The Jobs Americans Do
Popular ideas about the working class are woefully out of date. Here are nine people who tell a truer story of what the American work force does today — and will do tomorrow.
Hasnain says:
Pretty eye opening, especially for folks who think manufacturing is coming back, or have older notions of what a middle class job looks like.
Posted on 2017-02-24T20:43:06+0000
1139 - cloudflare: Cloudflare Reverse Proxies are Dumping Uninitialized Memory - project-zero - Monorail
bugs.chromium.org
Hasnain says:
Today's a bad day for security. This is much worse than the sha-1 collision since people's data could be indefinitely exposed
""The examples we're finding are so bad, I cancelled some weekend plans to go into the office on Sunday to help build some tools to cleanup. I've informed cloudflare what I'm working on. I'm finding private messages from major dating sites, full messages from a well-known chat service, online password manager data, frames from adult video sites, hotel bookings. We're talking full https requests, client IP addresses, full responses, cookies, passwords, keys, data, everything. ""
Posted on 2017-02-24T00:16:59+0000
A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber – Waymo
Competition in the self-driving space is a good thing; it pushes everyone to develop better, safer and more affordable technology. But we…
Pope Francis says it's better to be an atheist than a greedy Christian
Atheists cause less scandal then Christians who talk one way and act another, Pope Francis said.
Hasnain says:
This guy is pretty cool.
"(CNN) - If you're a Christian who exploits people, leads a double life or manages a "dirty" business, perhaps it's better not to call yourself a believer, Pope Francis suggested in a homily on Thursday in Rome."
Posted on 2017-02-23T22:45:18+0000
Announcing the first SHA1 collision
Posted by Marc Stevens (CWI Amsterdam), Elie Bursztein (Google), Pierre Karpman (CWI Amsterdam), Ange Albertini (Google), Yarik Markov (Goog...
Hasnain says:
Interesting that this is the amount of SHA1 computations the Bitcoin network does every 3 seconds, so ... Fairly practical for an agency with resources
Posted on 2017-02-23T17:34:17+0000
Demangling C++ Symbols
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find iton crates.io and github.
Our Miserable 21st Century
On the morning of November 9, 2016, America’s elite—its talking and deciding classes—woke up to a country they did not know. To most privileged and well-educated...
Reflecting on Susan Fowler’s Reflections
The following post is entirely my personal opinion and should not reflect on Uber at large.
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Posted on 2017-02-22T04:13:08+0000
What I Heard From Trump Supporters
After the election, I decided to talk to 100 Trump voters from around the country. I went to the middle of the country, the middle of the state, and talked to many online. This was a...
Hasnain says:
Well worth reading the full thing. So many quotes, that I can't pick any one out, except for the given TLDR.
"The TL;DR quote is this:
“You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out. It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who will take Trump down.”"
Do read the whole thing though.
Posted on 2017-02-21T21:33:06+0000
Efficient game updates
, it listed a series of reasons, from network problems to invalid content to imperfect hardware that may occur when initially installing a game.