skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it is available on a c250 sedan like hastings was apparently driving, but Mercedes (and other manufacturers) have systems that do control steering that could conceivably be remotely hijacked. All of the self-parking systems leave the accelerator to the driver but let the computer handle the steering. Here is a review of 4 different manufacturers' self-parking systems:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2012/12/06/self-par...
....what? The failure of APNG and MNG is not because of patents.
Brakes in most modern cars are under computer control. They are in mine. I know that because I can disable that control if I want to drive more aggressively.

Before you say something's impossible, you might want to do some research.

http://www.autosec.org/pubs/cars-oakland2010.pdf

Cars can be controlled via their onboard computers.

> I think you're overestimating the importance of Mr. Hastings.

Wikipedia:

"His Rolling Stone profile of General Stanley McChrystal, commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force in the Afghanistan war, documented the widespread contempt of him and his staff for civilian officials in the US government and resulted in the general's resignation."

On the journalistic threat scale of 1-10 I'd say Hastings was an 11.
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Well it is a nice list but, it's a list, again.

By that I mean you either find compilation list like that or full stack framework but what a would personally find more useful would sets of cohesive tools, end-to-end.

Sure there are boilerplates out there but what I frustrating is that you hardly find "full stack" one. For instance what about a boilerplate for django + django-rest-framework + backbone.js + marionette + i18n tools for backend and frontend + manage.py-grunt.js integration + optimisation tools for css and images + ....

Yes, there are endless possibilities, the more the reason to find more of those out there don't you think ? Maybe it's me but I feel like there is either something missing, too much choice or both. I18N being often the most neglected (granted, it's harder)

What do HNers feel about that ?
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Why would some nefarious conspiracy orchestrator put a bomb in the car? If you are going to cause a crash, why throw a bomb into the mix too? It would only serve to cause more suspicious and loose ends. The absolute most that makes any sense is a gallon jug or two of gas under the seat just to be sure, but even that is really pushing it.

Think about it, if you were tasked with causing somebody to be declared dead in a car crash, would you also put a bomb in the car? Only if you wanted to be caught maybe...
My suggestion would be to trigger the system once a car reaches for example 50mph, e.g. deactivate brakes and push the car to the maximum speed. Driver freaks out, and loosing control at one point therefore making it actually look like somebody lost control over the vehicle. But I have no idea on the fire "aspect".
I bought a Uniden trunked scanner for $140 from Radio Shack in 2000.
It is definitely the workstation to dream about, we've been waiting for a tech leader in the high-end professional space even if the market is not that significant anymore (relative to the $$$ Apple makes on consumer, anyways).
US government is bigoted and tyrannical towards non-US citizens. Period.
This is a video from a UCSD researcher on malicious attacks on modern automobiles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHfOziIwXic

Examples of what can be done: Insert in the radio a CD containing a malicious WMA file that would play fine on the computer but once in the car could completely compromise the car electronics...
I agree with the idea, this is Apple having a radical rethink of what it means for a pro level workstation going forward. The majority of criticisms have been levelled at the lack of expansion, not at what the potential for the machine is.
The budget for NASA is a tiny sliver of what the US spends on defense.
Searches a directory recursively for movie files and writes IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes information into an HTML file.

The HTML is generated from the movieTemplate.html file which you can modify. The default contains a simplistic and beautiful GUI (rendered with AngularJS) to browse all movies and filter by categories and fulltext search.
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I have a Mercedes that self-parks if enabled. It steers the wheel (so the computer can fully steer the car 1000%) but it doesn't apply brakes or the accelerator. Which are also capable of being fully-controlled by the computer. Mercedes has an option (Distronic) where the car can accelerate and brake to a full stop based on the road conditions ahead.

So basically, the on-board computer can fully steer, brake and accelerate/decelerate the vehicle.
Funny. You should have read the Y Combinator Hacker News Guidelines:

"Be civil."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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I thought one of the suppopsed reasons that browser vendors didn't bother adding that was because we were going to have a working video tag soon.
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> 2) He ran a red light (there's always a reason for this: alcohol, bad judgment, being chased by someone, etc.)

This is the most interesting part of the story to me. Even if he was drunk, I'm finding it hard to believe he would race through a light at that speed.
A clever way to grab all those rare-to-find torrents.
MySQL mistake is a wake-up call on open source ownership
bangs head

I'm sorry, but there are only two things that are new with this mac:

1) its a funny shape
2) it comes with two GPU boards by default.

I'm glad that you are enthused by a new platform, but there is really nothing new. Really. If you want to start writing GPGPU programmes, I congratulate you, its going to keep you busy for a good few months. But you can do that now, without a $10k mac "pro"

Over the next few months, we'll be hearing about how the CPU is dead and that all you need is GPU. However much like the initial flash/iphone argument it over looks the main point. The Mac pro only has one CPU because that's all they could fit in. It wasn't a bold visionary move, it was a compromise because of the form factor. (much like the original iphone, to get the battery life up, they had to use a tiny(by the standard o the time) CPU, which meant no flash)

There is one large elephant in the room when it comes to GPGPU and that is bandwidth. Getting stuff from main memory to GPU memory take a lot of time. Yes PCI3 is wonderfully fast, but compared to RAM<=>CPU its like reading a floppy disk.

That asside, there is really nothing new or special about the macpro. In fact for VFX land, its rather a disappointment. Yes Mari runs really really fast on it. But then its got two large GPUs and a stonking SSD. Everything other programme is going to be CPU constrained(unless they've been pushing stuff to the GPU).

Please excuse my rant, I've been inundated with people wanting new macpros, despite them already having a far more powerful z620 with fusion IO cards and quadro k5000s. cult of the shiny and new I suppose.
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I don't see this as an issue.

We often have links on hn by left wing sources such as MotherJones. Quite frankly I enjoy reading stories written by the different viewpoints and am most certain hn readers are able to detract personal biases from articles as well.
How hacker news saved my 2 years
I had recently been contacted by a recruiter for a perl job with Booking.com. She told me how nice Amsterdam was and how Booking.com cares about developers careers. I had my first round of interview with them which was a success and then I was asked to attend an inhouse interview.
Since I was searching for a job I was a regular visitor of "who is hiring". And it is here that I saw this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5803764
(search for booking.com on that webpage, should be 3/4 down at the bottom)

I am at the start of my career and don't want to spend my initial years doing coding the way it is done at Booking.com, namely - copy paste and ruin my career.
I contacted a senior person who had worked for Booking.com and he told me that Booking.com has a bad name in the Perl community due to the way they treat their developers.

So thank you hacker news!

[ I can't post under my real hacker-news profile for obvious reasons ]
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What if we combine this game with Battleship
> One of those GPUs isn’t even hooked up to do graphics.

Who says that? For all I know the cards are using AMD CrossFire.
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This program may have been publicly ongoing, but it is no less scandalous. Do you really believe that this early access to information will not be used for offensive ends ? How is that respectful of Microsoft's other customers, such as other governments ?
Having seen a few car fires (including several arsons): once they do catch fire, they tend to burn for a good 10-30 minutes, depending on variables. There's a lot of plastic in cars, and that's little more than solid oil. Accelerant will help start the process.

And yes: fires in the event of accidents are fairly rare, even at high rates of speed.
Is anyone able to beat the bot at https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/in-tic-tac-toe-ception-perfec... ? Seems like its strategy is unbeatable and player1 always wins.
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> One of those GPUs isn’t even hooked up to do graphics.

Not true, the GPUs are connected with a bridge and so share the workload efficiently.

> "New"

New to mac maybe but my desktop has 3 GTX 670s which provides some pretty serious computational power.
That's not a bad characterization.

Web pages were static, many were long-form, they tended to provide information, and link copiously to one another.

What they lacked was collaborative editing, though Ward Cunningham was already working on that at the time. Wikis postdated the Web only by a brief bit.
They don't need to delay : just giving early access to the US government is sufficient to enable offensive capabilities.
> Early access to the knowledge of vulnerabilities is just good customer service

Customers who don't have early access might object, especially if they are foreign governments who might sometimes have competitive issues with the USA - which includes pretty much everyone.
I know its not fashionable, but HP really still is the tech leader when it comes to workstations:
http://www.hp.com/united-states/campaigns/workstations/z620_...

When the next gen Xeons come along with the release of the new macpro, it'll be literally twice as fast. in side by side comparisons*

*there maybe some apple GPU special sauce for inter GPU communications

The other awesome thing about the z series is that they have a three year next day engineer on site warranty.
This is a sentence. That fragments. Useful.

One of my favorite of Hofstadter's essays. And thanks for your links.
Why would anyone waste their money on this!??
Apple's Sprite Kit framework targets games on iOS 7, OS X & potentially Apple TV
Ask HN: Who is working on a Saturday?
As the title says. Who is working on a Saturday, what are you doing, where are you working, why?
Search was actually anticipated (along with social graphs) by TBL in his first WWW proposal documents, posted to HN a few months back.
Too bad you can't run Mac OS X on it.
Government Digital Services: the strategy is delivery
Anti-Whistleblowing Measures in the U.S.
In the office. Finishing stuff before a release. It's great!
I could go with it being an accident if it wasn't for the fire and the transmission so far away. That can only be explained by an explosion and while fuel is combustible a fuel tank won't catch fire, Mythbusters shut one with tracer bullets and it still didn't blow up.
I disagree. I can't think of a single place that was ever improved due to the presence of humans.
It actually makes me mad!
If you really need mac software then why not built a far more powerful and cheaper hackintosh. But why would you even want that? what software is there for mac OS that there is a not an equivalent to for linux or windows?
Its quite unfair how the player 1 always get to start.
> The Mac pro only has one CPU because that's all they could fit in. It wasn't a bold visionary move, it was a compromise because of the form factor.

Where did you get that? It sounds entirely implausible that a company renowned for its design would decide on the form factor first, and then try to fit stuff in there as well as possible...
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Fuel tanks don't catch fire if you shoot at them with tracer bullets (see the old episode of mythbusters), why should they explode when the car hit a tree? It was a nice car, well designed, and surely the engineers at BMW had considered various crash situations, including a front colliosion with a blunt object.
> much like the original iphone, to get the battery life up, they had to use a tiny(by the standard o the time) CPU, which meant no flash

I think you might be misinformed. The first-generation iPhone shipped with a 620 MHz ARM CPU that was under-clocked to 412 MHz. Even at the under-clocked speed, it was considerably faster than most other smartphones released in 2007.

For example, the Nokia N95 (322 MHz ARM, which admittedly was dual but took very little advantage of that), Palm Centro (312 MHz XScale), HTC Touch (200 MHz), and the BlackBerry Curve 8300 (312 MHz XScale) all had slower clock speeds, and were all released around the same time as the iPhone.

A 620 MHz ARM chip, even one that was underclocked, was in 2007 speedy. It was certainly not 'tiny by the standard of the time'. I remember a lot of people complaining about various deficiencies in the iPhone back then (such as the lack of 3G, which was a battery saving measure), but I really can't recall anyone complaining about the chipset.
I still call poppy-cock. It's just such a ridiculous proposition.

Look, the guy contacted Wikileaks a few hours before his death. Wikileaks! He also contacted his employers about a story he was writing on the subject of NSA. Now, if .. IF the FBI/NSA were intent on ending him, surely they would have been privy to said communications. This being the case - what motive would they have to go through with it? I mean, by doing so, they would knowingly and invariably be drawing more heat to that which they were covering up. How? Well,

a) Wikileaks knows about it. Therefore a suspicious death would draw more attention to whatever it was he was about to report.

b) A suspicious death would make him a journalistic martyr, prompting one of his fellow reporters to pick up on where his research was left and give even greater salience to the issue reported. The FBI aren't stupid. They know that murdering a reporter would only magnify the issue down the track.

I'm sorry, it just doesn't make sense to me that they would willingly self-immolate by killing the dude and igniting several spotfires.

I'd like to believe it too. I'd love to see these Prism guards go down, believe me. Honestly thought the people of HN were a bit beyond the conspiracy crap you find on Reddit and such places.
All Apple really had to do was produce an HP Z820 equivalent machine running Mac OS X, and everyone would have been happy.
At home. Just fixed some bugs for a clients release. About to start creating some workers piping words to different translation services. I just want to thank whoever made goslate.py.
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sorry, but words on a web page isn't "magic".

> "We've become obsessed with fancy designs, responsive layouts, and scripts that do magical things."

When we didn't have those fancy things, we wanted them. If they were taken away, we'd want them back. Nothing wrong with fancy presentation if your intention is to present something.

The first thing I ever did on the internet back in the 90s was look up guitar tab for beginners. I skipped the words and printed out the guitar tabs I found.

The author of "this is a web page" is flogging a book. That's nice, but I don't really think that reading his words is "magical".

Oxygen is magical. Gravity is magical. Magic is everywhere. Can we please move on to the magical things that actually stand out as deserving such a label relative to where we are in online evolution?

The internet of things is settling in nicely, and it isn't about words, it's about things. Linking data and real-time manipulation from online to things in our immediate and remote environments. THAT is closer to magic than plain text on a white page.
No, I wouldn't.

But then the car blow up (sending the transmission way away) and cought fire. A car doesn't blow up and doesn't catch fire from hitting a tree.

A bomb fits the evidence much better.
I am not interested in a Mac Pro, but I hope it marks the beginning of widely available computers with Cell-like architectures where a moderately powerful, general purpose CPU acts as a frontend scheduler for other parallel or specialized chips with negligible context switching costs.
I won on my second try ... you should ignore winning games in favor of forcing the other player to drop you into the squares you want. None-the-less, it's a fun variation!

Edit: 1st=Lost, 2nd=Won, 3rd=Lost, 4th=Tie.
Why do you want OS X? I'm really genuinely curious and flabbergasted by people wanting apple stuff . What is it that you cannot get cheaper with more flexibility and choice on linux or windows?
The biggest issue I had during initial training was the mask leak/loss/purge drill. From what I recall, it's a side-effect of the Diving Reflex[1] that cold water on the face (and nose especially) makes it quite difficult to keep breathing, even when you have a perfectly functional regulator in the mouth. It gets better with practice, but it's terrifying the first time, when you want to breathe, and your body is trying to stop you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian_diving_reflex
what software is there for mac OS that there is a not an equivalent to for linux or windows

Most professionals don't want equivalent software, they want the software that they know and that is supported by all their plugins and hardware.
> Over the next few months, we'll be hearing about how the CPU is dead and that all you need is GPU.

I've been saying that for years. http://chris.pirillo.com/are-gpus-the-future-of-cpus/
If you are attempting to learn about concurrent programming I think using python is you're best bet (initially) because it provides a "low signal to noise" which best demonstrates some of the common pitfalls concurrent programming promotes as well as some of the solutions. (such as those found in the python wiki) [http://wiki.python.org/moin/Concurrency/Patterns].

Understanding the problems then allows you to make a better choice and understand some of the choices made for you by the language designers, such as why does Clojure use STM and promote immutability? Are actors/goroutines/coroutines the same thing? What is so good about this reducers library? etc. etc. Linking the dots and the "ah ha!" moments will help you make your choice and understand more about why the tool might be a greater asset than the other.

In short: Understand the problem before solving it. (or use the hammer for nails and screwdriver for screws)
I can buy a PS3/PS4 or WiiU game that can be played without any online connection or authentication on any number of consoles. (In case one fails and I need a replacement console)

And how is it a bad business decision to ensure that a customer can use his collection even if all auth/DRM servers are decomissioned?

This is the "bad business decision" that was made for every single big mainstream console since the invention of video games, and it seems obvious to me that the customer demands this, and MS understood it.
I don't think you can have a legit Apple developer's account using hackintosh though if you wish to put apps into the OSX or iOS app store. Don't quote me on that though, but at the very least, it's going to complicate things. I'd like to be wrong about this though as it would simplify things (please provide links if you correct me :) ).

However, a mac mini is good enough for such things normally. I'd stick with my custom built PC for anything else.
It makes no goddamn sense to put a bomb in the car. Unless your hypothetical conspirators are idiots or suicidal, then "sometimes crazy, unusual, or unintuitive shit can happen during high-energy collisions" is far more plausible, regardless of if it was intentional.

> A car doesn't blow up and doesn't catch fire from hitting a tree.

Yeah, you keep saying that... Here is Ryan Dunn's 911 after a tree was done with it: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/06/21/article-2006369-0C...
That limitation is due to Apple's licensing of OS X, and their unwillingness to support (or to even let others support) non-Apple hardware. It's not due to problems with the HP workstations.
First I have seen of this, so I have no idea of the various theories. As I understand it, the car crashed at the front and blew up? Correct? If so...

I find it very, very hard to believe a modern Mercedes would do that. Merc are very safety conscious, they sell to well off people who expect not to blow up, and that is on top of strict EU safety rules and testing. I assume the US also has it's standards to comply with too. This is a luxury car manufacturer which prides its self on safety above and beyond legislation or international standards, and sells to customer who fully expect that.

So, is there no public Merc statement or full on internal investigation? A Merc blowing up like that publicly should be a massive PR disaster for them. Who wants a luxury car that blows up in a front impact? If it is as simple as a front impact causing the car to blow up, I would have thought Merc would be very, publicly, concerned about that.

If I were some one interested in investigating this, I'd be perusing Mercedes to see what they have to say.
The writer of this article is obviously very ignorant and does not know what he is talking about in terms of pc architecture. But he thinks he knows as, here he is writing a public article on the subject.
My current theory for mac popularity is that is is down to the consumers ignorance and good marketing (read: shiny box).
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Adobe Creative Suite + Unix without dual-booting or virtualization. Not to mention a multitude of rather nice indie apps for creative and technical professionals.
Because that's how design works. The end goal of the iPhone, (to take a very good example) was designed to fit in your hand. Everything else had to be crammed in to accomplish this.

to give a non technical example, the london underground map sacrifices geographic accuracy for simplicity. A very large, and successful compromise.

Also, where could they fit another CPU? Each one kicks out almost 180 watts of heat, and must have RAM and power to make it work.

It also complicates GPU<=>CPU and GPU<=>GPU communications. You either have to shove all the GPUs on one CPU and waste lots of QPI cycles on moving RAM back and forth, or have one GPU on each CPU and build some very clever glue to allow the two GPUs to share memory.

Ergo, compromise.
Tic tac toe is a solved game - if you start and play optimally you always win. (you take 3 corners in 3 moves). If they start every board then they're unbeatable.
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That's pretty much how every Apple product since 1998 was developed.
Have a read:

http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/united...

Not much on those cars isn't computer controlled.
Final cut, and quicktime.

although there are work arounds for quicktime.
Yes.
So it is a combination of laziness/lack of time to retool and learn a new program, and, a case of, well I've already thrown X amount of money down this hole so I'll just keep going, to stop now I'd have to admit I made a bad choice.
Normal tictactoe always ends in a draw if both players play optimally. The one I linked though seems to always end with X winning.