Nelson's Linkblog 2016-03

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Chinese Crowd Formations

Nice set of photos

2016-03-31 photography • china • crowds • massgames • choreography

Nice rendering of the US from Boston to Washington DC

2016-03-31 unitedstates • usa • maps • eastcoast • via:reddit

Organization that runs Wikipedia is having a management crisis

2016-03-31 wikipedia • management • openculture • nonprofit

CockroachDB beta

New distributed database from some very smart folks

2016-03-30 google • database • acid • sql

Trump scared of reporter's pen

Parody is impossible

2016-03-30 trump • politics • journailsm

Noteworthy cypherpunks

A list of people from an important moment in tech in the 90s

2016-03-30 crypto • cypherpunks • assange

Check cashing while black

Blood-boiling story of mistreatment

2016-03-30 racism • atlanta • checkcashing • moneyorder

Long investigative series on a crypto programmer turned prescription pill criminal

2016-03-29 crime • crypto • leroux • truecrypt • drugs • murder • journalism

Stack Overflow hardware

Pleasantly retro to own your own computers, here's what high end stuff looks like

2016-03-29 hardware • ops • datacenter • via:hackernews

Insane SNES hacking

Bootstrapping yourself to being able to program the SNES by exploiting bugs in Super Mario World

2016-03-28 games • hacks • speedrun • snes

From 2003, complete with instructions for WebTV users

2016-03-28 gzip • zip • compression • web • history • 2003 • webtv

Another nice Python REPL, a bit more complex than bpython but not ipython

2016-03-28 python • repl • programming

A better REPL for Python, but simpler than iPython

2016-03-28 python • repl • programming • via:reddit

US business competition

Detailed argument that profits for American firms are too high, that the business climate has consolidated too much

2016-03-28 america • unitedstates • finance • business • competition

Cops sniffing around Ancestry and 23AndMe genetic databases

2016-03-27 privacy • genetics • dna • via:hackernews

First day with drone...

2016-03-27 funny • drone • aerial • via:reddit

Passive aggressive language in popup UIs

2016-03-26 funny • marketing • via:metafilter • popup

Javascript Jenga!

The perils of relying on installing random software from a package repo

2016-03-23 javascript • badtech • npm • npmjs • nodejs • leftpad

The Jefferson Grid (@the.jefferson.grid) • Instagram photos and videos

Lovely earth imagery

2016-03-23 maps • earth • aerial • via:rachelbinx • grid

Free SMS sending service, useful for quick hacks

2016-03-22 sms • text • message

Wrapper for cron jobs that doesn't spam email on stdout

2016-03-22 email • cron • devops

Estimate of $500/minute cost to the victim, $66/minute to launch an attack

2016-03-22 via:hackernews • ddos • badtech • security

Reporting on Trump

Being a journalist of a dangerous and crazy political movement

2016-03-21 trump • politics • journalism

Excellent series of tweets from a company founder

2016-03-21 race • startups • vc

Another Trump assault

The dangers of Trump flirting with violence in his speech

2016-03-20 trump • politics • assault • violence

Visual SQL Joins

Nice visualization and examples

2016-03-19 sql • join • venndiagram

Louisiana justice crisis

Not enough funding for public defenders

2016-03-19 justice • Louisiana • corruption

Twelfth Amendment president?

A theory for the 2016 election that has the House of Representatives picking the president

2016-03-18 trump • politics • houseofrepresentatives • democrats

Alternate Let's Encrypt client, just does SSL, doesn't modify web server config

2016-03-18 ssl • letsencrypt • security • via:balajidutt • crypto • web

Donald Trump's file

Details tracking his various outrageous lies

2016-03-17 politics • trump • lies • truth

Every Bootstrap site

An examination of cliché in design

2016-03-17 design • funny • bootstrap • html • css

Alphabet Discord

Google parent pressuring portfolio companies to be profitable

2016-03-17 google • alphabet • robotics • bostondynamics • business

BPF - the forgotten bytecode

A kernel mini-language for matching network packets

2016-03-17 internet • network • tcpip • bpf • tcpdump • firewall • kernel • linux

SFBART speaks truth

Amazing event on Twitter; regional transit agency answers people honestly, that its system is old and breaking down

2016-03-17 bart • transit • twitter • bayarea • sf

Trump threatens riots

Outrageously irresponsible rhetoric

2016-03-16 trump • riot • politics

Grandma Gatewood

Famous hiker in the 1950s

2016-03-16 hiking • walking • appalachiantrail

Learning from print maps

Good design musings

2016-03-16 design • cartography • maps • mapbox

NYT/BBC/AOL/NFL ad malware

Yet another case of user computers being hurt by major websites ad networks

2016-03-16 ads • badtech • adblock • malware • via:hackernews

Doxxing Dead People

Notes on genealogy searching by @ericajoy

2016-03-16 genealogy • ancestry • history • research

FAA drone risks

Federal agency is grossly overstating the risks of unmanned flight

2016-03-15 drones • uavs • faa • aviation

03 06 16 - andy gilmore

Interesting piece from a computational artist

2016-03-14 art • generative • andygilmore

Mapzen Android app

A new consumer map. They're promoting it as a privacy thing, but it's also just a really good OpenStreetmap

2016-03-14 maps • osm • openstreetmap • privacy • mapzen

Dropbox infrastructure

They moved from AWS to their own datacenters with Rust code

2016-03-14 programming • rust • golang • dropbox

NYT on open access

Good summary of the state of paid access to science research

2016-03-14 science • research • openaccess • openculture

Trump inciting violence

Direct video evidence

2016-03-14 trump • violence • politics

Founder breaks down how the videoconferencing product works

2016-03-14 pluot • webrtc • video • videoconferencing

Pluot video conferencing

Friend's new company: turnkey high quality videoconferencing

2016-03-14 videoconference • startups • pluot • medialab • collaboration

A new c/10 glider is found for Conway's Life

2016-03-14 games • conwaylife • life • glider

Add a zoom / pan UI to any large image. Includes a web tool you can just use

2016-03-14 images • zoom • pan • maps

Week of Trump falsehoods

I suppose we need an article like this every week

2016-03-14 trump • politics • lies • falsehoods

Can't Stump the Trump

Political parody videos made in the form of MLG gamer parody videos. An aggressively weird Internet culture mashup.

2016-03-13 games • video • parody • politics • trump

AlphaGo v Sedol Game 4

A win for team human

2016-03-13 games • go • igo • alphago • ai

Richard Simmons is not OK

TV fitness star has become a recluse

2016-03-12 celebrity • richardsimmons • via:metafilter

AlphaGo v Sedol Game 3

The recap of the game reads like a science fiction story!

2016-03-12 games • go • igo • weiqi • ai • deepmind • alphago • google

Gay plague laughs

Blood-boiling audio recording of White House press corps laughing at AIDS jokes in 1985

2016-03-12 gay • aids • 1985 • history • reagan

Hawaii Nei – Kalama 1838

A map of Hawai'i made by Hawaiians

2016-03-12 maps • hawaii

Hawaiian world atlas

1839 map of the world with Hawaiian place names

2016-03-12 maps • hawaii • hawai'i

Hawaiian star compass

Polynesian navigation

2016-03-12 astronomy • navigation • hawaii • hawai'i

jo: JSON shell tool

Create JSON from shell commands with sensible syntax

2016-03-12 json • jo • programming • bash • via:hackernews

Rybka v Nakamura

Funny 2008 chess game, in which a human exploits weaknesses in an AI for a bizarre outcome

2016-03-12 games • chess • ai • rybka

$80M malware bank heist

Bangladeshi bank's SWIFT authentication was stolen

2016-03-12 banks • badtech • crime • malware • bangladesh • swift • security

Bernard Bate appreciation

Moving celebration of the life of an anthropologist

2016-03-12 tamil • academics • anthropology • obituary • bernardbate

Trump brownshirts

"We might have to kill him"

2016-03-10 violence • politics • trump • republicans

VR is the future

Commentary in GIF form

2016-03-10 virtualreality • funny • via:Reddit • glitch

Distributed Systems Topologies 2

A talk / article I wrote back in 2001

2016-03-10 systems • me • nelson • oreilly • peertopeer • p2p

Distributed Systems Topologies 1

A talk / article I wrote back in 2001

2016-03-10 systems • me • nelson • oreilly • peertopeer • p2p

Musings on free access to art

2016-03-08 3d • art • museum • nefertiti

GamerGate disgustingness

Yet another jihad from crazy sexist gamers

2016-03-05 games • gamergate • feminism • nintendo

Bitcoin dissension

The view from the founder of CoinBase, the most serious Bitcoin company

2016-03-05 bitcoin • coinbase • technology • crypto

Mechanical Computer (All Parts)

Navy training film from 1953

2016-03-04 navy • military • computers • sliderules • ussmissouri

LoL teamfight breakdown

Very detailed analysis of a play from a great game of League of Legends

2016-03-03 games • lol • teamfight • c9 • clg

Bitcoin failing

Network can no longer handle transaction volume, claims of collusion to keep it that way for one company to profit

2016-03-03 bitcoin • currency • technology

Schmidt + Pentagon

Former Google CEO now heading up an innovation in the Pentagon program

2016-03-03 military • google • pentagon

Nanex SEC award

financial data hacker gets rewarded for finding anomalies in NYSE

2016-03-03 stocks • finance • via:hackernews • nanex

Mapzen vector tiles

Updates on a useful map data service

2016-03-03 maps • vectortiles • mapzen

Using OpenAddresses and MapZen

Reverse geocoding to precise addresses

2016-03-02 maps • mapzen • geocoding • openaddresses

Automated test suites for a large and complex game

2016-03-02 games • testing • software • development