skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
24K is a magic number. You qualify for an enhanced silver ACA policy with very low premiums, deductibles and copays.

I do own a home and rental property, and pay property taxes annually.

I did my first year at a 24K annual income with a slight assist from after-tax savings after being employed for 30+ years. Being 55 in San Diego, and getting an electronics engineering position ain't happening right now.
Well, repealing the Ellis Act, for one. You (and he) are looking at this as if the homeless spontaneously came to exist as NPCs in the RPG that is his wonderful techie San Francisco existence rather than identifying the things that led them to this place in life like the Ellis Act, skyrocketing inflation, lack of lower-middle income jobs, etc.
I think it's because they're aiming for anything they can innovate on. With custom silicon, you can optimize the hardware pathways digitally and by hand. I've heard that the gains can be worth the effort, but it's a bit out of my depth.
Yeah, it seems to be missing the "click here for next steps / further information" bit, which is less than optimal. :(
“When designers say, ‘This is hard,’ ” he says, “my rule of thumb is if it’s not gated by physics, that means it’s hard but doable.”

What a wonderful statement. I like this spirit, especially that he only mentions physics, not money.
No one is lending them money anymore. They're swindling from their own citizens now, some of whom have incoming USD from out of country.
I don't understand the python2 vs python3 fuss. Maybe I'm not doing anything interesting enough, but I find it fairly easy to write code that runs in python >= 2.7 and python >= 3.3. If I was working in a python2-only code base, I would just baby-step it towards python3 compatibility. It doesn't have to be a complicated, disruptive task.
Sure. We do our best with the training we've had to handle the situations we are presented with. I know there are subtleties and nuance, especially with vets. That doesn't change the fact that we have to deal with them now.

I'm not minimizing their issues, nor am I saying one-size fits all... but I would be remiss to not say: there are a lot of people dealing with mental/medical problems that are resistant to traditional therapies that don't resort to self-destructive behaviour to cope.

To wave off all the choices they make on a day-to-day basis is a disservice them and flies in the face of the people that are dealing with the same issues in non-self-destructive manner.
You're missing the security of calling the cops. Your system won't have that. Noise-makers are the "easy" part of security (they sell off the shelf ones for pretty cheap, no need for homemade).
Yes, there's a full machine-learning stack you can buy. Has auto-mapping, heuristics, active listening, voice commands, and can easily move from room to room. Also equipped with weapons platform to deter people who shouldn't be there.

A dog.
On AWS you get pre-configured AMIs, I suppose it's similar.
>1) the natural tendency for people to read "by X,XXX%" as "X,XXX times"

Is that actually a thing? I understood it just fine.
Harming people or property is criminal, and has been in most societies, even when automobiles or firearms are used to cause harm. OTOH "drunk driving" and "weapon possession" and indeed any "risk"-based "crime" are the epitome of invention. (The criminality of weapon possession has a long and sordid history, but not in those polities that civilized nations would care to emulate.) If all felons are so fucking dangerous, why aren't they in prison? Of course, the vast majority aren't actually dangerous, but it's still fun to deprive them of Constitutional rights! [EDIT:] The main reason why "convicts with guns" has been on the rise is probably that the number of convicts is on the rise, period.

One notes when examining the timeframe of the graph you linked that MADD was formed in 1980. That explains the legislative inventiveness; nothing drives policy like fat stacks of nonprofit cash! Take a trip to any courthouse anywhere, and you'll witness the racket that MADD, prosecutors, and municipalities have engineered to employ lawyers by depriving the poor of the mobility that would make their lives easier.

So thanks for the info; clearly the answer to my question is "yes".
Perhaps you just never went into the "right" areas to experience it but I've seen it in many cities.

Instead of basing your thoughts on personal anecdotes you should look towards statistics. For instance the New York City Department of Homeless Services estimated, in 2013, they had almost 50,000 homeless living in the city[1]. But this is just an example; you can look at a huge variety of statistics for many types of places to see how widespread the issues are.

Overall there are over 500,000 homeless people in America on any given night[2]. There are real problems.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta... (shitty source I know; it references a dead article but this is mostly just an example).

[2] http://www.endhomelessness.org/library/entry/the-state-of-ho... (though perhaps a little bit of a bias source; sorry didn't feel like reading too deeply into the government documents to find their data)
Every plant has a slightly different need but generally speaking you can grow plants very efficiently if you use the entire red spectrum and 10-20% of the blue spectrum. That allows for significant energy savings.
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What? Have you been to Paris or any major large city in Europe? It's not different than most of American large cities. SF and Seattle just happen to be two of the worst in the nation for homelessness issues and a lot of that is because they move there.
Well yeoman can be configured to ask you questions about the setup you want. Think "less or sass?"
Agreed. Battery life (and hence power requirements) are critical to the success of a phone. Sensors are much more important. Connectivity is much more challenging. Size is critical.
Very similar to lazy js[1]. Perhaps its of interest to you to get involved in that or pull some of their work

[1] http://danieltao.com/lazy.js/
"paying in rent - with the interest on my mortgage the amount of «lost» money comes out to roughly the same amount for now"

But there is also the opportunity cost. Having a mortgage may be equivalent financially, but it's a liability when considering your freedom to change or to invest in something profitable that may pop up along the way.
I think the change has been in volume. In the US at least much of the food you take off the shelves (especially of the "microwave dinner" variety) have large amounts of sodium. I know this is an extreme example, but take a look at the sodium content in those popular "ramen noodle bowls" (styrofoam cup, not in a bag). That's more than 100% of your RDA of sodium right there. They do not taste overly salty IMHO.
Either way, it has tons of good original writing, which nails one of the important points to ensure your survival as a publisher. I mean, there's also these Bloomberg boxes that are a nice sideline...
I think Uber is owned by someone much richer than any taxi company owner, and the difference is that the shady things in Uber's case are done not by the mistreated employees but by the owners themselves (often against their own employees), and they don't do it to earn a living. I am not saying taxi company owners are saints, but Uber is by no means better.

If you've seen the HBO series Deadwood (a masterpiece, BTW), I'd say we're replacing an Al Swearengen with a George Hearst. Both may be villains, but the scale makes all the difference...
That's what I find confusing. Was it not available before now? Couldn't you just spin up some Red Hat instances and run it? It's not clear what's actually being announced - it doesn't sound like a managed service.
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that and fluff piece tone is rather annoying. I'm sure Johny Srouij is a highly competent Apple SVP considering their standards. But correct me if I'm wrong, as far as I know Apple's custom SoC's are still mostly a collection of licenced ARM IP blocks contracted out to either either TSMC or Samsung. Credit when credit's due, but the author goes a bit overboard, in praise.
Still a valid reason for people to chose Perl.

Not advocating for Perl, just on behalf of Perl lovers like my office mate
Back from 2009-2010, I did work as a web developer on an ecommerce site. A month or so in, I discovered that they kept all of the user password unencrypted in a database.

I went to my boss and explained that we can't do that. It's inviting exploitation. He responded to me that we had to keep them in plain text, in the database so that we could send them to users who forgot. If they can't login, they won't order product.

I have heard similar stories from other IT professionals. It's amazing that these operations aren't getting pwn3d twice a week.
There's the old quip that if your discipline has "science" in the name, it probably isn't really a science. More seriously, scientists follow the scientific method, formulating hypotheses and designing experiments to test them. And that's a broad enough definition that it includes A/B testing, so it must apply to some of what they do. But science typically goes another step, generalizing observations and hypotheses into theories; I would be surprised if there was a lot of that going on at Instacart.

Which isn't a slight against them or the field in the least, it's just a debate about definitions.
That's surprisingly reasonable.
While I agree that what he wrote was very insensitive and naive, aside from condescending him and the "tech bros" the article completely undermines the fact that there is indeed a major homeless problem in SF. Having lived in many major cities I can attest that I have not seen anything quite like it.
How technically possible? cuz I also don't see how likely such a case could even occur or the whole idea of it occurring to start with
It's fascinating to watch San Francisco rapidly transform from being the utopian refuge of American progressives in the late 20th century, into a libertarian city-state in the 21st.

I can't help but think the Bay Area's escalating tension over income disparity, and the politics surrounding it, is a seed for far uglier conflicts in the coming years. Thankful I'm a distant bystander and not a participant.
One sticking point; what if the monolith does not have an endpoint you can call with an http request? What if you have a client that consumes the back end with server rendered pages and no services are exposed with url endpoints? Do you first have to make the monolith's internal functionality accessible via http requests?
As an American who attempts to keep up with the political situation going on in Venezuela... I know that Chavez stayed in power relatively easily during the oil boom by giving free handouts to many of the impoverished. How does Maduro actually stay in power?

It seems like from the outside, with the violence, inflation, and general instability, that Maduro has failed to keep the Bolivar Revolution viable.

Do you think Maduro, or one of his chronies will eventually be voted out by the populace? I'm genuinely interested in your side of the story as I can't get non-biased news in the US about Venezuela.
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> A lot of them prefer this "lifestyle"

For a number of years I helped run a Saturday morning soup kitchen at a church near the VA in West LA. Talked to a lot of people, mostly guys, and heard this a lot too, but for most of them it's not the whole story.

Most of the homeless people I encountered had a point in their lives when the system failed them. Many of them had some traumatic event and fell into alcoholism or drugs. Many of them either had a weak social net (family or friends) or burned through that net. Counselling was not available or came too late, and once they were far enough along unemployment ran out. Eventually they embraced homelessness because they could no longer imagine an alternative, so that they could think something positive about themselves.

My sense is that there was a window during which the system could have helped them with their problems when it became too much for their friends/family and before they went too far down that path. But certain elements in our society (cough Republicans/Libertarians) just don't want to help people at risk.
> Obviously it's by no means an accurate representation

No, because the reality is even crazier than the show.
Relevant tweet (by myself after visiting SF)
San Francisco: Billionaires inside the building, disrupting the world.
Homeless sleeping outside in the cold.
They tried to answer this in the article. It looks like it's referring to the general young tech entrepreneur/wantrepreneur who moves to SF to try and make it big.

-Obscure startup
-Worships tech people who made it big
-Fond of quotes from leaders in technology
-General enthusiasm for tech/robots/etc and hobbies
Do you really think I use non-escaped queries? :) Really funny :) Read about prepared statements.
"We don't want to give people free houses just because they're too lazy to work" or some shit.
That's what I was thinking. The slide seems to imply that workloads are becoming CPU bound due to IO speeds increasing a lot.
That's a good point, but if you're talking about addiction, mental illness is a precursor to addictive behavior. It is one of the major reasons why people self-medicate. Certainly is not the only reason.

My philosophy is: certain things are good for everyone if everyone has them. Some of these things: food, education, healthcare, place to sleep (securely), modest personal possessions, and so forth.

Reasons are mostly because of what you said. Homelessness leads to a general decline in society. If more people have healthcare, the general health of everyone goes up. If more people are fed, more people are productive, and production is good for everyone (to draw an incredibly broad generality). And so on.

It's unrealistic to say we'll do all those things 100%, but I do not think they are unrealistic goals for a modern and technologically advanced society.

Price breakdown:

30bil/year to end world hunger.
175bil/year to end world poverty.

20bil/year to end homelessness in the US.

I can't find numbers for everything, but those are some good ones to think about.
Just an anecdote, but when I studied in a mid-sized city in France a bit over a decade ago, one night after walking home from the bar, I commented to my host mom that I was surprised at the number of homeless people. She seemed confused, so I mentioned people sleeping in the doorways of businesses that were shuttered for the night.

Her reply has always stuck with me. "Oh! No, they're not homeless, they're Roma."
The implicit assumption is that if you don't work, hard, you don't get a home.

If you combine that with 'homeless policing', you're then saying that if you don't work hard, you'll be abused by society.

I don't have an answer for this but I dislike euphemisms like 'they prefer this lifestyle'. If you can't work (anyone who understands mental health will realise that "can't" actually is a meaningful word in this context) then you have no other options.
Still selling "Exclusive worldwide off-market job vacancies"; really?

P.T. Barnum would approve.
These are the people you wish to have in your UX team
To be fair, he's wrong and you're wrong. It's not about what he wants to see or not see. He says homelessness is bad because it affects him and his lifestyle. To couch this problem in such a narcissistic way leads to solutions like Super Bowl city (a solution he mentions and actively endorses). It leads to solutions to just resolve the rich lifestyles, and not actually help the homeless. His letter doesn't highlight the problem (like so many commenters here are saying), but just highlights the impact it has to his lifestyle.
Rotated, it appears to me like looking down someone's open mouth. Not a pleasant association at all.
I feel like a noob right now that i havent thought about this. This wouldnt even break any logical rules my bank maybe has. I gotta try this. BIG THANK YOU!
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This just in, SV is fertile ground for self-absorbed, self-righteous and inhumane assholes who think they are making the world a better place when they're really just doing the opposite. Read all about it.
The difference is that most people can read most other peoples' python code. Perl didn't tend to have that quality.

EDIT
Added another "most" to make it clear that not everyone can write readable python.
The memory comment certainly raises questions.

Tagging pointers on 64bit ARM does allow some new techniques for compactness but it'd be hard to claim this overcomes the doubled pointer size. Does anyone have data on how memory use was impacted between architectures for the same code base? I recall the Objective-C runtime taking advantage of this so perhaps it's only a slight tax if you rely Apple's frameworks.
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I was the editor of the Street Sheet in San Francisco for a little over a year before going back into software engineering.

I can't even begin to describe to you how difficult it is to wade through the pervasive ignorance on this issue, ignorance that is expressed by basically anybody who has not had direct contact with San Francisco's homeless population.

You need to understand that unless you have studied San Francisco's problem specifically, you are very likely harboring some ignorant, harmful opinion about homeless people, and you owe it to yourself and to them to educate yourself. This report is a good place to start: http://sfgov.org/lhcb/sites/sfgov.org.lhcb/files/2015%20San%...

If you care at all about fixing this issue, don't sit around with your other tech industry friends and try to be boy-genius saviors. Seek out the people who have been working on this issue for a long time, who understand it, who can explain to you why it's a problem and why it's so hard to fix.

The Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco is a really good start. They've been doing so much with so little for so long that they can now do everything with nothing, and they would welcome help from people who are willing to humble themselves and get to work.

We can make this city a better place if we just decide to work together.
Prior to electronic circulation, it would be ledger-entry circulation. The currency note or coin stays put, and it can be simultaneously spent by multiple people by making the appropriate ledger entries, rather than moving the physical note or coin.

The source of the Bank Hate, as you put it, is that the depositors, the source of the reserves, are offered 0.5% interest rates on the savings account, whereas all the loans, totaling nine times the size of the deposit, are earning 4% or more.

You deposit $100, and get $0.50 in interest. The bank loans out $900 and gets at least $36 in interest. Since this would not be legally possible without the actual deposit, one may wonder why the depositors are not offered greater incentives to increase their deposits. And the answer is often, "F U, that's why. Have another $5 fee just for asking, and now we're going to play games with funds availability on your deposited checks and incoming transfers."

Legal or not, it offends the primate sense of fairness. It is very likely that the sense of fairness would be satisfied simply by making the interest rates on savings accounts equal to the interest rate on 30-year mortgages for lowest-risk borrowers. You get $4 for your $100, and the bank still gets at least $36, minus default risk.
From what I can tell your main complaint here is that homeless addicts are... addicts?

I really appreciate that you serve homeless residents just like other residents. But you might consider that the people who you are most frequently called to help are not representative of the homeless population. Look at the national stats:

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

That's a lot of families. It's a lot of kids. A friend of mine put years into making a documentary about homeless youth in Chicago. I got to meet some of them, and they are entirely different than the picture you paint:

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/homestretch/

I think it's also important to note that active addicts generally refuse help no matter what level of society they're in. That's part of the addictive cycle. Homeless addicts claim to prefer their "lifestyle" and will fight to keep it. But so do gainfully employed alcoholics. So do wealthy coke fiends. It's a disease that will kill all of them eventually unless they can start facing how much addiction has screwed up their lives. And as hard as facing that has to be for a well-off person, I expect it's way harder for someone who has fallen so low as to be sleeping under an overpass and living out of a trash can.
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PC manufacturers are in the toilet with razor thin margins because they all ostensibly deliver the same thing. Profit is where "unique" is, which is a monopoly on feature or integration X.
Flamebait aside, is it that hard to see the material differences in the classifiers between your example of a "dis/favored class" and the classes discussed by the GP? Hint: one has classifiers that one can eventually overcome, and the other doesn't.

Regardless, comparing regulations imposed on modern industries to Jim Crow is nothing more than oblique tedious posturing that ignores the full picture of what Jim Crow laws were.
This would have more force if G didn't have a history of siding with tech giants on moral issues. 2 CEOs ago, apple asked G to collude in a hiring scam and G replied with an emoticon.

If the device were truly secure we wouldn't be having this conversation. Alternatively, if law enforcement wanted to get into a dead guy's filing cabinet on suspicion of conspiracy murder, with a valid court order, there wouldn't be any outrage.

We're being bamboozled by a PR campaign in favor of closed-source software. If the guy was still alive apple could just push him an IOS update containing backdoors galore. This is not a secure device!
Glad to see Gluster is still making waves. I was an early customer. It's impressive when a brand survives acquisition much less a transition into a new type of offering like this. Kudos to everyone who helped make Gluster special!
Does this include a fix for this bug?

https://github.com/zfsonlinux/zfs/issues/1548
Although larger network effects might make it harder to turn the ship, this time around.
You never lived in NYC, SF, LA, Philly, Rome, London or Paris then (And I'm just talking from personal experience, must be many more)
I don't know about specific legal cases, but that kind of rule in employment agreements is basically de rigueur, and there's a big body of established law around it. It's potentially an issue for any new company/invention started by an employee, and for University students.
To boot, that would be 6-7% of the city's 2.5B in receipts from 2012-2013:

http://sftreasurer.org/sites/sftreasurer.org/files/TTX_Annua...

That there's not a significant dent in the continuing issue raises some questions.

Expatistan's crowd-sourced info finds SF housing to be the most expensive in the world, and cost of living in general nearly there:

https://www.expatistan.com/cost-of-living/san-francisco