skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems silly to have any modern Linux distro be anything but a well implemented rolling release

The key here is of course well implemented. I switched recently from Debian back to Ubuntu because I need a system that is properly QC'ed. I was using Debian testing and every time I dist-upgraded something broke. It got so bad that I started waiting for weekends to do it.

The greatest problem I have with my relatives who I have running Ubuntu or Fedora is that major version increments will almost always critically break the system because they are often 4 - 6 kernels or other package versions behind.

Use an LTS version of Ubuntu.

I do think most distros could do better with 3 tiers of packages in a rolling release

This is how Debian does it. Problem is that stable branch does not contain many new software, testing/unstable branch is still too volatile for use as a regular system.
I saw this machine in action at an event at the hardware accelerator they're part of. The guys behind it are cool and they have solved a number of problems so far.

But I do not think they have solved all of them. When I saw it the rate of production was far below 340/hr, and the machine wasn't doing all of the assembly. So I think the headline's use of the present tense is very misleading.
With what, their powers of telekinesis?

I'm sure your workflows aren't identical to mine. Why would it be to theirs?
At the risk of sounding nit-picky, you did make a judgment: "I have the feeling that, if this sort of idea was as value as the article implies, McDonalds ... would have put serious money into developing this sort of thing and it would already be everywhere."

It was this judgment that I felt super-serial was responding to.
It completely blows my mind. I am totally confused as to what Facebook does for people for them to take this stuff on a monthly basis.
As for this new search: What happens when people pop up on this search even when they have nothing in common with the question being asked? I really might my family to deactivate for a while at least until this thing is better understood.
If "it's hard to say for sure", then one wonders what the point of writing an essay comparing the suicidal act to that of rage quitting a video game.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3184517
One thing that drives me nuts about the new native interface is how it handles subscriptions. I mean the feed you get is actually not that bad, but it's way too cumbersome to get to see only your subscriptions.

Is it possible from youtube's API to authenticate a user and then access his subscriptions (and maybe even the aggregated feed based on them)?
Thanks, pretty sure the remainder of the version numbers are messed up too.. pulled out of my old and foggy memory. :)
The problem is multifaceted; first, JS crypto is slow in most current implementations (but will get better with Typed Arrays). Second and more importantly, it is difficult to ensure total security on a page. While loading all assets from a single server using SSL helps quite a bit, there's really nothing stopping a malicious extension from getting in the way and stealing your passwords.

Of course that's true of any website in general so the lesson is: be careful what extensions you install.

Third, browser support is still garbage. Safari has major issues, Firefox is lacking support in critical places, and IE, don't bother.

However the future is bright. With Typed Arrays & Web Workers running on all threads, you can expect 10+MB/s crypto in-browser very soon. That's slow by any other standard but potentially good enough for a browser. Hell, I'm pushing about 3.5MB/s on a MBA on securesha.re, which does 128-bit AES.

Just for disclosure, I wrote securesha.re (and succumbed to a few of these problems while writing it).
I wonder if we might see Microsoft just buy a Dell or Nokia in the next few years? If you told me back in the day that Oracle was going to one day buy Sun (or that Google would get Motorola) I would have laughed at you, but I really sense that tech landscape that I've known since the 80s and now 90s is about to become unrecognizable.
EDIT: Regardless, this has been an interesting discussion and I'd enjoy taking it out of the context of HN if you are interested: itai |at| judicata |.com|
Wouldn't that be true of using any service handling sensitive information e.g. online banking?
Why Cloud Foundry matters to Hackers
This is almost assuredly the future of all food. In 20 years (at the latest) I imagine some kind of make-all food crafting machine will be the de-facto standard in new homes and would have a very reasonable cost associated (maybe 10 - 20k) considering time saved.

But even then, that is only a hairs step away from 3d molecular printers just building amino acids and proteins up into the food you want anyway. Significantly fewer moving parts and things to break, too. I hope that happens in our lifetimes.
Buckmister Fuller's almost-suicide
I would be curious to know why. Would you mind elaborating?
I thought this was going to be about Ruby on Rails...
It did make it into the book--Jobs mostly spent that year eating differently, but it wasn't a major focus of his life and aside from the change in diet he did more or less ignore it. If he obsessed over it as much as he actually obsessed over things at times, perhaps things would have gone differently. But it's clear that he did not.
I'm starting to see the Seattle's Best Coffee machines (powered by Redbox, image[1]) replacing Starbucks stands inside grocery stores. The machines are way smaller, cost less, and make more consistent coffee. They seem like the younger sister to the "Microsoft Starbucks" machine [2], which are apparently available to anyone buying 4 cases of beans per month.

[1] https://lh3.ggpht.com/-0vJb6GbCYGs/Tn9dFJkPPUI/AAAAAAAAGtE/2...

[2]https://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-filesystemfile.ashx/__key/communi...
"Is Graph Search really that shocking to you--to anyone on HN?"

Are serial killers who actually kill people really shocking to people? Well, the answer to that question depends a lot on how much you let its framing determine your thinking, right?

Sure, I too, personally, don't share anything personally identifying on FB, in violation of FB and G+'s TOS BTW. But all those naive people, they walked through the door, they didn't see the samurai behind the door and pow, what do they expect? They won't be play in the Seven Samurai now. Why should we Samurai give a heck about them morons? Well, there are some reasons, starting with the fact that we have personal relations, with non-Samurai.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Samurai

"Again we are defeated," Kambei muses. "The winners are those farmers. Not us."
Google makes money from copyright infringing youtube videos and music.

Does this make anyone who works for Google a "piece of shit"?
> unbearable pain

There's a concept of a transcendent mission or quest, that is worth any effort, any suffering, any pain. It's unreasonable to expect this of anyone - it's just that it's an approach that some have used to transcend suffering.
Practical collision attacks against real systems employing MD5 have been successfully carried out in places where people thought a lack of collision-resistance wasn't a problem. Cryptography software is hard enough to implement already; Let's not make it harder by building brand new systems using weak primitives when there are better alternatives available.
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I agree; it would be very difficult to do this: you would have to essentially define some padding area at the bottom of the file for random data (e.g. stored in a string) then generate data to go through all 2^64 possible hashes until you get a hit. I don't know if this is practical or not but it certainly sounds difficult.
RSA can be cracked by breaking the public key down into it's prime factors to discover the private key. AES is much more expensive per "try" because the algorithm itself includes many more steps to do a decryption even with the correct key.

Not the most detailed answer I grant you, but I don't understand all of the math involved.

When you see "256 bit" used in the context of SSL, this is referring to the block cypher used in the actual transmission rather than the RSA key size.

So an SSL implementation will probably use a 2048 bit RSA key and a 256 bit AES key. RSA is used to swap the shared secret which is used as the key to the main AES tranfer.
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MongoHQ is a database operations company with thousands of production Mongo servers. We have serious revenue, a large A-round in the bank, and an amazing set of customers that love what we do for them. Our customers' databases are growing fast enough that we want your knowledge to make sure we can continue running them well.

If you have DBA experience with Mongo and love scaling production databases, we want to talk to you. You will be most effective if you can reason about large database clusters, have a near-magic ability to detect problems early, and can educate customers about the best way to run a database (this often means saying no).

You will generally be doing DBA work on our larger deployments, but will also have an enormous effect on the product itself. If you can help us teach our tools how to reason, show us how to replicate almost-but-not-quite magic, and make us do a better job of guiding customers, you will be one of the most important hires we make.

If this sounds like you, send us an email and tell us about one of your Mongo (or other database) scars: hello@mongohq.com. We have offices in San Mateo, CA, Birmingham AL, and are perfectly happy to let good people work remotely.
Ah, sorry, I thought it was edited, it seemed to read differently the second time. I was reacting to your implication that PG was somehow responsible for this, which, if you know anything about how YC operates, is obviously untrue.

Edit: Reading some of your other comments in this thread confirms that you're assuming a lot of things that aren't true to build an internal narrative and participate in this silly little drama. YC is not controlling at all, and is frequently not directly involved with guiding a company, unless the founders reach out for advice. It's a self-directed program.
I can see your point. I'm not saying it's a pleasant prospect to consider. I do consider these sorts of things inevitable teething pains of a one-way process though. Perhaps that seems a little harsh.
Is the problem with the JS language itself?

I don't know. I do know that other dynamic languages are trusted to perform crypto (e.g. Python). The fact that any dynamic language is trusted leads me to believe JS as a language may be fine.

or with certain JS runtimes?

Yes, each runtime must be analyzed by a crypto expert to uncover e.g. timing attack vulnerabilities, etc.

or with just the idea of running a program inside a web browser to do crypto?

Yes, implementing crypto within a webpage is a bad idea for many reasons. The first is that you must ultimately trust the browser itself, as well as its updater program. Second, you must trust every browser extension, since any extension can arbitrarily modify the page, and hence the javascript. (e.g. Reddit Enhancement Suite does this.) Since every extension can be updated at any time, you can't really trust any extension. Third, the javascript can be compromised in many other ways (e.g. XSS attack, etc). Fourth, crypto itself is extremely difficult to implement correctly, and it's easy to trick yourself into adding flaws while implementing it.

For these and other reasons, browser-based crypto can't ever be trusted. Not yet, and not until the above concerns are no longer relevant.
Steve Jobs threatened patent suit to enforce no-hire policy: filing
That is right. But you need to reduce friction in signup to allow user to explore app.

So a better way could be Signup => Allow them in but say that email confirmation is required for next login => Send email confirmation => Allow login only with confirmation.
Well there is John Perry Barlow - EFF founder, also John C. Lilly (meta programming and SETI).

And this long discussion, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4720121
Maybe 500px should think about making a great web app, to avoid being pulled out of the Apple Store. Everytime I'm fascinated by beautiful web apps with a great responsive UX. Something like Sun: http://pattern.dk/sun/

I think the 500px app shouldn't be too complicated running as a web app. As far as I can see, there's no big usage of iPhone hardware sensors which couldn't be easily implemented in a web app.

So maybe this is a way to go.
Sounds interesting. Any reason in particular you're recommending it?
The part of struggling is the one where they are yet to figure out how to make money from it. They have already spent loads of money developing and protecting that business (billions in Motorola and patent purchases) but not made much money from the whole thing
Now we have proof of concept of automated burger flippers, fry cooks, and, elsewhere, ordering from a kiosk instead of a person (I've seen this in the wild). What does that leave, someone to clean up and to stock the machines?
Tonido is self hosted. So you can run yourself. But it is not open source.
No. Just that I can't read post as I'm sent to mobile version automatically from a blog post!
You can check out start-up "publications", i.e. Techcrunch-like organizations. You can start from there.

Check out http://e27.sg/

If you happen to drop by in the Philippines for your vacations, drop by http://webgeek.ph/

http://represent.ph might be helpful, it's a map of start-up technology companies in the Philippines.
Great stuff! If you're interested in that, you may also be interested in http://www.acaeum.com/
Normal apps are confusing in the same way.

Quick, answer this, does Facebook work when you are offline? How about Google Drive? Or the new GMail for iOS?
Secpanel launches 'Rogue IP List' API to protect servers
Quicktime circa 1991 was not really "personal digital media"-grade technology. It was pixelated, postage-stamp sized videos even on a 640 x 480 screen. It wasn't until 1998 and the Sorenson codec that Quicktime began to approach what we would recognize today as usable video.
Cool .. also i wonder since our app is an audio app of sorts does Firefox OS's audio tag play .mp3s or still stuck with ogg vorbis?

We haven't been able to get our app working in regular Firefox because of this - unfortunately!
I doubt very much that McDonald's has altruistic motives for not deploying these machines.
His niche isn't worse than business-as-usual here in the US.
Marketer's Defense of Facebook EdgeRank
I guess you missed the rest of the comment, where I pointed out that you can find contradicting articles on subjects like this for every single company.
If you believe the business press, everyone is having problems monetizing mobile, and nobody is having problems monetizing mobile.
I don't see any relation between your link and my comment.
I don't have it, but I assume you could look for people that "like" the Graph feature on Facebook. :)
Thank you - I have often wondered - do people actually pay real peppercorns or has there been some adjustment in contracts to the equivalent cash?
Short segment on How It's Made: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1k5WVYu5GXY&t=5m35s
Ah yes, the joy of having to religiously read release news to make sure the next `pacman -Syu` won't horrifically screw up your system. Having been an Arch user for several years, I understand the appeal of rolling-release, but if Canonical doesn't make it safe they'll ruin the "plug'n'play" appeal of Ubuntu.
The First Pizza Ordered by Computer, 1974
That is nice to see. He deserved a good place and I'm happy that his future was not ruined.
All new Apple products in one concept
Am I the only one looking at the image and imagining chain grease flicking onto the burgers... Yuck.

Afterthought: I suppose that might be better than humans handling my food.
Whether or not you want to admit it, I think Jeff said what a lot of us were thinking. Suicide is a unique form of death because it elicits not just sadness, but frustration. Personally, I'm glad he gave those feelings a voice. (And personally, I believe that it's a bad sign if your argument mostly hinges on "I'm offended!")
> that he was with Steve Wozniak when Apple 1 and 2
> were made

This sound like Apple was happening at some garage and Jobs and Wozniak were just walking by.
Did the same happen with NeXT and Pixar?
Jobs was responsible for Apple happening, and he was also responsible for Wozniak being at Apple.
You may not like the guy, but denying that he had a visions is silly.
Videos available online show that he envisioned what he have now back in 1995 or even 1987.
I wonder if we could build machines to educate these people, too.
Not just jQuery - overapi.com has cheat sheets for dozens of languages, with each item on the sheets linked to the relevant part of the online documentation for that language.
I would imagine it would be kind of stinky.
It is not the search that makes money, it is advertising on the top of search. And on mobile advertising has a bit of the problem.
Ubuntu considers huge change that would end traditional release cycle
The 128 bit strong key is applicable for symmetric key encryption (e.g. AES, Blowfish etc.). However, even 2048 bit keys are considered relatively insecure for asymmetric key encryption (e.g. RSA).
"For their next model Momentum Machines plans on ... giving it gourmet cooking abilities that seasoned chefs use such as charring the burger while retaining its juiciness."
Wait, what? An HMAC is a MAC -- just one that happens to be constructed from a hash function in a particular way.
Larry Page: Google $50b in revenue 2012
I wouldn't say its easy, but the obvious known example is the forged microsoft certificates on the Stuxnet/Flame/Gauss viruses (widely believed to be developed with nation state backing / resources).

edit: I don't know what I'm talking about :)
Here's what they need to do to create an automated restaurant...

Combine:

- Their invention, the robot burger maker

- iPads at every table to order (payment via stripe or similar service)
: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-05-01/may-the-tabl...

- Robot waiter
: http://www.sfgate.com/business/tech/slideshow/Robots-work-re...

But you'd still need people for cleaning, maintenance & troubleshooting.
You're confusing symmetric key sizes with asymmetric key sizes. 1024 bits is a huge symmetric key, but a rather small asymmetric key.
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Unfortunately, way too many people who use psychedelics are both unprepared for the experience and don't know how to use them constructively.

Many, if not most people go through their lives mostly unconsciously, with very little introspection or understanding of their subconscious. Many of them have serious issues and demons from their childhood or other trauma that they've never dealt with and do everything within their power to avoid thinking about.

Is it really a surprise that when they take a substance which has the effect of powerfully bringing subconscious content to consciousness, a substance they've never been taught how to use properly, that some of them are unable to deal with and are frightened of what they find?

Too many people take psychedelics with little clue as to what to expect, or with intention to just "party" or "see some trippy colors", not realizing just how powerful these substances are, and not realizing that they should be treated with respect and prepared for properly (we could say a lot about set and setting here).

Furthermore, psychedelic users rarely know what to do with or how to integrate what they learn after the experience is over. This lack of integration and refusal to deal with negative as well as positive emotions and subconscious content can also cause many problems.

This is why psychedelic use is best done under the guidance of experienced therapists or in a shamanic context where the tripper can get help both during and after the trip.

I'm not saying that doing or not doing any of the above is what led to the bad trip you experienced, or to the anxiety attacks afterwards. I don't know you or anything about how you approached the experience to hazard a guess. However, it would not surprise me if some of these issues were at play here.
I've also built plenty of Django projects without a lot of the mentioned utilities, but that doesn't make them any less useful or recommended. I'm certain the developer knows that Ubuntu isn't the only OS and Heroku isn't the only deployment platform. I'd argue against the mainstream statement. Ubuntu is one of the more popular server distros used. Do you expect someone to cover every possible platform and PaaS provider?

What Kenneth is offering is obviously a guide with recommendations and not requiring you to use them for your projects. It's ultimately up to the developer to decide what to use.
Youtube has a legitimate use. Megaupload was designed to be used to host pirated content, and for Kim Dotcom to make money off it. I, along with the rest of the scene, am/are insulted by this abuse of the content we released.
If you take the time to read some of Jeff Atwood's older posts, you will notice more than a few of his posts about people are unsympathetic.

He is good at communicating tech issues but crap at describing people issues.
http://yooouuutuuube.com/v/?width=192&height=120&yt=...
Agreed, but in a slightly different context: The mixture of psychedelics and many prescribed pharmaceuticals is a danger not many know about, particularly SSRI's. Due to this lack of information the dangers of a bad reaction --psychological or physiological-- are very real; in the case of such, it's always the illegal drug that is blamed, regardless of it's actual toxicity. In the case of Psilocybin or LSD or even DMT (the "nuclear bomb" of psychedelics) actual, measurable neurotoxicity is negligible if non-existant. (That being said, one can never be sure what one gets from the street, but in a controlled laboratory setting this is certainly the case.)
I wouldn't assume that Swartz killed himself because he was depressed per se. He was facing ruination, after all, the likes of which even a strong hardworking person might never recover from. Made worse by the fact that it was a victimless crime. I take the view that a corrupt prosecutor hounded him to his death, and ignore any depression he had.

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To support your point:

Burger King, to take an example, probably doesn't give a crap about the restaurant sales at all.

Most of their profit is from franchise fees, not restaurant sales.

Company restaurant revenues in 2011 were 1638.7 million, and company restaurant expenses in 2011 were 1447.4 million.
All told, profit from restaurant sales was 191 million.

Franchise fee revenue in 2011 was 697 million, franchise and property expenses 97.1 million.
All told, profit from franchise fee revenue was 599.9 million.

Basically, I can't imagine they care if they are franchising restaurants with people, restaurants with robots, or heck, franchising robot boxes themselves.

They only care that someone is paying them to call it burger king, and giving them a cut of sales
I don't see any normal (Dropbox, etc) cloud storage companies being designed to make hosting pirated content easy and lucrative for them. Believe it or not, most people want to make an honest living.
My long bet says that we'll see the "Totally Automated" restaurant (exception being original construction, and periodic "high level" engineering) - I.E. A restaurant that can do basic maintenance, self repair, cleaning, food cooking (the trivial portion), receiving) - in about 25 years.

The cleaning/cooking/receiving part will be up and operating in about 15 years.
I wouldn't go using SHA3 just yet, probably best to wait for more research into it.
This is true of many people that we idolize in tech.