A nation of slaves - Charlie's Diary
George Osborne has committed the Conservatives to targeting "full employment", saying that tax and welfare changes would help achieve it.
Hasnain says:
"Today, in the political discourse of the west, it is almost unthinkably hard to ask a very simple question: why should we work?"
Posted on 2014-04-03T16:49:02+0000
http://isecpartners.github.io/publications/iSEC_Cryptocat_iOS.pdf
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So You Think You're Smarter Than A CIA Agent
When 3,000 average citizens were asked to forecast global events, some consistently made predictions that turned out to be more accurate than those with classified intelligence.
Hasnain says:
"Galton was at a fair where about 800 people had tried to guess the weight of a dead ox in a competition. After the prize was awarded, Galton collected all the guesses so he could figure out how far off the mark the average guess was.
It turned out that most of the guesses were really bad — way too high or way too low. But when Galton averaged them together, he was shocked:
The dead ox weighed 1,198 pounds. The crowd's average: 1,197."
(slightly better source: http://www.economist.com/news/21589145-how-sort-best-rest-whos-good-forecasts)
Posted on 2014-04-02T16:52:19+0000
The man who went looking for freedom
Fighting the system used to be dangerous anywhere in Eastern Europe. For one protester from a small Romanian village it was disastrous - and for his family.
Hasnain says:
"When he left home, the car stuffed with placards and leaflets, my father knew what he was returning to. Yet he had no choice. For him the family was his country and the country was his family. If he did not fight for everyone else, he could not have hoped to put food on our own table. Or a shred of dignity in our lives. He left us out of desperation and moral conviction."
Posted on 2014-04-02T16:50:05+0000
Amazon Fire TV
Amazon Fire TV is a tiny box that connects your HDTV to a world of online entertainment. With a huge selection of TV episodes and movies, voice search that really works, plus exclusive features like Amazon FreeTime, it’s the easiest way to enjoy Netflix, Prime Instant Video, Hulu Plus, low...
Redis new data structure: the HyperLogLog - Antirez weblog
antirez 3 minutes ago. Generally speaking, I love randomized algorithms, but there is one I love particularly since even after you understand how it works, it still remains magical from a programmer point of view. It accomplishes something that is almost illogical given how little it asks for in ter...
Hasnain says:
This is a really interesting writeup on a cool data structure.
Posted on 2014-04-01T16:37:31+0000
Big data: are we making a big mistake? - FT.com
Five years ago, a team of researchers from Google announced a remarkable achievement in one of the world’s top scientific journals, Nature. Without needing the results of a single medical check-up, they were nevertheless able to track the spread of
Hasnain says:
“Big data” has arrived, but big insights have not. The challenge now is to solve new problems and gain new answers – without making the same old statistical mistakes on a grander scale than ever."
Microsoft Azure – Innovation, Quality and Price - Windows Azure - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
This week Microsoft has the pleasure of hosting thousands of developers from all over the world at our Build conference in San Francisco. They don’t travel because they like airline food. They travel because they recognize we’re in the early stages of a platform shift and want to influence the next…
Hasnain says:
I think it's cool that Amazon, google, and Microsoft have all decided to reduce the prices of their cloud offerings.
Posted on 2014-03-31T22:02:56+0000
How One Man Ruined The Most Expensive Game Jam In History
...game jam in the history of the video game industry, and how it was dismantled by a single man. Let’s get started. GAME_JAM didn’t start out as a...