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TensorFlow for Poets
Notes on getting Google's ML platform working on Mac (with a Docker VM)
2016-02-29 machinelearning • tensorflow • google • macos • software • programming
Trump retweets Mussolini
They do seem to have something in common
2016-02-29 musolini • facism • trump • politics • funny • gawker
flask-dance
Code to do OAuth for many popular sites
2016-02-28 oauth • web • development • login • security • flask • python
Vega-Lite
Yet another simple charting library, this one with a good pedigree
2016-02-25 visualization • javascript • graphs • charts
K-9 Piper
Adorable border collie chases birds away from airport runways
2016-02-25 airport • dogs • birds • flying • aviation • 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 • scotus • supremecourt • politics • obama
Downround Tracker
Bad news for startups, collected
2016-02-24 startups • financing • downround • bubble
1213486160
A magic number in buggy programs; it's the 32 bit encoding of the string "HTTP"
2016-02-23 bugs • via:hackernews • programming • http
1921 Tulsa riot
White people used airplanes to drop bombs on blacks in Tulsa
2016-02-23 blackhistorymonth • aviation • history • blacks • africanamericans • tulsa • oklahoma
Atari ET programmer
Details from Scott Warshaw, the guy who programmed notorious flop game E.T. on Atari 2600
2016-02-22 games • atari • warshaw • scottwarshaw • et • via:reddit
US slave schedules
Census records from 1850 and 1860 of slavery
2016-02-20 slavery • humanrights • genealogy • ancestry
IPv6 usability
Some thoughtful gripes on IPv6 numeric address format
2016-02-20 via:hackernews • ipv6 • networking • usability
Outpost PDX
Great people launch a creative coworking space in Portland.
2016-02-19 portland • coworking • indie • creative
Daniel Zeller
Artist with some cartographic themes
2016-02-19 maps • art
Daily Mail copyright infringement
Nathan Yau documents the British newspaper stealing his work
2016-02-19 dailymail • journalism • flowingdata • nathanyau • via:hackernews
Computer und Kunst
1988 East German book about generative art
2016-02-18 computers • art • generative • germany • soviet
Soviet computers
A history of the other side's early computing
2016-02-18 computers • history • soviet • russian
Riot networking part 2
Results from the game company's developing its own peering relationships in North America
2016-02-17 riot • networking • lag • peering
Apple letter on backdoors
Remarkably well written resistance to FBI demands to compromise security
2016-02-17 apple • fbi • civilrights • iphone • badtech • surveillance • backdoor
Nitro Zeus
More details on the United States cyberwar capability
2016-02-17 cyberwar • badtech • unitedstates • iran • stuxnet • nitrozeus
Stuxnet error
Bad article, but summary of film that claims Israeli overaggression resulted in Stuxnet being exposed
2016-02-16 stuxnet • cyberwar • iran • via:hackernews • israel • badtech
Machine learning assassination
Speculation on the dangers of statistical approaches to deciding to kill people with drone strikes
2016-02-16 murder • assassination • navy • military • terrorism • nsa • skynet • machinelearning • ml • ai
Landsat SF Bay Area
Phenomenally clear satellite photo
2016-02-14 bayarea • photography • photos • satellite • sanfrancisco
Twitter fixes
Randi Harper schools Twitter on ways it could support better filtering against abuse
2016-02-14 twitter • abuse • culture • engineering
windchime
Experimental project by tmcw making keystrokes into musical notes
2016-02-13 music • keyboard • ambient • windchime • tmcw
LIGO Python demo
Notebook for signal processing the gravitational wave detector
2016-02-13 python • notebook • signals • science • relativity • ligo
Airbnb lies
Company cooked its data in NYC to make it look better
2016-02-12 airbnb • deception • data • lies • nyc • newyork • startups
Inside the Eye
Uncommonly good NatGeo science article
2016-02-12 natgeo • science • via:metafilter • eyes • evolution
Sheep
lovely aerial video
2016-02-11 sheep • via:reddit • herding • aerial
Gravitational Waves at Last
A scientist's reflection and contextualization
2016-02-11 ligo • gravity • relativity • science
JPL Visions of the Future
Official collection of the space travel posters
2016-02-11 jpl • nasa • spacetravel • caltech • design • graphics
Gravitational Waves 2
Another excellent bit of science journalism
2016-02-11 science • ligo • gravity • relativity • via:metafilter
Gravitational waves
Phenomenal bit of science journalism about a phenomenal result from LIGO
2016-02-11 gravity • ligo • relativity • science • journalism
ECMAScript 6 status
Compatibility of various Javascript runtime environments
2016-02-10 javascript • es6 • ecma6 • 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 • health • google • jeffhuber
Active supernovae
Detailed astronomy info
2016-02-09 supernova • astronomy • space
Snapchat Like “The Teens”
Hilarious, insightful article about youth Snapchat culture
2016-02-09 snapchat • kidz • youth • teenagers • socialmedia
Wired war on ad blockers
They're going to try freezing out ad blocker users unless they pay $1/week
2016-02-09 wired • ads • advertising • adblocker
Mars tourism posters
Really lovely graphic design
2016-02-09 art • space • nasa • invisiblecreature • tourism
RIP Ken Olsen
Founder of Digital, the computer company
2016-02-09 dec • digital • obituary • kenolsen
Postgres.app
Mac package for Postgres+PostGIS
2016-02-09 postgres • postgis • database • mac • macos
Wumpus 2
1980s book about programming computer games
2016-02-09 games • apple • davidahl • wumpus
ABC debate screwup
Jawdroppingly flubbed introduction of the candidates
2016-02-07 politics • funny • republicans • gop
Year of the Monkey
Funny, naughty image
2016-02-06 sex • funny • via:twitter • monkey • newyear
Quantified shitlords
R programmer investigates the hateful comments he gets
2016-02-06 harassment • feminism • tech • r • sjw
TempleOS 4.02
Outsider art operating system
2016-02-06 schizophrenia • templeos • os • cmoputers • hacking
Zenefits fraud
Selling insurance with unlicensed salespeople
2016-02-06 zenefits • fraud • insurance • startups • business
BUTT • Edmund White
Another phenomenal interview
2016-02-06 gay • interview • writers • edmundwhite • butt
BUTT • Gore Vidal
2007 interview
2016-02-06 gay • gorevidal • butt • interview
The Less You Know ★
A plea to request minimum permissions
2016-02-05 slack • scatterdot • permissions • privacy
Coding music
Daft punk track as live coding exercise
2016-02-05 via:hackernews • music • daftpunk • aerodynamic
LoL design values
Game design team talks about how they approach their job
2016-02-05 games • design • lol • riot
Python 3 Readiness
319 of the 360 most popular Python packages now support Python 3. upgrade!
2016-02-04 python3 • py3 • python • coding • development
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 linux • systemcall • syscall • ldso • linking
Scatterdot for Slack
A little tool for discussing and annotating images
2016-02-03 slack • social • images • matasar
Slave Breeding
A new US history book
2016-02-03 America • slavery • racism
Sore Loser
Donald Trump loses his shit on Twitter after losing the Iowa caucus
2016-02-03 politics • trump • cruz • iowa
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 uber • branding • snark • funny
Gqom
Club music style from South Africa
2016-02-03 music • via:metafilter • southafrica • gqom
NBA minutes
Dense visualization of basketball scores
2016-02-02 sports • visualization • basketball
AimBooster
Series of Flash mini-games for testing / improving reaction time
2016-02-01 games • reactiontime • psychology • reflexes • reaction
Self driving car conversation
Hilarious little sci-fi short as Reddit post. (attn @raffi)
2016-02-01 cars • ai • selfdriving • scifi • reddit • funny
Oregon Trail IAmA
Creator of the beloved game answers questions on Reddit
2016-02-01 games • oregontrail • reddit • iama
Over the Hill at 24
Academic article about video game performance by age
2016-02-01 starcraft • games • reactiontime • research • aging • reaction