Mistakes You Should Never Make • Climb Higher
I was walking to a team meeting where I was going to announce that we would likely have to lay off nearly all of our employees because we unexpectedly had almost no money left, and that it was all my fault. On the way, my co-founder and our CTO... | Seth Bannon | Founder & CEO, Amicus. Y Combina…
Hasnain says:
"Entrepreneurs often write about what’s going right, but too rarely write about what’s gone wrong."
There are tons of valuable lessons in here.
Posted on 2014-07-24T19:25:28+0000
Blacklisted: The Secret Government Rulebook For Labeling You a Terrorist
The Obama administration has quietly approved a substantial expansion of the terrorist watchlist system, authorizing a secret process that requires neither “concrete facts” nor “irrefutable evidence” to designate an American or foreigner as a terrorist, according to a key government document obtaine…
Hasnain says:
It's quite scary that this database exists in the first place.
Posted on 2014-07-24T01:06:15+0000
Quantum bounce could make black holes explode
If space-time is granular, it could reverse gravitational collapse and turn it into expansion.
Hasnain says:
This is an interesting phenomenon. I'm wondering how it would work out. Can any of the physicists in my friends list comment on how plausible this is?
Posted on 2014-07-22T21:43:25+0000
Count to ten when a plane goes down...
Just a little under 31 years ago, I played a key role in a conspiracy theory that grew up around a passenger plane downed by a Russian missile. Trust me, I did not mean to be involved. On September 1,...
Hasnain says:
"As this was a very early computer with limited backup capability, hours of work of dozens of experts had been lost when I inadvertently closed down the computer.
I, naturally, felt terrible and was, appropriately, fired."
All I can say is "ouch"
Posted on 2014-07-22T00:27:56+0000
StackOverflow Update: 560M Pageviews a Month, 25 Servers, and It's All About Performance - High...
The folks at Stack Overflow remain incredibly open about what they are doing and why. So it&...
Hasnain says:
This is some interesting stuff. I find the coding practices a bit different, but they seem to work well.
Posted on 2014-07-21T23:05:20+0000
Security Data Science Papers
A collection of security data science research papers
klaufir/off-by-one.md
- Gist is a simple way to share snippets of text and code with others.
Hasnain says:
Off by one errors causing geopolitical issues. A good analysis of the bug in Youtube.
Posted on 2014-07-19T19:36:15+0000
Cheap at sea, pricey on the plate: The voodoo of lobster economics
Amid an unprecendent glut, Larry the doomed lobster is followed from a Nova Scotia trap to a Toronto table
Hasnain says:
This is a great read on how lobsters go from the sea to your plate.
Posted on 2014-07-19T07:00:53+0000
Rachel Aviv: A Middle-School Cheating Scandal Raises Questions About No Child Left Behind
According to statements later made by teachers and administrators, the cheating process at Parks Middle School, in Atlanta, began to take the form of a routine. During testing week, after students had completed the day’s section, principal Christopher Waller distracted the testing coordinator. Then,…
Hasnain says:
This is a sad story about how No Child Left Behind and data-driven teacher evaluation policies forced over a hundred teachers at forty plus schools to cheat and modify standardized test scores (at times without the students' knowledge).
Posted on 2014-07-19T06:48:37+0000
Foul Territory
Fred Fletcher doesn’t watch baseball anymore, but one night in May, he got a text from a friend: Something had happened at that evening’s
Hasnain says:
"How fast was it going? We don’t know for sure, but a line drive from a major league batter can easily exceed 100 miles per hour. We know some other things. We know that a baseball weighs five ounces. We know that force equals mass times acceleration. We know that Fred Fletcher’s six-year-old daughter, whom he will identify only as “A,” was sitting precisely 144 feet from home plate. The laces on her sneakers were knotted in neat bows. And she—well, not just she, but everyone around her—had less than one second to react to Cabrera’s line drive."
Posted on 2014-07-19T06:36:31+0000