skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"While the homeless may always be with us, we need to ensure that we are helping them in the most effective ways possible. For the city named after Francis of Assisi, a nobleman who gave away everything he had when he saw a poor man on the street, nothing less is acceptable."

The article seems to imply that creating more housing will solve this problem. Such is not the case. "Homeless" is a euphemism. There are two types of street people: 1. Those who cannot take care of themselves. 2. Those who will not take care of themselves.

As a society, we should take care of the people who are unable to take care of themselves. I do not know how to define "take care", but it definitely should not include having schizophrenic episodes on the corner, intimidating panhandling, drug fueled benders, and shitting like animals on the city sidewalks.

One idea is to lock them up in an institution. This is expensive, arguably unfair, and creates an opportunity for abuse and corruption (one flew over the cuckoo's nest), and sets up a big liability - How long before violence or abuse causes a huge payout from the government?

For the others who _can_ take care of themselves but will not, they seem to me to be some combination of really bad choices and really bad luck, it is less clear to me what our responsibility to them is, and I wonder how much they can be helped. Consider Tap from the article. If he just wants to tap dance and get drunk all day, sleeping and shitting on the streets in my neighborhood, I am completely unsupportive. I will call the cops every time I find him passed out. Hopefully they will run him out of town. As much as he wants this lifestyle, it cannot make ends meet. He seems like a likable fellow during his stable periods, but I do not want to subsidize him.

If you don't want to make an honest living, you are going to have to break laws: dealing drugs, breaking car windows and stealing from them, stealing and selling bicycles. I have no tolerance for these layabouts and I cannot see why anyone else should either.
It's not surprising. The GF is paid for by disbursing a set % of the endowment's value each year. Obviously the people managing the endowment only have one goal which is to keep it growing.
Mainstream Intel Core Processors will not support AVX 512
Overall quite usable. I have been using it for a couple of months and I haven't had any major issues with it. There are some slight differences in cursor behavior between vim and nvim but I got used to it.
There's a bit of late 00's-style chrome junk in the default design – would love to see this smoothed out.
Yeah, I started out my career as a system admin and the AWS infrastructure stuff always made me fear my job was going to disappear. In reality, it's just made people aware that the skillset most system admins have were closer to those of a software developer anyway. As everything moves to the DevOps model, I find that under DevOps, "AWS Admin" as a job goes away, and your developers all just know a lot about more about AWS since that's part of the underlying stack.

AWS is a lot easier for developers to conceptualize as well - they're just logical objects that can be created/destroyed like programmatic objects can. Used to be that if you needed a new server, you'd have to talk to your sysadmin and get a VM provisioned, keys issued, etc. but with AWS all you have to do is issue a method to a class in your framework of choice (since AWS has SDK libraries for most languages/frameworks), and the VM is created, provisioned and integrated into your application like no work needed to happen.
I'm in literal shock over the fonts. I've never seen something so high-profile so badly designed, typographically.

Isn't there some kind of rule somewhere that says 4 fonts max? On the homepage there are seven different fonts! And then you click into a link and blammo, you're hit with this crazy antique looking thing that looks like porcelain shaped words, but with far less class. Is this a technology site or a site on fine cigars and expensive yachts?

Its unreadable and seriously needs to be addressed. Just some dire constructive crit for such a great publication. This will turn away users, if only subconsciously.
First I've heard of this; it does need a decent USB power supply, but that's a consequence of not shipping one and expecting the user to supply one of suitable quality.
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They realize that they have to do this, like they did with Google Fiber to "disrupt". Android, and in turn Google rely heavily upon Wireless Carriers. There was a much larger threat present in the net neutrality fight, but there are still lots of problems present in getting a cell phone.

The new services are not bloat, but very important steps for Google to take. Just as a startup has to go acquire customers face to face and ask them what they can improve upon, Google has to experience being the customer facing company. Currently, they don't handle or deal with the most important point of the mobile phone sales process. They can't know what problems they can fix or have made for the carriers by having to perform those tasks. It really is quality control for the experience of Android.

Most importantly, Google can provide what no other (to my knowledge) carrier can offer, the ability to have OTA updates as soon as the device manufacturer completes their modifications. This allows Google to push other carriers to reduce/minimize bloatware and to see the cycle from Google to Manufacturer to Carrier to Customer.

Google made the Nexus line of products to be the flagship of Android, and now can provide the flagship of carrier experiences.
More money, more problems
"Ideological purity" is irrelevant. The point here is that people are abusing terminology to create ambiguity. As we are talking about software, the term "free" has specific connotations that differ from everyday language.

UE4 is a source-available, gratis game engine. This is fine. It is not open source, nor is it free or libre.
Google quietly backs away from encrypting new Lollipop devices by default
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Desired Qualifications:

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* Thorough knowledge and experience in machine learning, support vector machines, classification and clustering techniques, Bayesian and nearest neighbor networks.

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* Experience with Java and either Python or R.

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It's the stock market version of a MVP -- ignore regulations and reporting standards to get it out fast.
They did, with the B+ in mid 2014, and the current Pi 2 with the same power design. The B+ and newer boards don't suffer the odd power supply issues that the older boards (even the B rev2) suffered.

And I'm not just rehashing what someone else said; I've had one each of the original B, a rev 2 B, a B+, and now a Pi 2. I've used the same power supply on all four, and on the B+ and Pi 2 I don't have any issues with hotplugging flash drives and wifi adapters whereas I did on the original and rev 2 models.

I've had my B+ running 24/7 since August as a webcam server to watch my dog in the back yard, and I've only had to reboot it once for an update. It's running a Microsoft USB-powered 720p webcam and an Edimax wifi adapter directly off of the built in USB, and it hasn't once had a power issue. I've had my Pi 2 running 24/7 since I got it a couple of weeks ago, as a "light" GNU/Linux workstation I can switch to and use when my main workstation is otherwise occupied. Again, no power issues on that board.
What would be the syntax of the declarative code in the template?
http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/downloads/pdf/vs/vs-mortality-20...

If I'm reading this correctly, homicide still kills more people than traffic accidents. So while the injury rate may be higher for traffic, death rate still seems to be biased toward homicide.

As for how to make the traffic better, your source indicates 1/4 of fatalities are from drivers failing to yield right of way. One idea is that if intersections in cities had turn arrows and different parts of the cycle for turning cars and pedestrians, that could reduce that significantly. Doing an analysis of why people get hit even though they're in the crosswalk or whatever might be informative here rather than just going straight for speed limit or installing airbags on the fronts of cars.

Of course, I think the real solution is not better traffic laws, but self-driving cars. People are fundamentally poorly suited to driving cars and only a machine can do a consistent job without getting bored or impatient. Once we have a decent number of self driving cars, any ways to improve pedestrian safety will probably look totally different.

It might save a lot of lives to focus less on new traffic laws and more on making autonomous cars a reality (the legal side of that seems to be progressing very slowly).
If you don't need the C++ performance, my guess is it makes more sense to go with Unity and use their C# version.
Show HN: Xr – A modern ES6 Promise-based XMLHttpRequest wrapper
I trust the inevitability that Google's basket will eventually have the same fate. And it will be much much worse than anything we have seen so far.
Perhaps biased since I work for WooThemes but I disagree. First of all WooCommerce is free. What you need on your site is not needed on all sites. There is no "basic" version of WooCommerce. There is only one version and what you need on top of that is up to you. Extensions can be purchased from our marketplace or several others, but that's optional. There are free ones on WordPress.org that provide what you're looking for that are free but you will need to pay for support. WooCommerce itself works the same way. You also have the option to develop what you need on your site.
Some more information, since I ran out of space:

About Scry Analytics:

Scry Analytics (www.scryanalytics.com) provides Big Data Science solutions to do predictive and prescriptive analytics (i.e., to "forecast the future") and our aim is to:

* Codify work-flows in the services industries so that they are well-defined & repeatable.

* Collate and harmonize client's data that is required for such work-flow systems.

* Provide Scry Analytics' proprietary data that improves the key performance indicators and the characteristics of such work-flow systems.

* Use our proprietary Big Data Science platform as well as deep Computer Science & Math algorithms to build decision support systems that improve the metrics related to these work-flows.

Although Scry Analytics provides analytics and Big Data Science services, our aim is to minimize these services by providing automation and software solutions (where we can). We are currently solving problems in the following domains:

* Retail

* Banking and Insurance

* Inventory & Transportation of After Market Parts; Maintenance

* Utilities and Telecom

* Health care

Since most techniques that Scry Analytics is using are taken from cutting-edge research, the kind of solutions that Scry Analytics is building are unlikely to be built by companies that provide data analysts in a staff augmentation mode or those that provide IT professionals. So, we are looking for Bachelors, Masters, and PhDs in computer science, data analytics or math that have a "research" or "advanced development" bent.﻿
I didn't say (and don't believe) that learning OOP is harmful, I said internalizing the idea that OOP is a fundamental principle of programming is harmful.
It's hard to compare unity and unreal. To answer the question about c++, with UE4, the blueprint system removes almost all of that. Entire games can be written in their visual programming language. I also think there are ways to use c# (https://mono-ue.github.io/), if you prefer that as well. C++ is needed if you want to extend the native classes.

Regarding the editor, unreal is pretty amazing. It really shines in the tools department. Check out the landscape editor, materials editor, and animation tools on youtube. Pretty fantastic stuff.

The game engine itself is better than unity in almost every way with a few big exceptions:

1) multiplayer map size. unity can pretty easily support large online worlds
2) support for mobile/tablets. unity is the dominant platform on those devices.
3) community support. unity has a much larger community, better documentation, and a much more populous online store (though unreal is catching up)
This is terribly subjective, but I've always had the impression that the Ancient Greeks had a much higher instance of over-the-top brilliant minds than any of our modern societies could boast (controlling for population and living conditions, etc).

Around 200 BC, Eratosthenes [1] (a regular young Greek poet) calculated the circumference of the Earth just by measuring shadow lengths at high noon, and his guess was pretty much spot on (plus he figured out how far the Moon and the Sun are from the Earth, also very accurately), whereas Robert Hooke complained that too many people believed in a flat Earth in the 1600's [2]. Eratosthenes also invented Geography. Literally.

Pythagoras (~500BC) was a crazy smart guy, too. And then there was Hannibal, who used some insanely clever tactics to defeat a massive Roman army in what's considered the most decisive military victory in history (Hannibal lost 6,000 men, the Romans lost 60,000) (~216BC). [3]

My other favorite instance of mind-blowing genius is the Roman poet Lucretius writing about the time he stared at some dust floating around in a sun beam and deduced the notion of Brownian Motion, where the movement of atoms bouncing off each other on an invisibly small level "gradually emerges to the level of our senses... as bodies in motion." [4]

We have a whole lot of very smart people doing awesome things today, but when you control for population sizes, available knowledge, and living conditions, etc, the intellect of historical populations seems a lot more impressive than ours today.

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1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eratosthenes

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth#High_and_Late_Middle...

3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cannae

4: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian_motion#History
Despite the internal commentary, which is mostly in jest, spending arbitrarily is going to get you fired pretty quick. But there is still a metric ton of pressure to find the right things to spend money on, and they struggle to do so in a lot of cases.

It's interesting to think about from an entrepreneurial perspective, that The Gates Foundation has plenty of capital to "invest" but the companies and programs are often not mature enough to warrant massive grants. There might be a ton of small NGOs doing awesome work all over the world, and they can take small grants (XX,000-XXX,000), but imagine what a nightmare it becomes for them if given the burden of tens of millions of dollars all the sudden. Money solves a lot of problems in the nonprofit world, but sudden cash infusions can often create a lot of bizarre problems.

And on the other side, even if The Gates Foundation gives thousands of six figure grants out, that's not going to make a dent in the overall pool of cash.
Yglesias says, "People figure that whatever political problems it might have will prove transient — just as happened before."

This is way too dismissive of what's actually happened in American history. The word "transient" implies that the political problems eventually went away, and American democracy kept on going.

But what actually happened is that each political problem was addressed by changing our government--either through Constitution amendment, through federal legislation, or through the creation of new court precedent.

So the American government of today would not look very familiar to the people who wrote the Constitution. If they were alive today, they would think that what they created has already been replaced. We'll feel the same way 100 years from now...big deal. People always feel out of place as they age.

The fundamental benefit of the American system of government is that it can be changed in a wide variety of ways without violence.
Envato or Why Race to the Bottom Is Dangerous
This seems opinion based. I'd argue WordPress has a much stronger community.
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You can ignore it because you are blissfully ignorant. This is a good thing, because it indicates that most cases the transition to IPv6 is fairly seamless and unnoticeable.

Meanwhile on the network engineering side of things, most of our traffic is IPv6[1]. I deal with it daily.

[1] Disclaimer: This varies by provider and client base, but is true in my case.
Are any of the people who know absolutely nothing about how this stuff works following the story on the register? Would anybody even know if the register hadn't decided to make a story out of it? Doesn't seem like a particularly effective blame shifting strategy to me.
Keep in mind this is all done with "baked in" lighting. Still amazing, but to get that kind of graphical fidelity, you have to use static lighting.
> Not to mention the strength of the editor

Please, Wordpress content editor is nothing special from a UX stand point. Clients are just used to it,that's why clients ask for Wordpress.
You could wallpaper the land area of Cyprus with dollar bills and still have around 40 billion left.
Was about to post the same thing. It contrasts with everything else on the website in every way. I'm actually really curious what the rationale could possibly be.
Is there source for this somewhere? I'd like to play with it but I can't find anything without having to write something myself.
I work with Milan here at Tallie and I want to chime in to say that the team here is top notch. We're like family and we're all so proud of the work we've done and the work we will be able to do once you join us!
Can you even compare them :)

Evaluation of software, be it library, framework, sdk or a whole engine+tools is much much harder than writing actual software, especially when royalties, copyright and other legal issues are involved.

In reality there is no way of knowing what would do your best, so you can look at specific bad parts and take that into decision making, for example, for what I've heard (and possibly it could be wrong):

- Unity is not really good when lots of people have to edit the same files, merging is not really good, and the server option does not really cut it. (For example Quake's engine .map text files are not so bad to merge in cvs/svn/p4/etc.)

- Unreal had always had the bad "fame" of 30-only fps game, while this is okay for certain shooters, or 3rd person games, it would've never worked for "Call of Duty" where the brand was simply established with 60fps. To some people this might sound a bit pedantic, but 60fps matters! (And >60fps does not really, unless you need to swap frames for a 3D VR device of sort)

That to be said both engines surely have really good parts. From little I've explored in Unity, what got me first was the ability to extend the editor while it's running - I could add menus with functionality while it was running - this is super cool.

Unreal on the other side is well known engine with lots of people from the AAA game industry familiar with it, and while the editor might seem completely foreign to people starting in the game industry, it's pretty well known by many others (I guess they don't advertise it much).

The hidden gem of Unreal for me, was it's internal UI system, which could be used as a separate project - it has docking, controls, etc. - it might be a good replacement for Qt, MFC, wxWidgets, etc.
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I've always wanted to know how the 5% royalty is enforced.

Other, much lesser known, engines have attempted to do something of this sort by acting as an intermediary eg. publisher, planning to pay developers after they were paid by Apple. For obvious reasons that was immediately dismembered by the community.

The only way I can figure is they'll ask for an iTunes connect login so they can check on the numbers for themselves.

Speaking as a developer, it just sounds like something to be avoided from the start.
Switchmate makes smart lighting simple
The biggest problem with MVNOs is that they generally only get access to lessor company's towers, and not to any roaming agreements the lessor used to augment their coverage. The most obvious example is Sprint users have coverage in Montana despite Sprint having no towers in Montana (at least a year ago when I was carrier shopping.). But if you were on Virgin Mobile who are a Sprint MVNO, you got basically zero coverage in the state.