skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly understand why there's strife around this.

Mental drugs cause a lot of effects, including causing other problems. They usually cause you to feel like you're in a cloud of anti-emotion. It really sucks when you want to feel stuff. Worse yet, are other side effects like tardive dyskinesia and tremors and things. And those, once you get them, don't go away.

What I gather, the only really humane way to handle mental health problems relating to homelessness is to medically arrest them, have a panel of doctors whom medicate according to the mental disease, wait until the drugs take effect (upwards to 6 weeks), and then explain what's going on and how they wish to continue. If the patient wants to stay on drugs, awesome: they should be provided free of charge. Along with that, governmental services they may have turned down prior can be reactivated and put into motion to assist them.

Or... if they don't want help/treatment, they should sign a paper stating that they were medicated, informed, and that they wish to not be on drugs and live on the street. At this time, they are released to live as they choose. And this "medical arrest" to inform them of their rights would never happen again. That's a one-time affair.

This "Arrest" would happen once, and would be done to provide informed consent. We already acknowledge that things like contracts and the like can't be made while on drugs, alcohol, or under duress. There's no reason why mental defects that cause effects like drugs can't also be grouped in with this.

This sounds to be the most fair..
I don't like the article's tone. I agree that he could have expressed his thoughts more sensitively, but I think this article uses his post as a way to demonize "tech bros" instead of focusing on the actual issue. The Washington Post could have published something on San Francisco's homelessness problem, but instead decided to pick the low-hanging fruit and demonize an entitled tech worker who might have a point.
The Nextbit Robin has nice packaging
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More to that point, most public resources are not required to report that they have exhausted their capacity. Further, such resources often actively waste the time of those looking for support under the pretext that resources are available and they need to prove there is demand that exceeds their capacity; even when year after year it's clear that documenting demand will not result in additional resources.
KD Chart 2.6.0 released
Yubico's pam_u2f allows u2f to be used for anything pam authenticates, which is nice for a Linux system.
So what will Zenefits eventual business model look like if they survive this ?

I don't think they can be an insurance broker; customers would have to be incredibly stupid to buy insurance from them.

If they are going to be an HR software company, then do they even deserve that kind of valuation, as their current valuation seems to be base on an expectation of hypergrowth. HR s/w companies rarely have hypergrowth , what with SAP and Oracle owning large chunks of the enterprise market.
That's a good reason, but note that it used to be the reason you picked Perl.
I'm on his side. =\

I think the vilification is comical. Not super impressed with the need to dig into his background to find examples of how much of a "tech bro" he is.

This reads differently if it's not coming from the mouth of a hated-elite.
Enron was a public company, Lehman was a public company in the financial sector (even more heavily regulated), Volkswagen is a public company...

I don't think that regulation would fix anything. And as some people have already mentioned, AirBnB or Uber, have blatantly broke the law and they keep growing and breaking even more laws in various countries.
Yep, he's right. But like many a programmer, he just does not have a way with words.
Wanting help is not the same as being able to be helped. Veterans often have what is called 'treatment resistant PTSD', which is another way of saying that we haven't figured out how to treat them. There is a wealth of material on how even veterans who have supportive families and are housed and in treatment can't always hold down a job.

New treatments such as VR based exposure therapy, or MDMA therapy are promising, but the standard of care is currently CBT and/or drugs, which have generally poor outcomes.

We just don't know how to treat PTSD in general. This has nothing to do with whether people 'want' help or not.
As a counterpoint to the Silicon Valley show accuracy, I recently marathoned Betas, which is an Amazon original series which attempted to add comedy to Silicon Valley culture (and actually predates the HBO show). The problem is that it played the culture completely straight.

The issues with the show can be summed up in one scene: https://twitter.com/minimaxir/status/682261750222209024
Apple is their family now.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!"

- Richard Feynman
To add to this:
https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13285
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https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13247
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https://www.sparkfun.com/products/8653
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https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13120

You now have 99% of the security offered by an alarm system, go buy an ADT yard sign from Amazon and you have 99.9%
I'm glad places like IOActive exist. Reading up on their procedure (http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Advisory_SimpliSafe-Re...), they gave the vendor 5 months to even respond before posting this. All and all a much better process than a "hacker" posting it to his blog because a company didn't respond to his email the day before.

There's no such thing as perfect security via alarm. However, if a company refuses to even respond to someone reporting a vulnerability, then the public should be informed.

As a simplisafe customer, I will be contacting them and demanding a fix to this vulnerability or full refund.
Very excited to hear the plans for GraphFrames - finally GraphX getting some attention!

https://spark-summit.org/east-2016/events/graphframes-graph-...
What do you think it means if the pilot of the plane reappears?

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/taiwan-mh370-pilot-mysteriou...
Can recommend "Just Cause 2" for hours of fun flying around a reasonably large map looking at lovely scenery in a variety of planes / helicopters. Plenty of things to blow up from the skies too.
> needing help, refusing it and possibly endangering themselves and others?

Sounds like most drivers I know...
SF does have a much bigger homeless problem than other cities, and whether it is cause or effect, it's at least correlated with significant and chronic drug use.

I live in an area affectionately known as the 'tender knob'. We've had people defecate on our steps, tear open our garbage bins and leave litter everywhere, and shoot up drugs and leave dirty needles in our outside stairwell. Before moving to SF from NY, I had never seen people defecate on the middle of the sidewalk in the afternoon. The owners of our duplex live upstairs and they've been brought to tears having to deal with this on a weekly basis. I wouldn't feel safe having children in this area.

Yes there are homeless people who had some bad luck and are just trying to get back on their feet. Most people are sympathetic to that. But it's different in SF. Walking around you can't help but feel that many, if not most, of the people are chronically homeless drug addicts who have passed the point of no return. That's the problem we need to deal with.

Moreover, there seem to be strong network effects at work here. You might argue that by not 'pushing out the homeless', that you're actually maintaining a dangerous, self-reinforcing, social environment that is constantly attracting new members. In effect, are we making the problem far worse?
> Recently, government also said that the prices of milk increased because people are drinking it too much.

Isn't that literally how supply-and-demand is supposed to work.
I would highly recommend this for anyone who owns an Oculus Rift.
political arguments against anything these days are emotional reactions to parties and politicians rather than policy. people need to turn off the cable news and live less angry lives.
That does sound like what it means.

The behavior of the "tech bro" in question is certainly offensive and insensitive, however using terms that bigoted in a headline (shaming a minority group in "tech" for holding different political views) is something one would expect websites on both extremes of the political spectrum to engage in (Vox, Breitbart, ...) rather than the Washington Post, and it's a bit sad to see them resort to such outrageousness.

It's also disappointing to see HN moderators be OK with headlines like this.
Tell me everything about your life, and I could envision a situation where an aspect of yourself could be considered too "abnormal" or "dangerous" in action or thought to be left untreated.

If people haven't harmed anybody, then they themselves shouldn't be harmed, even if professionals believe it is help. Removing that barrier opens the door to arbitrary treatment and involuntary commitment, the likes of which not seen since the 19th century.
It has to do with what YC selects for in part, but no startup in the PG sense of the word (hyper growth, mass adoption/virality, high risk) would ever give the founder(s) a good job and nothing more. YC is not in the business of pulling off $30k a year in draws from a sustainable business.

You have the big exist or you shut it down and try something else. There's no middle ground, which is part of why "startup" has a very specific definition, and why YC doesn't invest in SMBs.
At Spark Summit East there are a lot of people evangelizing GraphX and trying to convince people to think about their problems using graphs.
This is mentioned in the comments of the original article, I'll quote:

> There are a couple of in-depth articles about implementing this same idea on Mach / OS X:

> http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-02-03-ring-buff...

> http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2012-02-17-ring-buff...
It seems like a recurring theme in these "scandals" is that if you put too much pressure on your executives, they end up either quitting or doing something they shouldn't be doing in order to keep up with your demands.

Another example is with VW and their diesel emissions.

I feel like people just have a difficult time saying they were wrong or pushing back and saying they can't do something. I am guilty of this myself.
>So what is your writing process like?

Thanks for asking! I have several different but interconnected processes:

1. I have a regular writing practice where I just open up something (Evernote, Byword, notepad, whatever) and start writing about whatever comes to mind. This is primarily just to develop the habit of writing. I mainly do this with my 1,000,000 word writing project [1].

2. I do content marketing for work, which is much more systematic and planned out– I work backwards from common queries and search terms. The most successful post I've ever written, though, was something that I had written out of curiosity [2].

3. Sometimes 'inspiration' hits: somebody asks the right question, or something happens and I feel a need to respond– and everything just comes right out of my subconscious, almost as if it were already written. But when I examine this, it's clear that I was already ruminating about it for a long time before.

> It seems like there is a paradox, you can't force great things to happen with objectives and planning.

Not exactly a paradox. The objectives and planning aren't about making great things happen; they're about creating a stable context in which great things happen. It's about putting in the hours of practice so that you can improvise freely when the moment calls for it.

> So are you personally concerned about whether a specific piece of writing is objectively great, or are you more interested in your ability to write well in general?

I think I cycle between the two, back and forth, depending on what I'm doing. If I'm working on something with a sense of purpose, I want it to be great. Otherwise I'm happy just working on my craft on a day to day basis.

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[1] http://www.visakanv.com/1000/

[2] http://www.referralcandy.com/blog/47/
> A homeless person walked up and punched me in the face.

Did he steal your phone, or just didn't like you?
Being pedantic right back: the US Supreme Court refers to the Declaration as source material for the Constitution, to illuminate its intent.
>People have converted toaster ovens to do smd reflow with an arduino [1], and that requires a lot more delicate control of temperature and timing; hell, Linux is worse for the job because its realtime capabilities are so poor.

What the heck are you talking about? Linux has rather decent realtime facilities. It's not a hard real-time, it's soft real-time, but that's good enough for many things. It's used successfully by the LinuxCNC project for controlling CNC machines all the time, and that requires millisecond precision for running stepper motors through a parallel port. There is no way that running a toaster oven is more demanding than that.

Hell, a reflow toaster oven can be run with a controller with latencies of a second or more! It's not going to make a difference there; there's far too much latency between activating power to the heating elements and seeing a temperature change for millisecond precision to be necessary. The only problem with Linux on a toaster oven is that it's just plain overkill; an Arduino is simpler and cheaper. SMD reflow does NOT require "delicate control of temperature and timing". Reflow ovens are not that accurate. They just have to follow the recommended profile well enough, and it's not that hard once a controller has learned the characteristics of the oven.

I wouldn't run avionics systems needing hard real-time guarantees on Linux, but for soft real-time systems, Linux works well enough. To say that its RT capabilities are "so poor" is just ridiculous, unless you're looking at Linux circa 2001 or something.
> not everyone has a right to live in SF.

Ah, to see the American Dream expressed in such clarity in a comment on the internet. /me wipes a tear
A system running at its limits is more sensitive to fluctuations in inputs.

That's as true for your body as it is for a nuclear reactor.
I would recommend the Digital Combat Simulations Series, there are some different simulators available: Su-27, BlackShark, A-10C, F-15C, ...

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/de/products/
A try-catch block can cover many complex statements and pushes the recovery code down where you aren't forced to continually reread it. Even if it's possible to write concise Go, nobody seems to be interested in trying, it always seems to become a mess that spends 2/3 of its time on errors.
This isn't true, if you get one of the Panasonic microwaves with their "Inverter" feature. It really does run the magnetron at different power levels. It works quite nicely.
Well, I was tempted to mention Haskell. Problem is, I haven't found a practical use for it. Of all the FP languages, this is actually the one I am most tempted by.

I had forgotten about Rust. Are there major projects being used for this yet? I've heard it's picking up quite a bit.
Brazil is absurd with prices, in the other direction than Venezuela, here everything is more expensive than in a first world country, except maybe meat.

Brazil is the only country that is rising gas prices while oil price is falling.

Also, Brazillian gasoline in Argentina is a third of the price of Brazil, this leads to Brazillians going to Argentina to smuggle Brazillian-made gasoline back into Brazil.

Yes, this is "efficient" as it sounds.

Also our gas prices are blamed by economists here as one of the biggest reasons we have a 11% inflation.

And this is all effect of our extremely bizarre and byzantine taxation model (instead of having a single VAT like in other countries, we have multiple taxes that apply to transactions, with each one having a complex set of rules, many of them being mandatory to be included in the price AND be calculated from the price that include them, thus resulting in recursive calculations).

Here is slighly outdated the list of taxes here, from the final product price (ie: a product that costs 100 and has tax of 30%, means that 30 go to the government, and 70 is distributed among the business involved).

Gasoline: 53%
Microwave: 55%
Playstation 4: 72%
console-ran software: 72%
console dev kits: 72%
Bank Interests: 26% (yep, when you pay interest to the bank
you pay tax on it too!)
Lamp: 48%
Powdered Milk: 28%
Clock: 53%
Fishing Rod: 48%
Toilet Paper: 38%
Water: 38%
Fish (to eat): 48%
Cookies: 37%
Chocolate: 39%
Leather coat: 82%
Beer: 62%
Matress: 28%
House: 48% (also, every time... if you buy a house, you pay
48% of its value in taxes, if someone buy from you, they
will also have to pay 48% in taxes again, leading to a
extremely rapid inflation in housing prices, leading to a
extreme amount of homelessness, people needing to rent, and
power concentration in the hands of the actual home
owners... for example I once lived in a apartment I rented
from a single person that owned 60 entire apartment buildings).

Lowest tax I could find: Medicine and chemicals used by cattle ranchers: 13% (no surprise here, the most powerful politicians here are ranchers).

Highest tax I could find: Vodka (and some other distilled beverages): 83%
That's between 12k and 20k per person. Way less than you'd need to provide accommodation and treatment for a person with mental illness. It's not surprising it doesn't work.
It's a reasonably small, sane implementation under a liberal license. I posit that you wouldn't be able to do better on your first try and your time would be better spent improving the corner cases on it, rather than reinventing the wheel.
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by definition giving them housing would make them not homeless.
Thanks! And to riff off of the cat feet analogy, you have to be comfortable enough to let the cat come to you. You can't scare it away by getting anxious. That sort of calm comes with lots of practice.
Okay, I think we can all agree this guy is an asshole, and surely doesn't represent the views of most techies in San Francisco, right?

Obviously it's fucked that so many people are homeless in San Francisco. Everybody blames us (techies with loads of money) for the homeless problem because we gentrifying the shit out of the place with all our money. And then this guy comes out and says this shit, and that only reinforces the narrative that we're the problem. And that's shit for us.

But why don't we do something about it? We don't want to be seen as the cause of the homeless problem, and surely we don't want assholes like this speaking for us. But people are right that we are rich compares to most people. Why not use this as an opportunity to show people that we can be part of the solution? Being rich doesn't have to make us evil, and anyway what's the point of being rich if we can't use our wealth to help the people who need it?

And it's not just our wealth: what about our skills? Take Homes Not Jails, for example. They're one organisation off the top of my head that does work that directly houses homeless people. They're renowned by squatters all over the world for the work they do to get homes for homeless people in San Francisco. But I just checked, and it looks like their website (http://homesnotjailssf.org/) is down? Surely one of us techies could get in contact with them and offer to help fix their website, or even just pay their hosting costs and domain name renewal for a few years? I've been involved in organisations like that and that kind of stuff can be a real hassle.

I'm sure there are countless grassroots organisations like this that are already working to help homeless people that probably don't even have proper websites and shit, that desperately need money. Fuck this guy, it's not worth wasting our time arguing over his stupid words. Let's show people that he doesn't represent us with our actions!
Modern airliners have an auto throttle for takeoff, and the V speeds (which will be computed automatically based upon load and weather conditions) audibly tell you when to do important stuff. In simple terms to takeoff you just set the flaps and throttle, push a button, and pull up when told to do so. Once you are a few hundred feet in the air, the autopilot will take over and do the rest.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeoff/Go-around_switch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V_speeds
Couldn't your FTP server have handled this in a clever way? For example, sort in directories by first letter, then by first two letters. While still providing a virtual flat view to the FTP client user. It'd be a simple mapping away.
he's not right. his position is that he shouldn't have to 'see' homelessness. he doesn't care if it exists or not, just so long as it's out of his view.
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I kind of don't like this article. I think we should be teaching people best practice for securing and storing a password, not simply giving them a library.
I am in this situation right now. We are frozen in the planning stages of moving a Java monolith toward a micro-service architecture. This seems like a very straight forward understandable approach to help make that happen. I read the article and could easily understand what the tool is trying to do and how it can help.
Humans and Neanderthals had sex a lot earlier than scientists thought
I don't think you can usually draw any conclusions regarding either 'niche status' or 'presence/lack of competition' from the word vertical.
The yubikey neo (which is what I also have) only supports 2048 bit GPG keys. The yubikey 4 supports 4096 bit keys but doesn't support NFC.
In Kitchener-Waterloo there's two different online grocery stores, Grocery Gateway (which has been operating since the '90s) and Grocera (which is very new). I've been using the former for a long time. I checked out the latter (which is backed by Google) and the markup was too high on the items I checked over Grocery Gateway. Tofu was $4.99 vs. $2.49 and soy milk was over a dollar more (I have health-related dietary restrictions). Grocery Gateway is operated by a store chain, Grocera picks them up from local stores.
The problem arises when you ask yourself the question: "Where does this customer education stops?". Of course it is better to have a public competent in buying insurance, food, housing, financial products, health treatments, etc... But you are requiring to put an amount of knowledge into every head that simply cannot fit.

It's much better to train the specialized provider, because then each head has only to fit the knowledge required for their own profession. This is feasible and with much less effort. Slightly worse result, but there's no free lunch.
This is exactly why I put a different security alarm system sign in my yard than the one that's actually installed. Unfortunately, there are probably many homeowners who put SimpliSafe stickers in their windows letting anyone passing by know their home is vulnerable to this attack.
Why is parsing JSON a problem in 2016 ?
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>All and all a much better process than a "hacker" posting it to his blog because a company didn't respond to his email the day before.

I actually never seen this happen.
Do you have a link to an article?