How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq » SkullSecurity
How I nearly almost saved the Internet, starring afl-fuzz and dnsmasq Leave a reply If you know me, you know that I love DNS. I'm not exactly sure how that happened, but I suspect that Ed Skoudis is at least partly to blame. Anyway, a project came up to evaluate dnsmasq, and being a DNS server - and…
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Posted on 2015-07-16T16:48:42+0000
Potato paradox - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Potato Paradox is a mathematical calculation that has a counter-intuitive result. The "paradox" involves dehydrating potatoes by a seemingly minuscule amount, and then calculating a change in mass which is larger than expected. This is not to be confused for the Potato-Effect, which is sometimes…
Angry Amazon customers vent over sale fail
Disappointed Amazon customers turned to Twitter to vent their frustration over what they called "unhappy Prime Day."
The Netflix Tech Blog: Tracking down the Villains: Outlier Detection at Netflix
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How Google Sparsehash achieves two bits of overhead per entry using sparsetable
Google Sparsehash is one of the most space efficient hash tables, but how does it achieve two bits of overhead per entry?
We don’t trust drinking fountains anymore, and that’s bad for our health
One sultry day in 2012, a handful of New Yorkers laid out a rich red carpet in Union Square Park. As a jazz band grooved in the background, vested and begloved hosts led guests to the star attraction:...
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"The transition away from fountains has also made it harder to access water in public. For example, in 2007, the University of Central Florida built a 45,000-seat stadium with no fountains. The university claimed they were too expensive to install and maintain. Selling bottled water at $3 a bottle, meanwhile, would generate profits. But at the opening game, with temperatures reaching near 100 degrees, vendors ran out of water. Some 60 attendees were treated for heat-related issues; 18 were hospitalized for heat exhaustion. The university eventually installed 50 fountains."
Posted on 2015-07-14T02:43:37+0000
The Earthquake That Will Devastate Seattle
When the giant fault line along the Pacific Northwest ruptures, it could be our worst natural disaster ever.
Hasnain says:
A really engrossing article.
"That problem is not specific to earthquakes, of course. The Cascadia situation, a calamity in its own right, is also a parable for this age of ecological reckoning, and the questions it raises are ones that we all now face. How should a society respond to a looming crisis of uncertain timing but of catastrophic proportions? How can it begin to right itself when its entire infrastructure and culture developed in a way that leaves it profoundly vulnerable to natural disaster?"
Posted on 2015-07-14T02:33:43+0000
The Electric Car
The electric car is going to take over the world. Soon. Let me explain. 75% of US consumers and over 85% of US millennials own smartphones. Perhaps more amazing is that 1/4 of people in the...
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Makes some good points though I think it's still a bit too hopeful
Posted on 2015-07-14T02:25:22+0000
singleton-considered-stupid - steveyegge2
Design Patterns was a great book, no question. It's still in my Top Ten List of books every programmer should read. It's a beautifully crafted book, and I get a rush of nostalgia when I read through it, ten years since it was published. It was a seminal work, groundbreaking, something that revolutio…
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Posted on 2015-07-13T06:22:32+0000
7 Rejections
On June 26, 2008, our friend Michael Seibel introduced us to 7 prominent investors in Silicon Valley. We were attempting…
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Posted on 2015-07-12T22:26:39+0000