skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was a key-programmer for distributor in some countries for MSM database, before they were bought by Intersystem. From my personal experience, mumps better suited to DB related systems only not fancy stuffs.
I also live in Seattle, and I also don't know anyone over 30 without a car per coupleº. But, like me and my wife, the vast majority of my friends own one car and that car is, indeed, largely used to get to Bainbridge, Rainier or Redmond. IE they are weekend cars - used to get out of the city and run some errands. A nice luxury for folk rich enough to pay many many 1000s of dollars for a toy they use on the weekend.

I love it - it wouldn't be Seattle to me if I couldn't get out on the weekends, but I don't think other folk of any sort - but particularly the large number of people living in Seattle on less than I am - should be subsidizing my toys. And, as such, I don't think we should be requiring parking for new construction.

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º I do know one solo 50-something who manages to go carless and, like our 20 something friends, I don't think she's missing much. She's got a great network of folk with cars to ferry her to the mountains and she (and they) are out there nearly every weekend in the summer.

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I also do know of a lot of people outside of my social circle who have 2 cars per couple and live in places like Puyallup and commute an hour plus each way into downtown Seattle everyday. Seattle is not immune to car culture, but those choices are either economic, or based on a culture I'm not part of. I'm fairly certain the suburbs, and exurbs, shouldn't be driving Seattle's city planning.
You bring this up when the subject includes Superman... a nearly invulnerable alien wearing Red and Blue spandex who can absorb the sun's energy, and who's only weakness is a rock that was found inside of his spaceship from when he was delivered to earth.

Yeah, right. Most movies aren't known for correct representations of the real world. But good movies explore human emotions: romance, tragedy, adventure, etc. etc.
re: losethos

What I've seen of his writing here (by clicking on my profile, turning on showdead, and going to userpage losethos) is about as mad as this,

http://www.chartrain.org/PDF/Finnegans.pdf

Actually, considerably less mad. Try to read that, and then try to read losethos's comments. which can you at least get some sense out of?

Why, losethos - if you ignore the 'crazy' sentences. If you ignore the 'crazy' sentences in the above link, by contrast, you are left with only chapter numbers and the closing words "Paris, 1922-1939."

At least in Losethos there is something in between the 'crazy' stuff.

Anyway, why did I choose the above link for comparison?

Because it's James Joyce!

So returning to Losethos. He might be 'stark, raving mad', but at least there's something to read and understand if we ignore all the detours.

Anyone who dismisses him outright clearly doesn't have a liberal arts education grounded in having to read real nonsense. After reading some of his posts, I have nothing to declare about his mental health - and neither should you.
Depends where you are digging them. If you are removing a lot of material in a built-up area it costs a lot to get it off-site.
People are not necessary, of course. People simply exist.

It is human physicality and desire that creates necessity. When humans are freed from servitude under other humans, their own passions are able to flourish.
Is Q really that difficult? It seems like it's just packed in a lot of common set and other math functions into every character possible. It doesn't look fun, but if your work lends itself to doing just that kinda stuff, maybe it works out alright?
README is on imgur: http://imgur.com/a/4pmRM

Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/GMWnmiG.png
Ouch. I'll keep that in mind for next time I attempt a kind word for people with mental illness, that nknighthb has a problem with that.
Sure as hell more than history, biology, sociology grads and high school students.

We did have to study concurrency and a database course. They were general and were not tied to any particular database, and good thing, because that a while ago. But it was a good theoretical understanding.
It can be a useful tool to get the main "feeling" in a complex line of pointers, but I wouldn't use it to auto-generate explainer comments
Q isn't too bad depending on how it's written. The book "Q for Mortals" is a good read. http://www.amazon.com/For-Mortals-Tutorial-In-Programming/dp...
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I live in a condo building with maybe 35-40 1br and 2br units on 3 floors, plus first floor 35 or so units of parking. It doesn't seem unworkable, and a parking spot in the building is worth at least 100-200/mo to me. I am not sure how the economics work here but not in the example.
People wearing Che Guevara shirts are rarely hired for important positions.
Why is this so bad? This is a natural evolution of the human race as we integrate technology into our lives. The next 10-15 years will probably be looked back on as a time when we were adjusting to this "virtual" world. It will seem barbaric that we were interacting with this world through our tiny little mobile devices. In the future, our online experiences will not be distinguishable from the "real" world. No use fighting it, it's just a natural evolution.
you're using bootstrap so why not use fontawesome and use chevron-up or something instead of that ugly blue arrow
Actually if you had read the article fully, you'd have realized that the person mentioned at the end of the article was a co-founder, not the main subject of the article. This guy was living in his car not an RV.
I don't think we're going to see a cultural shift away from smartphones anytime soon because we use them to fulfill almost all of the core human drives, within a matter of seconds and with little to no effort. We use our phones to acquire status, respect, praise, attention, to connect, message, brag, to read, read, read about everything happening around us.

What's easier: keeping afloat a conversation with a few acquaintances or tweeting a witty joke and reading up on the 20 @replies you receive? What about taking the time to appreciate a meal, how it's plated, its flavor combinations, or bragging about how cultured you are by posting a picture of it to Instagram then waiting for those sweet likes to roll in?

Smartphones and the social apps they run are brain hacks. We're wired to seek out instant gratification. They literally put us in our own mobile Skinner box.
I don't think I do, I'm just going off what was written in the article. But I have also had simple jobs that could be automated with the right tools. Even software developers have to constantly stay on top of tools that automate the use of older or more complex tools.
Install a couple of lifts on the side of the building and put all the parking on the roof.
Your Google Glass will alert you when you're about to bump into someone.
Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation".

On behalf of people with mental and neurological issues of all stripes, please shut up. We don't need your "kind words". Just the opposite. We need people who think they're "defending" us by being holier-than-thou assholes to stop talking.
These people do not live behind the GFW and don't understand what real unfreedom is. I agree the USA should avoid becoming unfree, but we aren't even close yet.
There is at least one residential building in Vancouver, BC that has implemented an automated system, but according to this article, the cost per space is almost double that of a conventional space:

http://www.vancourier.com/news/vancouver-robo-garage-lowers-...

Also, having spoken to someone who lives in that building, it seems to be disliked by a lot of residents, due to the long waiting times at peak periods. That's not particularly surprising given there are only two transfer stations.

I guess these systems may work better in retail locations where there is a steady flow of traffic coming and going through the day, rather than at residential or office locations where there are very high peaks in demand. To build enough transfer stations to satisfy the peaks would presumably both be very expensive, and reduce the space savings that were made.
I don't get it. That seems like a rather trivial library thing to add in most languages, at least ones that let you define operators. Otherwise you'd just fine top-level functions "configp" or whatnot.

Just like "one letter abbreviations". Again, just "let w = printf" if that's what you're into. I do that kind of stuff all the time, with limited scope.
That certainly sounds cheap!
? was still handy because on the C64 there was a 2 screen line max when entering a program line. So you could get a longer line in by using

10 ?"hello whatever..."

which would be expanded to

10 PRINT "hello whatever..."

Line numbers counted too, IIRC, so it was more important when you had 4 and 5 digit line numbers.

But it's been 25 years since I did any commodore basic - my memory might be a bit wrong on this...
And?

Doesn't mean this isn't of use, or that I'm reaching for a conspiracy. But a faraday cage to prevent communication might come in handy every now and again.
Dynamic languages are static languages (2011)
Politics, self-censorship, and awesome sauce
LOL. Okay I have to admit that was pretty damn funny. 10 sign-ups for free and then $99/mo? LOL.
> Ever get lost?

Rarely. I use a GPS most of the time.

> Do you travel a lot to other states/cities?

Absolutely not. I try to spend as much time in my home as possible.

> Ever want to check HN on the fly?

No.

> Maybe get caught up on current news events or breaking stories?

Rarely.

> Ever wonder how your favorite sports teams are doing?

I hate organized sports.

> Maybe you want to know how hot its going to be so you know what clothes to wear or if it's going to rain at 2pm or 3pm today.

I wear blue jeans and a dark-colored button-down short-sleeved shirt year-round, regardless of the weather. I also keep an umbrella in my car.
This --^

The definition of "poverty" is influenced to buy votes for politicians.

You can have A/C, Cable TV, full meals, and still be considered in poverty.
HN title sums up Business Insider summing up a video sum up of the speech.
High-ranking HTC executive arrested for leaking trade secrets
People like this -- and I've known several -- are suffering from an acute case of knowing their situation perfectly well. They know that they don't warrant the salaries they're receiving for the work they do. They fight against any improvement to their systems because the inefficiency is their job security. They feel constantly threatened because they understand that people coming up behind them just don't need them. That's why their nervous and irritable. The biggest problem with these folks is that they grew old between the ears, and think they can't adapt to their changing circumstances. If they would, they could learn to be more valuable in other ways.
No, the underlying tone is, "If you have a car, you should pay all of the expenses associated with having one, rather than expecting your car ownership to be subsidized by people who don't own one."

Any time a city mandates that developers install parking, that's exactly what happens: car owners are being subsidized. Car owners have come to expect free or cheap parking.

Cities don't actually need to mandate parking. If they just left developers to decide, then they'd only build parking if it was profitable. That means that the market price for parking would rise until it made economic sense to construct parking.

This is a (I would say, the only) sensible way to do things, but car owners would revolt, because they apparently hate the idea of paying for what they use.

And just for the record, I do own a car, and live in a city.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_room_occupancy
For extremely low values of "easily". C#'s lack of pattern matching and tuple syntax makes dealing with tuples in C# a complete pain in the ass. It's ugly, annoying, code, in general.

P.S. You can do this in pretty much any language. Just define pair, triplet, etc.
Funny as in odd or contradictory to the parent argument.
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However it's not a DRM free streaming model. So it's not much healthier than other types of restrictions - it's still DRM. Some truly DRM free streaming should emerge in the face of all these Netflix-like DRMed barbed-wired gardens. Streaming should be a convenience, not a way to restrict copying. Others brought Steam as an example - for Steam, there is competing GOG which is DRM free and proves the point that DRM free gaming without regional restrictions and other such junk can be successful. So what is there for Netflix?

Also, I didn't get his point about the music industry. Most music is easily available DRM free, unlike video.
Chiming in with the others - I did. I didn't do a lot with it, but I did. Didn't even know what an assembler was - I just though everyone did it by hand.

I'd read some code that showed JMP $5000 and LDY 32 and figured people just knew that JMP was a particular byte, and LDY was a different one, and you just did it. While it did seem cumbersome, I didn't have much else to compare it to.

I wrote some small screen animation utilities (ASCII screencast recorders, essentially) and later some C128 'enhanced graphic mode' stuff, moving a pointer with a mouse. I think by that point I'd learned the C128 had a small assembler tool built in, so that made things easier.
Looks fine to me now.
What I find interesting is how unusual it is for a higher-paid person now to negotiate part-time work.

I mean, I've done so at several points in my life, but it's not particularly easy. it's certainly possible, but you need to establish yourself as important to the business (for me, in the past, this has meant working full time for a while.) then do the negotiation, if you want to go half-time.

But usually? cutting down below 30 hours a week kills your benefits. Sometimes below 35. Even if you reasonably could afford to pay for health insurance, well, pre-existing conditions keep many of us from buying individual coverage (and individual coverage isn't nearly as tax advantaged as employer-paid coverage, and individual coverage isn't as secure as group coverage; it's much easier for an insurance company to later find a "pre-existing condition" that you didn't note.)

But that's the big question. The affordable care act is going to make it so that you can get health insurance on your own, even with pre-existing conditions, (though, I think, employer-paid insurance will still be tax-advantaged) - I wonder how this will effect the number of upper middle class people interested in working part-time.

Speaking of, if anyone wants a reasonable sysadmin contractor half time to 3/4 time, I'm available. I'm looking for around $100/hr, but am open to flat rate or other billing mechanisms. I've got a fairly high revenue business (rather more than you'd pay me even full-time) and as such would be happy to go corp to corp.

Will work for expansion capital.
"... can be absorbed by a healthy economy and healthy society..." Are we playing Spot the Problem with the Argument? Because I think I have a possible winner.
How many retirement announcements does this make now? At the very least it's his second: he also announced it after Spirited Away. I'm pretty sure he's announced his retirement at least one other time as well, though I forget when.
Those... get bulldozed all the time too, unfortunately.
> I have nothing to declare about his mental health - and neither should you.

He told the world he was schizophrenic, as well as describing at various times his (clearly schizophrenic) rationale for certain things, such as the random number generator that he believes God uses to talk to him. It's not a secret, and it's not something anybody is just guessing about.
Power quotes on the strength of  women and their voices: Allred and Bailey
proper 'if'

What (if anything) does MUMPS proper have for 'if'?
I purposely don't carry a mobile phone around with me and am noticing the problem getting worse. We don't need all these apps that suck our time and attention for little reward... most of us don't even need a standard phone. It's like being surrounded by socially acceptable junkies, and it's only socially acceptable because nearly everyone's a junkie.
Why did you file a Yelp Review and not a complaint with the Bar Association?

Further if the judge was ignoring you then file a complaint with chief judge.

Chances are nothing will come from a single complaint, but if a pattern emerges sanctions or even disbarment can be the result. I guarantee it will be more effective than a Yelp Review
https://github.com/aphyr/prism/
Haha. Same here when it comes to hackernews. Maybe I'll create an HN Detox one of these days!
We use Python too.

This system was originally put together in the 80s and while a complete reimplementation from scratch in Python is possible, it wouldn't really give us that many benefits that we don't already have. We don't have to worry about algorithms all that much - we may just write an SQL query which takes care of things for us. One of the more complex things we do in new code is maybe two levels of $order, the equivalent of your for x in y loop.

We're programming on a level quite a bit higher than C, nor are we exposed to the sheer verbosity of Java, thank god. You think Caché ObjectScript is awful? I think Java is awful.

What Caché gives us is tight integration between the language and the database system, so in that way the choice isn't really between Caché ObjectScript and Python, it's more between PL/pgsql or PL/Python and Caché ObjectScript. Once you go there you'll realise that the code that's written in ObjectScript isn't really affected that much by the choice of programming language anyway. And PL/Python isn't really something you'd want to write a production system in anyway. Between that and built-in ORM, things really aren't that bad.

And 100x readability improvement is just wrong. Sorry, it is. Sure, that may apply to some old MUMPS code that survived the 70s when disk space was sparse but even this is fairly straightforward to expand into something quite readable. We do have syntax highlighting, function calls look the same, and assigning a value to an object is 'set object.Property = "blah"' instead of 'object.Property = "blah"', a difference that's quite trivial.

That's not to say the lack of libraries isn't annoying, but everything really important is there in the right places. I've written a decompressor for tar.gz in about 34 quite readable lines, with error handling and all. gzip is built in these days so it's really mostly .tar I needed to worry about. Alternatively, calling out is just a matter of $zf(cmdLine, -1). Similarly, I've just put chosen (https://github.com/harvesthq/chosen) into our web application, based on Caché. It was easy enough to do.

And it's a pretty top-notch fast SQL implementation with a nice built-in language and a nice ORM and lots of other bonuses like full-text search and bitmap indices and OLAP cubes (yes, it speaks MDX even) if nothing else.
Stop trying to shoehorn all of the kinds of socialism into the same bucket - it's a disease of modern American political discourse.

Not to mention that there isn't any system which survives your counterargument.
And at least you were the one who made the first contact. I wasn't even interested to start with, they came to me trying to impress me with new and interesting working going on in that group. I was kind of surprised. For some reason, (and I don't even know why) I expected more from them. Oh well, no need to waste time on them in the future.
> Your very first post in this thread was a deliberate insult to the entire community dressed up as a request for "explanation".

IMHO nobody's really made a convincing case that at least some small part of this community hasn't ostracized this guy for either his mental illness or for his interest in operating systems. Having looked at comments surrounding this guy I still see people doing both. I've gotten some nice replies from people who aren't trying to judge him but I still do see other users doing both. I wanted to speak my conscience about that.
That's useful, and you should link it.

It would have saved this thread a lot of arguing. (People misinterpreted the issue to be that he hand-coded an OS.)
For one thing, there's not much of an incentive to port hundreds of thousands of lines of working legacy code to a different language just to make it more readable. Its age isn't a relevant issue either - sure, MUMPS debuted in 1966, but InterSystems Caché and GT.M are still being actively developed. Other databases are pretty old, too - the first version of Oracle was written in 1978.

If Caché had no strengths, I would agree with you, but as a non-relational database, it's pretty good. Sparse associative arrays are the default data structure, so it's very popular in, e.g., medical applications, where you would want to be able to store thousands of different things, but any given patient will only need a few of them.
I also don't have a heart attack when my son drops his DS and it goes skittering across the pavement. iOS devices are nice, but they are not durable enough to be owned by children. Nintendo puts the work in to make their devices withstand being used as, for lack of a better word, toys.
This is an awful lot of conjecture, yet remarkably little substance. The core claim of this purported injustice is that "Digging these holes is astronomically expensive", with absolutely nothing to qualify it (beyond a link to an Onion article). The single proof was that LA allowed builders to re-purpose existing buildings (e.g. turning that old sugar factory into condos) without satisfying current parking requirements, which has absolutely nothing to do with the cost on a new build.

Large buildings need a substructure proportional with their height, especially in an earthquake zone like SF area. Even where non-parking substructure is built, it usually still requires a complete excavation to ensure that the materials are appropriate for keeping a skyscraper from falling over. However more expensive parking is than without, unless an accounting construction expert wanders in, I draw very little value from someone looking out of their window and drawing perhaps unsupported conclusions.

And then even if you assume that parking is more expensive, most buildings charge for parking. Does this cover the extra costs, if any? I don't know, and neither does the author. Just a perceived injustice and yet another claim of subsidizing car drivers.
What if AI, automation, and the goal to maximize short-term profits leads to robots only making things for other robots?
Which is why I talked about the concept of basic income. I don't know the answer but people are arguing about whether automation is good or bad which is irrelevant. These jobs will be automated whether you like it or not. If we play our cards right then perhaps more people can pursue their passions. If we don't... well I'd rather focus on making the former happen.
Kevin Spacey clearly gets it. Rampant piracy is an indication of a failing business model. It's not that people aren't willing to pay, and that's evidenced by the success of Netflix and shows like House of Cards. Same can be said of Steam's game distribution model. Give people what they want, how they want it, at a fair price, and you'll surely be able to make money.