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Eh, no. Work is called work because it's supposed to produce something. If all
it does is drive you nuts, waste your life and fill the world with garbage, then
what's the point of it? You might as well give it all up and go tour the world
with nothing but the clothes you wear.

And what's that I hear, about getting a pension in your 40s'? Wasn't that what
the Greeks did wrong, that they wanted to get a pension in their 40s, and that's why
their economy died?
Probably not, however I assume it could be trained on zero-day exploit fixes, and automatically try to generate a fix when a new zero-day exploit is found by a human.

If you have a tool that can automatically find 0 day exploits, then you could try couple the 2 and have a piece of software telling you: "Tool 1: I think I found this 0 day exploit;Tool 2(the one in this paper): here is how I think you could fix it: ..."
That is awesome! Congrats ncopa. Incidentally I ported go and then docker to Alpine Linux (musl and hardened toolchain fixes) almost 2 years ago:

https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/commit/abfdfd32d2c6818...

https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/commit/4248d1a88bcde1d...
So cargo-cult? Doing things out of "tradition" without understanding what they are for?
I saw a fascinating comment a few weeks ago that, why does a company think it's fine for you to "work from home" when you're on call all the time to fix their problems; but not the rest of the time when you're fixing their problems?!
The author seems to have predicted an attack from liberalist Brits.
However, what the article describes is real and the Nordics run circles around most countries when it comes to work/life balance and gender equality. In sum quality of life for the wast majority is way higher than the average Brit or American. But I guess you are in the top 5% and care less about the 95%?
Oh yes. Also, cell phone conversations, the radio trunk lines used by private dispatchers (taxi cabs, delivery and construction trucking firms), public utility fleets, you name it. Even into the late 90s you could buy a cheap Radio Shack scanner, dyke-out some diodes (put there to lock out certain frequency ranges, per some FCC rules) on the motherboard and listen in to all kinds of things.
Nice list! Has some similarities to mine.
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It's not just whois. Our personal info is out there everywhere. Say, you're a developer who signs his OSS software tool with a certificate that comes with your home address...
Life is quality x quantity. Quality is far into diminishing returns. Quantity can be 10x'd. The best in their fields die, right when they're most useful. What would Edison, Tesla, Franklin, Bell, Feynman, etc be producing currently if still alive?

Since quantity is literally the hardest problem we are aware of, how shall it be attacked? By charity? Let's be serious, look around yourself right now, point to the things charity created. Now cease the futile exercise.

Solution: 1. Marketing as gates does, however all lives are not worth the same, you, your kin, your friends, they are worth more. Fund the research that saves them, do not dream the silly dream that all lives are worth the same.

2. Profit not charity, i.e. take a look at osfund.co (human longevity, inc) sustain and grow, not charity and run out of runway.

3. LONGEVITY FUND. or "save your assssssssets fund" You can buy the S&P500 why not the biotech index minus the companies solving problems you won't have. Reduced malaria drug allocation, increased cancer and heart disease. Guess what. If you survive malaria, you are still going to die of cancer and heart disease, so lets work on those 40 and 40 percent killers.

I've got 220k words on paper.
1. 1st book, personal excellence, things you can do to Scivive. Get rich, be loved, live forever… *if selling ideas is good enough for Bill Gates, e.g. Gatesnotes.com, givingpledge.org, its good enough for me, and you. Spread the word. This genre seems easier to understand.

2nd book, things that are important, however are rarely actionable in your personal sphere of influence (politics, currency, voting, economics, geopolitics, environment, interesting yet un-actionable for the common man things.

3. Longevity fund. biotech index minus things unlikely to be useful in saving you and your loved ones lives.

4. Companies not a subset of Nasdaq biotech index, too small, or in a different jurisdiction.

5. Biotech/synbio startups.

6. Popularity improvement ala "The Martian" whereby science and tech becomes heroic as kicking aliens in the face has been historically. The world need not hero worship the leather ball throwing and kicking, steel lifting and lowering, non scaling great strategies of 2,000 years ago. Let's make heroic the things that actual work these days. How many humans can you heal? Can you save thyself and thy family?

If anyone wants to help edit these 200k+ words I have on the page regarding life and winning at it, hit me at Scivive on gmx.com

P.S. Spread great actionable ideas (sell SP500 buy biotech index.), fund excellence, build excellence, fund riskier excellence in that order.
But who can resist the lure of paying down technical debt during one's allocated "20% time" that was accrued in their job vs all the other things not necessarily related to their job that one may find satisfying and might make them more valuable as an employee or to other human beings outside of their job?
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agreed - which is why I think YC should spend on fitness/nutrition research.

I personally think this has the potential to be a moonshot - if an unbiased entity (with no ties to entrenched interests) would spend money on research.
Let's have a good laugh and illustrate that it's really hard to copy foreign tech: The Tupolev 144, copy of the UK-French Concorde - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-144#Reasons_for_f...
I was curious about how a CPU backdoor would work:

http://es.slideshare.net/ortegaalfredo/deep-submicronbackdoo...

This example is a memory inspector and poker. On a side note, I think using a LEON MCU would be smart for this kind of demonstration, the code is free and it's synthetisable in a lot of targets.
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It's entirely possible that Apple takes code or inspiration from the Linux software project, but I think it's better to say that OS X is Unix based. Even if Linux and Darwin hail from Unix roots, at some point, I think they become separate projects with separate interests and fates. What's good or bad for one doesn't have to be the same for the other.

When I think of what organizations will be competing on machine-learning backed features like intention prediction or voice search, I think of Apple, Microsoft, or Google. Those OS features won't be inside the OS. They'll be backed by a wealth of proprietary data hidden behind company servers.

I think user expectations for what a modern OS ought do will evolve, and I don't think Canonical or Redhat will be able to catch up to Microsoft, Apple, or Google.

Eventually, what we think of "Linux OS" will be Android (and if you want, OS X) and maybe some other offerings by these big giants, but the most user-demanded features won't be on the OS. Therefore, Samsung can't just fork Android and expect to compete sans Google, and Canonical or Redhat won't be able to compete either.
Burnout.

YCR should fund a longitudinal study of a cohort of say 100 entrants into the tech field, and watch them over the course of 4-5 years. Periodically subjecting them to fMRI scans. Of particular interest would be the relationship of motivation/reward pathways (I'm thinking the striatum) during the transition through burnout. Burnout could be quantitatively measured through techniques such as tracking with body motion trackers, etc.

A follow-up study could attempt to use knowledge gained in this with several treatment strategies.

SamA: If you are interested in something like this I know the right researcher, she has incredible scientific integrity, IMO important for cogsci/socsci research especially of late, although she and I have not been in personal touch for years.
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None I currently use (just tested with bash* on: Debian, Centos, Fedora, OpenWRT) or have used in the past few years (Arch) has it.

I don't remember anything about my time with SUSE and Ubuntu, thats way back.

* I normally use zsh with grmlzshrc and nearly no customization (which is why I love grmlzshrc -- usable defaults), which warns for `rm -rf foo/*` but not for `rm -rf foo`.
I'm a simple guy. I see C#, I press upvote.
Depends on the building. We bought a house from the 40's on the small side (1500sf) that needed plumbing, electric service, all flooring surfaces replaced, kitchen guttend/replaced, both baths guttened/replaced, all appliances, and significant mechanical (furnace, water softener+filter), addition of closets, replaced deck, and probably stuff that I'm forgetting. Had a good roof, which was critical, because water damage would have sunk it (har har har). We did a lot of the work ourselves, saves a bundle. Contracted for about $40k of it up front to get it livable quickly.

Somewhat related to the story - I bought a pellet boiler off craigslist for $2800 and did 100% of the installation myself (electrical, plumbing [heat + water heater], control) all-in was about $3900, and I'm already in the black on it after 3 years use (vs. propane). I decided to burn lpg this year because it was 'only' $1.70/gal, and it turns out that even at that low price (compared to the last three years) I'd probably have been better off on pellets, but probably not better off enough to make up for all of the labor that it takes.

I set it up to automatically switch between the propane furnace and the boiler (I have a water/air hx) based on the boiler's temperature to make it seamless for my wife to use :). It's a Central Boiler Maxim M175 ... cranked all the way up, it might be able to heat his school (just barely) -- I run it at its lowest setting. Burns very clean, no smoke, happy neighbors.

Renovation can be done for a reasonable financial cost with an investment of time. Our house isn't super-luxury now, but it's perfectly serviceable and now we have a house on 11 acres that we couldn't have touched if it hadn't been a dump when we bought it.
I tried to use node on a $5 DigitalOcean dropplet a couple of times but whenever I tried to run npm to install something, it would run out of memory and be killed. Frustrated with this experience, I have stayed away from Node.
How do you reboot a city?

I think you should research urban agriculture. Take Detroit as an example because I grew up there and return often. Detroit currently has hundreds of vacant acres of cheap land that you could leverage to boot a new city. I think there are large opportunities in urban agriculture. Parts of the city are a food desert, until three years ago there wasn’t a single supermarket in a city with close to 700,000 people.

While best practices are pretty settled for regular farming, it’s decidedly not so for urban Ag. Detroit has a quite high rate of unemployment, especially for teenagers. There’s an opportunity to provide those kids with their first job and create value for the community where currently there is none.

There are people who want to do it, but the risk is too high because there are so many unanswered questions. Create a handbook of best practices and I think you could use it just as easily in Los Angeles, Philadelphia or Chicago as well as in Detroit.
I think people have the capability to think for themselves and behave intelligently, since otherwise we probably wouldn't have survived to the point of creating abstract language, complex cultures and civilization, when mass brainwashing became possible.

However, speaking of brainwashing, this capability seems to cease functioning when people are regularly pushed to follow arbitrary standards they don't really understand with the use of carrot-and-stick methods. Possibly something related to the "unused muscle" effect. And such carrot-and-stick training happens a lot in the West.

I have no clue if a large society of more independent people would be stable and able to remain a society of independent people indefinitely. It seems that US was an experiment in creating such state, but then it ended up flooded with Christian immigrants and by the beginning of the 20th century they have already outlawed anything even remotely connected to freedom of choice and fun which at the same time isn't strictly required for survival, from alcohol and weed through prostitution and oral/anal sex ("sodomy laws" are still a thing in US) up to owning real weapons (who cares about assault rifles when the gov can bomb a whole city from drones).

I don't know if the big monotheistic religions with their insistence on beating everyone into submission are the original reason for such state of affairs, or if they are just an external sign of something deeper and unavoidable. Maybe there are free societies somewhere in other parts of the world, but I don't know them. My experience is limited to WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic) and here Milgram Effect is indeed the king.
>> Well, you seem to work with web applications. So no wonder. In my opinion, in terms of fun, interest and challenge web programming ranks slightly above Cobol, for exactly the reasons you state.

Hey. Lay off the COBOL, especially if you haven't actually done it (I don't know
if you have).

I've done web dev for the last four years, since graduating. I now learn
mainframe development, with COBOL and JCL (and also REXX recently). It's fun.
There's a lot more actual, honest-to-god, programming to do in a mainframe job
than there is in web development. At least you don't spend your every waking
life trying to shake the angle brackets out of your eyes (XML, right?).

Most of my web dev work was in back-endy stuff btw, primarily C# and a little
bit of RoR and Java. Which means 60% configuration, 40% actual coding and even
then, the actual coding is implementing some framework interface. That sucks the
life right out of "programming" (because it really isn't).
No real experience here, but the documentation presents SCSS samples first with a small textual toggle button to view the Sass syntax. If I were learning Sass, that'd be a big indicator to use the SCSS syntax.
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"but so far nothing has really reached the SMB and mid-market level for solution pricing" that's exactly what we are trying to do at AdTriba.com, cross-channel management and data-driven attribution modelling for SMBs.
> Maybe you have to actively oppose the gov to get kicked down?

You mean kind like you're free to go wherever you want in prison, as long as you don't try to walk out of the door of your cell? :P

Here's a really sobering thought though:

> You can have a lot of political 'change' in the United States, but will it really change that much? Will it change the amount of money in someone’s bank account? Will it change contracts? Will it void contracts that already exist? And contracts on contracts? And contracts on contracts on contracts? Not really.

> So I say that free speech in many Western places is free not as a result of liberal circumstances but rather as a result of such intense fiscalization that it doesn’t matter what you say. The dominant elite doesn’t have to be scared of what people think, because a change in political view is not going to change whether they own their company or not; it is not going to change whether they own a piece of land or not. But China is still a political society, although it is rapidly heading toward a fiscalized society. And other societies, like Egypt, are still heavily politicized. Their rulers really do need to be concerned about what people think, so they expend proportionate efforts on controlling freedom of speech.

-- Julian Assange
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There is a subset of Ada called SPARK that is intended to allow for at least some degree of automated formal verification. Which is not quite the same as automated error detection, but I would assume if your code passes the verification, the chance of bugs hiding in it is pretty much nil (assuming, of course, the verifier is not buggy itself).
FYI. This whole comment is just spoilers.

I feel like a homer because I started with the second clue, then the first, and, finally, the (scientifically-proven-unreliable) witness testimony.

Starting with Clue #2, get a list of everyone with the set of membership cards. Do this by combining all the lists, sort them together, use uniq to group them ' N FNAME LASTNAME', keep only those with N=4, cut off the cruft, pull each individual's info from the people file, and keep only the males.

cat mystery/memberships/{AAA,Delta_SkyMiles,Museum_of_Bash_History,\
Terminal_City_Library} | sort | uniq -c | grep 4 | cut -c 6- \
| xargs -I'{}' grep '{}' mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bM\b/p'

With this list of 13 names and addresses (from 5029), I tried to find each one in the street files. HOWEVER, only four of them have existent streets.

cat mystery/memberships/{AAA,Delta_SkyMiles,Museum_of_Bash_History,\
Terminal_City_Library} | sort | uniq -c | grep 4 | cut -c 6- \
| xargs -I'{}' grep '{}' mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bM\b/p' \
| cut -f4 | cut -d, -f1 | tr ' ' '_' | xargs -I'{}' \
ls mystery/streets/'{}' 2>/dev/null

They are Brian Boyer, Jeremy Bowers, Matt Waite, and Mike Bostock. Following this flaw, I was able to get the answer with four interviews and without consulting clues #1 nor #3.

If I were to pursue this train of thought (without the flaw), I would review clue #1 to find suspects over 6' tall (from mystery/vehicles). The list of 13 becomes just six. The four suspects mentioned above and two others; 'Augustin Lozano' and 'Nikolaus Milatz'.

Finally, I review Clue #3. I try the following commands because baristas are TERRIBLE at getting people's name correct.

grep Annabel mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bF\b'

grep Anabel mystery/people | sed -ne '/\bF\b'

'Annabel' pulls up only two names, 'Anabel' pulls up four. 'Annabel Church' ends up being the eyewitness. The crucial piece of info is the partial license plate number.

sed -ne '/L337..9/,+6p' mystery/vehicles

I'm not command-fu enough to write a better sed command so I do a manual inspection. There are five cars that match the description of a 'Blue Honda'; six if you include 'Teal'. Mr. Bowers, one of my original four suspects, owns a 'Blue Honda', and Mr. Bostock owns the 'Teal'.

Anyway. This is just to say that there's more than the prescribed way to solve the game. You could, potentially, solve it with just three interviews 'Annabel', 'Bowers', and 'Bostock'. Or, like me, you could do things ass-backwards.
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Also, IANA expert but I think carriers today only make sense against pre-missile and pre-jet militaries.

The Falklands war suggests otherwise. The Argentines had the most advanced weapons the French would sell them.
Probably, the main reason is that it's a superset of CSS. The learning/migration path is extremely low.
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/internet-things-hype-anne-van...

IMO this will exist in 10-15 years:

- a wireless charging infrastructure

- an indoor localization infrastructure

- a global wallet infrastructure

Not enough people think about the lack of infrastructure nowadays. The internet is not the end.
Will vouch for this. Sure, you can make your way in tech based on your skills without a degree but there will be limits you face if you really want to be adventurous.

I'm currently enjoying an opportunity that involved foreign relocation which was really only possible because of the degree. Literally, I had to fly the original diploma certificate out here with me and present it to immigration officials.

I felt my degree was worth it when it enabled me to get this job about 7 years ago. I feel it's worth has only increased since taking this particular position last spring.
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My point is that nomatter how well engineered your system is, to actually have chaos monkey running in production really depends on the risk profile and scale of your business.

As soon as chaos monkey cause a service interrupt for, say, traders - it would get turned off and whoever had such a bright idea fired. But if it causes a service interruption for a tiny proportion of people watching streaming videos - no big deal.

Its proponents just ignore this practical reality and seem politically unaware.
Yeah, I know. He wants to be productive at work. What folly, eh?
Doing the job and getting the job are two very different things.

To get a lot of job, you often have to jump hoops like simple or more complex algorithmical problems. Like it or not, that's just how it is.

If you don't prepare then you will do poor, regardless on how well you do on your job. So just spend a couple of weeks preparing. Complete puzzles in Cracking the Coding Interview, solve easy TopCoder challenges, start working on Project Euler as a few ideas - there are much more resources to help you out there.

You want that job? Be prepared for that interview.
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Another example[1] (actual paper[2]) of potential for cpu backdoors.

[1]: https://ece.umass.edu/news/paper-stealthy-trojans-attracting...

[2]: http://sharps.org/wp-content/uploads/BECKER-CHES.pdf
Actually that is true that I'm on the frugal side of app needs, or maybe jaded because they don't tickle my brain to right way. Also true that these weird apps manage to be better than other medium (HP eprint, is a 400% improvement over the desktop thing).

But I tried many and most of them are shallow, slow, and badly integrated. My point about 'non openness' was more about more cohesion by coming from one place. Kinda like languages designed by committee vs a BDFL.
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My very humble opinion.

- Having had a number of friends doing research in the field of anthropology, I recently got to think it represents a bag of knowledge we could leverage on to answer very important questions, for example, "what is really the role of religion in our societies?". Governments are spending huge amount of money to defend from/attack terrorists that let themselves explode in name of a religion, but no money is spent to understand deeply how this is possible, and whether it is really what is the real role of religion in that.

- "Nutritionism", or whatever other word you like to mean "how what we eat impacts our well-being". We need to eat, but information on how we should do it to be healthier seems very contradictory.
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At minute 39:30, the lecturer demonstrates a snippet of HDL which will transition the CPU to ring 0 if a very specific instruction is passed to the processor core:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwyh3Vychj8
The Chinese have no need to make x86 compatible parts. Riscv or a home grown arch would work as well or better
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What kind of defeatist attitude is that? "Reality sucks and you can't change it"? Where would our lord Steve Jobs be if he thought like that?

Seriously though. If you don't like the hand you're dealt, you try to change it. How is that unrealistic, or unlike what most people do?

And how is it unreasonable to fervently wish to have it better in life than what you do? Why is it entitled? There's nothing more common-sense, down-to-earth, than that. Otherwise, what the hell are you striving for?
You might not want to skim through the forums (though I find the discussion interesting). In the end, this actually happened and you can see a video of it here https://youtu.be/jJT_CACIZqs?t=6m18s EDIT: and rdancer also linked to the final report, see his post, thanks :)
Except he didn't have an engineering degree, so its not clear he'd have had any job at all, much less a well-paying one.