Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers - Blog - Hacker School
Google sponsors over $150k of grants for female programmers We're excited to announce that Google is sponsoring over $150,000 of need-based grants for female programmers to come to Hacker School. These grants will allow us to provide financial assistance for living expenses to women for our upcoming...
Hasnain says:
If anyone wants to do a fully funded 3 month crash course on programming in NYC. Easy visa too.
Posted on 2013-12-10T07:08:05+0000
Smile Always Automatically Loads Amazon's Free Charity Donation Page
Chrome: AmazonSmile is a neat program where Amazon donates 0.5% of your Amazon purchases to a charity of your choosing. The problem is that you have to remember to login at smile.amazon.com before shopping for it to work. Smile Always is a simple Chrome extension that automatically redirects you to…
Hasnain says:
I think anyone buying stuff from Amazon should use this.
(thanks, Saagar)
Posted on 2013-12-10T01:10:42+0000
The Vigilante of Clallam County
Patrick Drum was tired of seeing sex offenders continue to hurt children. So he decided to kill them.
Hasnain has not yet written a summary for this.
Posted on 2013-12-09T20:36:25+0000
Invisible Child: Dasani’s Homeless Life
There are more than 22,000 homeless children in New York, the highest number since the Great Depression. This is one of their stories.
No Man's Sky Is A Huge Procedurally Generated Sci-Fi Exploration Sim - Indie Statik
At Spike's VGX tonight, four-man team Hello Games announced a seemingly huge, procedurally generated, first person sci-fi exploration sim called No Man's
Peter Higgs: I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system
Physicist doubts work like Higgs boson identification achievable now as academics are expected to 'keep churning out papers'
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Posted on 2013-12-07T06:02:06+0000
Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed
Mexican authorities say hunt for missing radioactive over and that the two men who stole it are likely doomed.
Small things add up
For years I’ve used YSlow and PageSpeed to profile page performance on 4chan. Page performance has always been important to me for two big reasons: 1) I browse 4chan daily and can’t stand slow...
Hasnain says:
"By migrating to the new domain, end users now save roughly 100 KB upstream per page load, which at 500 million pageviews per month adds up to 46 terabytes per month in savings for our users. I find this unreal."
Holy ...
Posted on 2013-12-03T03:05:23+0000
No girls allowed
Unraveling the story behind the stereotype of video games being for boys.
How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang
In 2000, economist Steven Levitt and sociologist Sudhir Venkatesh published an article in the Quarterly Journal of Economics about the internal wage structure of a Chicago drug gang. This piece wou...
Hasnain says:
"With a constant supply of new low-level drug sellers entering the market and ready to be exploited, drug lords can become increasingly rich without needing to distribute their wealth towards the bottom. You have an expanding mass of rank-and-file “outsiders” ready to forgo income for future wealth, and a small core of “insiders” securing incomes largely at the expense of the mass. We can call it a winner-take-all market."
Just swap "low-level drug sellers" with "fresh PhDs", and "drug lords" with "tenured faculty" and it's still true.
Posted on 2013-12-01T02:21:51+0000