skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a game console, though, it's not progressing well against the PS4 so far. Worldwide there's about 50% more PS4 than XboxOne out there (6M vs 4M) and Sony has the gamer image advantage that Microsoft's Xbox can never hope to replace (at least not at this point). The Playstation brand is very strong, and the main reason why the Xbox360 was very much on par with the PS3 in the last generation was because of Sony being very late on the market, with a much higher price. It helped Microsoft get a healthy start but eventually Sony caught up. This generation shows that when consoles are about the same price and released at the same time, Sony would take the headstart. It will not win the living room battle.
I think the whole problem lies in the underlying assumption that older, more expensive violins sound ABSOLUTELY better. The author does not support this claim, and the study also demonstrated otherwise. The author, and apparently the study as well, both are in agreement that it is all about personal preference.

In fact, the author admits that she preferred some of the newer violins to the older ones and with that "audiobabble" she says they SOUNDED better. So when how can you blame her to "choose violins on price stick" and then also call her ignorant when she prefers some other violin "over the $10 million ones" ??

The author concludes that the reason older violins are so valuable isn't just because they have some magical qualities that make them sound better, or they are very obviously more amazing than newer ones, she says that older violins have this history attached to them. This imagined beauty to them because of the legends attached to them.

Oh and that "not-tuned" "older-strings" stuff was there to imply that an old violin, is an OLD violin. A newer violin will have an advantage due to the new parts, the new strings. But apparently nothing is absolute. A new violin isn't always better than an older one (hence her preference for her 200-yr-old one at home). Heck, she even said how she has heard different complains about newer and older violins. So how in the world was your take "i am an auidophool, i choose based on price stick" ?!?!? She EXPLAINED how things are completely independent of age or price.
Yeah, it seems odd that the setPhoneCallback is forbidden in this level, because that solution would fit the sequence of levels very well. Luckily, there are other ways to cross the water, and some other commenters in the thread already hinted at them ;)
> In April 2012, when Brendan was CTO at Mozilla someone (unknown to me, possibly known to others)

> For more than 16 years, Brendan fought for openness and freedom on the web, and led many of the people who built that open and free web. This week, in a senseless, vicious convulsion, the web turned on him.

these things worry me. especially the latter. it worries me, because regardless of your view on whether he was a bigot or not, brendan protected the open web. his views on that matter were clear, and had a track record. we could have had a powerful, a strong ally, with clear principles. if anything his track showed that he would not let personal opinions(which btw WE DO NOT KNOW AT ALL based on one data point) get in the way of performing that duty.

I think we lost an ally. A very important ally by the way. Someone care to explain why someone would read a whole list of donations just to throw dirt at him?

the quotes are from the linked article in the article:

https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2

edit: there are some other highlights from that article which i removed from my post to avoid common dissent.
I feel link-baited.
Yea, it was IE6 that was released when XP RTMed.
Is it possible to build a unicorn outside the US?
Flying car prototypes have been around for a while, this one is nothing special.

They're basically a street legal airplane, they are not good cars and they are not good airplanes. It's like combining a mouse and keyboard, the end result is an overpriced inferior product.

How much do these things cost? A lot, more than a small airplane and a car combined.

When will they be available for purchase? Unknown, they're all in the prototype stages, probably not within the next 10 years because of lack of demand.

Autonomous vehicles will be cheaper, require zero skill to drive, will be safer, will be more fuel efficient, much quieter, and will become very common very soon, flying cars will not unless there is a major breakthrough in propulsion.

I'm glad people are tying the flying car idea, but it just doesn't seem practical in the near future.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_car_(aircraft)

https://www.google.com/search?q=flying+car&tbm=isch

http://www.terrafugia.com/

http://moller.com/dev/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Reconfigurable_Embedded_...
C++ does not have a reasonable memory safe subset. No, smart pointers do not provide real memory safety.
The Value of Incremental Innovation
Except for our government who are paying MS an exorbitant amount of money to keep support up... http://www.zdnet.com/dutch-government-pays-millions-to-exten...
I, for one, welcome our new operator overloads. Partly a recognition of just how massive Python has become within the scientific community.
Not entirely correct, as the blog post states:
> We fixed this vulnerability last week before it was made public.

Although there's still the other 103 weeks this was vulnerable to worry about.
I generally pick coffee beans by smell and i get them at whole foods, oftentimes within a day or two of the roast date. Ive tried sightglass, ritual, four barrel and blue bottle(not available at whole foods, but some other places in the bay area).

Pretty much none of them are ever labeled dark, medium or light roasted and instead they come up with these imaginative flavor descriptions which I never appreciated in wines and I definitely dont appreciate in coffee.

Based on my fairly good sense of smell, ive learned to distinguish medium roasts from dark and light onces because dark ones are generally too burnt and bitter for my taste while light ones are too acidic.

All of these coffee brands do have dark roasts(yes even Blue Bottle -- do you think Three Africans is light?) and medium roasts and plenty of light roasts. Its just tough to find any that are labeled as such
Investigation and arrest of a DDos Attacker 
Black Hat USA 2013
One Vulnerability To Rule Them All: SQL Injection
The article isn't written by anyone at MS.
Unless you used forward secrecy, which you should anyway in case of a key compromise. Key compromises can happen in many ways.
I was hoping for a hovercraft.
Flying car means flying idiots. Idiots are bad enough when they are attached to the ground.
Eastern Europe, Bulgaria in particular. I've always attributed it to lax copyright laws (or at least lax application of said laws) and low average income, but not so low that you can't afford to buy a PC and pay it off over a few months, resulting in rampant file sharing driving high demand for fast, unmetered internet access. For a while in the early 00s each ISP ran their own file sharing site even.

It also helps that you can just string cables between buildings tying them to lampposts and trees. "Can" meaning that it's against all regulations and kind of unsafe in a thunderstorm (one friend had his NIC fried once, fun times), but people don't complain - you can either have internet that you have to unplug when it rains or no internet at all because running cables and obeying the building code gets too pricey for lean ISP startups.

Today of course most cables are underground and smaller ISPs have merged or were bought by larger telecommunications operators. Also if you want internet access on your mobile phone, be prepared to get robbed in plain sight - GSM operators here operate just like everywhere else.

In the end, the actual pushing of bits around doesn't really cost anything. Just some small amount of electricity. The actual costs to an ISP are all infrastructure and maintenance of the infrastructure. It's not hard to get some money to buy routers and enough bandwidth to service a neighbourhood, then work your ass off as a sysadmin keeping everything running. The hard part is the cables. You have to run your own Ethernet and optics and anything that gets in the way of you running it drives cost up and makes it ever so harder to get into business.

In conclusion, lax building code laws and high consumer demand allowed our ISPs to start out with a minimal investment and upgrade their infrastructure as they went along to make it more and more reliable and safe. Today I'd say the price for access is as low as it can go, the service is pretty solid, with 8-10megabit speeds at the lowest and everybody gets given a static non-NAT IPv4 address for something like 15$/month.
I have successfully extracted a key and decrypted traffic in a lab. I'm refining my automatic process. You're forgetting analysis of the runtime layout of OpenSSL in RAM which is quite predictable on machines without defensive measures. I have a 100% success rate extracting memory and about a 20% success rate programmatically extracting the secret key of the server. I'm nearly 100% against a certain version of Apache with standard distribution configuration.

I did this with no formal CS education and about 400 lines of code. I'm an operations engineer, not a security expert. Once I get it 100% and review my situation legally, I'll probably publish what I have.

Now is not the time to be conservative. Efforts to downplay this vulnerability are directly damaging to the Internet's security and, given that you are a single-issue poster, suspicious.
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Your quote is fantastic, as it brings to light an important point: Language is an extremely important motivator for destination selection.

The list contains the UK and France, but not Germany or the Netherlands.
Most likely no since SSH is a different protocol than TLS.
One big problem with flying cars is that the potential to wreak havoc is enormous.
"Yes you do! You just used a double negative!"
lol, i just tweeted this, we were not expecting a car-aeroplane.
Level 6 doesn't work for me at all. I can get there several ways but the exit doesn't function.

Also, is it possible for counter drones to kill the red drone? Mine wouldn't, all they do is block him.
You've got to wonder, does matrix multiplication happen so often and is it so inconvenient to call as a function that it's worth complicating the syntax? I'm really not sure about this one.
Heroku is working on it, but as of 07:02 UTC (30 mins ago) they have not released a fix: https://status.heroku.com/incidents/606
Curious what this guy is up to, I don't know of anyone who has tried this in Vancouver yet. Particularly odd is the wide net he's casting for "programmers, designers, marketers, and project/business managers"
The poster might run into roadblocks as it's illegal to offer unpaid internships in BC.
Time to switch to Linux on old PCs.
It's either something with me, or the wording feels off. When I landed on the page, I caught the graph with the corner of my eye, I assumed it is a graph of productivity and started reading from the top. The context of the message feels just not on the right level - I assume that most visitors will immediately grok what this graph is about, and instead of presenting more context to - ex. how you measure it, how to get one for yourself, what is the quantifiable bit behind it or where it falls short - I get a vague message which explains to me when and how are time-series applicable to productivity measurement - which, perhaps mistakenly, feels pretty obvious to me. Didn't mean to sound harsh, I might actually try your service, but this message just didn't cut it for me.
It's very impressive that they are able to keep the entire car under 450kg.

As a comparison, SMART, one of the smallest car we have on the road today is 750kg. This is the car that people make fun of, and tip over for fun: http://jalopnik.com/vandals-are-flipping-over-smart-cars-in-...
What would you like to see?
> maintenance on those do-it-yourself solutions is high

Not when it's done by eastern europeans paid eastern european salaries in the years before said countries even joined the EU. After enough time, sure it will cost more than a proper solution, but by that time you would have made enough money to move the cables underground.

And yeah population density, that old bogeyman. I can get how it will cost more in a sparsely populated area, but why does it also cost so much in a densely populated one?
Check http://webscrapemaster.com/ You can fetch any data as JSON.
No, clearly. The KKK was literally a lynch mob. They murdered and tortured and terrorised people and communities.
What's a pre-prototype?
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Complicated issue, don't knee-jerk. These countries were heavily colonized while part of the Soviet Union, so the "native" population is scared that the Russians might decide to "rescue" the Russians living there or to stir up unrest.

But also, Russians that have lived there since before the collapse of the Soviet Union are discriminated against, mostly by denying them access to society/citizenship if they don't prove they speak the local language.
I bike nearly 100% of my daily commute for the last 3 years. I am affected by traffic, not so much to the point that I am as slow as traffic, but traffic affects me to a discernable degree.

Bridge fail; increased load on bart.

Traffic jam == less aware driver which cause me to be more cautious on my route to work == slower...
I bike 2 miles from home to Bart, then bike 1 mile from Bart to office... used to be greater distance...

So minimum 6 miles a day: ~260 work days a year = ~1560 Miles biked... *3+ years at a scaling factor of say, 80% is ~3700 miles commuted... my speed has always been based on external factors; traffic, Bart death, cal-train fullness/death, weather, etc...

It is a significant impact on timing... so to say that Rush is not subject to any of this is ignoring reality.

HOWEVER: I will admit that in dense urban environ, with bikes, bike always win..

So: I'd conclude based on own experience that traffic reduction, sans massive catastrophe to the biker, is ~10-20% BELOW WHAT AN UNFETTERED BIKER CAN DO (i.e. n cars at all)

A biker, assuming reasonable distance, should be significantly faster than a car, in dense urban.

So, I may have invalidated my GP post...
I have a bunch of servers on Ubuntu 12.04LTS. Did the test. Came back as vulnerable. Then did an apt-get upgrade, which upgraded a bunch of SSL services. Did the test again. Still vulnerable.

What else should I do?
I hope this is not a first step towards transforming python syntax into perl.
OpenPhoto (now Trovebox) is an open source project [1] with an API you can use without authentication.

Something which might be helpful to teach your child is that the API endpoint has a corresponding HTML (visual) representation.

For example, the web page at https://current.trovebox.com/photos/list can be viewed in JSON format at https://current.trovebox.com/photos/list.json. The response is standard across all APIs [2] and the API itself is well documented[3].

This applies to most pages and we blogged about how we did that for easy discoverability[4].

[1] https://github.com/photo/frontend

[2] https://trovebox.com/documentation/api/Envelope

[3] https://trovebox.com/documentation

[4] http://blog.trovebox.com/post/11031677122/building-openphoto...
How does this happen without jet engines?
This will never hit the market until way more efficient propulsion technologies are developed allowing for a hovering car so to speak. Unfortunately invention of such a technology would be a feat equivalent to discovering electricity.
Because they don't mind using garbage tools, as long as they are hip and trendy.
I think this boils down to two things: We're not that smart and the problems we're solving are either too ambiguous or have too many engineering dimensions.

A lot of the people implementing distributed systems have some knowledge of CAP, FLP and know of solutions to those problems- but compared to dist. sys. researchers it's somewhat superficial. I also think there is a bit of posturing in CS; people are afraid to not grok these kinds of systems and so instead go off to build the wrong thing.
Pardon me if a 124MPH airplane seems unimpressive. I seriously question the overall difference in transit time given one would have to drive to and from a regional airport.

I wonder what the cruising speed is? Presumably below the top speed. A 100mph cruising speed is sort of meh compared to a 70mph (or 80MPH realistically) cruising speed in a car over long distances on the interstate.

Of course being able to fly in a straight line makes a huge difference, but again, I wonder what the overall savings is when factoring in airport travel time.
A solar e-reader that goes on for months without charging
I have a CA license and my US driving school track record consists of a total of 5 hours of "classroom education" (video watching) and passing a driving test despite running a stop sign in a residential area (my German license didn't count, had to start from nil)
Yes! Numpy is hugely popular in (at least) physics and machine learning and the main negative comment I get is "Wow that's horrible syntax". I'm still not sure they'll be convinced, however:

trans_coef.T.dot(solve(H.dot(V).dot(H.T)), trans_coef)

becomes

trans_coef.T @ solve(H @ V @ H.T, trans_coef)

but in MATLAB or Julia might be:

trans_coef' * ((H * V * H') \ trans_coef)

....I want a backslash operator now!
https://gist.github.com/xmonkee/10099892

The robot follows my player, unless it's green, in which case it goes 'down' (cause it wont pick up the key under remote control for some reason). I'm saving state in the color of the player.
You pass a guaranteed income, and/or I will make it my life's mission to automate all your jobs away until you do so.

Your move.
The nice thing is that it makes a nice symbol `@` available to objects that aren't matrices, to do with as they want ...

The (ab)use seems endless :)
your company URL is reported as
"This website presents a higher than normal possibility of carrying malware or security threats that could affect your computer"
Please check it
multi-line lambdas.
To everyone arguing against special-casing matrix multiplication, please base your arguments on the PEP's "Motivation" section to avoid too much of rehashing the obvious. It even has a subsection "But isn't matrix multiplication a pretty niche requirement?"
You know that KKK were killing people right? and anti-interracial-marriage were not allowing people to live together. Do you think that can be compared to prop8 which only wanted to remove tax cuts and social status?
As explained many times in many forums, but obviously falling on deaf ears, drawing parallels with the KKK is absurd.

It's an unreasonable distortion of the debate, designed to emotionally repel all who disagrees with your views on defining marriage, and wrongly mixing up civil rights with human rights.

The KKK encroached on people's HUMAN rights, obviously. And while you insist that marriage is a matter of civil rights, it's easily arguable that marriage is not a civil right for gays or straight people.

The legal "benefits" allowed within established relationships on the other hand, can be argued as civil rights. This means you should be campaigning for equal rights for civil unions rather than trying to get everyone to re-define what they believe to be "marriage", which doesn't seem to be working. You like to think that everyone is on the same page as you, but many people holding back expressing their opinion on this matter simply don't want to be accused by people like you of gay-hatred, bigotry and all the other pathetic labels you have for those who don't agree with you about what "marriage" is, its limits and scope, and how much of it is inherently about male + female union.
The beginning of the PEP (linked document) has a rationale for it, including an argument that matrix multiplication has a combination of features which distinguish it from other binary operations. Check it out. Like most Python PEPs it is quite readable. There are even alternative proposals and links to where the discussion of this issue has occurred.

It seems that the most fundamental reason is that matrix and memberwise multiplication are two distinct operations which use the same datatypes as operands and both have a very good claim to use of the * operator.

Also, just because a language is general purpose does not mean that it cannot support features which might be restricted in their use.

Two of the python's most popular uses are in scientific and numeric fields (see SciPy, NumPy and ipython). This operator seems like it would be very useful for improving readability in those areas which is probably reason enough to use it.

However, please resist the urge to just overload this new operator for something unrelated that you want. The point of infix operators is to improve the readability of code and lessen the cognitive load on the reader. Overloading an operator for a purpose which is not conventional goes exactly against this for... what benefit exactly?
Any idea much more accuracy might be achievable given hardware limitations?
You're right, my bad 😊 lol, that was a bit too open eh ?
I for one wouldn't mind skipping the daily traffic jams and flying to a regional airport instead of sitting in my car 1h30m twice a day. Ofcourse everything depends on the actual location of the airport but I can imagine for some people this might save them some time.

Then again if everybody will start to use flying cars, we'll have traffic jams towards the airport and a whole slew of other logistical problems. Imho this will never become mainstream but has the potential to attract a small number of users.
A few fields that use matrix computations extensively that come to mind: robotics, graphics, control, machine learning.

I'd go as far as saying that matrix computation plays an important role in more or less every kind of programming except for web/app development.

edit: As another comment points out, the PEP actually answers this question too and contains a slightly more comprehensive list of disciplines where matrices find frequent use: http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0465/#but-isn-t-matrix...
This is just a prototype and to me, it seems extremely impressive! I honestly cannot wait to see what the full version is going to end up looking like.

I think that after a few prototypes the speed should definitely increase.
The "warmer" effect is not the hum. I have read it's how the amps process harmonics (odd ones vs even ones) and that this effect is actually measurable through testing equipment.
You can do it, although at a considerable performance hit. The usual approach is "fat" pointers that include bounds information. Memory safe pointer arithmetic is achieved by checking that any constructed pointer lies within those bounds, and dying noisily if it does not (alternatively, you can test on dereference).
Amazon ELBs are vulnerable to Heartbleed
This trend started in Europe by people flipping them over into canals.

The media hesitated on reporting it because they didn't want copy-cats.

I wonder if insurance for Smart cars is higher in some areas than it should be because they take into account the higher risk of it being vandalized or destroyed.

They should put a camera on the bottom that takes a picture when the vehicle is turned over, destroying someones car isn't funny.
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https://gist.github.com/anonymous/486caea6cc41f13dca76

The robot goes down unless its x-coordinate is between 20 and 33, in which case it goes up. Kinda cheesy, but it works...
Would you mind emailing me the code? I'd like to learn from it.