skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sprinting is THE sport of Jamaica.

Distance running is THE sport of East Africa.

As someone who trains somewhat competitively for marathons in a group, I can tell you that having people of similar ability to train with has a huge impact. As does having soft surfaces to run on and good weather.

Genetics may be in play, but it isn't the only thing in play.
Haha, that's good feedback. Did you read the README? It made everything more confuse? Clicking the examples would make it more clear, I think.
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Aptly rocks. I put this together for those who use Vagrant and want to test out some of Aptly's commands and functionality.

https://github.com/sepulworld/aptly-vagrant

It also sets up a Jenkins server so you can test out some build jobs that interact with Aptly.

I am looking forward to Aptly's REST API. Also on the roadmap is the ability to manage Yum repositories.
Snapchat does not take security seriously. I used the Gibsonsec description of the SnapChat API to make a Java Snapchat client called JavaSnap (github.com/hatboysam/JavaSnap). It has been used in many Android apps with close to 2M combined downloads (from what contribs have told me).

It was too easy. This is why things like 'The Snappening' happen (note: I never did anything evil like that, but it would not have been hard).
Books can be worth reading without being good books, especially sci-fi. Brave New World is absurdly heavy-handed, but it's worth reading because it describes an important type of social dystopia. Honestly, I think 1984 is just as over-done, but the ideas are more significant (and relevant) than the stories or characters.

There's nothing wrong with Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. You're probably right that it receives outsized attention because of the movie, but it's a fine book in its own right. It's probably one of the easier PKD books to get into if you're not used to him in particular or sci-fi in general, which is reason enough to recommend it to someone.
Ok, here's some late explanation about what is this:

The thing is simple: it loads markdown files from your GitHub repo, lets you edit them, then creates HTML from them and puts them back in your GitHub repo. The cool thing is that it runs totally in the browser. In fact, it runs in your repository with the edit.js file that is in my repository (of course you can fork and change that), but it is cool because you get updates (and new bugs) automatically.

So you can have a complete and multipurpose website (or even one, or also many ones, small website for a specific purpose) hosted in GitHub Pages without ever touching the terminal, giving access to your account to some hosted proprietary CMS or installing Jekyll.

It comes with a basic HTML template for all pages of your site, that you can customize with CSS and JS (by default the basic HTML template tries to load a `site.js` and a `site.css` from the root of your site). All the pages have the same HTML, but you can filter by parts of the full path of each in the css (as these parts of paths are added as classes to `<body>`) or by the full path (which is added as an id).

That said, you can also fork the thing and change the basic HTML, it is a small simple Handlebars template (I hate Handlebars, but it seemed like the tool for the job).

Suggestions are also appreciated.
Works for me. (OSX/Chrome)
Yes, that's precisely what I mean.

To take his example, if I carelessly left my laptop in a Starbucks, I have not given anyone the right to use, transport or otherwise inspect my laptop. I can assume some right to privacy over the contents of it. But if I gave my laptop to a company that specializes in transporting laptops between Starbucks locations on behalf of patrons, one can pretty much assume (given today's contract binding society) that they have some clause in the contract between us that says that they are not responsible maintaining the content of the laptop, and can at their discretion open it up and inspect the contents to be sure that they are not the facilitator in transporting illegal or "bad" data (malware source code, child porn or terrorist manifestos, etc). They don't have the explicit right to open it just because, but in giving it to them I've given them the right to do so.
>Of those 37 countries, only a minor fraction have the budget to operate the way NSA does.

There will be differences in cost and budget for each nation. The United States has 25% of the world GDP (compared to 4%) of the population. That we can afford to fund the Lamborghini of intelligence operations isn't to discount other states that have less well funded capabilities.

You'll see plenty of parallels with traditional warfare: like that countries with smaller budgets ally themselves with countries that have more capabilities.

> Let's say half of them are despotic and don't count

Let's not. Those are some awfully large numbers for one. But more fundamentally why don't the armies and intelligence capabilities of tyrannies count?

> Out of those I'd wager that more than half are have governments too under-resourced to have the ability to put their people in the kind of panopticon Americans live

The nice thing is that surveillance, if done right, is reasonably cheap. Many other countries, especially in the ones you 'don't count' have laws preventing citizen use of any reasonable encryption whatsoever.
“Twitter Is a Textarea and a Button, Employees Twiddling Thumbs”
Another contemporary author I haven't seen mentioned is Ted Chiang. I've read 'Stories Of Your Life and Others' by him, a collection of short stories. While I've found them to have unsatisfying endings, the ideas they explore are great.

Especially liked 'Division by Zero', 'Story Of Your Life', and 'Seventy-Two Letters'. Definitely worth a read.
It's a little excessive to say that closed source means it can't possibly be secure or trustworthy. It implies open source is a silver bullet for security, which just isn't true.

I use 1Password and love it. I can tell after using other products that they have put a tremendous attention to detail into it. It is really easy to use and thoughtful in its design compared to the alternatives.
>GPL3-infected software

I don't think we can have a rational discussion about this.
Same issue here on 2 iOS devices.
Anyone who thinks the number of guest at your wedding is one of the "7 biggest factors" of a successful marriage has either never been married, is unfamiliar with the different between causality and correlation, or both.

This article is irritating in its language to the extreme:

"What struck me about this study is that it basically laid out what makes for a stable marriage in the U.S. I’ve highlighted 7 of the biggest factors below."

No you haven't. You cherry picked 7 metrics and mapped them against divorce rates.

"Clearly, this shows us that having a large group of family and friends who support the marriage is critically important to long-term marital stability"

No, it "clearly" doesn't show that at all. I could argue instead that it "clearly means" that most people are highly malleable to peer pressure, and don't want to look stupid/ashamed/embarrassed that they can't make their marriage work, so they stay married (Note, I don't think divorce is about an inability to make a marriage "work", I'm simply pointing out a reasonable reaction for married people to have).

The "goes to church" factor is also very open to interpretation. Are people with strong united faith more likely to stay together? That is probable. Equally likely are that many faiths frown upon or outright forbid the concept of divorce. As my grandmother told me years ago, "Catholics, Billy, do not get divorced."

I appreciate studies that try to collect this information, but these aren't direct factors. They are, at best, secondary metrics that help reveal information about the traits and values of the people getting married. This still valuable, you just need to frame it in the right light.

Married after dating for a month? Hmmm, Sounds like people who aren't thinking things through and considering the long term consequences of their actions.

Lots of family at a wedding? The bride/groom is probably someone who has lots of experience dealing with people they love, but who can be difficult, and where leaving isn't really an option because they are family. Sounds like a good trait to help resolve the issues that will come up in a marriage.

People who aren't superficial about money or looks? Yeah, those are mature people with reasonable expectations in life. Bet they are going to do much better than someone who wants a trophy wife or a gold digger.

Really, this is all just absurd to paint these as "factors" in your marriage.
In Quake you can also have 5v5, e.g. in Team Deathmatch or Capture the Flag. While it's not as much based on tactics, it sure feels a lot closer to basketball in terms of speed, and one superior player can carry a whole team.

And with movement based mods like CPM, Defrag or WSW, the learning curve is also kinda high, with 10 different weapons (ok, 3 major ones) and a movement system that is very involved with the maps.

Are there strategy games based on TDM or CTF?
The Rama sequels should be required reading in college composition classes. They're such a wonderful fount of lessons in how not to write fiction.
I'm finding these comments really fun to read, speaking as someone who spent years building and marketing exactly the product you describe. My feeling is that the other poster is right - there isn't much of a market there. Recall that even Microsoft didn't make (much) money off of Access - it just got used because it came pre-installed with Office. I'd love to be wrong about this.
Absolutely, Cuba was supposed to become an example of what it means to thwart US interests, in most simple and blatant terms. A quick video and an interesting article from Chomsky on this here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_K5nLyvijw

http://www.chomsky.info/books/hegemony02.htm
not working in chrome for ubuntu
Apple can't, because they don't want to open source their code, which GPLv3 would require.

So, yeah, it is in this specific case the GPL's fault.
neither firefox.. requires flash player I think?
The Yankee Comandante (2012)
I'm not getting an error. Just a spinning circle.
Yeah that's true. I definitely enjoyed the book, I guess it's the old "I want more now" feeling coming into play. Which is usually a very good sign for any sort of entertainment, always leave them wanting more!
>But I will say that the NSA's perspective is that: it is only because of the Snowden leaks if we have lost face with allies. To the NSA, the secrets were kept well enough until Snowden and friends disclosed them.

Of course that's their perspective, as is the perspective of anyone committing an embarrassing or morally unscrupulous act.

"The thing I regret most is getting caught."

Secrets of this nature have a tendency to leak. If it wasn't Snowden, it could've been anyone else.

I don't think all of the NSA's capabilities or actions should be leaked, but reporting of confirmed infiltrations of US and allied companies and systems is fine by my book. All's fair in love and war, but we are not at war with Germany or Brazil or, hopefully, ourselves.
MS has been trying with pen/touch for ages. They had a "Windows for Pen Computing" way back in the 3.1 days. It's not that they have not been trying. The WIMP desktop and app model just doesn't work well with touch. Apple wisely forked the interface because no one has been able to do a single interface that's any good.
No. There is still a Castro in office. If the point wasn't in a long term ending of the regime, what exactly was the point of the embargo?
Alastair Reynolds. He's a recent writer and many of his books are great.
It's not about needing to open source their code. Apple ships and maintains GPLv2 software, like CUPS. However, the additional requirements of GPLv3, like the questionable patent clauses, make Apple, like a lot of other companies, nervous about including GPLv3 software.
The GPL is a viral license; it's an intentional choice on their part, and "viral" and "infected" are pretty accurate ways to describe it. Whether you believe that this nature is a good thing for development or a bad thing, disagreeing about the fundamental nature of how the GPL works isn't productive.
love the jump right in and play and along the way watch a youtube demo vid while playing.

Great on-boarding!
This tendency toward defensive communication is a problem for me both online and offline. Although to be honest, I see the exact opposite extreme as a problem as well: hustler-type startup people tend to adopt an "offensive" hyperbolic communication style that can be just as disruptive.

Over the years I have come to appreciate pg's essays as an example of the happy medium: he doesn't pull punches, but he doesn't generalize to the point of hyperbole either, and I find his writing style to be more effective because of this balance.
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Some kids need two parents more than others. My ex and I stayed together as long as we did in part "for the kids." He physically moved out about a month before our oldest turned 18. I think we did the right thing. I have health problems and two special needs sons. My oldest was quite challenging to raise. I have reason to believe that divorcing sooner would have been catastrophic and potentially deadly for one or more of us.

Since you cannot a/b test this in individual cases and can only say "people who left earlier have these corresponding average experiences or outcomes compared to people who stayed longer," I think it's a terrible disservice to many people with big life challenges to act like they were just being neurotic to stay as they long as they did.
why is that statement irrational? GPL3 was intentionally changed to be more viral. I think it's creators have even used the terminology themselves. Calling GPL3 software infected seems like perfectly fair turnabout.
imo it's a valid observation - a cursory search revealed this really really old and spot-on HN comment[1]

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011426
I don't see how the one follows from the other. You're saying because there are big issues, solving what you seem to deem as a relatively small issue, therefore can't be deemed a significant success?

If so, I'd invite you to look into the 200 year history of US-Cuban relations, as well as the extent to which the embargo affects virtually everything for a population of 11 million people. It's extremely pervasive.

A change here would be quite a major foreign policy event. To get a sense of this, the UN general assembly condemned it for every single year without exception for decades now, with votes usually showing 180 or so in favor of condemning and 3 or so against (the US, Israel and something politically insignificant like Micronesia)
> they're not exactly adhering to the license as they should

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the licenses don't require Apple to proactively publish sources, they just need to be able to supply them upon request.
It is the GPL's fault.

The table shows a lot of outdated non-GPL software, such as vim. Besides that, for many UNIX utilities, they could start cherry-picking from FreeBSD, NetBSD or OpenBSD, and you know, maybe even adding the missing functionality.

I think the actual reason for staleness is that there is not enough motivation for Apple to upgrade UNIX utilities. Many UNIX-savvy users can live with the older versions (in fact, many utilities have less features, because they were the BSD-variants). And if something is really too old, people just install a newer version via Homebrew.

Besides that, Macs are only a small part of their revenue and only a subset of that revenue is provided by developers and people using OS X as a UNIX. Of the developers, probably a sizeable chunk uses OS X just for developing iOS apps.

Personally, I'd like to see them update the user land with utilities from the BSDs and contribute back. But that's probably not gonna happen. The time that Apple was mostly a user-friendly UNIX vendor are over. It's a consumer device company now.
Separate bathrooms.
Learning from an animal that can regrow its head
"I don't think we can have a rational discussion about this."

That might be, but it's not because the person you were replying to was wrong.
Kiro, you can view this information and more in the "Network" tab of the Developer Tools in Chrome. Make sure the red "Record Network Log" circle is enabled, refresh the page (suggest you also check the "Disable cache" checkbox) and you should see a stream of everything loading on the page in great detail, including the timing data, which is painted on the page with this tool.

Hope this helps.
Well, the GPLv3 is probably helping open source, and harming free software ;)

I would disagree with this stance though. The aim of free software is a moral one, it has nothing to do with being the most-used or the most popular.
For the record, I'm experiencing no latency or performance issues when using Chrome.
Notice that the article isn't even claiming anything about "happy" marriages. The article is solely about divorce rates. It's not "missing the point," you're just looking for a point that the author of this article never intended to make.
> it[']s arguably an incredibly sexist tradition that has its roots in religious and patriarchal control

It is, but thing I would encourage people to keep in mind if they're wondering whether they want to participate in such a tradition is: Your marriage will be what you make it. No particular marriage has to be patriarchal, though of course many are.

You may choose, for example, not to have the wife change her last name; or maybe you both change your last names to something new, maybe by combining parts of your names (I saw this done once). The significance of that is symbolic, of course -- it expresses your commitment to an equal marriage; it doesn't absolve you of doing the hard work to make that a reality -- but it can be an important symbol.

You also might want to take a close look at the wedding ceremony itself. Using two rings is an easy step. The old tradition of having the bride's father "give her away" is one that I would suggest you might want to omit. If you can't bring yourselves to do that, maybe you could have the groom's mother also give him away -- people will laugh, but you'll make your point. Anyway, the larger point is, it's your ceremony, and you get to design it.

Can you have an equal marriage without doing any of those things? Of course you can, but if you find yourselves resistant to symbolic actions like these, you might want to ask yourselves why, because if you resist the symbols you will very likely resist the reality.
Put your dollars at work
> So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it.

The GPL and the organization behind it, the Free Software Foundation, do not care about "open source". They care about free Software, free as in freedom.

/edit: before i get a ton of downvotes: i don't fully agree with with the FSFs policies or definition of "free softare", im just pointing it out.
Yes CamperBob2 you seem like a bad person.
>So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it.

The Linux kernel would not be the success it is without a viral license
Indeed, that's what the GPL requires. There is absolutely no necessity to put the sources online like they do.

Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
> If we add up all the value of the survivors, maybe we come to the conclusion that there was no bubble?

Factoring in inflation would that still be true? Do the internet companies make up a significant percentage of the stock market like they did in 2000? Is this comparison even valid since I'd expect the tech/internet sector to have grown significantly as the internet has matured since 2000?
> Not because of the leaks, but because of their actions. That's an important distinction.

Right. I agree with that. There's actually sort of a boolean AND. Because we did them AND we got caught.

My guess is that all major players are doing the same stuff and that if the US doesn't participate it loses. I doubt the US hacked Germany on a whim - I bet it was a pretty labored decision with cost-benefit analysis (one being chance of getting caught).
Yet they restrict what you can do with their software. True freedom comes from licenses like MIT and BSD.
IMO, interface wise. Also, I think the way they handle installation using linking is actually quite elegant and accessible.

I wish more systems utilized FS tricks instead of proprietary DB's / manifests etc.
Hard to explain exactly. The UX is just a lot better and more intuitive. It seems to be more reliable. It doesn't require root privileges to install things, which can be good or bad depending on your use case. I think it makes sense on OS X machines.
Take a Virtual Tour of Greece's Amphipolis Tomb
Sorry, no, there's no site for the project. It's not related to the other Kaya language and so I'll have to change the name at some point. Contact me if you want to follow the project, my email is in my profile.
My computer cannot handle this.
I was curious why OpenBSD didn't ship Bash by default. Perhaps they weren't happy with the code quality.
This is very bad advice if you have anything else you need to do today.
I'm using Firefox with old hardware and it is working somewhat well.
Apple considers iOS to be a branch of OS X, so I imagine they consider it covered by these releases. I can't really imagine what FOSS code they would feel compelled to include in iOS that's not already in OS X, anyway.
> So yes, GPL 3 is hurting open source more than helping it.

Why is it bad for the FSF to prioritize their interests ahead of Apple and Microsoft's?
Behind every claim, every argument, even self-contradictory or self-defeating ones, there are fundamental facts that cannot be escaped: stuff exists (existence, Parmenides), it acts and changes in accordance with its nature (identity, Aristotle), and we're aware of existents in some form (consciousness, Socrates and/or his "secretary" Plato).

Given this, when someone tries to tell you that there is nothing (or only an ineffable higher dimension) to be truly aware of, or that causality is a baffling myth, or that there is only really matter not awareness -- you know the argument is fallacious or arbitrary (not even wrong!) and doesn't deserve serious inquiry.

What faculty --other than consciousness-- would one use to inquire into the nature and existence of consciousness?
The way the article is framed, you'd think that it's somehow the GPL's fault that these applications aren't being updated. Seriously? Why doesnt Apple write their own implementations of those applications? Why shift blame to the license? What a crock of shit
I recently read a contemporary one I'd add to the list: Blind Lake by Robert Charles Wilson.

http://www.amazon.com/Blind-Lake-Robert-Charles-Wilson-ebook...

It reminded me of classic Asimov, but updated, and the writing and characterization are superb. I find that I can't read some sci-fi because I can't deal with cardboard characterization.
If you're really interested in the subject and want to read more without dealing with the wanky blogger writing style check out "Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do" (http://www.amazon.com/Traffic-Drive-What-Says-About/dp/03072...).
And the Linux kernel stuck with GPL v2 for a reason...
That is really unfortunate. Especially considering english is second language of choice of so much of the world. It would be helpful for more great works to be translated.
Punishment.
How come there are no concerns about privacy? Most of the people's email ID and personal phone numbers are visible in that site