Toss BBQ brushes before bristles get stuck in your throat, surgeon urges
Canadian surgeons are urging people to throw out wire-bristled barbecue brushes because none of them have figured out a surefire way of removing the wires when they get stuck in people's throats.
A major SpaceX explosion just destroyed Facebook's first satellite
Facebook's AMOS-6 satellite would have provided internet to sub-Saharan Africa. A Falcon 9 explosion on a SpaceX launchpad destroyed it.
Hasnain says:
Don't know if there's anything anyone can say except "well, ... crap"
Posted on 2016-09-01T15:44:57+0000
Apache Spark @Scale: A 60 TB+ production use case
Through a series of performance and reliability improvements, we were able to scale Spark to handle a TB-scale entity ranking system in production.
What Kids Wish Their Teachers Knew
A teacher’s insights from asking students to finish the sentence, “I wish my teacher knew…”
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"In her book, Ms. Schwartz writes about mistakes that might have been prevented if she had known her students better. She had a student named Chris who was obsessed with science. Ms. Schwartz thought she had done Chris a huge favor by securing a spot for him in a science-focused summer camp. But she was unaware of the family’s financial struggles and it turned out that his parents could not afford to take time off from work to get Chris to camp."
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Posted on 2016-08-31T20:02:06+0000
Google Takes on Uber With New Ride-Share Service
Google is moving onto Uber’s turf with its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco that would help commuters carpool at far cheaper rates, according to a person familiar with the matter, jumping into a booming but fiercely competitive market.
Paid $75,000 to Love a Brand on Instagram. But Is It an Ad?
Companies are spending big to have celebrities praise their products to millions of social media followers, raising questions about disclosure rules.
Hasnain says:
"Captiv8, a company that connects brands to influencers, says someone with three million to seven million followers can charge, on average, $187,500 for a post on YouTube, $75,000 for a post on Instagram or Snapchat and $30,000 for a post on Twitter. For influencers with 50,000 to 500,000 followers, the average is $2,500 for YouTube, $1,000 for Instagram or Snapchat and $400 for Twitter."
I clearly need to get an Instagram/Youtube account with lots of followers
Posted on 2016-08-30T16:50:28+0000
The world's oldest man has been found, but he just wants to die
The world’s oldest man has been named as Indonesian Mbah Gotho, who is 145 years old, with documentation that says he was born in 1870. Mr Gotho said he began preparing for his death in 1992, even having a gravestone made, but 24 years later he is still alive. He has now outlived all 10 of his si...
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Wondering if they'll be able to verify this independently
Posted on 2016-08-30T05:28:44+0000
Are PhD Students Irrational? - Los Angeles Review of Books
Debunking the widespread idea that humanities PhD students are irrational for entering into an “oversupplied” degree in a tight job market.
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Posted on 2016-08-30T04:44:48+0000
I Got Scammed By A Silicon Valley Startup
Telling my story isn’t going to be easy. Oftentimes I feel embarrassed, enraged, and regretful when I have to relive it, but in the end it…
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This is much worse than I imagined it would be from reading the title. Especially when it came to the photo shopped wire transfer confirmations...
Posted on 2016-08-29T05:01:21+0000
For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II
In 1978, Soviet geologists prospecting in the wilds of Siberia discovered a family of six, lost in the taiga