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It is not in Google's best interest to have people that think independently of Google. The more woven Google is into the daily fabric of our lives the more profitable it becomes. I don't understand why more alarm bells aren't ringing. A for-profit corporation should not be subsidizing public education. They're not a non-profit. Their motives are always going to be at odds with creating a free-thinking populace.

Google and Google products are not commodified and generic tools of thought. In fact they are the exact opposite. They're contextualized and proprietary. We are doing ourselves a disservice in the long run by letting them get a leg up in education.

The best thing that happened to me was learning math in post-soviet Armenia. To this day I still think best with pencil and paper and can put other computational tools in the proper context. Whereas growing up with Google branded products I imagine would have had a much different effect. There was one thing the communists got right and that was science education.
I think the other slogan is better because it mentions what you try to do differently from protobuf, which is your selling point against protobuf (which has wider support, more language bindings, ... and thus is hard to compete with on the basis of just "we do the same")
Even if that were so, things are moving away from VLIW. E.g. AMD switched from VLIW to a more standard load-store SIMT approach a couple years ago, and even though it's more complex for the GPU, it increased system efficiency (esp. for workloads that their compiler was not well tuned for).
Agreed. Still not bulletproof (see Stuxnet, which transferred to PLCs over USB sticks), but you're good against classical malware (as in, not developed by a state actor).
XPe POSReady patches are usable on normal XP without a lot of work.
The term "information good" is from economics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_good

An information good is one for which it's very cheap to produce additional units. Unfortunately, I'm probably abusing the term, since books are listed as an example of information goods. The idea is that most of the cost of producing the book goes into the content (writing, editing, etc.) and actually printing one additional book is cheap. (When I said books are "imperfect" information goods I meant that they still require paper and shipping and retailing and such, but it's probably just a bad use of the term.)

There's a fantastic book about the economics of information goods called "Information Rules" ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/087584863X ). Software is an information good so this covers some topics relevant to the digital economy. My favorite part is the chapter on lock-in. In particular the discussion around the equation:

profits from a customer = quality advantage + switching costs

which puts "(marginal) goodness of your product" on equal footing with "pain you can inflict on your customer for leaving".
1. To keep your stuff running that's stuck on that chip. Replacements are being made but not finished for many customers. The article actually covers this for HP's customers. OpenVMS was on Itanium as well with a x86 port underway. SGI was on Itanium but moved to Xeon more quickly.

2. To get benefits that chip has that others don't. Secure64 is the main use-case I know for this. For me, I considered buying some SGI Altix's off ebay that were going for $100-200 each. Reliable chip and server with built-in security features that almost nobody is targeting on top of that. Such an approach has always paid off for me in the past.

https://secure64.com/secure-operating-system/
"The Itanium is a noteworthy example of what happens when one designs an architecture exclusively for parallelism to the exclusion of all else, and leaves all instruction scheduling to the compiler. "

Well no, it would be more accurate to say "a noteworthy example of when you release a chip that isn't in line with what common programming languages can do".

That is, there is nothing wrong with doing the above. There's something wrong with doing the above when you most people are writing sequential C++ :)

There simply wasn't enough ILP to extract :)

IE no amount of compiler advance would have saved it.
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It seems to be maintained by a company the schools partner with with a zero internal or external sharing policy:

From [Common questions about Classroom](https://support.google.com/edu/classroom/answer/6025224?hl=e...)

Does Classroom contain ads?
No. Like all G Suite for Education services, Classroom contains no ads and never uses your content or student data for advertising purposes. Learn more about [privacy and security](https://edu.google.com/trust/).
Given the US's history it's interesting to speculate how they might respond to Martian attempts to throw off the colonial yoke!
> It’s quite reliable and even offers screen sharing without any plugins on Firefox.

Since they bothered writing this, I guess the lack of support for Firefox.
It's not even that, it's "common programming languages and programming paradigms do not always enable you to exploit this".

IE if everyone is writing sequential C++, making a chip that is really good for parallel fortran is .... silly.

No amount of compiler advance would have saved itanium. Research early on shows except for very contrived kernels, there wasn't enough ILP to extract.

It actually did a really good job of doing what it could :)
Honestly, this isn't a big issue for two reasons:

1. The Google stuff works. I would have loved for that kind of organization and management in my elementary school classes. Google docs is also great and means I don't have to beg my not so wealthy parents for a Microsoft word license (or learn in the 4th grade how to pirate it).

2. Let's not kid ourselves, everyone is going to make a Google account anyway. As long as the school accounts aren't used in collecting ad data (which they're not) this is a non issue.
He's talking about Windows on Xen, which existed at a time, but was never released, like a lot of research projects. AMD-V and Intel VT made it mostly moot though.
Are the hotels cheaper there than in Hamburg?
How about having an up-to-date browser? Firefox stopped supporting XP with v52, and Chrome with v50.

There were some problems with opening Let's Encrypt-encrypted websites on one of these browsers since they've stopped supporting it, can't remember which one.
I don't think the malware developers wanted this kind of heat directed towards them.

If anything they will learn to automatically disable any nodes that are clearly operating out of a public office building.
How good would it be to live in an entire city carved and sculpted into canyons so large they make earths look pathetic.

Ben Bova's "Welcome to Moon Base" has a lot of content and estimates on this, although not at that scale. It's specific to the moon, so things like low-gravity self-powered flight might not make it into the recreation possibilities of Mars, but as for living underground in huge vaults made of the regolith, it makes an interesting case.

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1005249.Welcome_to_Moon_B...
Trace scheduling started with Fisher 81 [1] and Ellis 85 [2]. Trace scheduling is what made VLIW even possible if not exactly tractable. That was 30+ years ago.

What recent advances have made VLIW any more tractable than trace scheduling already did? BTW, trace scheduling works for scheduling superscalar processors as well.

VLIW never went away. It's used in embedded, the TriMedia processors. It's used in the REX Computing NEO chip. The Mill CPU is a VLIW of sorts.

I'm not anti-VLIW but I don't know of any recent breakthroughs that make it any more tractable now for non-embedded, non-HPC general purpose computing.

[1] Trace Scheduling: A Technique for Global
Microcode Compaction

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5698/09af0fcbe5a42371cea8d3...

[2] Bulldog: a compiler for VLIW architectures

http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=912347
Routers can and should be independent of View technology. Here's one that works well for React but is independent of React:

https://github.com/Rajeev-K/mvc-router

The MVC model is well-understood, and does not require Redux. MVC does not imply two-way data binding, btw.
Because Power and Sparc would have ceded to Itanium. Neither backer had the resources Intel did. The easy path to kill Itanium was x86-64, because it was inexpensive and worked with Linux and Windows. AMD didn't have to compete with Intel per se. It forced Intel to do X86-64 as well...which killed Itanium.
We do the same - it was surprisingly simple to implement -

- CircleCI listens across all GIT branches and injects $CIRCLE_BRANCH into ENV
- A build step populates a vhost template to point "$CIRCLE_BRANCH.qa.bofh.com" to "/var/www/$CIRCLE_BRANCH/current"
- Another build step creates "manifest.json" with $CIRCLE_BRANCH and $CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM
- The vhost config and the manifest are added to the release tarball/Docker image
- The tarball/image gets shipped to the staging server
- (we ship to S3/Docker, then pull because of security concerns. But can ship inside the build process)
- In staging, a script reads manifest.json and moves content to /var/www/$CIRCLE_BRANCH/$CIRCLE_BRANCH
- The provided nginx vhost is copied into a standard dir with other vhosts
- A symlink of "/var/www/$CIRCLE_BRANCH/current" is forced to point to the fresh release
- nginx -s reload && profit

You can use a wildcard SSL to cover subdomains or add a step to trigger LetsEncrypt certbot as required.

This method works equally well with Docker images - just requires an interim step to launch the container. In staging, we use a naming convention to launch on predictable ports for every app. First 2 numbers are app specific, second 3 numbers are build-specific. For example, "25$CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM" (where $CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM is just the last 3 numbers of the build).
I'd like to say that I am a British (born and raised in England) Communist. This does not mean that I support the actions of Stalin, nor Mao, nor Che or Castro. I also don't think we should play numbers games with ideologies or figures of history. Both the USSR and Nazi Germany committed various horrible acts, and so did the British Empire.

There are various strains of Communists who either (i) believe that the actions of those 20th c. regimes were failures, and the points of failures must be investigated and fixed or (ii) believe that the approach taken by these nations (Marxism-Leninism) was not based on sound principles or (iii) are not proponents of orthodox Marxism at all, such as anarchists, anarcho-syndicalists or to some extent anarcho-Communists.

To lump all Communists together as a monolithic block which supports those actions of past people is ahistorical and wrong. Many do support the actions, though many also do not.
I would guess that a simple DNS/HTTP works just as well. In contrast checking for vmware processes or similar would probably result in a code signature that can be picked up much more easily by malware scanners.
Until ES6 which introduces Tail Call Optimization, you can use trampolines.

Small summary code:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/24568118/
I use an extension that is called "Blank New Tab" and does exactly that. It's lovely.

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Yes. It's also not much of a general holiday destination for the time, so it'll be cheaper all-round, just much worse to get there.

I would have preferred Frankfurt, but I heard the local fair company didn't understand what they are missing out on.
How does it compare to the Dreamliner/Boeing 787?

I like the Dreamliner. The ride is noticeably smoother and the improvements to cabin air filtration, humidity management, cabin pressurization at lower altitudes, larger windows, and "mood lighting" make for a more enjoyable ride [0].

[0]https://backpackerlee.wordpress.com/2014/08/28/the-airbus-a3...
Slightly relevant: https://artpar.github.io/

This shows the commit as "being written in front of you"
Can't say I'm too happy as being in Hamburg and Berlin were integral parts of CCC. But hopefully will be as good as ever.
On a broader perspective this is so stupid. Allocate space inside the DC itself and rent it out to trading firms if that's the case, even more money to be made!
For a historical perspective on the privacy issue, I found this book review interesting.

"So from the beginning, kings had an incentive to make the country 'legible' – that is, so organized and well-indexed that it was easy to know everything about everyone and collect/double-check taxes. Also from the beginning, nobles had an incentive to frustrate the kings so that they wouldn’t be out of a job. And commoners, who figured that anything which made it easier for the State to tax them and interfere in their affairs was bad news, usually resisted too."

So this resistance to being indexed has very deep roots! But I think we're way past that point now. Being "undocumented" makes it very hard to participate in society.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/03/16/book-review-seeing-like...
Sure, but if we were to use the same argument on that ransomware as the standard "encrypting" type, then if you pay before the time limit is up, it's still going to give you back your files.

Are there any examples where that's not the case? Where regardless of payment, you're still fucked (either by files not being decrypted or by them deleting regardless of payment?)
Emirates A380 is pretty meh. Narrow seats and slow as hell boarding. But service is okay for size for flight, not a problem approaching crew and asking for whatever you desire during quiet periods, dont be the douche that presses the call button unless your sandwiched on a non-aisle seat with aisler asleep.

777s are better in my opinion generally not as cramped and much faster boarding and disembarking. The newer the plane the generally smaller the legroom or seat width. 777 are much older, but seem equally quiet - much quieter than a 747 or a340 etc..

787 seems a nightmare plane, with exception of one or two airlines such air india putting out 33" legroom in eco. 787 set a precedence to cram in as much as you can, look at Oman Air that outfitted their a330 with 34" in economy as the fleet standard several years ago, but on new dreamliners starting toc creep into its route map its 31", and they fly similar lengths, that's the future unfortunately - virgin and BA equally shit at 31" on 787

If you continue to desire A380, then Singapore is far superior, economy upper desk, service and seat walk all over Emirates A380, but if your in the states then any non-us airline will look like premium economy in comparison, even Easyjet ;)
What if they bought Red Hat and SUSE. SUSE was acquired by Novell. It getting acquired again is conceivable. Red Hat is an unknown. Last one is Canonical. I think it could happen on the distro side where they get acquired, new stuff goes more proprietary, and so on.

As I run it through my head, the main way Linux would stay free are through the remaining contributors to kernel: IBM and Oracle. Mainly IBM since they contribute a ton of code, use Linux extensively, and previously put $1 billion on line to fight Microsoft and SCO. They fought them back before. Oracle's big on Linux these days. They'd probably hit them, too.

So, what protects the ecosystem of usable, free Linux is the self-interest of massive, proprietary vendors along with contributions from a few distro's. I probably wouldn't have called that happening 20 years ago.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks...

IMHO google is constrained by laws protecting minors here, not because the Google nor even the schools care that much.
(I'm sorry, but this just won't wash; surely the good guys would prioritize protecting their own corporate infrastructure?)

Yeah, this is a great bit. Of course the good guys would would prioritize protecting their own infrastructure; one of the most important bits of this whole situation isn't about what the good guys would do, it's who is a good guy.
If I had to bet on the reason of Itanium failure, I would also choose AMD64. But not because it was cheap, but because it had x86 in the name. For some reason whenever Intel tried to abandon x86, they failed, like Itanium, i960, XScale.
I've been using New Tab Draft for a while. It's pretty minimalist, just a blank page (colours configurable) that I can make some notes on it I want to.

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Are there english translations?
I'm talking about their desktop OS, Windows.
I don't know if you know much about the automation industry, but reverse engineering a driver so you can run it on a newer PC would be an unacceptable risk. Are you confident in your driver being able to safely control the industrial equipment? A coal train which costs $1000s of dollars a minute for any down time? Are you willing to take the blame or deal with the lawsuit if something goes wrong? The other side of the coin is that some companies do have the budget and can invest in newer technologies, but the cut over to new equipment is just down time they cannot afford - so be it if there's a risk of larger down time in the future.
I'm really exited that they've found a new location.

Berlin was nice but was restricted to less than 4k people IIRC. Hamburg was awesome and the Congress suddenly grew to 12k visitors. The upper floors there still had carpet which was really cozy and the largest lecture hall spreads across three stories and accommodates a couple thousand people. You don't get that anywhere else here. It's really unfortunate that they have to renovate the building, now that we've settled. Everything was working so well.

It's still going to be awesome and I hope we can grow even more, now that more exhibition halls are available. See you there ;)
32nm chip in 2017, probably to reduce costs.
> This is a conscious decision to permaban Google from my life

MS collects alot of metrics from your devices, not just G*g.
Are Chromebooks subsidized? Maybe they're just cheaper.
The article says this already is done in other malware.
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attic <https://attic-backup.org/> encrypts data in transit via ssh, deduplicate and encrypt data at rest. I have come to appreciate both how easy it is to restore data, and the control you have over pruning which backups are kept around. You either need to be able to install attic on the remote host, or be able to mount the file system (i.e. fuse).
Fake News is a harder problem due to two reasons:

1. Fresh News constantly keeps cropping up. Its a dynamic problem, not something that can be done on a static dataset.
2. Verification is a harder problem as compared to clustering. One of the problems is what data to treat as ground truth for verification. Technologically it is composed of hard problems : finding out each individual fact in a document and then verifying them from close facts from ground truth article.
GNUcash currently, but working on learning command line accounting such as ledger in emacs and beancount. I feel like the CLI accounting on text files with a good backup/versioning system is ideal over gnucash, but it does take more work.
I dunno. The cost advantage of x86-64 plus Linux and Windows was a tough nut for other RISC vendors to beat. Price/Performance, plus general support. For example, x86-64​ servers could get away without SSL acceleration because the handshake was done in optimized ASM for most web servers. For other architectures, it wasn't.
So you mean like... NTOSKRNL et al essentially retrofitted to run in a kind of userspace?

Nice.

I don't expect that kind of thing to ever leave a research environment though. It would mess with too many people's heads and give people too many ideas of running bare-metal kernels other than NT.

Now I think about it, I realize the reason why HW virtualization really took off is because it let vendors keep their operating systems as actual operating systems in the traditional sense of the word, making for fewer legal issues (among many other reasons).

Also, I thought Xen was essentially just a super-thin layer to kickstart VT-x/AMD-V. I didn't know it could do anything else. In fact, I thought there was only emulation and hardware-assisted virtualization. Is there a middle ground I'm not aware of?
But conventional Intel processors do manage to dynamically extract quite a good deal of ILP don't they? That's been the source of most of our performance increases over the last decade I think. Why does it work dynamically but not statically?
But why??
The ransomware was already active for hours by that point. The answer the employee provided did not make any sense. Not now, not the first time I read the blog.
Sure, but I think if we are talking about 10^6 people as the article does, the energy needs will be on the order of several GW at least...
For benchmarking I use nanobench:

https://github.com/mafintosh/nanobench

For debugging llnode is super good:

https://github.com/nodejs/llnode
And batteries, or more generally energy storage.
Desktop OS has UEFI or BIOS available for boot and platform services, together with enumerable busses, so you can find out what hardware you have available. Such things are luxury in the mobile world, you need to know what hardware you have in advance, otherwise wrong poke and something will hang.
Can a Windows laptop that doesn’t have the Windows Update patch get infected just by being connected to the Internet via a home Wi-Fi network?
Yeah:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand

Started as a camera looking at lava lamps. Then, focused on pulling stuff from the image sensor itself in darkness IIRC. Another I just found looking for it:

https://www.hindawi.com/journals/mpe/2013/285373/
From the article:

>"Intel can now focus on Xeon, which was rebranded last week to account for new technologies like co-processors and faster interconnects."

I was confused by this, Xeon has been the mainstay in the high-end workstation/server for what feels like forever now. Was the limited Itanium market and development really affecting their focus that much?

I am curious if anyone knows what companies or verticals made big investments in Itanium? I imagining Intel much have some pretty big Itanium customers if it has been around this long. Maybe this answers my first question?
Tamper proof seals on sensitive parts of the product itself? I'm thinking about this from an NSA iterdiction/implant point of view. You can't trust the shipping companies, so you have to either physically secure it (and your question says not secured) or have indicators that show tampering. The physical equiv of hash/checksum checking.
With ever wider SIMD units this is actually happening to some extent. With AVX512 (e.g. on KNL) you can do 64 operations (single precision FLOPs) in vector units in the same amount of time as you can do 1 scalar operation

I was talking about code which simply can't be parallelised because it is branchy or has long and unavoidable dependency chains. In those cases using SIMD instructions will only make the code larger (thus more cache-consuming) and arguably more power-consuming too, since 63/64 of those operations aren't contributing anything to the computation.
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> No, why would they?

Because in the prequel, when a whistleblower leaked a trove of secrets regarding the NSA's global spying program, the outrage and backlash from the technical community led to the government issuing assurances that it would do just that.
Not much more difficult than Hamburg, 1:30 train from Berlin or a direct flight from Stansted (although not sure if that Ryanair flight runs over Christmas)