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Meh. He's not complaining about Mega, he's complaining about SSL. He's always complaining about it, and he's mostly right. There are legitimate problems with it. In particular, too many questionable entities are registered as certificate authorities in common browsers, so you periodically see these imbeciles issuing wildcard certificates for * .google.com or * .gov which totally compromises the ability of browser-based SSL to prevent man in the middle attacks against anyone who can socially engineer or coerce their way into one of those certificates from any one of the inept certificate authorities.

And actually it's not a bad point for a service like this, in the sense that browser-based SSL will never protect you against a government who is trying to read your secrets, because the government can always coerce a local certificate authority into giving it a certificate for whatever site it wants to impersonate. The only way to prevent that is to remove all the common certificate authorities, which doesn't actually improve security at all (it really makes it worse under normal usage patterns), but it reduces your inclination to have a false sense of security.

So it's a valid point: If you need really good security, especially against governments, javascript-based password decryption is a fail, not least because it depends on SSL. But those people may still be able to use the service, just not the web interface to it, and I kind of expect they'll be a minority of the users in any event.
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For a complete beginner into server management, who is looking into setting up some servers in the near future, why should I not use Ubuntu for server? And use CentOS instead? Is there a solid reason for this?
I'm recycling a comment I made two weeks ago because it's relevant here, and it saves me the typing and thought-bandwidth of retyping the exact same thing in a slightly different way.

The absolute worst thing I've ever done for myself was to go to college. I had a 50% scholarship towards one of THE top electrical engineering schools in the country (not MIT, but you'd be in the right state if you were guessing), and I toughed it out for four years. Due to financial aid f&ckery, I made the choice to drop out with around half a year of credits left to complete my BS. I had my own IT consulting business at the time, and I made a pretty decent run of it for about a year at which point I realized I was a MUCH better 'technology person' than 'business person'. I made the jump to full-time sysadmin for other companies at that time, and haven't looked back since. NONE of the skills I use today (either in my 'day job' as a nix sysadmin or 'real job' as a musician/bandleader) came from my college experience. I had over $100k worth of debt (slightly less now, almost 10 years later) and no degree. If I had to do it all over again, I would've skipped college entirely, gone straight into the 'failed' consulting business, and taken the extra four years of earnings instead of the staggering amount of debt. I have never once felt limited due to my lack of degree. The fact that I don't have one is easily eclipsed by what I've achieved professionally, and companies have had no problem bringing me on at top dollar (according to the various sysadmin salary surveys I read) to do my thing.

I'm not saying my path is for everyone, and as always Your Mileage May Vary. However, if I had a time machine I'd go back and slap my younger self around until he decided to forgo college entirely :-) In my experience, it wasn't worth it - from the 'you NEEEEEED a degree to get a good job!' perspective AND the 'crushing amounts of debt' perspective.
FirefoxOS does indeed run on Gecko, the Firefox rendering engine.

I'm my experience, most crashes seem to be related to plugins and/or extensions, with that aside, I seem to get pretty comparable crash frequency from Firefox and chrome while developing code that relies on pretty state-of-the-art APIs (WebGL)
I think the larger concern is that by providing good gaming resources for older material, they boost that at the expense of their newer profit centers. After all, gamers have a limited amount of time.

However, I agree that this isn't really that much of an issue. The audiences who will grab the new stuff are (as you pointed out) largely different than the ones who will buy the old stuff. Also, a lot of gamers, both new and nostalgic, will buy the old stuff to read and enjoy, but not play much and will continue to buy WotC's new material.
Maybe because I am also a "20-something", but I do not see how Zuckerburg/facebook employees being "sheltered" (I don't know why you asserted that, unless you went to high school with him) has anything to do with Social Graph.

1.) The fact that they had this information is not surprising at all. Again maybe because I am a 20-something, I think its pretty obvious that if you had terabytes of data you would want to search it.

2.) While many people do show different parts of themselves to certain peer groups, the data Facebook has was posted to Facebook. Facebook did not install a CCTV in anyones home and log their guilty pleasures. This gets parroted a lot, but if you don't want someone to find out you love Lifetime originals, don't post it on facebook. It won't end up in the graph, and you can continue playing your identity game.
What? Yes, Elixir's syntax is different, but it retains most of Erlang's semantics. And it's not hard to see that Clojure and Java are very different beasts, both syntactically and semantically.
Sorry, I don't know what you mean by "strategic goal". Maybe it's something mushy, like they want to make users feel more confident about what they're getting when they go to the App Store. Or maybe it's just about making metric boatloads of money!

Apple's MacOS runs on a very limited set of hardware. iOS runs on even less hardware. There are very few customization options for the hardware - the iPhone only comes in black or white, for example. And they decide what apps to sell on iPhones. Apple constantly makes decisions that their customers have to live with, sacrificing individuality or personal determination to suit some self-styled tastemakers at Apple.

The result? They have more money than Microsoft and Google combined! I don't buy Apple stuff, I just don't care for it. But to answer your question: yes, it obviously makes "business sense".
pacman is a little awkward, but I prefer it to apt/dpkg, which have sub-commands, each with their own flags, some of which are undocumented. pacman, on the other hand, has ALL options documented in one fairly short man page.

The trick to understanding pacman is to understand how it maintains databases of packages, and what it means to "sync".

There are several "databases" that pacman deals with:

* "the database", (`/var/lib/pacman/local/`)
The database of currently installed packages
* "package databases", (`/var/lib/pacman/sync/${repo}.db`)
There is one of these for each repository. It is a file
that is fetched over plain http(s) from the server; it
is not modified locally, only updated.

The "operation" of pacman is set with a capital flag, one of "DQRSTU" (plus -V and -h for version and help). Of these, "DTU" are "low-level" (analogous to dpkg) and "QRS" are "high-level" (analogous to apt).

To give a brief explanation of cover the "high-level" operations, and which databases they deal with:

"Q" Queries "the database" of locally installed packages.

"S" deals with "package databases", and Syncing "the
database" with them; meaning it installs/updates
packages that are in package databases, but not
installed on the local system.

"R" Removes packages "the database"; removing them from
the local system.

The biggest "gotcha" is that "S" deals with all operations with "package databases", not just syncing "the database" with them.

Edit: formatting. I've over-done quotation marks to make it clear when precise wording matters.
Wait... so you get to watch MY porn?

You little bastard!
KDC, what are u waiting for hire this guy now?
^ It happens, but it is rare. I'm really sorry about that. Psychedelics, and Mushrooms in particular, have a very long folk history of helping with these sorts of problems, and there are many emerging studies that are now being carried out at NYU to better understand why. They have certainly helped me, and continue to do so during troublesome moments in life.
The Psychedelic Crisis FAQ is also a worthwhile read.

http://www.erowid.org/psychoactives/faqs/psychedelic_crisis_...
I agree with the author, but the petroleum analogy was extended way too far and muddles the issues. Here are some specific topics that the umbrella of the analogy covers that could have been addressed:

a) How important is 'cultural fit'? Should Paypal have not hired an otherwise talented engineer because they called basketball 'hoops'? [1]

b) Hiring Generalists vs Specialists

c) How to evaluate candidates

As the questions get more nuanced, the answers can be far more compelling. For example, you might come away agreeing with this article but not realize you're subconsciously using the inaccurate heuristic Y to look for programmers. But if the answer to c) is that work sample tests are the best way to evaluate candidates [2], it's much harder to ignore.

[1] http://blakemasters.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-...

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543

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Right. Because I'm dissatisfied with a single gif I want an essay. Sandwiches appeal to hackers. All I'm saying is that there are other places that this is more suited to and this isn't one of them in my opinion.
It will prevent a lot of 14 year olds, not all of them for sure.

Either way, Apples goal is to make the stock software prevent it.

Also: iOS6.0 JUST got a JB. 6.1 is about to drop

I am a realist: I think parents will often care. Many others won't.
> See, for example, her nonsensical claims that medical costs cause millions of bankruptcies,

It is "common knowledge" that medical costs drive bankruptcies so I'm surprised to hear you say this; but of course, I know that "common knowledge" is often wrong. Can you explain how medical costs don't actually often result in bankruptcy?

(This is not an attempt at a sarcastic troll--I think you often, but not always, do have correct contrarian opinions, I just don't know what this one is.)
Well you wouldn't see any garbage men, or just about anything shown on Dirty Jobs
>A recent college-graduate with fat student loans should nevertheless be able to comfortably create a home business in the evenings and weekends. Or perhaps better yet, a high-school graduate should be able to do so while learning college-level material online.

This strikes home. This nation is separate from any other because of the entrepreneurial spirit that we foster. Perhaps there should be better tax incentives for first-time business owners.
I did look at the picture, and intentionally picked it for humor and inclusion in my permanent HN comment history. I don't think any 4+ year old would be harmed at it, but I also think the parents of many 4+ year olds wouldn't want them bandying it about, especially in very religious communities.
Just did the same. I've had enough of being used.
Here's direct link to the original youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiYIYXEX9Ko
Glad you found out what it was!
How would you populate missing attributes (lat/long, websites) from entities?
Not everybody has websites so that's off the priority list. I'm in a developing country

Our percentage recorded entities and their lat/long are depressing.

It would be nice to get this wish list of attributes out the way but I'm settling for lat/long first.

I thought about paying Amazon Turk people to call the entities that don't have lat/long (≈30,000 entities in the database).

" " to manually search the addresses, manually or by a script, to return the long/lats since I don't know how to do it myself.

I'm learning Python right now is there a way I can cross check this database and use Google Map's API to get the lat/long?
Generally I only have to use the following:
pacman -Ss (for the occasional search)

pacman -Syu [pkgname] (I almost always use yu to ensure that things are always in sync)

pacman -Rsun pkgname

pacman -Qi pkgname

pacman -Sc (used every so often)

I would say those cover 99% of my interaction with pacman. I'm not sure of any other interfaces to use it so it would be interesting to know more about how you use pacman.
I've built plenty of very real Django apps without any of these (except ssh). Heroku's not the only platofrm, Ubuntu's not the only OS. Neither are even significantly mainstream in the industry.

This tutorial is so myopic. It reads more like a recipe from a beginner's cookbook than anything else.
When doing MDM (which is the vast majority of my experience with this), they disappear after a couple minutes or a restart. Did some apps disappear?

They reappear after you up the rating again (and annoying lose folder position, which is why I didn't just turn it back on).

If Restrictions are less powerful than MDM, then you can STILL delete the apps on a child's device.
Exactly my thoughts. When I just started programming, there were so many tutorials I started on rails, django, and various other frameworks that I couldn't get to work the same way as in the tutorial. This was very important to me when I just started programming because if my results didn't match exactly that of the tutorials, I would not want to continue further since I am not sure if I am doing everything right.

One of the better tutorials I have found that takes extra care in making sure you are doing everything right, is the famous rails tutorial found here: http://ruby.railstutorial.org/ruby-on-rails-tutorial-book
Something similar happened to me, but with weed. I was experienced with LSD, mushrooms, and marijuana, but one night, after watching Fight Club while high, I couldn't get the thought out of my head that my buddy (also high, who had suggested we watch the film) was merely a projection of my alternate personality. At first I found this odd thought funny and I brushed it aside; but it kept recurring and it turned into a multi-hour panic attack. Like you said, I used to think there was a "before" me, and an "after" me. It truly changed my life. I struggled with severe anxiety and panic attacks for many years afterward. To some degree, I still do.

I used to think of that night as the cause, but I later noticed that I had been building up to some kind of "breakdown" for months. I had always been a bit more tense, a bit more worried, and more sensitive than most. I had a deep belief that, if I tried hard enough, I could prevent bad things from happening. This sense of control is at the root of anxiety disorders. Most people don't think bad things will happen to them, so they lose no sleep about it. Those of us with anxiety issues are just the opposite: we're constantly trying to prevent and prepare for the worst, even though the majority of those feared events will never materialize.

Anyway, if you haven't already done so, I suggest that you not think about the mushrooms as being the cause but rather the trigger. Once anxiety attacks begin, they are very difficult to control. It wasn't the mushrooms specifically; rather, it was the anxiety that caused the downward spiral, as the conditioned fear response gains strength through repetition. (There's a load of good publications about this.) In short, there aren't two versions of you ("pre-mushroom you" and "post-mushroom you"); you just had a serious transformative experience.
Terence McKenna was actually a software developer on the side!
For selling "just apps", subscription can definitely be not worth it. But a smartphone-app-centered business model is not the only thing that results in smartphone apps being made. My issue is with the general wording in the grandparent post, which seems to me to suggest Android isn't viable for all or most of developers overall.

If you're looking to reach users of your non-app-centric service that you're looking to provide a free app for, targetting Android is a no-brainer if your service is aimed at demographic groups in which Android has sizeable or even plurality user adoption. That's most of them, but not all.

Looking through apps on my devices (I'm one of the "cheap" Android users with zero paid apps), Flickr, Evernote, Mint.com, Opera, car2go, Skype, Starbucks, Kobo all stand out as quality apps that pay off for the developers in other ways.
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They probably feel sorry for you too ;-)
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Think it through silly. What do you think your little brother and sister are doing at 11/12? Their "data" doesn't mean anything. The way in which they're forging their identity, their opinions, their sense of community and relationships is what's important.

It's necessary for these types of environments not to disparage diversity or authentic forms of expression. The way facebook monetizes and encourages users to use its service very much does that as exhibited in the images above.

A multifaceted sense of self can not be easily created using facebook because that's antithetical to facebook's model. Facebook would rather you offer clarity and conformity to your identity which is easily digestible by the your peer groups or the public at large.
Why would this guy want to work for KDC?
8 years ago i remember talking about how i wanted to do a fully automated pizza shop. with a atm like interface. i know nothing about the pizza business, and at the time labor was too cheap for pizzas to warrant building crazy complex machinery. now it could probably work, i think.
I do wish there was a video of this hamburger machine in action.

EDIT: Apparently these machines exist for pizzas: http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/13/nation/la-na-nn-pizz...
I felt the same way, but once I actually learned it, it's pretty straightforward. Besides just installing packages, -Qs, -Ss, and -Si give me most of the information I need in a digestible way. I never did figure out how to do most of that with apt-get. After working out the kinks, I'm loving Arch on my laptop, 10-second startups and ~6 hours of battery, with basically nothing running that I didn't ask for.

Working out the kinks was/is admittedly non-trivial. Read the directions. ;)

Edit: OK, 18 seconds. Still pretty good.
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One key factor people aren't taking into account is that there are non-phone versions of iOS devices, namely iPod Touches, which is a giant market that Android doesn't cover.
hmmmm, yes, have been there, a couple of "hell" trips on shrooms. The worst was the realization that not only was I in hell at that moment, but that I had been all along in hell, from the beginning of time, without realizing it. Tough night to say the least; my girlfriend meanwhile was in great spirits -- everyone is on their own trip.

Anyway, sounds like you've found some ways to address the anxiety. Life isn't easy, had you never taken shrooms, well it wouldn't be your life. There may be some transformation that comes from the anxiety -- Eckhart Tolle, for example, suffered from severe anxiety and depression for years, and then, one night the weight of the world was gone. If we could all be so lucky.
This is absolutely fantastic! I occasionally have to make 2+ hour commutes to/from jobs, and I've long been wanting a way to digest the latest tech news while driving down the road.

Plus, I never have the forethought or, the desire to sift through the various pod casts and guess at which would I would like or find interesting, so being able to 'tune' into the front page seems like an excellent way to pass the time.

Excellent work, man. You've literally built the exact thing I've been wanting for a long time.
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It is not loading.. I think traffic from hacker news killed their server now. :)
What a strange thing to say. Why do you think degradability is a concept?
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Does anyone here have experience with fast food enterprises? It would be interesting to hear about how this sort of machine could affect companies like McDonalds and whether or not it's the future or just a cute idea that won't scale?

I have the feeling that, if this sort of idea was as value as the article implies, McDonalds (or Burger King, or any other big chain) would have put serious money into developing this sort of thing and it would already be everywhere.

(I wish there was a website or publication that took businesses and profiled how they work, the challenges they face and the costs associated with parts of the business consumers might not understand, so these sort of questions were easy to answer. I would love to read how McDonalds works (as a business))
My above comment might get you there.

That said: I dislike the single user nature of the devices as well. I understand WHY they do it, but dislike it personally.

Also: iPodTouch costs about $200, which is the same as a handheld gaming handset from the likes of nintendo, etc, especially when looking at the different costs of games.

The password is not good enough, because multiple iTunes accounts can be on one device, and the kid could add a gift card to buy whatever.
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"You do not understand cryptography" should never be dismissed as speculative bashing.
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There are several GUI wrappers around pacman (and several wrappers to unify it with AUR), but for the most part that's it.

I'd add that I'd be careful about -n on -R (don't back up configuration files when removing a package); I'd let pacman back them, then catch them in my usual `sudo find /etc -name '.pac'`.
If you have the addresses then you could use a geocoding service to get the lat/longs. For e.g. Google Maps' API has this functionality.
Parents who buy iPodTouches for their children instead of WiiU's want the parental controls to work. When their 6 year old shows their church friends boobies on their iPodTouch, they get mad and instead buy nintendo.
> If you don't like it, then quit.

Assuming you're socially allowed to quit Facebook.
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What would the short- to medium-term impact on the poor and elderly be if all Pfizer inventories suddenly weren't available? Are you sure it's worth it?
Creepy doesn't begin to describe facebook anymore.
> we shouldn't live in a world where people should be scared to be openly gay in Iran, or openly a Falun Gong member in China. Those are the things we should focus on and try and change.

Right. Wonderful. How?
Nice to know that several years of chronic anxiety problems and panic attacks was "just" a bad trip.

I'm not on anti-depressants and haven't been for years, but your advice seems completely bizarre. Why on earth would I risk taking the mushrooms again after it fucked me up so much the first time? There's no way I'm ever touching them again.
The idea of only running things that I decide to run is probably the most appealing thing to me about Arch/Gentoo. And I'm sure I'll figure out the user interface, but I still think it is weird. I'll probably think of maybe 5 more excuses to keep using Ubuntu before I toss in the towel and switch to Arch.

Just out of curiosity, what are Arch desktop users using for servers, where the rolling-release format isn't as acceptable?
I was impressed by the analysis and blown away by the proof of concept. Awesome article. Mega, you listening?
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<scarcasm>You know there is a nifty feature called bash aliases which is present in linux. so 'pacman -Syu' can simply be called 'upgrade'</scarcasm>

But seriously,
alias commands you use, no need to remember the oddities.
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