I Got Myself Arrested So I Could Look Inside the Justice System
A former prosecutor fights the law and lets it win.
Hasnain says:
"But in between the important cases, I found myself spending most of my time prosecuting people of color for things we white kids did with impunity growing up in the suburbs. As our office handed down arrest records and probation terms for riding dirt bikes in the street, cutting through a neighbor’s yard, hosting loud parties, fighting, or smoking weed – shenanigans that had rarely earned my own classmates anything more than raised eyebrows and scoldings – I often wondered if there was a side of the justice system that we never saw in the suburbs. Last year, I got myself arrested in New York City and found out."
Posted on 2013-12-17T21:38:17+0000
A Great Old-Timey Game-Programming Hack - Tom Moertel’s Blog
A long time ago, when I was a college undergrad, I spent some time working on computer video games. This was in the 8-bit PC era, so the gaming hardware was almost impossibly slow by today’s standards.
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SteamOS
SteamOS Beta is the first public release of our Linux-based operating system. The base system draws from Debian 7, code named Debian Wheezy. Our work builds on top of the solid Debian core and optimizes it for a living room experience. Most of all, it is an open Linux platform that leaves you in ful...
David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence
The very laws of physics imply that artificial intelligence must be possible. What's holding us up?
Inside the Go Playground - The Go Blog
In September 2010 we introduced the Go Playground, a web service that compiles and executes arbitrary Go code and returns the program output.
The Best Books I Read in 2013
December 12, 2013 | By Bill Gates I read a lot, but I don?t always choose what?s on the bestseller list. Many of the books I read this year actually came out years ago.
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Posted on 2013-12-13T00:45:27+0000
Capturing the Second Largest Tree in the World in a Single Image
For a recent National Geographic story on giant sequoia trees, photographer Michael “Nick” Nichols was tasked with capturing a photograph showing the sheer
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Posted on 2013-12-12T21:21:43+0000
Code rant: Are Your Programmers Working Hard, Or Are They Lazy?
When people are doing a physical task, it’s easy to assess how hard they are working. You can see the physical movement, the sweat. You also see the result of their work: the brick wall rising, the hole in the ground getting bigger. Recognising and rewarding hard work is a pretty fundamental human i...
Madagascar village 'hit by plague'
A village in Madagascar has been hit by a deadly outbreak of the bubonic plague, medical experts on the island confirm.
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I know it's horrible and I'm probably going to hell for this, but I find it hilarious that the bubonic plague hit Madagascar first ...
Posted on 2013-12-11T02:09:42+0000