chat to bundle that. I wonder what the demand for Zulip is, it looks really full featured.
I think the parent was talking about supply side. I think you are totally correct but, I find myself not satisfied with the answer. All legitimate cab companies should puf money into hiring a company to build a sinple app to connect them to legal taxis. You pay, you get on the app. Tagline, "as convenient as uber, only legal".

It would be a hell of a lot cheaper than funding lawyers and lobbyists like they have been.
For sure. My point is the author's hyperbole doesn't elevate the conversation, but rather the opposite.
Why is it "another campaign"? I only see the testimony of a person with an extreme (and commendable) sense of morality.
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It's basically rent control for property owners. California: The land of rent control.
This inspired me prototype out a system which would use QR codes and use a smartphone camera for recovery, rather than a flatbed scanner.

Here's a demo PNG file which contains 48 QR codes (6x8) at V23 level with L correction (~7% recovery). That's 1091 bytes per code, or just over 51KB per page when printed at 300 dpi. This level of density seems to be very reliable using ambient lighting and an iPhone 5c.

I was also able to read a QR code which was 66% of that size, but it required turning on the iPhone's flash in order to be reliably read. That level of density would allow fitting 9x12 codes on a single page at 300 dpi, which would yield 115KB of data per page.

(At first I tried using 600 dpi, but at 1 dot per pixel the codes were totally unreadable by a cell phone. The above 115KB/page density is the equivalent of 4 dots per pixel at 600 dpi. The good news is this means the system doesn't require a 600 dpi printer. In fact, at 1 dot per pixel, the 51KB/page density is equivalent to 100dpi, and the 115KB/page density is equivalent to 150dpi).
Are we secure?
You don't have to be religious to recognize that people want happiness and thus working towards others' happiness is a worthy goal.
Don't forget that the "innovator" is operating illegally in many jurisdictions and is actively trying to buy protection (i.e., lobbying).
I've seen more than a few cabs in Seattle with "Use the APP" on the side. Every cab company has a different app.

Uber did start the shift to using apps instead of hailing or calling cabs. Now, the idea is in the "fragmentation stage" with the early adopters, where everyone and their brother has developed a different app. Once some of the underperfomers fade away, there will hopefully be more centralization when late adopter customers start using this market.
It was a similar story in Seattle. Frequently you'd call both yellow cab and orange cab (the two major cab companies) because you only expected one of them to show up within a reasonable time frame (which of course only exacerbated the problem).
Oops, forgot to link to the 51KB/page PNG file: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cellularmitosis/QR_playgro...
Why we raised $110m from Fidelity, Google, Microsoft, Baidu and Qualcomm
Good to see it be open sourced. I'm disappointed there's no XMPP gateway, OTR chat encryption or Gitlab integration however.
What’s Next for Consumer Tech?
Right on. One thing to note is that I have definitely seen angel investors invest <= 50k into companies, but it's always been on top of (following) a larger angel/VC leading the round. E.g. one person contributes 500k-1M, a bunch of angels contribute <=50k. But that's not the OP's case.
Thanks! Tracking historical changes is a great idea, but this requires perfect data from day one, doesn't it? Otherwise, how will you differentiate between historic changes and mere factual/technical corrections? Thus, right now, there are no plans to track this. But we're open to ideas and contributions on how to do this.

Regarding the reference frame, that's definitely an issue. Right now, it follows the souce's guidelines (see "SOURCE.md"), which means "boundaries of sovereign states according to defacto status. We show who actually controls the situation on the ground. For instance, we show China and Taiwan as two separate states. But we show Palestine as part of Israel."
in sf, specifically, the taxi companies are utter shit (and evil, to boot).

I badly broke my leg and, because I lived too far from public transportation to crutch over, had to take taxis to work 4-5 times a week, often both ways. No taxi company in sf will reliably come, even if you make it clear that you are going to take a cab at least 4 days a week for most of the next year. Instead, even when you are in the middle of the mission in a relatively dense location and going to soma, dispatch simply lies and says "10 to 15 minutes". A 95% wait time was 3 hours, and a 85% time was 1 hour 15 minutes, for what should be an approximately 15 minute drive. Even simple requests like calling a couple minutes before the taxi arrives so I could get down 2 flights of stairs on crutches without detaining the driver or having the driver leave couldn't be followed. Needless to say, this causes significant disruption to your life when you have to leave 90 minutes plus the length of the drive before going somewhere if you want to have any hope of reliably getting there on time. And god forbid you have to see your surgeon or something else with a hard deadline. The taxi services should be ashamed of themselves, and frankly participated in a violation of my civil rights as done by a quasi-governmental monopoly. And there are other issues: when I would occasionally have to pay with a card, the meter would suddenly be broken until you made it clear drivers had two choices: call the card in or not get paid. A fucking miracle would occur, and the card reader would start working. The taxi system literally shat on their customers.

The advantage of uber is simple: when requested, they either come, or say they won't. That allows you to be an adult and either make alternative arrangements or tell the other party you'll be late. I used uber even when they cost 2x as much as a cab just for this reason.

In conclusion, fuck taxis. Also, fuck sf. Only in sf is "a taxi that comes" a disruptive service.
How are proprietary licenses any better or worse than the GPL? It totally depends on what the terms of the license demand.

Note that it is not the code that these people produce that is toxic, it is what they demand in return (via the terms of the license) that is. The language may not be nice, but it is descriptive of the situation the GPL puts many people into. The GPL essentially seeks to impose the ideology adopted by a subset of folks onto the rest of the world. "We believe code should be free, so if you want to use our stuff, your code must be free too, regardless of what you believe or what your business needs are or what is practical." That is not a very nice stance to have, and so many people do not say nice things about it.

Think of it like someone saying, "Here, I'll do you a favor, but you must change your religion". Having different ideologies is perfectly fine, but enforcing them on others is not.
http://flywheel.com/ it's been around for quite a while and I remember seeing a ton of ads for them
Redis does have persistence options... I was just thinking Redis is often used as a more advanced memcached, while also supporting pub/sub channels and acting as a mq broker with a frontend... was just thinking in terms of reducing the requisite services, since rabbitmq requires erlang and it's own services as well as memcached.

http://redis.io/topics/persistence
http://python-rq.org/
The heart of your argument is that there is some clear distinction between residential and commercial which doesn't actually exist. Residential properties have always been used for profit - its called an apartment. These visitors are renting in a residential area precisely because they want a residential experience.

The "burden" on your neighbors from short-term visitors is highly overblown. What actual impact on the elementary school is short-term visitors going to have? Is their driving to & from the home ever so more frequent than a full-time occupant? Do you think they are having rowdy parties despite self-selecting to stay in a residential neighborhood? Or that they would be a pedophile (which federal laws already ban from staying within a short distance from an elementary school?)
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> That is why we elect people. To answer these kinds of hard questions.

Yes, and the people we elected actually already answered this question wrt short-term rentals. Propositions like this one undermine this process.

How many people do you think voting for Prop F will have read it?
I just stood around at a conference with people who have decades' more experience than me and they all get 10 days of vacation each year, and are encouraged not to use them. One guy started going on about how that's just what we do in America to have a bigger economy than everyone else, and how all the world's immigrants prefer America.

This is the kind of thing that makes people think Americans are weird and masochistic.
> "I'm not sure that I'll use the new keying system (my use case isn't very risky)"

To be clear, you'll be using this system automatically if you install Keybase on your phone or desktop. It'll just work, and you'll have a private key on that device. As you add devices, you'll collect keys. If you remove a device, that public key will no longer be a part of your identity.

If you want to use PGP on one of those devices, you can. And you can strongly connect it to your other keys, as the graphs in the post show.

This should be easier. From a "regular" non-PGP user perspective, you needn't think of this as managing keys, or adopting a more advanced key system. Instead you would just be managing your devices and installing Keybase.

That's our hope anyway. (Disclosure: I'm one of the people working on the project - https://keybase.io/chris - thanks for the kind words about the project)
This is really inaccurate. These sort of metrics have very little relevance in seed investing. For better or worse (and some of the savviest seed investors have done ludicrously well this way), seed investing is not about your numbers; it's about the team, the market, and the idea. No reputable seed investor in Silicon Valley calculates seed valuations this way (a scaled function of Whatsapp's valuation and the startup's own user numbers).
Does the fact that GCHQ have been able to scrape cookies from Hotmail, YouTube, Facebook, Reddit, WordPress, Amazon, CNN, BBC, Channel 4 indicate that https encryption has been broken?

In many cases of the above sites, authenticated requests (ie those with cookies) are made via https and so they would not have otherwise had access to the plaintext version to extract the identifying usernames/etc.
Poverty is an almost impossible problem to solve. If you give individuals the wrong kind of help, you will make the problem worse. If poor Africans keep having 10 children each, there is no way they will ever get out of poverty - If you give them the wrong kind of help, you will just allow them to survive and have more children but it wont create any long term improvements.

I think the root problem is education. African children are not being nurtured as well as they could be because there are too many of them. I think the one child policy in China has has been a key to its success over the past 20 years - It allowed parents to focus all their resources on that one child and allowed them to get the best education possible.
Really late reply, but apache also did not have a proper license from Sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Harmony#Difficulties_to...
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You don't do it quickly.

But what I wonder is how they circumvent the entire trust mechanic when the phone is locked. When the phone is locked most of the storage is encrypted too.
Q: Will AWS Lambda reuse function instances?

To improve performance, AWS Lambda may choose to retain an instance of your function and reuse it to serve a subsequent request, rather than creating a new copy. Your code should not assume that this will always happen.

https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/faqs/
>It's also particularly interesting that someone can be this way in the absence of religion, since atheism probably begets nihilism more so than other religions.

What are you on about now?
I'd like to know how they plan on dealing with subkeys -- my Keybase key is an ed25519 key kept offline, with a set of RSA subkeys generated directly on a Yubikey.

This lets me use my key on an Android device (via Open Keychain), or PC (via GnuPG's smart card interface.)

I don't want additional NaCL keys hanging around on 'online' machines outside of a secure element such as a smart card.
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The spelling in the title is correct.
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then rent your medallion and go work for uber...
Twitter as a Marketing Tool and How Your Business Can Use It [Infographic]
Closing your eyes will produce a very large shift in the EEG spectrum, which is pretty neat, but it's a little unsatisfying since it relies on a physical movement anyhow.

If you're going to move muscles on your face, EMG interference can produce signals in the same frequency bands that are an order of magnitude greater in power. Many of the popular "concentration" toys probably benefit a lot from this effect, since clenching your jaw or furrowing your brow just a bit will produce a very large change in surface potentials.

Though it may be less futuristic and transcendent than decoding "pure intent", there's a lot of value for that sort of tech. Most quadriplegics retain some freedom of facial movement, and there are interfaces on the market and in development that control wheelchairs and other accessibility equipment by taking advantage of facial EMG.

If you're curious about more pure or abstract EEG features that are pretty accessible to the hobbyist (not easily, but somewhat cheaply), you might be interested in the P300 wave. [0] The P300 is an event related potential. A quick example of its occurrence is after you recognize something you've been searching for. This has been used to create simple typing interfaces, in which the subject stares at a grid of letters. The event related potential shows up roughly 300 msec after their intended letter lights up. [1] Unlike the signals in the OP, ERPs tend to be less powerful than the background signal, requiring a number of averaging frames to determine their presence. This slows down the usable bandwidth enough that an able-bodied person wouldn't usually get much use out of it outside of novelty. There are, though, interesting efforts out there (some of them ML-based) to speed this up. [2]

The OP discusses one of the most prominent example of synchronization and desynchronization in EEG. Similar spatio-temporal techniques can work on other regions of interest. There's been a lot of progress, for example, in decoding gross motor control from surface potentials. [3] One of the most recent advances in this vein was just discussed on HN the other day. [4][5]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P300_(neuroscience)
[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19351359 (paywall)
[2] http://www1.ece.neu.edu/~erdogmus/publications/zzz_ACL2011_R...
[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19556679 (paywall)
[4] http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/24/paraplegic-ma...
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10275689
Are there any alternatives to kafka that are also modeled after the "message queue as a log" concept? In particular, I'd like to be able to reconsume arbitrary ranges of 'already processed' log/event/message data as well as trust the log as the ultimate deterministic source of truth for the state of the system.

The reason I don't just use kafka is because the "quorum" style scaling is overkill for our needs since the app will be for internal use only and will likely never exceed more than 1000 simultaneous users. Also, I've heard that zookeeper (required to use kafka) has its own technical overhead that I'd like to avoid dealing with if possible.
"Black Hole contains data collected by GCHQ as part of bulk “unselected” surveillance, meaning it is not focused on particular “selected” targets and instead includes troves of data indiscriminately swept up about ordinary people’s online activities. Between August 2007 and March 2009, GCHQ documents say that Black Hole was used to store more than 1.1 trillion “events” — a term the agency uses to refer to metadata records — with about 10 billion new entries added every day.
"

I wonder if this "black hole" is backed by a huge HDFS cluster? When I was working in government consulting a few years back I used to alway see job posting at Fort Meade for Hadoop experts, and I know the government is (or was) a customer of Cloudera as of 2009. Incidentally, Amazon created a separate cloud service like EC2 for government data a few years back also I believe.

I assume the NSA must be utilizing Hadoop, HDFS, Impala and/or Facebook Presto - or have a system they built internally but never released that can processing and store data at the same order of magnitude.

If these documents are all true and we assume they are currently collecting more, not less data, then they were in 2012, then they are probably storing more data than Facebook/google on a daily basis

EDIT - i guess the might not be storing as much data as Facebook or google because this sounds like mostly text, no images or video. It still must be a shitload of data though! I also realize that GCHQ is not the same thing as the NSA, but I assume they are doing similar things with similar size data sets

Thoughts?
Ah, that's a pretty significant distinction.