What Happens When the Poor Receive a Stipend?
A study of what happened with a Native American tribe shows a big effect on children.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2014-01-19T21:52:03+0000
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Welcome to Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces (now version 0.6 -- see BOOK NEWS for details), a free online (and available for purchase in printed form) operating systems book! The book is centered around three conceptual pieces that are fundamental to operating systems: virtualization,concurrency...
Hasnain says:
This is an amazing free book on OS.
(the professors got ticked off at how expensive books were and made this freely available)
Posted on 2014-01-17T19:59:50+0000
Building an open source Nest
Inspired by the Google acquisition of Nest for $3.2Bn, the Spark team set out to build an intelligent learning thermostat in less than 24 hours.
Hasnain says:
For the people who want to be able to set the temperature in their house in an intelligent manner; and not have to sign into google+ to do so.
Posted on 2014-01-17T19:35:58+0000
Matasano Security - October Crypto Class
You get access to the device, disassembly of its code, and a low-level debugger and assembler. We "run" the devices, you interact with them via a vanilla web interface.
Hasnain says:
Yay this looks fun.
(Facebook can't seem to get the title right, it's "Announcing The Matasano/Square CTF")
Posted on 2014-01-17T03:31:19+0000
A VC: VC Pitches In A Year Or Two
Entrepreneur: I plan to launch a better streaming music service. It leverages the data on what you and your friends currently listen to, combines that with the schedule of new music launches and acts that are touring in your city...
Hasnain says:
This paints a scary picture of the future in light of the recent ruling on net neutrality.
Posted on 2014-01-15T22:51:30+0000
FarmLogs Raises $4M Series A To Further Advance Farming Into The Age of Apps | TechCrunch
Just a year after securing $1 million in seed funding, Michigan-based FarmLogs is announcing a $4 million Series A led by Drive Capital. The company says it..
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2014-01-15T22:45:49+0000
Silicon Valley workers may pursue collusion case as group- court
Jan 14 (Reuters) - Roughly 60,000 Silicon Valley workers wonclearance to pursue a lawsuit accusing Apple Inc,Google Inc and other companies of conspiring to drivedown pay by not poaching each other's
Coming soon: Stripe CTF3
It's been over a year since our last Capture the Flag competition, and in the meanwhile we've fielded dozensofinquiries about when the next one's coming. The wait is almost over: CTF3 will be here a week from today.
Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems
We look at the amazing features in ZFS and btrfs—and why you need them.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2014-01-15T18:35:36+0000
http://speaking.io/
speaking.io
Hasnain says:
This is a pretty good resource for anyone looking to brush up on public speaking.
Posted on 2014-01-15T18:33:18+0000