A top Uber executive, who obtained the medical records of a customer who was a rape victim, has been fired
Sources say Eric Alexander carried around for a year confidential information about a woman who was assaulted during a ride in India in 2014.
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Posted on 2017-06-08T05:37:43+0000
Reading Between the Lines of Comey’s Prepared Testimony
New York Times reporters analyze prepared remarks by James B. Comey, the former F.B.I. director, that were published Wednesday by the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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Posted on 2017-06-08T05:14:47+0000
Opinion | How to Keep Your College Admission Offer: Start With Digital Literacy
What students do and post online has real life consequences. It’s on us to teach them that.
Hasnain says:
I saw the Crimson article the other day and was surprised at how those students thought it was ok to share those things with their real name. This article goes into the problem in a bit more detail
Posted on 2017-06-08T00:18:08+0000
How air conditioning changed the world - BBC News
Initially invented for the printing industry, the technology has transformed the way we live and work.
Hasnain says:
"A study in Phoenix, Arizona, found the hot air pumped out of air conditioning units increased the city's night-time temperature by 2C,"
Posted on 2017-06-07T04:40:54+0000
Alex Honnold Scales El Capitan Without Ropes, And The Climbing World Reels
The climber scaled the granite wall in under four hours, in what Alpinist magazine says "is indisputably the greatest free solo of all time."
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Posted on 2017-06-07T03:24:54+0000
At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now costs more than a year at Harvard
At $75,560, housing a prisoner in California now cost more than a year at Harvard
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Posted on 2017-06-06T15:34:51+0000
How The Intercept Outed Reality Winner
Today, The Intercept released documents on election tampering from an NSA leaker. Later, the arrest warrant request for an NSA contractor n...
Hasnain says:
"The second is that when they print things out, they includes these invisible dots, so documents can be tracked.
Yes, this code the government forces into our printers is a violation of our 3rd Amendment rights."
Posted on 2017-06-06T04:47:18+0000
Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? | Hacker News
* The Dataflow book has some great coverage of fixpoint algorithms. It's really helpful to recognize when some problems are best solved by fixpoint analysis.
WSJ Ends Google Users' Free Ride, Then Fades in Search Results
After blocking Google users from reading free articles in February, the Wall Street Journal’s subscription business soared, with a fourfold increase in the rate of visitors converting into paying customers. But there was a trade-off: Traffic from Google plummeted 44 percent.
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Posted on 2017-06-05T19:58:04+0000
Climate Science Meets a Stubborn Obstacle: Students
A new teacher’s efforts to educate teenagers in Ohio coal country ran up against a cultural resistance to evidence of the human role in global warming.
Hasnain says:
Really engrossing human interest story.
"On a field trip to a biology laboratory there, many of his students took their first ride on an escalator. To illustrate why some scientists in the 1970s believed the world was cooling rather than warming (“So why should we believe them now?” students sometimes asked), he brought in a 1968 push-button phone and a 1980s Nintendo game cartridge."
Posted on 2017-06-05T19:46:10+0000