Hasnain says:

This is a really cool data structure.

Hasnain says:

"XSA-108 2014-10-01 12:00 none (yet) assigned (Prereleased, but embargoed)"

I wonder what it is this time, given that AWS is pre-emptively shutting instances down and telling users their instances will be rebooted.

Hasnain says:

Yay, another huge remote code execution vulnerability.

Hasnain says:

"Random memory fragments such as those listed here can be found on many IBM and Microsoft disks, but usually they contain bits of directories or executables, not plain text of e-mails."

"and we're going to KILL HIM WITH HAMMERS. Hahahahahahahaha.
And THEN we're going to ..."

Hasnain says:

"No matter what happens to Talko, it is remarkable that a pioneer from the floppy disk days has created one of the year’s most innovative mobile apps. Back in 2000, Bill Gates noted that, of the early visionaries of personal computing, very few were still in the game. “Except for Jobs and myself and Ray Ozzie, it’s not very many people,” he told me. Fourteen years later, Jobs is dead and Gates is no longer a full-timer at Microsoft.

But Ray Ozzie is still building. And he wants to reinvent the phone call."

Hasnain says:

"The drug that had been “mislabeled” as MDMA and proven so horribly toxic that it had stopped Michael’s study cold; the drug that was far more toxic than actual MDMA, methamphetamine, already was a prescription medicine."

Hasnain says:

Long, and worth reading for anyone who works or is interested in ontologies and classification.

"They missed the end of this progression, which is that, if you've got enough links, you don't need the hierarchy anymore. There is no shelf. There is no file system. The links alone are enough."

"One of the biggest problems with categorizing things in advance is that it forces the categorizers to take on two jobs that have historically been quite hard: mind reading, and fortune telling. It forces categorizers to guess what their users are thinking, and to make predictions about the future."

Hasnain says:

I didn't know buzzfeed actually had content worth reading. This is beautiful, moving, and scary.

"I wondered if I’d betrayed any secrets, but when I stopped to consider them, I couldn’t remember my secrets."

Hasnain says:

Native advertising and corporate-influenced media is kind of bad. The John Oliver video on this topic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_F5GxCwizc) is also great.

Hasnain says:

"Today’s priests of obesity prevention proclaim with confidence and authority that they have the answer. So did Bruno Bettelheim in the 1950s, when he blamed autism on mothers with cold personalities. So, for that matter, did the clerics of 18th-century Lisbon, who blamed earthquakes on people’s sinful ways. History is not kind to authorities whose mistaken dogmas cause unnecessary suffering and pointless effort, while ignoring the real causes of trouble. And the history of the obesity era has yet to be written."