Reassessing Airport Security - Schneier on Security
Reassessing Airport Security News that the Transportation Security Administration missed a whopping 95% of guns and bombs in recent airport security "red team" tests was justifiably shocking. It's clear that we're not getting value for the $7 billion we're paying the TSA annually. But there's anothe…
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Posted on 2015-06-12T08:37:40+0000
Interactive: Here’s why men on earth outnumber women by 60 million
A story of drinkers, genocide, and unborn girls
Longstanding problem put to rest
Proof that a 40-year-old algorithm is the best possible will come as a relief to computer scientists.
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Posted on 2015-06-12T07:50:25+0000
What is code? If you don't know, you need to read this:
The world belongs to people who code. Those who don’t understand will be left behind.
Hasnain says:
Insanely long, insanely detailed, reads like a story. It's awesome
Posted on 2015-06-12T07:48:01+0000
Max Howell on Twitter
“Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.”
Hasnain says:
"Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so f*** off."
Tech interviews are broken
Posted on 2015-06-12T07:37:36+0000
I quit the tech industry / fuzzy notepad
Tue 09 June 2015 I quit the tech industry This Friday, June 12, will be my last day at Yelp. I don’t intend to look for another tech job. Or another job at all. Ever. I’m just thoroughly exhausted. I have so much I want to do, yet I’m selling half of my waking hours every weekday to someone else, fo…
Taking a Tire Iron to Techie Triumphalism
A new book by Kentaro Toyama, a computer scientist, criticizes the efforts by technology entrepreneurs to effect social change.
Hasnain says:
"There are various explanations for the technology world’s contempt for existing human structures. It’s a world full of trained engineers — and many college dropouts — who cannot be expected to grasp human dynamics any more than political scientists understand Java code. Many brilliant technology leaders have stories of bullying and isolation in their youths that would leave anyone with abiding skepticism of human groups, institutions, cultures. If family dinners and school lunches were painful for you, “disrupting” eating with a venture-capital-backed protein drink like Soylent can seem like liberation."
Well put
Posted on 2015-06-10T04:00:30+0000
June Oven
The June Intelligent Oven™ is a powerful and easy-to-use computer-based oven that makes everyone a better cook.
Mortgages Are About Math: Open-Source Loan-Level Analysis of Fannie and Freddie
[M]ortgages were acknowledged to be the most mathematically complex securities in the marketplace. The complexity arose entirely out of the option the homeowner has to prepay his loan; it was poetic …
ryanries/UniversalPauseButton
UniversalPauseButton - A pause button that pauses the unpausable. Handy for video game cut scenes especially.