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Homelessness is complicated, both the causes and the solutions. I am big on trying to light a single candle rather than curse the darkness. Here is my candle for homelessness:

http://sandiegohomelesssurvivalguide.blogspot.com/

I also speak out here and on Metafilter. My diagnosis is not a mental health issue, it is medical, but it is clear to me that it impacts my mental functioning. My answer for me is a) preserve as much agency for myself as possible and b) get my body well.

I have a cystic fibrosis. People accuse me of being mentally ill for thinking I can get well. I have been told that is not possible. It is possible. I have made ongoing forward progress for 13 years.

Unfortunately, most people do not believe me and the social fallout from that is pretty crazy-making.

Just because the answer is not easy or quick does not mean there is none. There are lots of ways to work on issues like homelessness and the mental health of other people. Each piece of the puzzle matters.
Have you ever used Lyft. In my experience (SF), it literally takes minutes for a car to show up. More often than not, I am still looking for may keys/wallet/jacket or brushing my teeth when the car gets here. I imagine an autonomous car service would be even faster, as car availability could be highly tuned to demand (Lyft and Uber are using comparatively crude methods of demand/availability management, surge pricing).

As others have mentioned, the car-sharing model works best in urban areas, and no one is suggesting that we ban individuals from owning cars. But I will also add that we have spent the last 100 years building infrastructure and public spaces to accommodate for a car-centric society, but this has had a negative impact on people who prefer other forms of transportation. Public transportation is severely underfunded and inadequate in most places, pedestrians and bikers are getting mowed down by reckless drivers, tons of public land is being poorly utilized as parking space, and our air is getting polluted to unprecedented levels. Your "peace of mind" comes at a high cost to the rest of society. Autonomous cars are not a silver bullet for all of these problems by any means, but they can go a long way in getting us to a better place with most of these issues.
I've heard from people working on Facebook's stuff is that it's hilariously inaccurate if it has to choose between more than about 20-30 people. Most of the work is spent on figuring out which if your friends is likely in the photo.

If you wanted to solve the "identify person on street" problem, you'd probably have to augment it with things like scans of NFC enabled credit cards and phone MAC addresses to know who is in the area -- not an entirely impossible set of sensors to put in a self-driving-car.
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There is actually a local chain in Southern California called Bruxie that sells waffles after failing to impress high-end restaurants with their product. It is very popular and placed strategically around hip places, e.g. colleges. I was tied heavily with its inception and I know just how unsustainable the owner wants it to be. At this point, he only makes money by opening stores. He fully intends to Krispie Kreme his way through the state or country, if he can, and then let it collapse. It happened to KK, it happened to ToGos, it'll happen again.
Malyk

Your earlier comment about the income level brackets was fantastic!

That helped better understand the issue.

Not sure why your comment was downvoted!!

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Ask HN: How do you keep up with new technologies?
I'm just curious how people on HN keep up with new technology. There are a lot of new shiny things constantly so it is sometimes hard to filter through the noise. Do you read theses (?) or books, do you create small projects in the languages that you want to learn, or any other way? Do you just ignore new technologies and continue to write code as you've always done?
maybe the history of the Internet isn't so important, but more of understanding how what you're writing reaches it's audience is
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Because JS will always be compromised by being JS shoe horned into a role it wasn't designed for and not byte code optimised for the purpose at hand.

Shoe horning technologies into roles they weren't intended for could describe the entire scope of why the Web sucks (e.g.: HTML mixing presentation with semantics).
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I sit on the boards of two Journalism schools and attended the top Masters program just before the journalism crash of 2009. I am on these boards mostly because both schools think that some guy in Silicon Valley has insight into what journalism students should be doing. Its not true.

The problem was that massive disruption of print media really came to a head due to the great recession, when low media buys plus a real uptick of traction from ad networks put a final nail in a lot of print journalists careers.

Looking back its easy to think if they were more tech savvy they could have somehow survived -- but thats just not the case. Tech and journalism are more closely related than ever, and specifically scripted languages and knowledge of markup (CSS and JS Libraries) can improve the final product's production quality, but journalists are not programmers no should they be. Its similar to saying journalists should know how to roll their own print presses in the 50s -- its not their job.

The problem lies more in the fact that we simply can't fund journalists to do their job anymore. We charge them with both doing investigative reporting, staying neutral and coming up with a sustainable business model for it -- and you know what? Its just too much to ask. Local news stations are slowly dying out, local newspapers are already mostly thinned out and upstarts like Patch (flawed as it was) were not able to fund real journalistic work.

After a few years going back and forth on this I have come to believe that a BBC like model in the US would do the nation great deal of good. Funding journalists to do their job and keep up the good work without pressuring them to make compromises is essentially to keeping voters informed.

I hope we can get over our mindset that all things need to be privatized at some point in the near future and begin funding PBS, NPR, and local news to keep doing what they are doing.
> Netflix previous to this had considerable power to stop the tiered internet but they actually are defining the moment it separates. Netflix's history will include fueling the demise of network neutrality.

Hyperbole much? This is a peering agreement. It has nothing to do with "network neutrality"--a phrase that is vague and hollow enough to mean absolutely nothing.
I don't see why costs for supplies should decrease, necessarily, even in real terms. I guess you can have consistent churn at a brick & mortar business to keep paying minimum wage by replacing people with younger people as they leave.

But that setup only applies if you're paying at the bottom of the scale and not giving out benefits. Bennies have been increasing by much more than inflation, and the type of jobs giving bennies typically expect a 4% raise, minimum, if you're doing acceptably at it.
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I've been doing this a LONG time...

At first I used to read all the dev sites and attend conventions, but at some point you can only focus on so many things.

Now I only follow languages I can write in. I tried RoR a few years ago, when it was hot and found I could do everything I needed to do better, with Python, PHP and JS. So what do I need it for?

I read HN, Reddit, go to some meetups, wired and some blogs are good too. But I mostly just learn new stuff when I need to.
Under Reagan there was a national de-institutionalization of mentally ill people, who largely ended up as the multitude of homeless vagrants who occupy urban scenes across the country.
...thx for the FUD on my three hour project I decided to give to the world. This is generally why I don't open-source stuff.

Feedback support is coming. Also as noted below, I am familiar with iOS push having built a previous YC startup around it.

Some class of people will want to do it themselves. I am one of those, presumably the audience on HN is full of those ppl, it's why I posted it here. Doing is learning.
Weak, yes. But trivial? The article does not convince me of that.

> In this context, the telephone network itself may no longer be the weakest link in the chain. The diligent attacker only needs to look for the cloud operator with an unplugged security hole and use their system as a stepping stone to read any SMS they want, when they want.

This is the most practical attack described in the article. Attack vectors like this will occasionally open up, but I would not call it trivial.
Hey everyone, puppetmaster3 has the trademark on using the term "tech", and it apparently it means only software development!
The problem is that these things only seem more dangerous. At the end of the day, momentum kills. Speeding in an automobile, especially in urban areas, is far and away the most dangerous thing of any of the "crimes" here, and it's treated as though it should be expected, not reprehensible as it is.

A cyclist yielding at a stop sign isn't going to kill anyone. The car flooring it after each one and rolling the crosswalks may.
Very useful, especially the 5v on the board. Might have missed that.
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Probably because Clang is the default compiler on Mac OS X, but not on Windows or Linux
At my old job we had a saying. "If you get a solid 4 hours of coding done a day, you've had a productive day"
In the UK this is actually enforced, and we have ASLs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_stop_line) allowing cyclists to move in front of other traffic at junctions, and start ahead of them. Is this sort of thing not part of the road system i9n the US?
> because we have no blood test or genetic test for it

I was reading about this: http://ge.tt/3nXdgiQ/v/0, its from Reddit where the article stated:

"However, when we examined the whole data set of 298 assessments, a cross-validated probabilistic neural network model was superior and
could discriminate all cases from controls with near perfect accuracy at 98.3%."

Is this not the case?

(article here: http://www.scotsman.com/news/health/schizophrenia-diagnosed-...)
I received my boards last week. The heatsink is for the zynq chip is kinda humorous.
This is a great idea. Feed enough misdirection into the system and the whole thing collapses.
Yeah, it's what annoys the crap out of me. A 9-5 week means you worked 7 hours a day. That's a 35 hour week.

:/
If you set up a grid, how is cache coherency handled and what's the impact on performance?
Yeah I really don't see that this is anything more than the 21st century version of stuff written on the bathroom wall. Not that it makes it OK, but it's not anything new (perhaps it amplified, though). Teenagers say stupid stuff, tend to be self-centered, insecure, and can be cruel. Nothing new here. If you take it seriously you're letting the aggressor win.
It's blub all the way up.
The biggest sources of bad/ inaccurate journalism that I can think of are:

1-Ignorance of statistics, and of how they are frequently misused.

2-Lack of awareness of how good arguments are conducted, and what logical fallacies commonly appear.

3-Insufficient awareness of how the media can create or contribute to cultural or individual biases.

4-A lack of an attitude of open-mindedness or fairness.

5-General scientific illiteracy
For startups, growth is important. Yet everyone downplays the true indicator of a company's value: cash flow.

It makes sense, given that VCs are often betting on big buyouts. This is the "castle in the air" theory. At some point, I think the pendulum will shift into investing in companies, that while they may not have cashflow here and now, at least have the potential to generate cash.
I dont understand why you're being downvoted for quoting from the chick's twitter where she accuses all men of one of the most heinous crimes one can commit. She doesnt sound like a champion of gender equality to me, based on this absurd tweet.

maybe it's satire. i'll try to give her the benefit of the doubt.
Nonsense. You're just moving who is paying the protection money to a middle man. That doesn't solve the underlying problem, which is that nobody should be paying that protection money to the racketeers.
> One of the coolest thing about it is its mobile rendering performance (write one JS app, deploy everywhere with awesome performance across devices and browsers.)

Again...WTF does that even mean? So they only use CSS3 transforms that are GPU accelerated? So it's a CSS3 animation library? The vague documentation seems to imply a grander vision which is unclear.
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Yes, the study found that on for death row inmates, but there are many reasons to suspect that it's likely not significantly lower in other populations.

I commented on this in my original comment, but ran the numbers to get a sense of the potential scale of the problem.

If there's even a potential for 100,000 innocent Americans to be subjected to prison, I think that justifies a serious inquiry in to the criminal justice system be made.
Anyone notice the weird first two chars of the title of this post? Looks like: "￼￼". Hexdump says it's twice "ef bf bc". That's not a unicode BOM is it?
There are limited resources so defining success on growth will eventually lead to a point of no more growth and no longer be successful by a growth definition.

Comparing to GDP gets tricky. Is GDP growing due to actual output growth and wealth generation or due to inflation?

I suppose we need to first agree on what were looking at defining what a successful business based on a non moving target or defining success based on comparing it to other businesses.

Do I think a businesses revenue should grow with GDP? Yes. Does the profit margin need to? Not necessarily. To be more successful at investing you definitely want businesses that have higher ROIs. However, are we discussing successful investing or successful businesses?

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The standard libraries count as an external library.

Why wouldn't they?
I thought Google's core product was allowing "ping -t google.com" ICMP traffic to be the central monitor of my network connectivity and latency to the internet.

Heck, I even have it aliased as "pg" on all my systems.
I am waiting in anticipation for all the excellent blog posts about running Haskell on the Ephiphany cores.
You can already use ICC on OS X as it is, so that presumption doesn't really fit. It certainly seems like they intend to use the Mac edition of Composer as a trial run for eventually ditching their own frontend code. Which, given the current pace of C++ standards development, isn't an unreasonable proposition.
But since this devmeeting poster is the only public information in existence, only Intel knows.
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This is an excellent idea. I hope they'll expand to the Peninsula.
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"So they should just then believe what another third-party vendor CPU says"

Of course. This is obvious, if you had any idea about what you were talking about.

" I would only enable specific optimizations when I could guarantee the output would be optimal or a given model."

You can do that with compiler flags, ever heard of them?
Right. I haven't been doing this for too long so I'm worried that one day I'll only have skills that will no longer be in high demand, but I agree about the focus - it's better to focus on a few things and do them good instead of knowing little about a lot. It's easy to get distracted though..
Did anything else other than spoilers to popular shows also work?
Regardless of anything else, shouldn't your code improve with five years additional experience?
But then we'd have to retrain programmers to nix the maximum password length rules, which would likely require a massive overhaul of a few databases.

(Wait for it... )
I'd imagine it works like a Transputer, and the only accessible memory is local to the chip, with communications including data coming down the serial links.
It's been happening for the entirety of the internet.
You mean I cant post a question, and get yelled at and belittled by site moderators, only to then have my question immediately closed???
Yes, they should.

If your CPU lies about its feature support, there are far, far, far bigger problems for the end user than whether a binary is optimal or not.
Holy crap, this needed to be in the SSH Kung Fu article. I wonder how to do a network test without slowing the ssh command down too much. At a certain point it becomes faster to type outsidednsname.voltagex.org than to wait for the match to execute.
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Hm, that's interesting. A lot of parkinson's related disease (different than schizophrenia, but still involving dopamine a lot) have eye movement findings that are pretty recognizable.

Culturally, not sure if psychiatrists are in the habit of examining eye movements as closely as, say, a neurologist or neuro-opthalmologist, but it'd be interesting if this is replicable by other groups.
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Google's core business.
Excerpt:

I had a male teacher give me a near-fail (pass minus I think it was called) when I built my first HTML site. He said I didn’t take the project seriously, and I said I wanted to be creative about it because it wasn’t challenging and technically I did nothing wrong – the code was perfect. If you didn’t want it fluro pink and with unicorns, then you should have said so. These days I would say “Write a better brief, dude.”

I hope it generates discussion.
Well I think the resolution is the same too. The only way to deal with this specific issue is to not participate. Implicitly all those people who are being effected by this are enabling it by participating in the activity.

I actually think this is easier to deal with then its non digital counterpart. Sure its easier to spread the gossip in a digital forum, but it should be known to be false. When gossip spreads through physical networks ( and is therefore not anonymous ) there is a much higher perception of reliability, and its much harder to shake then a completely unreliable and anonymous post on a gossip site which is not ever for a second pretending to be accurate
The parallella supports floating point though. I don't know how fast the GreenArrays run, but a factor of 20 doesn't seem impossible for a floating point intensive program. More on-chip memory can be beneficial too, if it helps to avoid accesses to off-chip memory. Of course, the unqualified claim from parallella is pretty useless…
At this point... either. I am trying to like it but it hasn't happened yet. I am pressing on because I love Mike Judge, though.
Aren't there structural brain findings reported in some imaging research studies? I'd be interesting to see some of the work in MRI volumetric studies (i.e. voxel-based morphometry) or dopamine transmitter imaging, especially comparing longitudinal progression of schizophrenia patients or in cross sectional comparisons against healthy controls
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A given "feature" does not behave identically on different CPUs. To generate optimal code, you need to know which model is being targeted to make codegen decisions. It is simply not reasonable to expect Intel to do the work on their compiler to figure that all out and test it for competing vendor chips.

If you want more, use a different compiler, period. $VENDOR spends money on their compiler to support their chips, not to appease every whining, butt-hurt user on the Interwebz that thinks $BIGCO owes them something on a competing chip.
And share buybacks are another way to raise the stock price with no new growth.
I think it's fair to assume that in most work places people hold back criticism from their employers, no? Why this need to assume anything anyone says is as equally likely to be true as anything anyone else says?
I'm not pointing fingers. I'm saying both parties are guilty. I just thing that the level of danger posed by the automobile drivers demands greater attention. Less than one person per year is killed by a cyclist. Drivers kill 100 in the united states every day.
Google's ping-back server.

It is also a DNS server.
I would actually think that when it flares like in the story, and everyone is saying outrageous things about everyone else, it would become easier to laugh it off. Everyone would know that it was all bullshit because they were all in on writing it themselves.
> Crumple zones and needing a 'big car' is old fashioned safety.

No. This is modern design. In the very cool Fifth Gear episode, you're seeing a car that is not designed with a good rigid passenger cell component (and also fails to transfer the energy of the crash around the passenger cell). Both cars have crumple zones. They are not all created equal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumple_zone

> A misconception about crumple zones sometimes voiced[citation needed] is that they reduce safety for the occupants of the vehicle by allowing the body to collapse, therefore risking crushing the occupants.

> Crumple zones work by managing crash energy, absorbing it within the outer parts of the vehicle, rather than being directly transmitted to the occupants, while also preventing intrusion into or deformation of the passenger cabin.
I agree w/ the stupidity of treating certain issues as criminal. This is, I think, where the bulk of the problem really lies. The judicial system is overstressed and trying cases is very expensive, leading to lower quality investigations and the plea situation you mention.

I guess what bugs me about this is that the wrongful conviction issue is always presented alongside the capital punishment issue. They are separate issues and, I think, related only in that both deal with the criminal justice system. Wrongful conviction is awful no matter what the sentence.
I found references to it going back to 2008, and the git repo that has my dotfiles says I've been using it (in Linux) for 3 or so years. Maybe it depends on the OS/distro.

The patterns are similar to shell globs: * matches zero or more characters, ? matches exactly one.
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Is this a paul graham joke?
Kurzweil actually postulates that human evolution is exponential in many facets. His paper goes about demonstrating that Moore's law is actually a specialization of a more generic exponential evolution law.
It's quite rare here in US, I've only encountered it sporadically near some universities. I think they make a lot of sense and wish they were common. Typically here there is enough room for a bicycle and then some ahead of the stopped cars, so it makes little sense to me why the extra markings are not painted on the road - possibly lack of familiarity?
No, you're totally right here. I think matdes skimmed over the critical "without having everyone in on it" part of your post.
I wonder what effect it would have to change "up"/"down" voting into "nice"/"mean".

I have a hypothesis that people would tag honestly, but "up" and "down" aren't directly enough associated with moral judgement.

Turn the hate against itself by getting people to hate on the text itself instead of hate via the text.
And worse yet, the cause is wildly misunderstood. One person's debilitating depressing might be resolved spectacularly via light therapy, another via a single medication, another yet only moderated by a constellation of medications, and others who have undergone a variety of treatments for a decade with little improvement.

Compare that to, say, a broken leg, which is much easier to understand.

There's a huge stigma attached to certain cancers, too, like lung cancer not caused by smoking.