skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Richest city in the richest state in the richest country in the world and we can't even provide a place for people to live.

To think this through: very few homeless people were born in San Francisco. Everyone has freedom of movement in this country. If San Francisco commits to house everyone within its municipal boundaries, we'll need to be prepared to house all the homeless from the rest of the state and the country as well.

In other words, the problem has to be solved at a national level.
> I doubt that people who lack any form of sensory input with no way to communicate would disagree even if they could -- while they are in that state.

If you're in a sensory deprivation tank, but you can still think, are you no longer conscious? If you were in a perfect one, or you had something that somehow cut off the connection between the brain and the body, but you can still think, are you no longer conscious? The ability to interact with the world certainly makes life nicer, but consciousness does not depend on that.
In other words, both unions and capital owners will abuse their power if they have too much of it...
C'mon, you can't make money off homeless. VC-backed startups are about 100x ROI and not guaranteed cash burn...
"because...it is totally the same thing across regions and history." The problem is that the appeal to emotions harms rational debate. If we cannot recognize regions and times in history are different, we cannot have a rational discussion without one side being "sickened". Contextual, region-based differences are a real thing.
As someone who used CoreOS in a commercial setting, I think you are spot on. We wanted to pay them but we were never big enough to afford their commercial offerings. They wanted a lot of cash for their subscriptions and I think most would-be customers were looking for something less expensive--basically open source with support.

Redhat offers an existing and proven enterprise customer base that will cut the big checks. Redhat customers are the customers that CoreOS always wanted but likely struggled to acquire.
But C doesn't have virtual functions or inheritance either.
Which sounds like a lack of proper mental health services in the area, including institutions. Those homeless because of mental illness probably can't function well enough to provide for themselves. Society should be taking care of them. And it's much more likely for those people to become productive if they're receiving proper care.
C++ is a language with a lot of features, and not all of them should be used in every code base. It's quite possible to write simple, portable, and relatively clean C++ code if you use only those features you need.

It's not the prettiest language by any stretch, but it's quite capable and fast and has excellent support across just about every platform.
I think it boils down to tradeoffs.
For example- The best option (custom solution) may cost you 100k and drives max productivity.
But if Asana (a more one size fits all product) costs you 20k and drives about 70% of max productivity - Asana might be the better option if the additional 30% productivity is not worth 80k.
> It's almost like the software is built for how the company itself works or from an idealistic design standpoint than for the messiness of complicated work.

Isn't this a take on Conway's law?

As for your Jira point, so many people abused it to build bad process that it's flexibility is a negative point these days.
their spending is inefficient largely because of anti-socialist attitudes. it's not politically viable to just give the homeless $30k a year tax free but it's almost certainly the cheapest and most effective way to solve the problem
Facebook uses D internally.
How long does it take to get the answer? Even if a big, expensive short read sequencing machine is in the building, it still takes a day or two to reach the necessary data.

With sepsis, every hour counts.
Why should anybody support "innovation" in a system that subjects you to brutal poverty when you lose your job?

"I might lose my job and watch my children starve, but at least my bosses will be making more money and I might get marginally cheaper consumer goods in a few years time?"
They might not even have solid requirements. Or they change from week-to-week. And/or the people writing them don't have enough knowledge to essentially be the PMs for the project.
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That's why I said "potentially off-topic" - I'd like to hold you to an answer on this, if you'd be so gracious!
Meanwhile, credit/debit card use has soared and cash reserves have declined. But that can't have anything to do with it, think of the children!
That's a wild underestimate. I'd guess at least 100k people can afford properties like that, unless you mean something like afford it in cash. Even then, it's still an underestimate.
So do you have evidence that most SF homeless are immigrants?

Many people have psychological problems, and/or dependence on various psychoactive drugs. And perhaps they do correlate with homelessness. But correlation does not prove causation. Maybe it's just that homelessness makes it all worse.
Gotta say as an iPhone user throughout (I own a nexus5 v1 ), I'm pretty impressed with HTCs design. However it's not clear that google will integrate them well.

I see this as more of a sign that Google doesn't care about scaring the hardware manufacturers anymore.
I agree and if you have a partner/second income, it would seem even more achievable to me
VicRoads to fill identity theft pothole, eventually
Some people value headphone jacks, micro-SD expansion, dual-SIM support or other features that dont exist in the latest Pixels. These are all features that modern iPhones don't have either, so its a little hypocritical to call out Google if that is whats meant by the "sucks" part.
Additionally there is lots of software written 5-10 years ago making tons of money today where the original authors get none of it.
BrowserStack raises $50M in Series A
The risk with Asana though is vendor lock in. If your business comes to depend on Asana too much you’re at the mercy of whatever they do, including “shutting down and going out of business”.
Unions in the UK and US are antagonistic to the point that they will gladly destroy a company or even an entire industry rather than give an inch (union bosses don’t care, they are very well looked after, strangely). But unions in France and Germany are far cleverer, they would never kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. That’s why Germany is strong in manufacturing AND has superb working conditions... and the UK has a service economy and zero-hours contracts
Library operating systems
This is a myth. LAHSA does an annual homelessness census in Los Angeles. The overwhelming majority of the homeless are native Angelenos; 73% of them have been in LA for over 20 years.
"According to Didenko and Pankratz (2007), two-thirds of homeless people report that drugs and/or alcohol were a major reason for their becoming homeless."
Longest-standing videogame record declared impossible, thrown out after 35 years
I studied computer science, too. DFA graphs are not the same as railroad diagrams.
This is not same for all cases. For example scientific and high performance computing, image processing, or other tasks which need short run times or applications where a single digit optimization results in hours of run time difference is always worth it.

Also, since C++ is native, very memory efficient data structures can be written. This property can be leveraged to write very small, very efficient and very resilient loops to be written which can run for months at a time, and since you have the absolute control over memory management, you can prevent unwanted bloating or leaks pretty easily.

Last, but not the least; CPUs weren't that powerful 10-15 years ago. My desktop computer was as fast as the first Raspberry Pi. Python, JS, even Java were very unpleasant experiences back then.
You act as if this is one sided.
States need to fund them for sure.
But you can't have a liability that grows faster than it can be funded.
When states push on larger contributions, unions need to not essentially blackmail states into bankruptcy. We'll stop working now if you don't kick the can down the road.

I have never seen a state that funded them properly
but i have never seen a union that acted like they understood (i'm sure they understand, they just look out for their members) that if you are paying out pensions at a unsustainably growing rate, everyone loses.
The rest of the paragraph in the article explains exactly why one should listen to outsiders.
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In the end a UBI because it was realized we really don’t need all these laborers to get enough work done.

But if you don’t work you get to die!

Strange loop.
I think It's probably Oath saying we're done with Yahoo.

Sad, but, yeah, anything Yahoo is toast.
Why not Redmine? It's open source and super flexible!

Why can't people just make nicer themes for it lmao
Ha, I've tried to use this product with 3 different teams, never caught on - ended up mostly syncing up via Slack+Email+Google Docs.

Anyone here been able to get a team to use Asana?
Senior should make 175-200k base plus 100-200k in RSUs per year rolling - that is if you get a good initial grant and keep getting good reviews by year 4 you have staggered vesting that nets that amount. At 300-400k per year you should be able to live a good lifestyle while saving for a house.

Really senior engineers can certainly make more; 500k for a top 10% performer.

For reference I just got my tax statement for last year and I’m over 300k.
This is an awful strawman argument.

The excuse for invasive tech is in no way pointing to similar invasive tech.

The answer is to make both less invasive. The whataboutism is less than productive.
Real estate, rental apartments. Depending on where you live and work, there probably are incentives that will assist your capital growth if you plan on 5-10 year horizon.
Great article. Seems a logic continuation of his 1997 book "Le ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language" (a book primarily about the challenges involved in translation), which I enjoyed when it came out.
Don’t know who voted you down but here’s a +1 to bump you back up a bit.
Yes but your nimby neighbors won’t allow it. Also high end homes and condos have higher profit margins, this is because finishing costs are cheap relative to sale value.
"I actually think it’s the worst it’s ever been," said Handlery, who’s been in the San Francisco hotel business for 38 years.

I don't know. I remember 20 years ago, around the first internet bubble, seeing literally hundreds of homeless people along Market St. It was like an army of homeless people.

There are far fewer these days, at least in the fancy shopping districts and along Market. There are more tents around other parts of the city, though. Maybe it's more of a case of gentrification pushing the homeless to other parts of the city so they're "out of sight, out of mind".

It reminds me of a plan I once heard about, of rounding up all the homeless and shipping them off to Treasure Island. That plan was never put in to practice, but I was shocked it was ever seriously considered. Still, in many ways what's been achieved is something similar, with the effective eviction of many homeless from the shopping areas and in to tents outside of it.

The whole subtext of this article is kind of troubling. It's like the only reason that homelessness is a problem is that the tourists are seeing it, and that it's hurting the tourist industry's bottom line.

I'm glad people are seeing it. If they weren't much less would be done to help.
Do you have an example? I love reading original sources. I'd never seen a regex as a railroad diagram before that, though I admit it's entirely possibly I'd seen it somewhere and forgotten.

I don't know of any software that translates regular expressions, either, though I'm sure I can't be the first.
That’s a cute notion to hang onto

Employment is hardly voluntary when without you end up homeless

Welcome to the world. Dig a ditch for someone else or die

How voluntary
Note that the “inheritance” can come from the father, and also happens with in vitro fertilization.
Shouldn’t they just call the attribute “objectIdentity” then? The fact that it’s used to access a hash table in some use cases doesn’t make it a “hash code”. You’d just as well call it an “equality checking code”, or name it after any other use case you could think of for a unique identifier.

Ruby calls its equivalent construct “object_id” and that makes so much more sense.
> Apple had to do it to get where they are.

Apple aquired a lot of companies to get their "innovative" features. Siri was aquired (I know, its not great, but it was novel when it came out), PA-Semi was aquired (boosted their in house SoC development), and the original Kinect team for the iPhone X face recognition sensor suite come to mind.

A much bigger list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
Don't underestimate the number of people out there who are far wealthier than us 9-5 coders—people come from all over the world to buy property on the west coast.
For sure, the only reason I’ve been on Apple devices these past few years is because Ubuntu is such an abomination. Windows is plainly unthinkable. And if you have my laptop, the mobile devices fall like dominos. I don’t love iPhones, but even at premium prices it’s worth it to integrate with OS X.

Android really makes me sick though. Touted as free and open, but you still have to root your phone with shady exploits, payloaded over some sketchy USB shell. And then when you do, the custom roms are trash. And I wouldn’t even be rooting these devices if I could just efface some of the stock brand and bloatware, but no, every mobile provider wants me to sign into their analytics package, and billboard their logos all over the place. It’s a wasteland in all directions.
Honestly, I have only heard the term fly-over states when someone is mocking how liberals hypothetically mock red states.
" That money was there, it was promised early on and it was funded by bonds."

This is not factually accurate, in the sense that nothing could have stopped this in a bunch of states. The rate of pension payout growth in a bunch of states is far above what they could ever pay back, no matter what the investment and how well funded. It was only a matter of time.

(and the union response in most cases was .... not great)
It's certainly not the case everywhere, but definitely the case in some places.
You are basically arguing that the problem with a ponzi scheme is that they did invest enough up front and leave it alone.
Reading this shows me just how little I know about advanced mathematics.
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I remember when he was just a guy teaching me machine learning.
SF's homeless problem is a direct result of so many negative federal policies and so many positive SF policies that it's so funny that people come out of this with a negative opinion on SF.

SF spends so much fucking money on the homeless, including 112 million on supportive housing for the formerly homeless and 27 million spent on eviction prevention.

The problem is that the issue of homelessness is a FEDERAL issue and that no one city, even SF has the resources to combat it.

As some have said SF and many other west coast cities are extremely attractive to the homeless because they have relatively lenient laws regarding them, ample social services (relative to any other city) and moderate temperatures.

SF is also a mecca for sending your queer/trans child that your religious beliefs can't bear to have around you.

There are many obvious solutions to mitigate homelessness. Provided government housing, decent physical and mental healthcare, job training.

San Francisco does all of those things. However, the fact is supply and demand is totally out of whack because SF is a sink for homelessness.

This needs to be addressed federally and until then all west coast cities will continue to be filled with homeless and have their social services over run.
YES. 100x yes to this. I started a new job some time ago where Java / Scala were mainly used (prior C++ background).

I can logically step through flow control and figure most things out. Except the amount of "magic" for the sake of reducing boiler plate made debugging some issues really tricky.

Anytime I'm about to reduce boiler plate somehow, I try to ask myself whether it's going to introduce some type of tribal knowledge. That is, will someone without any knowledge of e.g. this codegen be able to step through and understand what's going on.

I feel that people reduce boiler plate without constraints far too often
Well, most of his points regarding complexity are not C++ specific.

The thing with equals applies to most languages that allow to redefine operators.

Even Java has gotten quite complex, I bet he would have quite an hard time succeeding at one of those quiz questions certifications (SCJP and friends).

And simplicity can also turn into more complexity, manual memory management in C vs C++, "templates/generics" in Go, libraries to work around language limitations in JavaScript (npm, yeoman, gulp, grunt, webpacker all at the same time).
This is incredible. What a time to be alive!
You're aware that firms voluntarily sign contracts with unions, correct?

You are also misrepresenting the power imbalance a single worker who needs to eat has against a multibillion dollar company or industry.

Unions try to correct the power imbalance between labor and capital.

Edit: was beaten by a more elegant response 15min ago.
ET may be insecure. It was recently possible to segfault it with corrupted network inputs.

https://github.com/MisterTea/EternalTCP/issues/79
http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...

That's a common myth. 7/10 homeless people in SF were previously people with homes in SF.
"What I read was "It seems to mean nothing to Americans - but it should, because..."
"

Oh, it's worse.
It's the typical "you only don't share my opinion because you are ignorant, not because you could reasonably disagree with me"
I think many of the people that live in major coastal cities that have extremely negative opinions of the rest of the country often lived in those places prior to moving there.
I just spent the last three days around Market street in San Francisco (near City Hall), and the degree of disturbing clearly miserable homelessness was really shocking to me. I live in Seattle (with a big homeless problem as well), and I also lived in the Bay Area 20 years ago (for five years), and it definitely appears worse to me now. It seems worse nbow in the sense of just plain misery/drugs/violence... It's really sad.
Oh, I don't know. We've lived in a 1900 sq ft house for the past 15 years. We have 7 kids (currently ages 4 to 20) and it has worked out just fine so far. We haven't felt cramped yet.
I don't usually complain "what the heck are they doing with that kind of money." But, from a cursory look, Asana seems to be one of the most functionally simple Project Management software I have seen. I know it's trite to undermine the complexity of software, but in this case, I can't find many reasons why they need that kind of money. What are they doing that necessitates a big team (251-500 employees)? The software isn't handling massive amounts of data. Its complexity seems comparable to Trello, which raised only $10M (<7% of Asana's total funding) [1].

How are they burning this amount of cash? Am I missing something?

[1]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/trello
My problem with this is why doesn't Tether/Bitfinex just at regular intervals publish a list of the banks, their accounts, and the amount they have in each account, with an official statement from the banks in question. I can go down to my local bank and get such a statement verifying my account and it's balance easily enough. Why can't they?
The {} object uses only strings as keys. You need to use:

var d = new Map();
d.set(array1, 'xyz');
print(d.get(array2));

(Map is new in ES2015, but Node and all the browsers have it now).
I also tried and failed with Asana. I ended up going to Basecamp 3 and now I can't imagine my company not having it.
How many hours a week are you deciding to work?
Orange county is certainly very pragmatic about it. Down there or Irvine, if you're homeless and the cops see you, you get driven to city limits, identity recorded, and told not to come back.

The second time you get beat up, recorded again and driven to city limits. The third time and afterwards, you get beat up, all your stuff gets destroyed/confiscated, and you're driven to city limits.

There is no homeless problem in Orange County/Irvine despite it having nicer weather than San Francisco.
So, a $3MM home costs approximately $30K a month after interest, depreciation, taxes, and insurance, right? That's around $360,000 a year. Assuming you're going way overboard and spending half of your income on housing, that's $720K/yr of salary required to support that--or more, if you want to save a little money and have a life outside of work and writing mortgage checks.

How many households are pulling this kind of cash down? Is that a common salary at a big tech company? Maybe for CxOs but not for run of the mill Director-level middle management.
Why is homelessness a federal issue?
And France has...?
I have seen it quite a lot in software engineering in just my 5 years in the profession, happened to myself and many friends - hell, I was even in management last time it happened to me. Many times it came down to whether the people were a part of [insert manager's] inner circle/did whatever management wanted.

The stories are all too common, even at companies that supposedly treat their employees well. At will employment is a terrible thing.
http://sfist.com/2016/02/11/71_of_sf_homeless_once_had_homes...

70%+ of homeless people in SF were previously housed in SF. Yes they are attracted to SF but it's in the same way that you and I may be attracted to the city. They came for the weather, the jobs, the culture, and they got left behind.

You're right about drug abuse and mental illness, but neither of those should leave someone to a life on the streets. Treatment is the answer for people with mental health issues or addictions.
Google wants to use naked mole rats to conquer death
I know, it's a tough question. Ordinary citizens are unlikely to sue government individually. And i am aware EFF doesn't have infinite resources. I prefer them fighting at higher level than individual cases. Cases like encryption being unlawful etc are more important for democracy/freedom than my inconvenience at the border for example.
As long as a city parking space costs more than a person on assistance can pay, you're not going to have affordable housing. You can't call an uncovered slot of 200sq/ft with no services a home, but that goes for >$200/mo (a lot more than $6/day in most places) in a less nice part of downtown San Jose... I don't want to think what it runs in SF. The 80sqft tiny houses which violate building code are running $73k+ ignoring substantial land (320sqft+) and utilities costs (it's owned by the city).

You have to treat mental health and drug addiction, because other homeless people don't want to live with them. Probably, you'll have to move people out of the city center, if you don't want substantial new taxes. However, if you don't bother to enforce anything you'll still end up with several thousand people living in the creeks under tarps, because they'd rather do that than go outside the city center.
Those don't exist in the iPhone either, so I'm not sure what you're arguing for. There's a reason most flagships don't have those anymore.
"effortlessly" with modal windows everywhere, sparkly animations and spaghetti ticket management