skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The minimum wage in San Francisco is $10.74 / hr. That means that the amount of money going to the homeless is about three hours of work [0]. If we can hardly expect a full time minimum wage job to support someone, how can a third of that be enough to support "crazy drug addicts" who if anything need more help?

Furthermore, if there are 1 million people in San Fran and the city spends $150 million a year, that means everyone is paying in $150. Which is a lot of money to the poorer end of the spectrum, but chump change to us techies. Indeed, there are 37,000 tech workers in San Fran who make on average $160,000 [1]. Even if the entirety of the social programs were paid for by tech workers, it'd come down to 4% of their after tax income [2]. Indeed, to pay for the equivalent of a full time minimum wage job for all of San Francisco's homeless would only cost its tech workers 16% of their post-tax salary, or about $10K [3][4]. And that's tech workers in the city alone, which make up just 3.7% of its million inhabitants.

If you are not a tech worker and are not in a position to do more then please realize this rant is not about you. For everyone else who just wants to see the problem 'disappear', I completely understand why a portion of the city hates you. You don't need a tv, or a new car (used is a smarter choice economically anyways), or a daily latte. You want those things. They are nice perks, just like the free lunch at work. In the meantime the people who are struggling with the lifelong problems of homelessness and addiction are just trying to find a lil hit of crack and a spot by the freeway to get through the day.

Some side notes: There will always be the homeless-by-choice, which is fine. If you want to camp under a bridge all summer go for it. But there needs to be an available bed and a warm cup of soup waiting for the people who actually have problems, temporarily or long term.

[0]: 34 / 10.74 = 3.16 (minimum wage equivalent hours of homeless person's benefits)

[1]: bottom of http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/tech-job-growth-is-bo...

[2]: 150,000,000 / (37,000 * 160,000 * .4) = .04 (percent of tech worker salary to pay existing homeless budget)

[3]: 10.74 * 8 = 86.08 (daily income for minimum wage job)

[4]: 150,000,000 * (86.08 / 34) / (37,000 * 160,000 * .4) = .16 (percent of tech worker salary to pay 'full time minimum wage homeless budget')
MS employee here as well. They both aren't going anywhere, KT more-so; he's well respected among the leadership and SMSG has grown exponentially under his watch.
Anyone know if it is possible to get a large-format print version? Or even how I could find it in the library?
That's another milestone achieved in Elop's grand plan to bring MS and Nokia heads to the throne of Adobe.
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Malaysia Airlines flight crashes in Ukraine
Whoah. The Mongolian word for "five" means "ceiling" in Bulgarian.
He's not going to end up in Guantanomo; he's too well known and his current situation is sufficiently lousy. They'll just make sure anyone who has any connection with him is given a hard time at any opportunity (see, for example, spouse of a journalist travelling through Heathrow kept for 9 hours).

But also it's really easy to say that you would be okay with a situation until you've been through it. Some methods of torture look pretty mild until you've experienced them first hand. "Pouring water over a cloth that is covering your face" seems unpleasant but not the kind of thing that could cause you to break your own arm as you struggle to avoid it.
Thanks for the reply! (I also assume you are not my downvoter:-)

I see the value of replacing the NT kernel by a bsd variant as this: you free ride on a lot of work done by other people. Us software heads have decided we wanted the hard core kernel and compiler engineering to be open source, circa 1990. We've won philosophically, albeit we've lost economically, as the 18000 layoffs and the death of SUN, and transformation of IBM into a services company, etc. The best compilers out there are open source. The best language innovations are open source.

I've nothing against C# and VS, which I consider a very good well documented and better alternative to Java (which is itself loosing ground to javascript in terms of a glue language), and a wonderful IDE respectively; but I wont pay for either, as I will not pay or lock myself in MSSQL when postgres is superior and free. Dont get me wrong, I love MS, I've written code on their tools since MS VC++ 5. (circa 1995)

Besides that time when they did not stick to the C++ standard with the STL (was it in VSC++6 or the first .net edition? that one was painful for a while) I've always respected their compilers -- bug free and fast, and producing fast code. It's just that there is not value in keeping that closed source anymore, it's a cost, when the alternatives are all copying each other easily because the underlying kernels are close cousins.

So in my view MS is basically keeping this huge maintenance burden on it's own, with a shrinking overall install base percentage based of computing devices (combination of tablets phones pcs etc)
Yeah, you're right. Maybe a more secure way would be make reddit.com unreadable. For example:

mctddr (backwards without dot and vowels)

r5d9t (change vowel with the position number in the alphabet and without repeated letters)

There are several ways to do it.
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But what good is a five overcomplication library without overly complicated documentation?
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Apparently it was 'shot down'
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/489794112212959232
Additional things that struck me (in addition to my other comment on censoring university name):

They give transparent pay ranges up-front. The salary game KILLS me (I can play it, but I don't like it). I had a HR person demand my current salary "so the company could protect itself", but didn't like when I asked their number "so I could protect myself". (I have a NDA that covers my current salary, but the HR person told me I should tell him anyway and "they won't know".)

They respond to every CV. THANK YOU. This should be automated for all companies.
Question a cop who's wrong about the law...
Stand in front of your house in any major city as a minority...
Walk down the street in any major city as a minority...

The bad perceptions of the police have very real reasons behind them.

Respect is EARNED, not given. Cops CHOSE to be cops, they are being compensated to be cops, the onus is on them, to take then danger. Not on the citizen.

servi publici and all that comes with that...
I agree (and even added some of my own commentary at http://www.mimiran.com/proposals/the-importance-of-writing-w...). Nadella is not yet at the level of Ballmer, but he's working on it. Which is too bad, they are both really smart guys running a really important company. I'd like to think that if they had a clear direction that they could communicate clearly, they would be more successful.
> Deal with the belligerent drunks, entitled rich boys, teenagers with too much car and no sense.

Sounds more like an unpleasant job than a dangerous one. I'm not refuting your claim that it maybe dangerous but the parent has a valid point. It may not be any more dangerous than the other jobs mentioned.

Something may feel more dangerous than it is. That's the point the parent was making, I believe.
This seems unwise to publicise. There are a few common life changes for which you cannot legally discriminate against a candidate in hiring (in the US.)

I'm not even sure why you would allow hiring manages to ask the questions necessary to discriminate against these candidates.

More fundamentally, there seems to be a conflict between candidates who assure that they are committed to the position and hiring managers who assume they cannot be.

"We were willing to hire you and put the success of our company in your hands, but we don't really trust you when you say you'll work hard, because you'll probably just go sneaking off to go spend time with your family."

I think candidates would prefer a company that trusts the judgement of its employees.
Being a lumberjack, fisherman or roofer is not easy either.
Really makes me wish you could invoke instance methods on numbers (ala 5.amIFive())
This looks fantastic; self-hosted email is too hard. Can't wait to try it...
Show HN: Generate multiple landing pages within 15 minutes
This really deserves to be called out for the BS that it is. As someone who did / does non-spammy SEO for the past 5 years now, I can't tell you how much this kind of thing bothers me.

It's services like this that ruined the reputation of an entire industry. In the same way that all scammers rely on the ignorance of others MonitorSEO is no different and relies on this myth that SEO is some voodoo magic.

I can tell you with absolute certainty that this service is NOT something you want to be associating your business with.

In fact if you are currently working with any SEO provider right now where one of you KPIs is the number of links that they get you, I beg you to walk away from that today, it's a ridiculously short sighted and horrible plan.
I tried using PH this week. I actually submitted a hardware product (NAS) that had launched that same day, but this never surfaced on the site. On the other hand, some startups that had already launched months ago were trending. From this experience I'm guessing that most, if not all, links are hand picked, rather than community voted. It doesn't feel right.
No-one remembers Sid Meier's flight sims.

Sword of the Samurai (haven't played it) looks like an adaptation of Samurai an Avalon Hill (actually bought from another game company whose name escapes me) which itself was essentially Kingmaker reskinned for feudal Japan. Civilization was clearly inspired by Civilization. Pirates! was -- as far as I know -- pretty original (and my favorite of the lot). Covert Action looks awful but I've never played it and hadn't heard of it before looking at the wikipedia list.
> Cops deserve respect and deference, if only because they stand for public order and that deserves it.

I'm a firefighter/paramedic, and am very familiar with many of the scenarios you described. Many of my drinking buddies are cops, and I'm very grateful that they have my back night after night.

That being said, I disagree completely with your statement that cops deserve respect simply because they 'stand for public order'. There have been more than enough examples in recent history where cops have very clearly _not_ been acting in the public's interest, and I think it's prudent for average citizens to be wary of cops. It's an unfortunate reality, but it's the culture that law enforcement has chosen to create.

Having had a handful of interactions with LEOs while 'off the clock', it really amazes me how different their attitude is from when I'm in uniform.
Yes, it comes of as a bit bizarre, and something of a red flag (due to the bias aspect).

But it was generally good advice, otherwise. It's amazing how many companies don't get the "Respond to every CV, always" and "Have the CEO personally involved in every hiring decision" parts, for example.
That was my first thought it's just too conveniently crashed in a conflict area.
https://twitter.com/MAS/statuses/489605424786587649
It isn't. Flag it and ignore it?
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Blurred lines: Are YouTubers breaking the law?
Hah, I've heard that! It's a really interesting field that blends physics, maths, chemistry, electronic and electrical engineering, computer science and other fields. Really amazing even to the outsiders like me, and it's not too hard to follow.
Or maybe the Ukrainians/CIA shot it down as a false-flag to blame it on the Russian.... as long as we're throwing theories out there.
If you estimate how high mountains on earth can get before their weight makes them fluid at ground level (like what happened with the lego brick), you get to about 8 km. It just so happens the highest mountains on earth are about 8 km high. That is not coincidence.
That actually wouldn't work, as the response from the request would never be processed while you were looping.

You can make synchronous requests already though:

req = new XMLHttpRequest
req.open("some/url", "GET", false);
req.send()
I'm surprised the article discusses failure at the corporate level when first thing that came to mind is stopping rewarding at the startup level. (e.g. pity acquihires of zombie startups)
WtF?!? This reduces reasons to have a police to absurdity. And at best it will make some of the symptoms go away but not fix the root problem.
Better to admit that you're touchy about "culture fit" than to pretend that you're not.
There are lots of examples of poverty, homelessness and addiction juxtaposed with wealth in Europe -

e.g. The banlieues of Paris, the suburbs of Edinburgh like Craigmillar, the sheds with beds in suburbs of London

While a better social support system is a good first step, it doesn't eliminate problem areas like this, nor does it deal completely with the mental health issues, drug addiction and stress that often comes with extreme poverty. Perhaps in some cities the problems are better hidden (Paris is a good example), but they are there.
Why mod someone down for asking about a generational GC?
considering several MH370 stories reached the top 10 of HN I thought this might be of interest as well.
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>'The city of San Francisco (a city of a million people) spends over $150 million a year on the problem. That works out to $34 per homeless person per day.[1]'

My loose Wikipedia-driven math puts that at <0.5% of income working to support >1.3% of population to the tune of a not terribly luxurious $12k per year.

I don't know how that compares to elsewhere, but it doesn't seem like a horrible deal at face value.

Still, the important question is always going to be how that money is spent, not how much is spent. Everyone seems to agree that it could be more effective. Thankfully, some of the issues sound like things the tech community would quite able to assist with:

"By highest-end users, Bamberger means the hardest of the hard-core homeless, who use far more emergency services, such as ambulance rides, than other homeless people. To figure out which ones those are, Salt Lake City uses a data tracking system that shows every time a homeless person gets shelter, counseling or other services from a government or nonprofit agency. Then counselors can tailor housing and services to the person's needs.

This also makes it much easier for government and nonprofits to quickly coordinate their efforts.

San Francisco doesn't have such a system. Its service providers have wanted one for a decade - and this summer, they plan to participate in a pilot project for just such a data-tracking system, led by the Human Services Agency and other city departments involved in aiding the homeless."

1: http://www.sfgate.com/nation/article/Salt-Lake-City-a-model-...
Sources speculate the plane might have been shot down, as the crash site is under quite a bit of tension these days.
There are flexibility issues as well.

I have contracted with IBM many times over my career, and when the project goes belly-up, the company reorganizes, the division you were working in disappears, and employment contracts aren't renewed. No muss, no fuss, no layoffs.
I like the net idea. i was thinking more of taking over the radio signal and controlling it.

Full unmanned civilian aviation warfare sounds pretty cool.
Twitter reports are now saying it was shot down from 33,000 feet by a Buk missile.
https://twitter.com/ReutersWorld/statuses/489795402892591104
Someone just discovered space-time
This can't be right, nowhere near enough dependencies
It’s an interesting product but Erik Torenburg (self-described "Product Hunt Hustler" according to his Twitter profile) is not just a little bit of a Twitter spammer:

https://twitter.com/ErikTorenberg/media

He has posted hundreds of reply spam promoting Product Hunt on Twitter. He must be running some kind of script because he has posted so many replies many with product specific screenshots, I can’t imagine someone doing this manually so quickly (every few minutes).

I understand “growth hacking” and sometimes promoting yourself can seem like spam to some, but this really is just spam, and it’s not the good kind. This is probably in violation of Twitter's TOS and not what people should have to be exposed to, especially if you're trying to build a brand. This makes me just want to never use the product, and I really like supporting YC companies and prefer to give the benefit of the doubt and assume good faith in the face of self-promotion. But this is just a little bit too much.
Supposedly shot down by a Buk missile system
I really despise the "our way is the only right way" opinions.

I didn't read it that way -- it sounded like they were just trying to be very, very clear. So many people in the business world are, as we know, just so rush and slapdash in, well, pretty much everything they do. Especially recruiting and hiring.
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You can :)

Number.prototype.amIFive = function(){
return this.valueOf() == 5;
}

5..amIFive();
It's actually less to do with military as in fighting, and more in the direct application of the skills they're supposed to have. For example:

Most requests for our returning vets come from transportation and trade (we're a river town relatively close to major north/south and east/west highways and a major railway line). The largest portion of our returning vets were in the army or army national guard, in the local transportation groups. We don't have infantry in our area, we have truck drivers and mechanics. Anyway, the requests and the expertise seemed a custom fit - the soldiers ran big trucks and trains, and there is no better organization than the United States Army when it comes to large-scale logistics.

Our returning vets, though, are unable to branch outside of their assigned mode of operation.

The mechanics are able to work on, say, heavy machines and diesel engines so they're able to work on the trains and barges really well, but are unable to translate those skills to tractor trailers or small(ish) engines like pick-ups or delivery vans.

The Army transport drivers are able to drive tractor trailers or operate barges. BUT, they do not have the certifications necessary to legally do that work stateside, AND they lack skills in the classroom to be able to sit and pass the test for the licenses. Usually it's because they have never been able to do math well, and are unable to pass a college level mathematics course (it's applied math, so it has practical applications in their jobs - not college algebra or statistics or anything like that). Along with that, they're unable to translate their existing skills into heavy machinery for construction, demolition or excavation.

The leaders/officers are unable to transition out of the military 'because I said so' mentality and into the corporate 'because it's in your best interest' mentality. Our retraining in this area has been the biggest failure; they don't see the need to change their mode of people management, and we don't have a reason for them to either (other than long-term employment).

The paperwork individuals, like you use in your example, transition easily. If the person worked in an office, they will come back and find employment almost immediately.

This could all be helped if the military provided training ON THEIR END before they come back to the world. Believe it or not, the transition from the military to a college environment is incredibly difficult for most folks.
60% of traffic is Chrome, while IE is down to 8.8%
> we're not hiring people who are undergoing lots of change in other areas of life

Having a child? Coming to terms with a mental illness? Coming to terms with some other disability? Coming to terms with newly discovered genetic information? Going bankrupt?
Not really, no. It's just not that dangerous. We imagine it must be dangerous, and so do cops themselves. But you're a lot more likely to be killed as a garbage collector or airline pilot, or a construction worker, or plenty of other jobs.

Adding a bit of objective support to that statement is a report [1] from BLS that lists Mortality Rates by industry, where law enforcement is grouped with Government.

[1] http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfch0011.pdf
Show HN: RoomPoll.com – Location based surveys
RoomPoll is a location based survey website.

Think SurveyMonkey meets Google maps.

If you go to RoomPoll.com on any device and allow your location, you will see polls posted within 50 miles of your location. (we don't have many posted yet so you may not see some depending where you are...)

Polls can also be accessed via a direct link like this: http://www.roompoll.com/polls/3625/vote

You can post up to 7 questions for people to answer. The question options are: multiple choice, Text, Name, Email.

You must create an account in order to post a poll but you do not have to have an account to respond to a poll unless the person posting the poll requires it.

We'd love feedback on all aspects of the site and functionality. Since it's an open platform, you can essentially use it as location based webforms to collect whatever you want from people at a location.

Thanks for any and all feedback.
Cops are not the only people who have to deal with other people, they're just the only people allowed to use a stick, an electric shock device, and a gun at their discretion in order to do it. It's a less dangerous job that housepainting, driving a cab, or working in a convenience store.
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Pizza delivery guys have a far more dangerous job than police. Drive to a location chosen by a stranger who knows you will show up with cash, food, and a car which you will willingly exit. And all in 30 minutes or less. And they deal with the same types of obnoxious people as police, who you think deserve automatic respect for it.

Policing doesn't crack the top 10 BLS list of most dangerous jobs. http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacquelynsmith/2013/08/22/americ...
var six = function() {
return five() + five() / five();
}

Some people may rely on that functionality.
As someone who is currently in the SEO mix and using an SEO vendor, I'll take this opportunity to pick your brain for a single question. What would you consider to be the most important/valuable KPI? For some context, our SEO rep currently touts "number of new leads" as most important due to more people knowing about us, and we think "number of conversions" is more important due to ROI.
you're right! i've corrected it and credited you. thank you.
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1. Any reason why executive pay can't be reduced and save these jobs ?
Why pay stupid executive million and millions dollars and chop jobs of these poor people ?

2. Who determines who gets to stay and who gets to be fired ? Fucked up ranking system ? Ass-Lickers ?

3. Anyone saying layoff are good should really take second look outside during daytime ( 9 - 5). Once you are in battleground of searching job its hell. Really , its hell. People don't fucking respond even though you have many blazing things to show. You know why ? Because , you may not necessarily be good fit ? Your age , Your cool factor , being fucking social comes into play. If you are in 30s and have given up coding , good luck finding something in management.

4. If you are on H1-B , its grand fuck. You get 15 days to leave country or find new job. Overstaying is illegal and you seriously jeopardize green card , stamping process. Many companies ( mine being medium size ) have automated notification to DHS about H1-B status update, cancelling petition, visas.

edit : Can't believe so many shills here. Let the downvote brigade begin. Have a good life.
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I thought the design was beautiful. Both the site and client.