The executive order that led to mass spying, as told by NSA alumni
Feds call it “twelve triple three”; whistleblowers says it's the heart of the problem.
Hasnain says:
1. CIA created black propaganda in USSR linking Soviets and international terrorists to foment dissent in Russia.
2. Somebody picked it up from outside and wrote a book about Soviet-terrorism links.
3. CIA director read the book, took it seriously, freaked out, lobbied for more powers.
3a. CIA people told new director, "er, boss, that was actually us".
3b. CIA director does not believe his own people.
4. CIA and NSA got more powers.
You suck at technical interviews | Seldo.Com Blog
You are bad at giving technical interviews. Yes, you. You're looking for the wrong skills, hiring the wrong people, and actively screwing yourself and your company. Without changing anything about your applicant pool, you can hire different people and your company will do better and you will enjoy y…
Despite Promises, Little Progress in Drawing Poor to Elite Colleges
Surveys of top colleges found virtually no change from the 1990s to 2012 in enrollment of students who are less well off despite a huge increase in the number of such students going to college.
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Posted on 2014-08-26T22:53:44+0000
Mozilla Unveils $33 Intex Cloud FX Smartphone
Mozilla, known for its Firefox web browser, is venturing into the low-cost smartphone war by launching a cellphone priced at about $33 in India.
The fundamental problem of programming language package management : Inside 206-105
The fundamental problem of programming language package management Why are there so many goddamn package managers? They sprawl across both operating systems (apt, yum, pacman, Homebrew) as well as for programming languages (Bundler, Cabal, Composer, CPAN, CRAN, CTAN, EasyInstall, Go Get, Maven, npm,…
How Norway avoided the 'curse of oil'
Norway is one of the richest places on earth, yet displays of ostentatious wealth are rare. How has Norway avoided the pitfalls of mineral wealth, and what comes after the oil runs out?
The Relative Cost of Bandwidth Around the World | CloudFlare Blog
To be a part of the Internet, CloudFlare buys bandwidth, known as transit, from a number of different providers.
Gridland
Match. Build. Survive.
Hasnain says:
This was made by the folk who made "A Dark Room".
Here goes my productivity...
Gogs: Go Git Service
Gogs(Go Git Service) is a GitHub-like clone in the Go Programming Language
Hasnain says:
gogs is insanely easy to set up; I just decided to self host most of my code.
Posted on 2014-08-26T04:54:48+0000
roots
Around 2006, my friend Dan Christensen created a fascinating picture of all the roots of all polynomials of degree ≤ 5 with integer coefficients ranging from -4 to 4: