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Not sure what kind of solution the government should have.

There's already a myriad of local, state and federal housing programs already in place. Whether its temporary emergency housing, eviction protection, child care services, or in some cases, low income housing and federal subsidies for permanent housing.

There's plenty of safety nets in California, let alone the SF area. If people want to get off the streets, there's an abundance of resources at their disposal. Saying the government isn't doing enough is a bit myopic considering all the local, state and federal help readily available.

http://www.sfhsa.org/76.htm

http://sf-moh.org/index.aspx?page=130

https://www.mercyhousing.org/california

http://www.homeless.org.au/directory/us-california.htm

http://www.freeprintshop.org/download/shelter_english.pdf

http://www.sfcenter.org/resources/housing

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/states/california/h...

http://ssa.ocgov.com/calfresh/calworks/emergency/homeless

http://www.needhelppayingbills.com/html/calworks_homeless_as...

And that's JUST for the homeless services. It doesn't even START to address the free addiction clinics, low cost prescriptions, free health care clinics, food shelves, and other resources homeless people might need help to get off the streets.

In my mind the government is going way above and beyond trying to solve this issue.
I've observed that a lot of diets tend to have similar effects on the populations that adopt them. People speak about feeling better on Paleo. Body builders/lifters optimize macronutrient intakes for muscle gain with similar results. There's also wide consensus on how certain micronutrient deficiencies cause certain conditions. e.g. Vitamin C deficiency leads to Scurvy. Vitamin A deficiency leads to night-time blindness, etc.

I would hypothesize that most arguments about nutrition revolve around observational discrepancies between the micro & macro levels. At the micro (individual) perspective, it feels like everyone has custom nutritional needs (which in a sense, they do), but when looking at larger trends, generally, consistent patterns emerge.

One of salient points that are made about nutrition by Dr. Terry Wahls is that it is fundamentally chemistry. If an individual hits some type of limiting reagent, the body will adapt in the absence of it until it can not and certain ailments occur.

The problem with a lot of nutritional studies is similar to the problems in a company faces. There is some type of prescription to adhere to at the micro-level without taking into context the larger picture. CxO's, if you get at least 5000IUs of DevOps per day, you'll get better performance! Consuming 100mg of Agile development makes you more agile! 1 gram of purpose/mission-driven team-building per week helps with the bad customer service ailment. While there may some truth to those statements, they are also absurd without properly being incorporated into a larger context.

Anyway, one of the interesting tidbits I read was the recommendation to increase salt & potassium intake when adopting a ketogenic (high-fat) diet, to prevent/alleviate headaches & fatigue during the ketosis transitional period. One can see that the advice is probably rooted in some chemistry.

Nutritional studies would probably have much better results if the populations could be subjected to a strict meal plan to control for other factors.
I completely agree that a developer should have the freedom to put the "project" folder anywhere. As a golang newbie, I went through the motions of setting up GOPATH, but did not give it too much consideration. It also isn't clear to me how one might have multiple copies of the same project.
Wait... who told you I was writing that book? Just wait till you read next week's article: "Debunking the myths about networking in Swift"
Their position has been pretty consistent. Which issues do you think they've change their mind on?
This was my morning heart attack.

Got an email from Heroku with the ominous subject line: "You have spent money."

The email encouraged me to log into my account and "review the charges."

So I logged in, checked the billing page, and found an invoice with a HUGE bill for what was supposed to be a free instance.

The question is: What's an appropriate way to say, "Sorry for accidentally making you think that you owe us $1,200, causing you to have a total freak-out, wondering where you're going to get that kind of money ... and only finding out that the bill might be erroneous by clicking on a small-print support message on the billing page?"
Apple wants to stay as far away from hacking the world as possible. If a weapon/tool like that exists, they'll be asked to use it. Or it'll be stolen. Or copied. Etc.
The Slow Death of Digital Books
It's quite possible for a person to study for 50 or 100 or 1000 hours and not possess that knowledge, or to study for 3 hours and know it well. People learn at different rates. That's why we have exams - to measure if the person actually has the knowledge.

It sounds like you are saying that California regulators made a disastrously bad test that doesn't measure knowledge well, so therefore we should require people to click "next" for 52 hours in the hopes that knowledge enters their skulls even if we can't measure it?
"Bro" has become a generic term for a young man with an inflated sense of self worth, a low opinion of others, a macho attitude, and a loud voice. Think of a stereotypical fraternity member.
The "homeless" must want and work (mentally and emotionally) for help in order for it to work. fullstop.

In my experience, most do not want to put in the effort to kick the habits, contribute to society in a meaningful way, or tell you it is too late. The reality is a lot of them prefer the "lifestyle" and "freedom" to do whatever the hell they want whenever the hell they want to do it. They have a completely different take on life than "most" people.
Our startup (launching this spring) helps struggling homeless relocate to SF. We charter buses and assist homeless men & women in moving out of terrible conditions (often colder cities) so they can start fresh in the Bay Area. Our goal is to transplant 100 homeless by the end of this year!

We think SF is ideal due to the culture, weather, and resources. We also believe that an influx of homeless can assist in lowering property value/home prices which is much necessary in SF.
Building an engineering team in Singapore
> Currently the best way to consume food is to avoid addictive and highly processed food products

I assume by highly processed, you mean foods altered in such that they are now high in fats, salt, sugars or some combination thereof. I ask, because the term processed gets thrown around (in my experience) for highly preserved foods like canned meat to flash frozen frozen vegetables in the freezer aisle.

The former is obviously worse for you. Taking in high amounts of sugars, bad fats, and possibly salt is detrimental. However, referring to green beans that were grown, picked, flash frozen and delivered as a processed food is somewhat misleading. Flash freezing is altering the food from its natural state. Thus, a frozen vegetable is technically a processed food. The connotative definition, however, implies that more than freezing has happened.
So how many people are going to pay more taxes to raise the money for the government to do all these things?

In the end, it still comes back to the people. It's not the government's fault.
Are there any non-garbage home security systems?
Yeah, I like this posting from him http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKayOnMessaging
Does Go include external libraries (stuff not written in Go) as dynamic links or static?
And now my question about being downvoted is being downvoted, because I'm being upvoted now.

See, this is the weak point of voting systems on websites. You don't actually know why you've bern ____voted, and asking is liable to backfire.
It wouldn't be to protect just the sophisticated investors but also stakeholders that rely on the company in other matters.

How to set the bar would be an issue.
Yeah, it's sad that it's apparently impossible to have a serious discussion around this topic without getting vilified. It seems that a lot of people like to pat themselves on the back for how compassionate they are because they are fine with homeless people on the streets. That seems the opposite of compassionate to me. True compassion would be, as you say, making care available so these people wouldn't have to sleep in the streets. I'll include mental care in that, since many homeless seem to suffer from mental illnesses as well.
Ask HN: Likelihood the FBI also submitted to Google a court ordered mandate?
That's why I stopped going to conferences in San Francisco. If you don't like it, don't be there. Grow a spine and tolerate the cold.
because MongoDB is web scale
> A lot of them prefer this "lifestyle"... we try very hard to help the people that want help. Most don't.

A lot of them are mentally handicapped or dealing with acquired mental illnesses. Even under good conditions, treating either is hard. Of course EMS/fire fighters/volunteers working in shelters aren't able to do that.
Keep in mind the target audience of txutxu's post: this is Hacker News! His reply is to a group of people who are, if not all experts in technology related fields, likely capable of contributing to the Debian project in some meaningful way.

Debian is an amazing project that is where it is because so many people decided to "go fix it." Not everybody who uses Debian needs to have that mentality, but anybody on HN who is complaining about the project and wants to see it improved should consider translating that opinion into action.

This isn't to say that txutxu worded his response in the most tactful manner, of course, but you have to consider it in context.
I guess I'm the general population. I eat my daily salt on each French fry at lunch. I like them salted so they turn white! Vegetables are edible, if salted enough. And buttered. Or oiled I guess.

And I am fine. No health issues to speak of. Of course I exercise as well - I ride 20 miles at a time all summer. It's the whole picture that matters I think. Picking out 'salt' and trying to make a rule for everyone is hopeless.
To combine the JVM configuration and IDE configuration points, out of the box on a new 16GB Macbook Pro Retina, Intellij (at least, as PHPStorm) will spend an enormous amount of time unresponsive at startup and periodically thereafter. Why? Because of two things: the default JVM settings it ships with starve it of resources, and the default validation settings have it trying to check everything under the sun.

There's also the initial indexing, but I can live with that, since it enables beautifully fast jump-to-definition, which is hard to live without.
Subtle differences from Trello's Scientist port: https://github.com/trello/scientist
Fair point.

This is getting into Poe's Law territory.
Everyone who has a minimum knowledge of economics has been warning about this for ages.

Chavez even said once that our economy was bulletproof, that even if the oil prices plummet to zero, we were going to be OK.

I now fear that the only way out is through massive riots for food and medicines. The same people that held Chavismo in power these past years have to be the ones that remove them from power. And it's not going to be pretty.
How many of these myriad services are already running at full capacity? Just because there are homelessness support groups out there doesn't magically mean that there is enough support.
If you like things like this check out SoA: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo_x9FnnXTc

The devs are really smart and pulling together some amazing optimization stuff that you wouldn't really expect.
I don't see why the FBI wouldn't have submitted the same court-ordered mandate for a backdoor to android phones. Will Google come forward about their involvement?
> isn't the point of `/etc//conf.d` directories generally that you have multiple config files?

Yes certainly. It's totally fine to place multiple config files there, I do as well. I split up my configs in the various outputs, inputs etc. It's just that logstash combines them to a single pipeline and does not run a pipeline per config file. Nginx doesn't run a webserver per config file either :).

It's certainly something that's unexpected and could be much better documented, but alas, I'm just a user :)

(and I do agree, your issue could have been handled much better, especially since it's not actually a bug)
Show HN: High Quality Speech to Text API
I'm going to be pedantic, but only because I think that's how the letter guy is going to try and get out of this too. The letter did not say that "there shouldn't be homeless people living in the streets".

Both it and GP said he shouldn't have to see homeless people. The letter writer certainly wouldn't care if the homeless people were still homeless, so long as they were bussed somewhere he didn't have to gaze upon their poor faces.
"I have little doubt that some percentage of these finds are just due to forgetfulness, and not to any malign intent."

As a gun owner, a CCW holder and a sometimes open carrier of firearms - privately and publicly - let me state in no uncertain terms: if you forget you are carrying a gun, you have no business carrying a gun.
My opinion is based on I have a working brain.
Why does every comment on here need to be cited? Nobody is writing a research paper through HN comments. We're just having a conversation.
Which brings you to your email account, which if protected by U2F also, means you're doubly locked out, unless you've left a backdoor to your email account, which will be vulnerable to intrusion (as well as the keylogger / phishing attacks).

Not to mention, what about the challenge step? If somebody has a keystroke logger installed, that means they have control of at least part of your machine. They can probably read the bytes of your private key and then listen for your key's password to be entered.

The solution is longer passwords and expensive hashing algorithms that render brute force attacks not economically viable. The other problems (keyloggers (read: malware) and phishing are orthogonal and need to be solved otherwise, rather than us putting bandages on the security issues caused thereby.
I understand where this kid is coming from. He worded things terribly, I will give him the benefit of the doubt. Instead of attacking him, people should be trying to figure out what to do about this problem. The homeless problem has really gotten out of hand in SF - and violent crime too. I know several people that have been attacked and robbed near market street.

I left SF in 2014 after living there since 1999. It's a very different city these days, the "cost of living" to "quality of life" ratio is perhaps the worst of any city in America.
Does Amazon’s Data Speak for Itself?
>the city government should be providing affordable housing and shelters for the homeless.

This helps the short term homeless. Long term homeless often have problems that can't be met just by giving them housing.
One thing to consider is pre-made processed food has tons of sodium in them to bring out taste due to the absorption of salt.

When I cook for myself, I use a fraction of the salt that a pre-made equivalent normally ships with.

I recall reading a blurb about how when processed foods don't do well in taste-testing research panels, they are instructed to dump in the sodium, with the result of positive results to follow up panels.
I deleted a couple of apps because of this fright. No follow up message on email, nor in the dashboard. I had to stop and delete these things because it was costing per minute.

It was only from searching online that herou tweeted "sorry about that". I'm hugely disappointed.
I think that choosing what to work on next is the least relevant thing.
The most relevant is choosing any of them and sticking to them until you have a fully functional thing, that's the real hard part.

I had tons of ideas about a year ago, I've stick to one and still haven't finished but I haven't given up yet :
Why do people hate the word Intranet?
In over a decade of domestic and international travel across Australia and Asia Pacific I frequently have the pleasure of meeting with senior IT and business leaders. One common question I ask CMOs, CIOs, HR Managers and Corporate Communications managers, is what do you think of your current Intranet?......
Justin Keller's own words about this seem to imply that he thinks Democracy is a state of decay in politics: http://justink.svbtle.com/open-letter-to-mayor-ed-lee-and-gr...

This guy seems thoroughly unsavoury.
Sure, valuations are "tricky", but you could still impose regulations on the amount of invested capital (e.g. only regulate after >U$200M is invested).

Also, stating that `U$1B companies are extreme expert investors` is certainly an overstatement. What often happens is not even reliant on expertise or due diligence, but networks and insider "games".
You just have a different definition of certification than I do; we're not actually disagreeing on anything substantial.
> "STM isn't magic."

What difference does that make. STM will still enable the removal of the GIL. If an applications is coded that doesn't work with PyPy, that's a separate matter.
Nice crowd funded android phone – finally
22W/m^2 is either really out of date or your thinking far north.

If you really want more farmland and have a lot of energy there are simply much better options, desalination and irrigation of west Texas for example.

PS: You can bump plant efficiency from 10 to 20% from using a narrow frequency of light, but that's a fairly low cap. And 10%(plant) > {20%(panel) * 20%(plant) =} 4%, which is why I said you need to have 50% panels to 'break even'.
Eh, reddit is responsible for some weird things. Popularizing[1] a rare word would hardly be the weirdest.

1: http://www.reddit.com/r/frisson
likely, I tend to use the same name all over the internet :) You're welcome.
I am a bit worried about accepting software from vendors written in Go given those circumstances. For example, the recent OpenSSL patches would be an example. Are the Go programs fine if I update OpenSSL or did they include OpenSSL's libraries statically? If someone writes a Go replacement for OpenSSL does that change the scenario.

Given a lot of software makes it to my door written by government contractors for grant management / compliance, I don't have the source code.
Exploding Software Engineering Myths (2009)
Heroku has said

"Invoices went out today with incorrect numbers.  We're terribly sorry about that!  We're working on a fix: "

on Twitter only. So if you only saw your email, you are in still in the dark
Not quite that, but there's a KSP mod that brings the Proland atmosphere and water shaders to KSP.
The problem goes back to 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' and the 'Deinstitutionalisation' movement in the 70s.

Basically they shut down psychiatric facilities instead of fixing them. Now no one has a good solution for people who need care but don't qualify current programs.
And some bold people lose or never get the opportunities. I don't claim that character isn't an important factor, but what we normally would call pure luck is also an important one. That someone is stuck doesn't mean that they don't dare or don't see the opportunities. They might just be unlucky.
"Content verticals" are their magazine-type news-ish sites, with in-house and/or syndicated content. Tumblr is user generated content, and is probably the only part of Yahoo that isn't in active decline; they're unlikely to axe it, though they still need to figure out how to make money on it.
On a slight tangent, does anyone know what the best minimal grid is? I'm looking some something I can can use when prototyping.
When the gov't attempted to prohibit drug use, it created the opportunity for a black market in prohibited drugs to thrive. If you can accept the following:

* Some people are going to take drugs without regard to legality.
* Some people are going to fill the market's need for drugs through smuggling or manufacturing.
* The government is utterly incapable (by design, actually) of completely preventing the above.
* Without criminalization of drugs manufacturing and sales, there would be very little or no reason for violence in the drugs trade.

Then it's fair to say that criminalizing drugs use is the cause of the violence, or at least that decriminalizing drugs use will result in a reduction in violence.

>violent street gangs long predate any restrictions on drugs or alcohol

Violent street gangs opportunistically traffic in contraband because prohibition creates a dearth of supply, driving prices high enough to support an illegal black market.
About Those Gravitational Waves
Your attorney friend is talking about trustafarians in the park on the other side of the city, and gravitate to Upper Haight, not the homeless populations that center around downtown in close proximity to the TLoin. Johnny5SF isn't complaining about the former, because they're not really situated to be a daily part of any rich tech bro's commute.
This is a little simplistic. I won't argue that these regulations have morphed into things that are overall negative for the consumer, but the reason they where introduced in the first place is because you had instances of people actually being killed by unregulated nefarious actors. That is certainly negative for the consumer.

When people are asking politicians why Joe Doe was able to operate his "taxi" company that wouldn't stop his car outside of the ghetto without a $50 "oops, I got lost fee", it seems obvious why regulation is put in place.

That isn't to say that said regulation remains entirely useful, just that your argument isn't really bore out by the history.

The reason why zenefits is having issues is that the laws they broke are still entirely relevant to everyone involved.
Hython: a Python 3 interpreter written in Haskell
The homeless problem in SF has very little to do with the high cost of housing. SF's policies on homeless has attracted homeless people from far and wide. Other cities were caught busing their homeless people and dropping them off in SF.
"Last time I did it (this was before 2001 and the police state hysteria we're in now) all that you had to do was get a little sticker for the bags handle at the check in counter (they asked us to show that the gun was unloaded.)"

This is still the case, post-2001. You bring the firearms in a locked, hard case and you show the gate agent that they are unloaded, then you lock the case in front of them and they put some stickers on it.

The only sketchy part is, you have to take a firearm out in the ticket line to show it to the gate agent, who has a hazy-at-best understanding of whether that particular firearm is loaded or not.
I read his article. He is right, San Francisco has severe, unbelievable problems with homelessness and drugs which are so painfully obvious to anyone who has ever visited I felt like I was reading something out of the twilight zone.

I hate the climate of hostility towards anyone who remotely points this problem out. The reaction and tone of this article is exactly why I hate looking at Twitter now. It has become a platform for lecturing and shaming other people for stepping out of a very oppressive and narrow range of opinion or expression.

I now find articles like this and these daily recurrent societal witch hunts to be infinitely more offensive than anything this guy wrote. I don't want to live in a self imposed culture of toxic silence so no, Hacker News, I will not join in with your witch hunt and participate in group shaming of some random guy who wrote a bad letter.
What do we do when some of the poor simply do not want to be sheltered?
Completely agreed. Doesn't mean some people won't forget though.
Ronald Reagan started this catastrophic failure when he was governor of California in 1967.

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...