Federal judge: Drinking tea, shopping at a gardening store is probable cause for a SWAT raid on...
Robert and Addie Harte had to spend $25,000 to find out why a SWAT team mistakenly raided their home.
Hasnain says:
"of course, we can’t have the media looking into critical public safety initiatives like “Operation Constant Gardener.” If such scrutiny revealed that cops consider merely shopping at a garden supply store to be suspicious behavior, that drug testing field kits are more about circumventing the Fourth Amendment than accurate results or that a sheriff’s boast of having shut down a drug operation run by an “average family” in a “good neighborhood” was actually a terrifying raid in which SWAT cops held two kids at gunpoint because their mother enjoyed drinking tea … well, some people might begin to question the wisdom of the drug war."
Posted on 2015-12-29T02:02:43+0000
U.S. predicts zero job growth for electrical engineers
Electronics engineers design and develop electronic equipment, such as music players and GPS systems, and many work in areas closely associated with computer hardware, according to the government's descriptions.
If you’re 30% through your life, you’re likely 90% through your best relationships
Your remaining face time with any person depends largely on where that person falls on your list of life priorities.
Hasnain says:
"It turns out that when I graduated from high school, I had already used up 93% of my in-person parent time. I’m now enjoying the last 5% of that time. We’re in the tail end." :(
Posted on 2015-12-28T04:16:14+0000
Going global
Secrets of the world’s best businesspeople
Hasnain says:
Gujratis taking over the world. Also has a shout out to memons.
The most important thing I learnt from this, though, was that Freddie Mercury is of Gujrati descent
Posted on 2015-12-28T04:13:11+0000
Agner`s CPU blog - Moores law hits the roof
Intel's iconic Tick-Tock clock has begun to skip a beat now and then. Every Tick is a shrinking of the transistor size, and every Tock is an improvement of the microarchitecture. The current processor generation called Skylake is a Tock with a 14 nanometer process. The next in sequence would logical…
Hasnain says:
"The biggest potential for improved performance is now, as I see it, on the software side. "
Posted on 2015-12-28T04:00:20+0000
At Theranos, Many Strategies and Snags
Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos has emphasized a variety of blood-testing strategies but often collided with technological problems.
Hasnain says:
The fraud seems to be unraveling and it seems to sound more and more horrible day by day. I'm still stumped that they raised so much money without having a working product at all, and even worse, without showing that their product is even possible
"The lab employee later told federal authorities that the results from the quality-control runs diverged from the known amount by more than two standard deviations, a red flag that suggested possible accuracy problems, according to a complaint filed by the employee.
When the Theranos employee alerted superiors, someone from research and development came to the lab and deleted quality-control data to make the Edison’s test runs look better, the former lab employee alleged in the complaint to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS."
Posted on 2015-12-28T03:19:08+0000
#OLEOutlook - bypass almost every Corporate security control with a point’n’click GUI
In this tutorial, I will show you how to embed an executable into a corporate network via email, behind the firewall(s),…
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Posted on 2015-12-26T18:47:16+0000
A Year in Papers
We've reached the end of term again, and I'm taking a break from writing up papers over the holidays - a chance to replenish my backlog and start planning for 2016 too! I want to see what I can do ...
Hasnain says:
Still impressed at how this guy reads almost one paper a day over such a consistent period and then manages to write about them too
Posted on 2015-12-25T00:08:34+0000
How to get rich in tech, guaranteed.
Today’s NYT article on how employees sometimes lose out is a great read. Employees who like that, might also like Hunter’s article from last week on (not) getting rich at startups. This is the follow...
Hasnain says:
"But for all that is good and holy, don’t join a startup for the fucking money."
Posted on 2015-12-24T17:47:46+0000
When a Unicorn Start-Up Stumbles, Its Employees Get Hurt
Employees at Good Technology, once valued at $1.1 billion, found their shares made practically worthless by a sale to BlackBerry for $425 million.