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pacquiao882··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2016)
Advertisements are a detriment to society.

Thanks for not returning my call Casey.

Fuck off.

pacquiao882··on Controlling vehicle features of Nissan LEAFs remotely via vulnerable APIs
This is borderline negligence for the lack of authentication and security of the app. I suppose it may just be a matter of time until someone figures out how to get access to other more critical systems in the vehicle, similar to the Tesla vulnerability from last year. It took the Tesla security researchers less than a year from when they found they could access the sound and climate systems (over similar cellular networks) to being able to flash custom firmware on-the-fly and take control of steering and acceleration / braking.
pacquiao882··on How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls
WSJ is big enough to negotiate their own terms with Google Search.
pacquiao882··on Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep safe? (2011)
"When people die in huge crowd 'stampedes', it's rarely from being trampled, it's from being crushed and suffocated (while still standing) by densely packed bodies."

https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/3oqcp4/til_t...

pacquiao882··on What PostgreSQL has over other open source SQL databases: Part II
For Windows users, HeidiSQL is a very solid open source client for interacting with Postgres.
pacquiao882··on OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation
It was not fixed. There are currently no plans to fix it in 10.10.

https://blog.malwarebytes.org/mac/2015/08/dyld_print_to_file...

pacquiao882··on Black Hat USA 2015: The full story of how that Jeep was hacked
They were able to remotely flash the firmware while the vehicle is being driven down the highway and there's not really anything the passengers can do while it's happening. They are able to control other components like the audio system without needing to flash anything.
pacquiao882··on The Bail Trap
It depends which state you were arrested in. In some states it will remain with you for the rest of your life, regardless of innocence.
pacquiao882··on Android libstagefright still exploitable
You are correct. It runs with system and graphics privileges on many devices. It is a native service started at system init and is automatically restarted if it crashes.
pacquiao882··on Android libstagefright still exploitable
This specific exploit can be initiated whenever metadata for an MP4 file is processed. Disabling auto-download of MMS is an important first step workaround. Be cautious with any untrusted media files on your Android device. Simply creating the thumbnail preview image is enough to silently trigger privileged code execution.
pacquiao882··on Android libstagefright still exploitable
The bigger issue of libstagefright is that it there's a ton of code involved with media playback at the native level that has access to many system resources. This specific exploit was just looking at a small part of the MP4 handling -- one of the many parts within the library. It is very likely more severe exploits like this one will surface as a result of this huge library.
pacquiao882··on Renting in America Has Never Been This Expensive
The entire town I live in is single family homes owned by a few slumlords renting $400k-500k houses which they bought 5 years ago for $200k-300k. The rent has gone up 20-30% in the past year; however, the demand to rent is still high since no one can afford to actually buy anything.
pacquiao882··on Classical music generation with recurrent neural networks
Greatly more than 3% of people appreciate classical music. I've been to countless sold out classical symphonies. It may not be their favorite genre, but people pay attention and enjoy it. It's only 3-7% of new music sales in stores, which is all that media wants you to think about.
pacquiao882··on Why Google Employees Quit (2009)
A few colleagues that have worked at Google over the years have expressed that depending on which office, project or position you are in, the experience was greatly impacted for better or worse. Everything from boredom, perceived growth and office politics seems to vary greatly even if offices were merely a couple towns over within the same state.
pacquiao882··on Now Hiring
I thought this would be an article about the state of hiring in silicon valley or the tech industry. Is this supposed to be sarcasm? It's actually hard to tell and makes the author look bad.
pacquiao882··on SSD Prices in a Free Fall
They are just getting rid of stock before NVMe M.2 SSD's go mainstream with 10x performance and lower production costs compared to AHCI SATA3 SSD's.

http://www.hardocp.com/article/2015/03/24/where_ssd_market_h...

pacquiao882··on GitFlow considered harmful
I think it depends on the project's structure and team discipline. I tend to prefer straight lines in the history where a single feature or a group of similar functions are linear.
pacquiao882··on Without LinkedIn account I won't get a job in US?
It's just an easy way for HR to indirectly socioeconomically or racially profile you. Have a clean cut picture of yourself on any easy to find US-based social media site to help stay near the top of the pile.
pacquiao882··on Boosting Nginx Performance with Thread Pools
That Flare Mobile crap on this site is constantly applying zoom CSS attributes and vertically centering the useless sidebar share buttons making the reading experience very horrible. The page freezes momentarily anytime a scroll event is triggered. And, I'm not even using a mobile device!

A bit ironic since this is an article about reducing blocking for improving performance.