skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I prefer to run on thick grass, mountain bike trails, tracks, etc. for this reason. I don't have joint problems yet, but every time I run on pavement I can feel how hard it is on the body.

Uphills runs and stair-training are also significantly lower impact on the knees and hips, though both can be harder on certain muscle groups like hamstrings.

I recommend to everyone to find some winding, hilly mountain bike trails and go run on them. I could never get into running outside the context of team sports until I tried this; it's an absolute blast, especially if you have a background in sprinting.
I've had my car stolen. The police retrieved it for me, without doing any tracking whatsoever (because this was in the 1970s). They simply noticed it in a ditch and called me.

Sure, the thieves weren't very sophisticated, but few thieves are.
We don't believe in handouts...

Unless you're a bank.
Sorry to hear about that.

Anything is possible in life. Something could happen to me where I can't run anymore. In which case, I will likely take up cycling.

That said, someone who is basically my running mentor right now has has been running marathons for 30 years (he's 58 years old), and, as an example, was 11th place last year in a marathon that had several hundred of runners. No sign of slowing down. The simple fact is, this is the running future I hope for. (And there are a lot of examples like him!)
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PRQ (http://prq.se) serves as a decent host insofar that it's harder for the server to be seized--it works for us. Obviously there is no perfect solution, but if you don't have a target on your back then this is one way to decentralize communication with a group of friends.

To take it a step further, end to end encryption is only good when you can protect your private key and passphrase... All you have to do is take a look at Rakshasha (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRpilXPv8pU) for a practical example of how compromised we all really are.
The problem with elections is that however you vote, the majority always wins.
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So presumably it's the will of the Chinese people to live in a country where the police can send people to prison without trial.
As developers get more valuable, they get more expensive, and their rates go up. But from that it doesn't follow that 1099 developers should be paid in equity. Equity has baggage.
These solutions are being implemented (in other democratic countries) successfully.

The problems of "black box voting" are insurmountable. They cannot be solved.
I do not believe that Geopolitics is anticommutative, that is

Eastern Germany spying on Western Germany + Western Germany spying on Eastern Germany !=0

But I never really looked at the group aspect of international relations.
As someone whose anxiety is triggered by physical activity, this is a bit of a conundrum for me at the moment.
> I'm not a pro-cryptographer, just a lowly pentester. Not sure what I'll do now.f

Release it with a big "WARNING - EXPERIMENTAL" at the top and don't claim it's a secure solution for end-users?

That seems to be what the complaint is about, not that people are experimenting in crypto.
Fortunately, it's possible to combine paper ballots with another brilliant 19th century invention, the postal service, to make voting accessible to virtually everyone.
Google makes its money by being a directory service to the decentralized internet. Centralized services are at best neutral (G+), and at worst a direct threat (Facebook).

The first thing anyone does when they want to use a darknet-style web is bookmark a directory service. If decentralization ever becomes popular enough, that's just reason to create "google tor search".
Look at the comment at the root of this thread that kicked it off. No, that commenter did not infer that maybe I had an interesting experience at NSA that I wanted to share. My comment had nothing whatsoever to do with NSA. It's pretty clear what that commenter was trying to say. They can go fuck theirself.

Respectfully, not because I'm fed up talking about this but because I don't want to be one of those threads where 'pg has to comment and say "will you guys please stop", I'm going to leave it at that.
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Just wondering what HN thinks about my situation.
Graduated with an accounting degree but ended up working in a startup doing customer service and their digital marketing. I've always wanted to learn how to code, and have the financial means to take 6-12 months off to really dedicate myself to learning to code.

Unfortunately with after work obligations i really don't have sufficient time to do it after hours whilst working full time.

What do you think? I'm 24 and have always dreamed of doing my own startup. Working where I am now has given me a really good grounding in the bus dev/marketing side of a startup but want to be able to code my own apps.

Would it be worth taking time off, enrolling in one of the coding bootcamps to learn something like rails? The other option is to do some sort of postgraduate degree in CS, but that's not too appealing to me.
No. The author has merely proven his own point that it's harder to make an espresso yourself than it is to order one at Starbucks. It doesn't mean you shouldn't try.

And look at what happened: someone at HN posted the content of the post here. People will always find ways around things, especially people who can do more than just push a button.
It depends on the rules of both countries.
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I started speed walking about one year ago. I finished my first 10k this jan. I am training for my half-marathon at the end of this year and last week I was able to run three days in a row, which was unthinkable about a year ago, I am not overweight, but speed walking or light jogging used to cause me a hell of a lot of pain and it used to take me a lot of time to recover, sometime more than one week from light jogging.

I do weight training too, but running is a totally different feeling, before I used to force myself to go for runs but now it takes a lot to stop me to go for a run. Its hard to explain, its like I am addicted to it, even though its still painful, but I am recovering much much faster.

I too recommend everyone to give running a try, if you can through the initial hurdle, I don't think you will ever regret it.

Just today, I also finished reading "born to run", while I understand that there are exaggerations in the story to make it more interesting for the readers, and science of "born to run" is still 'up there' and perhaps debatable depending on who you ask, its still one of the best book I have read. Highly recommended to read.
Agreed. I am surprised there are few comments of this nature on sites like HN. Perhaps spammers could be unlikely allies in a future wave of data obfuscation / poisoning?
This is certainly not a general situation. I thought that this is one of those situations that would mean a loss of citizenship but after reading some more I am utterly confused about the specific situation and dual-citizenship in general.

Dual citizenship:: http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/cis/cis_1753.html

Advice about possible loss of dual citizenship:
http://travel.state.gov/law/citizenship/citizenship_778.html

WP's take: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law
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Being able to retrieve a stolen car

If my car is stolen, I don't particularly want it back.

Not being blown up by terrorists

Your odds of dying in that car are far worse than your odds of being blown up by terrorists.

Also, if I choose to believe that NSA monitoring has actually prevented a single genuine terrorist attack, I'm in the awkward position of believing some people who literally lie for a living.

Practice any religion I choose

Help me out here. Why do you need to be tracked by the government in order to be able to practice a religion? Is that some kind of Eastern thing?

Fly safely between 5 states and 5 different countries

Credible claims have been made that the TSA's X-ray scanners expose you to more risk than terrorism, over a lifetime of flying.

Drive hundreds even thousands of miles safely

Again, why do you need a (metaphorical) cop following you in order to drive safely? Have you found a way to make it less likely that you'll die in a car crash than from terrorist activity? If so, please share with the class.

Buy and sell what I please, without fear of jail

At this point I have to assume I've been trolled. I will now STFU, GBTW, and HAND.
This is unbelievable!
> Buy and sell what I please, without fear of jail

How's your marijuana business going?
Most things containing "money" are. Don't mix business & friendship or you'll lose both. That includes "lending" BTC.
Make your own country aware that you are tired of it's own shit. Seriously, it's going to be easier for us in the US to effect change if other countries dismantle their own programs too.
As long as we can all agree not to get complacent, it's a step in the right direction. Arguing that people need to go form 0 to 60 in under a second isn't going to get us anywhere.

For example, if you want to convince someone to become a vegan, which path is more likely to succeed:

Omnivore => Vegan

or:

Omnivore => Vegetarian => Vegan

or even:

Omnivore => No red meat => Only fish => Vegetarian => Vegan
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To me, unit tests are the ultimate in tedium. I appreciate the value, but writing them is certainly about the dullest part of the job.
You didn't make a point - you just expressed an attitude.
It is entirely up to a country whether they recognise you as a citizen or not and there's no international limit on them. You could, depending on the country, collect as many as you want.
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Our government having the ability to track me has only led to benefits in my life including: [..] Practice any religion I choose [..] Buy and sell what I please, without fear of jail

Wait, what? In what "new reality" does that make any sense?

if it means I am kept safe

Safe from what? Safe from people being murdered in your name without charge or trial? Safe from inheriting debt to your children? Safe from heart attacks? "Safe" without qualifier is a mighty huge and mighty useless word.

if it means society as a whole can operate more openly

Now that's just doublethink. How do secret laws for spooks make society more "open"?
My POV experience of today's protest in LA:

https://yougen.tv/video/78dd523f-1db2-4a20-833f-b07d0749b6fb...
Without the first amendment how else would yesterday's banal conversations exist to implicate you in next decades' fortieth deadliest planned and thwarted attack?
In Engelbart's original demo, the users can see each other, talk, collaboratively work on a document, and do together pretty much anything that the computer offers. The full OS, including the GUI, is intended to be multi-user.

Google Docs et al. only offer one aspect of that; all they aspire to do is solve the problem of "collaborative editing of a document". But say we need to work on something that involves listening to audio together or watch a video or use a third party program, we're SOL with Google Docs.

What Engelbart's vision aspired to do was to allow people to work together through computers, no matter what the work was. Document editing is a microscopic facet of that.
This is very cool and intressting. I have to think about something to do with core.async.

This is also a good example why macros are just awesome. Go is a language design to work well with goroutins and channels, but the clojure code looks just as good and readable. You could simply not have such idiomatic use of these concepts without macros.

Or am I wrong, can a flexible language like scala or python be extended to look as good for that usecase? I dont know enougth of the tricks scala people use, I cant juge if it is possible.
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I'll play devil's advocate and ask: how is this different from the celebrated "Here's to the crazy ones" ads? Granted, these ads are more bland and forgettable, but that's a difference of degree, not kind.

Compare:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjgtLSHhTPg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=170fh2mvog0

Both are content-free, vague, feel good ads. I feel like all the criticism in the article would also apply to "Here's to the crazy ones", perhaps even more so - at least the new ads actually outline Apple's design philosophy, while the older ad really has nothing to do with... well, anything.

So I'll grant that the execution in the new ad falls somewhat short, but does that simply mean the ads don't go far enough with vacuous feel-good stuff?
I don't know what you're replying to but it's certainly not the comment you posted this on.
I definitely feel better after a run, but I thought/assumed it was down to endorphins. In fact the reverse seems to be true (for me) - I get really antsy if I haven't exercised.
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Maybe higher education is not for everyone but I have a hard time relating to people who say that going to college or a university was a waste of time. Going to university and getting an MBA was the best decision I've ever made. I learned interesting stuff that I'm still using today. I launched a company together with a fellow student. I learned programming while doing that. I was referred by another fellow student to a company that resided on campus that contracted me as a programmer and product manager. That company is still one of my biggest clients. Another big client came from yet another recommendation by a fellow student. And apart from that, it really was a fun time.
> from the ground up with privacy and security built in

Couldn't agree more!

> I'm finding that other folks are thinking along similar lines
> (but taking different approaches)

Not sure if this is the right place for it but does anyone have a list of all these similar projects? I know of:

* ArkOS [https://arkos.io]

* FreedomBox [https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/]

Seems to me that something like this can be built faster if resources were combined in some way. I guess the tough thing here is that people seem to have different visions as to what the end product would look like. Perhaps effort would be best expended by collaborating on a solid, secure "base" image which could then be forked as needed.

---

My ideal system would:

* Be open source.

* Be built with a security mindset from the ground up.

* Have some sort of full system/drive encryption.

* Run on something like a Raspberry Pi with local storage attached.

* Have one identity per-person for social use (public/private blog, private chat, private audio/video calling, private email, private sharing of photos, videos, private VRM [1])

* Have the ability to spawn off anonymous identities that would not be traceable back to your IP/device for anonymous publishing/chat/email where required.

* Be easy enough that I can give one to my parents, create accounts for them, show them once how to use it and then forget about it.

* Have all of this backed up through some distributed, encrypted system like SpaceMonkey [2].

* A possible late addition for mass adoption - the software could "trick" users into doing things they shouldn't (in a controlled way) and then after they've done this, tell them that what could have happened would have been quite serious (such as giving some . This would lead to more careful behaviour in general by all that use the software, which could only be a good thing.

Anyone know of such a system in the works? I'd love to contribute.

[1] VRM - Vendor Relationship Management. Keeps track of who you've shared your personal details with, generates a unique email for each "connection" (where connections can be you telling someone to flick you an email or you signing up to a site) in order to cut off communication at your convenience, not theirs. Sharing of personal details (such as name, birthday etc.) for sites that require it would initially be done directly, eventually moving to a system where this software IS the proxy by which third parties communicate with you (physical mail, messages, phone calls etc.). No more spam!

[2] http://www.spacemonkey.com/
But when you do, please leave the earphones at home. And don't jump in a random direction like a deer when you hear someone behind you with squealing brakes. Us MTB'ers will appreciate it.
You missed the mainframe era where from at least the 1970s forward you had office workers by the score who were only users.
Can anyone actually point me to a study that provides significant evidence for this? As a non-specialist with quite severe meniscal damage from an old rugby injury, swimming has often been suggested to me, but I found it the very most painful and upsetting activity of all. Whereas running (in Fivefingers, for the last four years) has more or less brought my knees back to normal.

I'm not challenging that for some value of "severe" this is true, and I'm sceptical that my own experience represents anything useful at all for anyone else. But my question is: is there actual clinical evidence that this is the case, or is this actually just an old wives' tale?

There are plenty of things online that suggest the opposite[1] - but can anyone who actually knows what they are talking about chime in with the state of the art?

[1]: http://www.runnersworld.com/injury-treatment/joint-myth?page...
Yeah alright, take care.
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For large and powerful corporations, not using their services is just like voting. A pointless exercise when the only alternatives are just as bad.

And when society is built around the presence of their services, not using them may not be a realistic option. If you don't like the way banks behave, for example, not using them isn't a realistic option.

Therefore mass protest and political action are perfectly reasonable approaches to changing corporate behavior.
People don't need cryptography everywhere. Where they need it, they should be willing to spend ten minutes. Where they don't need it, such as coupon mailing lists, they go with the flow.

The only way to have 100% encrypted email is to avoid a massive number of services. This is something to be done only when it actually provides safety.

Basically you're arguing a point (100% crypto) that is completely different from the post you're replying to (crypto on critical conversations).
Let us be clear that one of the reasons that it was ratified is because people were sick and tired of abuses like rich people buying senate seats.

See http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2012/06/a-little-story-a... for verification. And note that while he was obvious and egregious, he was not alone. Look up William Lorimer for another example.
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> some individuals think they can post all sorts of rude bullshit online because "freedom of speech" gives them the right to behave like pillocks

Right. Freedom of speech does give them that right.

You've backed off from your original position all the way to merely making the point that you wish people would think more about the effect that their actions have on others before acting. I think everyone agrees with that.

Taking 14 paragraphs to say "people should think more before acting" is the sort of thing I think you think should be self-censored.

> So you're effectively encouraging self-censorship by posting trolling remarks.

Reread the comment I replied to, and the comment it was replying to. You didn't understand the other side -- you rounded it to the nearest straw man, and then did a poor job of attacking it. I thought it was a waste of space on the site. I do support your right to free speech... I just doubly support it on sites that aren't this one.

Communities don't need to have the same standards as governments. If facebook banned the kid for his comment, that doesn't seem wrong to me. Having the government enforce things like this does seem wrong to me (for the reason that I pointed out: we'd end up having to spend tax dollars supporting people like you while they're in jail).
Exactly. SIP ALGs get turned on often (who knows why). There was one cloud computing vendor using NAT that had a SIP ALG "accidentally" statically compiled into the kernels on their routers. They weren't sure why, but thought "it might help", but of course, it ended up just breaking things.

This could totally have been a move by Verizon to help enable SIP that just backfired.
Just like the internet voting in Estonia since 2005, and its substantially cheaper for them in practice.
While I agree with everything he's said, his assertion that people should learn HTML5/CSS, deploy with Node on a VPS, (etc) to "use the internet" really misses the point. Makers like us will always know these things. The problem is that 99% of people will never bother. How can they resist centralization when they are too busy being experts in other things to learn so much web tech? We need to find a way for those decentralized networks to be the cool ones. We need to get the mass on them, de facto.

Before that we probably need the surveillance state to get scarier. And I mean a handful of very, very high profile cases. Or maybe we can bring it to everyone via a browser plugin that lets you know when you're content is likely to be flagged by admins/etc.

How else can we popularize decentralized services?

Edit: oops. I read both this and his "distributed services" post and just realized I'm replying to both.
The bios for their "characters" are super, super weird: http://www.nsa.gov/kids/bios/bios00001.shtml
Just to be clear - what do you think they are actually doing? I.e. what does the government pay for them to do?
>Most things containing "money" are.

So, donations to charity, "business" or no? For the donor. Obviously for the charity, it is.

>Don't mix business & friendship or you'll lose both

I started a 501(c)(3)-pending nonprofit. My board members are my friends, because I know that they are morally upright, mindful, and therefore will act as a reliable second pair of eyes to keep me from doing something illegal, immoral, or both. For now, it seems like having my friends help me out with this business has strengthened our friendships.
http://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/ is a good alternative/method to releasing into the public domain, and is (to my knowledge, IANAL) unambiguous internationally.
Can you make time early in the morning like waking up a few hours earlier everyday to dedicate to learning how to code? This way you will get the satisfaction of learning while fulfilling all your other responsibilities plus it will be quiet enough for you to be able to focus.