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TensorFlow for Poets
Notes on getting Google's ML platform working on Mac (with a Docker VM)
2016-02-29 google • machinelearning • macos • programming • software • tensorflow
Trump retweets Mussolini
They do seem to have something in common
2016-02-29 facism • funny • gawker • musolini • politics • trump
flask-dance
Code to do OAuth for many popular sites
2016-02-28 development • flask • login • oauth • python • security • web
Vega-Lite
Yet another simple charting library, this one with a good pedigree
2016-02-25 charts • graphs • javascript • visualization
K-9 Piper
Adorable border collie chases birds away from airport runways
2016-02-25 airport • aviation • birds • dogs • flying • via:metafilter
Metafilter on Gopher
Technology necromancry
2016-02-24 gopher • metafilter • funny
Obama guest post on SCOTUSBlog
Some serious online outreach
2016-02-24 blogs • obama • politics • scotus • supremecourt
Downround Tracker
Bad news for startups, collected
2016-02-24 bubble • downround • financing • startups
1213486160
A magic number in buggy programs; it's the 32 bit encoding of the string "HTTP"
2016-02-23 bugs • http • programming • via:hackernews
1921 Tulsa riot
White people used airplanes to drop bombs on blacks in Tulsa
2016-02-23 africanamericans • aviation • blackhistorymonth • blacks • history • oklahoma • tulsa
Atari ET programmer
Details from Scott Warshaw, the guy who programmed notorious flop game E.T. on Atari 2600
2016-02-22 atari • et • games • scottwarshaw • via:reddit • warshaw
US slave schedules
Census records from 1850 and 1860 of slavery
2016-02-20 ancestry • genealogy • humanrights • slavery
IPv6 usability
Some thoughtful gripes on IPv6 numeric address format
2016-02-20 ipv6 • networking • usability • via:hackernews
Outpost PDX
Great people launch a creative coworking space in Portland.
2016-02-19 coworking • creative • indie • portland
Daniel Zeller
Artist with some cartographic themes
2016-02-19 art • maps
Daily Mail copyright infringement
Nathan Yau documents the British newspaper stealing his work
2016-02-19 dailymail • flowingdata • journalism • nathanyau • via:hackernews
Computer und Kunst
1988 East German book about generative art
2016-02-18 art • computers • generative • germany • soviet
Soviet computers
A history of the other side's early computing
2016-02-18 computers • history • russian • soviet
Riot networking part 2
Results from the game company's developing its own peering relationships in North America
2016-02-17 lag • networking • peering • riot
Apple letter on backdoors
Remarkably well written resistance to FBI demands to compromise security
2016-02-17 apple • backdoor • badtech • civilrights • fbi • iphone • surveillance
Nitro Zeus
More details on the United States cyberwar capability
2016-02-17 badtech • cyberwar • iran • nitrozeus • stuxnet • unitedstates
Stuxnet error
Bad article, but summary of film that claims Israeli overaggression resulted in Stuxnet being exposed
2016-02-16 badtech • cyberwar • iran • israel • stuxnet • via:hackernews
Machine learning assassination
Speculation on the dangers of statistical approaches to deciding to kill people with drone strikes
2016-02-16 ai • assassination • machinelearning • military • ml • murder • navy • nsa • skynet • terrorism
Landsat SF Bay Area
Phenomenally clear satellite photo
2016-02-14 bayarea • photography • photos • sanfrancisco • satellite
Twitter fixes
Randi Harper schools Twitter on ways it could support better filtering against abuse
2016-02-14 abuse • culture • engineering • twitter
windchime
Experimental project by tmcw making keystrokes into musical notes
2016-02-13 ambient • keyboard • music • tmcw • windchime
LIGO Python demo
Notebook for signal processing the gravitational wave detector
2016-02-13 ligo • notebook • python • relativity • science • signals
Airbnb lies
Company cooked its data in NYC to make it look better
2016-02-12 airbnb • data • deception • lies • newyork • nyc • startups
Inside the Eye
Uncommonly good NatGeo science article
2016-02-12 evolution • eyes • natgeo • science • via:metafilter
Sheep
lovely aerial video
2016-02-11 aerial • herding • sheep • via:reddit
Gravitational Waves at Last
A scientist's reflection and contextualization
2016-02-11 gravity • ligo • relativity • science
JPL Visions of the Future
Official collection of the space travel posters
2016-02-11 caltech • design • graphics • jpl • nasa • spacetravel
Gravitational Waves 2
Another excellent bit of science journalism
2016-02-11 gravity • ligo • relativity • science • via:metafilter
Gravitational waves
Phenomenal bit of science journalism about a phenomenal result from LIGO
2016-02-11 gravity • journalism • ligo • relativity • science
ECMAScript 6 status
Compatibility of various Javascript runtime environments
2016-02-10 ecma6 • es6 • javascript • languages • programming
Jeff Huber's new job
One of the best managers I knew at Google has moved on to a cancer diagnostics startup
2016-02-10 cancer • google • health • jeffhuber
Active supernovae
Detailed astronomy info
2016-02-09 astronomy • space • supernova
Snapchat Like “The Teens”
Hilarious, insightful article about youth Snapchat culture
2016-02-09 kidz • snapchat • socialmedia • teenagers • youth
Wired war on ad blockers
They're going to try freezing out ad blocker users unless they pay $1/week
2016-02-09 adblocker • ads • advertising • wired
Mars tourism posters
Really lovely graphic design
2016-02-09 art • invisiblecreature • nasa • space • tourism
RIP Ken Olsen
Founder of Digital, the computer company
2016-02-09 dec • digital • kenolsen • obituary
Postgres.app
Mac package for Postgres+PostGIS
2016-02-09 database • mac • macos • postgis • postgres
Wumpus 2
1980s book about programming computer games
2016-02-09 apple • davidahl • games • wumpus
ABC debate screwup
Jawdroppingly flubbed introduction of the candidates
2016-02-07 funny • gop • politics • republicans
Year of the Monkey
Funny, naughty image
2016-02-06 funny • monkey • newyear • sex • via:twitter
Quantified shitlords
R programmer investigates the hateful comments he gets
2016-02-06 feminism • harassment • r • sjw • tech
TempleOS 4.02
Outsider art operating system
2016-02-06 cmoputers • hacking • os • schizophrenia • templeos
Zenefits fraud
Selling insurance with unlicensed salespeople
2016-02-06 business • fraud • insurance • startups • zenefits
BUTT • Edmund White
Another phenomenal interview
2016-02-06 butt • edmundwhite • gay • interview • writers
BUTT • Gore Vidal
2007 interview
2016-02-06 butt • gay • gorevidal • interview
The Less You Know ★
A plea to request minimum permissions
2016-02-05 permissions • privacy • scatterdot • slack
Coding music
Daft punk track as live coding exercise
2016-02-05 aerodynamic • daftpunk • music • via:hackernews
LoL design values
Game design team talks about how they approach their job
2016-02-05 design • games • lol • riot
Python 3 Readiness
319 of the 360 most popular Python packages now support Python 3. upgrade!
2016-02-04 coding • development • py3 • python • python3
Slack diversity report
Update from the startup about hiring
2016-02-04 diversity • slack
linux-gate.so.1
Linux internals; system calls are implemented with a fake shared library
2016-02-03 ldso • linking • linux • syscall • systemcall
Scatterdot for Slack
A little tool for discussing and annotating images
2016-02-03 images • matasar • slack • social
Slave Breeding
A new US history book
2016-02-03 america • racism • slavery
Sore Loser
Donald Trump loses his shit on Twitter after losing the Iowa caucus
2016-02-03 cruz • iowa • politics • trump
Uber logo snark
"What do you do for a living? Drive a car, while receiving no benefits? I work as a branding designer conceptualizing one “brand pillar” every three months. I get paid much more than you."
2016-02-03 branding • funny • snark • uber
Gqom
Club music style from South Africa
2016-02-03 gqom • music • southafrica • via:metafilter
NBA minutes
Dense visualization of basketball scores
2016-02-02 basketball • sports • visualization
AimBooster
Series of Flash mini-games for testing / improving reaction time
2016-02-01 games • psychology • reaction • reactiontime • reflexes
Self driving car conversation
Hilarious little sci-fi short as Reddit post. (attn @raffi)
2016-02-01 ai • cars • funny • reddit • scifi • selfdriving
Oregon Trail IAmA
Creator of the beloved game answers questions on Reddit
2016-02-01 games • iama • oregontrail • reddit
Over the Hill at 24
Academic article about video game performance by age
2016-02-01 aging • games • reaction • reactiontime • research • starcraft