skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for writing this. I work right by there, walk to work from my home, and know how you feel. As jaded as it can become on a daily basis, empathy is always a good thing in my opinion.
Haight is mostly scammers and trustafarians. Well... 'trustafarian' is the wrong word. The gutter punk type kids don't really have trust funds.

When I lived there from 2006-2009, there was a very short african american guy who would pretend to be mentally retarded and everyone would give him money. However, he would totally be chillin' non-retardedly after hours at Escape from New York pizza and Milk Bar.

Most of the homeless people in the Tenderloin are legitimately down and out.
I think the parent's point stands: the dollar (or any currency for that matter) is artificial. The government merely "declares" it has value, hence making it "make-believe". In the hypothetical scenario where it ends up suffering from hyperinflation, it would lose all its make-believe value, just the way the Zimbabwean dollar died.
It helps tremendously to have whole-hearted support from someone who believes in you:

> It got so discouraging that Lee reportedly contemplated learning computer science so he could find a job during this time, but was scolded by his wife when she found out, telling him to keep his focus.

Jane (his wife) was supporting the family during those fruitless script-writing years. She believed in him perhaps even more than he believed in himself.
I don't know if you did the "right" thing, whatever the hell that means, but I think you did the humane thing.
my experience with coinbase has been better than any other service so far.
It's not even rsync yet alone dropbox!
Sometimes yes, sometimes no. When I was going to an Asperger support group a minority of the attendants were creepy; I certainly never felt in any danger from any of them. I imagine the overlap between finding someone creepy and finding them threatening is a lot larger for women.

Creepy is about the danger of a hit in social status from being associated with someone with low status, whether that low status be because of poor social sklills, being ugly or anything else. It's about the possibility of contamination.
if you keep your nosed thumbed up like that, it might stick.

If a publisher had funded the project, the publisher would get a cut of the proceeds. instead, the public is funding the project, and they're using it to re-market the game, then sell the character at 100% profit.

Let me ask you a question: Have you ever developed a fighting game before? A fighting game balanced for a dozen or mode unique fighting styles, sies, and speed? No? Then you have no idea how much effort it takes to design, code, test, and tweak a character design to make it fair. So you shouldn't babble about it to other people to defend a game, that in your mind, could do no wrong.
Then you get the joy of being able to play with it later.

$array = array(1,2,3,4,5);
foreach ($array as &$value) {
echo $value; // some non-mutating action
}
$value = 'woops';
print_r($array); // ([0] => 1 [1] => 2 [2] => 3 [3] => 4 [4] => woops)
There actually is a decided uptick in vpn activity if you expand the date selection correctly. It is a decided uptick; the highest weekly search volume in the past 2 years.

https://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=VPN&geo=US&d...
Nobody knows what circumstances lead these people to the kind of lives they have now, but if unlike most of us, they were just unfortunate, then you definitely did the right thing.

I live in NYC, which doesn't lack homeless people either, and like you, I find myself saying no too many times. So sometimes, I just act on instinct and give away that Valducci's Original pizza slice or Boston Kreme Donut I have been craving all day, and it actually feels better than satisfying my hunger.
It is good work if you can get it. So is getting $10M a year to play basketball. If you have the rare talents that our 21st century economy demands from the top performers, a nursery in your office is the least of the perks you get.

If you have the less rare but still valuable talents of a yahoo programmer, you get no jet or crèche but you get six figures and free soda.

If you live in Detroit and know how to make fasteners, you get less than that in most cases today.

If you live in Somalia, well...

Fair it may not be, but I'm not crying for the poor Yahoo lead developer who has to go to the office now. It's a cold, cold world.
Does anyone know if the API can/will provide the raw EMG measurements? (I work in a lab that does this kind of recording with wired electrodes. A robust wireless interface that spits out the full bandwidth signal would be quite a useful research tool).

Anyway, even if it doesn't, I think this will still be awesome.
We get used to being asked for money and saying no, and there's always a good chance you're being conned, but at least you know you didn't let someone down. Giving out food instead of money is a much clearer-cut situation, though I've witnessed a dirty, homeless boy throw just-purchased food away - he wanted the money :/
I hackintosh'd my x220 to the latest Mountain Lion. My only real problem was getting sleep functionality to work, but I didn't really see others with my problem and didn't post asking for help. I had to buy an alternative wireless card (Dell 1515) for $10 off ebay, as the included chip doesn't have OSX drivers. It probably would have been fine for at least a couple months if I had spent more time fixing the sleep issue. Except for that, it worked great, and it wasn't difficult to add drivers or processor power management stuff.

I switched to dual-booting Ubuntu and Windows 7, but will either switch back or buy an Air in the future.
I see a lot of people in this thread who don't seem to have heard that many, if not most, of these people are scammers.

I also see a lot of people who don't seem to understand that you get more of what you subsidize, whether you want it or not.

Just putting that out here.
Congratulations, this is great news for the BTC community. We appreciate your hard work.
I think the idea is more to bring back privacy to the "server" not so much to the "client" side.

Think of the FreedomBox as your personal cloud. Your box will be accessible from the Internet (via dynamic dns) and could handle your email and social shit, but all with the guarantee of not-being-the-product privacy.

I am really happy to see progress on this project. We (as a society) can finally start the //real// conversation about privacy in social media only once we have alternatives to fb and big G.

Until now, the "privacy in social media" debate has been phrased with this threat model in mind:

other user --> you.

F-that! The real threat model is:

fb sysadmin --> you.

So yeah, this is what the FreedomBox is about...
That's way more common than we expect it to be.
I think all of us battle with those feelings. In this circumstance, what you did was the right thing.

On one occasion, I was driving through on Market St towards Castro when I saw a disheveled younger man in his twenties with a sign "Don't want money. Just food." As I pulled up to a stoplight, I turned to my girlfriend and asked, "do we have anything?" And we did - two bagels and a croissant. We didn't mind going hungry because once we gave him the food, he did a giddy little dance... as if there were nothing else in the world that could've made him happier.

That said, on a totally different circumstance, while eating outside at Union Sq I was approached by a bum who "just wanted food." After I got up from the table and asked him to lead the way to the "pizza place" he wanted to grab something from, he realized his bluff had been called and he walked away (he was hoping that I would be lazy and just give him some money).

I guess this boils down to a bigger philosophical question, which is "am I doing the right thing, or am I getting taken advantage of?" My solution is to go the extra mile and assume the best of people. Just put the right checks in place so that you can also avoid getting taken advantage of.
Sure, you should not invest.

I say that because investing has different skill levels and different risk/reward profiles. The lowest level is perhaps savings accounts and CDs and at the most extreme end are derivative financial instruments. Long before you get to currency speculation you go through equity value investing, bond investing, and equity option investing. After going through those things you get to commodities, precious metals (a form of commodity) and then currencies.

So to ask the question "should I invest in this right now?" doesn't make a lot of sense to an investor who is always looking at what they have invested, the risks of those investments, and the forces that move things. If you are wondering what the outlook is for price expansion of bitcoin relative to the Yen or Yuan, or what geo-political events are most likely to move the value of bitcoin and in which way, then you are looking at the investment in context and really the only answer is one with your other context which isn't part of your question. If you portfolio was a million dollars and you wanted to put $10K into bitcoin as a 'kicker' (something that would potentially kick up a big return but if you lost it in its entirety it would only represent 1% of the return. That's an interesting question. It has far more downside than upside at this point.
But it's also a valid point; it's important to know if it scales well for larger datasets. I think the premise is good, we need better tools for creating multithreaded, concurrent applications. Looking forward to your future posts.
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I guess define "worse off". But I would say in both cases they ended up about the same...but I will grant they learned lots of intangibles from the experiences.
When I first read this, I was thinking, "Wow, cool idea!". Now I feel kind of sad – the need for this service really highlights the inefficiency and waste of paper mail.
In a span of a few blocks a person could eat for free 5 or 6 times a day.

Care to expand?
I'm relatively new to San Francisco and to a newcomer, the contrast between neighborhoods is shocking. I came from New York so I was used to micro-neighborhoods but SF takes it to a different level.

It seems that SF has decided to herd all of the criminal activity and destitute people into certain neighborhoods and just contain it versus solution based approaches. I have no idea if this is the actual strategy but it sure seems like it.
Screenwriter Terry Rossio (Aladdin, Shrek, Pirates Of The Caribbean series) has a long running website on screenwriting. His site reminds me a lot of PG, actually, since he has a lot of essays thinking about the concepts behind the movie business.

He's talked there before about the time he spent preparing to become a screenwriter. His initial plan was to take 10 years to learn the craft.

http://www.wordplayer.com/forums/forulttrs/lt18.That.Big.Bre...

"Since Ted and I were going to be working and studying screenwriting for ten years, that took some of the pressure off. It doesn't make sense to kick yourself after failing at something for four years, when the path you're on is designed to take ten. This allowed a period of time to undertake an analysis and exploration of the business, the techniques, the craft, the history, etc. Step by step, from style to format to character to concept to theme, etc. In other words, we gave ourselves room to practice."

He's also got a fantastic column on why you should give up at screenwriting.

I think a lot of people here can apply it to startups.

http://www.wordplayer.com/columns/wp34.Throw.in.the.Towel.ht...

"That's what I'm really trying to do here (and you're smart enough to see it). And I'm not quitting. Oh, no, I'm not even warmed up. This is important, and I'm gonna give it my best shot.

Because what's at stake here is pretty damn big... oh, just, let's say, your life. A wasted life, potentially, or at least wasting the best years of your life. Days, months, years of effort endlessly trying to do something that you'll never be able to do well. And how many sunsets will you miss before you finally give up? How many walks in the moonlight are forever gone? How much laughter with friends are you willing to sacrifice? How many times will the kids not get the attention they deserve because 'Daddy's trying to write something' that nobody wants to read?

Oh. Gee. Did that one get to you a little?
Feel a little twinge in the pit of your stomach?

Good."
Is it because the homeless shelters provide food? Where do you get food from?
Most mail is junk. What happens to that?

Are you going to scan a single catalog and throw the rest away? That won't work because some have specific codes required, so you'll have to know which those are or perhaps scan every catalog cover. Some catalogs are going to be hell. Just to name a few: Sweetwater has a fairly long one; Blick's art supply catalog is bigger; Both are free and have wide distribution.

Where do you draw the line between package, parcel, and letter? What do you do when it is filled with confetti? What if it contains cash. Seriously.

Musical Hallmark cards anyone? Are you going to record them? No? Ok, then.

This is a neat idea and works for some things, but is also very seriously impractical and insecure for the customer, and a terrible mess on the business side.

Add to that that people (especially women I'm told, but I know of no studies to prove that) enjoy real magazines. I personally enjoy getting things in the mail. It is like a gift. I don't enjoy getting email.
I at one time carried around some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which i offered to street people when asked for a handout. I got about a 50% acceptance rate and on the sandwiches. so, i think it's not all for drugs. If I missed a couple of paychecks, it could be me on the street end
At the Safeway where I live, there are nuns that stand outside with a grocery list of food they ask people to donate for them. I didn't know if they were really nuns so I asked the cashier, and they confirmed it, so it made it a lot easier for me to go ahead and donate food. They make food for the homeless and the donation goes straight into feeding these poor people so it's a lot better than giving food or money directly to the person, who will likely use it for drugs, etc.
OPINIÓN: Los motivos por los que renuncio a Facebook
I.B.M. Exploring New Feats for Watson
As someone who hasn't spent much time in SF but plans to move there very soon and doesn't want to live off of ramen, I genuinely want to know: where does one get those free meals?

Edit: namank and iamwill beat me to it.
Just curious but by free are you referring to food shelters?
Sugar is toxic
Unless you can't stand OS X. Also the "Better Trackpad" is arguable. And I'll take the Pixel's screen.

MagSafe is a big draw though, arguably as important as almost anything else. Comparing the screen on my MBA to the screen in the new Dell Developer laptop with IPS is a bummer though.

In all honesty, I've never even seen a USB3.0 device in the wild either. Not an argument against the option, of course.
I think he means oldschool(!) tablet PCs, not the Surface.
Is SF atypical in the number of mentally unstable homeless people? I moved to the US a year ago and am still blown away by the shear number of drugged up or crazy people living in the middle of the city. I've seen plenty of homeless people on my travels around the world but usually they are poor, not mentally unstable (to my knowledge).
Sounds like their job descriptions requires they not be "good guys"

Googles heuristic would work be much more effective if people didn't screw with it.
What's remarkable about this is how the poster finds these casual encounters with homelessness "unremarkable". No other western city that I have visited has the massive, in-your-face homelessness as SF.

I don't know enough about the causes of this phenomenon in SF to suggest what can be done about it; I'm sure they are complex, multi-factorial and politically fraught, but the level of homelessness in SF and (almost) everyone's blase acceptance of it shocks me every time I visit.
I just gave a slice of chocolate cake to a homeless man on University Ave. in Palo Alto today.

A man who has nothing except for a slice of fancy cake. Just a couple blocks from Palantir, where Facebook was a few years ago.
I tried to take this attitude a while ago, but after being abused and accused of mistrust too many times (the homeless aren't actually starving in Australia) I returned to ignoring such people.

The worst was when a couple implored me to give them some money for accommodation, as they had been evicted. I said "Sure, let's go to a hotel right now and I'll check you in." They called me a bunch of expletives and stormed off.

!
I don't know what it is, but posts like this make me feel like HN is waking up and realizing the world isn't just 'social networks for dogs', and that there are real social problems out there needing to be fixed. There is a trend happening.

This post is powerful because it's recognition. The act was powerful because it was recognition, which then led to real action.

If judging by recent posts on HN, hopefully posts like this lead to more action. I want to think that this will lead to more smart thinkers here spending time to use technology do some sort of action. Even if just like the author, people think it's just one drop in the bucket unsure of any real impact, at some point we might actually begin to fill this bucket. Eventually sandwiches will turn into code. We need more of this.
I don't give anyone money, but if a some poor soul asked for food I'd buy / give in a heartbeat.

But never cash.
Right but any gmail user can login too (and use your chroot).
Apple CEO Tim Cook on Android growth: 'Success is not making the most'
> Because it's standard

So we change the standard. And?
Currency = Truat + Wide Acceptance. The wide acceptance angle for bitcoin is going to take some time, so till then this is all just speculation.
Coming up next: Browser plugins to block the Comcast hijack.
SD cards top off at ~45mb/s (the expensive ones), just a little over USB2 speeds, and if that's USB3 it's faster than any SD card you'll ever get.
I am absolutely certain that you are correct. I have never programmed in PHP so I was confused trying to understand exactly what was meant by references in the stack overflow question. I was struck by how every discussion of the topic was completely imprecise.

There was no clear explanation of references and their relationship with variables and how they differ from what are usually called 'pointers' that clearly distinguished PHP's view of variables from every other object oriented programming language that primarily used reference semantics for objects.

It was only in the context of a discussion of how zvals work and the is_ref and the refcount fields that I could understand exactly what semantics were being used by PHP.
OP here. Should have posted sooner before it looks like my post got flagged?

I think the shock[1] is being caused by the Copyright Alert System put into place on Monday by Comcast. Here's why:

Comcast is the largest ISP in the US, so a change of their piracy policy (the exogenous shock in my story/model) is likely provide a large enough segment of Internet users (definitely bigger than the set of Yahoo employees or SimCity fans) with the appropriate incentives to search for information about VPNs. The logic here is simple.

[1]There is clear weekly periodicity in the 90 day chart. If you were to detrend the data and remove the autocorrelation, the spike would look even sharper.

Based on the data and the normalizations on the data that Google does, 90 day data is much better than 12 month data because the latter is not daily data anymore -- it is data aggregated weekly. Since it is obviously clear that the data has weekly periodicity, aggregating the data at the weekly-level ignores the fact that how many searches there are for "VPN" on a given day depends on what day of the week it is.

Calling this wild speculation, incorrect, random noise, or comparing it to weekly or monthly data is just not very good statistics in my mind.

EDIT: Also, for clarification Google Trends data is search volume data normalized on an index from 0 to 100 where 100 is the relative maximum over the series. Tuesday's index value was 100, with Monday's being the second highest over the 90 day period. So technically, yes, search volumes for VPN are currently spiking this week. I'm really curious to see what happens when Wednesday's data is released.
I guess we must have missed all the places in the documentation where this is mentioned. As you see in the code, this limitation is no longer in place.
What a brilliant idea, all the way from 1999! Back then it was called PaperlesPOBox. EarthClassMail came several years later (2008) and offers additional conveniences.

The iPad makes everything better! (sarcasm)

On a more serious note: I think the USPS should offer this service. Why trust a private company with it?

On a practical note: good luck trying to prove your residency for public schools if your snail mail is forwarded to an address in another state.
I liked the sentence in original post, "Maybe it was because we had something in common: we both wanted a sandwich. Except that I was actually going to get one. I can have as many sandwiches from Subway as I want." Sometimes what I've got in common with a homeless panhandler is that we both want a beer.

I use some portion of MY money for drugs (including beer), I don't see why it should bother me if a homeless person does too. Whether or not they're going to use it on beer, I know they're a lot less comfortable than me either way, and I'm not hardly going to miss the 50 cents or $1 I contribute.
Exactly, waiting for a "perfect" solution is a good way to ensure that nothing ever improves. (This is true about nearly everything btw).
Ckon: automagical compiler/linker for the ROOT data analysis framework
The paranoiac in me wants to suggest that they would be recording everything and sending it home. But there are probably legal issues with that, so instead I will suggest that you are going to be interacting with a device on your face that sends back information about every query you make with it.

If you are uneasy about cell phones recording your position at all times, this is probably worse.
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"In my opinion, HTML5 games (and apps) have a few key advantages that people on here would like to conveniently leave out (I COULD PLAY THIS ON PENTIUM 100MHZ etc...)."

you sure about that?

also, none (with the exception of maybe the "walled garden" argument) of those benefits are exclusive to html 5 or the web in general.
I live in the Mission and work in Soma. I ride my bike under a stretch of 101 where there are usually several people sleeping.

I am not sure if this is "accepted" or not but everyone seems to just ignore it completely.
I think http://currywithoutworry.org is an excellent solution to the problem. I think it makes a huge difference in the community. People in need are able to interact, and help each other without worrying about dinner once a week.
This G+ one fills the entire screen, and you have to find and click the "no thank you get out of my face please" button to get to the social feed; if you want to check that multiple times a day (like is typical Facebook usage), it gets to be a major source of friction, which Google usually hacks out with an axe anywhere they possibly can ...