Nelson's Linkblog 2016-03

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Chinese Crowd Formations

Nice set of photos

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

Nice rendering of the US from Boston to Washington DC

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

Organization that runs Wikipedia is having a management crisis

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

CockroachDB beta

New distributed database from some very smart folks

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

Trump scared of reporter's pen

Parody is impossible

2016-03-30 journailsm • politics • trump

Noteworthy cypherpunks

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

2016-03-30 assange • crypto • cypherpunks

Check cashing while black

Blood-boiling story of mistreatment

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

Long investigative series on a crypto programmer turned prescription pill criminal

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

Stack Overflow hardware

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

2016-03-29 datacenter • hardware • ops • 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 • snes • speedrun

From 2003, complete with instructions for WebTV users

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

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

2016-03-28 programming • python • repl

A better REPL for Python, but simpler than iPython

2016-03-28 programming • python • repl • 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 • business • competition • finance • unitedstates

Cops sniffing around Ancestry and 23AndMe genetic databases

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

First day with drone...

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

Passive aggressive language in popup UIs

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

Javascript Jenga!

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

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

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

Lovely earth imagery

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

Free SMS sending service, useful for quick hacks

2016-03-22 message • sms • text

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

2016-03-22 cron • devops • email

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

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

Reporting on Trump

Being a journalist of a dangerous and crazy political movement

2016-03-21 journalism • politics • trump

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 assault • politics • trump • violence

Visual SQL Joins

Nice visualization and examples

2016-03-19 join • sql • venndiagram

Louisiana justice crisis

Not enough funding for public defenders

2016-03-19 louisiana • corruption • justice

Twelfth Amendment president?

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

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

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

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

Donald Trump's file

Details tracking his various outrageous lies

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

Every Bootstrap site

An examination of cliché in design

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

Alphabet Discord

Google parent pressuring portfolio companies to be profitable

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

BPF - the forgotten bytecode

A kernel mini-language for matching network packets

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

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 • bayarea • sf • transit • twitter

Trump threatens riots

Outrageously irresponsible rhetoric

2016-03-16 politics • riot • trump

Grandma Gatewood

Famous hiker in the 1950s

2016-03-16 appalachiantrail • hiking • walking

Learning from print maps

Good design musings

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

NYT/BBC/AOL/NFL ad malware

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

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

Doxxing Dead People

Notes on genealogy searching by @ericajoy

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

FAA drone risks

Federal agency is grossly overstating the risks of unmanned flight

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

03 06 16 - andy gilmore

Interesting piece from a computational artist

2016-03-14 andygilmore • art • generative

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 • mapzen • openstreetmap • osm • privacy

Dropbox infrastructure

They moved from AWS to their own datacenters with Rust code

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

NYT on open access

Good summary of the state of paid access to science research

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

Trump inciting violence

Direct video evidence

2016-03-14 politics • trump • violence

Founder breaks down how the videoconferencing product works

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

Pluot video conferencing

Friend's new company: turnkey high quality videoconferencing

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

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

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

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

2016-03-14 images • maps • pan • zoom

Week of Trump falsehoods

I suppose we need an article like this every week

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

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 • parody • politics • trump • video

AlphaGo v Sedol Game 4

A win for team human

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

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 ai • alphago • deepmind • games • go • google • igo • weiqi

Gay plague laughs

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

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

Hawaii Nei – Kalama 1838

A map of Hawai'i made by Hawaiians

2016-03-12 hawaii • maps

Hawaiian world atlas

1839 map of the world with Hawaiian place names

2016-03-12 hawai'i • hawaii • maps

Hawaiian star compass

Polynesian navigation

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

jo: JSON shell tool

Create JSON from shell commands with sensible syntax

2016-03-12 bash • jo • json • programming • 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 ai • chess • games • rybka

$80M malware bank heist

Bangladeshi bank's SWIFT authentication was stolen

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

Bernard Bate appreciation

Moving celebration of the life of an anthropologist

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

Trump brownshirts

"We might have to kill him"

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

VR is the future

Commentary in GIF form

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

Distributed Systems Topologies 2

A talk / article I wrote back in 2001

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

Distributed Systems Topologies 1

A talk / article I wrote back in 2001

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

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 feminism • gamergate • games • nintendo

Bitcoin dissension

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

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

Mechanical Computer (All Parts)

Navy training film from 1953

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

LoL teamfight breakdown

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

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

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 google • military • pentagon

Nanex SEC award

financial data hacker gets rewarded for finding anomalies in NYSE

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

Mapzen vector tiles

Updates on a useful map data service

2016-03-03 maps • mapzen • vectortiles

Using OpenAddresses and MapZen

Reverse geocoding to precise addresses

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

Automated test suites for a large and complex game

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