Disclaimer: This piece is written anonymously. The names of a few particular companies are mentioned, but as common examples only.
This is a short write-up on things that I wish I'd known and considered before joining a private company (aka startup, aka unicorn in some cases). I'm not trying to make the case that you should never join a private company, but the power imbalance between founder and employee is extreme, and that potential candidates would
| # The following describes how to set up a new image on EC2 with Cuda 7.5, CuDNN, and Tensor Flow | |
| # The default Ubuntu 14.04 kernel needs to be reconfigured in order to work propperly (see below). | |
| # The result of this available as an AMI: ami-ff3a2095 | |
| # Another available AMI: ami-e191b38b | |
| # Via http://ramhiser.com/2016/01/05/installing-tensorflow-on-an-aws-ec2-instance-with-gpu-support/ | |
| # and https://github.com/jasimpson/tensorflow-on-aws | |
| # This works as-is but when upgrading this image to tensor flow 0.8.0 I get the error: | |
| # "/usr/bin/python: libcudart.so.7.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory" | |
| # Launch a new GPU instance on EC2 |
| """ | |
| Minimal character-level Vanilla RNN model. Written by Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) | |
| BSD License | |
| """ | |
| import numpy as np | |
| # data I/O | |
| data = open('input.txt', 'r').read() # should be simple plain text file | |
| chars = list(set(data)) | |
| data_size, vocab_size = len(data), len(chars) |
| #!/usr/bin/env python2 | |
| """ | |
| Author: takeshix <[email protected]> | |
| PoC code for CVE-2014-0160. Original PoC by Jared Stafford ([email protected]). | |
| Supportes all versions of TLS and has STARTTLS support for SMTP,POP3,IMAP,FTP and XMPP. | |
| """ | |
| import sys,struct,socket | |
| from argparse import ArgumentParser |
| # This number should be, at maximum, the number of CPU cores on your system. | |
| # (since nginx doesn't benefit from more than one worker per CPU.) | |
| worker_processes 8; | |
| # Determines how many clients will be served by each worker process. | |
| # (Max clients = worker_connections * worker_processes) | |
| # "Max clients" is also limited by the number of socket connections available on the system (~64k) | |
| # run ss -s and u'll see a timewait param | |
| # The reason for TIMED_WAIT is to handle the case of packets arriving after the socket is closed. |
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| #! /usr/bin/env python | |
| from boto.ses.connection import SESConnection | |
| import os | |
| import sys | |
| import subprocess | |
| import socket | |
| TMPFILE = '/var/run/postgresql/last-wal-archive-error-file.tmp' | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': |
| SELECT | |
| ( | |
| (VALUES ((SELECT max(price/20) FROM prices))) * bin | |
| )::float AS lower_bin_edge, | |
| COALESCE(count, 0) AS count | |
| FROM ( | |
| SELECT | |
| floor( | |
| price / | |
| (VALUES ((SELECT max(price/20) FROM prices))) |
| # This is supposedly what CRIME by Juliano Rizzo and Thai Duong will do | |
| # Algorithm by Thomas Pornin, coding by xorninja, improved by @kkotowicz | |
| # http://security.blogoverflow.com/2012/09/how-can-you-protect-yourself-from-crime-beasts-successor/ | |
| import string | |
| import zlib | |
| import sys | |
| import random | |
| charset = string.letters + string.digits + "%/+=" |
| # Kernel sysctl configuration file for Red Hat Linux | |
| # | |
| # For binary values, 0 is disabled, 1 is enabled. See sysctl(8) and | |
| # sysctl.conf(5) for more details. | |
| # Controls source route verification | |
| net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1 | |
| # Do not accept source routing | |
| net.ipv4.conf.default.accept_source_route = 0 |
