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That's true, but why hasn't Bloomberg retracted the article yet? It's been two months since the piece was published.

Given all this attention, don't you think that Bloomberg would have issued a retraction by now if it was simply the case of an overzealous reporter?
Read the article , but these things were referred to differently at the time....

And sorry it was a cd drive not a dvd drive Ill take a photo and post u a pic one day but hey you all were there so why do I need to bother..
Sometimes you’ve just got to put on your yellow vest and right some wrongs.
From the article I assume the issue is going around Martins Beach Road in Half Moon Bay, CA.
This road is roughly half a mile long.
Paving it would be around 100k. Add the lane marking, gutters, sidewalks, ADA-friendly ramps, brail plates on each crossing and the bill can easily get up to half a million.

Is it fair to slap someone with a half a million bill just because "he's rich anyway"?
I find that highly unlikely. Since Supermicro was kicked out of the NASDAQ, I would expect their trading to be much thinner. It would be trivial for regulators to spot some inside trades. And if the sources are indeed intelligence officials, I'd expect their financials to be under special scrutiny.
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It is not legal. It would break so many laws that a prosecutor would have a difficult time sorting through them all.
China's ethics board reviews 20 games, bans 9, requires changes to 11
Absolutely, I found especially annoying the statement in the article that says "films are never the work of an individual: they are products of a collective, and children of compromise." Well, Hollywood blockbusters for sure, there's scarcely a hint of directorship in those. But smaller or independent productions, which are not directed to the masses, are another thing.

Maybe what Kubrick did was to make movies that look like big Hollywood productions, with the big budgets and the polished look, but at the same time keeping the type of control and freedom that usually only small independents have. His movies are at the same time beautiful, extremely original, and very approachable- things that rarely go together.
I had a similar experience with a boxing game whose graphics rivaled anything I'd bought (or, more realistically, Fast Hack'em'd from a friend). I spent a minute or so trying to find my typo in 500 lines of random characters before giving that up as a hopelessly stupid task.

I've always wondered if I became a coder because of or in spite of that experience.
I never saw the film, but the book is great. A neat fact is that Arthur C Clark, and Stanley Kubrick wrote the book and the film at the same time. There are actually 4 or 5 books, and they're all pretty good.
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It wasn't only Supermicro that took a hit but also any company using their products (AWS etc)
Well what I was wondering was, what did they examine to be exact? Did they decap chips and reverse engineer them?

The article as you say, is really short. Too short, there isn't really any information in it, besides "Trend micro said this, take their word for it"...
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Being an asshole is not illegal.
Never run sudo rm -rf * inside your home directory (2015)
A home cooked meal, a kind word, a smile matters.

> Most of what we do doesn't matter.

Speak for yourself.
Some time before five, maybe four, maybe three, you could start "skip counting." By twos, fives, and tens. Doing this and filling the gaps, by kindergarten, one of my kids could start multiplication. By first grade, she had a working understanding of fractions and the arithmetic around them.
That'll however require that all data uploaded with your service will have to go via such black box, so you'll essentially perform mass surveillance for them.
Well the article doesn't mention how or what was tested. The article doesn't really state what they tested for... Did they swing a dead chicken over the board while chanting "Evils reveal yourself", did they decap chips? Did they just install trend-micro antivirus and let it run?
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What bothers me most about this article is that it's based around what "Super Micro says" -- why would I care about what Supermicro says? They are the ones being accused of having backdoors in their chips.

I would've liked to hear this directly from the company doing the audit, without Super Micro's own "interpretation".

The second thing that bothers me about this story is that it was Supermicro that paid for the audit. Maybe there was no one else going to do it, or maybe they just thought to get ahead of anyone else trying to review their chips. I don't know, but it doesn't sit well with me.

Only recently we saw at least two major tech companies skirt FCC's privacy monitoring by paying themselves for the audits: Google and Facebook. Both had multiple major privacy scandals in the past couple of years, but somehow all of these privacy issues were completely missed by the companies auditing them.
Whether something is clear or not is not dependent on whether a specific person knows it.

A reasonable person who is even minimally informed about GDPR will know that an email address is covered by GDPR, hence it is "clear".
They should just switch to a docked model.
People worry about malicious chips in instances like this and I mean it's a valid concern but one method of attack I've always thought would be effective and extremely dangerous is strategic placing a component in a circuit that, if it fails, disables the entire device then you simply need a way to activate it.

Radio.

Design a circuit, or better something that appears to be a capacitor and functions as a capacitor but has a small internal compartment at say the top so that it performs at less than what it is rated for but has a small circuit that over-volts via a joule thief and causes a failure. Have the trigger be a small receiver that activates at a certain frequency probably in the ELF or SLF range with just a few bits needed as the activation key.

Put that into the supply chain of whatever industry and when you want to disrupt to cause economic damage, or even as part of causing a bit of chaos preceding a military attack, fire up your ELF station and start pumping out the few bits of data to activate.

ELF will penetrate hundreds of meters of water, it should reach inside most buildings and even if you only had something like a 5% success rate you'd disable a LOT of whatever you'd installed them in. If it's networking hardware, you could likely cripple anything that relies on the internet by causing considerable distributed failures.
To be super cynical: They got their ad revenue from the story, why would they care?
Colab is awesome but I've found that GPU memory allocation can be a bit unreliable at times. It's advertised as providing you a GPU but in reality I think you're sharing the GPU with other machines which can lead to out-of-memory issues fitting models that you don't run into using a dedicated GPU instance
There is if you want to vendor your dependencies, which given my experience with golang dependency management over the years, I’ll be doing for the foreseeable future.

This guide outlines the set of incantations required to accomplish that & frankly having fought through figuring it out myself from the doco, this would have saved me a bunch of time.
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I think that part of the article might be confused.

The Coastal Act requires that you provide access. It encourages cheap parking and other amenities and the owner can charge for these—as the previous one did. Improvements to these can also be requested/required if you want to further develop the property. However, I don’t think they force you to offer parking. This email from the city, which was part of the trial, mentions both the parking and the access, but only notes, repeatedly, that the access needs to be preserved:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw9SrI2nMR-WVVhiMVZtS3Rxd0U...
As DK puts it himself: "The main idea is to treat a program as a piece of literature, addressed to human beings rather than to a computer." I think code navigation would naturally fall out from this approach.
It's not the hardware, it's the firmware I'm worried about. This is why firmware shouldn't be considered "trade secret" so that it can always be open to patching and auditing.
Thanks very much for the info!
One counter example; time will tell whether this will be sustainable: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/morphcat-games/micro-ma...

(Keep in mind that 150000 EUR might be "beer money" in the US, but the typical German salary for a non managerial SW engineer is around 60000 EUR, so 150000 EUR are 2 "good" man years' worth of money).
Because then California will have to pay for the road from its budget?
I only buy Nintendo consoles, so I remember being jealous of their ability to pirate.

I guess you were happy with your Wii and DS.
Ctrl + k, type search query, press tab, select search engine or add the one on the current page if it has any.
While the word "predict" does appear, it is not in the sense of a prediction made upon data, but rather, the parent asks for a hypothesis to be tested.

Therefore; these predictions are not based on any data. They are based upon knowledge and assumptions of the world.
I recommend Joyent (acquired by Samsung).

They open source all their software (and make it easy to install and use). Their hypervisor operating system (SmartOS) rocks so hard. They also released Manta (S3 alternative object store).

If Joyent ever changed direction, or shut down, I have an unlocked path forward with a community to help me continue on my own hardware. I can build my own cloud if push comes to shove.
I remember downloading ISOs as rar file collections overnight off of IRC channels while in high school. I remember the magic of PAR files, being able to replace any particular file I was missing.

One thing i also remember is how it taught me an upside of actually purchasing games. I ended up having so many DC games I barely played any, because I became more interested in simply collecting them.

I would later decide against missing my consoles for that same reason. Although those Wii mods looked pretty sweet, with their home screen replacement and launchers
A US intelligence agency nowadays would just issue a National Security Letter and force you to not say anything otherwise you go to jail. Most people really don't want to go to jail. An intelligence agency would really only resort to blackmail or extortion if they were operating in a foreign country where they couldn't outright bribe someone.
It's rather easy for someone to mislead a BP reporter who understands little about the technical details but is very eager to publish something shocking.

The reporter may have emailed a few dozen security researchers to verify the story, but those who don't believe in the story are less likely to reply (and the reporter is more likely to ignore them), leading to a sampling bias.
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Google+ hit by second API bug impacting 52.5M users
They are in control of their actions.

"She made me spill!"

"No, she teased you, which she should not have done. You chose to get mad and you threw a fit, knocking over your glass. That was you, little one. Now clean it up while I go talk with your sister."
The media falls for bullshit all the time, Weapons of mass destruction, incubator babies in Kuwait, etc. They are in the business of making money and not getting the story right and since there is hardley any consequences for them why would they care?

Bloomberg here will blame its source and take no responsibility.
An auditor would not have found anything because the alleged attack occurred several years ago and would most likely have been targeted at a limited number of boards, which would have been seized a long time ago.

The result of this audit does not inform about anything related to the allegations published by Bloomberg.

I think it's more about re-building confidence by showing that Supermicro products on sale now can be trusted.
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And this is news... how?
NASA: Voyager 2 spacecraft reaches interstellar space after four decades
Let's say Super Micro is right and there were no malicious hardware at all for sure. What are the consequences for Bloomberg for this incompetence? I mean, there needs to be something..

Just because you're a news organization, you can't simply escape with "Oh, my bad". This had real implications on stock prices of so many companies and wiped off shareholder value on many of them, including Super Micro.

If Bloomberg's story was false, they shouldn't just walk away like that because "it's the free press".
The 2000-200-20 assumes that everything is factored. This is never the case. We start with one minimonolith with 2000 lines of code in it and it evolves from there. Loc is also arbitrary, how about that in cost units as described? No, but cause value - cost is the bottom line metric and artificial limits are just that.
Is anyone actually requiring that he do this?

My impression was that the law requires access. Upgraded infrastructure can be part of a quid-pro-quo for other development in the area, but the coastal comission can’t, as far as I know, insist on improvements out of the blue.
"He has bought his way to citizenship". Are you going to unload that charge on every foreign born entrepreneur who purchases property that's subject to a dispute? You can disagree with his position but the "bought his way to citizenship" allegation is a fairly transparent way of saying something else.
> now he relishes the opportunity to crush his opponent (average people).

It seems to me that he's the underdog here: his opponents not only also have the resources to drag this fight on for a decade, they also have the state legislature and the governor on their side. At this point, the state is prepared to use armed force (which is what eminent domain ultimately is) to take his property, and if he tries to physically resist its agents will use violence to subdue him. Ignoring the accountable government, it's remarkable that an unaccountable non-profit has the resources to fight one of the richest men in the world for years, and it's sobering to think of how little chance you or I would have if a similar nonprofit attacked us.

I have no idea if he's legally in the right or wrong, although given that the state has had to change the law, it sounds like he was originally in the right. And I wonder at what point laws aimed at a single person's situation become too akin to bills of attainder to pass constitutional muster.
I've literally never heard this from anyone who's used both at an enterprise level. Personally I recommended azure a few years ago rather than aws for a docker based microservice app but the biggest drawback was the cost. What exactly are you running that's cheaper?
Nope. The only named source in the article said on Twitter that the journalist reported speculation about possible attacks as facts. The story was fabricated by the journalist. How it got through fact-checking, I don't know.
Well, I found it disappointing just from a story standpoint. I certainly wanted to read a story about clever technical hack...about someone sniffing a memory bus and writing a program to align the dump to get a valid program, or finding a complex pattern by analyzing the scrambling by hand.

I suppose it's a good reminder that in the real world, the easiest way in is often through a gullible or untrustworthy employee.
Only problem with LF stuff is that you need a pretty big antenna. You would be better off designing a chip with an RF section that operates in the GHz range so you can get away with a tiny microstrip antenna or with the antenna inside the chip.
This is not a problem with TLS. This is a problem with encrypting information of different contexts together. In other words, this is a problem of HTTP and the web.

It is also a problem of people thinking that you can have a magic encrypted pipe from A to B (e.g. TLS) that protects your information perfectly no matter how negligent you are: It's a wrong idea about an abstraction.
It's very interesting, but it really lacks a good explanation of this theory of patches, even in the documentation. I'm guessing a careful read-through will reveal many insights, however.

It's a bit annoying when it's being sold as being so simple and intuitive, to not be able to find an explanation that makes you understand the thing completely.
The search box is separate in Firefox (next to the address bar). You can get to it by typing Ctrl+K (Cmd+K on Mac). Once you type your query, you can use the Down Arrow or Tab key to navigate to the site/engine you want to use and then hit Enter. You can also rearrange the order of those search engines to make the frequently used ones easier to reach.

If you don't mind a network round trip, you can also setup DuckDuckGo as your default search engine and use bang commands [1] to do different kinds of searches on many sites.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/bang
I base my predictions on the number of studies and lecture which explore different aspect of those issues, but what I would like to see is a study that address those directly in the context of wage differences between men and women. This paper could have done this since they have much of the data, but they didn't.

If you just want some random sources, there is a government study here in Sweden that looks at involuntarily childlessness and there is a significant correlation with income and men. That was published just a few weeks ago. Dating sites have brought data and shown that both success and quantitative response is very strongly positively correlated with income for men. It is often mentioned when I read about social status, with the same old mentioning of correlation between income and men. People who look at divorce rate see a correlation when men lose their job and their wives filing, with a larger drop in social support for the men. The theme is quite common in many studies on the topic.

From listening to social experimental studies, when people try to reverse expectations, you often see stereotypical results decreasing, but as is often found, it does not go down to zero. When it come to life span expectancy and health, a common theme is that women prioritize and spend more time with the health sector than men. A commonly cited reason that men do not go to the doctor is because it conflicts with work priorities. Thus by combining that result with this study, I would predict that if you look at the subset that defies gender expectations, then a larger percentile of that subgroup will go to the doctor than the majority. However I have seen similar health related studies say that especially psychologists treat men and women differently and perceive men as being healthier than they are, resulting in worse health care even for those men which do defy gender expectations. To add to the problems, lower social status and smaller social support network affects health significantly which is why I am not sure if prioritizing doctors over higher income is better or worse.
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You would have been down voted to hell for saying this here when Chrome came out. But I bet you know this already.

Google did to Firefox what it did to Yahoo, Altavista, Excite etc. When you can sell ‘6 minutes Abs’ who would buy ‘7 minutes Abs’?

Chrome was faster when it came out. I was on Win7 back in the days and I was being down voted. The proof is in the pudding.
> "Dark Star" was the precursor comedy scifi.

Never heard of that one (love the atmosphere of Silent Running though), is it any good?

Its synopsis reads like it may have been part of the inspiration for the seminal sci-fi-comedy series Red Dwarf.
Given the nature of their doubling down upfront about it, it could be quite problematic for them to admit they were Very Wrong.

It's also possibly permanently going to be unclear whether this is factually accurate unless someone discovers a compromised system or the sources for the reporters provide enough information on why they believe what they do to actually investigate.
Annoying bro-style salesmen? Say it isn’t so! Good thing they only exist in the tech startup world... /s

I’m not saying startups are a perfect, far from it, but this whole article focuses only on the non-tech side of tech startups. Again, even for those in tech, startups are far from perfect but still, it seems like the author happened to interface with only the most juvinelle/brainwashed groups at a company.
Ask HN: Why is AI the big tech prediction for every upcoming year?
The new year is right around the corner, and, as usual, everyone is already predicting what will be the next big thing in 2019. Obviously, AI heads most of the lists this year.

Oddly enough, AI was also the next big thing of 2018, 2017, 2016, and ever since technology predictions are a thing.

Why is that?
If the government REALLY wanted to give public access to the beach, they could have negotiated a footpath across this guy's property and build a parking nearby.
People are legally entitled to use the road on his property to access the beach, which is slightly different.

I can see this being weird if the access rights were addded after you bought the land, but if the easement long predates your ownership, as it allegedly does in this case, I don’t really see why “property rights” should be allow you to wiggle out of it. That easement is part and parcel of the property you bought—-it may have cost even more if it weren’t included!
Interesting point, thank you! I have always liked the ideas behind literate programming. For my next piece of work on this I think I can use LP to really motivate the need for such tools.
Another useful one coming right out of the Stoic tradition is the trisection into things that one

1) has no control over, such as weather, other people's actions, etc.: do not fret about those.

2) has complete control over, such as one's thoughts, judgements, response to events, actions, etc.: concentrate on these.

3) has partial control over, such as one's health, reputation, etc.: do not fret about the outcome, but prepare/do your part as best as you can.

This is well explained in William Irvine's Guide to the Good Life [0], but has already been proposed by Epictetus in the Enchiridion [1], 2nd century CE:

> Work, therefore to be able to say to every harsh appearance, “You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be.” And then examine it by those rules which you have, and first, and chiefly, by this: whether it concerns the things which are in our own control, or those which are not; and, if it concerns anything not in our control, be prepared to say that it is nothing to you.

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5617966-a-guide-to-the-g...

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/the-enchiridion/...

(Note that standardebooks is pretty cool, a non-profit offering carefully formatted, open source, and free public domain ebooks!)
That's why I said box, and not service ;)
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And/or the people who did reply gave a response of something along the lines of “Its technically possibly but...” and the author ignored everything after the but.
Author here.

Apologies, but I can't parse your comment.

Yes. It is arbitrary. Yes. You never start off factored.

I agree on that much. The rest I didn't understand.
I think this would negatively impact users in low traffic areas.