We Will Miss Antibiotics When They’re Gone
To keep infections at bay, we need to fix the broken antibiotic business model.
Hasnain says:
This plus people not finishing their anti-biotics courses (and getting them for everything) and farmers stuffing animals with anti-biotics, is scaring me for the future
Posted on 2017-01-22T20:31:04+0000
NHTSA’s full final investigation into Tesla’s Autopilot shows 40% crash rate reduction
The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has released its full findings following the investigation into last year's fatal crash involving a..
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Posted on 2017-01-20T05:57:02+0000
Pakistani mom promised her daughter a wedding reception. Instead, she burned her alive.
Perveen Bibi was sentenced to death for killing her daughter, who had eloped without her family's permission. Her son received a life sentence. Roughly 1,000 women die in such “honor killings” every year in Pakistan.
U.S. sues Oracle, alleges salary and hiring discrimination
The U.S. Labor Department has sued Oracle America Inc, alleging that the technology company systematically paid its white, male employees more than other workers and unlawfully favored Asian applicants in its recruiting and hiring efforts.
My Name Is Noor, And I'm Not Omar Mateen's Wife
Newsy's Noor Tagouri talks about misrepresentation of Muslim women in media.
How much does employee turnover really cost? – Resources for Humans
People are companies’ most important assets. We’ve all known this for a long time, but 1) we pay it lip service more often than we try to…
Hasnain says:
"Maia Josebachvili, VP of of People at Greenhouse, produced a case study where she argued that retaining a sales person for three years instead of two, along with better onboarding and management practices, yields a difference of $1.3 million in net value to the company over a three year period."
Posted on 2017-01-18T06:49:06+0000
A Silicon Valley down payment could buy you an entire house in much of the U.S.
Give or take a few bucks, the median 20 percent down payment on a house in metro San Jose equals the median value of a house nationwide.
Hasnain says:
"Zillow also reports that 25 percent of first-time homebuyers in the U.S. rely on gifts from family and friends to gather enough funds to buy a house. And the report finds that saving for a down payment is the biggest worry of a fifth of all buyers."
All the IPOs are basically going to the landlord's pockets
Posted on 2017-01-18T05:51:27+0000
Rust hash iteration+reinsertion
It was recently discovered that some surprising operations on Rust’s standard hash table types could go quadratic. Perhaps the simplest illustration is this snippet from a comment, here simplified...
Click to view the original at accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com
Hasnain says:
This is one of the best accidentally quadric posts I've read in quite a while. Great detailed investigation and background on hashing.
Posted on 2017-01-18T02:22:35+0000
Testing LLVM – Embedded in Academia
Testing LLVM [This piece is loosely a followup to this one.] Background Once a piece of software reaches a certain size, it is guaranteed to be loosely specified and not completely understood by any individual. It gets committed to many times per day by people who are only loosely aware of each othe...
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Posted on 2017-01-14T17:52:02+0000
In the Shopping Cart of a Food Stamp Household: Lots of Soda
Food stamps are supposed to help improve nutrition for the poor, but a study shows that, just like everyone else, food stamp users buy soda and junk food.
Hasnain says:
While 9.7% is a crazy high amount, they do a disservice by only pointing out that the average is 7.1% otherwise, making it sound much worse than it actually is. I'm against them curbing access to soda on food stamps just for this reason alone.
Also, 7.1% seems crazy high to me?! That is a metric crapton of soda.
Posted on 2017-01-14T17:46:01+0000