skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only available since ICS and can still be cracked open when the phone is rooted.
I think the folk who cry "how is this topic relevant to hn" are silent when the topic is interesting to them, and then will speak up if they get bored.
Like most Americans, I have access to a car, so it's not a shitty environment. A place that caters to slow walkers and cyclists sounds worse to me. I think we tend to overrate inconveniences that affect us personally and underrate inconveniences that affect everyone else.
Cvim – much more powerful alternative to vimium
Former NSA director had thousands personally invested in obscure tech firms
I agree - Rendezvous with Rama is a great book. I'd recommend listening to it as an audio book - really lets your mind fully construct Rama.
I think that we can still consider it broken without demanding that the author 'do it better.' People make broken things all of the time.
They've been reluctant to change the markup because of the many scrapers. Hence, the recently released API in preparation. An updated UI is incoming.
Me and my wife often say about our marriage that neither of us believes in Happily Ever After. There's no such thing as a point at which you stop having to work on the relationship.
Blend4Web, the Open Source Solution for Online 3D
As someone who dabbles in psychology research (mostly Big Five stuff), I had this same reaction: this is great correlation stuff, but I hardly expect it's casual. This is my grip with books like "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" -- picking up those habits won't make you necessarily effective.
Interesting! I'm confused though: if you have 200+ people attending your wedding, you're over 90 percent less likely to divorce. However if you spend only $1k on the wedding, you're also much less likely to divorce. How does that add up? The most successful marriages somehow have lots of people on a marriage for almost no money at all?
[Other dev] You can use firefox, but chrome seems to run the game a bit faster. Some of the busy areas have a massive amount of stuff in them, so you might want to try some that are a bit more lightweight (e.g. try manyland.com/5). We are working on improving client performance, so this will get better over time!
One part of what marriage is, is a contract between two people. But remember that you don't get to decide the terms of that contract for them.
I have a hunch that Lloyd's Algorithm[0] would make for a nice demo in this environment, automagically updating the voronoi cells every iteration until an equilibrium is reached. Although I don't know if there's an efficient way to implement voronoi cells in this paradigm.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd%27s_algorithm
Run CloudBees Java Apps on OpenShift
Impressive performance on mobile (safari).
[Other dev] I agree! We just recently added login free, but will look again at the login options based on user feedback like this.
The film confirms that explicitly; it shows Greenwald giving the name of the second leaker to Snowden (whose jaw drops).
Seems like it should be possible for the defense to argue that the prosecution must stipulate that the server was his property, in which case his rights were violated, or that the prosecution must stipulate that it was not his property and that they have no case against him. What is wrong with this argument in a legal sense?
Either way, differentiated companies -- apple -- require completely different strategies than nondifferentiated -- samsung.

How is Apple differentiated? To a user that wants a smartphone to send emails, visit websites, play fantasy football, take pictures, etc, Apple is every bit in competition with Xiaomi as Samsung is.
To many, many users, smartphones are effectively a commodity now.

Which is why Apple devices feature some of the best screens, the best cameras, the best processors. Any illusions that Apple isn't fighting the competitive fight, and hard, is just contrived nonsense. They are fighting damn hard to make a compelling case for their devices, and doing a good job at it.

whereas Apple doesn't need (or want!) the bottom

Apple still makes and sells the iPhone 4S, a three year old device. You can get this in the $200-ish range. Further most of Apple's pricing has been contingent upon the scam that are cell phone contracts, where right now you can get the iPhone 5, for instance, for "$0". That is, by most definitions, the "low end".
The HN title is total flame bait and does not match the actual post title on either LtU or Vimeo; a mod should really change it. It may also make sense to change the link to the Vimeo presentation as linking to the LtU discussion forces people to click through to see anything and is a little strange – are we supposed to watch the video or read the LtU thread?
Agree entirely, an excellent read. Fiercely imaginative blend of sci-fi, religion, time travel, horror, Keats & Chaucer.
I was affected by this, but I realized it at the time.

I have an older laptop that I turned on. It was a work laptop a few years ago, linked to my dropbox account, etc. Since then I had added a bunch of things like a bunch of git repos to a folder included in dropbox.

I turned on that laptop and Dropbox started using 100% cpu after a few minutes. Then the fan kicked on and it was annoyingly loud so I looked at dropbox and saw it was chugging along in the repos directory. I went ahead and clicked on selective sync, unchecked repos, and left it alone for about 5 minutes.

It was still 100% cpu, so I killed the dropbox task and restarted it.

Minutes later, on another machine, I went to fetch from one of the repos and it had a gnarly error. So I went about investigating.

I found my way to the dropbox events tab (on the website - the desktop client doesn't have this feature) and saw an event where dropbox decided to delete 7,800 files.

I submitted a support request, but before they responded I had figured out it was (mostly) in the repos directory, which I fixed by simply deleting the repos and pulling from one of my servers.

Anyways. There's my real world run in with this bug.
Where does these datas come from?
Hyperion and Chasm City (2nd book of Revelation Space) are two of my favorite books I've read in the last few years.

The whole Revelation Space series is fantastic. It's written by a former ESA astronomer, so it definitely falls more toward the "hard sci-fi" side of the spectrum than Hyperion. It takes a few scientific liberties, but all of them are significant to the setting. Interstellar human civilizations without FTL are a pretty cool place for a story.
Download it here

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> series of suppositions ... First is that people are static.

I don't know of anyone who believes people are static. You even say yourself in the next sentence "We all know that we all change". No one (at least that I'm aware of) goes into marriage expecting the person they marry to stay the same over time. Another HN poster (can't remember who) put it beautifully once: marriage is an agreement to learn to love the person that each of you become over time.

A marriage is a promise, a vow, to commit to this. Now, I could certainly see a situation where two people tell each other at the altar "I promise to love and support you always, well... unless we change too much". However, both people should be aware of these terms! You can't make an agreement that you will always, unconditionally support the other person, and then back out of it later because you changed your mind. If both people are in agreement that they might change and get divorced later before the marriage begins, then fine with me. It's not that different than dating with some legal benefits. But if one person thinks they're going into something permanent, and the other person has doubts about it, then that is really not fair to the first person, and I would argue it's essentially evil to be that dishonest to someone.

> further stigma to those who have gone through divorce

There is a stigma, but it's not on divorce; it's on someone who goes back on their word. What are my terms for divorce? If there is abuse or cheating. Those are my only conditions. And before I marry anyone, I will make it very clear that these are the only conditions in which I will abandon them, and if they don't like those terms they can marry someone else. The stigma associated with the vast majority of divorces is that one (or two) people were unable to keep a promise. I don't want to be associated with these kinds of people. My life is simpler and happier if I associate with people who will keep their word at any cost. Maybe your experience is different.
For those interested in 1password on other platforms, I also created a Chrome extension a while ago, primarily so I could use my 1password DB on Linux: https://github.com/robbiev/multipass-chrome

I don't make use of the project posted here though, I wrote my own 1password lib in Go. The extension uses Chrome's native messaging to talk to the native Go binary, so unlike some other projects this does not run a local HTTP server or something like that.
And then go on a honeymoon...
> It's all very sad.

Indeed, ironic perhaps because Israel commits some of the same mistakes against minorities as many Israeli citizens experienced as a minority group themselves in other countries.

The plight of the Ethiopian jews in Israel (Beta Israel) for example is riddled with controversy. Just recently there was the birth-control issue[0] which is quite shameful.

[0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/eliseknutsen/2013/01/28/israel-f...
Panshin - The World Beyond the Hill (meta) http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1715812.The_World_Beyond_...
Another great time travel novel is Replay by Ken Grimwood. One of the few books I've read twice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_%28Grimwood_novel%29
[Other dev] Thank you! and suggestion noted (you are not the first mention this ;)
The fundamental problem here is application security in situations of rooted devices is non-existent. Android lacks mechanisms for apps to tell they're running as root too (as the root user could disable this) so you can't disable functioning on rooted devices. (Chrome OS does not have this problem, as the official builds are signed by a single authority).

Newer Android versions have support for hardware DRM modules which would allow potential for some sort of nasty workaround (which may involve transcoding any images into movies), but in the general case for the wider market it's not going to work yet.

Finally, this is also why the NFC stuff is generally accompanied by another isolated system, though I seem to recall early versions of that (like in the Nexus S) proved to be sidesteppable.
Anathem was the entire reason I caved and bought a Kindle (many years ago). Great book, killer as a hard copy trade paperback.
Yeah, I find Heretics of Dune to be much better than Children of Dune, for instance, both in characterizations and the ideas it explores.

I'll break ranks, though, and say I actually enjoy the plot after God Emperor of Dune quite a lot. I didn't really the first time I read the books, so that may have some bearing, but it helped to read a piece discussing the books, where they claimed that the Dune books are two separate trilogies, with God Emperor as the transitional book.

Unfortunately, Frank Herbert didn't get to complete the second trilogy, but the first two books of it -- when thought of as a mostly separate set of stories from the first Dune books -- becomes much more interesting, rather than just "why is he introducing all this new stuff into this universe?"

As for those other "Dune" books written by Frank Herbert's son and Kevin Anderson, they are total trash, and not worth any more of your time than, say, your average bottom-of-the-barrel Star Wars EU novel (it's telling that it took Frank Herbert nearly 30 years to write his six Dune novels, and it took them less than 5 years to write their first six). If you're curious about them, do yourself a favor by reading their synopses on wikipedia, feeling sad that they even exist, then forgetting that they do.
I'm going to put my vote in for an old one Nightfall by Asimov and Silverberg.
http://smile.amazon.com/Nightfall-Isaac-Asimov/dp/0553290991...
Seems to be down. Here's the Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:x8_BOh5...
The Anglophone trade fiction industry has serious structural issues when it comes to publishing translated works from other languages. Firstly, a lot of readers (and store book buyers) have a "not invented here" problem with foreign authors. Secondly, names that are unfamiliar: difficult. Names that are hard to pronounce: also difficult. (I know one Serbian author who uses a pseudonym specifically because her surname is hard for Americans and Brits to pronounce.) Thirdly: before an editor can decide to acquire and push a title out to marketing they have to read it; this entails at a minimum a bilingual editor in the language in question, or a budget to pay a translator for a three chapter extract and synopsis. Then, if they go with the book, they have the added overhead of commissioning a full translation and, hopefully, getting someone else who's fluent in the source language to sanity-check it. All in all, this costs thousands of dollars -- and there's so much adequate material already available in the vernacular that most editors don't bother. It takes someone with a real sense of mission to put the effort in -- or an author who's willing to pay a translator up-front on spec in hope of selling.

Little-known fact: Finnish SF author Hannu Rajaniemi writes in English. Indeed, his novel "The Quantum Thief" was translated into Finnish by someone else (and made it to #2 in the "foreign translated fiction" bestseller charts in Helsinki).
A source of entertaining/useless information, in the format of an encyclopedia
> Apple still makes and sells the iPhone 4S, a three year old device. You can get this in the $200-ish range. Further most of Apple's pricing has been contingent upon the scam that are cell phone contracts, where right now you can get the iPhone 5, for instance, for "$0". That is, by most definitions, the "low end".

No, the consumers on the real low end of the cell phone market can't afford or can't get approved to have a contract. Most phone makers chase this market in some way, Apple doesn't.
We dropped nukes all over the place until we changed our policy about 1970, after dropping four nukes on Franko's Spain. We didn't recover many of them. These stories seem eternally popular on HN.
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This is a new bug. I'm guessing it got exposed because you have a 32-bit machine, and I've been testing so far on 64-bit. Edit line 404 of psty.py as follows:

- self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(entry["mtime"]))
+ self.send_header("Last-Modified", self.date_time_string(entry["mtime"] / 1000))

If it still doesn't work, maybe we can continue the conversation on the google groups forum?
Weird to see people complaining about the web all the time. The fact that it can do things ranging from typesetting to form applications, to marketing sites, to full blown games is pretty amazing. If you feel that you would like to make a SaaS providing a SQL backed drag and drop form editor, you can do this on the web. The fact that nothing like VB exists any more is a reflection of the fact that the market simply does not find these things useful.
Well, I'm a Qt fanboy, but I think a Linux distro + Qt5 + KDE5 will probably be quite close to what you want. Take a look at Qt Quick and especially QML, which is being used for developing KDE 5.

QML is basically a Javascript-based declarative language for building user interfaces in which you can use full Javascript to augment them. It has its own IDE (Qt Creator) with a visual designer and it's pretty easy to learn, and Javascript is not a hard language at all for newbies. You can even use C++ to extend your applications. KDE 5 is not ready yet, but Qt5 is mature and improving with every release.

I would recommend that combination to a young aspiring programmer without a doubt.
A completely new approach to surveillance – should you be worried?
You might (or might not) be surprised to learn that I agree. Reason: Accelerando is really a fix-up of nine novelettes, previously published separately in Asimov's SF Magazine. So it is, to say the least, episodic ...
>both participants cared to work a bit.

How do we measure whether the amount of caring done was enough or not? Considering it varies based on personalities and other convincing capabilities of a partner, how do we know for sure apart from just getting information from the partners themselves who say that they tried a lot to make it work.

Its important to remember that there is lot of suffering involved when one of the partner keeps working due to societal pressure while the other continues to mistreat them. This is more prevalent in developing countries like India and China. There is only so much a person can try on their own(they cant stand shaming so dont share oppression with other family)
Yup, and if you are trying to do the full stack, you had better toss in some node.js or Ruby on Rails, plus SQL. Web development is really hard for non-developers to grok.

I keep thinking back to an Access application that I threw together in a couple of days, back in the 90s for managing a team of about 40 technicians. It was being used for task tracking, and had some wiki-like features as well. When I started that project I knew nothing about Access or VB, and yet in two days I had a bunch of forms and tables that allowed managers to get a quick feel for what their staff were up to. The thing ran over the LAN, and could handle 10 simultaneous connections without any dramas. If I were to try the same thing in the web world, I might lose myself in getting just one table view working correctly for a week. Getting an http server configured and up and running, and talking to a db server would be at least two days. And there would be many potential roadblocks just waiting to trip me up along the way.

These days, rather than dealing with that mess, many companies just go for an off-the-shelf hosted solution that sort of fits their needs, such as Basecamp, or Jira, or Igloo. The existence of these products is a sign that we've gone off in the wrong direction somewhere - the sorts of products they make are very similar to that online apps you could make with Access 20 years ago.
I agree. I loved that. Its great material to run with too. An idea that gives more ideas.
I would suggest that if you want a good and wonderful marriage, then respect is key. Have someone observe the couple and watch the dynamic. I wonder how much of the various graphs could correlate with likelihood of respecting the other.

I am surprised by the length to proposal. My opinion is that once you meet someone that really clicks, then it works out quickly and well. I wonder if there is another dynamic that correlates with the religious as well, one that perhaps is more in the vein of arranged marriages, so to speak.
What surprise me about these recruitments is -- how do you convince people that it really is NSA/CIA/whatever that are asking them to be patriotic?

E.g. a Chinese spy in Silicon Valley probably say "I represent NSA, we _really_ need to get access to mail accounts without letting anyone know, including your corporate CEOs" (except to people which would be open to nationalist Chinese arguments).

A visit to Pentagon to shake some well known general's hand might be hard to arrange, since not only Google or Apple might monitor the GPS of the employees phone.
The Culture series is one of the most uplifting series I've read. When I'm reading it, I'm just smiling thinking "yeah, that's exactly how humans should develop". Also, ships named Well, it works for me.
Have you ever been to corporate america? ASP.NET webforms is used heavily everywhere including but definitely not limited to marketing agencies, the financial sector (investment and banking down on through collection agencies), healthcare, call centers, etc etc etc.

If you approach a lot of those places and show them something like AngularJS they'll be like "where are all of the high-level tags and rich components that I can just drag and drop"? And then you'll realize that you're not actually in the ghetto.

There's a reason that webforms didn't die when Microsoft introduced MVC, but instead they started bringing MVC features into webforms because so many people use it.
Nah. All the cool kids in the 80's wanted the Amiga. The Mac was a toy. The story of Jobs' visit to Xerox Parc is well documented. They paid a million dollars for the visits.

http://www.macstories.net/linked/parc-scientist-larry-tesler...

http://www.cultofmac.com/126863/in-defense-of-steve-jobs/
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Ability of each to continuously change/evolve/learn - not to get stuck as some "set in stone" personality, to be always attractive as a "new" personality.
I'm a bit surprised to see the conclusions on this post getting so much love on HN.

Let's assume it's tongue in cheek that the author says the best marriage is when "you've been dating at least 3 years before getting engaged, making a combined $125k salary, go to church together regularly, and don’t worry about your partner’s wealth nor looks".

All the data says is that those happen to be some attributes of long lasting marriages and not necessarily when combined together.

How can we know what about the pressures of a marriage where the the couple can't afford to go away on a Honeymoon?
What social pressures could there be on a couple that spend over $20k on a wedding?
How can we know about the stigma of ending a religious marriage when you go to church every week and invite 200 people to your wedding?

Most importantly - there's zero information about the quality of the marriage...

The site is responding intermittently but as
rhiever says you can get it here https://i.imgur.com/rABtgo9.jpg

edit: I hate to write so negatively so I'd like to say that it's great that there's so much useful and honest marriage advice on here as a result of this discussion.
When speed increases, the safe distance between cars increases as well, therefore reducing overall throughput.
Ah gothcya, sorry if I came across unnecessarily aggressive or self-righteous. Hope that if you do get married, you and your spouse have such admirable commitment to each other! And I hope the same for myself haha, I'm sure it's one heck of a challenge
I think that marriage itself is completely irrelevant - it's the relationship that matters; Although we're getting married next year (we joke about sealing the deal, since we both agree it's just a nice-to-have) after 7 years and 4 kids of a relationship. We've had ups and downs which we're all connected to our financial situation. While I was bootstrapping my startup (https://codeable.io), things at some point started to look really bad and we had to borrow money - which brought a lot of stress to the table, which led to a lot of arguments (although I can't say we were anywhere near the breaking point). After we closed our first investment, things got much easier (financially speaking) and I was able to spend more time with my family and bonded with them more. So the pillars of a good relationship are mutual respect and support, lots of love, some financial stability (yes, it matters) and compromises. And spending quality time together, you can't bond if you're not around.
regular sex
>People slowed down at first, but now people go just as fast as they used to, typically 5-10MPH over the speed limit, and some 15 MPH over (that's 50MPH). The radar signs installed as part of the project always read 40, 42, 45 and not just for my car.

Radar signs that basically just say "shame on you" are worthless. Traffic enforcement cameras ("speed cameras") that actually hand out fines would have an actual impact. Those speeders would change their ways if they had to pay a fine every time they drove over the limit. Preferably the fine would be scaled based on the driver's income.