An Amazon engineer is letting thousands of Twitch users play the stock market with $50,000 of his own money
Meet StockStream, an experiment in letting total internet strangers bet on $50,000 of this Amazon's engineer's money.
The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next
Whites were asked to leave for a ‘Day of Absence.’ I objected. Then 50 yelling students crashed my class.
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Posted on 2017-05-31T23:59:34+0000
Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute
The ride-hailing service had acquired Anthony Levandowski’s company last year. He was accused of stealing product plans from his former employer.
Intel’s Core i9 Extreme Edition CPU is an 18-core beast
Start saving up: Intel just unveiled its first 18-core consumer CPU.
As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating
Growing numbers of computer science students are getting caught plagiarizing code, either from classmates or from someplace on the web.
Hasnain says:
"College students have flooded into computer science courses across the country, recognizing them as an entree to coveted jobs at companies like Facebook and Google, not to mention the big prize: a start-up worth millions."
Which is the unfortunate reason why interviews often ask such basic questions
Posted on 2017-05-30T02:37:19+0000
A slogan ready for retirement
Double the education budget? We should demand 100pc literacy instead.
Hasnain says:
"Children in government schools say teachers arrive late, drink tea, make them massage their feet, ask them to buy them barfi, and leave early. At best, these schools are daycares. At worst, they expose children to physical and sexual abuse."
Posted on 2017-05-29T16:42:49+0000
How I built a business that lets me live on the beach full time
That's not to say that I don't like working. I write software for a living, which is crazy fun in and of itself. If you'd have told little 14 year old Jason, writing games on his Commodore 64, that he'd one day have a job doing basically the same thing, he'd have been pretty stoked.
How to Sleep
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician’s guide to sleep in a stressful age.
Hasnain says:
"“They would insist that they were fine,” said Dinges, “but weren’t performing well at all, and the discrepancy was extreme.”
This finding has been replicated many times over the intervening decades, even as many professions continue to encourage and applaud sleep deprivation. In one study published in the journal Sleep, researchers kept people just slightly sleep deprived—allowing them only six hours to sleep each night—and watched the subjects’ performance on cognitive tests plummet. The crucial finding was that throughout their time in the study, the sixers thought they were functioning perfectly well."
Posted on 2017-05-29T11:13:40+0000
2 'Heroes' Stabbed To Death Standing Up To Muslim Hate In Portland
Police arrested a 35-year-old man with white supremacist ties after the attack.
Hasnain says:
"Police said they were familiar with Christian but did not see him as a threat to public safety, adding that he suffered from mental illness. His mother told HuffPost that she didn’t believe he was mentally ill."
I wonder when America (and other parts of the world too) will finally have a proper public dialog about mental illness.
Posted on 2017-05-28T19:41:14+0000
A Year of Google Maps & Apple Maps
Google Maps's Quiet Transformation
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2017-05-28T11:27:51+0000