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translates more like "bear animal" actually

the first reaction people had was to literally complain about the title, questioning the whole conclusion. I don't think he was too far off the mark

I think they should just remove the link, everyone knows you can't discuss these things in this community.

whaat non US workers don't get paid??

Which I think is the major point the author missed, the german IT industry itself is in denial for a long time now. Its not even the question why can't Germany create any major internet company like Facebook or Slack, its: "Slack has no value to me", I don't understand why people use Facebook/Whatsapp at all... These are the majority in the industry and block any real innovation at the earliest possible moment.

very good point, I would not be surprised if Uber put those cars out with a barely working model to collect enough training data, the human operator to correct such errors was tired and didn't intervene. Some basic driving test for self driving cars or other mitigating factors need to be added IMMEDIATELY otherwise tons more will probably die or be injured. Train operators need to prove they are awake and with attention using some button presses, similar things need to be required for those research vehicle if you want to allow them at all.

The research paper was accepted at NDSS, so thats something.

Here is the video of the conference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVfLW2JhBq8

IMHO static code analysis for this seems utterly useless, dead-end path to improve real-world NodeJS security.

But this is definitely not a security software company trying to spread FUD like some suspecting here

Nobody mentioned this yet: ETE: http://etetoolkit.org/docs/latest/tutorial/tutorial_trees.ht...

a fantastic tree visualization framework, its intended for phylogenetic analysis but can really be used for any type of tree/hierarchical structure

I have the opposite reaction to it, it seems insanely idiotic to have a associative array with ordered keys. It can only make sense to someone who doesn't know anything about fundamental data structures and a language that caters to people like that in spite of the performance penalty is just strange.

but hey, its Guido, I still can't fathom that he moved reduce into functools.

No, the widely accepted interpretation of that law is that, if I have a coworker who wants to be called xe/xem/xyr/xyrs/xemself, I have to comply or face punishment, since not be accommodating of this can be construed as harassment. Ideologues want to dismiss everyone who is against this law as transphobic, but this is demonstrably not true, one can be accepting of the human rights of trans people while simultaneously disagreeing with the extend of protections and privileges granted to them. I think what most people ultimately take issue with, is that this law was evidently ideologically motivated and it felt like no logical arguments could ever be discussed.

But just calling someone a nazi is so much more efficient than having to come up with actual arguments on why he is supposed to be so evil.

Most impressive feature:

We have an integrated terminal emulator supporting ecma-48. You can run vim or anything else within openage. This is neat to interactively edit scripts.

it runs vim!

While that sound smart and plausible, I would assume that there is some solution to that problem, otherwise how would private security work at all?

I think you baiting a rant, I count myself among the myriad developers who had to learn it the hard way to never use mongo.

My point would be that there are no "right" use-cases, I pointed it out because the article was talking about a specific thing: as the article points out in the outlined scenario: "It’s clear now, that throughput for PostgreSQL and MongoDB now is almost the same before the spinlock performance degradation hits MongoDB."

So the article points out there is a significant performance degradation after a certain number of connections in MongoDB, such things won't surprise me anymore I'll add it to the heap of things wrong with MongoDB, thats why I was making the comment.

"We’ve got so far that throughput of PostgreSQL and MongoDB is the same for read workloads. Is it surprising? Not at all - I’m going to show you, that under the hood all our databases use more or less the same data structures and the same approach to store documents."

I'd argue that there is no reason to use MongoDB because there are no use-cases other more mature databases won't be equally or better suited for. MongoDB is horrid, you won't know all its deficiencies when you get started with it, but over time you will come to despise it, it is really far away from being a mature database and I would advice anyone against using it for any task, and I'm not the only one who was burned using it and who adopted this attitude towards it.

There is absolutely no good reason for anyone to use MongoDB ever, its just such an amazingly rotten database that its astounding how much hype it generated.

Pretty cool idea, but the lag makes it unplayable unfortunately. Also this random respawn is annoying, it takes a bit of time to find yourself again, enough time to have already been killed. I guess its too fast, too laggy.

They already were artificially limiting virtualization on GeForce cards and were always pointing to their data center cards when asked about it. It goes as far as the physical location of the power connectors on the top of the card so it doesn't fit in a server/rack case. I imagine it makes sense from their point of view, the data center cards like tesla are ridiculously more expensive than the consumer cards. NVIDIA was never really a consumer friendly company, instead of cooperating on open standards they always went their own proprietary way. Thats the obvious danger when a company becomes the de-facto standard in some area, they exploit their position for profit. That can't possibly be still a surprise to anyone.

TensorFlow also supports Intel Xeon Phi as an alternative

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/tensorflow-optimiz...

In reality pimax delivers 1440p per eye. Someone needs to calculate this, but I think even that would be orders of magnitude away from a few 2K+ displays projected in your FOV. I think technology is really far away from that for any price. Don't trust the hype.

Seriously as others have pointed out thats NOTHING. Anyone can do this to pretty much any device, I did that to my ISP's router even and don't feel its any less secure because of it. Its an interesting hack but its not proof of any insecurity of Alexa.

I don't think its such a good idea to over-dramatize these things for personal gain (like the author) because it hurts the security researcher community as a whole. I've already lost ANY trust of any security guys talking about the end of the world vulnerability they found, 99% of the time its bullshit like this. But I can read their disclosure and quickly discern whats irrelevant, I can imagine most non-IT people not able to do this and thus becoming MUCH more desensitized to ACTUAL vulnerabilities. Yet another boy who cried wolf security guy, they should've published this as "how to root your alexa" that would've been actually cool, this is just garbage.

Oh so terrible, how can they even survive, really heartbreaking. Meanwhile the UN is investigating the extreme poverty in the US, you know the people that don't even have their basic human rights guaranteed by their hyper capitalist government.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/01/un-extreme-pov...

This seems like a good idea until you realize that you are the only one using a random mac address. (There is a vendor prefix at the beginning of every mac) Better would be to take a bit more care in choosing a more realistic address.

Because it captures more stuff at once? Why would you think anyone would need to deceive about the curvature of earth, that seems pretty well established?

Two things dubious about this, a) should any photograph of a common object ever be covered under copyright? talking about threshold of originality[1]. and b) was netflix use of it transformative in nature [2] and protected under fair-use. For those reasons the author seems to me an unpleasant nitpicker to make such a fuzz about nothing.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformation_(law)

Most Americans seem to take it for granted, that they are the ones making first contact, that's pretty deeply ingrained in pop-culture. But who builds the biggest super colliders and telescopes the world has ever seen? Anyone but the USA. I think any alien life capable of traveling to us, would stay far away from trump land.

From the FAQ: https://bellard.org/jslinux/faq.html

Can I access to the network from the virtual machine ?

Yes it is possible. It uses the websocket VPN offered by Benjamin Burns (see his blog[1]). The bandwidth is capped to 40 kB/s and at most two connections are allowed per public IP address. Please don't abuse the service.

[1] http://www.benjamincburns.com/2013/11/10/jor1k-ethmac-suppor...

You were right they flagged it, that story is hilariously proving itself constantly.

Flask never really seemed like a very mature framework to me, it got so many strange inconsistencies and very dubious design choices I much prefer newer, significantly simpler frameworks.

One example is the way the request context works in flask, I venture to say thats just terrible software design in my book (from flask import request, g). And seriously to have your framework give you a "global" variable to put random stuff in, wth?

Also I rather not use Flask-SQLAlchemy since why should my database models be tied so incredibly closely to some library of my web MICRO framework, it doesn't make sense, I mean its not django why introduce this coupling?

It seems if you need all the dependent libraries (like webassets and wtforms) just use django from the get go instead of going through the pain of trying to cleanly integrate dozens of flask libraries.

To see how a proper simple middleware-based framework should look like consider express, koa (nodejs), or bottle, falcon. Aiohttp and tornado also have their place of course.

I find this blind unwarranted defense of elon that happens constantly every time his name is mentioned in an even remotely critical context, just increasingly annoying. I guess the smug hipsters found their new steve jobs. Literally the worst person happening to tech was probably larry ellison though.

And Elon Musk is the worst thing to happen to tech.

I would say the worst are the people who religiously believe everything he says, independent of any constraints or consideration of reality. I think he does undeniably accomplish some pretty amazing stuff, but that doesn't make me blind to his more idiotic ideas.

My favorite symptom of Elons delusions of grandeur so far, is his announcement to wanting to utilizing rockets as a means for intercontinental transportation, "London to New York rocket flights in 29 minutes". Maybe we can find some volunteers for a few test flights in a falcon 9? [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-41441877]