skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is why you seriously audit your tools and why many in the industry avoid Mongo like the plague. Controlling the byes that gets written to a file is actually not simple at all, and its a huge research problem as far as file systems of databases. I'm just saying, I don't think writing your own db is every a very good idea, unless it is SO simple that you would barely call it a DB.
are you assuming that a tiny state school will have worse quality teachers than a top private school? or even that someone who is not a professional teacher is worse than a teacher at a "top" school?

The tiny state school might have the best machine learning class in the world.
We respond to ads (of brands primarily) not because it strikes an emotion inside us, but because we want to conform to the image presented by that ad.
Google might add you to some anonymized dataset, but I doubt they would track you like that if you didn't opt-in. (Facebook, I wouldn't even trust that far.) But you have to opt-in to this to access certain Google services, so people might not realize how much location data Google is using. You can't just turn it on for certain apps, it's all or nothing.
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Bash should only evaluate environment functions with a flag
True enough. This kind of thing is dependent upon the kinds of accounts run by people who will post anything. The kind of thing you ignore.

This is god awful marketing that doesn't work and it preys on those who don't know any better.
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Cassandra works best. E.g. Say as the backend for email storage.
I'm writing a book right now with Manning publishing, and I had considered self-publishing as an alternative. In my experience:

- $2-$3 per book for the author and 2000-3000 copies sounds right. I have heard if your book sells 5000+ copies it is a "very successful" book. As a comparison, my book has sold 1000 copies in the pre-sale so far.

- I've heard that on average if you publish the traditional route, you can expect to make $10k. If you self-publish, you can expect $50k (no data to back up these figures though)

Overall as an author you do get paid very little. I have thought about publishing my next book on the web like this. The biggest advantage I see is allowing reader comments for every paragraph similar to Medium. Thanks for the writeup! After reading this, I don't think I would put a book online for free. Charging even a little bit seems to be more effective.
Good question, I don't know…but looks like mzs's comment answers us both. ;-)
Thinking outside the box (pun intended), how about Cloud9? https://c9.io/
Maybe it could be worded better. In order to say that gathering this evidence is the same as directly observing a black hole, we have to make several big assumptions.
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Why doesn't somebody update bash using the exploit?
So, why doesn't someone exploit bash to update bash. Might do the world a small favor. I was thinking that you could issue several commands to match a range of systems, and all it would take is one to work and then bash would be updated.
Yes I am assuming that. As someone who attended a small state school compared to the level of some of the coworkers taken by classmates at the top schools it is like night and day. Trust me the machine learning class at stanford is better than the one at eastern ct state university (for example)
Here is what has landed in Fedora, the fix is three patches:

http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/bash.git/commit/?id=6319f...
Along these lines, the music business is largely driven by 23+ year olds making music bought by teenagers.
I finished a mechanical engineering degree 2 years ago and as my final year design project, I chose to design and build (in a team with 7 other students) a small offroad vehicle from the ground up [1]. I learned that automobiles, from an engineering standpoint, are a really complex interaction of a very large amount of systems. I was also surprised by how different everything in cars was different from what we learned in school. It made me realize how the curriculum was highly focused on the manufacturing industry (where ~75%, OTOH, of graduates end up working).

Anyways, that being said, if your interest is fixing up your car, then yeah, as others have pointed out, shop manuals (3rd party or official) along with the web (google/youtube) is a very good starting point. I got interested in mechanics as a teen using these resources for small-engined vehicles (various dirt bikes and snowmobiles).

Still, I'll list some references I found interesting from the viewpoint of a young engineer designing a car from the ground up.

Braess, Hans-Hermann et Seiffert, Ulrich. Handbook of Automitive Engineering. Warrendale : SAE International, 2005. (Bosch is the most known "Automotive Handbook", but I liked this one better. Even though it's a 'handbook', it's still interesting to read, as opposed to Bosch which is really a reference. Good focus on passenger cars.)

Limpert, Rudolf. Brake Design And Safety. Warrendale, PA : SAE International, 1999. (Everything on brake systems and safety, with an interesting perspective from accident reconstitution. Good focus on passenger vehicles tool.)

William F. Milliken, Douglas L. Milliken, Race Car Vehicle Dynamics, SAE International, 1995 (known as RCVD, the 'bible' of vehicle dynamics, oriented mostly for race cars.)

Dixon, John C. Tires, Suspension, and Handling, Warrendale, PA : SAE International, 1996. (Similar to RCVD, somewhat shorter and easier to digest IIRC)

Ferguson, C. R. and Kirkpatrick, A. T. Internal Combustion Engines : Applied Thermosciences, Wiley, 2000 (Textbook I used in an undegrad course on ICEs, I liked it. The authors wrote some java applets that implement many basic ICE calculations, fun to play around with: http://www.wiley.com/college/mechs/ferguson356174/apps/apps....)

Wong, J.Y. Theory of Ground Vehicles. Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2008 (Mostly focused on various off-road vehicles, suspension, traction and handling)

Aird, Forbes, Race Car Chassis: Design and Construction, Motorbooks International (July 1997). (Good overview of 'classic' design and construction techniques for race car chassis. Somewhat dated in the sense that it doesn't cover modern composite chassis. Worked well enough as an intro for the design of our tubular space frame)

[1] The project website went offline, sadly. Here's some local media coverage (in french) http://www.lapresse.ca/la-tribune/economie-et-innovation/201...
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Salary fairy seems like a very interesting concept!

However, after going through and guessing salaries, the "crowd predictions" are absurdly low for my location and industry.

I saw a few profiles of people at my employer in related fields, so I have a fairly good idea of what their salary range could conceivably be. The crowd predictions were off by a factor of ~2-3x (on the low side). I just saw a profile of a reservoir engineer with an M.S. and ~5years of experience at a major oil company. The crowd guess was 68k. $168k would be reasonable (maybe a bit high). $68k is completely absurd.
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The real concern isn't that belts will tighten. Its that something serious or startling will happen inducing panic. Its the worry that we're getting near a tipping point, where the balance is bad enough that a strong shock could send us over to dark days.

On the second point, many of them absolutely can go from $100 million to $0 in a short time. Probably not the Dropbox(es) and Airbnb(s) of the world. But, those are only a tiny fraction of all startups. Imagine I'm only semi-major league, with good prospects, and I run a business being pushed to grow that's heavily leveraged on my financing rounds. I effectively keep payroll alive in quarter to half year cycles as we bring on more and more folks to fuel our growth.

If the investors get spooked though, poof, it all collapses. They suddenly don't want my risk because all their charts and finance guys say the market outlook is bad. My actual income doesn't nearly cover my growth-oriented staff. I can't meet payroll, I can't pay my office rent, I can't keep the lights on. I have to let a ton of folks go which kills morale. I may struggle for a while with a skeleton staff to try and recover, I may even do so if I'm really good, but I've still had my legs taken out for a while.
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I've got something like this sitting in my living room, but instead of using a 1U rackmount server, I opted for a Mini-ITX system with a LIAN LI PC-Q25B case.

It's quiet, holds tons of drives and actually looks like it belongs next to the TV (I run XBMC on it as well). It was pricer than the OP's configuration, but it won't keep you up at night (and bleed your wallet in power bills).
Also for those of you who haven't watched it, they continually make fun of the valuations, ideas, and funding available. So when I say exists I mean not just that it exists at all, but what it's really about also ;)
If you have bash installed, but it isn't the system bash (/bin/sh), and none of your scripts explicitly call bash or have a bash shebang, then you aren't vulnerable. However, if bash is your /bin/sh, then even a script that appears to have nothing to do with bash but happens to call something like system() will invoke bash.
Years ago, I used Microsoft MSDN anytime I had questions relating to VBA.
There's an inherit assumption that people would rather build loyalty to people over companies for specific services and its unclear if that's true. A perfect counter example to your cleaning example is Homejoy.
Talk to as many people as you can, and if you see people that you recognize, make sure you talk to them. Tell 'em what you're working on. Don't be afraid to talk to the speakers.
I hope he has a basement or something to put it with all the noise it's going to make. I wonder if he would be better off financially buying a second-hand desktop PC due to power usage.
Sorry, wrote that in a rush. I meant "compared to the level of classes taken by some of my coworkers"
Yeah I don't see how Xeon makes much sense for CV in the home.

I think you'd do much better to pick up a milk crate miner with a core i* processor.
They seem to have replaced radio in a way since the audience is still being directly addressed by the podcaster. There's nothing as intimate on corporate FM radio. You have to hit NPR, Pacifica or college radio for that experience.

And even my favorite podcasts - Writing Excuses and Five Hundy by Midnight are created by people who have "day jobs" - they aren't depending on the podcasts to pay their bills.

So I'm with you that the appeal is there but it unless you're the J.K. Rowling of the podcasting world, I don't think it's a steady source of sufficient income. Just my humble opinion, of course.
There was actually a great short story in 2600 a few years back about a security researcher using an exploit to create a worm that automatically patched up the vulnerable systems. Quite enjoyable, anyone remember the name of it?
We built Snitch to make it simple and easy to get a handle on your SSL certificates. Our mission is to help people avoid getting blind-sided by SSL issues - losing customers, reputation and business in the process.

We've been working on this for a few months and would appreciate any feedback - thanks!

If anyone wants to email me directly it is my username at currylabs.com or gmail.com

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>I am not really qualified to determine whether there is a bubble nor do I believe there is much value in speculating constantly about it

Bubbles exist when enough investors decide that a bubble exists. When markets crash, nothing has actually happened...other than people deciding that equity values are going to drop. When they stop buying based upon that belief, it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

That said, of course we're in a bubble. Someone gave "Yo" $1 million ffs. I won't even go into Clinkle - a failed experiment in Silicon Valley cronyism. While those investments are poster children for this problem, there are hundreds of other equally absurd investments and valuations going around.

Fortunately, there is a way to protect yourself that has worked since the beginning of time. Create a scalable business that produces both revenue and profits, even during its growth phase. One that actually creates value both for customers and shareholders. Like magic, you'll still have a fantastic business while reading about how horrible things are for everyone else.
>do uber, airbnb, dropbox, and the like not deserve billion dollar valuations?

Uber and AirBnB are illegal businesses in most places in their current form, and to the extent that they loosen up those laws they invite competition from other companies for which there are no switching costs for either their customers or vendors to move between at will. The only way they can crush in that case is by undercutting on price and going into negative profits, while coming up with ways to increase lock-in.

There's nothing preventing an alternative dropbox, or 100 alternative dropboxes. The only thing they have going for them is an early brand and technical talent (which may reduce infrastructure costs.)

I don't think that any of them are worth a billion dollars.
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I love that Thom and Nigel continue to experiment in this space, and having been previously unfamiliar with Bundle I was pleasantly surprised to see that several of my favorite artists/labels have released material via this channel in recent months.

But I'm not sure if I really see the benefit of this (for artists or listeners) over e.g. Bandcamp, and the more I dig into BT's messaging about Bundle[0] the less I feel I understand about the overall strategy.

[0]http://blog.bittorrent.com/2014/06/16/bittorrent-bundle-hits...
You read the last chapters of books too just to see if they're worth reading?
> That's great that Germany gave you a free 60% chance of recovery!

sales tax of 19%, gas taxed at 100%, state taking away well over 50% (some countries in EU closer to 70%) of your salary, etc. - this is not free. It is paid by taxpayers, exactly as I said. Yes that's really great that for all these money I had 40% chances of dying vs 10% in the US for the cost of 300usd a month.

> If you couldn't afford the 90% chance in the US, your chance of recovery was probably 0%.

That's something I honestly don't know. If you are homeless - they won't treat you? Are you sure? How do you know?

> So, presenting it as 60% or 90% is a false comparison.

It is very true when you are diagnosed with stage 2 renal cancer. Let's not generalize. The cancers and many other diseases have the best chances to be treated in the US.

> What you fail to understand is that many people in the United States would like the same 60% chance funded by the taxpayer that you enjoy in Germany.

At the cost of others - like me - who are just middle class (~100k/year) having now 60% chances instead of 90%. Typical in socialism: let's make it worse for everyone and call equality. Because now chances off everyone are just 60%. How is that better?

>To quote some other numbers at you, Infant Mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 live births) by the CIA 2013 estimate in the United States is 5.2, in Germany it's 3.48.

I can see that. You see that's my point. EU is great at being mediocre. USA has the lowest valleys and the highest peaks. It has the worst and the best. So then it comes down to "taste" really. Not that using "taste" in morality is fine, but it's about the world view really. Do you think that you should work hard, save, invest, have good education, pay for great health coverage? Or do you think that everybody should have the same chances no matter what they do in their lives? I don't think that EU model is that great after living here for a while. It's like living in a golden cage. You are slave of the state that decides for you and robs you from most of your money. In my personal view selling my freedom for safety isn't a solution. Some people like that and don't care. What I don't understand is why these people don't immigrate to Canada or Western Europe as many Europeans who believe in freedom do choose to live in the US. Put your foot where your mouth is!

> So, it's not like healthcare is uniformly better in the United States than other countries, and it absolutely is inaccessible to many of our citizens. Not something I'm proud of.

Is it? I mean that's something I truly don't know. A homeless person gets cancer. He/She goes to the hospital. They deny them entry? How does it look like "technically" ? I truly curious.

Was at the ER once for aniphalictic reaction. I remember labels next to beds informing that you don't need to reveal information about your healthcare insurance. Also labels stating that is you feel you are treated worse because of your healthcare insurance status then there is a free phone number to a government agency. It looked to me, like they would have to treat someone whether they have money or not. Am I missing something here?
So, to test, they want their CGI put where it will execute in the webroot. And, if you didn't have cgis that were vulnerable before, now anyone can root your machine.

So, if your bash is ok, you're ok. But if your bash is bad, now it's a race to patch properly before someone else gets it.
I got a similar response too and I gave up. I don't have, and don't want, to connect to read anything longer than a page or two. I get distracted the moment I have a web browser and connectivity. :) So while online books don't work well for me, eBooks on the other hand provide me a way of engaging in content on a device of my choice without having to be connected all the time and also devote my attention better to the content.

Also, why should I "show an e-book format that gives control over typography"? That's like saying, "read it on my terms if you want or just don't."
There are three different things, 1. MLP, 2. MVP, 3. MSP which kind of come in order.

1 MLP is Minimum Learnable Product i.e. anything which helps you learn something about what product you should be building. It can be an email that you send out pitching your product or a landing page.

2. MVP is Minimum Viable Product i.e. by viability we imply usability. If it is not usable then it is not viable. So landing pages, wireframes are ruled out. Mailers might work if you start to provide a service (which will get eventually productized, automated, etc) via the mailer. So an ugly looking product would also do as long as users find it usable.

3. MSP is Minimum Saleable Product i.e. the product based on which you can start making revenue (if you so wanted)
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I just wanted to say, "Thanks!"

I successfully patched my 8.04 server and passed the test.

I used sudo ./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin --sbindir=/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc && sudo make && sudo make install after retrieving and patching the bash build files.
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Is it? Corporate cleaning services are hardly new, but corporate massage services are. So HomeJoy isn't trying to change the purchasing paradigm of the industry in this way at all.
You are correct, I was responding to that specific thing. I have no interest in typography, or whether he sells this particular book.

I do think his experiment with the honor system is interesting. It reminds me of driving through rural areas, and seeing cartons of eggs in a basket with a sign, "Please leave $3 in the mailbox."
do you mean level of difficulty or mastery attained by the students?
Eh you think people are loyal to HomeJoy or the price?

I've heard a lot of "HomeJoy is meh but they are cheap. "
I can tell you what is even less important than this game. Most of the web development. I mean, do we really need a millionth copy of the same basic CRUD webpage or bullshit webapp just because a small company wants to outcompete another small company on ad revenue?

> Rather than just (apparently) bro'ing out at 4am and "collecting a lot of XP."

This "bro'ing out at 4 am" will have more "actual social impact" as a side effect of collected data and community created than most of the things programmers write for money.

Maybe go pick on web developers. Or sports events organizers. Or tourism industry. It's all bullshit compared to Ebola.
Amazon has also been partnering with USPS to offer Sunday deliveries.
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yes, soon! right now we are in SF, Half Moon Bay, and Palo Alto Area.
Honestly? I don't buy it. The VCs are the ones that have been pouring cash into these companies so they can blow it on obscenely expensive parties and offices. I think they're just trying to deflect criticism away from themselves and onto the startups.

I mean, there have also been plenty of startups in the past that have blown money and built a product that nobody will pay for. And VCs just pour more cash in.
Hmm seems like he made the classical mistake of thinking that an x86-64 server is somehow special and more worthwhile than just buying a bare-bones PC.

I've managed Dell servers before (real ones) and aside from a bunch of stuff to make managing them in mass easier (like DRAC), there isn't very much value in trying to retrofit one for home use.

VT-x or 24 GB of RAM support isn't exactly a hard requirement in 2014. Plus the Xeon E5410 is a 2007 chip (7 years old!) and gets it butt kicked by even a low end i3 from 2012 [0].

Plus modern systems consume less electrical power which makes running them cheaper and a PC is certainly quieter than any rack mounted server (which are designed for maximum cooling, noise be damned).

Additionally if he had purchased off-the-shelf parts he would likely have a warranty for 12 months (or more). With the eBay purchased Dell machine he not only doesn't get any warranty but ALSO Dell themselves don't even support it(!) so no firmware updates.

So while this was a fun read, it just reminds me of my more nieve days when I thought doing stuff like this was a good idea. Go over to any SysAdmin forum (e.g. spiceworks community) and they'll tell you the same thing.

[0]http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Xeon-E5410-vs-Intel-Core-i3-32...

edit: Originally linked to an 2012 i5 comparison ($180 CPU). Altered it to an 2012 i3 comparison ($100 CPU) which still out-performance the 7 year old Xeon. The $100 price tag seems a lot more comparable than a near $200 CPU. Plus the i3 supports 32 GB of RAM and VT-x (the OP's requirements).
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Account created 12 minutes ago. :|

C'mon son!
Good call. I posted an edit to my original comment. zsh -c won't run the function outside of the current session. The "extra step" needed to add functions to the environment variables seems to make zsh much more secure than bash in the context of this discussion (perhaps?). This SE thread was really helpful to me in clarifying: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/33255/how-to-define...
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Looks very much like https://pinenow.com/
The couple of times I've done this, it involved the co-founders, an unabridged dictionary and a couple of bottles of good scotch. I'm admittedly old fashioned about such things.
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So the evaluation has been made that there is more to gain by protecting your reputation for the next boom-bust cycle then there is in wringing the last few million out of the current one.
Funny, I'd call what you describe Permission Marketing, but then I've never heard of Nathan Barry or Brennan Dunn.
Sounds like an episode of Seinfeld.