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Let's cut through the nonsense, and say what we're really talking about explicitly, and out loud: Is homelessness our responsibility, or not?

Some comments here use a lot of words to essentially say they don't feel any collective duty to help homeless people. Fine, if that's what you believe. But I'd ask you say that loud and clear, stand up and be judged.

Because I believe we collectively have a responsibility to each other, and government is one institution that reflects that responsibility (among its other roles). As a friend once said, simply: "I believe you can judge a society by how it treats its least-fortunate."

Now, the situation in SF is special; yes, it's got mild weather and a decent social safety net (by US standards, not European), which makes it a destination of sorts. But this is also why Justin K addressed his post to the wrong people: this isn't an SF issue, it's a state and national issue. And it's an issue that's heavily entangled with substance abuse and mental illness.[1]

And it's only made worse by bad behavior and bad politics. For example, Nevada bused mentally ill homeless people to SF (often without medication or any contact person):

http://www.sacbee.com/news/investigations/nevada-patient-bus...

The reason California in particular has such a large population of mentally ill homeless people is thanks to a few extra years of Reagan, who famously shuttered all the mental hospitals in California while governor (before defunding initiatives for mental health care and research at the federal level as president):

http://www.salon.com/2013/09/29/ronald_reagans_shameful_lega...

So, do you think this is all of our problems, or somehow this is an example of individual responsibility? I venture how you feel about that question is probably heavily correlated with whether you think success in business is a product of pure hard work, or if there's a contribution from luck and civil institutions. And this isn't some low-stakes game of political philosophizing; the policies that have exacerbated homelessness in SF and California in general are rooted in the same political philosophy that motivated this short-sighted, self-centered, fundamentally heartless post. Politics matter.

In other words: if you think like Justin that SF is 'ruined' for you by problems of homelessness, and the city should do more to fix it... then you're simply not thinking hard enough, and not taking responsibility for your role as a citizen of San Francisco, California, the US, and the world.

And as a Bay Area native and SF resident for 10 years, I'd kindly ask you to leave, or at least stop writing stupid things publicly, and leave the debate over difficult civil and social issues to people who are more thoughtful and compassionate -- a couple of core San Franciscan values that I particularly treasure.

[1] "Almost two out of three respondents (63%) reported one or multiple disabling conditions." from here: http://www.sfgov3.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=4...
The fewer homeless sleep in public buildings like train/bus stations.
> there are the ones avoiding regular society, etc.

Indeed, something as simple as smoking weed (regardless of the reason) will exclude you from most government assistance. Living indoors is not always a suitable trade-off for giving up medications that work.
"Renting a crappy 2BR apartment was $1700/month thanks to the tight rental market. Mortgage and taxes on a townhouse in a nicer part of town? $1200/month."

So you take a mortgage and you're happy and there is a chance that you'll stay happy because your present reckoning may remain as good in the future as it is now. But it also may not. By mortgaging you become a sitting duck against the change, and that rental business of $1700/month seems attractive enough to invite further involvement and development thus driving the prices much lower not only compared to its current figure but also with the praised rental figure. What would you do then if this happens? Refinance in order to stretch that mortgage for more than 30 years?
For the starch just search for effects of starch diet. For sugar water, see en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-La_Diet. For high-intensity training, see www.bodybyscience.net - the blog there links quite a few medical studies about high intensity training. My personal experience or experience of my relatives confirms this.
Either way it's a toxic worldview, really.
Yes, you will certainly be aware of what it takes to keep running at that rythm. But that's not neccesarilly what is healthy.
Except those things gated by science.
Not exactly. In this case it is the government which is mandating the prices. While market prices would naturally rise due to increased demand, the statement "because people are drinking it too much" does not necessarily denote increased demand.

Market prices are one of the most essential aspects of a healthy economy. It is the lack of market prices which right off the bat dooms any form of socialism to failure. Any time you see large scale, perpetual shortages of any kind you can know there is some form of price fixing or market manipulation going on by the government.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
I don't understand why BTRFS isn't gaining more support in Linux. I prefer BTRFS to ZFS with Fuse.
Dude, he didn't say "we should ensure that we offer social programs and housing supply to address the needs of the poor, mentally ill, addicted, or otherwise disadvantaged", he said (literally) "I shouldn't have to see the pain".

He clearly doesn't care that people who are being priced out of the city they've lived in longer than he has are helped, just that they're gone. What a disgusting attitude.
This can be game-changing for the NAS/SAN industry.

I'm surprised their lawyers gave an OK, where FSF, SFLC and friends have given a thumbs down. If their interpretation is good, suddenly the large AIX/Solaris dominated storage boxes open up to a LOT of ubuntu-based/ubuntu-derived competition.

Exciting times..
Let's see how this works out. It's probably better and more stable than btrfs but this is not complicated...

ZFS on Linux had issues with ARC (especially fast reclaim) and some deadlocks and AFAIK cgroups are not really supported - e.g. blkio throttling does not work.

Would be great is they got this ironed out but I would be wary. Still great news!
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Even university students? But most of the great startups were started by university students, so why wasn't there any issue about it so far?
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BTW, if ZFS is used for the root filesystem, say hello to insanely simple OS upgrades and roll-backs :)
Produces a lot of organic waste though.
They Python Cloud Debugger uses a combination of line trace debugging (which is very slow) and the profiling callback (fast) to inspect the line of interest.

The Cloud Debugger is different from your tradition debugger as it optimizes for application speed. For example, it would capture values, let the thread continue and run, and only then serialize is back to the Cloud Debugger server.
I own a dog, and I can tell you that the machine-learning features are generally overrated. It tends to learn what you don't want it to learn and tends to forget about the things you want it to learn. It's also high-maintenance and can't be left alone for extended periods of time. It's also vulnerable to a "replay offer steak" attack. (12/10 for enriching my life, would do again)
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If you think addicts are making "choices" in the conventional sense of that term, you haven't quite caught on to the nature of addiction. They no longer have a choice. That's why there are no ex-addicts, just people in recovery. They spend the rest of their lives learning to avoid waking the beast that dwells within them. They very carefully construct lives that keep them away from circumstances where they lose the power of choice.

It's not an easy thing. I have friends who have made it so far, and their struggles were enormous. I have friends and family who didn't make it, and they're now dead. And I know plenty of people who just aren't addictive by nature; they made all the same choices and never had a problem at all.

I get why people don't like this. We all want to believe in the power of will. In particular, we want to believe that the power of our own will is sufficient to the challenges we face. But sometimes it isn't, and if we accepted that, we'd have fewer homeless addicts.
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Visited Paris last November and the situation looked very differently - homeless were present, but did not appear to be the same mentally ill types that I see in LA and SF. That's not a coincidence - France has universal healthcare (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_France).

It's really disheartening to see the plight of people who could have been helped. Especially, given that we (US) spend more per capita on healthcare...

Another interesting observation is the difference between LA and SF. In LA (beach areas and west LA/Westwood) a side from minor inconvenience of a line outside public beach restrooms/showers and some encampments, there really isn't a disruption. In SF, people walk in yelling into stores, act out aggressively in broad daylight and generally don't seem to feel any restraint. I never felt particularly unsafe in LA, but definitely had to watch my surroundings last weekend in SF, much more than ever before in the last decade.
My friend got punched in the face by a homeless person. Unprovoked, for no apparent reason.
But first it has to actually work. So far, based on that page, it has suffered the same fate as all the other attempts to remove the GIL; mostly functional, but slower. And the numbers cited on that page put it on the rather slow side for single-threaded code for a GIL removal, too, which is what has always prevented previous efforts from getting merged in.

I remain skeptical that STM is a good fit for this problem, as I was when I first heard about this, and after their work, alas, I have to say I see little evidence to make me change my mind on that. STM is something that probably needs to be baked in from day one, possibly all the way into the language itself, not put on the side of a complicated secondary implementation of Python.
I'm not really surprised that other companies aren't coming out of the woodwork to make themselves targets. It's clear that in the main they will hold similarly strong views to Apple, but any PR worth their salt will not want the CEO of a company not implicated in something as politically charged as this to enter into the discussion.

For those who oppose this kind of behaviour by the US Government, it's a relief that they picked on Apple: a company with strong opinions about this topic, and the financial wherewithal and gumption to oppose it as robustly as anyone.
That's what they say - others claim that even a dynamically loaded module is producing a derivative and thus you're not allowed to distribute a non-GPL-ed binary module.

Matthew Garret (a kernel developer and thus a shared copyright holder of the kernel) is of the opinion that linking a binary ZFS module is not legal:

https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/700021939708915712
https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/700073945064611841
https://twitter.com/mjg59/status/700074164435091456

As a copyright holder, he is potentially in the position of suing canonical over this (and he doesn't like them very much, so he just might)
Look longer term, Inbox will win.

Gmail is a mail client, inbox is so much more.

I don't use it as the ability to only apply a single label to an email is a feature regression.

Chrome and Android will reach feature parity, but will always remain as separate entities due to branding.

Running Android on top of Windows just doesn't sound right, but it is what is effectively happening with Chrome supporting Android apps.
Have you noticed the fact that no other Samsung chip has reached the single thread performance of the A7 in iPhone 5s? The architecture may be licensed but the chip design is not.
the question is why 52 hours of clicking is a good law

It isn't. It's 52 hours of study, everyone is latching onto "clicking" to make a disingenuous point. Almost every exam you take is intended as an assessment of your knowledge, not "are they able to recite answers to 10 questions in a 2 hour period inside an exam room"
I was recently prescribed beta blockers by my doctor, due to ongoing heart and blood pressure issues brought on by severe stress anxiety.

I also have asthma. It's a mild case, and I don't need an inhaler or any medication for it, just get pretty short on breath under heavy exercise.

Now, accumulated medical wisdom is that beta blockers are bad for asthmatics. They supposedly shorten air intake, and can even be fatal, especially in severe cases. NHS guidelines in the UK recommend against prescribing them to asthmatics and other similar lung conditions.

But ... see it turns out this wisdom basically goes back to some case reviews from back in the 70s, of patients having reactions to proplanolol, the first beta blocker released to market.

But recent reviews of the research shows that's pretty much all there's ever been: case studies. The only actual experimental trials done on this had significant methodological issues (one of them didn't even have a control group!), leaving little more than just a pile of what amounts to anecdotal evidence, involving two conditions (heart and lung) that have significant chance of comorbidity anyway.

On top of that, even most of that research is all based on the original "nonselective" kind of beta blockers, while initial research with the modern "selective" variety indicates they may even help. Even more fun is that the beta-agonists sometimes prescribed as an alternative to blockers, may themselves have a reaction with asthma ...

The end result is that in nearly 50 years of beta blockers being on market, no one medical professional actually seems to have any idea whether they're good or bad for asthma, but the "wisdom" gets passed down all the same ...

And meanwhile I've got a bottle of them on my desk. I'm not a doctor, or a pharmaceutical scientist, and if they don't know if it's safe for me to take them or not, how in fuck am I supposed to make that choice?
Not even weed, there are government assisted housing units which will remove people for regular smoking.

But you also have people avoiding an address for whatever legal or avoidance reasons.
One have to specifically drink plain water with table sugar or fructose - anything else reverses the effects, search the Shangri-La diet for details.
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In theory, which is easier to say than acknowledging the reality. Essentially it's ignoring Occam's Razor by introducing a third party (personal consumption) when the cause (general inflation) just as easily explains the effect (higher prices for everything - including milk).
the 'mob' you're talking about is called 'civilization'. It's not 'growing fervor around [...] political correctness' that is driving the outrage; it's the deep-rooted, long-standing fervor about maintaining the minimum standard of being an empathetic, decent human being, which your friend has failed.

It's possible to write a letter to the mayor demanding solutions. It's possible to roll up your sleeves and try to do something, to marshal some force, to push the rock uphill a little for your fellow man.

It's also possible to write a whiny letter demanding that the homeless be made to vanish.

Which did your friend do? Which would you rather he did?
The article stated that rats who ran more miles had more neurogenesis. So my guess would be walking = less distance than running = less benefit.

But this is too much of a simplification. If you walk a mile in 15 minutes and run a mile in 7.5, is there a difference? Maybe not, but if you run, you can then run two miles in the same 15 minutes and increase your efficiency.
In theory, however the current released agent rejects any snapshots (breakpoints) set on files with extension other than Java.

see the current agent code on https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-debug-java
I work for a company that does a lot of Data Science Consulting. And I'm still surprised by how many companies I see that try to use complex methods to solve problems that can be solved by high school statistics and a little lateral thinking. There's just so much hype around "Data Science" right now.

I see this a lot when I walk into companies where I'm introduced to employees with "Joe has a Master's in Applied Mathematics. Nitya has a PhD in Computer Science with a focus on AI." Some managers love the idea that they are going to spearhead some initiative that will solve some problem in the most complex way possible, thus getting some visibility from people in the C-Suite.

A few years ago we worked with a customer who was trying to reduce issues with their industrial processes. Most of the battle was just processing the raw sensor data quickly enough. Using Stats 101 methods to predict issues, they ended up saving a lot(!!) of money every year and were extremely happy. They were so happy they agreed without hesitation to present the work at some major conferences. During one conference presentation one audience member basically said "You're not using Machine Learning so you're not doing predictive Analytics or Data Science" and basically acted like we were a bunch of fakers and idiots.

The hype is strong with Data Science.

Absolutely agree with the following from the post.

"Talk to customers. Watch what products sell and which ones don’t. Think about the economics that drive the business and how you can help it succeed more.

Knowing what matters is the real key to being an effective data scientist."

All that being said, I do see plenty of the opposite as well. Lots of people only know about sums and means, so that's all they want to use. There are plenty of cases where advanced methods make more sense. Knowing the difference is why you hire a good Data Scientist.
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I don't really know what your point is. The amount may be a large dollar figure, but it is clearly not enough to solve the problem, therefore the problem still exists.

I'm curious how many people live in SF on 12-20k, but that's irrelevant. If someone has accommodation and is able to earn wages as a steady state, it is obvious that their costs will be less than a homeless person who needs mental health treatment, rehabilitation and maybe even education before they are employable.

The figure that employed people can survive on is well below the lower bound for what is needed to rehabilitate a homeless person.
No expert here on SSDs but it still seems like they're off by an order of magnitude. PCIe SSDs appear to top out around 1.8GB/sec while DDR4 is in the 12-19 GB/sec range.

Either way CPU processing power has never really been a constraining factor(since most people don't want to write data aware code), it's always been bus-bound be it DRAM, IO or other.
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Have it call you then you can call the cops or have it call your neighbors.

The utility of calling cops is vastly over-rated in most parts of the United States due to police response times being slow.
I suspect also many of the homeless in San Francisco, especially the ones being complained about here, have pretty bad mental health problems going on treated. Government probably needs to step in and help on that front as well.
This isn't ZFS in Fuse - it is a native kernel module.

BTRFS has yet to reach the stability of ZFS.
Yep, that is the difficult piece. It would be nice if there was company that does that for consumers. Essentially DIY security system + A company that a consumer can sign up for monitoring the alerts and calling cops etc. A cheap cell phone plan would also be needed as well.
iirc, the decision to disallow unused imports was largely motivated by improving build times. And not just for your package either. If each package in the tree can accidentally have an extra import or two it could end up ballooning to crazy proportions where everything and their third cousin is imported with only some of them being used.

That's what I remember from reading about it.
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I think that's a bit naive, as owning a home can unexpectedly get VERY expensive (roof repairs, foundation repairs, etc)
The only ugly part was getting the client side React to pick up the server side markup when it comes "pre-filled" with dynamic data.

The client needs to use the same data or else it will throw away the whole markup and re-render it.

Fetch the data on the server before you render.

Render the (static) markup with React and the data.

Send the markup AND the (serialized) data to the client.

The client will render the markup normally before React kicks in.

The client React then needs a way to use the serialized data with the pre-rendered markup.

Redux, for example, is a way to pass down this data to every component, so it's available at render.

Normally, when writing React apps, you can simply load data async and show a place-holder while the request runs.

If you want to render on server, all the data has to be fetched before, if it's loaded async, so the server can render synchronously.
"That kind of crap" are generally people who have lived here significantly longer than he has and have been priced out due to factors not under their control. He doesn't care if _their_ problems are solved, only that _his_ problem is solved. It's a fairly disgusting attitude.
> Nobody here is talking about password brute-forcing.

Exactly. The problems being "solved" are orthogonal to password security. They are phishing and keylogger problems. Attempting (but failing) to put a bandage on one of the symptoms of these problems (stolen passwords) is not the solution.

Since you ignored the point in my last comment, I'll reiterate: U2F's supposed value pertaining keyloggers is dubious at best, because if a machine has a keylogger, then it by definition[1] has malware on it, which A) could gain access to your private key's encrypted bytes, B) listen for your "challenge" password when you enter it, and/or C) listen for all of your other private data anyway, rendering the password bits a lot less important.

Pertaining phishing, and I'm shooting from the hip here because I haven't read the whole spec, but the protection might be dubious or worse there as well. Here's why: Considering that a public key is, at best, by definition, not protected, an attacker could gain access to your public key, then ask you to connect to them, send you a verification message for you to unencrypt to verify it's really them (I assume this is how it works, unless the spec proposes a new kind of certificate authority... another problem to deal with). Assuming that's the case, then guess where we are; back at the start, since now we've got to find a way to ensure we can trust the original interaction, which leads us to an education issue (e.g., "always ensure you're connected to the correct site by checking the URL... never click from an email a link when you're first signing up using U2F... make sure you're using HTTPS").
Not working for me either. I haven't read it all yet but I think this article is related: http://www.theguardian.com/media-network/2016/feb/16/banking...
Sure, I agree, but that's a bit different from whether they're supposedly ignoring the problem and/or not doing "enough".
Most Americans do not live in cities anything like NYC, SF, Boston, or DC. Even in DC, the District of Columbia is is a relatively small jurisdiction of (generously) 700,000 people in a region of over 5 million. Even District grocery stores generally have on-site parking--perhaps over or under the store--and it is often free.

So, no correction is in order and it is perfectly accurate to say "Most American cities don't really have this problem."
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