Casio watches

Photos of various crazy wrist computers

2015-06-30 watches • casio • applewatch • design • wearables

Bing + AOL

Big shift in the search ads business

2015-06-30 ads • search • bing • microsoft • aol

s2n TLS

New SSL implementation from amazing, 6000 lines of code

2015-06-30 code • ssl • amazon • aws • security

Tilemaker

Standalone app for turning OSM data into vector tiles

2015-06-29 maps • tiles • vectors • osm • openstreetmap

chrony

Alternative NTP implementation particularly suited for not-always-connected systems

2015-06-28 ntp • time • linux

Japanese day trader

CIS: crazy story of a small market

2015-06-28 japan • market • trading • daytrading • via:hackernews

peco shell tool

Interactive grep for manual filtering of stdout

2015-06-25 grep • tools • via:onethingwell • software • unix

Protect My Choices

New interest-based ad blocker, an industry initiative

2015-06-25 ads • privacy • chrome

US spying on France

Details of NSA activities against French governments

2015-06-24 france • us • espionage • politics • wikileaks

unix-history-repo

A bunch of Unix source trees all in one git repository

2015-06-24 git • history • unix • code

Reddit 10th birthday

Retrospective and best ofs

2015-06-23 reddit

Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Confederate flag

Some much needed basic facts

2015-06-23 slavery • racism • thesouth • south • america • confederate • confederacy

Wiener on Muni

Humane thoughts from local politician after riding a lot of public transit

2015-06-23 muni • transit • wiener • politics • sanfrancisco

Le Creuset Factory

A visit with photos

2015-06-23 via:metafilter • cooking • lecreuset • castiron

L0pht retrospective

Looking back at 1990s testimonial about computer security threats

2015-06-22 security • badtech • hackers • boston • l0pht

Postgres Indexes

Some basic database design

2015-06-22 via:hackernews • postgres • database • indexing • search

Leaguecraft 101

College-style course on how to play LoL

2015-06-22 games • lol • leagueoflegends • training

LoL win predictor

Student project predicting who is going to win a game

2015-06-22 games • lol • machinelearning • bayesian

LoL + machine learning

Student project on predicting who will win a game. Paper at http://web.stanford.edu/~haoyi/projects.html

2015-06-21 games • machinelearning • lol • ai

What is Code?

Paul Ford's tour de force about programming

2015-06-19 code • programming • ftrain

Economist Reddit IAmA

New editor in chief does an ask-me-anything

2015-06-18 reddit • economist • journalism

Jazz cup designer

Creator of design ephemera found

2015-06-18 design • jazz • reddit • cups

LoL reaction time

Example of a 350ms reaction in esports

2015-06-18 games • esports • lol • reactiontime • psychology

Ruby Rhod

Excellent campy scene from the Fifth Element

2015-06-18 movies • fifthelement • gay • rubyrhod

Private companies lie

Financials from startups can be complete fiction

2015-06-17 twitter • mopub • reporting • finance • startups • revenue

Minnesota waters

Maps that look a little like my vector river map

2015-06-17 maps • rivers • minnesota • gis • data • via:iandees

John Oliver on Torture

Appropriate outrage with Helen Mirrin

2015-06-17 torture • funny • news • civilrights • america

Mapbox Series B: $53M

Excellent mapping company raises a second round

2015-06-17 maps • mapbox • startups • financing

IPv6 update

World's slowest network upgrade

2015-06-16 internet • network • ipv6

SF delivery services

Handy flowchart of the new e-commerce frontier

2015-06-16 via:reddit • food • sanfrancisco • delivery

1 million packets / second

High throughput UDP in Linux

2015-06-16 udp • linux • networking • via:hackernews • scalability

New Techies of DC

Profile of the tech talent the Obama administration has been hiring to improve government

2015-06-16 obama • government • 18f • usds • tech • mikeyd

Old/new statistical atlas

Nathan Yau revisits a famous 1874 set of visualizations with modern data

2015-06-16 visualization • demographics • america

More child rape conspiracy

Yet more Catholic leadership enabled abuse of children

2015-06-15 catholic • rape • church

Unicode apostrophe

A mess in the standard

2015-06-14 unicode • english • writing

Journalism at its worst

Blistering criticism of an anti-Snowden article entirely sourced from anonymous intelligence services

2015-06-14 snowden • russia • intelligence • journalism

Reddit drama

Bad people of Reddit being awful

2015-06-11 reddit • community • internet

MacOS spoofing MAC address

Faking out stupid captive portals

2015-06-11 wifi • mac • macos • captiveportal • networking

The Button wrapup

Reflection on Reddit's surprisingly interesting April Fool's thing

2015-06-09 reddit • thebutton

China: Through the Looking Glass

Great exhibit at the Met looking at Orientalist exoticism and China

2015-06-08 china • exoticism • orientalism • chinoiserie

OpenAddresses talk

Ian Dees describes the geo project I've been working on

2015-06-08 openaddresses • maps • osm • addresses • geo

OSM / Business syllabus

Notes from @randyme's talk at #sotmus about business and OpenStreetMap

2015-06-07 maps • osm • business • license

Mapstarter

Simple tool for converting geodata to SVG and images

2015-06-07 maps • rendering • svg • image • d3 • geojson

Yi action camera

Inexpensive, hackable video camera, Chinese competitor to GoPro

2015-06-07 camera • gopro • china

Togo Triangle

Black market for oil near Nigeria, in the ocean

2015-06-07 blackmarket • oil • nigeria • ocean

Plex SSL for the masses

Company figures out a way to give each user an SSL server with a certificate

2015-06-06 ssl • certificates • security • plex • tv

cycle.travel

OpenStreetMap-based maps for bicyclists

2015-06-06 maps • bicycle • osm • openstreetmap

About CockroachDB

Some of Google's very smart systems engineers have a new database

2015-06-05 database • storage • google • startup

Post-terror generation

Excellent editorial from Snowden on surveillance culture

2015-06-05 privacy • civilrights • surveillance • snowden

Handy Moe

SF Bay Area handyman; just wall mounted a TV for me

2015-06-04 handyman • television • repairs • home

What Twitter Can Be

Some informed meddling from a knowledgable Twitter investor

2015-06-04 twitter • product • sacca • investment

Reporting on FIFA

Delicious story of a muckraking journalist

2015-06-03 journalism • fifa • football • scandal

Anti-virus software

Perfect analogy from XKCD

2015-06-03 comics • funny • antivirus • voting • security

SSDs: a gift and a curse

Etsy discovers firmware in SSDs is unreliable

2015-06-03 ssd • firmware • storage • via:hackernews

FBI aviation surveillance

More info on the mysterious program with the FBI illegally hoovering up cell phone signals

2015-06-02 fbi • surveillance • civilrights • drones • aviation

Kansas tax failure

Grand Republican experiment in supply-side economics is a failure

2015-06-02 kansas • taxes • brownback • republicans • economics

Tatjana van Vark

Dutch woman makes sculptures / reproductions of scientific machinery

2015-06-01 steampunk • via:metafilter • art • sculpture