skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You could make the back room potentially a lot smaller if it was all in a machine.

As for the link - I don't buy his arguments:
"First, it buys and sells properties, as one might suspect."

I've never seen a McDonald's close down. I'm sure they do sometimes, but they probably realize really quickly if the place will be profitable or if it needs to be sold asap. So effectively they never cash in on any long term real-estate investments. If the real-estate values goes up, more than likely you're gunna be selling more burgers too.

The second point he makes is kinda semantic. At the end of the day McDonalds needs to extract money from the franchise. They can charge more for using the brand, more for the ingredients or more for rent or whatever. It doesn't really have any significance. At the end they are trying to get as much money as possible out of the franchise without running the owners bankrupt.

His last point about them getting bought and all their real-estate sold.. I dunno maybe he was trying to just be cute - but net worth of assets is taken into account into the stock price. It's the kind of stuff that's on quarterly reports. Kinda scary that this guy is an investor.
>Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content...

You got any evidence?

>I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse...

Who is the "rest of the scene"?
The donut machines exist in every Krispy Kreme store, but I think you nailed it: the automation problem gets much harder when your food doesn't stay fresh more than 10 minutes. Going after the higher-end market will help these guys: people won't wait for McDonalds but they are more willing to wait for Five Guys or better.
This is why internet banking sites use 2 factor auth.
My final note to the love of my life
You know what, I really loved my wife more than anything. Even my own family, unfortunately. I cared about her beyond belief. I put her above all, I treated her like a queen. I moved to KY so that I could provide a better welfare for her and a better life. I have sacrificed everything I have had for nothing. I helped her through the good and bad times, just like the vows state. She has done to me what is equivilent of putting a gun to my head and pulling the trigger; putting the noose around my neck and throwing me off the ledge and ending this shitty existence; stabbing me in the heart and twisting the knife. I have cried too many tears for her, I have wasted too much time hoping that it wasn't true; that I could make things work and that I could fix this. Unfortunately, I have failed. I am yet another statistic in divorce among first-married couples. No one can explain how i felt, how i feel, what I am going through. Why I can't concentrate at work, why I can't eat, why I can't sleep, why the thought of this makes me so sick to my stomach. No one can explain to me why she met another man, why he was better than me, why she cheated on me with him, why she walked in one day and said I no longer love you and i don't care about you. I almost snooped down to her level, but I am done with her. I'm done with a lot of things. People get what they deserve, it just takes some time. She was my best friend, my only true friend. I will miss her and all of the good times we have had together and the love that we shared together.
i actually like it, it's basically the same that everyone else did that made a successful product. iterate.

there's nothing magical about it. if that's what you look for, you will be disappointed. he wasn't some kind of genius. he just tried out what worked and iterated.

it's the same reason why macbooks looked so smooth, while stupid acer was still putting fan ins on the bottom of the laptop until intel gave them ultrabook designs. really? who would do that. clearly none at acer has ever used an acer laptop for actual portable usage.

typed from my acer ultraportable with fan in at the bottom
While it might take some time to solve your particular problem, similar problems have been solved previously. Take a look at the hello and erase programs at http://www.mathstat.dal.ca/~selinger/md5collision/ for a nice example of constructed md5 collisions.
It's incorrect to say that grandparent's quote "not effective" is the same as your phrase "no effect whatsoever."

The suggestion, following Irving Kirsch's book, that the SSRIs are broadly "not effective," is a statement about the distribution of outcomes over a population. (It also takes into account the fact that even placebos cause changes in outcomes, and that we consider a drug not to be "effective" if its outcomes do not differ meaningfully from those attributable to placebos.) This is maybe better stated as "not efficacious" because we're talking about efficacy, vs. placebo, in a population.

This is entirely different from the parent's (counterfactual) statement "the SSRI I'm taking has no effect whatsoever," which is an assertion about having any effect (not a relative effect vs. placebo) in a single individual (not a population).

"Not effective"[as a vector operation and vs. a baseline established by placebo] != "has no effect whatsoever"[as a scalar operation and vs. a baseline of no intervention]

Grandparent has most definitely not said that your perception of SSRI effects are "imagined," nor that you are "misguided." But you are arguing against a straw man until you at least acknowledge the distinctions here (which, it must be said, are pretty well explained in the book in question ;)
Anatomy of long sales letter (2011)
Is it just me, or is that the most annoying example of advertising that you've ever seen on a page?

It's bad enough that I'm confident I'll avoid "ihelplounge" pages like the plague should I ever see that URL again.

[Edit - also, mark01 is a spam account which does nothing but submit ihelplounge pages to HN]
Why is it Microsoft Starbucks? is it in the MS campus? Or running Windows?
I wouldn't mind seeing more concrete examples, perhaps distilled from Prismatic's codebase. Macros are one of those topics where several real examples are super useful in demonstrating how it is more broadly useful than people initially intuit. It's one of those "Gee, that's cool and looks pretty useful, but off the top of my head I can't think many ways in which I'd use that in my own programming projects. I wish there were enough examples to deduce a generic pattern that naturally comes to me when working on my own code."
Read the US Government's case. It's pretty clearly laid out. Megaupload employees were even sharing links to user-uploaded pirated content hosted on their servers.

Those who release pirated content in a particular way. All non-p2p warez groups.
Stopping your digital locker online service from being used for mass copyright infringing material is easy. Go ahead and host a movie on dropbox and share a public link on a popular site. See how long it stays valid.

A normal system admin might decide a single 4gb file accounting for tens of terabytes of traffic is unusual and investigate the cause. Odds are pretty decent you'll be able to find a source driving all the traffic.

Kim Dotcom is going for the blind eye approach. Just close your eyes and cover your ears so it's not your fault. He did this with MegaUpload to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars of profit. I wonder if the new site will reward users who have highly downloaded files like his last?

Can you prove, or disprove, that the cryptography was intentional broken? Doubtful. Can you prove a website didn't try to prevent the mass sharing of copyrighted material? Yes. Is that illegal? Maybe. Should it be? That's whole 'nother can of worms.
Book really gave a huge negative image to him, after which frankly I lost all respect for the man. You build impressions on what you read.

What he was in reality I have no clue of.
The OP's argument doesn't hinge on "I'm offended." They give several reasons why Atwood argues from ignorance. Comparing suicide with ragequitting is a horrifically callous thing to do.

Many other people have managed to express Atwood's point before his mostly superfluous post (e.g., Lessig) in a much more appropriate manner.
You probably already know this, but for those who don't Seattle's Best is a Starbucks company --they used to be the brand found in bookstores, when those were popular --now they seem to be the brand SBUX uses for in-store (substore) locations.
Dotcom is seen as criminal only because he isn't rich enough to make the rules, unlike the Fortune 100. Two wrongs don't make a right but neither should a double standard be applied to him.
'Confidential, Need to know only' would probably be the most common phrase within Apple
Ugh, text-align:justify.
I think a lot of the paranoia and other negative effects from pot use are symptoms of overdose, and are the result of either smoking too much or too frequently.

Taking fewer hits, smoking weaker weed, and/or smoking less often can help.
I still can't access github in Beijing.
And even when consumers use Google for mobile searches, they are often doing so on Apple devices like iPhones, for which Google has to pay Apple a fee. Those types of fees are large — equivalent to 25 percent of Google’s revenue in the quarter.

Really? Why would Google have to pay Apple a cut of ad revenue from searches? Or is it referring only to searches initiated in the search box in Safari?
Or ArchLinux testing/stable.... though sometimes even stable feels like "testing", but with the occasional breakages I had less problem with Archlinux, then I had with the Ubuntu updates release by release....
Here are the facts:

The app had a +4 rating which apple defines as "Apps in this category contain no objectionable material." Did 500px honor this rating? No.

Also, they shouldn't have been surprised. The review right on their iTunes page lists a complaint about nudity. I think if the app was properly rated Apple should put the app back up.

http://i.imgur.com/GESYvRs.jpg
I find this comment a bit short sighted. First of all, it's obvious that the burger king org DOES care about restaurant sales, otherwise they would not be advertising constantly. Even if you ignore the contradiction between their actions and your suggestion about their priorities, applying a little logic to the situation will make it clear. If sales aren't good, how many people are going to be making new Burger King franchises? If sales aren't good, will franchises remain in business to pay them fees?
Comment system, formaly structure debate, eliminate bias, reach group consensus
I'm reminded of a talk by Rich Hickey in which he recounts his experiences trying to initially make Java more immutable. He concluded that while it was certainly possible, it was less than ideal and that a language such as Clojure facilitated expressing the semantics he wanted to convey. As a thought exercise, I would have you re-implement Spawngrid's mimetypes[1] library in Elixir to better understand what I mean. Email me at devin@devintorr.es and I can further elucidate.

[1]: https://github.com/spawngrid/mimetypes
For AES you have to search the entire keyspace, but for RSA ( and AFAIK any public key scheme) you can actually calculate the private key. The security of public key cryptography relies therefore on one-way functions, which are easy to calculate in one direction but very hard to calculate in the other direction. ( This is used to generate the public and private keys together, but the inverse operation, breaking the encryption, should be prohibitively hard to calculate in practice.) Because of this you can not really compare key length between symmetric and asymmetric encryption schemes.
Thousands of programmers on Weibo submitted their plea to miit.gov.cn website for relieving github. Guess it worked.

I call this new kind of ShangFang, it won't be long till this channel gets flooded.
The ethics of mobile data collection
To be fair, he looked at what was happening in research and thought "I can make this happen in the market" – all the ingredients were there in PARC, etc. That he was able to fixate on that goal and make it happen, however, is a triumph.
I think this is related but not sure: http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/arrowlets/
Rolling releases and the 6 month-release cycle the worst thing about Linux. I hate it when I have reinstall and upgrade because of compatibility so often - there is zero new functionality and rather that reducing bugs, the distributions replaces the old ones with new ones. Or it randomly breaks your fixes. Or after the update your system locale is switched to Chinese (happened to me, and no I have nothing in common with China).
That example does not apply here. A collision attack doesn't help. You need a second preimage attack, of which a practical one doesn't exist for MD5.

The difference is with the collision attack, the attacker controls the inputs and has to find any two valid messages with the same hash - any hash. That's what was done with forged certificates.

In this case, the hash you need to match against is fixed. You have one preimage, which is also fixed of course. You have to find a second preimage that also matches that specific hash. If you can do this at all, let alone "easily", you will significantly advance the field of cryptography.

(To raise the bar even higher, your second preimage has to be valid javascript that executes your malicious action.)
How a Zombie Outbreak Could Happen
Events and photo sharing. No other service has enough of my friends on it to be an event planning service. Email doesn't cut it as there's no collaboration at all (and I don't even have most of their email addresses!).

Then there's photo sharing - back in the day (before multiple photo upload on Myspace) my friend group used a shared Flickr account to share photos, but it was a one way experience - no commenting or interaction.

I'm sure there are plenty of sites which do both those things better (only in the last year or so have we had the option to have reasonable resolution photos on Facebook), but without the user reach I'm not going to use them.

That being said, Facebook amongst people I know feels like Myspace just before Facebook became popular (2007ish). We use it because it's there, but there's a feeling that people are after something better. Especially with their news feed 'algorithm' which completely excludes me from hearing about news from some of my good friends.
Ask HN: Can only silicon valley produce amazing and successful products?
I have been working on one web application idea since last few months. I have been discussing this with many people and got very good review.
But many investors with whom I am in touch with they say you can not develop this product any where else except valley because resources and ecosystem required does not exist at my place.
Now I don't actually believe completely in what they say, but I have been looking for some good developers but could not find one so had to do on my own. So as I see is that the quality of UI UX and code is actually compromised.
Is it really not possible to get it developed anywhere else then valley? If I have financial constrains how do I make my way to valley?
What is the biggest heist you ever pulled or tried to pull off?
Why this jilted Kickstarter backer decided to sue — & why he was right
McDonalds actually operates something like 30% of its stores directly instead so that it eats it's own dogfood. It can try out new ideas in a production setting, etc.

My guess is that Momentum Machines is doing something similar. Think of it as a public-facing R&D center, not as unstartupy.

Plus, "startupy" is about designing to scale up. Having a physical store is not necessarily unstartupy. Operating it as a mom-and-pop restaurant would be, but operating it with machines seems distinctly startupy. New store? No problem, rent the space, install the machines, boom, done!
Exactly. If you test 1 million scripts per second, it will still take you quarter a million years on average to get the collision.
Well, it's fantastic, but what makes it germane here is because the author/narrator switched from being a mathematician/physicist to a biologist mid-career because he saw no other way to continue working on nuclear physics without causing more harm. Several other physicists of that era did.

We are to some extent liable for the ill perpetrated by other people using our technology. The extent is debatable, but it must be greater than "not at all."
I'am also disappointed with Ubuntu (version 10.10 was the best but 12.04 the worst). I wanted to try Fedora but I was reading interesting Fedora 18 Spherical Cow review on HN yesterday: http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/fedora-18-kde.html
What is the best Linux distribution (with Gnome 2) for Web Developers?
You can't yet. "The Firefox OS Marketplace does not currently support paid apps or in-app payments. We hope to enable this feature for testing late in the first quarter of 2013." (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Apps/Submitting_an_...)
This has been my experience too. In the end, I found myself more comfortable with slower-moving distributions like Slackware.
With great difficulty !

Do you really need the extra stress? Doing a PhD is really a full-time undertaking, as in 40+ hours / week diligent work. Doing it part-time still requires 20+ hours of quality time to be successful.
Chrome persisted through a full reboot of the device, despite App Restrictions being set to 4+. I was able to see it and open it after a full reboot. I'm testing on an iPod Touch running iOS 6.0.
I don't think it is fair to dismiss it as a "mega lie". I am actually surprised, how thought out the encryption scheme is. The first version might have flaws, but at least they thought about the case that the CDN might be compromised and implemented a quite clever (but flawed) work-around. Most banks don't put such an effort into security of their website.

Time will show if they fix this flaw, or not.
Often the best first step to stop something evil is to remove the tools that make evil's job easier. In this case Facebook is facilitating persecution by making better and better tools to filter data on a large number of people simultaneously. If you want persecution to stop you can't just automatically absolve Facebook of responsibility for the consequences of the design choices they make. Sure people should be careful about what they post online but Facebook and the companies advertising on it offer incentives to get people to do it. Past 'likes' will now be easily accessible forever. It isn't only what you've put on your profile, inferences can be drawn based on the information about your friends. If all your friends are openly gay but you don't want others to know you're gay it can now quickly be deduced with a search.
I think that's slightly different. It's based on

if (data == x) then { good_program } else { evil_program }

Generating a collision with a given MD5 hash is much more difficult.
Speculation is unnecessary, we know he was depressed, for example: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/verysick
That reminds me...I get all excited when I hear someone mention Django on a more mainstream site and then mildly disappointed when I realize they only meant the movie. I've probably been programming too much when that's the first thing that comes to mind.
Which ones? I've been signed up with Wells Fargo & Capital One for a while now and they do no such thing.
The multiple accounts thing is a good point. I hadn't considered that, but it makes the "single user device" seem even sillier - why can I attach multiple accounts to a device that is otherwise completely inappropriate for multiple people to use at the same time?

I'm aware that the Touch is less expensive, but my argument is that "Just buy a separate device for your 4-year-old" is an insane line of reasoning, whether it's a $200 iPod or a $600 iPhone.
I've read (but can't confirm) that many Mac games run through Wine. Wine's bad reputation mostly comes from the one-size fits all approach normally used. If the developers of each game individually configured, and packaged, their game with Wine, they would all run quite well. This is probably the path many games will take, if at all, due to the cost of trying to redevelop a Windows-only game for Linux.
Sanity does not mean following the rules or being normal, and the concept is not antihacker. Loss of sanity is generally a miserable sad state where the ability to judge reality to either one's own or other's satisfaction is compromised.

Do not mistake insanity for interesting and creative. Heavy drug abuse can cause major permanent brain malfunction that results in a real compromise of sanity, and the result is not pretty.

These HN drug threads are always filled with fearless commentary like this by young people who have never seen the before and after.
It's a beautiful concept my friend. I wonder why it hasn't become popular yet, though.
I'm not sure what you mean by "one-way process." I think there are certainly situations where bad things happen yet nobody is responsible and nothing needs to be done differently. I do think randomness plays a big role in my arriving at that conclusion, and I don't see a very big role for randomness in the potential abuses of graph search.
Unity could be done as a gnome shell extension now (and it would probably be better if it were done that way) but when development started there was no gnome shell - compiz was the go-to solution if you wanted a compositing window manager, and unity is a compiz plugin. if anybody was doing things their own way instead of collaborating, it's the gnome folks. It just so happened that gnome's solution turned out better.

Similar situation with upstart vs systemd - when they introduced upstart, systemd was either brand new or nonexistent (can't remember exactly) and for quite a while, it looked as though upstart would be the solution to replace the old init.
After I swiched the dns server from 114.114.114.114 to 8.8.8.8,I can access github.com now.
You don't. A PhD is a full-time job, a 40-60 hour/week one.

I did the part-time Master's. That was a huge mistake. You will not get the education, the time to research, the networking, the collaboration, or the presence to do the job right.

A PhD done wrong is a waste of your time and the university's time.
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There are also highly educated people that are losing jobs because what they do is so repetitive and can be done more efficiently with a robot or program.
Nah. You can have a family and do a PhD. Lots of people do. You just can't have a fulltime job and do a decent PhD.

You should be able to wangle some kind of funding and get by OK if your spouse can work (& a few other conditions such as no financial catastrophe).
I've outlined the basic approach:

http://deeptherapeutics.com

Determining how to apply that method to a common problem has taken a long time. Building a machine to do it is another set of challenges.
It's hosted on Linode, looking at it sternly kills it ;-)
I don't think it's a sustainable business, that's why, unless users will get fucked in the long run, one way or the other.

Startups these days and even bigger companies like Google, got into the habit of creating something and giving it away for free or for cheap, then when it gets popular they either raise their prices, pull the plug or sell your data, fucking the same users that made them popular in the process and frankly I'm tired of that.

Right now I'm a Dropbox paying customer and decided against GDrive for instance, even though GDrive is cheaper and even though I was and am already a heavy Google Apps user. I went with Dropbox because they value me enough to provide a Linux client and I simply don't trust Google's pricing anymore, considering their recent history.

So even though I do use free services right now, for new services and products if it ain't open-source, if it isn't backed by a non-profit and if it doesn't have a decent price tag, then I'm not touching it.
Wow, I didn't know that. Any link to the story?
Youtube has a huge list of "Chillout Ambient Mix" which is quite good to program or read books with. There's also classical music.