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dneon The ETF Files: How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3T industry

It's an index mutual fund[1] that is also available as an ETF[2].

1: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=5861&...

2: https://personal.vanguard.com/us/funds/snapshot?FundId=0938&...

dneon The ETF Files: How the U.S. government inadvertently launched a $3T industry

ETF = investment fund traded on a stock exchange.

Index fund = investment fund (mutual fund or ETF) that tracks an index, i.e. passively managed.

dneon Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

Also see "needrestart", which automatically offers to do the above when upgraded packages have been installed: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/needrestart

dneon SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days

Someone missed an important part of the standard (JEDEC JESD218, section 6.3): "This standard is based on a use scenario in which the SSDs are actively used for some period of time during which the SSDs are written to their endurance ratings, followed by a power-down time period in which data must be retained."

E.g. in Intel's product spec for the DC S3500 series, the data retention parameter is specified as: "3 months power-off retention once SSD reaches rated write endurance at 40 °C".

dneon Cdb: a fast, reliable, simple package for creating, reading constant databases

The original code is also in the public domain, since 2009: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html

dneon IT Pro confession: I contributed to the DDOS attack against Spamhaus

Blacklists are the only reason e-mail is still usable.

dneon Ask HN: Do you invest in the stock market?

Also, John Kay's "The Long and the Short of It: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry".

dneon NameCheap DNS servers are down

Nice, but your SSL cert cannot be verified because you haven't installed the intermediate CA bundle: https://knowledge.rapidssl.com/support/ssl-certificate-suppo...