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The recipe is described in TFA, the issue is not the recipe itself it's the actual manufacture, the hard work and the educated touch to know the necessary adjustments and when the consistency is just right:

> “There are only three ingredients: semolina wheat, water and salt,” Abraini said, vigorously kneading the dough back and forth. “But since everything is done by hand, the most important ingredient is elbow grease.”

> Abraini patiently explained how you work the pasta thoroughly until it reaches a consistency reminiscent of modelling clay, then divide the dough into smaller sections and continue working it into a rolled-cylindrical shape.
Then comes the hardest part, a process she calls, “understanding the dough with your hands.” When she feels that it needs to be more elastic, she dips her fingers into a bowl of salt water. When it needs more moisture, she dips them into a separate bowl of regular water. “It can take years to understand,” she beamed. “It’s like a game with your hands. But once you achieve it, then the magic happens.”

> When the semolina reached just the right consistency, Abraini picked up the cylindrical strand to stretch and fold the dough, doubling it as she pressed the heads of the su filindeu into her palms. She repeated this sequence in a fluid motion eight times. With each sweeping pull, the dough became thinner and thinner. After eight sequences, she was left with 256 even strands about half as wide as angel-hair pasta. She then carefully laid the strands on a circular base, one on top of another, to form a cross, trimming any excess from the ends with her fingers before repeating the process over and over.

> When she’d formed three layers, she took the base outside to dry in the Sardinian sun. After several hours, the layers hardened into delicate sheets of white razor-thin threads resembling stitched lace. Abraini then broke the circular sheets into crude strips and packed them into boxes, ready for the San Francesco feast’s prior to place them in boiling sheep’s broth with grated pecorino and offer it as a thick soup to the pilgrims.
That's the point though, he went from scamming people on the phone for money to having a college degree from a U.S. school and having a regular job with a legitimate paycheck, and now he gets to live in the states too.
How did this get 40+ points?
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Of course, yes, but about nine times out of ten a better attempt would have been made with a simple header or by passing the ball downwards. Football is a team sport. It's great to be able to score from a difficult position. But it's much better to keep your eyes open, know where your teammates are, and pass to someone who is in a better position.
It's yet another in a long line of bugs due to C. It is, of course, possible to have bugs in every language. Even in a theoretical bug-free language it'd be possible to flawlessly implement a buggy algorithm or standard. But some languages make some sorts of bug difficult, and others make them easy: C is in the latter group.

I suspect that assembler for the primitives and a good, sane high-level language (Haskell? Caml? Lisp?) would yield far more secure software than C. There are issues with relocatable memory and zeroing of keys, but those are, I think, addressable at the implementation level.
seems like this might be a good service to offer with amazon turk or something similar.
Is the Democratic National Committee held to FOIA requests? It is a private organization.
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There was an article from Microsoft[1] posted four months ago that talked about this phenomenon.

The takeaway as I recall is that filtering out potential victims who have heard of the scam as quickly as possible is the most profitable move.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11909111
We could start by just going back to the original spirit of copyright: it's there to prevent multiplication, not to be invoked as a legal technicality to restrict how someone can use and enjoy a creative work once they already acquired a legitimate copy.

The idea that copyright law should prevent things like format shifting or making personal back-up copies of a song or movie someone already paid for is absurd to me. It's just the legal version of scope creep.

The idea that copyright law should allow people who sell software to impose arbitrary restrictions on how it may be used or whether that copy can subsequently be passed on to someone else or any other unrelated conditions for that matter, all because of technicalities about making transient copies when software is installed on a device or executed from RAM, is just the worst kind of legal sophistry.

I think there are reasonable arguments about alternative business models, particularly permanent sales vs. some sort of temporary rental arrangement. There's a danger here that for pure knowledge works we may shift towards a system where everyone has to rent everything, but I think it's too early to say that the market can't sort this one out on its own and the success of services like Netflix and Spotify suggests that other models can be useful as well.

In a some very limited cases, I think there are also valid reasons to restrict what the general public are allowed to do with software, but these are mostly regulatory issues where we already have similar concerns with physical devices, such as preventing someone who doesn't know what they're doing from bringing down a communications network by transmitting noise and effectively DoS attacking everyone else. But IMHO these cases should invariably be addressed with their own suitable laws or regulations, issued by the relevant government authorities for the common good, not by the original developers subverting the principle of copyright for their own purposes.

Otherwise, for a physical product that only includes software incidentally anyway, I just don't see any ethical basis for restricting what the customer can do with it just because of the software element, and abusing copyright law for that purpose just shows how broken copyright law has become.
CrashPlan removed all my data since I wasn't keeping my disks online. Fair enough -- it's a backup solution, not remote storage. Still, I'd rather have paid for the latter in the first place and saved myself the trouble of having to upload everything again.
Yep. Regional is the equivalent of Durable reduced availability.
The concept is awesome, the implementation is less so. There is still a lot of ironing to do. But it does catch many bugs, even when you don't annotate anything. Anyway, it's good tu use it early to help guido fix the last warts.
> Cryptography on Linux (or - on most platforms) is still in a bad shape.

Having worked with Windows and OS X crypto layers, OpenSSL, CryptoPP and libtomcrypt, I think that generally cryptography is in bad shape almost everywhere.

The libraries that are trying to improve the cryptography aspects tend to run into the issue that algorithms in heavy use are unsupported. The libraries that do support algorithms in heavy use tend to have poorly written code, convoluted APIs, or bad documentation.

I have a huge amount of respect for everyone doing work in this space. When things are working, most people ignore it, but when sometimes goes wrong, everyone is mad at you. I would imagine there isn’t a whole lot of motivation for most.
Specialized cars may be fetched as an option in the app..
I'm not defending the model, I'm just saying how it is now.
Reminds me of when I lived in Copenhagen. There were laws against businesses being opened on Sunday. But if your store was small enough, you were exempt. And so I regularly saw two or three tiny and separate H&M stores side-by-side with each other.
Ok how can single men go through IFV?
Good job.

Alas, the proliferation of different kinds of neural net architectures that work, over the past few years, is a sign that we lack a decent unifying theoretical framework that can explain, from fundamental principles, what works, what doesn't, and why. We're not there yet.
>(inner city driving, heavy stop start traffic, roadblocks, road accidents and so on

Yeah this. Every demo I've seen is some suburban or sparsely populated area. As a Chicago inner city driver, I really want to see these things handle our rush hour, especially in the snow and rain before I start calling this stuff the future. Its a good start, but I imagine the 'hard' problems with automated driving haven't been solved yet. If they were then these demos wouldn't be in great weather on sunny days and in low traffic.
Skyrim came out in 2011. I understand this is the "special edition" but that usually just means better textures, not a new engine. The recommended hardware requirements are not exactly cutting edge for the PC version of the remaster (i5 2400, 8 gigs ram, GTX 780).
Not a significant portion, no. CrashPlan is only my third layer of backup, the offsite backup. Each of my drives have a clone backup drive (typically just a WD My Passport that makes them easy to transport when I travel), and then a larger external that holds backups of all of them--I usually keep that one in storage and only plug it in once a month or so to sync. CP is the third layer of backup. The most I do in a typical week is use the Android app to grab a few movies or documents from the CP storage to get it onto my phone and tablet.

I should probably "test" doing a recovery from CrashPlan at some point, but I fear that even getting a third of it (1TB) would probably trip some sort of overcharge from my ISP.
Car companies have been developing this technology for longer than Tesla has even existed.

Here's Mercedes in 2014: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_RFzC_G5BA
This was my general concern with the article too.

Sure this story ended with some positive notes, but it feels like they're encouraging the same behavior for others. Tourist scams alone are so dangerous. Other people attempting this is even worse.
I'm assuming the system is monitored by external circuitry, so a camera being covered should be easy to pick up. On top that, they're probably ensuring consensus of the outputs of all overlapping cameras.

This is definitely done on start, and probably even during operation.
Can we flag this as a dupe?
They could easily disable the autonomous functions. Maybe even refund a portion of the license fee.

Who knows what they will choose to do.
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What'd you do if you drove over mud and it covered your windshield ?
It really depends on the age. Even if the play is just for fun, losing games repeatedly is very demotivating for older kids. My youngest is now 20.
It did look like they had NBA2k as well, which has an iphone/android port. Maybe the game developers are planning on porting their mobile version of the games onto the Wii instead of the platform versions?
It's pretty normal on regular non-highway streets--especially if someone knows that they're going to need to get over to the left to make a turn in a few blocks. There's a general preference for keeping to the right on this sort of road if there's no reason not to be, but it's not really a strict rule.
Having been on both sides of the table, I can attest to it. When I was a young developer interviewing more experienced developers, I would foresee the hassle of arguing with him on everything day to day and that would instantly give negative weight to his candidacy. The irony is that I realized I had this subconscious bias only after I got older. On the other hand, when an older guy is getting interviewed by a potential peer, he should do everything in his power to appear coachable (gasp!) and flexible. The situation may be slightly different if you are being interviewed by a mid-level exec or a senior manager for a senior role in the team.
Cars for people with unusual needs are obviously going to continue being personally owned.

But mosto of us will be delighted to have access to what is effectively an Uber only cheaper and more plentiful.
True but humans are a known quantity. For the first time, we are letting 'something else' drive that thinks completely different to us, yet we are entrusting our lives to it.

Because of our incredible image processing ability we can deal with a lot of shit that we may come across while driving. But the computer still has a lot of catching up to do in this department. Do you really want your life to end because an AI can't distinguish between a white lorry in the way and an empty road? It is an unnerving choice to have to make I think.
Little bit sad right? I want a nation of walking.

But this is much more likely to actually happen. A grid of self driving cars powered by renewable energy. I will take it over the current state.
Isn't this hackernews??

So many "but what if this and that and this..." & "and yeah let's see if it can handle X & Y"

This is the iPhone 1 of self-driving cars!
That's akin to saying Apple should have waited to release their phone until iPhone 7 "because of this & that & this..."

Don't we have to start somewhere??
Aren't there supposed to be a big user base here who understands that it's an evolutionary process - we build the plane before we build the rocket before we shoot people into space?

Oviously the perfect self-driving car is still some way off, but I for one am thrilled this race is on!
I agree these are not great...

- "Flame" is probably my favorite aesthetically, but "random orange blob" is a pretty weak brand identifier, and the alternate logos seem unrelated unless you see them next to each other.

- "Burst" does not scale - at full size it reads "busy eyesore", then scales down to "unprofessional moiré" and finally to "confusing blur"

- "Protocol" is probably the strongest, but their own data shows it's unpopular with consumers, probably because the "code" aspect is alienating to non-tech folks

- "Dino" is cute but doesn't really communicate anything. I also did not register the main logo as "dinosaur face" until I saw the other designs - it just looked like the "O" was pushed up for no reason.
Or whats the maintenance schedule for these things? Suddenly we have tons of complexity to worry about. How will this affect the used market where repairs are usually DIY? Is the used market for autonomous cars pretty much dead because 3rd party mechanics will have no idea how to service these things? I imagine so. What does that do to resale value?

I've read about how hard it is to sell an aging Prius because the battery pack has to be replaced. Its apparently not easy to do and the part is very expensive. For used car buyers you're better off buying a gas civic if you want an efficient older car. ICE doesn't age like electric.
DNC is not subject to FOIA, but it makes you wonder whether they should be. They are intricately linked to the government, have immense influence over the policies of their Congresspeople, and get to pick 1 of the 2 candidates who will likely become President.
Biological psychiatrists would not disagree with you.

Serotonin is associated with dominance and social status in animals. If you get "beat down like a minion" you are very likely to have your serotonin system get in bad shape.
> Who wants to speculate how long it will be until self-driving cars are common place in the UK?

I think we can apply the Pareto principle here. The car seems to work surprisingly well in ideal conditions, but probably doesn't in less than ideal ones (let's see it operating in a snow storm!). So, let's say that 80% of the work is done, leaving 20% to fix all the little edge cases that are bound to pop in the real world.

According to Wikipedia, the first truly autonomous cars started to appear in the 1980s. Let us round that off to 30 years of development. According to the principle, that means 30 years represents 20% of the time.

Thus, 120 more years before they become available. If the ownership model persists, I'd add another 5 years to let people replace their existing vehicles to reach common status. If the shared fleet model takes hold, as many suggest it will, then that number may be reduced somewhat.
> Because I think the shape of this code is pretty good.

That's the wrong attitude. Nobody commits code they don't think is good, but unless you measure "good" objectively and thoroughly there can always be problems you don't notice.

The entire point of the article is that there ARE bugs buried in all that noise, and that you can surface and prevent them from being Future Wink's problem by spending an hour today to fix the tooling. For 800 lines it should take you far less than an hour, and if there is a "TON" of complaints there are probably one or 2 real bugs. Multiply that by 10k LOC and you start to realize the scope of the problem.

Take the pain, fix it today while you are just at 800, so when you're 1000 or 5000 it's 5000 lines of better code.
Can I use qbittorrent/deluge to seed webpages?
For a second I wondered, is Nintendo building network hardware now?

My worry here is that Nintendo may be making the same mistake that BlackBerry made: doubling down on hardware when they should be building out their app ecosystem on dominant mobile platforms.

That said, the Switch looks cool. Really freaking cool. I just wonder if it'll be enough.
It's a replacement for the Wii U, certainly.

The 3DS remains to be seen.
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I think the gap that makes Consoles 'inarguably superior' in local multiplayer is going to close rapidly as the steam link's issues get worked out.

But I do agree, Consoles (Specifically Nintendo's) are currently inarguably superior by a wide margin for local multiplayer. And local multiplayer games provide distinct enjoyment that remote multiplayer games cannot replicate effectively.
> Could you ground that assumption in some physical reasoning? Microbes are incredibly resilient and adaptive in general. If microbes on Mars are DNA based, then contact with Earth microbes would be inherently meaningful.

I don't think I need to. True, if martian microbes are DNA based then that obviously increases the chance of cross contamination/interaction. But we don't know that any life we find outside of Earth will be DNA based at all. We look for signs of DNA based life, and environments that are conducive to DNA based life because that's the only life we know how to look for. It's the only real life we know. But it is not outside the realm of possibility that the first extraterrestrial life we find, whether orbiting Alpha Centauri or on Mars, isn't DNA based. Personally, I think it's pretty closed minded and Earth-centric to define life (complex or microbial) in that manner.
On the other hand, self-driving cars will be eager to tell many other interesting stories about their drivers.
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So instead of a portable screen/controller like the WiiU that's separate from the main machine - the main machine IS the portable part that could easily be dropped/broken, now? Or am I missing something?

Im failing to see how this design is superior to the Wii U's approach
My family has a Wii U, and it's connected to the only TV we really use in the house. The Wii U game pad permits pad-only play on some, but not all, games and doesn't have any capacity for multiplayer on it. I think this addresses the, "someone is taking over the TV" and, "take it outdoors" kind of use cases very nicely. Surprised they didn't play up the family aspect of it for that, but I guess that's an (only?) already-captured demographic.
I don't believe the passage you quote from supports your assertion in any way. Here it is in full:

"I'm certain the poll-directed insiders are sure things will default to policy as soon as the conventions are over, but I think not. And as I've mentioned, we've all been quite content to demean government, drop civics and in general conspire to produce an unaware and compliant citizenry. The unawareness remains strong but compliance is obviously fading rapidly. This problem demands some serious, serious thinking - and not just poll driven, demographically-inspired messaging."

To unpack that (along with context from the rest of the email), Podesta's correspondent is bemoaning the fact that politics has begun to be covered as entertainment and celebrity gossip. He suggests that any hope that things will take a turn for the better after the election is misplaced, and that there's a larger issue: "we"—and by this he clearly means media elites, people in public office, and in general the milieu to which he belongs rather than some shadowy cabal of which he is a member—have not upheld their duty to help keep an informed and skeptical citizenry. He suggests that misguided attempts by the media to keep people compliant and docile have started to wear thin, but that in the absence of information and understanding all that anger is liable to attach itself to a demagogue like Donald Trump.

In short, he is advocating the exact thing mentioned in the article: informed civic and political participation! This is a perfectly anodyne line of thinking, and I don't really see what cause is served by stealing and leaking this person's private correspondence. And who is this dark and Machiavellian correspondent? This guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ivey
The video was too edited for me to have confidence. There was a moment at about 2:05 where I was interested to see how it handled the termination and merging of the lane -- but then we cut away before that happened. Or at 1:30 when there's no big sign post in the median, and then switching to left-rear camera, there we pass one. It's a nice narrative on the future, but it's far from proof of comprehensive functionality.
I didn't say they don't know the law, though.
This is the closest to my use of the term. I'd go further and say that using more resources on a single box is vertical scaling, using more boxes is horizontal, and this thing is neither. How about density scaling?
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I see this pro cross-talk argument all the time... but wouldn't that leave open a big vulnerability for bad actors to send false data between cars and, if they should choose to, control multiple vehicles and cause collisions?
The latency to the screen is fixed with no jitter. The human mind can adapt.

Network latency is erratic and variable, sometimes packets are just lost.
I think we have to adjust, as a society.

Or, we start demanding that software, when purchased as part of a physical device, does not reduce the rights customers have to their physical device.
I had a similar reaction (as in the article) when I read the Tesla feature explanation initially. But, later I realized Tesla is not overstepping the boundary.

Here's why I think so:

Tesla is setting the correct expectations. Once the car is fully autonomous, the process of dispatching rides to a pickup location will be controlled by Tesla.

So, if you own the car, and but are not needing the car to be used for a week, the car becomes available on the Ridesharing Autonomous Network of Teslas (RANT :). At that point, it makes no sense to put the car on something like say Google / Uber autonomous networks of Ridesharing.

Its a bit like how iPhone is not open for non app store downloads and yet an iPhone buyer 'owns' the phone.

FWIW, every autonomous car maker will put their car on their own rideshare network (making a rider app is 1% of creating the ridesharing service effort). Uber and Lyft apps will become too expensive to use if they cannot figure out the autonomous vehicle part of the equation.