skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't you think that one of the interesting issues raised by a floating data center might be a jurisdictional one? Is it possible that google is actually considering putting some of their infrastructure beyond sovereign control? Maybe this isn't just gossip...
This has been my general theorycraft as well. It's still on a privileged port but not standard. I'm curios as to if it has any effect though or if it's all pointless.
Well if you read the article to the end (which, granted, is not an easy task) the author finally after a lot meandering reaches the conclusion that you may solve the problem of dark silicon by stopping the increase in clock-speeds while using the increase in transistors to build multiple cores. He then says that this will not result in proportionally higher performance because our software does not run well on multiple cores.

This is where Haskell comes in. Haskell allows you to program in a way that makes parallelization relatively easy.
*its extremely profitable
Nsa.gov has been down for 10 hours
You could also use dump_syms from the Google Breakpad project[1]. Run it on your dSYMs on OS X and it emits the symbols in a easily parseable text format[2] that you can then consume on any platform. It's designed to work with the breakpad stackwalker binary for symbolizing a minidump generated by the breakpad client library but there are other consumers[3,4].

1. https://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/

2. https://code.google.com/p/google-breakpad/wiki/SymbolFiles

3. https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/compiler-rt/trunk/lib/asan...

4. https://github.com/chromium/crsym
I think it's more subtle than that, deriving not from a tradition of possession but rather an international treaty that predates California as a state.

If the US promised, in the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, to honor in perpetuity the property grants of Mexico in the conquered/ceded territories, maybe that promise still applies. And if the Supreme Court already ruled (in 1859!) that California law can't alter those rights, just as state law is limited in other international and interstate affairs... well, it's an interesting case. Would love to see Volokh Conspiracy or Popehat discuss it.

Khosla may yet want to cede this claim, even if it's legally legitimate, to not appear like a robber baron buying up eccentric anti-democratic privileges that were created by ancient wars.

Update: And another thought... maybe if the US and California now view the coast – and the water-rights angle that ChuckMcM mentions – as requiring a new approach, they can negotiate a treaty-patch with Mexico? :)
Then we would only need to define a genius as one who has produced a work of genius, and we'd have our geniuses back. "There are no generals, only those who have at one time attained the rank of general."
That's mostly a problem with the current laws in place, which encourage the creation of these frivolous services.

For example, let's say piracy was legal, who would need to get a new job?

Software developers, filmmakers and musicians, mostly.

If you think about it, the only reason why musicians/software developers make any money at all is because threat that we will be thrown in jail if we pirate the product (and the culture that "piracy is bad"). Given, there are trivial ways of getting around this barrier, but the fact of the matter is that nobody can officially sponsor a centralized service that you pay for that pirates content and make it extremely convenient.

If piracy was legal, the free software movement would have the most ground, because most people wouldn't be making any money off of the software anyway. Microsoft would go bankrupt. Apple probably would suffer a huge hit, but they would probably survive due to the fact that they manufacture their own hardware. So both would likely release the source code to the public if they want to hold any market share at all.

People would be able to legally sell jailbroken iPhones and Android phones with cyanogenmod installed by default for a fraction of the cost. And provide support.

Nobody would be making these shitty iPhone game apps like Candy Crush because there would be no money in it. Instead they would be making software for individual companies that are solving actual problems, like those self-checkout machines at the grocery stores for example. Most software development would instead be a hobby instead of being completely overvalued the way it currently is.
I don't see why the reasoning didn't go like the following.

California law requires the property owner to give up rights. The eminent-domain laws require the state to compensate property owners when forcing them to give up rights.

Conclusion: The property owner must allow beach access to the public, and the state must pay the property owner for allowing this.

EDIT: The comment by gojomo would seem to explain this.
I see. we're slashdot now.
Reputable ones do check that (uRPF).

Get Ecatel's upstreams to cut their ports and you'll get rid of 80% of it.
Out of curiosity, why do you not consider your accusing me of 'rabidly attacking' the seed comment as being an insult?
The actual title of the article is: "Hadi Esmaeilzadeh on Dark Silicon".

The first question of the interviewer is where the (misleading) HN title comes from:

Luke Muehlhauser: Could you please explain for our readers what “dark silicon” is, and why it poses a threat to the historical exponential trend in computing performance growth?

The most interesting part was that to combat this lack of general-purpose performance increase, specialised computing units, fpgas, and Neural Processing Units (NPUs) have been proposed. Linked paper on npus: http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2013-toppicks-npu.p... . Linked paper on "an architectural framework from the ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) to the microarchitecture, which conventional processors can use to trade accuracy for efficiency." http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~hadi/doc/paper/2012-asplos-truffle...
Start Up Idea: Noise Warden
I've been having trouble with a neighbour who listens to rap at high volume. Maybe technology is the answer.

Suppose someone created a stereo with a decibel sensor which would detect when sound crossed a lower threshold, turning on the stereo. The decibel sensor would poll for ambient noise and increase the radio's volume until it matched it decibel for decibel; if the external noise is lowered, the stereo's volume is lowered, and vice versa.

Further, suppose this is a smart device that plays generated music. A bass sensor tracks any rhythm in the external noise and purposely staggers the beat to clash. A pitch sensor tracks any predominant tones in the noise and overlays a dissonant minor second. Finally, a sensor detects movement of the device, and if disturbed while on, sounds an alarm within a set number of seconds. A keypad allows one to enter a security number to disable the alarm.

Being automated, the device scans a section of one's property, acting as a "noise warden". If the belligerent neighbour turns up the volume, their music becomes a wash of reciprocal dissonance. If the neighbour turns down their music shortly after calling the police, the warden follows suit and the police have nothing to cite. After several noise tantrums the neighbour realizes that the response is coldly efficient and reciprocal.

Using technology, a single person is now capable of making more noise, effortlessly, than at any other time in history. Likewise, through technology communities are more densely populated than ever before. Perhaps with technology one can also make the world a more peaceful place.

Furthermore, I'd buy it. Ycombinator has enough copycat startups. Try a project like the above. Many people are the victims of misused technology, and would love to have technology fight for them for a change.
The question is, does Facebook behave like Google, or even more generally, like e-mail, and last a long time, or is it just another 4-5 year fad? If its a longer term tool then the behavioral trends of young demographics are a big deal.
Stop trying to make it so cut-and-dry. This is not pure cryptography where the adage actually applies (a cryptographic construction should remain secure if everything about it except the key is known.)

You shouldn't mistake obscurity for security, but obscurity that doesn't actively bother the user doesn't hurt security. Again, emphasis on not mistaking obscurity for security, i.e. moving SSH to a port other than 22 does not mean that you can keep using password authentication.

Virtually all DNS servers on the Internet deny zone transfers (AXFR). This is entirely an "obscurity" measure, but it's still useful as long as people don't assume one of their hosts won't be found if it has a guessable hostname or IP address. There are many other examples.
This is by far wikipedia's biggest weakness. The people with the power at too disconnect from what matters. Even worse, they have a false sense of their own importance. And wikipedia's reference guidelines are silly at best.

Wikipedia wasn't designed to scale to what it is now, and a lot of the erroneous assumptions baked into the design are causing growth of the site to become more and more unsustainable.
Smaller transistors require lower voltage, and heat generated is related to the square of the voltage at a given size. So it's still useful to try to shrink the fab process.
If the word "data" in its context may be replaced with the word "information", then it is being used as a "collective noun" and may be treated a singular. If it would be better replaced with "the individual items of information that we have collected", then it should be treated as plural. Which seems right in this case, "Information shows that Google cars...", or "The individual items of information that we have collected show that Google cars..."?
unlikely that the Makani planes would be run from a ship. They each have a huge arc, much larger than the diameter of a traditional turbine.

Furthermore, what's the concern with them crashing in to the ground? It's not like they plan to install them directly over populated areas.
Ah but what about Port Knocking?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_knocking
> Can you even imagine running out of Microsoft Windows?

This is a particularly poor example: Microsoft controls the supply of Windows licenses and installation media. We have all ran out of Windows 2000 several years back and I don't remember if the supply of Windows XP still exists.

Any free as in speech software would be a better example.
What a weird thing to be proud of.
If by spoofing you mean holding up a stop sign, I don't see this as a problem. Google's cars use Bayesian reasoning. There are many additional pieces of information for the car to draw on that should outweigh the evidence of the stop sign:

* a Google car will have been on that road before (many times) and never seen a stop sign (and Google can probably tap into the government data for new stop sign installments anyway)

* looking at a map the car can establish what the prior probability of a stop signing being there is (probably low if it's not an intersection)

* the car can look at cars in front of it and observe what they are doing

Beyond this a simple look ahead will solve the problem: the car can extrapolate what will happen if it does or does not stop. If stopping suddenly at the stop sign means causing a rear end accident, but not stopping at the sign has no negative effects (because there is no cross traffic), then the car can safely ignore the sign, especially if it has assigned a non-negligible chance to the sign being fake.
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Agreed. Ever since they added the feature to send a snapchat to multiple people, it turned into a narcissistic cesspool. After a while I couldn't even tell if the snapchats I was getting were even for me or for everyone on that person's list. The new "Snapchat Stories" was the nail in the coffin that made me uninstall it.
Fabrice Ballard.

Enough said.
Of course, many such benefits may not be realized until high
[numbers of self-driving vehicles] are present

Insurance will drive the adoption of self-driving vehicles. If you can buy a vehicle that statistically won't get into an accident, it will be cheaper to insure.
From the article I get the impression that the NSA wants him to use stronger (classified) encryption algorithms.
For comparison, NYC currently has about 30,000 acres of public parks, and a several thousand acres of privately owned open space on top of that. The amount of parkland in NYC is greater than the total amount of land in most cities, period.
Well, software requirements and abilities drive chip design, and vice-versa. Many-core designs don't have power density constraints that are quite so restrictive, but they're hard to utilize to their fullest. Haskell can help with that.
I have not measured it in a long time, but the effect of blocking port 22 and leaving open a non-standard SSH port is dramatic! As in noticeable decrease in load average on the server.
they are just dying all around us, literally. modern societies do not appreciate and actually reject them
If you are using passwords for auth with SSH you have already lost.
Except it's not private and it's not safe, at all.
Don't get yourself into a situation of having a mountain of bills. That's the entire point. The American suburban lifestyle is unsustainable. People need to realize that they can't have everything they want exactly the way they think they want it. Sometimes, you have to take what you have and make the best out of it.

But when you have a "mountain of bills", then you're a wage slave. You have to put up with whatever you're told. The remote work issue would be a given if people stood up for themselves on it. But too many people are willing to give up time with their kids for the promise of a few more dollars. And I'm betting most people just haven't done the real math (not the back-of-the-envelope finagling that everyone does to justify their current lifestyle) to determine if commuting to a higher paying job is actually economical.

And the school district would be better if they kept their tax revenue there and went to a few school board meetings and showed some interest, school board meetings they probably would have time to go to if they lived in the same town they worked.
Pretty sure I'll continue to put SSH on a non-standard port. I already monitor my systems and its their logs heavily, and this cuts down on 99% of SSH-related spam. Any attack that's serious, the port will not matter.
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i dont think so. i have used asana for my team and couldnt make it stick. we used trello which was better but isn't perfect either. it just seems to me that I shouldn't have to learn another software just to organize my to-do list.
> What leads you to think they don't?

From what I read about the Deepwater Horizon design, and the Fukushima design, neither followed basic failsafe design principles.

From what I read about the Toyota "surging" issue, the throttle/braking system did not follow basic failsafe design principles.

Failsafe design principles are not taught in any engineering degree program I'm familiar with.

When I talk to other engineers about failsafe design principles, they are not aware of them.
You don't want to use the same VPN everyone else is using. You don't want to take critical security updates, because you need to have CIA analysts do a thorough source code audit of any software provided by untrusted parties. This isn't tin foil hat stuff either - it's entirely likely that if the president used off-the-shelf VPN software that a foreign government would get an operative into Cisco or wherever and slip a backdoor in.

So either you convince Cisco that they need to fire any non-US nationals involved in packaging/bugfixes/security and have everyone submit to security screening, or you build your own.
Well for that matter so does Clojure, and both have had a while to pick up traction. Do you think it'll be easier to solve the primarily-social problem of getting traction for languages like that (and I say this as someone who adores Clojure and has some affection for Haskell) or to solve the primarily-technical problem of figuring out chip technologies where one can metaphorically jack up current software and slide the new chip technology in underneath?
If you don't trust the other side, you aren't administering the server, in which case this article isn't written for you.

If you are, then the author is 100% correct that it is not a good idea to run a SSH server above port 1024, or any port other than 22.

There are much better solutions to dealing with drive-by attempted logins, and some of them are built into ssh.
but it wasn't a nit-pik, the post "Same goes for every oil company in existence." is just wrong, however well meaning it was.
Hmm, I'm still using my Note. I don't have any facts, but I'm pretty sure it still has a nontrivial user base. The hardware is certainly powerful enough to keep up with anything I demand of it.

I think the issue with the Gear is that Samsung noticed people with larger phones springing for Pebbles and such, and rushed late to market with a product that wasn't ready yet. The original Note identified a niche that was largely unexploited prior to its release.
I would read it more like the former, that "data we have collected" is similar to "information we have collected". Alternately, data is also often a synonym for "set of observations" or similar, a shorthand term for "data set", etymology notwithstanding.

A common exchange: "Can you send us the fracking data?" "Sure, once I get approval I'll send it over." If you instead said "send them over" in this context it would suggest, at least in typical usage I'm familiar with, that there were not only multiple data points, but multiple data sets being set over.
Good rebuttal. Maybe we should start downvoting so that this truism that constantly gets trotted out can go away.

On the other hand, your explanation plus the other replies probably help people dispel this notion for others, so maybe it's good to keep this kind of thing coming around.
Security through obscurity is useless. I have heard people repeat this for the last 20 years. They are wrong and they have no idea what they are talking about. They just parrot what others say. Like chaos it perpetuates itself.

We camouflage tanks. We build stealth fighters. If obscurity had zero value, we'd just paint the tanks bright pink with hot orange flames and drop all the stealth research too. No need to sneak around. Obscurity is useless right?

Hide from the bear and it might not find and eat you. Move your ssh port and your logs will have less idiots out there filling them up. That fact alone is worth changing ports.

Obscurity has its place along side other tactics. And when you put it all together, you'll have a more secure system.

So please cut the "Security through obscurity" crap.
> If a private company harms you, there are often civil and potentially criminal concequences.

This is not at all true, unless you're referring to penalties (civil and criminal) imposed by the government, with the underlying threat of force.
It will have some effect, but insurance is a fairly small piece of the total cost of ownership of a car. It will be interesting to see if the cost of all the extra mechanisms and electronics to make a self-driving car are offset by lower premiums over the expected period of ownership.
It seems as if Zuckerberg (fore)saw this trend. This explains why he paid such a hefty price for Instagram.
The guy misdosed himself due to ignoring stuff that could be found on the wikipedia page on human nutrition multiple times already. The fact that he has radically changed his stance on inclusion criteria with each iteration gives me little confidence in his decision making process.
Isn't it that you need to phone in with information like your SSN to activate them? Doesn't seem like you could register any address you'd like.
Wikipedia has a user contributions page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:User_contributions
Just stopping in the middle of the road is often a terrible mistake.
this is so true... like if you use port knocking, how can that not increase security
Pretty smooth.. I was playing with swipejs which I found easy enough to adapt to my needs but might give this a go as well just for fun.
> they ask you to choose a shorter password if yours is too long.

Not unlike many US banks.

Or even Canadian ones - TD Bank, IIRC, caps passwords at some ridiculously short length.
> 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.

That's both news to me and a wincing moment of "wow, California politics really do come down to water issues 90% of the time".
In Asia (at least here in Thailand) I think LINE is quickly overtaking all other social networks. It's sort of like What's App, but with much more functionality.
Actually it is becoming the hot startup city right now. There's a couple block area near Grand Circus Park that is full of startups, an accelerator (Bizdom) and VC's. Twitter, Uber and Stubhub have offices in the Madison building which is close to Tiger stadium. Google has a presence in Grand Circus (think General Assembly) around the corner.

Detroit is allowing experiments that I just don't see in other cities. I am personally excited about unearthing the many rivers that were buried.

http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2011/05/daylight...

Because so much of the land is empty the cost of unearthing the rivers in minimal. Years ago I did genealogical research in one of the city's older cemeteries and was just stunned to see this very pretty stream running through it with clear water. People laugh but Detroit could become America's Venice by 2045.

Course none of this is talked about by the national media at all.
Being of the same price?)

In Almost Every European Country, Apples Are Outselling Oranges
Wikipedia represents a tiny fraction of the content that could conceivably exist there. I think most people who have used wikipedia extensively have found some part of it that was extremely light on details on a topic that was not particularly niche.
I think you're over-nerding it here.

Google's cars use Bayesian reasoning. — How does that change anything? What's an alternative to "bayesian reasoning?"

Google can probably tap into the government data for new stop sign installments anyway — such a thing (an accurate government database of new stop signs) does not exist.

the prior probability of a stop signing being there — scenario: a construction worker with a rotating STOP/SLOW hand sign during road work. Or, manual traffic overrides with police standing in the road with hands up or hands waving to manually control traffic.

the car can look at cars in front — assumes said cars exist and the motion of forwardness is more important than any potential cross traffic being stopped for.
yeah, sure!
just take a 154 layer gold broker layout psd and try to open it with GIMP.

i mean, really, i love GIMP, but, it'll take some time ...
FROM the report:

RISK: Since each AV in the fleet represents an access point into such systems, it may be infeasible to create a system that is completely secure.

MITIGANT: "Fortunately, robust defenses should make attacks even more difficult to stage. The <U.S.> has demonstrated that it is possi ble to maintain and secure large, critical, national infrastructure systems, including power grids and air traffic controlsystems."

This is a combination of an assumption and non-sequiter.

Besides being an apples to oranges comparison.

Basically a "trust me"...
It's long established here on HN that you and I absolutely are not aligned on our values of privacy and security.

When are we having that beer?
Small? I pay over $1000 a year for insurance up here in Canada, and keep my vehicles for more than 10 years. That's a good chunk of the cost of a vehicle.
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