skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tested my ubuntu 12.04 and it did not seem to be affected.

server:
vagrant@precise32:/tmp/CVE-2015-7547$ sudo python CVE-2015-7547-poc.py
[UDP] Total Data len recv 36
[UDP] Total Data len recv 36

client:
./CVE-2015-7547-client
CVE-2015-7547-client: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known

vagrant@precise32:/tmp/CVE-2015-7547$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

vagrant@precise32:/tmp/CVE-2015-7547$ ldd --version
ldd (Ubuntu EGLIBC 2.15-0ubuntu10) 2.15
Copyright (C) 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Written by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.
Hi! Yev from Backblaze here -> Yes, we only report the stats of what we have in our environment. As much as we'd love to have a test of SSDs in a pod (augmented for SSDs of course) they're just not feasible from a cost per GB perspective. Hopefully sometime though :)
Not even sure where to begin with this retarded comment

> but what has the US against Iran if not for Israel?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_hostage_crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_United_States_embassy_bom...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Beirut_barracks_bombing

https://www.rt.com/news/266812-iran-arms-taliban-isis/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/war-zones/weapons-prove...

> Israel just expects us to fight for it.

As opposed to our real allies in Europe, South Korea, and the persian gulf who do all of their fighting on their own and never expect us to do any fighting on their behalf???

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosnian_War

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_Army_ins...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war

>inb4 you claim the iraq war (which removed the biggest threat to Israel's arch-rival, Iran) was in Israel's interests
Well, the article says it will provide power for 3 hours after sunset. Assuming 12 hours of useful sunlight per day, it seems safe to guess that it provides something on the order of 25% more power.
You have most of the data there. I think you just need to read through it again. You will find that Socrates taught the thirty tyrants, that he was a fierce enemy of democracy (which was most definitely not a reviled body at the time, unless you mean reviled by Socrates and his pupils. It was generally agreed that the democracy was less effective than "something else", but very little agreement on which exact "something else" would be better. For Socrates, morals, as defined by the philosophers (ie. him) was superior).

It is true that a while after the coup had happened Socrates at one point refused to cooperate with them. But what happened there was that he made an enemy of one (or perhaps more) of the thirty tyrants, who then challenged him to bring Leon of Salamis for execution (which, to me seems to indicate he was part of the thirty tyrants government, but that isn't the general interpretation). Shortly after that the thirty tyrants were overthrown.

Next there was a decision by the new government, that Socrates was not directly guilty, but was never to teach again, never to have students again. He immediately violated it, and after a while there was another incident by his students against the state. They were executed and immediately after so was Socrates.

My issue is that while Socrates getting executed "for teaching science", while technically correct, fails to mention that his teaching of science was closely related to a mass murder that happened in Athens, followed by him committing an immediate violation of the outcome of a "court case", which was clearly related to yet another incident, an attack on "parliament".

Would you have let Socrates continue his teaching after such events, after one in 20 of the people you knew got executed by his students, and he is involved in an attempt to repeat that experience ? Whilst of course the decision to execute him does not pass a 21st century moral test, don't you think that if this happened in America today that he would disappear behind bars for a few decades ? It is hard, I think, to argue the case that Socrates should have gone free here.

I feel leaving this critical context out does disrespect to the story and paints a wholly wrong picture of both who Socrates was and even to an extent leaves out critical context when it comes to his teachings. Socrates believed in there being one correct answer to any and all questions (maybe unknown, but still a singular correct answer, a grand truth), to be provided by philosophers, that had to be imposed on everyone. His disagreement with the thirty tyrants was not the manner of their governing, but the content.
Program Manager was eliminated entirely with Windows XP (IIRC)

XP SP2 actually.
You are right. Fish works beautifully out of the box and you should not bother really.
They don't design them from scratch, but they DO participate in sensor design. That's part of the reason why wide angle Leica lenses don't suffer from terrible vignetting, corner smear and peripheral color shifts when used with Leica bodies. Leica uses offset microlenses to counteract those effects.
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We aren't talking about enterprise software. It hasn't been mentioned once. You can't change the subject and then say I'm wrong. Obviously, higher level applications can and often should be implemented using garbage collected languages.
I have one now.

But for me, this was back in 2006/2007 where VPS weren't that cheap, and I was very reluctant committing to recurring payments.
Ask HN: Good resources for API design?
I'd like to improve my skills with API architecture. Do you have any good book/article/course about it? Thanks HNers.
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I agree with that, but I also have the experience of visiting my sister in 1995 and asking her if she understood the funny string at the bottom of a Toyota commercial that was a URL. She did not. And her only email address was one she had for work, because everyone else either wrote letters or talked with her on the phone.

The point I'm trying to make is that many things of the current wave will pass into obscurity and perhaps ridicule, however some core concepts may emerge as foundational for the next wave. Further, experience with those concepts in the Bay Area may inform what is core and what isn't, and so launch better products.
Well here there is a bit of different story being told.

http://www.folklore.org/

Search for Pascal.

Cherry picked from the search results

http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...

The fact that many C programmers forget, is that it is impossible to implement the C runtime or an OS with pure ANSI C code.

Somehow it is ok for C to use Assembly and compiler specific extensions, but not for other systems programming languages to do the same.
Not afaik, but there's this: https://github.com/kisom/dotconf/blob/master/.vim/colors/ein...
Am I just tired? Or do these two lines side-by-side imply that there's actually cheese that's 100% made of wood?

"The Parmesan Cheese You Sprinkle on Your Penne Could be Wood"
"Some brands promising 100% purity contained no Parmesan at all"

(Later on in the article it explained that it's because some labelled Parmesan were actually mixtures of mozza and swiss, but I definitely was expecting to read about 100% wood pulp cheese-like products!)
The problem is people using R without trying to learn about the language itself, just assuming it works like their favourite language.

For example complaining that R is slow and then writing iterative solution instead of using vectorization. When I saw the example the author gave my first thought was "sapply/lapply". Lapply is essential to the R use, and is being taught early on in every book/course on R I've ever saw.

"In 2012, I’m the kind of person who uses apply() a dozen times a day, and is vaguely aware that R has a million related built-in functions like sapply(), tapply(), lapply(), and vapply(), yet still has absolutely no idea what all of those actually do. "
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Person of Interest became one of my favorite television shows during the first episode of season two when it suddenly is no longer a CSI-like crime show, but hard science fiction.
I'm surprised to see that this project uses wet cooling. Wikipedia claims it uses at least twice as much water as a coal power plant of similar capacity.

Is water surprisingly abundant in this part of the Sahara?
Israel was ruled by the British empire until 1948 but by 1956 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis) was friendly enough with Britain to side with them in a war. While I think your explanation is partially true, I think it is also an oversimplification. Why can some countries get over colonial interference, while others use it to justify everything they do?

This also begs the question what is Iran's main problem with Israel then? Israel wasn't involved in operation Ajax. Why is it the little Satan to America's great Satan?

Given their conduct in Syria, I find the "sympathy with the Palestinians" slightly hard to believe.
As I mentioned, C is legacy for Microsoft.

The way forward for C on Windows from Microsoft own SDK is to use the clang frontend + Visual C++ backend, or another C compiler from someone else.
Most of my university classmates' first exposure to programming is using R in a statistics class. It's awful. I wish they'd make Python or something a prerequisite, so that giant swaths of people don't get turned off of computing or start with the strange ideas it teaches.
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Well those folks should have Backblaze ;-)
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Factor is one of the worst thing of R-world. I don't recall ever needing factors, yet they creep in with many functions (read.csv, cut).

Btw there's a nice readr package (from Hadleyverse) that has a read_csv method that does away with factors by default.
I'm seeing the same behavior here. Thanks for the update and confirmation. Can others confirm if this means 12.04 isn't impacted by this cve?
"They seem to to believe that no action they take will ever be questioned or lead to any blowback" - That's not true. Like any country Israel wights the pros and cons of any decision. Some work in their favor some don't. If you think Israel doesn't taken into account the repercussions to it's actions you are gravely mistaken.
I agree with you that Israel tries and succeeds in influencing US Foreign policy, why wouldn't any country do that if it works in their favor? Why is Israel being criticized of this when any other country including the UK, France, Germany, Iran, Egypt are doing the same?
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Just show 'em a photo of Richard Dean Anderson with a mullet. If they still don't get it, we tell them to move along.
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Keyword being a wrapper, so no native support.

Nintendo uses GX and GX2.
Honestly, nothing that commodity x86 servers can't do.
Definitely agree on the logic around a negative impact of a draft based service. I was thinking more along the lines of the Swiss model where you can go be a teacher or a ski patrolman and it'll still count rather than a Korea/Vietnam style thing.
Thrasýmachos has a more interesting take on might makes right. It's hard to tell if he's a proponent, or if he's arguing it into the ground to be buried.

A kid who's a bully usually is bullied by someone else. They're angry for a reason.
Great point!

That's really interesting actually. Redlight and speeding cameras are pretty straightforward engineering problems to enforce though, compared to determining whether someone's violating their parole.

I suppose a similar (yet different again) concern would be ankle-monitoring bracelets for parolees.

It's interesting to think about where to draw the line on those things.
I was wondering if I would be the only one to use the phrase "weird Sony" (first I ever heard it was from the Verge, describing...well, weird Sony)
GPS is one-way. Even if your phone could get a signal, it wouldn't be broadcasting to SARSAT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Pr...). You'd need something like this: https://www.acrartex.com/products/catalog/epirbs-and-accesso... and even then, that's manually deployed and needs line of sight to the satellite network.

I'm not sure why a plane wouldn't have at least a few such devices on board in case of crash (there's no monthly fee or anything). Just under the skin perhaps so they'd only automatically deploy during something catastrophic? I'm sure someone knows.
I'd bet the problem is maintenance scaling. TCO of IBM mainframe + support + staff vs lots and lots of servers + staff + hardware staff (+ probably porting some legacy mainframe code to something distributed).

If you're looking at a clean room build, it might not make sense often. But if you're starting with certain situations that accumulated over decades, maybe?

I know a lot of the people I work with are gradually porting stuff off mainframe onto more modern hardware stacks, but Rome wasn't built in a day, etc etc.
Only if the investors aren't looking for a better than market average return on investment. And if they're only looking for an average return, why risk their money investing in an unproven company?

If you define "investors" as only VC's then I'd say that's a fair point. But just to paint a different scenario... for us, the only investors are the founders (so far). So why invest in building a company as opposed to putting that money in index funds? I can't speak for all the others, but besides still expecting a larger financial reward in the end, a lot of it is about the joy in the process of building something, and about having the opportunity to do things our own way. This way we get to build a company based on the principles we believe in and that will operate by our standards. And to top it all off, I would say that even if we fail and never make a dime, we'll all have benefited from the process itself simply in terms of learning and experience.

So yeah, sure, VC's want "fast" at all costs. No argument there. I guess what I'm saying is, the "take VC money and grow fast model isn't the only model."
Up for me. Chromium 47, in Seattle. wget pulls the article in ~300ms.
Yikes. If it's so hard for hosts to please you despite their efforts, then maybe you should start bringing your own dish to the dinner.
They built bridges, sure, but they were usually over-engineered stone behemoths over relatively small rivers that didn't exactly require a structural engineer to calculate loads on. Pile on some rocks, arrange them in non-stupid way that won't fall apart under stress, throw some mud in the cracks between the rocks -- it's a bridge!

Anyone can build a bridge that stands. The trick is in building a bridge that barely stands, or suspension bridge that spans over a mile on strands of steel, with known tolerances to earthquakes and storms. You can't build the Golden Gate bridge without physics.

Anyone can throw together some software, put it on the Internet, and keep throwing more AWS money at it as needed. But software engineering is about constantly finding better ways, running simulations to model loads, using clever properties of math and information theory to reduce required resources and building code to do what's required of it as efficiently as possible.
So this has nothing to do with baby harp seals?
I think it's also due the fact that installing R package is just one command away, install.package("abc") and library(abc) and you're done. It a blessing, but encourages loading swaths of libraries.
The powers of standard Windows accounts
Lately I've seen quite a few people reach for their phone, not find the Uber app right away and they just click on that pink mustache instead.
In any large organization you'll see instances of departments clashing over projects, managers going over each others' heads and bureaucratic turf wars. I'm sure these disputes are at least as common inside the NSA, or between different branches of US intelligence, as they are between the US and its allies.

The difference here is that in an international setting, our national ego comes into play and suddenly it's all about the Israeli lobby or some deep geopolitical interests, when it could just as easily be caused by a SW bug or an overzealous midlevel manager.

Maybe there is a place for a broader discussion about supplying arms to Israel, but I don't think this case is a good example. Looks more like Israel and the US collaborated very closely, on mostly equal terms, to achieve some impressive technological breakthroughs.
If anything, this is a testament to how technology and international cooperation can provide a safe and efficient alternative to unilateral use of of force.
If the worst side-effect of all of our covert and overt operations was leaking some Zero Days, the world would be a much safer place.
The idea behind "living in the future" is that products generally get cheaper and easier to use as early adopters contribute feedback, founders learn more about their market, and outside capital puts more minds to work on the problem. Hence, products that are only for "wealthy folks in SV with no free time" eventually become cheap enough that everybody can use them.

Uber certainly followed this growth curve - it started out as a service to call a black car to drive you around town, something that even the founders called a luxury for 1%ers. So did computers as a whole ("I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, 1943), smartphones (at $600, the iPhone was considered a toy for luxury consumers when it came out), Facebook (initially only for Harvard University undergraduates), and LinkedIn (started with wealthy professionals who had lots of contacts).

It doesn't mean all startup ideas for wealthy, time-poor consumers will cross the chasm, but it seems to be a lot more feasible to go from wealthy consumers to poor ones than the reverse.

(Interestingly, it's the opposite story with B2B startups, where it's easier to add functionality than cut prices or improve ease of use. Hence the low end eating the high end, per Innovator's Dilemma. Actually, this effect in B2B markets may be behind the cost-reduction effect in B2C markets, as consumer firms start finding cheaper alternative suppliers that have recently moved up-market.)
There's nothing wrong with long form journalism if you have a complex story to tell with lots of information to convey. The problem is not with the format, it's with journalists trying to pad out a tweet's worth of information into a long-form article.
Nothing in that link says that the OS was written in Pascal. Yes, Pascal was a popular language for Mac apps, but of course nothing says that the OS has to be written in the same language used for writing programs that run on it.

I don't understand your last comment. I am not saying that the OS doesn't qualify as "written in Pascal" because it contains assembly. I am saying it doesn't qualify because it didn't contain Pascal. The early versions were subject to absurd space constraints that required everything to be written in assembly. My understanding is that high level languages started to be used for parts of the OS later on, but it remained predominantly assembly until well after the PowerPC transition.
Very niche, but if you need it this could definitely save you a few hours. I wish I had this last weekend for a hackathon where I used a stack very similar to this. I spent longer than I should have to get webpack up and running with Django.
Yes, Borland "Turbo" C was another massively popular choice.

But you can't simultaneously argue that C wasn't used for PC platform development in the 1980's and that Borland C was dominant.
This has really got me wondering: What would be a format that is fundamentally readable by both humans and computers? And what does that question really mean?
You can. Go ahead and do it. Mesa is likely to implement future OpenGL extensions by translating them to Vulkan rather than implementing them natively to the metal, and someone is probably going to make a libgl that targets Vulkan rather than any of the intermediary layers used around the ecosystem.
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Note: JWT is JSON Web Token in this case, not Java Web Toolkit. This was very confusing to me as JWT is only mentioned in the title but not anywhere else in the README.
I have added a neighborhood map to each property page, in addition to the Bing "Bird's Eye." I'm also working on a Leaflet-based map of the whole state with the parcel layer. Still thinking over how to handle creating the vector tiles and linking them up to the assessment information. NJ's parcel GIS data gets updated yearly, while the assessment/sales records are updated weekly. I don't want to have the assessment data in the vector tiles, so I've got to perform some matching & retrieving data after they're loaded.
NASDAQ's high to low was approximately 20%. After today's rally it's perhaps 16%? NASDAQ is the better index since that's the more likely liquidity source.
Next to a sizeable lake: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Ouarzazate+45000,+Morocco/...

Out of curiosity - what are the options outside of wet cooling?
Ouarzazate has a pretty big dam nearby. Also Ouarzazate is technically not Sahara yet.
I was holding a carton of Marlboro Reds purchased in Berlin, so I didn't even need to buy any. I'm fairly certain we still need a visa, but it's basically an automatic process.
> it seems to be a lot more feasible to go from wealthy consumers to poor ones than the reverse

This appears to be the crux of your comment, and it's an excellent point.
Honestly, why? After reading a few of them, I was completely sick of this format. It appears to me as information-free fluff, written in a very generic style.

What do you like in this format? I genuinely don't understand how it can sell, but if it does, there must be something?
And they don't even need immigrants.
as I said, I don't expect people to accommodate my needs - but I feel bad when they try and fail. And I'm talking about needs in generals, not just mine.

If you serve a dish with 10 things in it, it's much more likely than more people will dislike it than if you serve a dish with 1 thing in it (thus why pepperoni pizza is popular as a party item, vs a Supreme pizza). I only mentioned it because it seems to be a poorly understood truth when it comes to vegetarians. (as in, people know not to get overly complex meat dishes, but somehow think the opposite when it comes to non-meat dishes)
"Wait to long and all the good ones might be gone". The older I get, the more I see what a fallacy this kind of thinking is. A lot of the "good ones" often exit marriages and long-term relationships to better themselves. On the other hand, the "good ones" that stay often stop becoming "good ones" and settle. I found dating to be about concentrating on yourself and your own development, then things kind of took care of themselves.
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I read that, I just found the examples strange. Browsers are incredibly important for an incredible number of people while curl is not.
In Morocco 50% is for the actual cost and 50% is for bribes.
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Give me a break. It is not antisemetic to say that AIPAC is one of the most powerful lobbys in DC. Or that people like Sheldon Adelson are central to the election process. I'm not saying it's the only special interest undermining our democracy, I'm saying it's a big one and heavily influenced by a foreign country. If it were a heavily influential China lobby everyone would be freaking out.
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