skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, that's a demo site that's worked for me in the past to preview the software.

You can download it here: https://github.com/c-a-m/passfault

And the project itself is affiliated with OWASP.
You're a mother carrying groceries and a kid and you have to walk ten blocks. Is it as essential as medical treatment? No, but it's a substantial degradation of your quality of life if you get priced out of it. I think the political attention on the topic speaks for itself as to how essential the public views it. And we're not just talking about Uber here, we're talking about taxis in general: if Uber drives taxis out of business by undercutting them during ordinary circumstances, there won't be any around to undercut Uber during a surge.
Did that really happen? My iTunes library lived primarily on a Windows box until 2 years ago and the only weirdness I can think of was Apple breaking some of Microsoft's windowing conventions.

To be fair, the MS Office experience on OS X is about the same: pretty normal with some things slightly off.
Gov tech is always fun. I just remember when I had to do it I tried to register sometime late at night (2am-ish?) and was surprised to see that their system had crazy amounts of planned downtime per week. It took a few days before I remembered to do it when it was accepting registrations.

Found wayback link:
It is not operational when system maintenance is scheduled from 2 a.m. to 4 a.m. U.S. Central Time Tuesday through Saturday and from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 2 a.m. Thursday.

(https://web.archive.org/web/20011101001831/http://www4.sss.g...)
If all editing is done in the cloud, I don't see any problems. MS Word isn't designed for collaborative editing.

That, or use something like markdown + version control.
> I'm just saying, the trend is there. More and more kids get arrested for what I would argue is petty stuff that most kids do.

I don't disagree. I wholeheartedly abhor the criminalization of the current educational discipline regime.

My only point is that unfortuntely this study is not itself sufficient to comment on that ridiculous escalation, given its use of decades-old data.
I do not plan to add to Funcgo the ability to easily create macros. Inspired by Go's philosophy, I want to limit the scope of the language to keep it somewhat simple. Funcgo however can use macros, so a sufficiently motivated programmer can write macros in Clojure and use them in Funcgo.

Thanks for the feedback on the impression the name and branding gave. I'll try to change the main pages to make clear that Funcgo is not full Go, and is a fairly thin layer on top of Clojure.
Yes, but it conceivable. It's like a code. You could securely save files with two numbers. Just a position and length.
> Docker builds on that, but it's different.

So what is different?

You wrote whole paragraph about what it isn't. But what is it then that make Docker not just LXC (other container) + scripts to manage applications in it. One could presumable still spawn a single application on any OS...
Considering the administration's public statements in the past, this would have been a pretty surprising pick for them. How sure were people about the nominee. Also, anyone know anything about the acting director from google?
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"But blood tests showed that the baby had an active HIV infection. The virus had emerged from some mysterious hiding place in her body." Could the child not have just simply been re-infected? The mother has a demonstrated history of lacking healthy habits.
I'm skeptical that this could really save any space. Just speculating here, really, but it seems like on average the amount of space needed to store the starting index of an arbitrary string of digits in pi should be greater than (or at least comparable to) the size of the string itself.

e.g., the first instance of "256" in pi starts at the 1750th digit. So in that case you're getting a 'compression' rate of -33% if we go by the count of decimal digits used.
Literally forever, right?

It's basically scanning a random byte-stream for a 200-byte long exact match. 200 bytes, 1600 bits, or 2^1600 different possible sequences, making the odds 1/2^1600 that any particular 200 bytes pulled out will match the bytes you are looking for.
I wonder how much a battery swap would cost?
If you read the rest of my comment, you'll see that it is not identical at all. For instance, why would a lottery winner value their time more highly? Their time doesn't earn them anything. And you went beyond saying that the individual values their time more, you implied that society should also value it more to encourage productivity. But again, what kind of productivity are we encouraging from a lottery winner, a trust fund baby, or a con artist?
I've been building a little project called guppy it's at http://gpy.me and it requires less registration and is still being tested right now, but's a fun idea.
This is extremely clever and something I have wanted to do for a while. If you are interested in contributing to a fun, small Clojure project, stop by: https://github.com/bmhimes/clojure-pifs
Considering the normal cell-system was shut-down by the operators due to fears about mobile-controlled IEDs (aka pressure cookers with archaic timing systems) it could be very useful, as long as the cell-system operators can discriminate on a device-level which we all know to be true at this point.

And who gives fig what "public-safety" people think if it's old-fashioned? They need to step their game up and gladly join our Total Information Awareness world. I'm not paying the taxes I am for some sort of half-assed sort-of-oppressing oppression. Why did they compromise the telcos so thoroughly if not for this exact purpose?

Fascismo with no joy in wielding its ultimate authoritarian stick is nothing worthwhile for these US of As. Gotta give that 110%, idolators of power and authority for their own sake...
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All good, except that Solaris is a ghetto.
The biggest problem are relations between the functions.

In one function control flow is so simple we don't think about it. It's sequence. In 100 functions either each call the next one (and even if the 100 functions are placed in calling order I cannot assume that when reading the code - I must do 100 ctrl+clicks to see the control flow), or there's another function calling all of them (but what's the point - we still have 100-line function that way), or there's some more complicated calling sequence and I have to draw it somewhere to understand it (sorry, can't keep 100 things in my head at once).

To understand the code I have to follow the control flow through these 100 function. I don't think any 100 lines of code in one function can be harder to read than that.
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and that's the joke.
You should really consider commenting on the project pointing this out to the author; I think he'll be disappointed to know that he hasn't discovered a way to magically compress random data.

That said, I wonder if "but remember all that storage space we saved by moving our data into π? Why don't we store our file locations there!?!" wasn't meant as some kind of hint...
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This is one of the reasons for MIT's exokernel design- most of what the operating system does gets pulled into userspace libraries by default, the same way it is with green threads, so you get the same kinds of benefits with file systems, networking, IPC, etc.

I'm kind of disappointed most kernels that have added scheduler activations have dropped support because they didn't want to deal with both interfaces and weren't willing to drop the traditional one.
And in other news, today the USPTO gave Lockheed Martin a $268,910.52 competition-free contract because it is apparently the "only" company in the United States writing enterprise software.

https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=c6652fc...

It's good that the White House backed off here, but the USPTO is still an ungodly mess.

I have been politely asking both USPTO and the White House to fix the problem where courts report IP assets involved in litigation via a form called AO 120 for some time (months)--to no avail. AO stands for Administrative Office, which means the judicial branch controls the form. To view all of these forms on PACER it's $0.10 per page. Fortunately, they're shipped (really, shipped) to USPTO where they're made available on an automated FOIA site. That's great, except that they're printed and scanned, and huge numbers of them are filled out incorrectly; stamped with various crazy stamps; entirely blank in fields, etc. Also, different courts report case numbers completely differently.

This should be handled with a web-based system that would take most people on this site a few days to write and test. But here we are, in 2014, trying to convince the people who decide what is and is not an invention in the United States of America that they should start using the web.
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Michelle Lee is smart, but the bureaucracy under her is massive and it will take the White House and Congress to really set any changes in motion I'm afraid.
Don't worry, it scales well!
MindRDR Is A Google Glass App You Control With Your Thoughts
Reminds me of this SMBC: https://medium.com/the-nib/jesus-is-destroying-civilization-...
If we make it about names then we have Barack "Hussain" Obama who shares a middle name with Islam's prophet Mohamed's prominent nephew, son of Ali, who was the original holy imam of the Shia sect and to whom most Hezbollah members have sworn allegiance. So I don't think it's a case of racism at the highest levels. I think there are some idiots at any government agency who are mentally backward and terribly lacking in moral aptitude.
An Alternative Look at Uber’s Potential Market Size
When I was in college, some dorm buddies of mine got caught drinking on a public beach at night, were arrested, and charged with "minor in possession." I'm pretty sure this was a state law, and I'd be surprised if it wasn't widespread.
It would only be secure if nobody knows what the position refers to. And the position is likely to be longer than the data, so you might as well use proper encryption.
It could, but the time period violent crime has been going down and the period that saw far more cops in schools don't completely overlap.
And no Amazon as well!
Ideally 100% of LED light is in the photosynthetic rage. It looks like there using white LED's which are less efficient AND not optimal for plants. Sill, assuming the 'best case' using current mass market tech.

Sunlight > photosynthisis (45%) = 45%.
Sunlight > solar cell (22%) > conversion, storage, transmission (90%)
> LED (40%) > photosynthisis(100%) = 8%

reality is LED efficecy drops over time and LED light is not quite 100% ect but this is the optomistic best case numbers.
I think after the baby boomers have left the picture in business, windows will slowly die out. Developers today are using OSX and Linux. Don't quote me, but traditional schools are the only ones using windows. My college does, and I honestly think its a learning point for all developers to know Linux over windows because of usage around the world. Tech companies are dropping windows for the opposing systems because of speed, reliability, and the current trend in design. With this happening all development, or at least what I'm seeing in the web, is mainly done on OSX or Linux. Therefore it make sense that lightweight containers will eventually eat VMWares lunch.
Most Y2K issues were not about 8 bits vs. 32 bits, but about storing years as two-character strings. Otherwise we might have seen problems in years like 2028 or 2156.

This story is proof that one cannot "patch over minor [...] errors as they pop up" as you say.
I love pieces of code like this, it appeals to me in the same way sleepsort does. A superficial understanding of it might make you think it would be worth it, but really, while it may work, it's better left as a joke.
To be fair, it compressed my 93 Gb file into 6 bytes. Incidentally, the file stored the first 100 billion decimals of pi.
tell me again how Docker/containers can run Windows, which much of enterprise IT is still virtualizing
I think he stole those graphs (or at least got the inspiration to them) from Phil Libin at Evernote: https://vimeo.com/11932184 @13:25.
I think the parent poster should probably have emphasized the importance of HATEOAS more and the power hypertext/linking gives you. I won't spend any time on it in this comment since there are plenty of resources on the web for that, but that's really been the important thing about REST for me. It really is a wonderful thing that clients cannot even attempt invalid state transitions, and I don't think I've seen it done in any other even moderately popular RPC/IPC framework. In other frameworks/architectures for RPC/IPC all operations are just "available" all the time, but if you were to actually attempt to invoke them you'd get "operation not supported" (or the like).

Strangely, very few people (at least that I've spoken to) who are fans of REST seem to have even picked up on the HATEOAS principles. I'm guessing that their fandom is more predicated on a hatred of SOAP/XML and love of the simplicity of JSON -- which is kind of strange since HATEOAS also works beautifully for Content-type=XML over HTTP.

EDIT: An attempt to formalize the Richardson Maturity Model (L3) for REST+JSON/HTTP can be found at: http://stateless.co/hal_specification.html (I'm not affiliated with it in any way, just thought it was interesting.)
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"You can't copyright a fact (like a number), but you can copyright a creative work, like a song or a piece of software. But since one can be transformed into another, copyright law is logically INCOHERENT."
It's still less than what the inventor came up with, so it seems relevant.
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Finally way to fix Chrome dumbified gui and add vertical tabs.
What about other countries (Finland, Sweden, Estonia, Germany, France, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Singapore, China, India) or organizations (Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Apple, Tata, Baidu, So, Pfizer)? Is there generic platform where information about IP ranges can be entered? Or are this 'one off' projects? Why not to make generic solution?
If call will go to telecommunication network i can guarantee that call can be intercepted. It is like normal call and those can be listened.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_gateway
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawful_interception
Compared to code that's very regular, like say Java, Lisp might be less readable, but IMHO Lisp is in general more readable than other languages as soon as your code is more than a sequence of simple non-nested assignment and method calls.

Nested function calls in Java have more punctuation than nested calls in Lisp, and the Lisp ones are generally better indented and thus more readable. It doesn't help that even after 10 years, Eclipse indentation is still absolute crap (aligning method arguments, anyone?), while Emacs got it right back in 2000 (or way before).
Next step: cpus supporting asm.js instruction set directly.
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Aha! What would we do without Chainfire?

This is really something that needs to be baked-in at OS level though. I hope Google catches up.

Edit: Star this issue - http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=71084
If their marketing department says it follows correct physics, and the game actually doesn't, you just blindly believe them.

You can't say you follow some rules and then break them when you choose to and then say your game is Newtonian. Because then every game having player moving in the world is.

Here are the facts. When turning you keep you velocity, which implies magical thrusters that can change power drastically when needed to do so. But why not use that power all the time and not only when turning? Doesn't make any sense. And there is a maximum speed limit. How does that follow the Newtonian laws?
Thanks, I have to admit I didn't think of that (saw VOLUME commented out in your Dockerfile, but didn't think that you might have moved it to a run script).

My point remains that Docker benchmarks are especially easy to spin any way you want, since usually they are really benchmarks of the underlying system configuration (with some parts glued together by Docker, but most parts outside of its control).
I actually liked the Little Schemer a lot, specifically the way it's laid out with just questions in one column and answers in another (it helped establish a rhythm that made it nice to go through); but I did find the tone a little "young".

All the examples are about food, and there's cartoons littered throughout. There's a bunch of books that seem to be of that tone (Learn you a Haskell, Land of Lisp, Realm of Racket, Learn You Some Erlang), and I found myself instinctively recoiling from all of them (I haven't read the Erlang book, but it seems very much in that style).

I think it's important to have lots of different styles of books for learning a language, because I think different people respond better to different approaches, but selfishly, I wish every language had an equivalent to "ANSI Common Lisp" (by this site's benefactor emeritus) and Real World Haskell. I am also a big fan of the way Zed chose to lay out his books.
None of my serious projects over the last 14 years have had Windows as a requirement at all. Over the last 19 years, I've only worked on two serious projects were Windows support was a requirement - they add up to a combined about 2 months of effort.

You need to narrow it down substantially for that claim to make any sense.

(as for their contributions, I'm not going to get started on what would just end in a flamewar - suffice to say we have very different views on what the computing world is likely to have looked like without MS)
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^ office space quote.
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if you can play different races or have different terrain abilities, symmetry is not the only balance issue
If you look at the projects from IndieWebCamp people, you'll see they're about much more than just static HTML sites. They're working on tools that enable social networking based on simple standards-based websites - similar to your framework, perhaps?

IMHO, the ideas of the IndieWebCamp people will last far longer than those of the other so-called "decentralized" social networking projects. I'm confident that (1) my kid(s) will have a HTML website, and (2) they'll never have heard of Diaspora or Pump.io. I hope that, by that time, Twitter and Facebook will only be used by Granny and Granddad, if at all.
Godel's lesser-known Nonliability Theorem has as of yet failed to gain much traction in the MPAA.
Michelle Lee basically came to the USPTO straight from Google, and has a strong silicon valley background. This is much more so than most other senior officials from USPTO in DC area.
In fact, it's still not known if pi is normal (contains all finite patterns of numbers[π]), so you can't guarantee that any search will terminate.

π: Not quite the definition of normal, but equivalent.
This looks like a perfect core to build a real (no problem with shortcuts like in chrome) minimal browser with vim shortcuts. Sweet!
If you can identify the IP ranges you can configure anon https://github.com/edsu/anon to listen for edits from them, and announce them using a particular Twitter account.

Honestly, I just put anon together in a few hours, and didn't put a great deal of thought into it. It might make sense to do what you suggest, and create a more generic webapp to deploy on Wikimedia labs, which manages the IP ranges, and Twitter accounts to post to.
You still end up with myriad syntax rules; why (a int) and not (int a)? Why not any inversion or isomorphic transformation?
Like other lossless compression algorithms, there always exist some blobs of data, where the length of the location plus metadata exceeds that of the the original blob, due to the pigeon hole principle. The trouble in the case of pi-fad is that probably we will not know whether the location is longer or not before it is ever actually computed.
The professor's analysis was so obviously bad that it's very surprising it made it into FiveThirtyEight. I have dozens of friends who used to take a taxi trip or 2 a week who now take a dozen or more Ubers in the same time. It's patently obvious that the Uber market opportunity is much larger than the current taxi/towncar industry.

And Uber works even better in the suburbs than in cities.

Edit: I commented before reading the whole article which totally nails it. Uber might be the first to $1 trillion in revenue.
Try Lisp. You'll see most modern languages -- Objective C, Ruby, Java, &c -- and not so modern languages as well, don't have much that Lisp doesn't offer. That the pomposity may not be the best way is but a matter of opinion. But features? We can sit down and count those. I encourage you to learn Lisp. It's enlightening.
But if you are trying to argue that REST is better than competing technologies, the question is: what objective benefits does it offer, compared to those other technologies?

REST isn't a technology, it's an architectural style. Regarding its benefits, they are all well specified in Fielding's thesis. REST is composed of a few constraints, and abiding by each one gives you certain benefits.

That said, I agree with you vis-à-vis the need to avoid blinders. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with using RPC if that's the most adequate solution. What bothers me are all those new RPC-over-HTTP which people insist on calling RESTful.
I'd argue that the web, Android and iOS are the primary platforms that 'users' use.

Who uses Windows for native apps that are truly Windows exlusive? Even Microsoft Office is a web app now, it's on OSX and iOS, and can even be run on Linux if you're crafty enough. Windows-only games? Fewer and fewer.

I'd definitely argue that Windows is not a requirement, though going cross-platform is a bonus.

As far as giving MS credit, they have been open sourcing many of their projects, and playing a little nicer with the non-Windows ecosystem...
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Isn't that almost the same as saying a VC funded company has no incentive to become profitable?
Hmm, they're parsing the reports a bit stronger than I am. The nomination is held back for now, but it hasn't quite shuffled off the mortal coil yet.

PS - If folks are interested, the new satellite USPTO office in San Jose would love to hear from you! Come to Hacker Dojo and talk to the Hackers & Founders team if you want help setting something up with the USPTO staff. Or talk to Silicon Valley Leadership Group, who also has good relationships with them (probably better, to be fair!).