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I lowered game settings to reach 100fps on my 100Hz trinitron screen back in -98 too. Like everything it can be cultural, but to suggest it's only that is ridiculous. People still buy expensive functional clothes, bikes, and everything else. Just because you can work out in a tshirt from H&M on a $100 bike doesn't mean there's no practical value to go more expensive.

> Granted, I'm playing at 1080p, but I have yet to find a reason to want more than that, and the performance is where I want it to be, so I'm satisfied. Still, since I didn't trade hundreds of extra dollars for an i7 and a GTX 1080 I'm the noob.

So what you're saying is that you find a value in playing at 144Hz over 60Hz, but object to people finding value in playing at a higher resolution? Someone else might argue that you paying to play at 144Hz is only cultural, while you know it's not.
Gaaah, I should make some coffee. Big words come out when I don't drink enough caffeine to use small ones.
If I look at all the controllers since SNES, alternate input methods were always their thing.

And since they have a big hardware divison, they need to come up with innovative ideas to sell hardware.
We called it a La*%h
The Switch battery life is comparable to the original 3DS battery life. It seems that it'll last much longer than my iPhone does when I play demanding games on it.
What model/year? I've never seen a car that didn't have this.
What does it do then?
Please can you tell us what forecasts it is running then?
It's meant as a temporary experiment. But we're thinking of having a handful of random days during the year where the price resets.
Are you talking about the cultural definition of outsourcing? Then you're just bolstering my point. In fact, in just making the assumption that people only outsource to the US because the US does it better, and the reverse (only because it's cheaper) to developing countries, there is an implicit bias in assuming that. Here's the dictionary definition. (There's no mention of developing country.)

out·source
ˈoutˌsôrs/
verb
gerund or present participle: outsourcing
obtain (goods or a service) from an outside or foreign supplier, especially in place of an internal source.
"outsourcing components from other countries"
contract (work) out or abroad.
"you may choose to outsource this function to another company or do it yourself"
synonyms:	contract out, farm out, subcontract, delegate
"maintenance jobs are outsourced"

Outsourcing is the same no matter which country you do it with. If you outsource to India trying to get a .NET developer for $20k, you get garbage, same as you would get if you wanted to pay $20k for a .NET programmer in the US. If you pay good rates, you get good people, developing country or not.
Right now, they are saying it's not a 3DS replacement. However, they said the same thing about the DS, and how it was a "third pillar" to the GBA and GCN.
Not the GP, but because starting a charity/non-profit that's worth a damn takes a ridiculous amount of work, and in areas I'm not terribly proficient in, and I have a plethora of other things that I would like to do with my limited time on earth.

I already have about 100+ things I'd love to create, contribute to, or accomplish, if only I had the time and money to do so. I do what I can, but that list just keeps growing, not shrinking.
Hashing is deterministic.

If you give the system m, you can probably deduce H(m). If you can send candidates m, m', m'', etc. and compare the timing information of H(m), H(m'), H(m''), etc. you can learn some information about the hash being stored.

This still probably isn't exploitable (you'd need a practical preimage attack, at a minimum), but you're still leaking some knowledge from the timing leak of the comparison of the candidate hash with the stored hash.

With a split token approach, the verifier is totally unknown to the attacker. You can generate a valid selector from observing timing observations... and that's it. Game over. Find another way in the system.

If you have a 128-bit random string as your inputs, this will probably never be guessed.

It's easier to reason about the security consequences of no leak versus a minor, probably impractical leak.
Here's a great (paywalled) Review on numerical weather forecasting: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v525/n7567/full/nature1...
Totally! We love what they are doing.
>Enough dumbasses out there will drink a vial and then try to drive their car to the moon

Yet alcohol is totally legal.
That XC40 system is for collaboration work but it also serves as a test bed of sorts as it's so much lager users can try scaling up models on it.
> On that note it's unfortunate that cell phones which can do wideband codecs within the same carrier (HD Voice!) won't work if your call leaves their network.

This is quite annoying, but it's because the PSTN overall is stuck on G.711 and G.729 - my SIP provider doesn't support anything else because they would be forced to re-encode the signal anyway and lose quality doing so.

Ultimately, we need to be putting pressure on the telco's to enable support for G.722 - until that happens we're going to be stuck with 4KHz audio for a long, long time.
I have had a hell of a time convincing my son to attend Uni. He just turn 17 and is finishing up High School. When he looks at the first 2 years of what he has to do (mandatory course work) and then the next 2 years of course work that is somewhat related to what he would like to do (Cyber Security Field), it seems like a waste of time and money.

He would much rather work on his SANS Certs and work toward OSCP Certification. Growing up with Linux/Networking and teaching himself to code has created a situation where he feels there is little they can offer him. He looks at the curriculum and wants to cry.
In my (bad) theory, the Japanese brands started out as budget brands, the German brands started out as luxury brands and American brands were both.
For me, that's disappointing. It means that a year or two into battery wear you'll be tethered to an outlet.

The situation looks even more dire after reading this quote.

> ...although we’ve yet to find a battery / cable that can charge the console faster than it drains.
And I just installed my new EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 8GB yesterday after work, so excellent timing on my part. $649 for that card.

Guess I'll be boxing it back up and returning it, which I dislike doing.
I won't buy it because of Nintendo's store. I bought both my daughters a Gameboy 3DS, but they can't share digital games WTF is that?! If I buy a game on Vita, I can play it on any vita with my login on it.
I work at a big telco in the voice group and we still have tons of DMS 100/200/250s. Anyways some interconnections we have require Ditech echo canceller (no idea what model but apparently when we need them, we use spare ones or have to buy them on the used market). We have been migrating traffic to newer equipment and the new gateways have echo cancel built into them (e.g. Genband G9s)
Yes to all.

Nintendo should probably switch (heh) to only releasing games for Android and iOS.
"Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

Logodust/Metafizzy strike me as being on kinda the same page re: trying to give good things to the community at a low or 0 price point.
GSS shutdown gives us a year also. I just migrated to GSS a year ago. And they decommissioned they big appliance Google Enterprise Serarch I think it was called.

We were users of the Google Mini Search appliance, went to a 3rd party in-house installed search solution that we did not like and then a year ago went to GSS. We are looking again for something suitable. The best part of the Google Site Search was search fidelity.
I don't think any of it's made by Google. I think we have these or something similar: https://enterprise.google.com/chrome/devices/#meetings
Yeah, they are really common. While I was working in braille, my grandparents would send me a new "miracle invention" for blind people every week. Fucking disgusting. I don't even understand what these companies, and sometimes even seemingly non-profit organizations get out of this. But it also seems that it is a bug in the psyche of the tech industry that we share these stories and upvote them. We are obsessed with the idea that technology is changing the world and creating a utopia. The fact that we haven't managed to come up with a new micro-actuator for braille displays in 40 years doesn't bode very well for that theory [1].

To some extent, the current technology, which is called a piezoelectric display is like a lithium ion battery. Its not like we don't have other battery technologies, it is just that lithium is enough better than the others, that no other can take hold. The piezo displays are almost silent, last a LONG time (20 years), and take very little power. They are, however, slow and bulky and not practical for mobile applications. The mechanism is so large, you cannot create a multi-row display. (edit: they are also rediculously expensive!)

There have been multirow displays using solenoid actuators. These were hand made by grad students and weighed a ton. They used a huge amount of power and got jammed easilly. Other than that, there are pneumatic displays with huge potential, but are also bulky. There are static electric displays that have life expectancy issues, and a few other technologies, like using memory springs, that tend to have speed issues. Then there are a huge number of mechanical "conveyor belt displays" which are too noisy to use in a classroom or office.

But all of the displays you see being publisized are not the ones that I am talking about. Displays like the one you linked to are totally 100% FAKE!!!

https://nfb.org/images/nfb/publications/bm/bm00/bm0001/bm000...
No, it can charge while playing when using the official adapter. It's just that people were using low-rated battery packs. USB C can support up to 100W, the Switch charger is 45W, so if you're using a pack that doesn't output more than 10-20% of that, obviously you'll have slow charging and probably not enough to sustain playing and charging simultaneously. I'm not worried, I'm almost never away from power for more than 3 hours anyhow, though I will be finding a high capacity battery that can output a good enough charge rate.
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The closest competitors, like the XPS series and the Surface Book, are nearly as much as a Mac or more. The closest XPS 13 to the bottom touchbar 13" MBP costs $150 more. Microsoft sells $2,000+ Surface Books with only 8GB of RAM.
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Sounds great on paper, but this is infrastructure level stuff with real world constraints.

The expectation of stability beyond a year is certainly not unreasonable when you're asking people to build their businesses/infrastructure on your platform.

And, building redundancy across providers can be impractical, owed to learning curve, cost duplication, higher outbound bandwidth costs, effort duplication, solution complexity, etc.
Random waggling do not true motion control make.
More of a franchise than a vendor. They do not sell anything.
People say money corrupts, but philosophers point out it is the love of money that is corrupting. Here too there is a potentially important distinction between exponential growth and the want of it.
The more I learn, the more I want this as a 3DS replacement. The TV aspect doesn’t interest me as much. It looks like it might deliver on that promise as they work the kinks out.
"Passenger’s side—and by that I mean the right side here—proponents generally include most continental European carmakers, and many American ones, while the biggest driver’s side—the left side—advocates seem to be from Japan."

Not sure this is true. Anecdotal observation of any gas station where I live has damn near every vehicle with the tank on the left side, regardless of make or model. All of my vehicles (the Japanese brands as well as the American brands) have always had the tank on the left/driver's side.
I've loved the eone watch. Apparently it was also engineered for being usable by the blind. Amazing design.
He makes a valid point, PS Vita is seriously under specced as a TV console.
Well, it's video conferencing, so of course sometimes it completely fails to work for no discernible reason. But generally, yes, it's pretty reliable. :-)
Google stopped working on End-to-End at least a year ago:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/google-yahoo-end-...

And now they've "open sourced it" with minimal changes since then. Sounds to me like they stopped working on it, but they didn't want to keep getting asked by the tech media and crypto people about the project's status. So they went "Here, it's all yours now! You're welcome. Yes, we know how awesome we are."

But it doesn't look quite finished, so I wonder if anyone will bother to complete Google's half-assed job. Google didn't even bother to integrate it with Key Transparency before open sourcing it. That speaks volumes as well.

They've recently also released a centralized/hosted version of S/MIME for enterprise users as well, again showing their complete disinterest in continuing to support end-to-end crypto.

https://security.googleblog.com/2017/02/hosted-smime-by-goog...

I'm guessing they stopped working on End-to-End around the time they started working on the hosted S/MIME. I wouldn't get my hopes up about Google supporting end-to-end crypto in the future. Now I'm starting to wonder if they'll also kill the feature in Allo, or just hide it some more in future releases, so that it becomes even harder to use.
The "theoretical" curve on the CLT page at low sample count (like 2) doesn't seem right. I know that CLT is pretty strong, it doesn't converge this fast though. I love the visualizations though, really nice site.

http://students.brown.edu/seeing-theory/distributions/index....

http://imgur.com/a/MN6zv
What is the 'bigger' one used for then?

Edit : Answered while I was posting this
Well if you weren't sold on waiting for the next release, you should be now. I was super excited about getting one of these, but now I will probably hold out for the Switch "S". At the very minimum, wait to see if the buggy left joy cons are being shipped with this initial batch.
What kind of logic is "people need to do something more difficult because it's easier for people who aren't the same as me"?

Also, who's to say that people shouldn't be encouraged to use audiobooks rather then read text-based liturature? When listening to an audio book I can do many other things like study for an exam or program. I can't read a book via text and write software at the same time.

I don't think we should handicap people by making them feel like it's "better" to do something that's harder for them for some reason. Blind or not.

> Another good argument she made was it's about multiplexing. What if someone wanted to learn the time while listening to an engaging conversation, they wouldn't want to stop listening just to check the time.

Most people don't wear watches and it's usualy considered rude to pull out your phone mid-convorsation. I always wear a watch and so people just say "do you have the time"?

If you can't ask Siri you can just ask whoever you're talking to. Also, if you express you want to know the time and they say "I don't know" you can then just ask Siri and tell them. It works out nicely.

Any other examples?
I did some digging and experimentation, and so far it looks like you could keep a backup bucket in another region and use bidirectional replication [0] to keep the two buckets in sync. If something like this happened again, you could point your app(s) at the bucket in another region and keep accepting data. The objects would eventually get replicated back to the original bucket, and you could cut over again when service was restored. There does seem to be an appreciable replication lag, so you could run into problems during your cut where some objects had not yet been replicated, but your app ought to handle things like that gracefully anyway.

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/crr.html
Weather forecast accuracy is a statistic anyone can measure and generate. Put the forecasts and the actual weather outcome together in a spreadsheet, examine the results each day for the 1,3, and 5 day forecasts. NOAA and the UK Met Office both do this for all of their forecasts, it's called "verification", and they measure their forecasting bias. In general, the statistics I've seen suggest the 1 day forecasts are 95% accurate, 3 day forecasts are ~80% accurate, and 5 day forecasts are ~70% accurate. This may vary if you live in a hard to forecast area.

For example, surface temperature forecast verification for Jan 2017: http://www.mdl.nws.noaa.gov/~verification/ndfd/index.php?mo_...
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CTFD and JFDI
I like the idea, but this does seem like a clickbait Show HN title.

Logos aren't being sold for anywhere close to $2, which is what a reasonable person would think before clicking.

It's more like "$2 incremental pricing logo project", though I admit it trades terseness for accuracy.
No doubt that this is what they are doing. For non-live shows, they may even get a dump prior to it airing, so they have the whole day's worth of content queued up and ready to go.

If it lets you view a program guide, and watch anything that "aired" earlier than now, it sounds like it's basically a different interface but otherwise the same as current YouTube or Netflix. YouTube even has live streams.

However the way it's described makes it sound like there's probably some limitations to make it "seem like TV". The worst of this would be to totally emulate the normal TV+DVR model:

* You only get access to recordings if you picked them to "record" prior to when they "air"

* You have some arbitrary limit of number of "concurrent" recordings (eg: you can't just record every show on every channel at the same time, despite being 'unlimited DVR')

* If you want to watch/record a show and it's already started, you can only watch/record it from the current point forward

* Everything has commercials, at 31% rate, with the same commercial repeating multiple times like current TV.

They can also do some really awful things with it being a cloud DVR:

* Delete your recordings, or 'expire' them after some time. For example, you have 3 seasons of some show 'recorded' and are working your way through, but then they lose the license for that network and poof, all your 'recordings' are gone.

* Make commercials unskippable
I think your complaint is about VoIP over the internet. And that's simple, the internet is best effort. Packets get dropped and that's expected. Also, packets can take a long time to reach their destination and there are no guarantees for jitter. This absolutely sucks for voice quality and there's nothing anyone can do about it.
Our WebRTC video calling system on Roll20 is used by around 50k people per week and works fine in both Chrome and Firefox.
In general, precipitation seems to be one of the tougher areas, especially as it can be very localized. With snow, you then also throw in rain/snow lines which, where I live in New England, are very commonly somewhere within the greater Metro area.

But in the big picture sense, and for things like hurricanes, forecasting has improved a lot. It's unlikely we'd be caught by surprise today as happened with the Blizzard of '78 when massive numbers of cars got stuck on the highway and had to be abandoned or people were stuck at their offices for a week. (The weather events still occur of course but they're less likely to catch people unprepared.)
> I don't get this part. Read-write SQL injection does not imply that the attacker has access to the filesystem.

Theoretically no, but in practice, all you really need is

SELECT '<?php eval($_GET["foo"]); ' INTO OUTFILE '/var/www/example.com/public_html/backdoor.php';

to get access to most servers.
Thank you very much. I'll investigate.
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> It's all dumb mini-games with shit motion controls.

Do you mean 1-2 Switch? That's one game out of quite a few games that are coming out this year. 1-2 switch is definitely heavy on the Nintendo gimmick though.

I was somewhat surprised at how few 'gimmick' games were announced. Most of the games are standard controller-type games. Mario, Mario Kart, Zelda, Splatoon 2, and all the indie games that were announced yesterday.

Edit: You're right..forgot about Arms being motion controlled too.
What constitutes a hard to forecast area? Any examples?
Batteries don't tend to degrade like they used to. The chips that charge and discharge them are a lot more sophisticated. Most batteries do well for 2.5-3 years these days.
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The driver in the video claims otherwise.
I feel that it should simply reset after X days without any takers, thereby reflecting the market's ill-appetite for the increased price. Or perhaps the price should decrease by $2 each day without takers. Would be really interesting to then graph the price after several months, seeing where the market settled.
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^This!!! So much this. I had a similar issue years ago, and beyond the help of the therapy itself, she also pointed out all of things I was doing day in, day out, that caused my problem in the first place. She taught me to moderate the intensity of my typing, to take breaks, good posture, stretches, all of that.

It's valuable stuff to learn, plus the therapy itself.