skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why focus on housing? Housing is one thing that people will find no matter where they are. It's hard to beat corrugated steel and tents in terms of cost. The bigger issue is land. Where are you going to put these yurts, aside from burning man?
> We already have too many people who think you fix financial problems, like depression, by manipulating the market economy

There's a doctor who treats debilitating mental and health issues by doing exactly this. He "prescribed them income"[1]. That alone solved more problems for these people than any other approach.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLRT0bvaz98
related: the Underhanded C Contest ( http://www.underhanded-c.org/ )

Apparently this year's contest just opened.
Downgrade iOS 8.4.1 to iOS 8.4 tutorial how to
This does not happen for me.

bash-3.2$ ./tpwn
leaked kaslr slide, @ 0x000000000f800000
sh-3.2# exit
bash-3.2$ id -u
501
The header indicates that it was sent via webmail.

Assuming vistomail.com is not compromised, then that indicates it was in fact sent by satoshi@vistomail.com

(I'll also note that they do not appear to expire registrations ever)
I replaces your user shell with a root shell. You're not "root" in that terminal.
My experience with working with people from Amazon and visiting them is that it is the same as any other big corporation: hard work or initiative does not get you anywhere. Just make your boss happy and try to work as least as possible and you will be fine.

If you are ambitious and you want to grow or something - I do not know. I'm not aware of any big corporation where hard work or new ideas/initiative will get you somewhere.

You can say "fuck Jeff" - but that is because you were naive and Amazon is not red cross.

(I have to make a note about initiative: my previous company sent us to some management classes and on these classes they told us that "Initiative is the key to becoming a star employee" - and we all were laughing since real-world experience thought us that "initiative is easiest way to get yourself sidelined".)
That bug in particular is an enormous pain. I thankfully don't have to reboot - I can either physically shake it a few times (this feature is disabled and should do nothing) or press the power button a few dozen times to get the screen to turn on.
Public television is explicitly and intentionally set apart from competition with for-profit television. The original intention was that public programming should not have to be a commercial success in order to continue to be funded. Inserting "competition" into a discussion about public television makes it seem as though it should be subject to the same "market forces" as for-profit television. It should not be, and attempts to make it "run like a business" are ideologically driven.

I use scare quotes to emphasize that "competition" and "market forces" are human creations, not laws of physics as the hypercapitalists would have you believe, and their application is a choice.
>And vistomail - the e-mail provider is no longer even operational.

Yes it is.

https://www.anonymousspeech.com/
So, you haven't ever worked for Amazon. And yet you're telling an Amazon employee what they should have made of an environment that they lived in, and that you've never experienced.

Why?
Could you provide some context for that? What does that flag do? How do you even set boot args for OSX? I have little context to OSX boot process, and would like to understand this better.
Nope I only went to the one in London because I live there. It's far too expensive otherwise.
Amazon's turn over rate is barely worse than google's.
too many politics going on, too many egos as well.
(1) Can I also ask how you found this?
Were you fuzzing Iokit?

(2) I'm trying to work through your ROP. Can you explain a bit more? Thanks.
I prefer the second idiom: Create a tuple of different functions that are closed over a common state. You get privacy and data abstraction for free. This is nothing new or ground breaking, neither in theory nor in practice. This idiom will be familiar to everyone taking a 101. So I am yet to find what is it that OOP brings to the table. Some OOP fans seem to have a large chip on their shoulder, as if they saved the world. Want to understand what's all that about.
Why is that? I booted up an old iPod touch that was based on the iPhone 4 and that thing is unusable. I would have thought it would degrade gracefully and still run as performant as it did with the old software on it but it runs so slow it's unusable.
> The original Olympic games were held in honour of Zeus (God) so really the games should be held in the Mount Athos region of Greece an autonomous monastic stare in Greece.

I don't follow the "logic" here at all. What makes Mount Athos more appropriate than, say, Olympia, the traditional site of the Olympic games?
I did `sudo nvram boot-args="-no_shared_cr3"`, and I think I see the (seemingly minor, at this point) performance hit. There's an explanatory comment in http://opensource.apple.com/source/xnu/xnu-2782.1.97/osfmk/x... that seems to explain the feature, though not in detail.
I may be wrong here but assuming you're broadcasting to both networks, your transaction is valid in both XT and Core so they'd both try to add it to a block.

The only bitcoin that become unusable in one chain are those that come from a post-fork coinbase transaction.
Thanks for the tip, applied.
One of my favourite professors in the department was a prof who had a review on RateMyProfessors.ca as "I'd say she worships Satan, but I think Satan worships her." She was a tough but fair prof and generally only got respect from her students in her upper year elective classes.

She's fairly short and she's had some terrible disrespect from students in the past. She had a student who preceded to lecture her on how to set a midterm because they had taught swimming lessons (after they had got their midterm back and done poorly). She's even had death threats from students who were upset with her. None of this would have happened with my PhD supervisor who was about 6'5" and intimidated almost every student.
"I addressed that elsewhere in the thread. The laws aren't secret, it's the court rulings that are secret. The fact that there's a secret court is known, though. So you could campaign against that court without leaking classified information."

The text of the laws was public. But the NSA decided that those laws meant something radically different than what was written down.

Per my understanding, mostly that did not have involvement from the FISA court.
Apple traditionally has a poor record of responding to delayed disclosures. They burned that bridge a long time ago.
Go read his post history. Unless you enjoy arguing on the Internet then I wouldn't bother.
I found it intriguing that the experiences of the white collar employees speaking out in the NYT piece mirror the experiences[1] of the blue collar Amazon employees toiling away in their warehouses: Pushed to give as much as they can to the point of physical illness, burning out after just a few short years or even months in some cases.

And then along comes a dude who has been at Amazon for less than two years, and holds a management position higher than anyone interviewed for the NYT article, attempting to whitewash the story.

"Rotten" is an apt description.

[1] http://www.mcall.com/news/local/amazon/mc-allentown-amazon-c...
'sudo nvram boot-args=-no_shared_cr3' will do the trick.

The flag essentially prevents kernel from accessing userland memory unless special routines are used. Since the bug is a NULL pointer deference (which requires a read to userland memory in order to be exploited), exploitation becomes impossible. Due to this flag, however, your kernel will have to context switch every time a system call is done, which does have a noticeable performance impact. I will be releasing a KEXT to fix the bug soon.
Just had a play round on the base instance - first thing I noticed is just how slow the servers are.

Defining what I mean by slow:

- The IOP/s limits make the server practically unusable for anything I tried, fio reports random 4k writes to be between 20-100 at most with very heavy fluctuation, I wouldn't consider anything under around 4K IOP/s usable for basic tasks for for databases I really want to see at least 10K.

- The vCPU feels very over provisioned and I noticed a lot of WAIT even when the VM was doing nothing.

- After starting the server for the first time it had 3438 failed login attempts - I'm wondering if it was properly erased or if you're actually being DOSed heavily already.

- Very high latency from Australia with a 300-500ms RTA.

test: (g=0): rw=randwrite, bs=4K-4K/4K-4K/4K-4K, ioengine=libaio, iodepth=64
fio-2.2.8
Starting 1 process
test: Laying out IO file(s) (1 file(s) / 4096MB)
bs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)] [5.6% done] [0KB/244KB/0KB /s] [0/61/0 iops] [eta 02m:14s]

Last failed login: Sat Aug 15 21:35:27 EDT 2015 from xx.xx.xx.xx on ssh:notty
There were 3438 failed login attempts since the last successful login.
and additionally its totally understandable. its not scared of basic shell scripts and leveraging the wealth the posix environment provides.
I suspect most of this is about unemployment insurance and being able to deny a fired employee insured benefits.
Hey Jon, long time no see. :-)

Yes I imagine the thinking there is similar in your project, eg: Redis/CurioDB :: Node/SocketCluster (https://github.com/SocketCluster/socketcluster).
I sometimes dumb down CSV to what sqlite understands and then just import it there. Gonna have a look at this, but whether it's SQL or Ruby/Python/Perl structures, I generally prefer to spend the least amount possible within actual CSV. Even more so if it contains hierarchical data.
good idea. I also have a request for a homebrew formula, which looks simple enough to do.
Don't focus on criticism, focus on making a very clear value proposition why a change is necessary. For anything. Offering people value is a lot more persuasive than telling why you're right, be it CMS / staffing changes / anything.

That said, I use Drupal quite a lot. For content intensive stuff, it is simply my hammer to seeing a nail.

Re-inventing a CMS seems like a bad idea also. Using a CMS for a non-CMS project also seems like a bad idea. Perhaps enquire with the PM why they suggested Drupal/a CMS? There might be an angle in the project's direction or specification you're missing.
How do I download and use this?
Wow. Yeah, I hate interviewers who treat the process as a one-way process. When on an interview, I am interviewing them as much as they're interviewing me.
Frankly, the benefit to Greece, whatever it may be, would be a mere side effect in my opinion. The point of moving it to a permanent location is to prevent damage everywhere else. It's an interesting game-theory-ish problem where on one hand, you think, "why should they benefit?" but on the other hand, under the existing system, it's possible that nobody benefits (other than the people directly involved in the corruption).

The thought of the Olympics coming to my town makes me want to start threatening politicians with recall referenda and/or thinking about selling my house and leaving. Most likely I'd just leave town for the duration and rent my house out for an ungodly monthly sum.
Deepmind (http://deepmind.com/) comes to mind. It was acquired by Google though. Their vision it is "We combine the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general‑purpose learning algorithms."

AFAIK they work mostly on reinforcement learning coupled with Neural Networks
Not over anything work related.
Did you try turning off Power Nap? Might have broken for you.
Ember and rails compliment each other very well with many gems like active_model_serializers and devise on the rails side and many add-ons for ember like ember-simple-auth-devise. ember-cli saves weeks of environment setup and includes automated test support.
Source?

I did find this [0], but this seems to report on the median tenure of existing employees, rather than of the ones who have left, which is a big difference.

[0] http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty/least...
一个专注于分享数码产品的 Product Hunt and Hacker News
The Promise of 5G
I made a cell phone [video]
quoting is key but i've not yet stumbled for lack of it. but it's very much worth doing.

miller handles large files well. it's fast enough, and doesn't hold entire file contents unless it has to (e.g. sort). so gigabytes of input data are fine.
This is quite a coincidence, I first learned of Phaser earlier today as I was investigating various modern HTML5 gaming engines. I have finished writing the story for a game that's been in my head for years, and I am eager to move on to implementation now that the story is solid. I may opt to roll my own engine since I am well-versed in the necessary minutia, and I enjoy the learning experience. But on the other hand, it would be nice to release the game within the decade. Damn the relentless march of time.
1) I cannot really discuss specifics, but this particular bug would have been hard to find via a traditional IOKit fuzz, since it requires an invalid 'task' port passed over to IOServiceOpen. Most fuzzers use mach_task_self for that, and fuzz method calls/traps/properties/etc.

2) When IOServiceRelease is called, vtable+0x20 is called. the vtable pointer is controlled, at +0x20 I place a stack pivot, which sets RSP = RAX and pops 3 times. At 0x20 I place a POP RAX;RET gadget to let the chain begin after 0x28. Payload then locates the credentials structure, sets UID to 0 by bzero()ing, cleans up the memory corruption, decreases the task count for current user and increases task count for root. It then unlocks locks held by IOAudioEngine to prevent your audio from freezing up, and then returns to the userland context.
>hard work or initiative does not get you anywhere. Just make your boss happy and try to work as least as possible and you will be fine.

I would say that's probably the least true thing here. Amazon is many things, but unrewarding to hard work and initiative is not one of them.

One of the most prized traditions at the company is writing "one pagers". Many new services and product offerings come out of people writing and championing these.
Depends what you want to do.

That's it.

Don't obsess about changing too much. Speaking with a colleague, he was asked why he chose mainframe as his career.

"It doesn't change much. COBOL, DB2, CICS, JCL, etc. I can learn them and the applications to a deep level, and not worry about that learning going out of date. That lets me focus on getting deeper and understanding the business applications of why we do what we do."
Isn't that true universally? Why is this "news"?
If you love RC Planes
The price of oil is about to fall in the shitter and the Iranians (and the Saudis) are going to have their hands full avoiding a balance of payments crisis and importing gasoline and essentials for the population with the "stranded assets" that are being repatriated to them. The hope is that they'll realize a war will get them minus nowhere and that the populace has some tiny degree of leverage on them. Most of these regime figures (Asgharowladi, etc) just want to make money, go look at the size of their bank accounts in Switzerland.

Other people's sovereignty doesn't go away because we don't like it. I don't like the fact that Israel basically built a porch on the Litani for 20 years and simultaneously was building nukes way bigger than needed for tactical or regional ICBM purposes but I don't go around telling people to bomb Dimona.
If we're comparing anecdotes, I know maybe eight people who work at Amazon or have worked there in the last few years. Here are some stats on those eight people:

- Two of them liked it. Six disliked it.

- The two that liked it said that their teams were unusual in that they worked a 40-hour work week.

- Everyone agreed that most people they interacted with were overworked, sometimes dramatically so. In most cases, the people themselves were overworked. Midnight emails are a thing.

- All of them left within 18 months, or plan to. Most left within one year. The ones that currently work there are biding their time.
What on earth are you even talking about? Most people at Amazon I know use IntelliJ or vim, its their choice. The languages teams use are also that teams choice. The whole company uses git. I don't think you ever worked there...
He says he used GNU C99, how is that portable C?

http://johnkerl.org/miller/doc/whyc.html#C_is_old-school
Black-Scholes is pretty flawed in assuming normal distributions, which financial markets don't show. Following power laws or Omega metrics can be informative. The more, the merrier.
> The browser should be ... for viewing and retrieving data, not executing that data.

i'm genuinely interested in what a modern version of that would look like.

recently i watched a 1992 interview [0] with brewster kahle in which he described WAIS (wide area information server) [1].

aside: i've not used WAIS, nor do i feel it is the way forward.

my understanding is that WAIS provided a client-side interface to a directory of servers. it also seems the presentation of content was simple: mostly text, but some images and video, too. this appeals to me because after more than 20 years on the web i struggle to remember what it was like when (or even if) the majority of pages i visited were focused on delivering pure content.

don't get me wrong -- i'm fortunate to have access to the web and a way to search for information -- but i'm becoming increasingly frustrated with the quality of today's content.

i'll concede SERP SPAM is a hard nut to crack, but that doesn't stop me from cringing every time i click on a dodgy question/answer aggregation site or some wholesale ripoff of another site [2].

and less dodgy but arguably more frustrating are legitimate publishers who modify their content presentation strategy based on google algorithm updates. for example, i can't tell you how many times i've searched for a simple recipe but the top SERP was a slideshow instead of a simple recipe i could print out and place on my counter top.

lastly, over the past 20 years it seems like primary content has become a secondary citizen on the web. when i visit SERPs today it feels like i'm less likely to be presented with what i actually searched for. instead, i'm increasingly bombarded with "SIGN UP NOW!" mortars .. erm modals .. and the presentation of the content i searched for feels more like Dahala Khagrabari [3] than the main reason for my page visit.

one might read the above and conclude i'm a bitter luddite. quite the contrary, i feel blessed to be alive and am optimistic (mostly ;) WRT the future of IT. however, i am concerned with (what seems like) this generation's tendency to favor presentation over information. the older i get the less patience i have for popups/modals, slideshows, and pictures-because-google-likes-pictures; just gimme my goddamned information already.

so. i'd really like to see a dumb client-side app that gives me only what i want to see. i've tried lynx/w3m-emacs/etc. but JavaScript ruined that effort. keen for alternative suggestions :)

[0] https://archive.org/details/brewster_kahle_interview_1992

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_information_server

[2] http://stuccy.com/ is a wholesale ripoff of stackoverflow. (note: i don't recommend visiting this site; who knows what they're up to.) i've emailed SO, whose response was essentially this:

> Please note, bringing these sites into compliance (or getting them to no longer serve our content) is often a long and arduous process. You may not see immediate results. However, rest assured that we're working on it.

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari
I'm actually thinking about making the transition out west too - we should talk. PM me.

As far as cash goes, have you considered freelancing?
The original saying was "the proof of the pudding is in the eating." But like most adages it has been shortened over time to the now less-correct formulation.
In that case, is there any prospect of an Arc-flavored dialect of Closure with the syntactic sugar put in?
> A lot of people...believe that everything is the result of class problems

As someone who kind of feels all of the problems we have tend to come from class issues, I'm trying to understand what you mean.

First, let me preface, this is all my personal opinion, I don't know if I fit into a stereotypical group you're referring to...probably do...

> And class problems are completely independent of race.

Second, class problems definitely do not seem to be independent of race; racial distinctions in the inner-city for example.

That said, I do think there are equity issues completely unrelated to race. For example, in the American South, there are extremely poor areas of whites ("poor white trash"). Or, for example issues of ethnicity instead of issues of race--injustices in the past for "white" Irish or Catholics i.e. non-WASPs in America.

That said, I don't think my belief that all of these problems resulting from class problems precludes tackling all of the angles of the problem. For example, though I have some reservations about Affirmative Action legislation, encouraging e.g. diversification of student populations through AA is laudable and worth pursuing.

Another example, in a hypothetical major city composed 25% of some minority X, a company employing say 10% of the local population should reflect that population; we should see the employee population roughly match the city's population. Implementation can be difficult, obviously ("oh that guy was just hired to check the diversity box, ignore him"), but equity, providing opportunities for life improvement to everyone, is something we as a society absolutely need to pursue.

I guess what I'm saying is that I believe everything is the result of class problems, class problems being what always cause opportunity inequalities, but class problems are often dependent, though not completely, on race. Does that make sense? Do you feel like I'm way off base here?

(Quick aside, I think of the problem more as income and opportunity problems -- class problems and the rhetoric of bourgeois v. proletariat gets us side-tracked on capitalism v. communism/socialism, in my opinion a discussional red herring)
Sort of. You'd have to listen at the top level of wherever you're using this, so you'll have to write your own mini event library to figure out which component got clicked on, and grab any associated data.
Or, if you want, you can go straight to Prof. Nguyễn's youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/thang010146/videos?sort=p&view=...
Ugh, it has "disable webgl" because it's a "debatable" security concern? And disable ipv6? I hope people know what these settings are for before they apply these.
I used SES when adding a matrix editor to gnu-apl-mode. When editing a matrix, it opens it as a SES document and when closing it it automatically updates the underlying variable.

You can see it in use here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4A5CKITnM
Indeed. Many didn't (and still don't) realize how fractured the Spanish state was, going into recent times (i.e. post Franco ~1975).

Somewhat related...it was interesting to learn how Spain's triumph at the 2010 World Cup became a unifying, transcendent event for the country, politically.
Retitle "Project to make Firefox suck more"
Its ridiculous claims because both of them are easy, enormous lawsuits if true. The fact that these people never sued for these claims makes it more likely this is exaggerated like a lot of the rest of the article.
What's astounding is that the regional government can fund something to the tune of millions of dollars, then red tape it to death. Almost makes me wonder if the project failed due to the vicissitudes of political climate.

Those sorts of politics happen in companies too, which makes me wonder if there are similar "almost done, could be great, but never quite finished" pieces of software.
and /r/bitcoin is designed to be completely stupid.