skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.theatlantic.com/notes/all/2015/09/debating-mass-i...
I considered whether it might be satire, but then he apologized for using the term "riff-raff" which implies that the rest of the article is fine by him. Also he's been defending it on Twitter.
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Apple never complied to this type of request to Chinese authorities. Source?
Has it ever been possible to embed Kibana in a webapp? Excluding iframe hacks ofcourse
yeah that's wildly charitable:

https://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-g...

> Every day, on my way to, and from work, I see people sprawled across the sidewalk, tent cities, human feces, and the faces of addiction. The city is becoming a shanty town… Worst of all, it is unsafe.

> [...]

> I am telling you, there is going to be a revolution. People on both sides are frustrated, and you can sense the anger. The city needs to tackle this problem head on, it can no longer ignore it and let people do whatever they want in the city. I don’t have a magic solution… It is a very difficult and complex situation, but somehow during Super Bowl, almost all of the homeless and riff raff[1] seem to up and vanish. I’m willing to bet that was not a coincidence. Money and political pressure can make change. So it is time to start making progress, or we as citizens will make a change in leadership and elect new officials who can.

> Democracy is not the last stop in politics. In-fact, the order of progression according to Socrates via Plato in the Republic goes: timocracy, oligarchy, democracy, and finally tyranny. Socrates argues that a society will decay and pass through each government in succession, eventually becoming a tyranny.

This guy knows there's sides, and he knows what side he's on.
I visited SF a few times, and I was always horrified to see how such a wealthy city leaves its homeless people to wander around, sleep in the cold and generally live in inhuman conditions. I won't claim I know enough about the city from two visits to propose any solutions, but I know that the fact that there are hundreds or thousands of people living like that is inexcusable. I've never seen this before to such extent.
GitHub had issue voting years ago and got rid of it because people hated it.
> So it is not the amount of what is eaten but rather something in food or food composition that makes people overweight.

> As regarding exercising consider that doing high-intensity strength training for 15 minutes once per week is often enough to get into shape. So again, it is not the amount but rather the details of the exercise that are important.

You make some wild claims here. Do you have anything to back that up, or are you just hypothesizing?
“Justin Keller thinks life comes with customer support”

That was quite the zinger!
its amazing to me that with all the money and talent in the bay area, that noone has made progressive efforts in solving some of the problems with homelessness and helping others get back on their feet.
Certainly not very compassionate, but is it true that the homeless in San Francisco have a drug problem that is making the area unsafe?

Is nobody trying to treat or house these people?

Shouldn't people take this piece and use it as further evidence that there is a problem that needs to be fixed, rather than merely a culture war they can take part in?

As usual, everybody want's to talk about how much of a 'bro' this guy is, but nobody gives a shit about improving the lives of the homeless.
And e-mail will work when you don't even have a cell phone. I don't like the idea that I need to carry a phone around everywhere I go. If I happen to be carrying a laptop around with me, I want that laptop, as a more powerful device, to replace my phone, not require me to walk around with 2 devices which is cumbersome, theft-prone, and simply downright inconvenient to have your eyes glancing between 2 screens all the time. Everything else -- Facebook, Gmail, Skype, everything else -- can be accessed with that laptop. Information flows with me, independent of device. I show up in front of any screen that I own, authenticate myself with a password, and everything I need shows up on that screen, loaded from the cloud. I move between rooms, between offices, carrying nothing, and continue replying to my Facebook chats and e-mails that I started in the previous location. I don't need to carry anything with me. SMS, WhatsApp, and WeChat don't flow like that, which is why I hate them with a passion.

Plus, data plans are available everywhere now. For the most part, I use only data. Also, SMS doesn't work when you have to keep switching SIM cards and phone numbers. I can't login to half of my accounts that want to do SMS verification because I registered those accounts using a different SIM card in a different country; I have to wait till I return to those countries before I can login to those accounts and do something about them.

E-mail doesn't have this issue. I've had one e-mail address that has been associated with me for 15+ years that has worked 24/7 internationally. Phone numbers have to practically change every time you step across a country border. Phone numbers are a horrible way to identify me, at least.
Also, the FCC should not be able to make rules like this. This is why we have a three branch system. Congress doesn't have the legal power, in the constitution, to give agencies the power to make laws (Even if they call them "Rules")

Increasingly over time these rules are becoming more and more draconian and including things that most people oppose.

For instance, there was an outcry about CISPA and COPA that killed those bills... so the FCC made an 800 page ruling on "net neutrality" and people accepted it, because they wanted net neutrality. (And who has time to read 800 pages?)
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Hey, even Leonardo got stuck in meetings and felt the need to doodle around.
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You had to have seen all of this coming when chavez started nationalizing everything.

Even I from the outside knew things would not end well when chavez, and then maduro, got elected.

It certainly has been a terrible price for the bolivian revolution experiment.
For the most part I think you're spot-on, although it's worth emphasizing the nuance that not ALL taxi/hotel regulations are bad for the consumer.

Most of the AirBnB and Uber horror stories you hear are things that don't happen, or happen far less relative to the overall volume, in a world of licensed taxis and professional hotels/B&Bs.

Does the good of current regulations outweigh the bad? Likely not, in many cases. But there are reasons (at least some of) these regulations exist outside of capitalism being terrible and the successful trying (and succeeding) at pushing out competition.
It lost an election, but has entrenched its influence by selecting civil servants and doing other things to keep power.

As Wikipedia puts it:
A little over a week after the elections on 15 December 2015, the outgoing National Assembly created the "National Communal Parliament" with President Maduro stating "I'm going to give all the power to the communal parliament ... This parliament is going to be a legislative mechanism from the grassroots. All power to the Communal parliament".[67] The move was described as an attempt "to sideline and leapfrog the incoming opposition-controlled National Assembly" and that such actions could possibly lead to more destability and polarization in Venezuela for the future.[68]
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It didn't seem clever enough to be satire, I was thinking more like he was trying to just get a lot of attention, and as we all know outrage drives viral-ity much better than admiration.
Closer to 6 months, but yes. They put an ad on craigslist or some of the other smaller publications like the kind you see at bars. They pool their money, get a small ad that talks about taking over a lease near some hip part of town.

My nephew said within a week or so they're flooded with responses, They work out the paperwork with the landlord and they're on to the next place.
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The GP didn't say the letter meant it that way, he said the letter is right in that there shouldn't be homeless people living in the streets, they should be taken care of by a stronger safety net.
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I grew up in the south and it was no big deal when kids would come to school with their shotguns and rifles on racks in the back of their trucks. Usually they had gone hunting that morning. Now they would be labeled as terrorists and probably shot upon entering the parking lot (I jest, but only sort of).

At airports I have had to mail back to myself a very nice engraved money clip multiple times. The reason? It has a 2" or so pocket knife type blade on it. Each time TSA treated me like I was trying to smuggle something when I put the clip in the bin for the xray machine. If I was trying to smuggle something I would not throw it in the bin with everything else.
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The sad part about the blog post is that it does identify a big homelessness problem, but does so in a way that is callous and doesn't really help.

I spend a couple of weeks in SF this month, and was shocked at the level of homelessness that we find even in very well off districts. This is not something that is common in the big cities of the world. The city is OK with tents everywhere, but that's not really that good for the people that are now homeless either: Living on a tent on the street will not help their mental health, their self esteem, or their chances of getting out of that hole.

I don't think the problem is really the fault of the tech people moving in, and I sure don't blame the homeless themselves. The problem, once again, falls into the people that want to keep the city the way it was, and to avoid building, when the city faces other pressures that are unavoidable. San Francisco MUST build.

Until people change their mind, we'll see both more gentrification and more homelessness, until the city reaches a point where the combination of prices and homelessness makes the city life into a dystopia: Maximum inequality, brought in by policies trying, but failing, to make the city be inclusive. I sure hope San Francisco voters change their mind before it gets to that.
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It's also worth mentioning the less known Tinman 3D Terrain: https://www.tinman3d.com/. Still in early stage, but really promising.
I can sympathize. Over Christmas I literally got my entire family into a room and used the TV as a projector with a Chromecast and walked everybody through why passwords are bad, why using the same password over and over on every site is REALLY bad, and why they should switch to a password manager like LastPass.

I even offered anyone who wanted to set one up to give me a call any time and I would remote in via TeamViewer and literally set it up FOR them.

No one has taken me up on that offer yet. ;_;
He seems to be okay with regularly telling everyone about what he thinks is wrong with the world [0]. It says a lot about you when you need to complain to companies about bugs or whatever and also tell your followers how upset you are [1].

[0] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf

[1] https://twitter.com/johnny5sf/status/593965045085700097
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Really? Every single microwave I saw in the UK is like this one:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Russell-Hobbs-Microwave-Litre-White/...

One knob for time, the other for power. Done.
I hope you're just trolling :/
> What language has decorators, generators, comprehensions, modules, but isn't Python?

Clojure, Haskell. :-)
What is a "SF tech bro"?

In this context it seems to be intended as some kind of slur, or there is at least some negative connotation here. It's a man who works in tech who... what exactly?
Unless, of course, you've seen the relevant science, in which case it falls under B.

My point was that, even if not exactly science, basic facts are known. Yes, I'm sure people ate less in the past. I've seen the numbers and, to a certain extent, I've seen people changing their habits in my lifetime.

This is like a tide, while many studies are focusing in a few waves. That's what my point anyway.
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LOL, check their Facebook pictures and see if they are playing an instrument in any of them. Most people don't play more than 1 instrument, so it's probably their first.
To be fair, the way Cook went to media with this is not at all an order of magnitude better than the way Pichai did.

Consider that if Cook had wanted to make the statement more official and tie his company to this stance, he could have very easily ordered investor-level press release and then linked it from the homepage for general public awareness. That would cause a much bigger shockwave.
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The shame is that this individual is far from unique, and not just in SF. I run into people daily who speak of homelessness as a conscious lifestyle choice. I know of one SF attorney who constantly rants about how the homeless there all earn 50k a year. They build up these fantasy worlds to justify their perception of themselves as moral millionaires. They believe wealth to be the inevitable result of a heightened morality. Anyone without wealth is therefore morally backward and deserving of suffering. Give them a few years. Their bubbles will burst soon enough.
This is my problem as well.
I love using Kivy instead of tkinter, and Pypy.
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Note that SF already spends a large amount on the homeless http://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/S-F-spends-record... and that at least some politicians are starting to take notice http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/01/25/s-f-supervisor-scott-wie...

It's not clear what the solution is to this complex problem.
One of the things I like about Twitter is that it's much harder for companies to just ignore your complaints about things which, I hope you would agree, are just ridiculous. Google pushes its authenticator app but when I get a new phone, even if I still have the old phone and it's working I can't move it across without some dodgy hack.
Is there anyone here who does want a group of homeless persons lining the streets of their commute, or outside their homes and workplaces?

He is being self centred in his viewpoint but he's also not unique. Most people pay extra, and as a result work harder and longer, to live and work in neighbourhoods which allow them to ignore the plight of others.

I do hope the response to this is genuine agreement that things need to change because it benefits everyone, followed by associated action, instead of just hysterical and shallow "omg I can't believe he said that".
Correct. With Java I've got at least 4 compilers (JDK's) to choose from.
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Whatever the answer to your question, that's very short term thinking to a longer term issue.
So their refusal to unlock Farook's iPhone preceeds a really long ongoing struggle between Apple/Feds.
I think he does have a point... but he could have put it better.

I live in SF too; for ~10 years. I have never seen it this bad. The City passed a "sit/lie" law a couple of years ago.. but it's never enforced. The City is spending $1M/month ... for housing 225 people[1]. Do the math, and you'll see how ridiculous is that. At that rate, how much do you think the City can spend on the homeless? It has 7000 homeless, and counting.

Many of the homeless used to live in City housing, but got kicked out due to drug and alcohol habits. What's the solution here? You can't incarcerate them. You can't force them to use detox clinics, etc.

If the person refuses help, and refuses to follow the rules of whichever shelter they're in, then s/he has no more right to live in SF! As a last resort, the City is within rights to just kick you out. No one is entitled to live in SF. You can't just show up and setup tent in a public space; that public space belongs to the rest of us too!

[1] http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2016/02/10/san-franciscos-p...
> I think most people wouldn't be very good at welding after 50 hours of training and practice

This is true.

I don't see the insurance training as how-to-do-one's-job, however. More akin to how not to do it. Financial health and safety training.

A welder receiving 50+ hours in health and safety at the start of their career, among other trainings, seems reasonable. As does 1 hour health and safety training and sharing each week with the team. An equivalent requirement in finance does not seem unreasonable, given the damage that can be done by being unaware of (once you know them) basic concepts in mis-selling, fraud, money laundering and a long list of identifying black-market financing organisations.
Thanks! This is interesting.
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It is very interesting to read about other approaches for growth. For example, Google waited patiently several years until a business model worked.

Imagine Google starting today with a protoversion of PageRank.
Bros that don't know bro-history are doomed to repeat it.
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Carry constantly while outside, high potential for Bad Things if it's stolen?

You're acting like I treat my wallet and phone the same way I treat a pack of gum.
In my part of SW Missouri, which I'll grant is in part of the cultural South, in the late '40s my father and his peers would store their long guns in their high school lockers during the day. The late Supreme Court Justice Scalia, three years younger, carried his .22 target rifle on the NYC subways to and from practice.

One reason I've elsewhere referred to what's happening with skyrocketing legal concealed carry as a renorming, we're just returning to a not all that old normal.
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Part of the solution will be a realisation that not everyone has a right to live in SF. Just like not everyone has a right to live in Newport.

A part, but not a big part :)
So Google undoubtedly know a lot about you. This knowledge also powers a large number of highly useful features.

e.g.

* Remind me that it's time to leave for my meeting. Taking traffic and preferred method of travel into account.

* Alert me about that breaking news story that I'm really interested in following.

* Tell me what the weather is going to be like when my plane lands.

All of these are things I value and they are only possible if Google knows enough things about me to answer those questions. A phone can't power it you need software running in a datacenter somewhere. People want these features which is why Google is able to make money.

Everytime this topic comes up people rant about how Google is creepy but it's disingenuous because the tradeoff is Incredibly useful features vs user privacy.

It's a perfectly valid position to want governmental protections for one's data to provide some recourse for violations of your privacy while still enabling those same useful features.
I'm sorry if you were offended, but "dropping a bomb" is a common idiomatic expression that has nothing to do with physical violence. It simply means, "to say something shocking or unexpected."

http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/drop+a+bomb
Sorry it took me so long to reply (Hacker News does not offer notifications and I was busy with school)

I am an Android Developer. I can say that I am analytical (In the sense of thinking logically). I agree that the interface of Google Analytics is a little bit messy (and don't get me started on the mobile app) and it took me a while to start understanding how it works.

Based on my experience with Google Analytics I think that the most important thing when it comes to analyzing data is not to know what every piece of data means but it is about knowing how to interpret the specific piece of data you need. Therefore I think that Although Google Analytics can be difficult at first, knowing exactly what piece of data you need and how to analyze and interpret this data is the key to use it properly
I'm not exactly fond of the node requirement, but I fail to see how it locks you any more to their stack than before. I see why they needed some sort of app behind it and well, node is probably the first you pick when you're a js developer by trade.
Do you have any experience with Supersonic? It appears to be abandoned (at least there's no activity on the mailing list as of 2014 - https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/supersonic-query-eng...)
This is not SAT unfortunately. Your score and your behaviour are both needed for a license. Besides, in situations like these attendance policy is important. You can't test every single edge case possible on a test. The state has to answer if a license holder says "I did not know X." As a taxpayer, you would question why the hell does a person who does not know X has state license to practice?

Unless you're asking every person to recite the whole textbook, the only way to be sure is an attendance policy.
> As alien as it seems to us in the UK (and elsewhere), there are certain parts of the US where people think absolutely nothing of carrying a gun around with them all the time. I have little doubt that some percentage of these finds are just due to forgetfulness, and not to any malign intent.

I'm reminded of this story: A man accidentally had a loaded gun in his luggage, got past security, realized it in flight, and then reported himself afterward:

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/loaded-gun-slips-past-tsa-scre...
"Currently the best way to consume food is to avoid addictive and highly processed food products and then trust your gut with the rest."

Allow me to suggest a further path forward that is superior to "trusting your gut":

Establish a regular, very high output exercise regime - incorporating both long duration aerobic/cardio and relatively intense resistance training.

Under such a regimen, you will notice what food does to you because you're pushing your physical state out to the edges. You will need to eat densely nutritious food and you will notice when you don't. It's quite striking.

An analogy: nobody notices a bad tank of gas, or slightly wrong octane in their toyota minivan. You do notice a bad tank of gas, or slightly wrong octane in a race car.

Become a racecar and you won't need to guess about food anymore.
It's not a bold statement, it's one made time and time again by the cPython developers. In short:

1. The Python language itself doesn't lend itself to being JIT compiled - it's too dynamic.

2. cPython is the reference implementation. It's source should be as simple as possible.

3. Only a subset of Python programs would benefit, and the rest would be slower/more memory hungry

and finally,

4. If you want/need a JIT then use PyPy, in all it's glory with all its upsides and downsides.

PyPy is a big project with a lot of very very very smart people working on it. They've done an excellent job at JITting Python (and creating an impressive interpreter framework) but even they couldn't make a JIT that is anywhere near suitable for inclusion in cPython. A bunch of cPython hackers on python-dev have no chance.

tldr: Want a JIT? Use PyPy.