skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I live in the sunset district- there are a bunch of vandwellers who do this in our hood and it's frankly disgusting. They urinate out the side of their van in the gutter and leave their feces in the gutter. Perhaps YOU are clean but there are plenty of people who do it as well who are not as conscientious. It's making the neighborhood pretty disgusting.

You're telling me in the middle of the night if you wake up and have to pee, you're really going out to a bar and finding a restroom? I think not. At worst you're peeing onto the sidewalk or into a bush and at best you're peeing into a bottle in your van and then dumping it out on the street.

I report anyone I can tell living in a van on our streets to the non-emergency PD line, and they come out and they make them move.
I know of 2 Google van guys in MTV and the parent is not one of them. It's definitely a trend.
Site is having woes for me (database error), I think we broke it.

Here's a link to google cache:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NTq35Cw...
becoming? it's been a pretty common thing for as long as I've lived in the area. I'm pretty sure a co-worker of mine is living in his benz. (He's real quiet about it.) same income range.

I know a few people who move here and discreetly lived in their car until they got a good job. I even know a guy who was a unix guy like me, who quit working with computers during the real-estate boom and became homeless in the crash. He's been living out of his car for a while, while looking for work.

As far as I can tell, the factors for success are

1. make sure it's not obvious you live in the van.

that is all.
American badge of honor. No point fighting it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tying_(commerce)
you could de-regulate the planning all together and the the market decide the best way to allocate resources...
Bulb detection used to be a big frustration for me as well, but they've 100% resolved my issues with it in the latest firmware update (now a few months old). I'd previously had issues with detection after power-on since WiFi would take ages to connect, but now its down to a pretty impressive 5-6 seconds from cold start and is far more reliable.

Random color changes or flickering sounds like a defective bulb, I'm sure they'd replace it for you if you contacted them.
Every large organisation has done some things that are morally wrong, so basing our reactions on the identity of the entire organisation is unworkable - too coarse-grained, too crude, to be anything but counterproductive. We need to base our reactions on actions and policies instead.

Thus, I applaud the helpful and constructive act of releasing this product as open source, and will certainly consider it if I ever need a graph database. This does not, of course, constitute approval of every GCHQ policy.
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$189M in the city's budget goes directly to homeless services. That's roughly $25k per homeless person in direct spending. The city estimates it spends another $20k per homeless person in indirect city services (health, police, fire). The "frequent fliers" cost the city more than $100k per year.

In many ways, $40k per person is a low-end figure.
This really is the way to go. Next year I'll be trading in my comfy mortgage for the van life. I'll be going from saving 70% of my take home pay to about 90%. Obviously this works best for people without dependents, but some people don't really have a choice. With banks owning 1 out of every 5 houses and people not being able to pay off student loans, the next crash is coming. Will you be ready?
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If you really, really wanted to stick to Ruby-like syntax for whatever reason, and you wanted to do "reactive programming", couldn't you just use Elixir?

A VM with soft-realtime semantics, OTP patterns as architectural building blocks, and an almost-too-easy path toward writing distributed applications.
Precisely! Engineering usually isn't about designing the best X, it's about designing the cheapest X that meets all of its requirements.

Edit: even if the requirement is for X to be the best in the world (which, as a non-quantifiable requirement, makes me uneasy), the goal would still be to do it as cost effectively as possible.
> Isn't one of the main benefits of something like Firebase or Parse that you don't have to run it?

But do I have to pay for it?
A firmware update for a BICYCLE? I obviously haven't ridden in a while.
He says 18 years at one point in the article. Since it was almost certainly in England or Wales it shouldn't be too difficult to identify the company involved. Zeus, maybe?
I'm just thinking about the level of coordination required and then you get into timings, and other issues where one car may respond slightly slower. I think stuff like this makes it way harder than people think. And that's without any bad or just not altruistic actors there. Think if the "Sport" package on your BMW was code for "talks the other cars into letting it go first.

With peoples car, the person with the complete clunker wins that race as they obviously don't care if they hit you and don't have the money to pay you back. BMW has to back off.

With software it's down to the negotiating powers of the cars software.

We've seen how well that works in trading, no one ever games the laws slightly for their own advantage.
CRISPR at #17, surprising.. it has been talk of the town in 2015
Reminds me of this video with Stephen Fry:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_osQvkeNRM
Like everything else in California, we amend the Constitution. (Only half joking)
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I'm definitely not negotiating enough. I've literally been offered half that (and less) in SF.

I do hardware, though.
How is your average drone different from birds? Non-zero doesn't mean worth mentioning.
I'm mixed on the issue. I've got roots going back multiple generations in the bay area. The only immediate family member besides myself still living in the "bay area" (monterey to Santa Rosa) is one of my Aunts. Both parents born/raised in the Bay Area, my sister and I as well. Choices made, people moved. There is a golden rule - "if you sell your house and move out of California, it is hard to move back". My parents found this out in spades. They live in WA now and I'm supporting them a bit.

Old friends of my family still own a house in Campbell. Retired now, even with ups and downs, their mentality is "we aren't splitting up, because we can't afford to go anywhere". The build out of the Bay Area, lack of planning, etc. is taking a toll and making it hard on current and retired blue collar workers.

That said, I live in Santa Cruz and have very little pity on the "I should be allowed to live where I want". Mostly because over here, our "3000+ homeless" are 2/3 (according to a UCSC/Civinomics survey) didn't reside here before becoming homeless. We have way too many services, few rules, and a lot of "compassion" -- to the point of people being publicly called out if you publicly ask about "compassion".

The Bay Area is expensive, yes one would like to stay where their friends are, but one should also be open to where they can afford. For instance, locally, we keep being lectured about needing "safe places for RVs to park", yet these RVs aren't local, and a simple search of CL, a trailer park in Modesto has spaces (including utilities) for $15/day.
We've done this as a recap of successes with a few clients, now. It helps that the old stuff was stupid slow and ours has been both understandable and faster.
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Can I use sandstorm without having a Google or GitHub account?

EDIT: Thanks for the reply. Will check it out. And yes, I last gave it a try a while ago.
This is Monster Rancher as Modern Art. The art doesn't add anything to our understanding of the redaction; it's just got some fluffy wording around it.
This comment is not only factually wrong (It's not the AMA) but misleading as well. The typical medical student today leaves med school $250k in debt at 8% interest then spends years in a residency where they make $50-60k working 80+ hours per week in a likely high cost of living area. If they started schooling immediately after high school they probably won't actually make that 270k (median, so many starting out are lower) until they're 30+ years old.

Contrast that to a completely mediocre web dev who can pull 100k+ at 21 putting in 40-50 hours a week and do you really still think physicians are overpaid? Keep in mind the majority end up in family or internal medicine working 60+ hours a week for ~$175k/yr. Going to medical school is a massive financial risk with an incredibly uncertain future.

If you want a human punching bag then turn your gaze towards hospital administrators, pharmaceutical executives, and exploitative vendors. The actual hospital employees are just as much victims of the healthcare shit show as members of the public are.
Agree that was probably too soon, even if it existed in some form. I've often wondered why precisely people love JavaScript on the server. I would guess it's a mix of 1) event machine parallelism, 2) isomorphism, 3) speed (since V8/SpiderMonkey/Chakra), 4) cross-compatibility, and 5) engineers not needing to learn another language.
Yes, there's no "there" there. It's all sheen, no substance; the only aesthetic is in the "mystery" of what it means
Brings to mind the classic:

> "Measuring software productivity by lines of code is like measuring progress on an airplane by how much it weighs." - Bill Gates
Another point that surprised me was the reference to the Cirque performers desiring an adrenaline rush, which seems at odds with safety. I've read of rock climbers saying that everything should be calm when they are climbing and that if there's ever an adreniline rush, it means something has gone wrong.
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Kenton, thanks for all of the work you and your contributors do on sandstorm.io; I have referred this project to many people wanting to get their feet wet "running a server" as a way to do something without instantly cutting yourself. Have you considered writing a how-to article on replicating ownCloud-like functionality within Sandstorm using apps? It might be a good first step, and I believe that it has the possibility to help people move onto (what I personally believe is) a superior platform.
> The only thing that lets old tools get rusty is a lack of maintenance or improper storage. Software does not need to suffer from either

1. Yes, you can ruin every metaphor if you over-analyze it enough.

2. No, software has its own "rust" scenarios, like not staying compatible with other ecosystem elements, or simply being different than the current best-practice.
There's an email option as well. Check the demo, then choose "Create Account" - you'll see "with email" as an option, including an email field.
Usenet probably did play some small part in taking power away from the government and Gosplan, and handing it to the people of the USSR.

This is one of the main reasons the US government and the corporations which monopolize the last mile of communications effectively killed off Usenet in 2009.
Yes, of course.

(It sounds like you might have tried a very early version a year or more ago... lots has changed since then.)
Guys, be grateful! Whatever you say he's probably still doing much better than you or me. And certainly better than thousands of bankers out there.
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Mayor just committed to $250MM/yr (http://www.sfmayor.org/index.aspx?recordid=1017&page=846)
Most drones have cameras and operators (which also have eyesight).
Nick Mathewson is the one who leads development on `tor`, to my knowledge.
> Moreover, if Yahoo sees iPhones and free food as the only things keeping an employee from leaving, aren't they doing themselves a favor by letting those employees quit at will?

It's not that iPhones and free food keep people, it's the signal that even the little expenses are going to be penny pinched with no regard for employee morale. Which seems like a pretty good reason to get out IMO.
I don't think that those that choose to drive would provide more risk than they do today, however, they would provide (my gut and no more) substantially more risk than driverless cars. What incentive would an insurance provider have to insure a human driver? Much higher premiums I suggest.
See the author's comments on very similar code here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/31857s/random_number_g...

> One minor issue is that you’re using `default_random_engine`, which in some systems may be a LCG with a tiny 32-bit state. If so, you’ll have an RNG with a tiny period. That’s why Stephan recommends[1] that you explicitly use the Mersenne Twister. Of course, it might be something better, with more state.

> But what’s really wrong with it is that you use a single 32-bit integer to seed the RNG. If you’re using the Mersenne Twister, you’re using four bytes of state to try to seed 624 bytes. It’ll work, but it’s way worse than what the Python code does; Python uses 624 bytes of actual entropy rather than four bytes.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/cpp/comments/31857s/random_number_g...
Netflix is an example of a trend that I hate, where it is hard to find the sign in button. One other offender that comes to mind is Crashplan, I actually had to google "Crashplan login" to find the page. Lastpass does this too where you actually have to cancel toward the end of the installation to proceed because the installer assumes you are a new user.

Maybe not directly related but when you go to download Chrome from chrome.com it forces you to watch an animation first, very unnecessary and frustrating.

Onboarding should take existing users into consideration and let them easily log right in.
Well, I kind of see that point of view, if we are talking about the activity of "programming", which in itself may not necessarily be thought of as an productive activity. But the article was about developing software, which is a productive activity.
Great. So we just need the instinctual dive response and we should be good...
In my experience here in Australia and recently traveling around Europe, the US is the only country that hasn't seemed to get mobile terminal/contactless. It's like they missed the last 5 years completely.
It really is a challenge. I don't think it'll be realistic to build mid-size, fully offline web apps (excluding tools like electron) until indexedDB has wider support. One solution is to garbage collect the oldest data from localStorage and sync with a server when you've got connection, but once you're offline you're kinda stuck with 5mb. However, caniuse.com/#feat=indexeddb is optimistic about the future.
The company I work for is trying to make offline/decentralized apps more realistic (gundb.io, github.com/amark/gun) and storage limitations can be aggravating at times.
Living in a van is probably cheaper, and probably saves time. I'd rather save 90% of my income and have a 10 minute commute than save less money and have a longer commute.

If you don't particularly need a large space, why not?
Was it guaranteed in any way? I don't recall a lot of smash PC hits around this time, and most of the ones that were big were games that weren't really console-esque anyway. Most of the successful ones were strategy games.

It wasn't until hardware and insane innovation came together with Doom that consoles had a very real competitor in "action" video games. (perhaps Wolfenstein and its ilk could qualify, I remember it being big but never really registering as "mature" the way console games did)

This demo is, to me, extremely impressive because it's close to the NES version. But it also has all the hallmarks of PC attempts at platformers. It never "felt" right. The reasons are explained a bit here, but there were ultimately a lot of limitations that made it very hard to compete even graphically with commonly-available hardware.
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It may be, but the fine is likely to be less than the monetary value of the information retained. (Since that data, at least in social networking sites, is used to propose new relationships, it is probably more valuable than a store loyalty card.)
Seems to download and install unidentified software (presumably malware) from a couple of sites. Looks like it targets MS-Windows specifically. I strongly suggest not executing it.
It's probably not as complicated as it is being made to sound.

I don't know about the "quasis" but it sounds like a linear algebra problem. Hyperbolic might be the form of the solutions to each of the differential equations, or of their combined solution. "Lorentzian metric" presumably means the usual Minkowski space of relativity.
Well, "kinto" is the name for the cloud in Japanese (see: http://dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Flying_Nimbus).
All of these things are already possible. Hell I see an example of most of these behaviors pretty frequently. It's not like normal people are going to suddenly become psychopaths when they get self driving cars.
This is pretty cool. You might even be able to turn this into a business if you could actually order the sweaters. Extra bonus points if you could do that without it being screen printed on.

It doesn't handle rotated images correctly. Many of the images I tried with my iPhone came out turned sideways or upside down. (I believe this is because the iPhone stores the correct orientation in the exif data.)
http://www.businessinsider.com/greg-gopman-solving-homelessn...

"It costs the city $61,000 per year between ER’s, jail, and support services per homeless person living on the streets."
Great project. Looking at current options for custom ugly christmas sweaters, they all seem to have become custom ugly christmas sweatshirts. Couple this idea with a proper knitting machine and figure out how to scale, and you could have a cool seasonal business idea.
I thought the article was going to be about the limitations and general unreliabilty of Excel
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The actual elements of the lists are typeless basically. The easiest way to do this is that each car of a cons cell is just a pointer to a value (actually both are).
Many lisps use tagged pointers where the tag stores the value or even each variable could be a struct with the type and value.
Yeah, it does mostly seem to be back. With the talk of needing to "mend" the database, I was sort of expecting it to take longer.
> Wow very cool seeing the sprites / screens that inspired the real game.

Wait, what? Are you under the impression that this demo inspired Mario 3 in some way?

The controls look awkward and floaty, so I doubt skill has much to do with it. It's a fairly superficial copy of Mario 3 without the attention to detail in making sure the controls are both fun and really precise. Which, to be fair, in 1990 only Nintendo and Sega could pull off with much finesse (others were good at one or the other, but not so much both). Jumps like that were only fun in Mario games because of that balance.
Right, that makes sense. Wasn't thinking about the consequences of it being the background location prompt specifically
https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=10735863&goto=item%3Fi...
thanks, but you should remove some of this identifying information.
I worked on a similar project once (fully-client-side image cropping), and you are correct about the EXIF data. There was a library out there that saved my ass with that problem, but it escapes me now.

Edit: I think this is it: https://github.com/blueimp/JavaScript-Load-Image
Wireless shifting. It's supposed to save us from the tyranny of the shift cable.
My conclusion was that any hub that requires a round-trip to a internet service is just not realistic for home automation.
We might, though. I mean, this code was commercialized as Commander Keen, wasn't it? And the same team then went on to make Wolfenstein, Doom, and Quake.

So there's no reason why this couldn't have been the first item in that sequence of things.
Heh - it's funny you mention React there, in the context of sticking with PHP instead of jumping ship to some more appropriate technology:

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest...

It was only 4 years ago when creating HTML5 based hybrid mobile apps was "the biggest mistake Facebook ever made", and it was all about "native apps" for iOS and Android... Now React and React Native are "the new hotness"...
Even strong, general financial planning education at high school level is going to be up against so much: people trying to keep up with their peers, succumbing to offers like store credit or other marketing, etc.

There are credit cards offered with cash back. Endless TV ads for new cards including finance. It's a lot of pressure on people without family/peer support holding out against these things.
Lived next to a mormon church for a few years in Pittsburgh, it was always my go to for parking. Never a single problem as long as the car wasn't there sunday morning.
Well, mostly I see ownCloud as the good guys, and my hope is to have it available as a Sandstorm app soon.

So I'd rather focus on replacing SaaS, like Google Docs/Drive. :) Here's a blog post about that:

https://opensource.com/life/15/12/5-open-source-web-apps-sel...
Patient education is the only issue here, but most of the public has no desire to know anything about their care. They want a magic pill they can pop which will make it all better and they want to sit in a hospital as long as they feel like. This is because they aren't cognizant of the cost associated with them sitting around like a fool soaking up thousands of dollars in resources per day when they could be sitting at home healing instead.

One of the biggest flaws with the American health care system and single payer as well is that it's removed the cost component from peoples considerations of what care they should receive. We all pay for this idiocy in the form of our skyrocketing insurance premiums. Do you really think people would want to sit in a hospital if they actually had to pay the nursing staff $1000 per day out of pocket? If they had to pay the janitor $20 for coming into the room to clean up the mess they'd made? $200 for the physician followup? Of course not.

The above poster complaining about withholding opiates and statistically backed discharge time frames is a huge part of what's wrong with health care across the developed world- not just the US.
http://nil.csail.mit.edu/6.824/2015/schedule.html

Someone posted this last time I asked about distributed systems.