skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For future reference I think you can scale an app to 0 without deleting it using heroku ps:scale web=0 worker=0.

I had to remove scheduler from three of my apps too. It's frustrating but it did make me realise how trivial some of them were.
Does Swift not have its own JSON parser ?

(IMA non-swift programmer)
The record low °C in SF is -3. I don't think there's anywhere in canada that's even remotely comparable.
> Typically, the principals of a consultancy do most of the sales work...

There's nothing more impressive than hiring the actual principal to do the work versus dealing with a flunky sales rep.

What to do?

Aggressively read up on how market & pitch your services. Become an expert on consultative selling. You might even enroll in a professional sales program like Miller Heiman. Ultimately, this is a core competency needed to grow any business.

BTW, Alan Weiss has great food-for-thought on Value Based Fees, separates you from the hourly bozos > http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1145457.Value_Based_Fees
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The devil doesn't seem to need more help, so maybe you should question your hobbies. That aside, what both you and he miss: the problem with the pain, struggle and despair of homelessness is not a comfortable person having to see it. It is a person having to experience the pain, struggle, and despair of homelessness.

As a San Francisco with 5x his tenure, I am entirely proud that SF has not swept the homeless problem out of sight. I would rather that everybody were safe, whole, and housed. But as long as we have the problems we do, I would rather they be on public display. Because fixing them is going to require public action.

If that is uncomfortable for him, then good. He should be fucking uncomfortable that people are suffering in the streets. I am, and anybody with half a heart is. As long as the pain exists among his fellow residents, he should see it. We all should.
He's being callous and saying that he doesn't want to look at those grubby stinky people. It's not an argument from a place of sympathy. That's very different from seeing a problem and shedding light on it.
I thought Reno and other cities were also dumping a lot of homeless to sf. They had a bus pack of homeless sent to us. They purposely do that to get rip off their homeless on street. That's pretty fuck up
ZFS is great, happy its included in Ubuntu 16.04 by default.
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Is there anyone here who is familiar with HOBA(RFC 7486) and FIDO that can comment on their differences and similarities?
That and it's a very nice report to read. Very understandable.
You can not expect me to support the weaking of encryption and critical infrastructure just to arrest criminals who would not exist if the state policy would not be stupid in the first place.

> It's undeniable that drugs, gambling, and prostitution have real social costs and harms.

Its also undeniable that enforcing these things has real social cost and harms. In this balance I am of the opinion that it would be far superior to have a different policy.

> You're presupposing a direction of causation here. Your average street gang does not exist because of drug dealing or consumption (and indeed, violent street gangs long predate any restrictions on drugs or alcohol). They deal in drugs because it's easy money, but arise for other reasons.

That does not mean that these gangs would be much weaker and therefore less important if they could not make easy money. These are mutually supportive, a tight group can do well in a illegal market, and because of that it can produce benefits for its members, increasing memberships and power.
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Great satire.
If you tweeted or opened a support ticket they responded some time ago - or at least they did for me. Still an email would have been better.
It's more the 'unions' than the 'regulations'. It's in the best interest of any union to keep prices inflated artificially by utilizing government regulations, like the medallion system.
I hear you. It's telling though you know the product is already on Amazon. You can imagine people going straight to Amazon if they know the product is there.
Today, maybe.

Don't presume that the government is necessarily using the sale of lower-interest bonds to pay off the principal on its higher-interest debts.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/03/05/john-...

As long as the principal on the bond cannot be repaid out of actual revenues, every bond you sell at a negative yield is one that may have to be refinanced at a positive yield later.
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No, we cannot. I think he's making good points, although a little callously.
If google cracks self driving vehicles then the margin would likely increase quite a bit by not paying drivers, if they applied similar technology to automate as much of the process at every part they likely could increase the margin again.

I've worked for large retailers (Staples in this instance) and they are not remotely efficiently run, bad warehouse management, bad stock management (old dated broken software), incredible lack of intelligence on stock ordering etc.

A company with the programming ability to manipulate data the way Google does could get a decent headstart on the competition in the short term (eventually others will catch up but that's the way the game is played in retail).

Hell throw in viable electric vehicles for the deliveries and you could eliminate driver costs and 2/3 of your fuel costs, that'd be a hell of a saving.

You'd also be able to offer a faster turn around time (multiple small vehicles vs multiple orders on a single van).

Throw in some nice UX stuff, real time alerts when you delivery is on the way drawn on a nice google map rather than "It'll arrive between 7-9" which means anywhere from 6:30 to 10pm in my experience and I'd sign up.
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Are there any open source solutions to automate the analysis of how a web page appears?

I was looking around and all that could come to my mind was phantomjs but it would still be pretty low level and I am looking for something on a higher level.
Not sure what you're saying?
[edit] I misread your post, my bad! I originally responded to HELOC vs. mortgage interest, sorry.

Yes, the AMT interaction with municipal taxes is a sizable pain point.
The people blasting the city claim the city isn't doing enough, and when shown that they are actually are providing a remarkable amount of support, it still isn't enough. 12-20k annually is more than a significant chunk of the population earns in wages.
He's saying homeless people are an eyesore and trashing the city, that's unquestionably true.

He's also saying the government should fix it, what other options are there but homeless shelters?

I don't get why people are acting like this guy wants to send the homeless to concentration camps and gas them.
> The onus of a living wage is always on the consumer

In the sense that the money has to come from somewhere, sure. But wages are paid by employers, and it's shitty to underpay your employees under the premise that the customer will make up the difference in tips. If a single customer failing to tip $20 pushes the worker under minimum wage for the day, then the system is broken and the worker is getting screwed, as usual. And make no mistake, this is how it was designed to work - if they actually cared about their workers, they would charge a reasonable delivery fee to the customer and give all of it to the delivery person.
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Wait I don't understand, how is that playing it straight? Is it supposed to be accurate?
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Notable that 3 of the promoted execs worked at Sacks' previous company, Yammer.
ZFS has been available in Linux for a long time, the licence restrictions hold it back from being included in the kernel, but it's available as a FUSE filesystem.

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

EDIT: Looking through the comments in the article, it's being suggested this isn't using the FUSE implementation of ZFS, and that somehow it's part of the kernel. Not sure how they've legally managed to do that!

EDIT 2: Looks like it's a kernel module, as other comments here suggest.
incorporating both long duration aerobic/cardio and relatively intense resistance training

And there are studies that show walking is just as good, and it certainly wears down the body less than your alternative.
The author also seems very out of touch and sheltered to the realities of living in a city.
It says that it is OpenZFS specifically.
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I think most people would argue that they had to pay for their housing but here we have people getting it for free.
Anyone know of Red Hat has plans to include it in default installations?
Yes. I am waiting for the a Yubikey with 4096 bit keys and NFC. They should release one in 2016.
I'm the article author, and it's great to hear your feedback! I've published a couple of other articles that may help with the topic of microservices:

https://opencredo.com/javaone-building-a-microservice-develo...

https://opencredo.com/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-microservices...

I'm also looking for more suggestions of how people will want to use Hoverfly with Java projects, and so please do give me a shout via twitter @danielbryantuk if you have any ideas!
He was obviously being anecdotal. Asking for a citation on it is like asking for a professional food critic's review on a cheeseburger that your friend just ate and said was "really good." It's pedantic and condescending when OP obviously has some experience with the situation based on their profession.
Thanks for sharing! I'm interested in learning a bit more about your lifestyle at home; I'd love to see the pictures you mentioned about creative use of IKEA.

I'm currently downsizing possessions to a point where my 1100 sq.ft apt is starting to feel too big.
"fwiw you do get to deduct property taxes from your taxable income."

property taxes != mortgage interest

EDIT: OPs ninja edit/delete makes this comment seem quite confusing. It was in response to OP getting confused and talking about mortgage interest.
http://zfsonlinux.org/faq.html#WhatAboutTheLicensingIssue

It is fine if it is a kernel module.
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Well that would be the considerate thing to do.
Read HN threads about gender and race issues. People fit all of the stereotypes.
Yes, people often consider that, and then they look at the data:

http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%...

70% of homeless people in San Francisco were housed residents of San Francisco before the became homeless, and most of the remaining 30% were in a city adjacent to San Francisco before coming to SF after becoming homeless.

Also, the idea that social services are "widely available" to homless people in San Francisco is a farce. For example, there is only 1 available shelter bed for every 5 homeless people.

Source: I worked as a service provider for homeless people in SF and I've seen our supposed "generous benefits" up close.
The complexity of building NumPy or SciPy is pretty much par for the course in HPC. Most of the libraries it is based on are battle-hardened and ridiculously well tested to a degree not seen in many places, but they date from a different era, including libraries where originally "building" it involved a hole puncher and a bucket of coffee. Getting all those libraries to play nicely together at all is a genuine miracle.

Most any significant scientific package I've ever had to build (which is quite a few) had a complex build system that felt like it was built on top of shaky glass pillars. It's just the nature of what's involved and it's a fundamentally hard problem; it's difficult to replace those libraries because the extreme amount of verification/validation and optimization that have gone into something like LAPACK makes it economically undesirable.

I'd say also that this is part of the appeal of NumPy and SciPy, which is they glue together a huge number of tools that are otherwise disjoint. You don't have to worry (most of the time) about matrix ordering, calling conventions, those mysterious "workspace" variables in LAPACK etc.
I have a theory that "left" and "right" can be replaced with how a big a circle of humanity you care about.

The people towards the right care about their family, or their community. The people on the left care about a slightly wider circle.

On the far "right" you get sociopaths that only care about themselves. On the far "left" you get utopian hippies that care about people suffering on the other side of the world.

What this frame of reference shows is how close together the traditional left-right are in a wider view. Someone who wants to tax the rich to help the poor doesn't often mean using money from Americans to help Mexicans or Ethiopians, they mean taxing rich Americans to give to the sligthly less rich Americans.
Mandatory treatment can also mean forced incarceration though. It's hard to get out of a mental hospital if the government picked you up and put you there.

Not saying I know the answer though.
Most cities don't have nearly the homeless/drug problem that SF has. It's abysmal here.
Or like any firewall, Nginx config, VPN, etc. Everyone picks a different way to do it, so it's not included in the default sync engine.
Yes but then again if I purchase a hundred gallons, I go from paying $2 to $110. So it is indeed such a big growth in price.

They are fundamentally different dimensions, because a transaction value goes from negative infinite to positive infinite (from a specific point of view), and in it, zero is just a specific point in the scale (that could be moved by fees or other debts to be netted against); whereas number of visitors can't go negative, and in such a scale zero is absolute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_scale). This makes the comparison dangerous.

But it seems that pointing that deserves downvotes...
The government is our employees, not some Other power above is. We need to make the changes. Make demands , build consensus, and run for office if needed.
You can still use the "-Sync" versions of functions in the standard lib.
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I like the self referential version:

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors."
Thank you for being more concerned about the media image of comfortable, well-paid tech workers than San Francisco's increasing number of homeless people.
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Where I live, it is more the opposite. People come here with irrational dreams, get on the street, fall into bad things, and then through dehydration, stress and living on the street, they become more irrational, and eventually permanently changed.
"Knowing what matters is the real key to being an effective data scientist."

Absolutely. What is absurd, though, is that even for the simplest of metrics, we don't have really good tools in place to:

1. Do matrix calculations (think R dataframes)

2. Build quick dynamic dashboard with strong data segregation by user (you don't want to show all data to all employees)

3. Clearly separate values from dimensions so hierarchies and mappings can be managed properly

4. Allow for manual inputs

5. Decently interface with Excel in some way
Generally the medallions are owned by someone else invariably rich (or lucky to get it early) and then rented out to the taxi drivers. The taxi drivers start doing shady things in order to pay the rental costs and earn a living. Then various sides get into the game of how many medallions should be available in the market to play with the supply/demand curve and maximize their own profits.
Why can't it split the difference.

Also Buzzfeed has grown into a serious news operation, investigating many stories (Tennis Fixing), and breaking others.
Misfortune also favors the bold. Sustained boldness depends on the capacity to withstand misfortune. That is to have been fortunate.
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It's because VCs would rather their investments would take risks then not. With risks, at least there is a chance you will accomplish great things (and there is only a chance you will get caught if your risk wasn't fully above the board). But if you don't take risks, there is no chance of accomplishing great things.

I think boards should be held responsible for encouraging these kinds of risks, but let's be honest - by focusing VC returns on maximizing investment outcomes, the system is set up this way.
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If you consciously reduce your salt, it is probably good for your health. This is not necessarily because of the salt, but because reducing your salt intake pretty much requires preparing your own food from unprocessed ingredients, rather than eating out or consuming processed food (whose sodium levels tend to be high, and not controllable by you).

A high sodium intake is widely believed to be unhealthy. Whether that is actually true or not, those who prepare high sodium food basically show that they don't give a shit about health.
Because the alphabet rename was a stupid idea in the first place. There is no reason to do business under the name of your Conglomerate entity name.
> “The only way for Apple to really differentiate and deliver something truly unique and truly great, you have to own your own silicon”

Why is that so? For ages we have relied on Intel and AMD, and that worked pretty well.
It's unfortunate people always have to play politics and angles. "'bro" is the new "thug". It's a label imposed on a person you disagree with in order to garner antipathy against them.

And yes, there should not be homeless people, they should be managed and taken care of by either government agencies, charities or families. It's a failure of society, rather than a failure of the people complaining about unhinged people who at times panhandle, sleep, urinate, defecate, scream, accost, spit, voice their inner monologues, eat, in public often times at the expense of the public.

And to be sure, this should not be a locally addressed problem but a national problem. Addressing it locally only attracts more homeless into homeless friendly areas.

Render homeless services to homeless based on where they lived the longest, from federal funds so you don't get concentrations in Santa Clara county, or Los Angeles county from people from all over.
The scene I linked to is done completely unironically.
But what if the already non-trivial sum isn't being spent in the best way possible? It sounds like a lot of that is going to landlords in the form of rent; granted that's a burden off the people living there.
And here's your regularly scheduled announcement that the actual JSON parsing is done by the library call NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(...) in line 3 of the code.

The rest is just getting the parsed data out of already parsed nested dictionaries and arrays in a way that makes the type checker happy. Calling that "parsing" is probably the biggest myth of them all (though agreed about all the other myths).
Mobile world is quite different.
> Even a simple browsing of Wikipedia will show the statement is wrong.

I looked up "Homelessness in the UK" on Wikpedia and the first line is:

> Homelessness in the United Kingdom is kept somewhat at bay

> by a reasonable volume of housing, statutory rights, and

> various government initiatives.

I don't know what figures you are looking at, but one caveat that occurs to me is that the UK's main homelessness charity, Shelter, has a fairly broad definition of homelessness. You don't have to be sleeping in the street for them to consider you "homeless". Which is good, because relying on your friends' sofas for housing is indeed a very crappy situation which government policy should seek to minimize, but bad, because that's not what other people consider homelessness to be.
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The subject is more nuanced than this.

Firstly, you need to examine the reason why people are on the streets. Generally, it falls into three categories:

1. 'Normal' People with mental illness, and no support network

2. 'Normal' People who have lost their financial stability.

3. Rest (Choice, Addiction, etc. by far the smallest group)

The key thing to note here is that with very, very few exceptions, everyone living on the street was a 'normal' person. The line of being 'normal' and 'homeless' is startlingly slim.

For the majority of people, foundations are job, family and health. Most people can survive losing one, because the others elements support it. Two elements, most people will have problems bouncing back. Three, and you're on the street. Ask yourself: If tomorrow you lost your job and had significant health problem, could you survive? What if you had no family to support you?

Likewise, once on the street, mental health deteriorates rapidly. People wither in a matter of weeks and months. No matter how stoic, strong and determined you think you are - the streets will cripple you.

Once you're on the streets, getting back on your feet is hard. Try getting a job, an apartment, or even a document without a fixed address. It's a vicious circle.

Finally - yes, there are shelters. Unfortunately, most homeless people avoid shelters - as they are notorious spots for theft and abuse; most prefer to risk it on the streets. People aren't refusing help, they're refusing to be sexually assaulted, or have the very few posessions that have left being stolen.

Finally: you're totally right - SF is expensive. You suggest the homeless should leave, but forget the how: buy a plane / train / bus? Or, perhaps they should risk jumping without a ticket, then being arrested, and then having a felony against their name.

The take away message is this: homeless people are 'normal' people. The difference between you, me, and anyone with the homeless is that we're incredibly lucky to not have faced significant problems in life, or be burdened with mental illness.

It's a tough subject, and noone likes the results, but it's worth remembering you're human, and applying empathy.
Throwing money at a problem is one thing. Intelligent allocation of that money is another.

I'm not saying it isn't allocated effectively, just that the numbers themselves do not tell the whole tale.
The whole GOPATH and directory magic is really bad and outdated. In almost every other language I can place my files wherever I want and write a build script.

I like everything else about Go and hope they remove that cruft from such a great language in version 2 or so. Go should learn from C/C++ in this regard.
You cannot realistically expect every person to know the ins and outs of every product. I cannot be an expert on insurance, mortgages, food safety, automobiles, mechanics, etc., and it's ludicrous to say that everyone should be. You know how dumb the median person is? Half the people are dumber than that.

So given that it will never happen that everyone is an expert at everything, we need alternate systems to protect people. Like licensing and regulation. All you've got is an impossible pipe dream.
One of the (many) things that Keller — and many of the folks here who sound like newcomers to SF — don’t get is that the homeless population is not a new thing in San Francisco. It was just like this during the 1990’s, and some say it goes all the way back to when Reagan shut down California mental health services in the 70’s.
You could write a web scraper that keeps a session alive to get around the TAN
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