Nelson's Linkblog 2014-10

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Long piece about one of my favorite places on the Web

2014-10-31 via:Waxy • metafilter • internet • culture

Hearthstone AI postmortem

Blizzard's talk at GDC

2014-10-31 gdc • games • blizzard • hearthstone • ai

Hacking Hearthstone

Defcon talk about applying machine learning to the game, some assisted AI

2014-10-31 ai • hearthstone • games • defcon

Basic browser for Postgres, written in Go

2014-10-31 via:onethingwell • postgres • database • golang

Crazy collaborative pixel art creation MMO

2014-10-31 games • mmo • via:metafilter • pixel

Chip credit cards in US

Details on which banks have modern credit cards

2014-10-31 security • creditcard • us • banks • emv

Nice writeup of a map project

2014-10-31 maps • sanfrancisco • d3js

Chip and Signature

Details on why US credit cards have moved to a different security mechanism than standard

2014-10-31 security • credticard • banks • chipandpin • emv

Collateral Internet damage

Comcast / Netflix war also hurt anyone else who happened to connect via Cogent

2014-10-31 netneutrality • isp • comcast • netflix • cogent • internet • via:Reddit

ISP Amtrak uses, at least for the Capitol Corridor in California

2014-10-30 isp • amtrak • wifi • mobile • california

Tim Cook comes out

Nicely written essay.

2014-10-30 gay • apple • timcook

BitTorrent Sync commentary

User is happy with what he's found with the DropBox replacement

2014-10-30 bittorrent • sync • dropbox • files

Non-profit that crawls the web and makes snapshots available to the public for free

2014-10-29 crawl • web • searchengine • search • opendata

Legal white paper looking at OpenStreetMap licensing issues

2014-10-28 osm • openstreetmap • license • odbl • maps

Trouble with the ODbL

New thoughts on OpenStreetMap licensing

2014-10-28 license • osm • openstreetmap • viral • maps

Fresh slate for OSM

A prolific OpenStreetMap old timer argues it's time for a fresh start for OSM

2014-10-28 osm • openstreetmap • maps • osmf

Failure testing at Stripe

Details on some "game day" exercises seeing how resilient their system is

2014-10-28 testing • software • stripe • redis • faulttolerance

Sarkeesian NYT op/ed

Great observation on how gaming has become for everyone

2014-10-28 games • gaming • gamergate • nyt • nytimes • sarkeesian • feminism

Uber, Lyft pricing

Details on surge pricing, relative costs, etc

2014-10-28 uber • lyft • sidecar • ridesharing • via:rodbegbie

GamerGate tweets

Waxy does some simple data collection and analysis

2014-10-27 gamergate • feminism • twitter • harassment

Voter suppression in Texas

The details of why voter ID requirements are anti-democratic

2014-10-27 democracy • texas • vote • civilrights

Plazas de soberanía

Bits of Europe in North Africa; Spanish exclaves in Morocco

2014-10-26 morocco • spain • geography • europe

Stories of sexual harassment in tech journalism

2014-10-26 tech • journalism • sexism • feminism

360 Secure Browser

Very popular browser in China; alleged to be malware

2014-10-25 malware • badtech • china • browser

Notes From Behind the Firewall

Quick overview of some differences in the parallel Chinese Internet

2014-10-25 china • internet • firewall • design

1852 foldable globe

Very cool globe that folds up into a book

2014-10-25 maps • globe • via:reddit

Palua: Mac function keys

Software to make switching keyboard mode for function keys better

2014-10-25 apple • macos • palua • keyboard • games

All the streets, centered

2010 visualization of map data for cities

2014-10-24 maps • cities • streets • orientation • alignment • via:metafilter

Ello funding: PBC

Bold move, incorporated in a way that prevents them showing ads or selling user data

2014-10-23 ello • ethics • vc • startups • pbc

Burrito unboxing

What's inside the wrapper?

2014-10-22 burrito • funny • theonion • onion • parody

Twitter's new app strategy

From Twitter Flight, building various mobile developer tools

2014-10-22 twitter • developer • mobile

Gyro-Stabilized Systems

Grass Valley tech company; aerial imaging

2014-10-22 grassvalley • nevadacounty • startups • camera • drones

OpenVPN instructions

Humane-looking set of notes on how to set up an OpenVPN system

2014-10-21 openvpn • vpn • privacy • security • networking • linux

Poor man's VPN, scripts to automate setting up IP in IP tunnelling over SSH

2014-10-21 ssh • tunnel • vpn • network • privacy • security

Abstract polygon art

2014-10-21 polygons • art • gifs • via:sha

Yet another ad blocking extension for Chrome; aims to be lighter weight

2014-10-20 ads • adblock • chrome • extension

Cindy Brewer profile

Geography professor behind the excellent perceptual color scales

2014-10-20 colorbrewer • brewer • via:mbostock • maps • design

SFW: great profile of eSports, Cloud 9

2014-10-20 games • playboy • leagueoflegends • lol • via:reddit • cloud9 • c9

Secret military spaceplane flew around 400 km, 43° inclination

2014-10-20 space • x37b • classified • orbit

eSports in Korea

Some coverage of the gaming phenomenon

2014-10-19 korea • games • lol • esports

Robot space plan returns home

2 years in orbit for X-37B, running autonomously, now it's back

2014-10-19 space • x37b • drone

Write desktop apps using Javascript and HTML

2014-10-19 apps • webkit • javascript • node • nodejs

Silence of the Lambs analysis

Terrific breakdown of how Demme works the camera

2014-10-19 via:boingboing • film • silenceofthelambs • hopkinds • foster

Twitter Block Bot

A spam filter of sorts for Twitter, blocking anti-feminist obsessives

2014-10-19 twitter • feminism • gamergate • spam

Slovakian Tokaj

They make dessert wine like Hungarian Tokaji in Slovakia

2014-10-19 slovakia • tourism • via:ckline • wine • tokaj • tokaji • tokay

UDP in practice

Some data for low bandwidth UDP uses

2014-10-18 udp • network • internet

Kerbal Space Program MLG

Hilarious parody video

2014-10-18 games • kerbal • ksp • kerbalspaceprogram • mlg • 420noscope

Faroe islands maps

Some confusing geometry for a tiny northern nation

2014-10-18 faroes • maps • via:reddit

Yosemite vs /usr/local

Apple manges to screw up their upgrader

2014-10-17 apple • homebrew • macos • badtech

Justin Hall at XOXO

This talk was great

2014-10-17 links • justinhall • jah • xoxo • conference • talk

Sarkeesian interview

Clear, inspiring words from the feminist game critic

2014-10-17 gamergate • games • sarkeesian • feminism

Very easy site for uploading a file to share via HTTP; command line friendly

2014-10-16 via:onethingwell • sharing • http • tools

Big news for the best play-video-on-your-TV system

2014-10-16 plex • xbox • video

n'est pas un sextoy

Eyebrow raising sculpture installed in Paris

2014-10-16 funny • paris • france • sex • buttplug

The Making Of Berzerk

Classic arcade game, the story of design

2014-10-16 games • berzerk • stern

Chrono Trigger design

"Reversing the design", game analaysis

2014-10-14 games • chronotrigger • snes • via:metafilter

Square D3 tutorial

2014-10-14 d3js • d3 • javascript • tutorial

Spy agency's first public historian reminesces

2014-10-13 nsa • civilrights • bamford • via:metafilter

Columbus in Chains

Happy Columbus Day!

2014-10-13 colonialism • columbus • history

Cardinal Fashion Plate

Jackass cardinal known for saying jackass things also has a flair for costume

2014-10-13 catholic • cardinal • priest • gay • fashion

Mainstream press about the esports game, awkward article

2014-10-11 lol • nyt • games • mobas • esports

Organs of Paris

Guides for hearing organ music in Paris

2014-10-11 paris • organ • music • concert

LoL position visualization

Data on player positions over time

2014-10-11 games • lol • leagueoflegends • nyt • visualization

The First Female Gamers

Detailed history of women playing D&D

2014-10-10 games • dnd • women • feminism • via:metafilter

Online restaurant reservations. Like OpenTable for Paris, reports are it actually works

2014-10-09 paris • dining • restaurants • opentable

10 ways to be a male advocate

Simple, actionable ways men can help women in tech

2014-10-09 tech • feminism • sexism

GamerGate deconstruction

Analysis of how the "movement" is structurally flawed

2014-10-09 gamergate • games • feminism

Trouble at the Koolaid Point

Amazingly thoughtful essay about online harassment, the culture we have built. "Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier."

2014-10-08 twitter • harassment • gender • sexism • feminism • weev • seriouspony • kathysierra

Belkin router fiasco

Firmware fails when some Internet service is broken

2014-10-07 router • badtech • belkin • fail

New browser tool for managing what advertisers know

2014-10-07 ads • google • chrome • extension • privacy • advertising

Sarkeesian at XOXO

Talking about sexist backlash to her feminist critique of gaming

2014-10-07 gaming • feminism • gamergate • sarkeesian • xoxo • xoxofest

monit dmca claim

Open source project goes after a rewrite clone

2014-10-07 go • monit • dmca • copyright • github

German computer designer; built arguably the first working stored program computer

2014-10-07 computers • history • zuse • z1 • z3 • berlin • germany

Twin Peaks 2600

Fan-made Atari game, "Black Lodge"

2014-10-07 games • atari • twinpeaks • retrogaming

Internet troll talks about his growing racism, sexism, his swastika tattoo

2014-10-06 nazi • batshitinsane • weev • awful • ugly

BGP 512k problem

Detailed analysis of the routing problem that screwed the Internet in August 2014

2014-10-06 bgp • badtech • router • bug • internet

Why nerd culture must die

"We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire."

2014-10-06 feminism • sexism • tech • geek • culture

SF's shittiest streets

A handy guide to our urban dysfunction

2014-10-03 sanfrancisco • shit • gross • disgusting • sf • city

Xen Security Advisories 108

The bug that had Amazon and Rackspace rebooting all of their computers

2014-10-01 security • badtech • xen • amazon • ec2