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Cool!

Naming might be a problem, however. Companies get litigious when you use their trademarks/brand, even when modifying things on the client side.

Slack came after an HN user for using "Slack" in their GitHub repo that hosted a client-side script for Slack.

There's probably a way to exploit this for geofencing purposes.

Matplotlib is often a dependency for Python dataviz libraries.

I often just skip the middlemen and use it directly.

Matplotlib isn't going away any time soon.

Antidepressants increase suicidality because their mechanism of action relies on rapid up-regulation and then gradual down-regulation of autoreceptors. For some people, the initial result is a paradoxically anxiety-ridden and dysphoric state.

> The police are always around on the streets, they don't have time to arrest people for just "drugs"

Meanwhile, my local police blotter is littered with "adolescent charged with drug possession/paraphernalia" reports.

> No jail for weed in a lot of places for a very long time.

There are plenty of fines, and if you can't pay them, you have the option of voluntarily or involuntarily spending time in jail over them.

Sharing an experience like this would definitely help bring awareness and empathy to the cause.

OP's parents and the man they hosted should consider if reaching out to someone about their story would be something they'd like to do.

Research that goes beyond self-reports echoes the sentiment that homelessness is overwhelmingly an economic issue. That's not to understate the impact that health, substance abuse and domestic violence play, either.

This is important to recognize, because families are falling victim to homelessness due to loss of jobs, insufficient income and the rising cost of living.

You could probably shake a few alcoholics out of that population, just like you could with the general population, but the overwhelming majority of them became homeless because of economic reasons. Those reasons, from here[1], include lack of affordable housing, unemployment, poverty, and low wages, in that order.

I have an uncle that became homeless after his divorce. It's a hole anyone can fall into if just the right bad things happen.

There's plenty of research available. I implore anyone who is reading this to Google "causes of homelessness", or start here[2] and continue researching by checking out the citations.

[1] https://www.nlchp.org/documents/Homeless_Stats_Fact_Sheet

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homelessness_in_the_United_Sta...

The majority of homelessness is caused by economic issues like the loss of a job, lack of sufficient income, lack of affordable housing and domestic violence. I did some work for an Australian charity that works with the homeless, so I have this graphic[1] on hand.

Here's a relevant graphic for the US[4].

The top three obstacles to obtaining permanent housing in SF are lack of affordability, unemployment and lack of housing availability[2].

The figures I've seen put substance abuse and alcoholism between ~10% and ~20% of the reasons for homelessness[3].

[1] https://probonoaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/w...

[2] http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2016/02/san-franciscos-ho...

[3] https://www.spur.org/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/Figure%206_...

[4] http://www.homelesshouston.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/lo...

The filters are also designed to have air pulled through them.

There's often an electrostatic component that ties into a filter's efficacy, as well.

Always check reference each hardware revision with the OpenWRT wiki, sometimes chipsets and radios will change between revisions.

I don't know, I clicked the Quillette link[1] in this HN comment[2] and there's over a dozen anti-semitic comments.

A couple of commenters even went out of their way to write coherently-worded, but disgusting, multi-paragraph anti-semitic rants.

I've seen comments like that on Stormfront or, recently, the comments section on Fox News articles.

However the dozens of social media groups, mailing lists and forums I'm a member of don't seem to have a problem with anti-semitic conspiracy theories littering their pages. Most of them are academic, tech or humor related and are far from a 'left wing internet bubble' you want to pigeonhole me as being stuck in.

What is it about Quillette that attracts such anti-semitic commenters? Is it just something about the article?

[1] "A Closer Look at Anti-White Rhetoric" https://quillette.com/2018/08/17/a-closer-look-at-anti-white...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18429602

I virtually never see comments about "Jewish misinformation campaigns" or "jewish desire to destabilize America", and I've never browsed Quillette.

Is there a reason people are talking about those things on Quillette?

I'd like to believe the journal he submitted his findings to has a rule about publishing papers that used unethical means to obtain data.

Homeopathic products cannot make claims about treating or curing diseases.

It reads as if he conducted a study in which he got informed consent from its participants.

As is, they were told that they'd either receive an injection with the cement or a placebo injection, and they agreed to participate under those terms.

You'd think the same logic applied with profiling metrics used in areas that implement stop-and-frisk, but it doesn't stop them.

A false positive is an excuse to target someone police don't like, or suspect is guilty, so the dismantlement of a system that provides those convenient false positives will be fought.

To put this number into perspective, there are roughly ~30k automobile related fatalities in the US each year.

HN tends to glorify self-driving vehicles because they might put a dent into that statistic. I wonder why that concern doesn't apply to drinking water.

Depends on what you're looking to detect and what kind of facility you have access to.

A few hundred dollars will get you a lab test for common contaminants, but the cost rises exponentially for anything beyond that.

As someone who self-exiled from the gaming community, there are also people within the community, including journalists, who beat on the war drums in order to rile up gamers.

For the last ~4 years, everything from game reviews that gamers disagreed with, to character stencils, have been positioned as the worst things to ever happen to gaming. Some in the community liken it to actual discrimination against gamers.

There are. Predators use domestic violence, sexual abuse and other abuse-related online support groups to groom vulnerable people. Strict moderation is absolutely necessary in these communities.

It's not about code quality, it's about transparency and ease of reproduction.

To my knowledge, all legal formulations are diluted for administration and only the manufacturer handles the substance in its pure form.

Illicit fentanyl and its derivatives are usually distributed in their pure form, to people who have no training in handling hazardous substances.

Sometimes first responders to fentanyl overdoses will not even be able to enter the room of the victim without hazmat suits, because accidentally breathing in fentanyl dust or touching a surface in which the dust has settled could kill them.

Your reply implies that consumers have a deep understanding of an industry that's outside of their areas of expertise.

It's this. They scrape news articles and make trading decisions based off of them. There would be a similar drop from naive systems if someone posted "Tesla Bad :(" on Bloomberg.

Squaring explodes differences.

The wake of austerity spawned both Occupy here in the US and nationalist groups like Golden Dawn et al in Europe.

Today, nationalist groups and media in the US receive millions of dollars in support.

I can't help but think someone took a look over at how Europeans neutralized dissent and thought they had a good thing going.

This is the weirdest grandstand ever. Why not take the opportunity to better learn the language instead of avoiding it?

I'm not a native speaker of French, but what I know makes various French Creole languages sound wrong. I wouldn't think to avoid speaking to someone who spoke a French Creole because I might feel like they're not talking grammatically correct French.

Shaming creates pariahs. Shaming gives others the incentive to ignore, blame, shun, harm and not help those who are shamed.

America has a long, ugly history of shaming single mothers, sexual abuse victims, adulterers and interracial and non-heterosexual relationships. I don't think that we should encourage more of it.

> Sadly, most of the people are irrational and emotional; if you want to steer them towards better life decisions, for their sake as well as society's, shame is a very good tool.

Would you use the word 'paternalistic' to describe your views on an ideal society?

$800 buys a lot of food, pays a lot of bills and could keep a roof over your family's head for a month or two depending on where you live.

Reminder that 40% of Americans can't cover a $400 emergency expense[1].

[1] https://money.cnn.com/2018/05/22/pf/emergency-expenses-house...

> How on earth is that going to help with anything? Is it going to make their lives better? Is it going to help the kids?

You're assuming that the poster actually cares about these things, and not just shaming people he thinks are below him.