skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. The iOS game I've spent the most time on is the port of Final Fantasy Tactics, which is an ancient PlayStation game. Even original Gameboy games have more depth than most iOS titles.
In my city, the daily commute traffic breaks down like this:

* Car 40%

* Bicycle 36%

* Bus 16%

* Walking 8%

I'm nearing 30 and none of my friends who live in the city own a car. Many subscribe to zipcar-type services for when they need to make trips. They're also all childless - all my friends with kids moved out of the city.

IMO, cars and cities are a bad mix. They make cities far more unfriendly, they increase sprawl, and cause a spiral of adding more cars, increasing sprawl further, etc.
I'd recommend the documentation that Intersystems Caché ships with - which is accessible on http://docs.intersystems.com/

It's not traditional MUMPS, but it adds things like macros, error handling, sane variable scope, regular expressions and so on.

http://docs.intersystems.com/cache20131/csp/docbook/DocBook....
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Library author: Don't provide an exploitable interface
Out of curiosity, I ran some BI numbers and arrived at a similar figure ($2.9T/yr, 17% of GDP, 81% of the entire federal budget).

I dug into some numbers to try to figure out what kind of tax rate you'd need to make that work. It's... challenging to say the least.

What I did find however was that in terms of income distribution, only 23M households were making <$20K/yr (mean household size was 2). An incredibly rough number, but you could run a Guaranteed Minimum Income program for $20K/yr for about 10x less (1.7% GDP) - you'd get that for free if you switched to single-payer nationalized health care (Canada, Germany, France, UK, Japan costs are 9-11% GDP while the US currently spends just under 18% GDP)[1]

This of course will never happen in the US because it'd make too much sense.

If you want to play w/ some numbers/sources:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AgAh7-k-pFfVdG1...

[1] http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.XPD.TOTL.ZS
not if the total subsidy is equal to the amount currently redistributed to poor people
If you want to talk about replacing jobs which are done more effectively by software, managing scarce resources to maximize utility and happiness seems like a pretty good candidate.
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2 Bullet Points on False Logic in Computationalism
I always think of the IO requirements doing that would impose.
The first thing I would do if I had to work with something like MUMPS is to write like, a MUMPS LLVM backed or something takes takes a saner language and emits MUMPS, therefore abstracting away the crazy. Why don't you guys do that? Or maybe it's already been done?
To me Facebook is the biggest problem. I'm a little embarrassed to say that I check the app on my phone many times per day - almost compulsively - to see if I have any notifications. I get a small burst of enjoyment catching up with friends, but, all in all, it's mostly an unpleasant distraction.

Taking breaks from that distraction - as the subject of this video did, by leaving her phone at hone - feels very refreshing. To help myself take structured breaks from Facebook, I actually made a simple Web app called Facebook Detox: http://www.codyromano.com/fbdetox/
The issue is that we already do redistribute wealth to the poor, and BI is a more efficient way of doing it in theory
The one letter abbreviations are neat.

There's no substantial change in readability in going from:

if condition:
print "Hello World"

Or:
if (condition) {
console.log("Hello, World\n");
};

To:

w:condition "Hello, World",!

I never type 'write', but just 'w' instead. Here's a list of commands: http://docs.intersystems.com/cache20131/csp/docbook/DocBook....

> Data right next to your front-end language was neat too.

Don't know about neat, it made it very hard to separate your model from your logic and while convenient at the time that's also quite a bit of a pain.
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FBI to keep closer eye on Syrians in US ahead of strike
The past decade has witnessed the narcissism level dialed up to 11.
This is a good idea in theory, but in theory there is no difference between theory and practice. It could work, if you could phase out all other types of assistance. But what's the chance of that?
Cybersexism is still sexism
The thesis of the audio clip appears to be that an unsolved problem with automation is what becomes of the automated workers.

My girlfriend works in a government job, at a regulator.

Most jobs there exist because they insist in dealing with paper forms instead of internet ones - for most employees, half the work is in correcting invalid forms (e.g. no contact address).

The other half is in applying rules that they have to know because they have never been codified in a database (instead living in large regulation documents).

Recently, they have been downsizing. One of the employees that was fired was primarily responsible for sorting emails that arrive in a centralized inbox, allocating them equally to staff. She also ordered stationary, and watered plants. When she left, she was entirely replaced by 2 Outlook rules, one to allocate the mail, the other to periodically order stationary by automated mail.

I wonder what will become of that lady. She had a fear of technology, not even mastering how to send email though it was her primary role for 5 years. She regularly cried in the office, and when asked to do anything outside that small role, approached a nervous breakdown.

There are a lot of people who are not able to cope with advanced roles, by which I mean normal jobs a normal person could perform. Either we are willing to pay for them to be comfortably unemployed (as the CEO implies we should be), or we are not. I suspect we are not. So they will be punished, and made to feel terrible, until they are diagnosed with something and can be disabled. At this point, their livelyhood relies on not being able, and this seeps into the soul.
Not sure why they don't investigate automated parking systems. Their parking density is much higher than lots or decks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOR25PjV0wI
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It has been done. The most popular form of MUMPS out there, Caché ObjectScript is a superset of MUMPS, so all existing MUMPS code will run on Caché.

But it adds a big bunch of things from error handling to better variable scope to classes to, I wish I was kidding, proper 'if'.

Something that's also been added (to GT.M as well, afaik), because it is so tightly integrated with its database, are tcommit, trollback and tstart as commands, which are strictly speaking database commands and not the kind of thing you'd expect to find in a programming language.
That's why streets with many narrow storefronts are the most crowded with pedestrians.

Correlation != causation.
Cultural. Where I live, parents and grandparents ostricize their grandchildren without a family by 30.

And even if you didn't have a cultural reason, incentivizing reproduction is extremely short sighted in an overpopulated world. Uplift Africa rather than reproduce here. The transition to a sustainable population is another topic, but it is an inveitable problem that must be solved, and we are no where near capable of having 8 billion US (or even the less egregous European nations) level of consumption and pollution without running out of resources, livable space, and breathable air well below that threshold.
I'm going to clarify my question here:

Why are Syrian PROGRAMMERS the focus?

It would be just as easy to divide up the population into any other constituent subgroup and select only those for help.

Any of these would also be a valid goal according to the effort being proposed here:

Syrian auto mechanics
Syrian bakers
Syrian musicians
Syrian nurses

You are presupposing that you can ONLY easily help programmers and furthermore, ONLY those Syrians with programing skill SHOULD be helped. Taken to it's logical extension, you end up helping people based on Ethnicity or Religion.

Why not instead focus on trying to help the greatest number of people in the most expedient way possible: by working to END this terrible civil war. That's CERTAINLY possible given the assemblage of talent reading these words.

You're setting your sights FAR TOO LOW.
Pentax also had the best lens coating of the time, so even the cheaper 50mm students could afford had great color transmission. It's still sought after for it's unique color rendering, and pristine lenses sell for a premium.
I do this in Common Lisp. It also makes sense as a technique for documentation: why leave examples rusting in comments when you can incorporate them into the program?

Add a Quickcheck-ish type-based test case generator and you start to blur the line between tests and types.
I don't know anyone over 30 who doesn't have one

For people under 30, not owning a car is becoming increasingly the rule. And I know several above-30 types without cars. They may rely on transit-only (a city designed to be unfriendly to cars is much friendlier to transit and walking), hire cars as needed, or use a car-share service (which still greatly reduces car dependence and parking requirements). Self-driving vehicles which can park themselves elsewhere are another obvious solution.

In crowded cities, cars aren't faster than buses (though they're typically more flexible for multi-stop trips), and parking requirements at your destination greatly increase costs ($20 - $50+/day isn't unusual).
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Cost and retrofit requirements, mostly.
It seems like he doesn't understand the complexities of her job. Automating repetitive tasks isn't hard, but automating a person is.
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> But I don't know anyone over 30 who doesn't have one.

That just completely depends on where you live.
> The last thing we need is another government program.

So would you then be in favor of a plan that dismantled all other current government means-tested welfare programs (welfare, unemployment, food stamps, medicaid, etc), replacing all of them with a strict implementation of a basic income guarantee (everyone gets the exact same amount, no matter what, no exceptions)? That would decrease the number of government programs, vastly decrease administrative overhead, and some calculations have shown that it would actually decrease overall spending as well.
Yeah, I don't understand this article. My building has a 1 story basement, street level is retail space, the next 6 floors are parking, and above that 24 floors of apartments. You can't easily tell from the outside what is apartments and what is parking without looking close. I also live in Seattle only blocks away from where this guy is talking about.
I don't mind most driving, so self-driving cars are kinda "meh" to me.

But then I think about the ability to pull up to a building and tell my car "go park yourself" and it becomes awesome.

All sorts of great efficiencies pop out, too: a lot filled with self-driving cars could pack them tightly, and when a car needs to be removed, all the other cars move out of the way. Offices, closed businesses, schools, etc, with parking spaces could all become ad-hoc lots at night. (I'd make city ordinances requiring this for building approval). Your car can park in a remote area somewhere, and when you want to leave, your car comes and finds you. Imagine taking a post-dinner stroll towards my car, and at some point you meet up.
> In crowded cities, cars aren't faster than buses

And especially not faster than a well-designed subway system
Expect programmers to have a terrible time of it, because ImgTec are known for being awful about open documentation.
uhm, well, they have been doing it for a couple of winters now
C# project. Title should reflect: "...Windows desktop backgrounds."
Many towers have multiple floors (I've seen as many as 10) of parking.

Turning radiuses and building services (elevators, water, sewerage, cooling, electrical) limit the ability to restrict parking to interior cores, though automated parking systems might allow for this.

Utilizing interior cores for warehousing/storage might also make some level of sense. I've also seen numerous buildings with large interior multi-floor (often the full building height) atria -- some quite beautiful in fact.
I guess to me the data thing was neat because you didn't have to bust into another shell just to get at data.
I think it requires strategy going forward, and it's going to require a mixture of things.

I highly recommend bicycle; I commute daily from bainbridge island to downtown Seattle. It's a little under 12 miles a day.

Having lived downtown, I can say that a car isn't needed as you can walk to 99.9% of where you need to be. That being said, living downtown is often times very limiting if you have aspirations of living freely. (Personally, I hate having neighbors that I can't control since I prefer quiet.)
And Segway.
This article argues that with a fraction of total GDP you could cycle back that productivity into BI. That means, even indirectly, most of us enable poverty by the way we spend our money and the way we engage with charity.

If you buy a lot of stuff at wal-mart, you promote sub-living wage income in most places for the clerks, because wal-mart (and the market at large) doesn't value their labor at what it would cost to survive, they just go with the state mandated minimum they can't violate.

It isn't something one person can change. Hence why it seems futile to try to moitivate individual behavior to cause a universal change that is inherently counter to the benefit of those with the resources to fix the problem - even if you don't forcibly take the money, if enough charity was going on to uplift the impoverished from poverty, there would be much lower than 15% poverty. Therefor, the market as is doesn't provide an uplifting effect, espeecially if poverty is getting worse (post recession).
Came here to plug the GT.M version of MUMPS, which is really great. It uses the underlying UNIX system as much as possible (so, for example, your routines are not stored in the database!)

http://tinco.pair.com/bhaskar/gtm/doc/books/

It's easy to put a CGI interface on top of GT.M - performance is quite good.

http://71.174.62.16/demo/TestCGI.htm

Personally I am working on a utility that wraps GT.M in an "environment" similar to a Python virtualenv, but I'm not sure I'm ready to show my baby to the world yet...
I don't think anybody is having that comic's thought bubble while using their smartphone, because it demands focus.
we'll need socialism much earlier than when all jobs are gone. the only problem is how to marry this transition with incentives for further technological development.

technological elites enjoying fruits of the economic growth, while the majority gets gradually reduced to TaskRabbits - that's really a disgusting picture...
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In essence, wearable computing (remember when that was a fantasy?) has been displacing television as the societal drug of choice. In both cases, the technology's effect on brain chemistry is literally overwhelming for many (or most).

Obviously the genie's not going back in the bottle; we'll have to learn to live with the costs of our marvellous creations, and create personal and social habits to mititage their side effects. So it goes.
Basic Job is worse because some individuals cannot get jobs simply because they are not productive enough - forcing them upon employees would be worse for the economy than giving them an income to live on
It's been done, details here: http://mondediplo.com/2013/05/04income
Not really. Since I'm a person, it is in my nature as well. I try to be extra conscious about it, but I'm not perfect. It always bugs me when I'm walking on the sidewalk and some runner rightfully asks me to move into my lane to allow him or her to pass. Similarly, I'm a tango dancer and every once in awhile I'll end up hitting another couple.
Kind of like "Stanley, Start-up Founder".
Correlation + causal explanation gives you a pretty strong link, however.

You can also directly compare regions in which monoliths break the flow small/frequent storefronts. The relationship, in my casual observation, holds very strongly.

You can disrupt the pattern by providing street-level temporary equivalents, e.g., street fairs / farmer's markets, and the like.

And obxkcd: http://xkcd.com/552/

"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there'."
Yes, to be provocative about it, here are some options for what to do:

1. Support them comfortably for the rest of their lives, retrain the ones who wish to be retrained. (too crazy?)

2. Euthanize them in a kindly fashion, ie with laughing gas. (obviously ridiculous)

3. Euthanize them in a cruel way, ie humiliate them by making them beg their families for care and resources, starve the ones with no family. Let them die of exposure if they haven't saved a fortune and can't cope gracefully with rapid technological progress. (the way we've been doing it)
Here's how to get a string from your persistent on disk configuration, completely from scratch:

set foo=^config("foo")

The '^' means it's a persistent variable.

Now do this with in the same number of characters either by reading in a flat file or doing an SQL query in any language. I don't think you'll succeed.

And, yes, it is possible to parameterise this ^config, like so:

set location="^config"

set foo=@location@("foo")
Maybe First Hill is special, but parking in Seattle proper and Capitol Hill (both near First Hill) is extremely crowded and finding a spot can be hard. The mythical building plot described in the article sounds wonderful relative to my experience:

"Overnight, when your tenants’ cars will most likely be at home, the office buildings’ garages are usually empty. And, of course, there are hundreds of curb spaces within six blocks of your building, though neighbors’ vehement territoriality about “their” spaces would make it impolitic to mention those in an appeal to the city for a parking waiver. Odds are that your tenants could secure whatever parking they wanted for much less than $250 a month per spot."

The cheapest parking I could get on Cap Hill was $150/mo, and it was in one of these subterranean garages.

Speaking of garages, any reason you can't build the garage on levels 1-2 and put apartments on 3-5?
I think history has romanticized car-less cities. Horses spook easily, and kill people in the process. Massive quantities of animal feces and dead animal remains would overwhelm the minimal city waste-cleanup services. The constant sound of horseshoes on non-dirt roads is worse than normal car noise. Cars solved real problems of city life.
I think it reads better if "overkill" above is seen as an imperative verb, as in "I suggest you overkill." :)
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If people who own private jets were subjected to the same level of harassment the TSA wouldn't exist a week later