skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a better headline: "My Uber gor pulled over by the Denver Police, and the officer mistakenly told us Uber is illegal." Maybe not so many clicks that way, though.

I agree that this was a rather unfortunate and odd experience, but I don't see what the big deal is. The only thing that struck me as "really weird" about this is that the author called a Denver Post reporter to get live legal information while he was in the car, and that the author wrote this sentence: "Did I really want to take a ride from an individual who clearly lied to me, then was evasive when I asked one basic question?" (Did it ever occur to the author that the cop might just have been mistaken about Uber's legality? Did it occur to him the the officer was just trying to do him a favor?)

At the end of the day, we have a cop who pulled an Uber driver over for speeding and, though he mistakenly thought Uber was illegal, nonetheless only issued a speeding ticket and offered to drive the passenger to the airport. The author goes out of his way to pain the officer as behaving "really weirdly," and I suppose I don't see why the officer needed the passenger's ID (though I also would not be surprised to learn that it is totally normal for an officer to request a passenger's ID), but for the most part this seems like everyone did their jobs properly.

Of course, in a perfect world, an officer would know everything about Colorado law. But that is clearly unrealistic. So while yes, of course, it would be preferable for an officer to be properly informed about Uber's legality, I don't think we should be judging him too harshly for his mistake, especially when it sounds like Colorado has only recently legalized Uber, and the officer did not attempt to ticket or detain anyone for the purported violation.

Edit: By the way, the Colorado law imposes a number of requirements. Companies must obtain permits, drivers must display various notices and "[t]o obtain permits, the companies must have drivers pass criminal-background and driving-history checks. The drivers' cars must pass vehicle inspections, and be clearly marked as ['transportation network company'] cars. The drivers must also carry personal car insurance, in addition to the commercial insurance Uber and Lyft provide." http://gazette.com/uber-lyft-become-regulated-in-colorado/ar... Nothing in the article on whether Uber, or his Uber driver, has complied. The officer could well have been correct (though perhaps not for the reason he was thinking). Here's the bill itself: http://www.leg.state.co.us/clics/clics2014a/csl.nsf/fsbillco...

Edit 2: From the City of Denver's traffic enforcement FAQ: "Depending on the circumstances, officers may request identification from passengers as well." http://www.denvergov.org/police/PoliceDepartment/TrafficEnfo...
The correct way to politely decline a question is "I'm sorry officer, I can't discuss this without my attorney present."

You're not dodging the question, but offering a well-understood reason, and the reason involves something real but external to both yourself and the LEO.
The link says "The ancient soils, he said, do not prove that Mars once contained life, but they do add to growing evidence that an early wetter and warmer Mars was more habitable than the planet has been in the past 3 billion years." so it's a big stretch to conclude this is a warmup to a big reveal.

In any case, what shock would there be? We even have antecedents by which to judge this, like Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) in the 1990s, where the researchers proposed that they had identified fossilized microbes in Martian rock samples. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_on_Mars#Possible_biosignat... for others. Some people, like Gilbert Levin, are more confident about the data than others.

Even further back in time, Percival Lowell believed there were canals on Mars. The discovery of life now would be so much less shocking than the impact of Lowell's work, no? If only because we know that any such life can't attack us a la Wells.

Also, wouldn't "shock" more likely lead to new funding for Mars missions? What reason is there to delay and minimize that announcement?

No, I think a better hypothesis is that the information we have about Mars is growing over time ("piling up"), which allows us to make more and more definite conclusions. Since the observed events are compatible with that simpler hypothesis, I see no need to add a new wrinkle to the system.
The 2006 "The camel has two humps" paper:
https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/dept_info/seminars/2005_06/paper1....
I sure do think it is possible. I am not sure how soon you will actually run into problems, but I have been using Dokuwiki, which uses text files rather than a database for all storage purposes. Although it is not in itself a good example for a community-centric software, it shows what can be done, the contents are versioned, there are access control lists and so on.

If you can build a wiki based on files, why would you not be able to do so with some kind of forum community?
Maybe Dokuwiki is already a good solution for you.

I feel that the others readers reactions show that you could elaborate your motivation some more. A database can be a quick and useful solution and solves many problems, such as distributed access, central management and administration, security and backup.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DokuWiki
I think the author goes in the wrong direction with the list. The other lists (PHP,Ruby,node.js etc) all point to interested libraries and frameworks that can help you developing an application. I expected something like devise (user account management), friendly_id (obfuscating ids).

His list lists applications written in Rails.

That said via three clicks in his github account I found
https://github.com/dreikanter/ruby-bookmarks
which has an excellent list of gems (libraries, frameworks) so I found what I'm looking for and I'm glad I saw this submission.
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>Capitalism's periodic financial crises have been a way to solve perhaps fundamental imbalances.

In theory (if you just leave the crisis to play out) that's what should happen, but in practice it rarely does. Not without the correct political response.

The too-big-to-fails in the US could have been allowed to go bankrupt, but it would have caused a catastrophic economic bottleneck because they have so many counterparties. Following regular insolvency procedures for a small enterprise is complicated enough and can take years as the creditors fight it out among themselves over how to divvy up the remainders of liquidation. Imagine how much of a clusterfuck it would be if half the country was either a creditor or a debtor in some respect. Worse, you wouldn't know if half of the rest of the country was bankrupt or not until you resolved the clusterfuck.

What could have happened was for a temporary nationalization so that the banks could have continued operating in a limited form so as to avoid the bottleneck and give time to tie up the loose ends. This is what Sweden did in the 90s. Their fundamental balance was resolved and they returned swiftly to growth.

When the too-big-to-fails are too politically powerful, however, they just tell the government to make them solvent again and the government promptly does it. Spectacularly bad lending decisions then resume and the power of the heads of those banks increases even more as the cancerous organization grows even larger. The fundamental imbalance has worsened.
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"While the Pi is limited in processing power and I/O"

This line is the key to the question. Simply roll back time until the specs of the Pi would be a "decent" or at least "cheap" webserver for that time, the kind of server you'd run a small forum upon at that time. OR if not decent for bare metal hardware, decent for a virtualized image on a bigger server.

Its not like 2014 is the first year in human history with webservers or web based forums.

So people were running forums on tiny virtualized servers with about those specs on linode perhaps just a couple years ago. Perhaps even today either on very tiny linodes or competitors.

The only real problem is the software. So use old stuff open to individual and class of vulnerabilities that were fixed 5 years ago, or take an obese beast of a modern forum and give it a liposuction?

Look into puppet and run the master somewhere else and automate it enough that you can go from a bare metal Pi to a live host in ten minutes or so. You'll be doing it again sooner or later at a time not of your choosing, so may as well get it right now.

Also, implement a backup strategy and automate its restoral process (and integrate with above)
I'm not sure if this counts as a database, but you can try out things like Firebase or Parse, which allow you to fetch data from a cloud server, and render it on your server. So your application will be just a dumb static client containing templates and application logic in HTML/CSS/JS, while the data would be stored on the firebase servers, directly fetched from there by your visitors on page-load, making your work pretty easy.
I don't see why the Pi would be unable to run a database. In any case, sqlite would work.
Bingo. More data beats better algorithms, see

http://anand.typepad.com/datawocky/2008/03/more-data-usual.h...
I would look into running a Citadel BBS[0] if it's something on the order of a personal project. Essentially, it's a BBS with Telnet, API, web, and email interfaces.

[0] http://www.citadel.org/
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I've used SimpleForum for that purpose a long time ago:

http://freecode.com/projects/simpleforum

Unfortunately it doesn't seem to be in active development any more.
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I have made a Path-traced online game 2 years ago. http://pog.ivank.net/
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Do you think China has invented a financial perpetual money machine? "Prints their own money debt free and can thus just bail out all the bad loans forever."
> Important side note: A* or other "best path" algorithms are not always preferable - there are some situations where it makes sense to use even less ideal paths in exchange for greater speed and less memory usage - even ones that are faster than greedy-best-first search with A shown here.*

Another example is when you are dealing with large crowds. Vector fields tend to shine there. A simple example is using a vector field when dealing with a large swarm with one goal:

http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-...

Something more slightly more advanced yet incredibly powerful would be "continuum crowds", where the agents in the swarm are also obstacles for each other, affecting the vector field:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGOvYyJ6r1c

http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/crowd-flows/

The intriguing part here is that these potential field can have any source - so it's relatively easy to get complex behaviour, such as pedestrians avoiding cars, or prey/predator behaviour.

Again, these are more relavant with large crowds, so as stated before: the best approach all depends on the particular use-case.
One possibly useful data point is this is Denver Colorado and the "local" airport for Denver can be a good 30-40 mile drive depending on where your Denver side destination is located. Its entirely possible he's only paying $1/mile or so which isn't all that bad for door to door service. Or put another way the driver is only grossing in revenue maybe $30/hour and has expenses and probably doesn't earn revenue 8 hours per day anyway.

On a semi-regular basis I used to take the train to Chicago and the train station is across the street from the corporate office in the formerly named sears tower. Also historically I've taken the train to the NYC Hope conference which is also across the street from the NYC train station. Air travel isn't as convenient as taking the train or a bus...
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Genetic Programming is actually a fairly well established machine learning technique.
Checkout NoNonsense forum (camendesign [.] com/code/nononsense_forum). It works without a database and stores everything as RSS.
The dumpster house does not appear to be finished.

They wish to make how-to instructions public.

They have a kick starter at the bottom.
No, I can safely say there are billions (with a b) of people in this world who could never afford to take a $100 car ride across town and back.

If you think this is normal, you are in an elite group and only use people in your group to compare to. Even if there are a million people in that group, it is still elite.
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Unless your train stations are out further than your airports with poorer transport connections into the city. So is life in china.
Article in German (original): http://www.nzz.ch/nzzas/nzz-am-sonntag/schweizer-anwalt-fuer...
"people in authority" get payoffs from organized crime, and Uber isn't playing along nicely.

"Is it the "dirty hippie" effect?" sort of, read between the lines of the story, driver's second language is English, etc, there are two driving experiences in America, driving while white and driving while minority. The author seemed shocked to experience a fairly normal "driving while minority". I didn't find the story all that unusual from discussion with minority coworkers. If the driver was white, they would not have been hassled as per departmental policy, so there wouldn't have been a story.

Looking at the history of enforcement of Jim Crow laws, being treated as a "dirty hippie" can be considered progress in race relations. Nobody got beaten, jailed, shot, or lynched.
Not the worst and as a semi-geek I'd rather watch this than an action movie in most cases.
The "info is free", "I'm a god", and so many more Cliches during the main characters monologue really hurt the movie. I'm no stickler for making every last detail fit the expectations of the IT crowd which is as pedantic as it comes. I will say, I enjoyed just watching something about computers for no other reason other than it's rare to see movies about a topic that interests me. Bedouin Hacker is still the only "hacker" movie I really like. I was enjoying the movie until the last few minutes. The biggest question I had was why he would need to crack the home network of his first client??? Wouldn't it have been just a little easier to ASK the dude hiring you??? Made zero sense.
ignoring all the inaccuracies and cliche's it would've been nice if they had not felt it necessary to have the setting in the fantasy world/Bubble of San Fran, sorry to the REAL San Fran residents if any are left. A higher concentration of people more out of touch with reality would be hard to find.
The ending... I'm either completely stupid, or ??? well I just don't have a clue what happened. I won't say don't watch it but don't get your hopes up and if you want to enjoy it you may want to skip the last 10-15 min of ???, well I've still not figured it out. Thank god I didn't pay for it. Too bad, it could have been much better. Tough subject to tackle in all fairness.

EDIT: New commenter, was not supposed to be a reply to any specific post... just my mostly useless thoughts.
Clearly a way to self promote.
If the point of getting a forum site running on a Raspberry Pi is just for novelty & challenge, ignore this. But I think the most practical solution here is to forget the Raspberry Pi altogether or to set up the majority of processing and storage on a separate machine and have the Raspberry Pi server talk to it.
Not the worst and as a semi-geek I'd rather watch this than an action movie in most cases.
The "info is free", "I'm a god", and so many more Cliches during the main characters monologue really hurt the movie. I'm no stickler for making every last detail fit the expectations of the IT crowd which is as pedantic as it comes. I will say, I enjoyed just watching something about computers for no other reason other than it's rare to see movies about a topic that interests me. Bedouin Hacker is still the only "hacker" movie I really like. I was enjoying the movie until the last few minutes. The biggest question I had was why he would need to crack the home network of his first client??? Wouldn't it have been just a little easier to ASK the dude hiring you??? Made zero sense.
ignoring all the inaccuracies and cliche's it would've been nice if they had not felt it necessary to have the setting in the fantasy world/Bubble of San Fran, sorry to the REAL San Fran residents if any are left. A higher concentration of people more out of touch with reality would be hard to find.
The ending... I'm either completely stupid, or ??? well I just don't have a clue what happened. I won't say don't watch it but don't get your hopes up and if you want to enjoy it you may want to skip the last 10-15 min of ???, well I've still not figured it out. Thank god I didn't pay for it. Too bad, it could have been much better. Tough subject to tackle in all fairness.
Cab drivers in Seattle don't seem to speed, at least never from seatac to Bellevue.
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Beijing taxis most often don't speed, but that has more to do with the traffic and speed cameras than anything else. I've seen cars implode at night on the ring road going 2x the limit, it is quite an experience to watch their wheels just pop off.
Drama drama. It seems like 'police are bad' is such a popular prejudgement, and if a police officer pulls you over he definitely wants to throw you to jail for no reason.

Police officer pulled over. Anything wrong with that? Nope.

Officer asked for the documents. Anything to get offended with? Nope.

>>> “Seattle man arrested for taking Uber to the Denver airport.”

Did officer mention anything about arresting, anything like that? Nope. That's the authors exaggeration.

>>> I asked him one more time if what I was doing was illegal. He said he didn’t want to debate the law.

And then the author tries to be a bit of a smart-ass. Officer made a mistake, do you really have to be a smart-ass? Would it help you, in any way? Nope.

>>> the gun (which was clearly visible in his holster)

Yeah, the officer was definitely going to shoot you for taking an Uber. Totally.

I am not saying that the law enforcement officers are 100% correct all the time. But articles like that, they just portray the author as a bit childish primadonna. The officer was just doing his job, while the author was sweating that he will get arrested (if the officer doesn't shoot him dead before) for taking an Uber.
Was anyone able to find an online version of the test?

Edit:
Closest thing I could find: http://vanisoft.pl/~lopuszanski/public/canihascs/
The situation is particularly bad for ARM SoCs since the majority of them are notoriously proprietary - at least with an x86/PC backwards compatibility means a lot has stayed the same even though there have been many differences, and that gives a basic point to start exploring and reverse-engineering (basically you can assume the BIOS is at the top of the address space and the first instruction after reset is at FFFF:FFF0), but with ARM about the only thing that stays the same is the CPU core; the boot sequence, where the peripherals are (and what exactly is available), etc. are all vastly different between makes and models. I'm not saying it can't be done, but it'll need a lot more effort if you don't have the official documentation.
What is right wing or left wing is a complete red herring in the context of this discussion. Both are highly subjective, ultimately rather meaningless and are subject to the issue of "shifting goalposts". What's decried is nearly communist in the US is hard-right wing for most of the rest of the world.

Pro-corporate/anti-corporate is more meaningful. And yes, it is inherently pro corporate to be pro immigration and against state ownership of enterprise. Both are incredibly pro corporate stances in fact.
And these billions of people are all living in the states and flying into Colorado?

As an American, I thought American taxis were expensive until I visited Europe some....wow, or even japan. It's all about the perspective.

Chinese farmers are in an elite group compared to African or even Vietnamese farmers...so what is your point?
more for long term storage. see ipfs for short term.
there are 330 million people in the US for whom these rates are perfectly normal. if you want to call us an elite group, those are your words. if you want us to apologize for having an advanced economy, you might be waiting a while.
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Autobit, new kind of puzzle game. Suggestions are needed for improvement
and how do you want american politics to do something about china ?
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Dirty hippies? Uber? The libertarian/ultracapitalist, big-business funded cab empire?

LOL
One good reason to go "fuckit" and untangle is things like accessibility. Retrofitting this is an absolute arse. Making inner London accessible would basically require rebuilding it from scratch.

Thus, "tangle" is, in engineering terms, "technical debt".

I am a huge fan of tangle in a city - it's what makes it livable and takes away the artificiality of a new suburb. But engineering maintainability is the countervailing force.
and the irony is that Uber's main business model is making these rates cheaper!

(I've been to Denver once - I took a shuttle bus from the airport to my hotel on Colfax (took long way around and was not that cheap) and the public bus back to the terminal which left from the central bus station, was cheap and direct.)
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kallisti.

the goddess looks at this creation and she is happy.
Put a trigger warning on that anime, please.
I’m learning about rasterization based computer graphics at the moment and it somehow bothers me that all of it might be obsolete in a couple of years when we can do path tracing in real-time. It’s such a fast moving field.
As a passenger you are not required to produce identification unless the officer has probable cause that you have committed another crime (i.e. not wearing a seatbelt): http://www.patc.com/enewsletter/legal-answers/2-apr08.shtml

It's always best to avoid any discussion with law enforcement, even if you have nothing to hide.
This is the more typical use case. Managers/safety officers will want a report of "who sped the most in the last X days" both in terms of highest speed and average over-the-limit driving. In extreme circumstances, such as when onboard sensors detect an impact or impending rollover, the logging can ramp up to multiple times per second. Great for insurance purposes.
I remember reading that 4chan saved each page as just that, static pages. The server saves to each page when a new comment is posted to the relevant page and serves up pages based on last modified times.
I have heard this with regard to Cairo, but as for Yemen... citation needed. It sounds like reactor-grade bolonium.
Yes.

People (including me) are thinking about and working on personally owned and hosted data. Your forum posts live in _your_ cloud, and in a way that the features as brickcap describes are achievable.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8049890
Ha, train stations, that's rich. So is life in the US.
Tangle is the thing I love about London. I'm from Perth, Australia, where the tangle is very thin indeed - it's a big suburb. Melbourne is a bit better, but I moved to London in 2002 then visited Melbourne again in 2004, and was shocked how untangled it felt.
"AnimGIFs?" Is this a term people really use?