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I've loaded many a homeless into my fire engine to take to the local Crisis Resource Center/ Behaviour Rehabilitation center because they begged and pleaded that they want help. Great!

More often than not, we see them a few days later with Steel Reserve cans littered about after someone calls 911 for what appears to them a dead man on the side of the road.

Mental illness is brutal. I feel for these guys, especially as I get older and start seeing my age equivalent homeless folks with PTSD and the like. The Vietnam vets are being replaced with Gulf war and Afghanistan vets. It is heart breaking to be sure... especially because many of us have served. We try, again, to hook these guys up with the VA... but they must want the help. It will not work otherwise.
Or if he went blind!
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Well like many people, this guy is pointing out a true and real problem. SF is a world class city but there are an unusually high number of drug addicts and homeless people walking the streets. But the author lacks any understanding of the root causes and, comically doesn't see his own role in the problem.

None of us like seeing homeless people but the problem is not that they are unsightly or annoying - the problem is why are they homeless to begin with and what is such a wealthy city doing to help? If you're only thinking of your own selfish needs then it makes sense to just "sweep up" people on the streets and send them somewhere out of site. Perhaps a good whack on the head with a night stick will dissuade them from returning. If you have no heart or compassion then it probably seems like a great idea. But if you have any sense at all then perhaps you can try to use some of your privilege to find real solutions to homelessness and perhaps lend a hand rather than try to swat them away.
Yep I also hate this narrative of how every homeless person is a lazy drug addict or has mental issues.[0] While I'm sure many of them do suffer from these problems, it's indicative of a failure in social support systems to deal with that. Also, receiving "handouts" is an indicator of higher moral character in my opinion; I'd love to see one of these types try to beg in the streets for one day and see how people treat them and the affect on their dignity.

[0]: I've actually volunteered at a soup kitchen (not the same thing as a shelter, I know) for a time and spoken to many of the people there. Many are just single parents, older/infirm people, struggling immigrants, and many just recently lost their jobs. (One was even a former college professor) There was one time when a very drunk person had to be denied, but that was a rare occurrence.
When you consider that people physically age at different rates generation cutoffs make even less sense.
Me too. Matei said that Spark 2.0 should be released (stable) late-April or early May.

But you can always download and build the source!
A solution to the OP's problem presents itself: Make SF colder!
My safe strat for the scenario is to go to the plentiful Rest Areas along the freeways: http://restareas.appspot.com/ Maybe inconvenient sometimes to go to and from, but then again, if I'm living out of a vehicle, I'm not all that concerned about convenience.
This is nuts.
Seems to me it should be people who grew up with the internet. So late 90's/early 2000's onwards. As someone who was born in 1990 and had exposure to the world pre-internet it seems like there's a clear divide between my culture/outlook and those who have only ever known a world with internet.
I think you're wrong. I think that all evidence shows us that it's much more effective to educate the consumers of a good/service than to educate the producers. An educated and informed public is the most powerful force there is in guaranteeing a quality product.

In all seriousness, I obviously don't think a test should be required to buy insurance, but I do think that government putting a little more effort into educating the populace on financial topics (including insurance) would do much more good than having brokers jump through silly hoops like the one under discussion here.
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Oh man I can't wait. I love this show. It makes me laugh and cry with how accurate SV is.
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things can be beautifully engineered and designed by a process called natural selection.

when the word design or engineered is employed it does not always mean designed by a God.
How old were you on the junkfood diet? As I got older I literally cannot sleep at night if I eat crap. As a teenager it did not matter.
Context if you forgot the end of season 2, since it is relevant to the trailer:

SPOILERS

Richard Hendricks was ousted as CEO of Pied Piper by the board. (the website has a great joke in the team roster regarding that event: http://www.piedpiper.com/)
I am selling my house and literally five minutes ago just got off the phone with my realtor telling her to make a counter offer to a buyer and to include in the counter offer that our security system isn't included. We have intended on taking our SimpliSafe security system to our new house.

Now I read this.
Well that's certainly not what I intended. Only further proves my point that our words can have unintended consequences.
> for me, the error handling code is code, code I want to pay just as much attention to as the non-error path.

You likely want to pay as much attention as required to make things work, but the purpose of your code isn't to generate errors -- errors are what get in the way of the actual purpose of your code.

For people who want to get an overview of what some code does, the error code is interesting only after you understand the actual purpose, and sprinkling the error code throughout the code that describe the purpose of the program causes distraction.
Lucky you. My samsung oven has something like 20 buttons with cryptic icons. Feels like an old VHS remote control.
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I think he would have been better received if he was actually concerned about the people instead of his car. His solution seems to be "out of sight, out of mind", instead of e.g. taking on the glaring inequality. No wonder people are indignant.
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Being homeless in Calgary is a lot different than the SF Bay area (you don't die in the Winter being a big one!). I'm positive there are many in SF who would benefit from a similar program, but there would still be a ton of homeless people.
This reminds me of 'generation X'. When I was in my early twenties, that badge made absolutely no sense as I was lumped into a group with my mid-thirties cousins and people who were still in high school. As I've aged, it has started to make more sense. Maybe the term millennial will be the same??

Edit - replaced the word 'pumped' with 'lumped'.
Or, rather than get bogged down in never-ending "efficient government" debates, we can increase spending today and simultaneously address efficiencies. Far too often the demand "efficiency first" is just a means to delay the actual commitment of resources.
I think your second paragraph makes a really good point. If you live in a tent where the world around you expects you to be in a house and make enough money, the mental stress is going to be huge.

I'm not claiming to know much about homelessness or poverty, but I'm pretty sure I'd become a less productive developer if I was stuck living on the fringe.
Clue me in, what is the human rights violation? Or better yet, in descending order what are they in regards to those needing help but refusing it and possibly endangering themselves or others?
> Your personal wealth doesn't give you the right to see and interact only with people who are within your same circles of success.

Uh, it doesn't? Why not? That's certainly not how wealth stratification manifests itself IRL... especially in the SF area.
Human rights clearly aren't a big deal to most governments, the involuntary commitment mentioned by the GP is a perfect example.
Because personal accounts are only generalizable when backed by additional sources / data. There's a difference between whether or not this person is being genuine (My bias is yes) and whether or not their accounts are generalizable (My bias is no). Asking for citations is to me a way of asking someone who seems already familiar with what they are describing for more information, so I can learn more / share with others / etc.
pathetic cliche spouting manlet.
I don't like using such a US-centric definition for this type of thing, but I generally think of Millennials as "people who were students when 9/11 happened". It really does seem to have been that sort of defining event.
> means you're doubly locked out

Same if you lose your password.

> The solution is longer passwords and expensive hashing algorithms that render brute force attacks not economically viable.

No it isn't, longer passwords do nothing for keyloggers.

> The other problems (keyloggers (read: malware) and phishing are orthogonal and need to be solved otherwise

They are solved otherwise. By U2F. You're saying "this solution to keyloggers is a bad solution to weak passwords, strong passwords are a better solution", but we aren't talking about strong vs weak passwords. Nobody here is talking about password brute-forcing. By all means, use stronger passwords, but they don't help with the attacks U2F helps with.
Our super-Conservative government for the last decade (now replaced by a young, hip, Liberal one) was actually really big behind the 'housing-first' method of helping the homeless (you get an apartment, no questions asked, then we work on your drug problems, etc later), and put a lot of money towards it.

At first, this seems very socially liberal and at odds with a Conservative party kind of thing until you look at the financials and realize it actually is fiscally very conservative- it saves a ton of money on policing and medical care.

All that said, have you been to Medicine Hat? That's not a place with a very relaxed 'homeless lifestyle'. It's -15C here in Toronto today, and we're like 700km further south. In the west coast of the USA, you can survive on the street without the air itself killing you.
Is Carla still working with Pied Piper though? I thought she quit with the rest of the new hires. My suspicion is that they'll find a way to keep her character in the show either way.
I wouldn't trust the VA to actually give them the help they need. Navigating a giant bureaucracy is tough for the most sane among us, let alone someone on the ropes.
Slide 10:

> CPU speeds have not kept up with I/O in the past 5 years.

I presume he means the other way around?

Also, what does he mean by native memory management? Does he mean off-heap allocation?

And what's he referring to regarding code generation?
That's now how percentages work....
Reminds me of the urban legend "japenese people have longer intestines" which may or may not be true :-)

http://www.biguglyreview.com/body/nonfiction_andy_raskin.htm...
"Bro" is an interesting word. At this point it seems to be broad enough to just mean "outgroup"; apply to any context as needed.
You could make one. A bunch of ESP8266 modules connecting back to a rasberrypi via SSL with a strict sensor timeout would mitigate the comcast alarm style bypasses. As for a remote, key fobs are so 1990s! Connect your smart phone using an app.

Ta-da! A custom alarm system that doesnt suck.
http://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/evilmalware.html for anyone who hasn't seen it yet.
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I live in Bloomington, IN.

We have (Way) better than average care for homless in probably a 3 hour driving distance. There's tons of services available. And that too is a problem. Every service we provide means that more homeless come and flock to our city. Ideally, we'd like to provide for everyone, out of a sense of human decency.

The only problem with that is we could provide for everyone in the county, we cannot do the same for south central indiana, parts of Kentucky, parts of Ohio, and parts of Illinois, and wherever they come from via bus. What started as a problem of 100 people disenfranchised now is a perpetual 400.

The solution, as ugly as it may seem, needs to be a cross-country (national level) anti-homelessness mission. That means comprehensive low/no barrier essentials, possibly even a minimum income. Until a national answer happens, any community that offers above and beyond will get punished with multiplying numbers that far exceed any local budgets.
You should consider applying for a full time position ;)
We should create a place were we can put them all so we don't have to see them! Let's call it, a ghetto! </sarcasm>
You're being disingenuous.

The requirement isn't "clicking next for 52 hours" it's spending that amount of time studying an online course. You're required to actually pay attention for 52 hours and then certify that you did.

For another example, the requirement inherent in a multiple choice exam isn't a matter of "filling out a semi random sequence of the letters A, B, C, and D" it's knowing the answers to the test.

The filling out the letters is a signal that you know. Signals aren't perfect, in that example if you don't know but copied answers from someone else that's cheating and the signal would be unreliable then, and you've subverted the actual intended requirement.

The requirement in this case is spending about a week of your life actually studying this material and the clicking of the next button as well is a signal that you did it.

Don't confuse the means with ends. You could have argued that the amount of hours spent studying the material is also a useless metric. But that's a more nuanced argument that you haven't made, and one that has defensible positions on both sides.

Clearly clicking next isn't a meaningful requirement, but so what, it's not actually the requirement. Spending time studying is, and they cheated and lied about it.
What is this thing where people use the word "bro" to dissociate themselves from their colleagues who they don't like/make offensive remarks? The community is not spotless and that doesn't make those people "bros". Oh and by the way, can we discuss the fact that we have a homeless problem? You know, an actual problem? Since that seems to be brought up as little as possible in an article written essentially to hold up the argument that this "tech bro" is a shitty "tech bro" by the way did we mention he's a bro?
I recently started writing a few Qt applications, and was strongly considering PyQt - I mean, why wouldn't I? The syntax is cleaner and I can get more work done faster using Python than C++.

I spent a few days going back and forth - comparing the performance, design time, etc of both - and in the end I'm just using Qt's JS JIT for dynamic list comprehensions and other things C++ is bad at. In the end, the fact that distributing on everything but Linux would have been reduced to having to bundle CPython in was just a deal breaker.

Linux isn't really bad for deployment, though. You can use the SUSE OBS to build packages for all the major platforms besides Arch, and since my main desktop is Arch, I'm building my software with PKGBUILD's from the get-go.
Not if the government takes the perspective that housing is a human right, regardless of an individual's mental health or substance abuse problems, willingness or capacity to work, or even criminal history. Some would argue that a country has a duty to shelter its citizens, and research shows that the more difficult problems associated with homelessness can be solved by focusing on housing first, then taking on other issues.

The Housing First movement takes this stance, and has seen some success: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Housing_First
Swiftz (https://github.com/typelift/Swiftz) offers well tested implementation of operator definitions and constructs from functional language. It takes inspiration from Scalaz and Haskell.
If I were to write a library using wacky operators, I'd at least use well defined and maintained definitions.
Yeah, I agree it isn't a particularly useful measure. But it was mostly aimed at evaluating whether the regulation in question is perilous or not.

Of course a problem with bad regulation is that can have an enormous aggregate effect, but in this case I think we can reasonably assume that Zenefits didn't need to encourage employees to avoid this regulation in order to grow itself rapidly.
It's alarming how similar my story is to yours. I also moved from a much bigger city to Dallas a year ago. A new job paid me to come here and I gotta say it was a great decision. My email is in my profile. Let's chat.
You do realize that what you're proposing is in no way supported by science but is merely your personal theory based on an analogy, right?
Thats funny. I remember checking out this site a long time ago. They took away the detail that Erlich also spent some time at Oberlin...
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I think the more exciting announcement was Databricks community edition, which allows you to use 2.0:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11126179
Hi zaroth - We do not use Kill-o-Watt meters since we use calibrated Extech TrueRMS units for our "desktop" testing.

We also have a few racks in Sunnyvale, California that we use APC metered by outlet PDUs for and that we actually calibrated by testing with the Extech units and found two of over a dozen that gave us consistent readings across PDUs and ports.

This unit is in a SC515 chassis with redundant PSUs. Even with 4x 7200 rpm Seagate 2.5" drives, a 64GB mSATA drive and a Samsung SM951 m.2 SSD it is still pulling 0.24A on 208V (so 0.48A on 208V). If you were to gain a bit of efficiency running a single PSU, you could easily fit these in 1A on 120V power envelope.

What we have seen several folks do with similar D-1540 machines is actually use 1U 1A/ 120V hosting (which is very inexpensive) to deliver cheap local PoPs for their applications. We have been strongly considering decommissioning our Las Vegas 1/2 cab DR site and moving to this sort of distributed model as there are a lot of benefits with this.

We published more complete benchmark results ( http://www.servethehome.com/intel-xeon-d-1587-benchmarks-16-... )of the D-1587 yesterday, expect more in terms of reviewing the overall platform next week. The Xeon D is very platform dependent for power and the particular unit we have does have the additional LSI/ Avago/ Broadcom SAS 2116 (16 port SAS2) HBA onboard.
His wording might have been harsh and maybe he's coming from the wrong viewpoint, but he's ultimately right. Fixing homelessness and mental illness in the right way would be a net benefit to both people like him and the people on the street.

California has the highest income tax in the entire United States. San Francisco is up there among county income tax. Its inexcusable that our star tech capital of the entire world is simultaneously infamous for its homelessness and mental health problems. You can phrase it "I hate looking at these people" or you can phrase it "these people need help"; the right solution remains the same. Fix it.
I'm kind of disappointed in the Post on this one. From reporting on internet outrage to repeating another publication's "tech bro" slur, this isn't set up to engender a real debate.

Justin Keller is a terrible "face" for the debate (and so is Edna Miroslava Raia for the opposition). The facts are that San Fran has an economic problem and a homeless problem. Those problems are not mutually exclusive, but neither are they the same thing. Justin shouldn't have to worry about being accosted, and he shouldn't "have to see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people"—but because the problem should be solved, not swept under the rug.
It's a good habit to get into. I can't count the number of times I went searching for a citation to something seemingly obvious only to have my assumptions thrown in my face by the data.
Does the Java support mean that this will work with any JVM language supported by IntelliJ? (Specifically Scala in my case.)
This was actually tested in a study last year, which found that cheeseburgers are just as good for recovery as expensive sports drinks: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/0...
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This one is to "www.reactos.org", the other one is to "reactos.org"
Sometimes I feel this "most of them prefer the way it is" is just a way to make excuses for us not solving a problem.

For example in my city of ~ quarter mil. people, there are approximately 1000 people living on the streets and another 1000 without home (no adress, permanently living in hostels, people in prisons that no longer have home).

Currently I know that there is project that focuses on the families without home (afaik 300-400 ppl?), where the plan is to move them into the city owned flats (there is more than 20 000 flats owned by the city with several hundred empty)

I like the logic behind that. To catch people without home before they end up on the street and give them an adress. What do you think?
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The same way we create and vet conventional cryptography: withstanding public scrutiny of experts until we are reasonably confident that there are no major issues. Most attacks are theoretical and require only novel analysis and a new bound on computational difficulty, not a proof of concept (i.e., algorithms are abandoned by cryptographers long before attacks become feasible).

Post quantum algorithms are simply algorithms designed and analyzed against a stronger threat model. Some of the attacks and techniques are still being developed, so no one knows if new quantum algorithms will be invented tomorrow that trivialize certain problems but the same danger is present to some extent for conventional cryptography today.
Too bad the new hot thing will be "does this politician have a vagina?".
>I went to the doctor and they said don't wait more than 3-4 hours between meals.

Do you have a medical condition that requires you to continously eat? If not this advice is suspect at best. Do the people who advise this wake up in the middle of the night to eat?

Of course everyone is different so experement and listen to your body. Mine strongly prefers going long periods of time between meals.
On the OpenWrt wiki for the C7[0], which was last modified Jan 13, there is this note:

"Recent US firmware (e.g. Archer C7 v2 151014 US) do not install unsigned firmware, including earlier versions of firmware and international versions. Thank you, FCC. You need to use TFTP Recovery method to install OpenWRT until somebody replicates what DD-WRT’s KrypteX is doing."

So, it certainly seems like this has been known for at least a month.

[0]http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/archer-c5-c7-wdr7500
It has always been a great cause of reflection to me that when reality catches up with us our reaction, most of the time, is denial and refusal. The entrepreneurial spirit should aim at solving the problem. Complaining is not the most creative solution.
The mentality according to which "we work hard and we earned the right not to see the pain of homeless people" is just naive. The only thing you earned the right to is what life gave you, and this is true for both sides.
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Tech Bro? This of course is to be interpreted as being pejorative, and also automatically creates a category of 'bad' people that are stereotypical 'bros'. Journalistic 'faux-pas' in the best of cases ...