Mortgage Magnitude
A simple look at home values and income. How dreamy is the American Dream?
Everything is Changing; So Should Antitrust
WPP is dealing with not only a changing advertising industry but a changing world, thanks to the Internet. Antitrust needs to change as well.
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Posted on 2017-09-08T14:08:17+0000
Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Revealed
Three Equifax Inc. senior executives sold shares worth almost $1.8 million in the days after the company discovered a security breach that may have compromised information on about 143 million U.S. consumers.
Hasnain says:
There's no way these people aren't going to jail for insider trading, right?
Posted on 2017-09-08T05:25:30+0000
Credit reporting firm Equifax says data breach could potentially affect 143 million US consumers
Equifax said on Thursday that it suffered a major cybersecurity incident that might affect 143 million consumers in the United States.
‘It’s never too late to say we’re sorry’: Seattle leaders respond to Amazon plans to establish second HQ outside its hometown
Amazon announced plans early Thursday morning to open a second headquarters “fully equal” to its Seattle home, calling on local governments across North America to submit proposals. The news…
Hasnain says:
Seattle: "We hate all the traffic, all the Amazon employees coming here ..."
Amazon: "Okay, we'll try and move elsewhere"
Seattle: "uh ... please don't"
Optimizing web servers for high throughput and low latency
This is an expanded version of my talk at NginxConf 2017 on September 6, 2017. As an SRE on the Dropbox Traffic Team, I'm responsible for our Edge network: its reliability, performance, and efficiency.
Hasnain says:
"In this post we’ll be discussing lots of ways to tune web servers and proxies. Please do not cargo-cult them. For the sake of the scientific method, apply them one-by-one, measure their effect, and decide whether they are indeed useful in your environment."
Posted on 2017-09-06T21:45:03+0000
Delta flight goes where no others will — in and out of Hurricane Irma
Self-described aviation geek Jason Rabinowitz (@AirlineFlyer) was keeping tabs on commercial flights near Hurricane Irma when he noticed on Delta flight headed for Puerto Rico was headed right into the arms storm. Here's how it looked on flight radar.
Finding inter-procedural bugs at scale with Infer static analyzer
Inter-procedural analysis can be deployed to large and rapidly changing codebases that consist of millions of lines of code and undergo thousands of modifications per day.
The College That Produces Founders at 5 Times the Rate of Stanford
Every few months someone writes an article reconfirming Stanford as the world’s largest producer of venture-backed startups by volume. The…
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Posted on 2017-09-06T16:20:59+0000
Get Off The Couch Baby Boomers, Or You May Not Be Able To Later
If you sit too much during middle age — at work and at home — your ability to exercise or even walk in late decades is at risk, a study hints. And, of course, your risk of heart disease climbs, too.
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Posted on 2017-09-06T02:04:54+0000