skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't want to be rude but I don't think you know very much about self-driving cars. They are much more advanced than you think. Also you talk Thailand, I guess you mean the free-for-all situation ... Well, humans would adjust their behavior to the reality of self driving cars but in reality, these cars are much better at these situations than you think. You greatly underestimate the state of the technology even in its current form. We're talking the possibility of reducing 95% of accidents and fatalities. The sensor perception and trajectory calculation is much better than what humans can do. Driving is not about solving natural language riddles. You don't need "strong AI."
This is why Google invested in Uber. Self driving cabs.

WHen will they come out?
> the fights over water are already starting and are going to get bigger and nastier over the next few decades

What do you mean by this? Cities in North America tend to be on rivers, and isolated poor location choices (Las Vegas, Phoenix, a few CA cities, etc) don't translate to problems in other cities since they are on different aquifer. As far as I can tell, there is no threat to the water supply in most American cities. Egypt/Ethiopia's little water spat doesn't threaten water supplies elsewhere, fresh water isn't really a commodity like oil or iron is. If it was, there would be a killing to be made in fresh water arbitrage.
I believe the problem is at the chip level, not the software level
IMO it's semantics, but the rhetoric and reaching is usually more prevalent.

For instance, they're basically saying more leisure time spent on the internet, means less time for everything else. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to see how that sentence is just too simple. Of course it's correct. Any more specific however and it's wrong. A great example is the three assertions in the articles headline.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6615835
Shutdown stories are a braggart form of "fuck you." Early adopters just have to be careful not to rely on ventures by founders that have a history of creating a little value only to throw it all away later.

For the Nth time, for unsold ventures, don't just shutdown if you get bored of something, find a buyer! Not only might this make you some money, it may also salvage your rep for not being someone that abandons their base mercurially.
I care about it, I'm a cycle commuter breathing more exhaust than average.
I think they were using the kg to pounds factor!
Reading large codebases
Oracle is enormously expensive. It's worth the expense for companies that actually need Oracle's level of performance, but most startups don't need to worry about scaling to that level for a long time. It makes more sense to spend the money on something else and not worry about performance until you are successful enough that you need to worry about it.
I can write a simple script that listens to port 2222 and mimics SSH in order to capture your passwords.

ignoring other authentication methods, PKI, etc..
Farting Drake
Drake farting while performing.
Of course not, you need only drive around the managed forests in Oregon to see some. (and it really tweeks your brain to see a forest where all the trees are exactly the same age for the most part!)
Ive designed the Mac Pro didn't he...
I lost interest in maintaining it so I dropped it from the store.
I spend $300-$400 on lunch alone per month (flatiron nyc)
NHTSA won’t investigate Tesla Model S fire
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has decided not to launch a formal investigation into the Tesla Model S following a fire involving the electric vehicle earlier this month.
Super long story short (literally, the first question doesn't get answer for something like 1000 words later):

What is dark silicon?

"Dark silicon is the fraction of chip that needs to be powered off at all times due to power constraints."

Long and short is that because of a combo of energy use and heat dissipation at the scale of upcoming transistors, maybe upwards of 50% of the transistors on a chip may need to be off. This then begs the question, why continue developing smaller scales of transistors if the technology can't be utilized because of heat and power needs.
Genius is as genius does.
No i think you're wrong about that. Even conservative estimates put it between 2018-2020. Also I don't think it's so much that people would be buying these cars. I think you will see different models, club cats, zip cars, etc. Sure people will buy them but I don't cost will deter then being a significant percentage of the total transportation in 10 years.
http://www.docker.io/

https://www.docker.io/the_whole_story/

(Don't downvote me. I'm obviously joking.)
obscurity is not security. nothing's going to stop people from portscanning your server no matter what port it is on.
> You can implement basic defenses like hidden input forms or checkboxes that are masked by CSS rules or served on the client side with JavaScript to weed out bots from human users, among other less intrusive techniques.

Umh, anything that will end up in the POST request will be reproduced by a bot, I don't even actually look at the page when implementing screen scraping modules, but just at the Network tab of the Chrome Dev Tools.

What I think have the potential to remove the need for conscious CAPTCHA solving is what Google is supposedly doing here: machine learning on behavioral patterns in the user interaction with the form (instead of just with the CAPTCHA).
Ok, I had the weird experience of looking at the street view map, wanting to move forward and just, out of habit, used the WASD keys and damn if they didn't work just like they "should". Reminded me of the first time I used vi(1) and wanted to move the cursor and went with the rogue(7) keys and that just worked. Games as usability training tools for the win I guess.
It's important to remember that the Kernel is a very small piece of the puzzle that decides whether your 1991 binary works on a system today. The real kicker is whether the glibc versions match, whether X11/Motif will still be around for a while, etc.

But I still admire the kernel for their stance even if it can't solve every compatibility problem.
"If I sound condescending, it's because you just didn't understand what I was trying to say"

wow.
I think taxis will be a thing of the past. The barrier to entry will be gone, anyone could rent out self-driving cars.
Self-driving cars could save more than 21,700 lives, $450B a year

Until they get spoofed. That will be fun.

link to paper: https://www.enotrans.org/wp-content/uploads/wpsc/downloadabl...
Extraordinary means require extraordinary measures.
Yes, I think driving your own car at some point will be either leisure or status symbol.
Not in American English. But:

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

FOREST. By the English law, a forest is a circuit of ground properly under
the king's protection, for the peaceable living and abiding of beasts of
hunting and the chase, and distinguished not only by having bounds and
privileges, but also by having courts and offices. 12 do. 22. The
signification of forest in the United States is the popular one of an
extensive piece of woodland. Vide Purlieu.
Among the potential solutions, he doesn't mention reversible computing, which I found weird, because the whole point of reversible computing is drastic reduction in power draw.

Maybe he doesn't think it would ever be fast enough, or maybe he thinks it can only apply at really small scales (i.e. nanotech) and there's no smooth incremental path there from where we are now?
Why bother eating at home when you can have an idiot conveniently cook your food in a restaurant at twice the price?
I don't blindly believe in what Google is saying about self-driving cars. I do blindly believe in what this artcile is saying though: http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/520431/driverl... (a recent HN link, by the way)
Personally I think this is an excellent idea. If nothing else growing hardwords on unused land at least puts it to use. The fact that they are going to leave all of the streets in place means it is going to become quite strange to drive around in. When I was growing up in Vegas, before it covered the valley, aggressive developers had gone out and put in streets where "new developments" would someday be, and driving around had that weird feeling of sort of a maze race track. Hansel and Gretel probably will feel right at home :-).
What percentage of attackers port scan a broad range of ports vs. just trying port 22?
Moving ssh to a different port and using something like port-sentry could make it much harder. It will not increase your security per se, but it can make you less vulnerable to zero day exploits against random general internet scans.
But the point of the self driving car seems to be to dehumanise the driver to make it more predictable, reliable and less distractable. Create too good a copy and you will need to do something to stop it getting bored and distracted.

It is quite possible that the learning abilities come along with downsides.
The Tax Free Tour » thought maybe
How am I making you feel bad? By pointing out that you have an inflated self perception? And if you disagree with that, then maybe you should have kept your original post up.
Incredible how the whole thing just shout inefficiency and huge price tags all over the place.

What is wrong with securing the device with a VPN or something and then using the same services that the entire government already use on desktops?
Dentidrill
um ... DARPA challenge. They have LIDAR and other sensors. It's not based on GPS for negotiating the road.
Very interesting. I feel like the very concept of a grammar is only a model we cast on language to make it easier to deal with. Langage is pretty free and can work without it. Grammar feels to me like a normalization "by contract". We normalize, then study the normalization tool itself without being aware it is an artefact. We model the model, give it free parameters, randomness, serendipity to make it accomodate reality and its endless string of special cases. We even try to separate meaning from experience.

This all feels more like a network of relations and probabilities of coocurrence of various (free?) orders. I followed your link and I strongly feel the suffix "grammar" is the real burden here. We're trying to put structure on what is actually creating it.
For reference: I spent the first 20 years of my life in Maine.

>If you want to raise capital and build a startup here, don't. Or, at least, do so but with your "real" headquarters in Boston, NY or CA.

Ah, yeah. I'm in NYC now. I figured that if I started something in Maine, I'd be on the Noreaster on a semi-regular basis. I wouldn't be looking for an angel investor and would be bootstrapping instead.

>but the school closest to Portland is looking to close its physics department

Physics isn't Comp Sci, but I get your point. USM was my first school before transferring, so ouch.

>If you have or can develop a remote-work type position, it's a great place to live and work from (as long as you can get good, reliable bandwidth).

That's sort of what I'm thinking for at least a few years. I'd be looking to buy a place on the West End and then start my own shop when it's reasonably paid down (3-5 years).

>But if you want to start a software-focused startup ... honestly ... it's an uphill battle.

Thank you for the thoughtful response. It definitely helped me put some things back into perspective.
> capture your passwords

With public key auth, an attacker can't capture anything useful (unless of course they record traffic and later figure out a way to later capture the private key [1], but this isn't a problem that changing the port will fix).

> mimics SSH

You can't mimic the key files in /etc/ssh/ssh_host_whatever_key without root privileges, assuming these files are properly secured. So users will get an unexpected warning that the host key has changed.

> simple script that listens to port 2222

True -- in cases where something isn't already listening on 2222. But if sshd is started early in the boot process and listens on 2222, won't any script started as a regular user be unable to bind to the socket?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6609601
I didn't mention "physiological differences", say,
taller, stronger. I did emphasize tool making.
I should also have mentioned team formation
for hunting, building, and fighting. E.g., hunting
is not nearly all size and strength but heavily
understanding how to locate and kill the prey.
And if the hunting is with a team, then need to
be good at forming teams.

So, the women were back in the village concentrating
on child care, food, and clothing, and the men
were generating fire, tools, wheels, things made
of bone, wood, and stone, making progress with metals,
..., a server farm with 20,000 computers. That was
men's work, done by men, in ways convenient for men,
that used talents of men, apparently from hunting,
tool making, team formation, and fighting, that
changed the economy, government, and societies.
Alas, women mostly didn't participate and mostly
still don't.

Look, there's a recent study about boys and girls
shortly after birth. The girls are working on
communicating with adults, especially about how
they feel, mostly with facial expressions.
The boys are looking at the construction of the
crib, trying to figure out how the latch works,
and wanting to write C++ code to control the
toy fire engine on the floor! That's right
from birth. The boys care about things, tools,
strategy, etc., and the girls care about
eliciting support from people. That's just
the way it is.

In simple terms, the girls have plenty of
strength for most tool making and for
team formation, but mostly they just
didn't and don't do it. That's just not
what girls are interested in, and there's
little promise they will be interested
during our knowledge worker society.

Girls don't want to think about tricky
algorithms; some girls actually can, but
still they don't want to. They just
don't. "Fools give you reasons;
wise men never try." What girls want
to do is to gossip as a way to be
a member of a group of girls and to
attract boys. They like to be asked
to do things so that when they do them
they can get praise, acceptance, approval,
and emotional security.
>It's kinda surprising how many people live in Portland and work remotely, and it seems like I keep discovering more all the time.

That's what I'd be doing at first. It's such a nice city, but business just can't seem to stick.

>I worked for a smallish company back in the mid-2000s, and it's likely that things have changed, but back then the tech-related investors wanted you to move to Boston

Ha! My first job was at GWI.net. I didn't realize how lowly paid Maine tech was until I moved.
Maybe they're just trying to lay some underwater cable... to Japan
Do we have any engagement numbers on Snapchat? The deal with Pinterest is that most of their users also have some intent to purchase a lot of their pins. They also have a ton of data for precisely targeted adverts. I'm not even sure about the options Snapchat has for for monetization.
Obligatory xkcd reference: http://xkcd.com/932/
Yeah, its not about increasing security against an individual but pretending to be a less appealing target to the masses.
>I work remotely, which gives me the benefits of being in Portland while making a NYC salary, but even when I was working for a Portland firm I was still making a good wage.

I'd be looking to do something similar actually (I'm in NYC too). What kind of work is it predominantly? You mentioned web boutiques and that's sort of what I was expecting.
> since he shatters entirely the distinction you are trying to draw upon.

I think you have misunderstood my argument, which was not that formal logic was developed only by mathematicians with no philosophers involved (that would be nuts) but that saying it was done by philosophers as opposed to anyone else is quite wrong. And that argument would go through just the same even if we classified Leibniz exclusively as a philosopher (which would be just as wrong as classifying him exclusively as a mathematician; my apologies, by the way, for being sloppy about that).

I have to admit I can't imagine how what I wrote turned (on its way into your mind) into an attempt to draw a sharp dichotomous distinction between mathematicians and philosophers, but evidently it did and I'm sorry that I evidently wasn't clear enough. Yes, people can be both mathematicians and philosophers, or both scientists and philosophers, or all three; yes, the boundaries are fuzzy sometimes; it was no part of my intention to imply otherwise.
Are you a remote-worker as well? My concern would be that my company in NYC would decide to let me go remote, then change its mind due later about telecommuting and it would put me in a rough spot.
I guess we need diamond substrate. For real this time.
This is an interesting post. The attraction of advertising is two fold: (1) its passive income; (2) its highly scalable. One of the problems with it as a source of "innovation" is that it is primarily an accelerant. It can either accelerate the adoption (a) of non-ad-tech; or (b) the accumulation of debt. Both of these can be "productive", but only up to a point.
Moving to a different port keeps the server logs a lot cleaner, making real attacks easier to spot.
I put SSH on a different port because it cuts down on the drive by login attempts. I don't have random users on my systems so I don't care that it's possible for non-priveleged users to listen on high ports, there shouldn't be anything listening on any port on my systems without my knowing about it. And I don't use running ssh on a different port as an excuse for lax security.

Under different circumstances different tradeoffs would apply, but for my current modes of use I don't see a compelling reason to put SSH on port 22.
Also, what if ssh is on port 1023, which is still a non standard port, not default but privileged, does this help in any way?

I'm asking because I don't really know but have to set up my own servers from time to time (hobby admin).

Edit: I always use key based auth, don't allow root etc.
I like to run hardened SSH servers - key only authentication and specific lists of permitted users. From a security point of view this works on the default port or an alternate port. Root is blocked from logging in directly.

Having SSH moved to an alternate port helps mitigate the load caused by continuous SSH worm connections. Having the firewall additionally block SSH except from pre-approved adds additional defense, but adds the complexity that the admin cannot login from his mobile phone using just SSH without first adding his current temporary IP address to the firewall.

The alternate port, is not by itself a security mechanism but it can help in real life deployments.

It is a good article and raises really good points. I have bookmarked it because I do want to experiment with the author's iptables example.
It's likely that this is a way to get around the visa limits the US is having. If you build a giant cruise ship and park it on the bay next to google then you can have engineers working near HQ without legally requiring them to have visas!
This raises a few questions.

firstly, How does he hope to mimic SSH with a script, when most 'companies' will roll out DNS sshfp records, heck, I even do it at home. -- he'd need to access the private keys in /etc/ssh/ to be able to do anything; unless he's rooted my box, I don't see how he could.

Secondly; he'd need to kill my sshd process in order to make his script work, sshd is not the kind of process driven behemoth that apache+modphp is, so you can't brute force it to death- how are you going to kill it if you're not root?

Finally; if you kill my sshd- where does your session go.

of course, all of this could be bypassed if you had root, but if you are root you can do anything anyway- you could capture and decrypt data with the private keys- surely that'd be easier.

(also, if you're root you can bind port 22 anyway, so it's a moot point)
That is bizarre. I can totally see them "rallying the troops" with their successful capture. But it kind of makes me sick.
> When we start SSH on port 22, we know for a fact that this is done by root. But what happens when we move SSH to port 2222? This port can be opened without a privileged account, which means I can write a simple script that listens to port 2222 and mimics SSH in order to capture your passwords.

Well OP is assuming that I trust the root user of the machine I am SSH'ing to. If I do, then what's the concern? The root user probably told me what the SSH port is. If I don't, then well what's to say the SSH daemon on port 22 is secure? In any case, there are many other ports that are not 22 and are < 1024. You don't have to pick 2222.

Changing the port is not the ultimate defense against attack, but in my experience it does reduce random drive-by type attacks. Same reason you raise your windows when you lock your car - as easy as it is to break a car window, a thief would rather steal from a car with an open window than smash your windows and steal from yours.
Not exactly, the court ruled that the land grant rights that Alviso got from the Mexican Government before California existed as a state, "extinguished" the right of California to change the rules. It will be interesting to watch on appeal.

The reason you would rule that way is because California can't simply go in and change your property rights, at least not without compensating you and using eminent domain. That has been established for a long time. So for the same reason they cannot just decide to give access to the minerals under your house to Chevron.

So it isn't "squatters rights" at all, rather it is property holder rights. If this is upheld it could have some interesting repercussions on water rights in the Central Valley if I remember, some of those were parts of Mexican land grants as well.
Running ssh on another port is typically something you do with your own machines. If you're connecting to a foreign system, you either trust it or you don't. The fact that ssh is on port 22 or not means nothing.
Zerocoin? (Not that I think it's a viable option but instead because I believe it was solving this exact problem and I'm curious, practically, how far away the community is from implementing it.)
Digg, Friendster, MySpace just off the top of my head.
I've seen a lot of tree farms in Scotland and they were quite insane, literally impossible to walk through in some cases because the trees were so closely spaced, with no other vegetation at all (how they manage to get enough light to live I have no idea). Very, very, unpleasant places.

I wasn't sure if that sort thing counts as a forest though, or whether there was some implication of a more varied natural ecosystem.

[That's an extreme example and there are better sorts of managed woodlands of course, e.g. Japan is famous for them.]
It's a bit of a counterfactual, because startups with large traction having difficulty monetizing don't typically go bankrupt, but sell. But that doesn't prove they wouldn't have been able to monetize at some point, and leaves us guessing.

One example is YouTube; they lost huge buckets of money in their entire independent existence, until Google's acquisition completely changed the economics of their bandwidth costs. Would they have been able to become profitable if they stayed independent? Maybe!

Another one (perhaps clearer) is Broadcast.com. Never turned a profit in their independent existence; never turned a profit for Yahoo after acquisition, either.
How are they sure he wasn't just a pawn or a script kiddie.
I say this because he pleaded guilty; was there some serious analysis done or did they just got his address?
That's going to end badly for 4chan, as every post requires you to fill in a captcha.

The daily routine for a 4chan poster will constitute solving that captcha 20 to 30 times.