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I don't think you can kickstart political stuff. But there must be something out there... or I suppose I have the requisite skills to build something.

Maybe I will give it a shot. At the very least it force the candidates to address rent control as an issue.
Well yeah, but plan9 has so little code because it doesn't really do anything. Recompiling any consumer-grade system takes much longer.
> Bitcoin, from what I read about it, seems to have an exponential hunger for power which doesn't lead me to believe that if it replaces current system, we'll be better off.

Actually, it's capitalism in general that has an exponential hunger for resource consumption, Bitcoin is simply the first decentralised capitalist system, and it's so simple it's clear.
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All I can tell you is that in the US, such a program would be abused to the point of absurdity. We already use the "war on drugs" to create an army of millions of unpaid workers through various prison industries programs. We lock them up, then low security inmates are used for cheap manual labor outside their prisons by local businesses (yep, these programs are in place in a number of states). Higher security inmates work in metal and other shops built on prison grounds, but their work is exported to outside businesses.

Here's an example program in Colorado: https://www.coloradoci.com/

In short, our government and the corporations that control it are far more evil and greedy than anything you would find in Switzerland. A program like this on US soil would in fact be turned into modern-day slavery, and because of the stigma associated with drug addiction, these abuses would be embraced and encouraged by the US populace.
There's probably a huge difference in salary ranges for someone with minimal experience and someone with lots of experience, and this isn't even counting if you're really good or just mediocre.

Personally, with 10 years of experience, if I was to move to Chicago right now, I would expect to make more than $114k due to the highish cost of living. There's no way in hell I'd move anywhere to make $74k, let alone $62k per year.
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Very often random sequences are very different from sequences encountered in the wild.
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From the article:
The reaction of the Java developer community to our report is somewhat disappointing: instead of using our fixed (and verified!) version of mergeCollapse(), they opted to increase the allocated runLen “sufficiently”. As we showed, this is not necessary. In consequence, whoever uses java.utils.Collection.sort() is forced to over allocate space. Given the astronomical number of program runs that such a central routine is used in, this leads to a considerable waste of energy.
And yet, is that argument strong enough to start using GMOs on 80%+ of the cultivated surface right away?

( Source: http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-geneticall... )
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The helium used in balloons is usually old recycled helium called "balloon air" - http://science.slashdot.org/story/12/09/23/0518247/scientist...
There are several cryptocurrency mining benchmarks which are bandwidth bound; those benchmarks reflect almost one to one the deep learning performance of a GPU. You can see this for example for litecoin mining:
https://litecoin.info/Mining_hardware_comparison
I know someone who lived on his boat in Boston Harbor because he did not want give up collecting rent from his apartments... basically if you have a boat, this is one way to maximize its value. Even so I think winter living was not fun.
For what it's worth, the cost of a cylinder of Helium has risen exponentially in the past few years.

One of my first jobs was working in a welding supply shop, and I was astonished to find out that a '100lb' cylinder (they're filled by weight/pressure) of helium was nearly $200. As a comparison, a '100lb'of propane was only about $40.
> It is not possible to prove that genetically engineered food is safe. It is not possible to prove that any food is safe.

Of course, and I don't expect proof. I just expect long (20-years plus) studies that are unencumbered by commercial interests).

> And when you think of it, the "conventional" techniques mean that seeds (etc) are exposed to ionizing radiation, carsinogenic chemicals and whatever. Then you wait for random mutations.

So basically, it's not safe at all. IMO, that's a serious misinterpretation of the word "conventional" - for me, conventional plant improvement techniques is interbreeding and selection (i.e. find plants that are "better" according to some criteria and take their seeds, thus slowly improving it over generations).

I'll definitely look into these "conventional" techniques; I guess this limits the food choices I have even more :) Thank god I live in Europe, I'm assuming we're growing more traditional variants here.
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For those that wish to own a home, make sure to consider property taxes.

Texas has no income tax but very high property taxes at ~3% per year of home value. So a 350k house will add ~$900/month on top of a mortgage.

SV has a much lower rate but you'll probably pay more than Texas in absolute terms because 350k houses do not exist there.

Colorado is a nice balance. Home prices in between SV and Texas, but one of the lowest property tax rates in the country.
Rent control will lead to more slums and more boats like this. American cities have tried rent control, and it simply leads to a shortage of rooms for rent. After all - why would you build apartments or rent out existing rooms if you're not going to make money off of it?

If you're looking for a leftist answer that would alleviate some of this, I would suggest running with the platform of subsidized rent. In the US, it's called Section 8, after the section of the 1937 Housing Act that created it. Basically, if you earn less than a certain amount of money, the government will pay for a certain amount of your rent (ranging from a small portion to almost all of it). In turn, landlords are guaranteed tenants and funding as long as they adhere to certain building requirements and responsibilities.

Section 8 ends up getting a whole bunch of criticism, as it drives housing prices up further and dicks over the middle class, (if you don't qualify for assistance, you're going to have problems) but if you want to make it a priority to have working-class / poor people live in London, that's probably the way to go. You have to pay for it with increased taxes, though.
From a glance, you have to define the queries before.
Are you using anything currently?

What is your insert/update/delete rate? If low, maybe look at postgresql in-memory column-store https://github.com/knizhnik/imcs/

Another way may be voltdb. Since it's partitioned+single-thread/partition, and cross-partition queries are slow, you'll probably have to make a query for each partition and group results on the app.

Also curious.
I'm surprised that modern implementations don't use something like quicksort, since it has linear space requirements (sorts in-place) and good constants on average for its n*log2(n) running time.
Spark 1.1 switched default sorting algorithm from quicksort to TimSort as well in both the map and reduce phases- https://databricks.com/blog/2014/10/10/spark-petabyte-sort.h...
This is a common refrain, but one I consider misguided, having lived in Austin since the first .com collapse.

While Yes, housing costs have moved up, others have remained flat (so relatively compared to other cities, have moved down).

As silly as it sounds, my favorite metric is "Cost of Drinking". Find the fancy cocktail bars in any city's downtown. In Austin, nothing on the menu is above $12 at Midnight Cowboy or The Garage. Now compare that to the other cities on this list.
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My girlfriend grew up on a boat in San Diego. Better weather makes it a viable option.
This is actually really cool. They tried to verify Timsort as implemented in Python and Java using formal methods. When it didn't seem to work, they discovered that there was actually a missing case in both implementations, which could lead to array out of bounds exceptions.

Really shines as an example of how important proof is in computer science.
If anything the docs reiterate (quite a few times) that this is one way, and not a golden bullet. And that flux is just one of the architectures you can use with react.

But you certainly get the award for least imagination.
Correct me if I'm wrong but are not hydrogen and helium two of the most abundant elements in the galaxy? If we ever were to let it all float into outer space (if that's even possible) by then couldn't we just harvest it in space? I know that's by no means cost effective with today's technology but we're talking decades before we might actually run out right.
I would think people would pay to get out of Detroit.
As long as your < operator works, you don't really need another sort implementation to compare with.

Also, it seems like the bug is only truly present in the Java version due to a slightly different implementation, even though the original Python (and the "fixed" Java) is technically incorrect.
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Bt corn is specifically engineered to produce its own insecticide. You cannot wash it off. Its effect on Monarch butterflies and other insects is becoming known. The scientific consensus you mention has also drawn attention due to conflicts of interest from sources of funding.
We already have this, it's called housing benefit. A cap was recently introduced on the payments to deal with extreme cases (single mother with many children living in Zone 1 getting > national average income). It doesn't actually impose any extra responsibilities on landlords.

What we used to have was a national programme of building social housing. This had some high-profile social failures (qv US "housing projects") and the government embarked on a programme of selling it off at a great discount to the current occupiers while demolishing some of the worst tower blocks.

What we now have is a massive failure of planning policy. The symbol of this is the derelict for 30 years Battersea power station. It's a huge, useless, architectural treasure that's occupying a lot of land in Zone 1 because nobody can agree what to do with it.
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How accurate is glassdoor? If I look at my city, for my position, inside my own company it seems highly inaccurate. Either that or I'm paid half of what everyone else makes, which seems unlikely. According to this site indeed seems probably even more inflated.

Then I can't figure out what the incentive to inflate your salary would be when reporting it to glassdoor unless companies are doing it themselves.
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Rent controls don't work. It will just partition the price into over- and under-table parts.

As I see it, there are three solutions, all of which should be done simultaneously:

1. Requiring occupants to live in their housing for a significant portion of the year's days (a third, for example). Enforcement requires some loss of privacy, but living in central London is not a human right.

2. Expanding the city vertically. Encourage high-rise apartment complexes.

3. Higher speed trains to the suburbs to shorten the time distance.
Yeah I get that, but I feel there must be better ways to weed out wonks and crazies without putting a monetary roadblock in the way. How about n * 1000 signatures from people on the electoral roll? I think we live in a world where that's a feasible alternative.
In this context, "doused" is an emotional word and completely inaccurate.

After my GMO corn and soybeans are about 12" high, I use a contact spray (glyphosate) at a rate of roughly 10 gal/acre to selectively kill weeds. If you would watch the sprayer in the field, you would note that the nozzles are emitting a very fine mist. To me, it is an incredible feat of science that such little spray is able to completely and selectively kill the weeds.

Also, I'm not aware of ANY pesticides that are save for human consumption. To what are you referring?

Source: On the side, I farm 35 acres planted using no-till and GMO corn and soybeans. I hire a crop consultant to help me rotate pesticides to avoid developing glyphosate-resistant weeds.
"...bat-shit crazy with (islamic) blasphemy laws, insane migration and allowing Jihadis into the government"

This says a lot about why you dislike the immigration-friendly Sweden of today. I have no desire to engage in a debate with a racist. I hope that the people on HN sharing your views will remain few.
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Yep. Bad bad practice. Used to happen a lot more in earlier days if I'm correct.
I'm still unclear on why Superfish motivates this stuff, since virtually nothing you can come up with to strengthen TLS trust trumps an adversary who images your machine.
That's because it was made by enterprise Java people moving to JS
You won't be pulling in any local income in those cities (all work would be remote, you would be dodging thai taxes on income taxed in a western country), so it wouldn't be a very realistic comparison.
TimSort is supposed to have better performance on real world datasets.
You've clarified your argument but doesn't sound like much of a difference.

"Legalize drugs to get people off meth"
vs
"Legalize drugs or they'll get on meth"

Kind of sounds like the same thing to me.

Meth is messed up. We seem to agree with that. My point is heroin is also very messed up. Perhaps to a lesser degree but I do know they both horrible and it makes little sense to legalize one over the other. Considering how horrific the effects of prolonged heroin use is I can't see why it should be legalized while declaring another drug off-limits.

I make no comment on marijuana since I class it differently in my head and I also make no comment on ecstasy as I virtually know nothing about its effects.
Well, at that time the worlds media attention was on the Ukraine conflict, involving Russia.
What better way to get media attention away from your plans than to create a mystery about which most of the western world happily cares much more than about watching eversame news about war and invasion.
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I don't understand people who use subsidies and free market in the same phrase. If there are subsidies then it's pretty clear the government has gotten involved, no? Instead of worrying about "having to pass a law to ban collecting Helium" or whatever, how about you worry about having the government not give those subsidies in the first place. Wouldn't that be easier?
And how do you pay for the collection and verification of those signatures? Prob would cost around £10k ;)
What you need to do is progressive taxation on properties and capital returns.
The replacement to segmented stacks is copying stacks, which as far as my knowledge of LLVM takes me, would be very difficult to add. You need a stack map of pointers to successfully move pointed-to objects on the stack from the old region to the new.

There is a great deal of work going on in LLVM on this issue for precise GC of other languages, and (from the outside) it looks like more hours have been spent on it than on the entire Go toolchain. As Go developers don't have the resources or expertise to make such wide-ranging changes to LLVM, it would have blocked Go development.

GCC is similar. Those working on gccgo are trying to work out how to add precise GC and copying stacks. It is much more complex than it was on the gc toolchain.

There is great value in having a simple toolchain that is completely understood by the developers working on it. In fact, that very idea, that code you depend on should be readable and widely understandable, is one of the goals of Go. Applying the goal to the toolchain is a case of eating our own ideological dogfood.
> As long as your < operator works

That's not true. sort() can be broken in many different ways.

For instance

sort([3, 7, 5]) -> [1, 2, 3]

The result it sorted and has the correct length, but it's wrong.
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Unfortunately, the vast distances required make public transport limited in effectiveness in the US. They're great in the cities, but the very low population density outside of the cities means that it's not going to do very well there.

When I lived in Arizona, I was driving about 50 kilometers per day. There was no bus or train, as there just weren't enough passengers to make it worth building. Driving was the only option unless I was going to bike 50 kilometers per day in the heat.

Here in Oregon, there are bus routes, but it would take me more than an hour to get to work on the bus. By car, it's about ten minutes. I could definitely bike to work, but it rains a lot here. :)

Incidentally, a huge hike in gas prices would probably force a lot of people to move to the cities. They'll need public transport to get to work if they can't drive. But seeing as how city living is so expensive, they'll probably keep driving (smaller cars and motor scooters) for as long as they can.
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We have this in Ottawa, it's called the canal: http://www.ncc-ccn.gc.ca/rideau-canal-skateway/

I have friends that use it on a daily basis (especially now that it has been less than -15C for over 45 days this year.
In terms of total helium in circulation at any point - this isn't an unreasonable assertion. They use vast quantities of the stuff to keep superconducting magnets and power transmission lines at operational temperatures, and the LHC is far from being the only experiment at CERN....

But on further examination...

helium is about 0.1785g/l
1 cubic foot = 28.317 litres
So 1 cf. of He has a mass of ~5.05g

Cern use 120 metric tons of He in the LHC beam tube magnets alone (http://home.web.cern.ch/about/engineering/cryogenics-low-tem... ), so let's say 200 tons at all of CERN, as the beam tube magnets are a pretty major application, and the other accelerators (PS/SPS/etc.) are considerably smaller and slower and have less intensive requirements, and other experiments altogether probably use a fair, but not crazy amount.

So... 200 tons of helium equates to 200000000/5.05 = 39.6 million cubic feet, at STP.

So, lots and lots of helium, but not 1/3 of the world's supply.

Oh, fun fact - that amount of helium would be enough to lift 1100 tonnes of payload from the ground... about two fully laden 747s.
Gnome sandboxing uses exactly the same technologies behind the scenes as Docker uses: cgroups, namespaces, ... They add the additional requirement that they need Wayland to circumvent the security issues that X11 presents them. Other than that, you could do it just the same way.

So your "when-containers-dont-have-root-bug-today" applies to Gnome too...

Also: there is no such thing as 'actual' sandboxing. There are many forms of sandboxing, containers (not docker-exclusive, as Gnome is using it exactly the same way) is one form, but we also know Virtual Machines, the Java VM, Javascript in a browser, ... the list goes on - all meaning the same thing: shield an application from everything else on the computer and try to prevent it from breaking out.
No, i'm saying a lack of placement on the front page still doesn't make a story that hard to find.
Nah, that's the CPU the Terminator used because it's the only design that can survive time travel. Skynet probably uses something a lot more modern. The Terminator himself runs his consciousness routines on bare metal.
Funny how I am painted as a racist.

I'm a Kurd/Iranian, with immigrant and muslim parents. I grew up in Husby as made famous by http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Stockholm_riots I guess anyone who don't share your opinions are "racist".

Swedes sure love to water down that word, "racist".
Try being a Kurd in Turkey or an apostate in an islamic country, then you will learn what racist means.
> unfair

So you want to create a world in which people who need to come and work in London in growth areas cannot because a chosen few are occupying the properties they'd prefer to live in with no economic way to regulate or control. You simply create an unfairness of another kind.
I used to live on a boat; I still own one; and I don't support that petition.

The Canal & River Trust is an underfunded charity whose aims are to preserve and maintain Britain's historic waterway network.

They are not funded to provide affordable housing for people. That is, and should be, the role of local and central Government.

When you buy a boat in the UK (on CRT waterways), there are clear rules, in force since 1992, that you must either have a permanent mooring for it or undertake to move on to a different place every 14 days ("continuously cruising"). Numerous people have tried to avoid the expense of a permanent mooring by declaring themselves to be "continuously cruising" but actually staying in the same place. That is what this petition is seeking to legalise.

If it were accepted, CRT would lose out two-fold: it would have greater costs in providing facilities and maintaining the waterways as more people bought boats simply to use as cheap houses, and it would have significantly lower income as people learned that they can get away without paying for a permanent mooring. Yet even now, CRT doesn't have enough money to maintain its 2,500 miles of waterways to a safe, reliable standard - just look at the recent breach on the Trent & Mersey Canal as an example.

I feel for the people who can't afford to live in London and have alighted on boats as a cheap way to do so. I believe the city would be better as a vibrant, varied community rather than a rich ghetto. But expecting an underfunded heritage charity to fix London's housing problem is unfair and unrealistic. Target Whitehall and City Hall, not CRT.
Here's a solution: a city- or nation-wide graduated tax on per-square-foot rent applied to the profit above property tax with a fixed allowance for maintenance. Add in a limited deduction for physical property improvements.

Graduate the tax and put it on owners for several effects:

* Diminishing or negative returns on increasing rent price
* Reduced ROI for top priced real estate lowering demand for investment ownership and price
* Increased relative ROI for improving lower quality properties & cheap places to live unaffected
I like the ideas coming out of the Winter Cities concept. However, coming from Europe and on the topic of transportation, I'd rather see money spent on a wider rail network, live bus tracking or just actual pavements...
Companies pay benefits on top of salary. According to my company the cost for me is $208 per hour for "total compensation". I don't know how they come to that number but it seems unlikely. I generally bill out at about $100 more per hour. I make somewhere between 1/8 - 1/10 of that in actual hourly rate. The thing that really gets me is that I work salary but if I work over 40 hours in week they still considered that as a $208/hour loss even though they pay me nothing. Then I'm "over budget".

Freelancers have to charge higher rates because of lack of benefits and because they can charge $200 per hour and still be cheaper than me. Freelancers have cost that aren't directly passed on in an employee relationship. You're also assuming all freelancers have 40 hours of work each week, which is probably unlikely. Now you have me dreaming of working 20 hours a week and making what I make now. Hell, I'd like to get to 6 figures in my 50+ hour per week corporate job.
Sorry, I can't help you with that.

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