skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is exactly the kind of fluctuations futures markets were built to cover for providers (airlines, farmers, global businesses, you name it). Unsure if there is a reliable BTC futures market in existence, but I gather it would extremely active and profitable for the market makers.
Stealth is not a synonym for visibility, it's a synonym for zero revenue.
The bus was being obstructed, which was his main problem, so he couldn't get to work. But yeah, it could easily have been just some guy playing the part. If he is a Googler, he's got trouble coming. If not, Google will be able to say so - either way he'll turn up sooner or later, with consequences one hopes.
On Hemlis's front page:

"We have all intentions of opening up the source as much as possible for scrutiny and help! What we really want people to understand however, is that Open Source in itself does not guarantee any privacy or safety. It sure helps with transparency, but technology by itself is not enough."

They have no intention of releasing the source code. Use https://www.surespot.me/ instead, it does the same stuff, already exists, and is released under the GPL (v3).
I bookmark some of the top people and scan their stuff at my leisure.

For example:
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg
Isn't the whole Iraq war a false flag act of terrorism? Accepting that the 9/11 attack was executed by those purported to have done so, and even if you accept that all the knowledge of the preparation and planning for the act was overlooked and filled with institutional incompetence and failure; using one act as a justification for action of a totally different nature and rationale is just that.

Was it really just opportune that 9/11 happened to justify the Iraq war? I mean, there is an audio recording of Wolfowitz proclaiming how 9/11 should be used and is an opportunity to rationalize an attack on Iraq?
What do you mean by "fund public transit"?

Google can't just magic a transportation system out of pocket; the (NYC) MTA's 2012 budget was $14.2 billion; Google's 2012 profit was $10.7 billion. Are you expecting them to cooperate with Facebook and Apple to work something out between themselves?

Do you want Google to just voluntarily send random checks to various city, local, and state governments, with "for mass transit" in the memo line?

The lack of mass transit is the fault of the citizens. Get off your asses, pass some legislation at the appropriate level of government, tax the living daylight out of whatever megacorps and billionaires are in your tax base, and build yourselves some mass transit with it.
Scratching my own itch for a simple console mp3 player
I wonder how you get people to believe in a mission if scepticism forms an inherent part of the culture. I‘m talking about the UK specifically. I feel like it would be very difficult to get the English guys and girls on my team to take our "mission" even remotely seriously.
Samsung tries to silence user whose S4 caught fire, it doesn't go over well
I just got to relive the unexpected drive to another state to the NICU the day my son was born. That's worth the loss of privacy.
Did you notice there appears to be an overline for caps? At least that's what it appeared to signify to me.
"UPDATE 12:32pm: Various tips have streamed in that this shout-out was staged. Protest organizer Leslie Dreyer talked to us on the phone and verified that this person's identity was Max Bell Alper, a union organizer from Oakland. This person was not a Google employee."
I am 39 also, and I have also been following "Conspiracy Theory" topics since the late 80s. I have been aware of, and decrying, this sort of thing for two solid decades now.

The GP's question is predicated on the assumption that people have not been paying attention to the creep toward tyranny that these programs have brought for years... but the fact is that not only have people been paying attention; there has been a decades long effort to shield mainstream awareness of this. Media has been more than just complicit in MISO (PSyOP) activities to marginalize anyone who has been discussing these topics.

Christ, Hollywood has been out-right guilty of running PR for the MIC bastards for 30 years now.

There is a very clear crew responsible for this as well.

The CIA built by GHW Bush and his cabal of war/drug profiteers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDFHd5eEzw

You owe it to yourself to watch that 39 minutes.
>> QoL scripts

Whats QoL? Quality of Life?
A claim has been made that the "Google" employee shoutout earlier today at bus protest was staged by union organizer.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/41014399019373363...
I forced my parents to let me work in a grocery store at the same age. I regret it to this day, and think they were right all along.
Before 0.8, you are correct that if you lose a disk, you lose the data. However, just because a broker goes down, that doesn't mean you lose the data on it - it just becomes unavailable to consumers. The log files backing Kafka partitions are fully durable append only files. So the durability guarantees are pretty good, even before 0.8.

What you're talking about is failover and fault tolerance, which are greatly improved in 0.8 with the addition of replication.
I agree. For example, my cousin is an artist, and building a web portfolio with functioning store was a requirement for graduating.
Well the guy was apparently on the bus to start with. I am not familiar with how google runs their shuttles, but I imagine you aren't allowed on unless you work for them.
That really isn't a significant sum of money.
> If development regulations were relaxed more, then more housing could be developed.

This is often tossed around and is often a canard. SF is currently in one of its biggest building booms in history. Building is likely occurring as fast as it can.
I beg to differ.

How many people are they teaching in person these days?
I don't know how it will do as a niche thing in enterprise, but I think it's very unlikely it will ever catch-on with with mainstream users. It just seems too much of a hassle. Now turn that into an NFC ring of sorts that does the encryption for you, and you may be on to something, but even then it still seems something only geeks would use. Heck, it's hard enough to get people to use software-based encryption solutions.
I'd like to praise the Guardian for their effort in making their site readable on a tablet.

The large font, the speed at which the page is rendered, and the ability to zoom into the article make it reasonable to not use Safari's Reader button. And keeping the functionality and usability of a normal site (e.g. instead of trying to slam a bizarre left to right pagination) is appreciated.

This is much better than the likes of OnSwipe or Slate.
He is not entitled, he pays his rent. Protesters on the other hand feel entitled to stay in the city even if they cannot afford it.
Commuting by bus, train or subway is about to get even more taxing
> Who are "the right people"? Who gets to dictate who can and cannot live in a city?

Not that I agree with the guy in the video in any way, but I 100% •guarantee* the protestors (and the writers at the Guardian for that matter) have their own ideas about who the "right people" people are to live in SF, and that these ideas are not exactly absent from their motivations when protesting or discussing these issues.
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see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6876397
This is one of those times that I can't decide whether or not pg's flamewar detector is doing the right thing. On the one hand, this story is generating vitriol and finger-pointing... but on the other hand, growing inequality in the techno-utopian playground of the Bay Area is a real concern and something this community should be discussing.

Unfortunately this particular discussion looks like it's doomed to fall off the front page fairly quickly. (EDIT: Yep, already gone.) I wish there was a way to have a constructive dialogue without degenerating into emotional chaos.

EDIT: Rumors are swirling that this guy might've been a plant. If that's true, I suppose burying the story might be epistemically virtuous, as a way to contain the spread of false information. That's a separate issue from the flamewar detector, though.
The media is going to have a field day with this.
Oh that's not at all surprising that they tried to roll their own encryption. But if they are already not that sophisticated, then they'd still not be able to glean much value from these revelations.

Surely someone rolling their own encryption doesn't understand the big deal with NSA's BULLRUN program (where they tried to weaken encryption algorithms by planting people in teams and attempted to weaken protocols, or target vulnerabilities in encryption libraries).
More info: http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
The problem is that candidates see "What are you most interested in professionally?" and "How do you see yourself developing career wise?" as questions with right or wrong answers that will get them hired. "Send someone highly trusted over to clean my house every week" could be a great thing that lets me concentrate more on the rest of my life, but saying it during an interview would paint me as weird.
Grandchildren credits too.
Very well put! There should definitely be a layer between software engineers and people who can 'code'. Hopefully there will be a way to categorize these types of contributors so enterprises and the job creators of the world will know how/when to staff them.
Thanks for your calm, humble response.

I've only been in the Bay area for a bit under 3 years, but I've learned that despite the appearances, no two tech workers are the same.

Sure, there are plenty of white 20-somethings Stanford grads whose parents paid for everything. But I have friends who went to community college and worked hard to get a job here, or who moved from far away for a better life here. One of my good friends is black, comes from a troubled family and was the first to go to college- programming was his refuge as a teenager when things at home didn't go so well and the pantries were empty. He's now a tech worker just like the guy in the video. I myself am a tech worker and have nothing to complain about- and I try to be conscious of my privilege, I volunteer teaching Oakland kids computer science & math over the weekends, etc. (and I live in Oakland, because even the SF prices were a bit too high for me :)

At the end of the day, tech workers or not, we're all humans and we all want to live in nice, safe conditions without fear of getting evicted or not being able to afford the groceries. Getting mad at each other will not solve anything.
IIRC, one of the Diaspora guys committed suicide a few years ago. :(
Some would; However, many would not. There is a reason they endure the 40-60 minute commute as it stands.
The guy who posted that video:

NEW INFORMATION: "Google" employee shoutout earlier today at bus protest was staged by union organizer.

https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/41014399019373363...
The actions of stupid and incompetent men

(I say "men", because women just haven't had sufficient chance to prove themselves as such; but between Margaret Thatcher, Hillary Clinton, and Condoleezza Rice they really have even a worse track record than men with their strong start of fail)
Word on twitter is that there was an update saying it was staged, but I can't get to the actual article. Can anyone verify?
Do you have the step by step instructions on how to do this?
Oh, the fact that the pipeline is exposed means that future changes to the pipeline would would either have to break binary compatibility or be intensely painful in some other way. The Mill family they're proposing isn't even binary compatible with itself! There are lots of areas where that doesn't matter so much, but I don't see them ever making major inroads into the PC market for that reason. Or maybe I'm wrong and virtual machines and LLVM are going to eat the world and people won't distribute binaries anymore except for the OS and systems library which you might actually be able to recompile for different versions.

I think them succeeding in making a processor that can run a real application really fast is quite plausible. Actual commercial success is much less likely.

EDIT: Well, I could see the Mill challenging MIPS for dominance in routers, say. Or in a Tivo.
He wasn't a Google Employee he was a union organizer staging the scene. https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/41014399019373363...
In essence, they believe in the mission of the company so much that they are willing to sacrifice their mission for themselves.

In a SV scale-to-the-moon startup, you hire cult members, not employees. You want them to work for minimum wage and equity only.

Sometimes that means hiring people who are naive but can be manipulated in the right directions versus experienced people who have done it all before.
What makes you think Google haven't tried reasoning with the local governments before starting it's own shuttle program?
He's not talking about DOT road/rail/air transit. He's talking about IP transit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_transit

It's the most basic and fundamental service provided by an ISP, and should be the only service ISPs can provide, to prevent the conflicts of interest that make net neutrality regulations a necessity. When ISPs are an endpoint for traffic rather than just a conduit for it, they have a financial incentive to try to force their customers to use their content services over external content providers.
It was completely staged and it was obvious - the guy is a terrible actor. Everything was perfect to create the perfect villain - especially the, "I've been here 6 months" line.
Sometimes I want to scream "check your Silicon Valley privilege" as loud as I can when reading HN comments.
I do think it's sensible they use side streets to board/offboard.

That said, what do you think about MegaBUS and the sort which also park and use regular bus route stops and shelters for minutes at a time while passengers board? There are also chartered buses which do the same.

Or are those okay, or are they also problematic?

If people made the Google buses and other private busses more difficult for employers to have, what would happen is people would cram into cars creating a bigger problem. Or businesses could take their employees back to the suburbs and you could have new Detroits at the extreme. And then people decry the flight of wealth out from the cities...

You can't have it both ways.
It was pretty much assured that someone was going to come along on this story and label David as a "defector".

I'll have to disagree with a blog post story a few days ago about the maturity of the Scala community.
It's also as helpful and insightful as your original statement.
You would think that wouldn't you. Unfortunately anyone who followed the Tea Party or Occupy can tell you that the follow-up truth has a low chance of getting reported. Some of the most amazing "true" stories about both were proven false but not as widely reported. If it isn't the first tweet or video on youtube, then it doesn't really matter.

For an interesting example, follow the case of the waitress who claimed to have not been tipped and hateful message left. The initial claim was widely reported, the follow-up about it being a lie doesn't quite seem to have reached the same major outlets with the same coverage time.

"this wasn't an employee you bet your ass the local protestors will lose credibility"

I doubt they will. Its all about the noise and creditability isn't tracked very well. Too, many groups (or new names replacing the old) and not enough knowledge about the membership connections.
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Apparently this was staged: https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/statuses/410143990193733...
Already been flagged off the front page. Of course, it turns out the guy isn't real at all, but I wonder whether HN users knew that before flagging it. The community doesn't have a good record with confronting controversial topics.
Wouldn't this defeat the point of having this project open-sourced?
If you enjoy using the Explore section of GitHub, you might also like this (free) iPhone app I made which lists the popular Repos built using the languages that interest you: http://appstore.com/repo
While I enjoy it most people I know would not. There is a distinction between satisfaction && enjoyment. I find coding more satisfying than enjoyable.
Wow, what a cunt.
Definitely, definitely not true. Go is extremely fast, it has its strengths in some areas and trade offs in other areas. If you want a good comparison to Apache Kafka, you should look at Apcera's NATS server, a publish-subscribe and distributed queueing messaging system written in Go by Derek Collison: https://github.com/apcera/gnatsd

You should never discredit a language, especially with blanket terms such as "its faster than Go". In what respects and in what areas? Here's a blog post which performs benchmarks on Go and Scala: http://eng.42go.com/scala-vs-go-tcp-benchmark/

They found Go to perform better than scala, however it had a high footprint. Every language has its tradeoffs, Java and Go are no exception.
I am not seeing any proof that he is a Google employee as well. Just some dude walking about.
This seems like a great question for StackOverflow.
Over 70% of US households now have broadband Internet access
Works fine for me:-

$ cat infile.xml
1
<load address=’11c1�����ze=’08′ />
3
$ cat seddy.sed
2s@^.*$@<load address=’11c1385b’ size=’08’ />@
p
$ sed -n -f seddy.sed infile.xml
1
<load address=’11c1385b’ size=’08’ />
3
$

So I'm guessing it's locale related (LC_CTYPE is en_GB.UTF-8 for me), or the string that forms his corrupt line is different from what was pasted. The output of:-

sed -n '35185222p' infile.xml | hexdump -b

would help in that regard.
In addition to this anti-gentrification protest, San Francisco also has a fairly organized faux anti-gentrification cabal in league with SF Police, including "Homes not Jails".
rather than try to convince sed to match your corrupt line via regexp, just use awk to split the file into 2 pieces - the lines before the corrupt line (into file A) and the lines after the corrupt line (into file B).

Then cat the 2 files together, with your fixed line in the middle:

cat A > fixed.xml
echo "my fix" >> fixed.xml
cat B >> fixed.xml
Aerial panorama of Ukraine's anti-government mass rally
> Perhaps it's an insecurity thing, and they are afraid if others learn their skills they may no longer be in the position of power they are in now?

Most of the objections seem to boil down to this. For better or for worse, HN is an entrepreneurial community, and everyone seems to be approaching this with an ultra-logical "this policy will decrease my worth by $X" approach. Post this video on a forum that's geared toward, say, developers of open-source software and see how different the reaction is.
Why are you so deadset on assuming that Java is slow? That's an incredibly misinformed and narrow view of what's possible on the JVM.
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Kahka is written in Scala, not Java. The only Java in the project is for a JavaAPI and hadoop connectors.

Comparing languages in absolute performance terms is bad idea, it's an extreme simplification of what really goes into creating performant applications.
UPDATE 12:32pm: Various tips have streamed in that this shout-out was staged. Protest organizer Leslie Dreyer talked to us on the phone and verified that this person's identity was Max Bell Alper, a union organizer from Oakland. This person was not a Google employee, and Dreyer was not able to verify if Alper was there in the morning with the group of 20-30 protesters. The Guardian is attempting to contact Alper for comment. Dreyer said she, as an organizer, was unaware of that the "performance" had been planned. We are following this as it develops.

http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown
Well, like I said, I was last there in 1988 and it wasn't exactly a non-stressful experience.

Where the heck do you park all those cars then?
This is a fiction that was staged by the union organizers.

https://twitter.com/FitzTheReporter/status/41014399019373363...
The fake "Google" employee is union organizer Max Alper http://www.makingchangemedia.org/about-the-team/
The FB data is being given to them freely by their users
Sadly I think neat keyboards are patent encumbered.

There have been things like the Frogpad, or the Twiddler. But they're expensive and not available anymore.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrogPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciQVBNHrKKA

I totally agree, I think their time has come and it'd be great if someone could rescue the tech from all these dead or dying companies and provide a decent chording keyboard for people on the move.
Java I/O is plenty fast. Just take a look at Hadoop, Lucene, Jetty, Netty, or any number of other pieces of high performance software written in Java.

Here's a good writeup talking about sequential I/O in Java: http://mechanical-sympathy.blogspot.com/2011/12/java-sequent...
* Automatically raise their pay every year. It doesn't necessarily need to keep up with market, but they need to know that they aren't being suckers by staying at the job.
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I used TextSecure as my text client exclusively for about the last 6 months and it worked great except for 3 things: group messages and MMS. Something changed recently that prevented any MMS from showing up and it kept offering for me to configure the proxy settings. I looked briefly for the correct settings but there don't seem to be any for Verizon on their list. Group messages just didn't seem to work the way the do in the normal Android client. Texting worked flawlessly though it's sort of chicken and egg - no one I know used it so none of my communication was encrypted in transit.

Oh and the third thing: my SO thought I was borderline paranoid/crazy/hiding something for even installing it.
Sounds like a trap to me, not having the source code. Maybe it works for now but investing trust as things are now I'd rather go with opensource client.

Trust must be earned, so far it they brag about way they made tech work with a patched version of android - they don't really put forth anything that will give them credibility as a very secure protocol.

Claims without proof are just that.
> Kahka is written in Scala, not Java.

Thanks for the correction.
Well, I guess that solves every transportation planning problem ever.
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I haven't bought an airline ticket in a decade that has been refundable for cash of any kind. Most airlines will take some massive fee and then give you a credit toward a future flight, if anything at all.
I am surprised AOL is not mentioned. I remember story going around how subscription made by a person could not be cancelled even though that person passed away.
It would be most helpful to explain that I would be directed to a Google Hangout. It caught me off guard to land there and see my G+ icon and what not. I actually panicked a little and closed it while it was still saying "Please wait...". Eventually I let it finish what it was trying to do and it ended up asking me to install a plugin. I declined though.
The question that didn't get answered for me was "will it work with encrypted HDMI?" one hopes it does use one of the leaked keys and sniffs the stream .... if it does I want one .... otherwise it's not useful for me
Use cases (from the project page): http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#uses
That is Max Bell Alper of Occupy SF.
I didn't say it's just "slow". I said it's an expected performance hit in comparison with languages like C++. In some cases that hit is tolerable, in others not.
And a crack addict wants to do crack. Sometimes people don't know what is best for them. That's why we let courts decide custody instead of the child.

That said, in spite of my (probably uninformed) opinion, the courts in New York think that this family is better together in this shelter, so what do I know anyway?