skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The linked article isn't about "hero altruism" as described in your links. It's about people who put the welfare of strangers above their own. For example by contributing 50+% of their income to charities, forgoing children in order to pursue career and donate more, and so forth.
Great post, but one thing to note is that the number of partitions DOES NOT need to be equivalent to the number of consumers. A consumer can reasonably consume multiple partitions, as most do. On the other hand, it does provide an upper bound to the number of consumers in one group, as a consumer can only reasonably consume as few as one of the partitions.
I wonder if it would be possible to go the other way. How close is CRISPR to a primitive of Turing complete computation?

Take it from s/xxx/yyy/ into being /bin/sed. And then run the search in wetware.
You're characterizing opponents of Prop I as people who have only read the first chapter of an economics textbook, but the city's chief economist, who is well-respected, has a PhD in this, and has taught the subject as a professor at Berkeley, just finished a long, careful review of the proposition, and issued a scathing report concluding that it's a terrible idea.

http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/City-report-Missi...
You seem to be correct -- Wikipedia says the USAF has about 200 helicopters for search and rescue and "utility".

Presumably an exception to the rule.
There are already laws regarding any objectionable behavior that the AirBnB transient renters might engage in. If they are being loud and obnoxious and partying at illegal hours, call the cops and put in a noise complaint. If they are parked illegally, they can get ticketed by zealous meter-people like the rest of us.

Rental agreements often have clauses barring subletting. If you are a landlord and object to a tenant subletting on AirBnB, that's a violation of the terms of the lease, and you can threaten eviction. I would imagine it's obscenely Byzantine to actually get someone evicted, even with good cause and when they are in breach of contract in SF, though.

I'm glad I live in a relatively unregulated area where people mostly mind their own business and aren't jackasses.
> If you have owned a home for 10 years and want to buy a new home in another area, you will still want to sell your home.

Actually, as an outsider looking in, the incentives seem set up such that you'd be far more inclined to rent your existing home than sell it.
SPARK is based on Ada. Astree also seems to be limited only to C. Chrome, to the opposite, is written in millions of lines of C++.
Reminds of Atwood's law: http://blog.codinghorror.com/the-principle-of-least-power/
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> San Fransisco is no where near the top when you measure population density, other cities can fit more people in less space, San Francisco is not unique, it simply represents the failure of local laws.

Actually, you are factually wrong:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...

San Francisco is only behind New York, Los Angeles, and Miami in density. It's probably in or close to the top 20 in Europe.

Sure, none of our cities compares to anything in Asia. We also don't seem to like to live that dense.

> Also, what's with constant 'gub' slurs, are people on HN little children who must insult people who are willing to criticize inept policy makers?

Invoking a lack of regulations as proof of success when the factual metrics (Houston's population density is ridiculously, laughably low) easily refute said statement is going to provoke a response appropriate for someone who clearly is impervious to fact.
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In doing research today I see some valid reasons for not going XMPP. The question that raises for me is merely: How do these things interoperate going forward? I'm through with walled gardens, particularly with something as important as team communications. If not XMPP, then what needs to happen to allow any chat to federate with any other chat? And, perhaps equally important, how does one move data from one to another. Data lock-in should be on everyone's mind, but it always seems to be an afterthought (so far after that it doesn't come up until the disastrous occurs and your vendor sells out and closes up shop, or becomes like SourceForge and destroys user trust).

I don't mean to rant at you, of course. Mattermost looks great and it is open source, which means any complaints I have, I am free to put my money/time where my mouth is and fix it.
Look at the SEC people that move straight to Wall Street or the Eric Holder.
yeah pretty much. I don't want to move, I want to have the ability to if something goes bad.
I'm pretty sure you just made that up.
The simple idea is that it's a directory mapping public keys to social accounts. If I know you as a Twitter user, I might want to send you an encrypted message. Or if I get a message from you that's signed, I might want to know that you're a certain Hacker News user. If I download some source code, I'd like to know it was signed by someone who has Github account X, and write access on example.com. And so on.

Historically, a few people using PGP would do this identity mapping, at least in one direction, by posting a PGP fingerprint (of their public key) on their, say, Twitter profile . Of course, this only went in one direction. To achieve a bidirectional proof, they would also have to post a signed statement going in the other direction, too, stating they were in fact that twitter user. (Otherwise you couldn't start with a message and conclude which Twitter user sent it - multiple people could claim this.)

Keybase started as a hobby project to make these posts structured and formal for PGP users. We just wanted to make this kind of thing easier, so we made a directory to hold the signatures going in the other direction, and a reference client that would look up these announcements and verify them.

The other specific advancement is that these signatures have been put into a data structure designed to prevent the server from lying by omission or forking - a big problem that exists with historic key servers. If you remove a key, what's preventing the server from not admitting that? Or what's preventing the server from giving Alice and Bob a difference experience from Charlie and Diane?

Anyway, that was the first idea behind Keybase. To make a better directory and walk people through these proofs.

What we realized - and what has gotten us both (a) extremely smart developers to join us, and (b) funding - is that there are deeper problems beyond the identity establishment....problems that can be solved in 2015.

Those two problems are (1) pretty sucky clients for public key crypto (at least from the perspective of non-programmers), and (2) key management issues. The first is something we have experience with, as our team has worked on a lot of successful projects. And let's be clear, lots of teams could solve this, if given the resources. The second is something we feel can finally be solved thanks to mobile phones. Phones and watches and other small devices allow you to provision new keys easily, because 2 devices can be brought together. That wasn't easy in the past. All this is now possible without understanding what a key is. Or worrying about how to store and move one around safely. That's the new goal: actual crypto clients. For signing, verifying, encrypting, decrypting, and sharing.

You can read the front page of keybase.io for some more info, but it's somewhat out of date and talks mostly about PGP. This will change when our clients are further along and we're seeking more beta testers.
They also make 4 point ones, which don't have that issue.

The crotch strap is to prevent your body from submarining out from under the lap belt.
The phrase "fills me with the urge to defecate" come to mind.
It's actually a bad idea and parent post is right: they need to open it up to more people even if still limited or with a warning that features might change. The reason has to do with their goal of making something usable for widespread audience. Asking what GPG-loving techies and HN readers think about usability will not tell you if your grandmaw or average employee will find it usable. I remember the studies on PGP surprised cryptographers in that what they thought was understandable (esp icons) were really confusing to end users.

So, they need to go ahead and get a diverse audience to spot problems early on. For sure, they should stick to a patient audience that knows they're helping something evolve rather than using a finished product. Still need to broaden and diversify it, though. I'd start with the 10,000+ volunteers on that waiting list.
Can you imagine if the GCHQ had a breach and all the dirt on all everyone they spied on suddenly became public?
Check out FCC <-> Comcast

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/11/f-c-c-commi...

> Four months after the Federal Communications Commission approved a hotly contested merger of Comcast and NBC Universal, one of the commissioners who voted for the deal said on Wednesday that she would soon join Comcast’s Washington lobbying office.
You might be thinking of Simple Workflow Service, which is closer to Storm. Grandparent had it right.
It needs to be viewed as akin to nuclear waste
Nice, but why would people give their time away for free? Time is valuable and people want to get paid.
Looks like Pause/Break pauses a running program, and Ctrl-Pause/Break aborts it. (From the perspective of a non-MSX user.)
The reason I mentioned SPARK and Astree is because they're excellent at what they do. People Googling them will understand how these approaches work to prove absence of bugs rather than test for their presence. Then, they might experiment with some of the others on the list.

I mentioned PolySpace as an example of something more appropriate for Chrome because it supports C++ and is used in high integrity applications.
> The density of Brooklyn is almost double San Francisco, and I wouldn't consider Brooklyn a very high rise city.

What are you smoking? I want some of that.

Brooklyn has a density of 35,369.1 people per square mile.

That would make it the 5th most dense city in the US. Behind only other New York areas. It would even put it in the top 10 in density for Europe.

What the hell DO you consider a dense city?
It's strange that the author thinks it's so hard to drive around the car with sensors attached, and thinks it's much easier to decompile all of the code in the engine control unit.

I'm all for this proposed exemption to the DMCA. But even if it is approved, someone has to do all of the reverse engineering.
Nobody knows how to make it happen? Sure we do. Ban liberal (dark) arts. Ban gay marriage. Bring back systemic racism, segregation, and bring gulags to America. This will free up white america and enable whites to tackle environmental problems, save the oceans, and save and prop up the lives of non-whites all around the world.
Some towns don't have noise ordinances. Thus, lets assume someone rents out their house. The renters hire a band with a powerful PA system, and play from dusk til dawn. How will you deal with the tenants? You have precisely zero recourse, because they aren't breaking any laws.

Isn't it obvious that these situations are far more likely to happen with short term tenancies than people who rent for a year, or own? It's similar to a mob mentality. "I'll be gone tomorrow." vs "I'll have to deal with my neighbors for the next X years".

These situations have unequivocally become more frequent as a direct result of the existence of Airbnb.

Having an opinion about a company that has streamlined the process for your neighbors to create unsafe or otherwise undesirable conditions in your neighborhood is pretty rational behavior, and not the exclusive domain of your fringe strawmen.
So I just noticed that the new client beta installs a launchd service when installed via homebrew:

https://github.com/keybase/homebrew-beta/blob/master/kbstage...

Digging into the code now, anybody know what this is for / why it's silently adding that?

EDIT: so, looks like it adds a launchd file to run `keybase service`, which is helpfully described here: https://github.com/keybase/client-beta/tree/master/client/go...

This seems to do all kinds of things, including running an RPC server and interacting with keychains: https://github.com/keybase/client-beta/blob/master/client/go...
CSEC (Canada) is up to the same shenanigans, approx zero politicians are talking about reigning in the surveillance state in any meaningful way during the election right now so it will keep on rolling. I often talk to people who have no idea who Snowden is, nor have they ever heard of CSEC.
I think that really depends on your circles. I can't think of anyone I know who trusts the NSA or looks at an employee of the NSA as a role model by default.
And even if you are willing to put in the time to read some props and convince yourself they're a good idea, vote no on all the ones you can't be bothered to research.
I agree. They need more people using it to work out all the usability problems. Many different types of people. Should use a filtering strategy, though, to minimize number of people that will need lots of hand-holding. Maybe dedicate an employee, forum, etc to that. Easy to get bogged down in support before the project gets started.
It's the answer box on Google:

https://www.google.com/search?q=population+density+brooklyn&...

http://www.brooklyn.com/population.html
This article makes the same fundamental mistake that the NY Times article did that it refers to. It ignores the rise of self publishing and bases everything off the AAP. Author Earnings has some other things to say, with data:
http://authorearnings.com/report/september-2015-author-earni...
> Get over your self satisfied prejudices and actually think for a minute

> tells me all i need to know of your cognitive powers

We've banned this account for breaking the HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Their narrators? Yeah, it's possible - there have been a few stories in the past year that were just unlistenable due to either poor recording quality or just a terrible voice.

On the other hand, when Steve Eley read everything, that wasn't great either.
I'm not saying to fight religion, but to tackle religious issues. It can not be allowed for an institution like the church continuing to forbid population control. The hopeful solution would be that the church reforms itself.
Worked for me. My tinnitus is triggered by loud noises. No loud noises, no tinnitus.
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Downvoting because you can't refute inconvenient facts? Nice.
There are services that work like that. Clarity.fm is perhaps the best example. They take a sort of micro-consulting approach. This allows experts to sell their time in 1 minute increments.

My problem with this approach is that the people who most need the help don’t have the money; and those who can help the most don’t need the money. (I can’t imagine many senior people actually wanting to squeeze money out of a college student.)

I’ve met with a lot of young designers over the years—and I’m happy to lend a hand. That said, it’s difficult for me to spend an hour or two with everyone who asks.

So, for me Officehours is a way to still help, but much more efficiently. I can offer 4 sessions in an hour, scheduling and time zones are all automated, and so are notifications.

Admittedly, I’m biased (no wonder). But, this is really the reason we built Officehours. We believe that a lot of people want to help others—but they want a more convenient way to do so.
glibc's abs() implementation is here: https://github.com/bminor/glibc/blob/master/stdlib/abs.c

It's the naive branching version (probably for platform independence?), but my installed GCC 4.9.3 does convert it to branchless cdq/xor trick on both -O3 and -O0.
>we run a set of like 15 queue processing workers that each import the entire application

Where would one start if they were looking to disable that?
"Do users want their own general-purpose personal cloud computer?"

No, they do not.

General purpose computers, as such, are useless and boring. They are only useful when converted into one or more appliances. Modern OSes are very good at this. Cloud general purpose compute exists. Its niche to the community of appliance builders, because nobody has any use for it directly.
Altruism defined in wealth terms is very narrow. It allows you to steal billions and give away millions and come out with a net balance of "wealthy philanthropist". The characters of this article are so carefully constructed to evade this question that I have to assume malice.

I think many do-gooders struggle with the problem on different terms: whether they can find a place where they both fit in the system and yet also do good for the system. For example, a basic researcher in the sciences does nothing at all now but might open the door to great achievements later. A politician will be distrusted no matter what they do, but if they are adept they gradually reorganize the landscape to enable policies progressive towards their vision of a better society. There is enormous room for people to do work that benefits them and nobody else, but that doesn't lead to a concrete conclusion about all workers, because this problem is faced in every sector.
From your second link -

"There are about 34,916 people per square mile in Brooklyn"
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I'm a little confused here. Are you trying to say there's no way you can disconnect the battery of an iPhone even if you don't care whether or not it works when you're done? Really? I begin to doubt your fitness for this conversation.
It won't cure my existing tinnitus, but it will prevent it from occuring. For me, it's not continuous, but triggered by loud noises. No loud noises, no tinnitus.
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I'm thinking the national park came after the roadway? Or at least the railroad?

It's not like someone said "Hey, that's a nice national park, let's run a road right through it."
http://www.channel4.com/news/mi5-child-abuse-cover-up-allega...
In fairness, your parent introduced the word "persistence" to this discussion, but I think you're misunderstanding queues if you think the two are interchangeable.

Two things you often want are at-least-once delivery and the ability to queue messages without requiring the consumer to be connected. It requires a fair amount of work to get this to work in Redis. It's not simple configuration.
Good advice although somewhat contrary to YC's push to take on "world changing" projects! (Ahem fusion reactors ...)
<quote>Hitler in his "Mein Kampf" disagrees with you.</quote>

One of the best complements I have ever gotten.
The one drawback is that in order to get the animals to go over the overpass, you need to block them from just crossing the road. Some of the highway near Banff has a continuous chain link fence along the roadway. It kind of ruins the view.
Commercial Lisps are better? As in faster?
Do you have any supporting evidence of this?
Having used Lispworks and Allegro I can't see where this is coming from.
This reminds me - is Google's End-to-End still going somewhere or has Google "virtually killed it" (by not caring about it anymore as they do with many of their products)? Yahoo's CISO promised to implement it for Yahoo, too, but I think the guy who promised that left the company.
The other aspect to this is reputation. We’re building karma/ratings into the service. As such, those who help out the most, and get the best ratings will rank higher on the site (and have more access to other advisors).

We think this will be a particularly handy way for early/mid-career folks to showcase their expertise. (Sort of like a high Twitter following can.) Once we have categories in place, visitors will be able to view by groupings like Marketing, Design, NodeJS, what-have-you. Those who show up higher in these listings will likely seem more credible, as a result.

The other interesting part is that this isn’t limited to a mentor/protégé relationship. I helped a friend out with a question about switching from Photoshop to Sketch, using Officehours, last week. These relationships are important, and do a lot to build one’s reputation with other potential partners/clients. :-)
Aren't they more like glorified filing clerks?
In this example, if you select a user object "Bob Smith" and then set first_name="Jim" but haven't flushed yet, will name be "Bob Smith" or "Jim Smith"? I haven't worked much with column properties but based on how unflushed relations+foreign keys work, I'm guessing it'll still be "Bob Smith"? With a normal @property it would return "Jim Smith".
Low-wage jobs are plentiful in S.F., but where can you live?
Careful, I think the per km^2 numbers are getting conflated with the per mi^2 numbers.
Here's the thing though. The reason there is even a debate about this is because the agencies serve a legitimate purpose that allows this to confuse our sense of morality. Without that rider, these methods would be roundly condemned in any other organization. A programmer working on unjustifiable programs should feel gross when they do something immoral.

Let's be clear here. This is the first time in the history of the world that nearly all ordinary communications by ordinary citizens, globally, are aggressively being monitored. The impact hasn't yet been fully felt by the global populace, but the power of these tools to rig the system and suppress dissent is very large and there is currently no effective check on these powers that is subject to public scrutiny.
Nice try government.
I'd give Elasticsearch a go. Easy to install, easy to run, easy to use, easy to scale into a cluster if you need it.