www.decisionproblem.com
decisionproblem.com
Hasnain says:
This is taking over my life someone please help. (at your own risk. This is like a super addictive cookie clicker)
Posted on 2017-10-29T07:25:25+0000
Diversity Isn’t a Numbers Game
Facebook’s global director of diversity explains why stats alone won’t solve the problem of organizational bias.
Hasnain says:
What a great read on the perils of being too numbers driven
Posted on 2017-10-28T17:59:46+0000
Let’s Talk About Burnout – Noteworthy — The Journal Blog
I’m ready to talk about it.
Hasnain says:
"Which is why I’m going to keep nagging you, my dear friends and co-workers. I’m going to encourage you to spend time with your friends, to stop messaging our team at night, to go outside and spend time in the redwoods or at the coast. I’m going to remind you that work matters, but in the scheme of things, it kind of really doesn’t. The best way to preserve the passion and energy you have for your work is to take great care of your brain, your body and your soul; be kind to yourself, and protect the open spaces that allow you to relax and restore your resources. This is not New Age babble. This is reality. Trust me.'
Posted on 2017-10-28T04:18:52+0000
The scientists persuading terrorists to spill their secrets
The long read: Expert interrogators know torture doesn’t work – but until now, nobody could prove it. By analysing hundreds of top-secret interviews with terror suspects, two British scientists have revolutionised the art of extracting the truth
Hasnain says:
This was a really engrossing read.
"Today, interrogations still get framed as accusatory moral dramas, and not just on TV. American police officers are trained in the Reid Technique, developed in the 1950s by John Reid, a former Chicago cop. In a pre-interrogation interview, the detective assesses a suspect’s credibility by observing his body language, such as fidgeting or eye movements. (There is no evidence these are reliable cues to deceit.) Once he decides that a suspect is lying, the interrogator moves into confrontational mode, in an effort to break the suspect’s resistance. The technique has been consistently associated with false confessions. It survives, at least in part, because it makes the interrogator feel in control, positioning him as a heroic protagonist."
Posted on 2017-10-27T19:49:43+0000
Hey, this is kyren from Chucklefish, we make and publish cool video games. One of our two next projects is currently being written in rust, and I'd like to talk to you about it! • r/rust
[Here's](https://blog.chucklefish.org/about/) a little bit about Chucklefish if you're not familiar. So, one of our next projects is codenamed...
Hasnain says:
Bookmarking for future reading. This was a great read on rust for gamedev
Posted on 2017-10-27T03:33:34+0000
Opioid Billionaire Arrested On Racketeering Charges
John Kapoor, billionaire founder of opioid spray manufacturer Insys Therapeutics, was arrested and charged with RICO conspiracy, conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and conspiracy to violate the Anti-Kickback law Thursday morning in Phoenix.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-26T20:54:40+0000
The Depression Thing
the depression thing: a neat story about depression and mental health. By Zach Holman.
Hasnain says:
"But still, I obviously think it’s worth talking about. People act so weirdly when it comes to this stuff, precisely because we don’t talk about it, even today, in 2017. Fuck flying cars and laser guns, I want transparent discussion of mental problems in society."
Posted on 2017-10-24T04:39:09+0000
Why Are More American Teenagers Than Ever Suffering From Severe Anxiety?
Parents, therapists and schools are struggling to figure out whether helping anxious teenagers means protecting them or pushing them to face their fears.
Hasnain says:
Sad read.
"Not every day was bad. During spring break in 2016, Jake’s father wrote: “Jake was relaxed and his old sarcastic, personable, witty self.” A week later, though, Jake couldn’t get through a school day without texting his mother to pick him up or hiding out in the nurse’s office. At home, Jake threatened suicide again. His younger siblings were terrified. “It was the depth of hell,” his mother told me."
Posted on 2017-10-23T23:36:02+0000
Bay Area hammered by loss of 4,700 jobs
The pace of hiring has slowed dramatically in the Bay Area, and three major metro areas in the region slashed jobs last month.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-23T19:11:21+0000
Hundreds of Mysterious Stone ‘Gates’ Found in Saudi Arabia’s Desert
With Google Earth, archaeologists have uncovered strange stone structures that may have been built by nomadic tribes in ancient lava fields.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-22T16:55:38+0000
The Secretive Family Making Billions From the Opioid Crisis
You’re aware America is under siege, fighting an opioid crisis that has exploded into a public-health emergency. You’ve heard of OxyContin, the pain medication to which countless patients have become addicted. But do you know that the company that makes Oxy and reaps the billions of dollars in profi...
Hasnain says:
"Even so, hardly anyone associates the Sackler name with their company’s lone blockbuster drug. “The Fords, Hewletts, Packards, Johnsons—all those families put their name on their product because they were proud,” said Keith Humphreys, a professor of psychiatry at Stanford University School of Medicine who has written extensively about the opioid crisis. “The Sacklers have hidden their connection to their product. They don’t call it ‘Sackler Pharma.’ They don’t call their pills ‘Sackler pills.’ And when they’re questioned, they say, ‘Well, it’s a privately held firm, we’re a family, we like to keep our privacy, you understand.’ ”"
Posted on 2017-10-22T05:51:41+0000
The War To Sell You A Mattress Is An Internet Nightmare | Fast Company
Why did Casper sue a mattress blogger? A closer look reveals a secret, multimillion-dollar battle to get you into bed.
Hasnain says:
Extremely crazy business practices. Engrossing read
Posted on 2017-10-19T05:25:32+0000
The new MacBook keyboard is ruining my life
It’s so bad
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-18T06:51:38+0000
Falling through the KRACKs
The big news in crypto today is the KRACK attack on WPA2 protected WiFi networks. Discovered by Mathy Vanhoef andFrank Piessens at KU Leuven, KRACK (Key Reinstallation Attack) leverages a vulnerabi…
Click to view the original at blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-16T15:42:42+0000
Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
KRACK attack allows other nasties, including connection hijacking and malicious injection.
Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein’s “Responsible Encryption” Demand is Bad and He Should Feel Bad
Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein delivered a speech on Tuesday about what he calls “responsible encryption” today. It misses the mark, by far. Rosenstein starts with a fallacy, attempting to convince you that encryption is unprecedented: Our society has never had a system where...
Hasnain says:
"The Department of Justice has said that they want to have an “adult conversation” about encryption. This is not it. The DOJ needs to understand that secure end-to-end encryption is a responsible security measure that helps protect people."
Posted on 2017-10-15T22:32:48+0000
Want to see something crazy? Open this link on your phone with WiFi turned off.
https://bit.ly/crazymobiledemo
Hasnain says:
"But what these services show us is even more alarming: US telcos appear to be selling direct, non-anonymized, real-time access to consumer telephone data to third party services — not just federal law enforcement officials — who are then selling access to that data."
Sigh...
Posted on 2017-10-15T18:16:18+0000
Why did Vikings have 'Allah' on clothes?
New Swedish research on Viking funeral clothes raises questions about Islam's influence in Scandinavia.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-12T15:17:43+0000
OnePlus spying on users and collecting massive amounts of data
OnePlus has been collecting a lot of personal data about how you use your device. Here's how to disable the app service doing the collecting without having to root your OnePlus device.
Hasnain says:
TL;DR:
run 'adb shell pm uninstall -k --user "0" net.oneplus.odm.provider'
Posted on 2017-10-11T17:07:49+0000
The Human Stain: Why the Harvey Weinstein Story Is Worse Than You Think
The New York Times last week broke the story of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein’s long record of sexual harassment. Actresses including Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd came forward to detail Weinstein’s depredations, and so did former employees of the man who founded one of the most important indep...
Hasnain says:
Interesting perspective, not sure I buy it just yet though
Posted on 2017-10-10T05:54:13+0000
What Sudha Murthy did when called the "Cattle Class" at Heathrow Airport - Untold Story of India
Exclusive excerpt from Sudha Murthy's book ‘Three Thousand Stitches: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Lives’. ' The best response to the racist remark!
Hasnain says:
"‘Well, this line is meant for business class travellers only,’ she said confidently and pointed her finger towards the economy class queue. ‘You should go and stand there,’ she said."
Have also been on the receiving end of something similar so this made me rage
Posted on 2017-10-10T05:19:07+0000
Equifax Breach Fallout: Your Salary History — Krebs on Security
In May, KrebsOnSecurity broke a story about lax security at a payroll division of big-three credit bureau Equifax that let identity thieves access personal and financial data on an unknown number of Americans. Incredibly, this same division makes it simple to access detailed salary and employment hi...
Hasnain says:
Of course, Equifax had a site where you could see all pay history for someone in the last 2 years, knowing ssn, a PIN (WHICH WAS THE DATE OF BIRTH) and basic info.
Sigh. Had to sign up for yet another site I don't want to use, just so I could change my pin and prevent others from getting that data.
Posted on 2017-10-09T01:45:52+0000
The American Dream – Afifa Zaheer – Medium
Dreaming is a potion we all take to bridge the gap between the real and surreal. We all have thought of things that have been accused of…
Using Binary Diffing to Discover Windows Kernel Memory Disclosure Bugs
Posted by Mateusz Jurczyk of Google Project Zero Patch diffing is a common technique of comparing two binary builds of the same code – ...
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-10-08T00:19:55+0000
Facebook's VP of Product on Mastering Focus and Intentional Work
Facebook VP of Product Fidji Simo shares tactics to master focus in a world where possibilities are endless and the stakes are high.
Apache Guacamole (incubating)
Because the Guacamole client is an HTML5 web application, use of your computers is not tied to any one device or location. As long as you have access to a web browser, you have access to your machines.
Click to view the original at guacamole.incubator.apache.org
This Shooting Isn’t About Gun Control We Refuse To Pass, It’s About Access To Mental Health Care We’re Continuing To Gut
By Paul Ryan
Hasnain says:
My emotions kept going up and down when reading this.
This hit right in the feels: "Instead, we need to pay attention to the fact that many people with treatable mental illnesses struggle to afford medication or therapy, and then work around the clock to ensure that their meager options only dwindle further and become more expensive. That is where we need to be focused as a nation."
Posted on 2017-10-02T22:27:20+0000
The Secret World of Tiny Phones That Go Inside Your Butt
Available from Amazon and popular in prison, these phones carry reviews like: "No anal problems!!! Didn't hurt my bum at all thanks guys :)"
Perspective | I wanted to understand why racists hated me. So I befriended Klansmen.
My collection of robes and hoods is still growing.
Hasnain says:
Worth reading - still relevant to this day, about how talk and dialogue are one of the few reliable ways to bring people to set aside their differences.
Posted on 2017-10-01T19:24:41+0000