Nelson's Linkblog 2017-10

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Tusheti shepherds

Excellent photo essay of sheep herding in the Caucasuses

2017-10-31 sheep • shepherd • georgia • mountains • dogs

Coates on John Kelly

Clear, firm pushback on the lionization of Robert E. Lee

2017-10-31 civilwar • trump • politics • slavery

Gatwick drone incident

Unauthorized aircraft shuts down a major international airport

2017-10-31 diversion • visualization • aviation • drone • via:metafilter

Google deleting docs?

People saying they lost their work because Google claimed it violated terms of service

2017-10-31 google • censorship • tos • cloud • googledocs

1Password and Windows

Clear statement the 1Password UI isn't as good on Windows but they're working on it

2017-10-31 1password • windows

Trump's very bad day

Holed up in the White House residence yelling at the TV

2017-10-31 trump • politics • tv • indictment • russia

Hacking my Bitcoin

Fabulous story of trying to recover Bitcoin from a PIN-locked device

2017-10-30 bitcoin • trezor • hacking • pin • exploit

Aerial Chicago 1914

Amazing dirigible film /cc @therealfitz

2017-10-30 chicago • aerial • dirigible • blimp • photography • history • video • film • aviation

Daily: video calls

Friend's startup, very easy video calling / screen sharing

2017-10-30 videocall • video • screenshare • collaborate

Figure out which streaming service has what TV and movie

2017-10-30 tv • movies • streaming • video

Celebrities endorsing financial flim-flam

2017-10-28 ico • scam • bitcoin • investment

Star Trek TOS snark

2017-10-28 funny • humor • juvenile • startrek • tv

Airplane donuts

Cub pilot showing off his ground control skills

2017-10-28 flying • aviation • alaska

Poor Eleanor Berry

A tragic story from the Gold Rush

2017-10-27 grassvalley • goldrush • history • wedding • robbery

Trump with media's kids

Skin-crawling Halloween press event

2017-10-27 trump • kids • politics

Comcast vs Fort Collins

Monopoly ISP tries to block community broadband

2017-10-27 internet • colorado • fortcollins • comcast • via:reddit

Liber Cure Cocorum

A 15th century Englishc ookbook, in verse

2017-10-27 cooking • england • history • recipes • haggis

Pope Francis opposition

An update about the Catholic Church

2017-10-27 pope • catholic • culturewar • politics

The Rite of Spring Workout

Stravinsky / exercise mashup

2017-10-27 funny • movies • exercise • perfect • stravinsky • riteofspring • modernism

Machine learning bias

Sentiment classifier is bigoted. That's not a surprise; the problem is when it's applied wrong.

2017-10-26 ml • machinelearning • google • sentiment • bias • racism • ai

Hindenberg dining

Food on a luxury airship

2017-10-26 hindenberg • airship • via:metafilter • zeppelin • cooking • cuisine

Georgia election fraud

Computer server wiped after lawsuit filed

2017-10-26 georgia • election • voting • votingrights • fraud

Facebook and genocide

Social media driving the disaster in Myanmar

2017-10-26 myanmar • facebook • genocide • rohingya

records: SQL for Humans

A wrapper to make working with databases in Python easier

2017-10-25 data • python • sql

Emoji and Unicode

Thoughtful piece on how frivolous emoji detract from Unicode's important political and cultural mission

2017-10-24 unicode • emoji

Randomized plans for Wisconsin

A second statistical treatment of how gerrymandered Wisconsin's districting is.

2017-10-24 gerrymandering • politics • wisconsin • montecarlo

Randomized tests of district plans

Detecting gerrymandering by careful Monte Carlo simulation

2017-10-24 gerrymandering • politics • wisconsin • montecarlo

Bump Stock legislation

58 people dead, Congress won't move to ban the specific murder toy that enabled the carnage

2017-10-24 congress • law • guns • nra

What a sexual harassment coverup settlement looks like

2017-10-24 weinstein • sexual • harassment • nda

Colorpicker for data

Handy little tool for perceptually correct palettes

2017-10-24 color • perception • visualization

The future is here

And everything needs to be destroyed

2017-10-24 funny • picture • shredding

New tool from Riot Games to diagnose latency and packet loss problems for League of Legends

2017-10-23 games • leagueoflegends • riotgames • logsoflag

Accidental Rockwell

Subreddit of recontextualized images

2017-10-23 rockwell • normanrockwell • cliche • photos • photographs • reddit

Browder's visa revoked

US state department helps the Kremlin cover up a murder

2017-10-23 kremlin • russia • corruption • trump • politics

Nah just trolling

Crooked wife of crooked Trump cabinet member says she was just thinking out loud about quarantining people with HIV

2017-10-23 trump • politics • hiv • aids

A JSON formatter that works client-side, does not post data to a server

2017-10-23 json • privacy • javascript • programming • tool

Live coding music environment

2017-10-22 via:reddit • music • programming • supercollider

SQLite alternate for Python

2017-10-22 python • sqlite • database • programming

Quarantine people with HIV

2017-10-21 hiv • aids • disease • politics • trump • price

Trump lies on family contacts

He hasn't called nearly as many families of fallen soldiers as he said

2017-10-21 trump • lies • politics • military • goldstar

Subverting the Judiciary

Trump personally interviewing US Attorneys, traditionally an independent position

2017-10-21 trump • politics • judiciary • usattorney

Project Loon in Puerto Rico

Crazy plan to provide Internet with balloons running live in disaster area

2017-10-21 puertorico • projectloon • isp • internet • google

Dissolve Equifax

Strong editorial that the company deserves the death penalty

2017-10-21 equifax • badtech • credit

Exploring maps with simple line drawing

2017-10-20 maps • lines • design • cartography • mapzen

Trimmigrants in Nevada County

Local story on the impact of the marijuana business

2017-10-20 marijuana • nevadacounty • grassvalley

Cycling the Faroes

Beautiful set of photos

2017-10-20 faroes • travel • cycling • kiteboarding

Russian troll operations

Russian newspaper does some investigative reporting

2017-10-19 russia • trolls • trump • politics • propaganda

Uber charging drivers

Gambling scheme; pay up front for bonus pay during the week

2017-10-19 uber • scummy • regulation • economics • abuse

Robert Scoble and Me

Another story of sexual assault in tech, with a remarkable conclusion

2017-10-19 sexism • scoble • tech • foocamp

Judge Alsup's code

A justice with a programming hobby works on tech cases. /cc @amac

2017-10-19 judge • code • programming • competence • alsup • oracle • waymo • uber • google

Architectural oddity from around Vermont

2017-10-19 vermont • architecture • house • window

Trump donation lies

New NPR story that a Trump golf club did not make claimed donations

2017-10-19 trump • lies • politics • donation • charity

Alex Jones / A Scanner Darkly

Infowars nutjob was in two Linklater films

2017-10-18 linklater • scannerdarkly • infowars • alexjones

Trump campaign and @Ten_GOP

Don Jr and Kellyanne both promoted Russian propaganda tweets during the campaign

2017-10-18 trump • politics • russia • scandal • collusion

Maps are Weapons

1942 propaganda poster

2017-10-18 ww2 • weapons • maps • war • poster

Major new machine learning result; fully self-taught

2017-10-18 go • game • ai • ml • machinelearning

Voter suppression + Child porn

Arrest of a researcher on Trump's voter suppression committee

2017-10-18 votingrights • voting • trump • politics • childporn

Air Berlin shows off

Pilot does an insane maneuver on the last flight /cc @testastretta

2017-10-18 airberlin • germany • aviation • pilot

Online ad fraud

Large network producing fake ad video views

2017-10-17 advertising • ads • badtech • fraud • brands

Tillerson profile

Details on the mess at the State Department

2017-10-17 trump • politics • state • diplomacy • tillerson

Mike Migurski's project to fight abusive gerrymandering

2017-10-17 politics • gerrymandering • maps • districting

LIGO and distance

Gravity wave detection gives us a new way to measure cosmic distances

2017-10-17 distance • astronomy • ligo

Buddy copy movie in a High Fantasy LA

2017-10-17 la • movies • fantasy • trailer

Cambridge Analytica code

Intern for right wing political / tech group has code on GitHub

2017-10-17 github • politics • trump • cambridgeanalytica • twitter • nominatim

Discord postmortem

Interesting system failure from cloud hosting

2017-10-16 discord • redis • googlecloud • postmortem • engineering

Keyboard latency

Empirical study with notes on perception

2017-10-16 latency • keyboard • lag • gaming • via:hackernews

We Put 700 Red Dots On A Map

A crucial new visualization technique from ClickHole

2017-10-16 funny • maps • visualization • parody

Mark Twain and Dueling Scars

From A Tramp Abroad, Heidelberg 1881

2017-10-16 marktwain • germany • dueling • heidelberg

Criticism of brilliant loners no one can work with

2017-10-16 software • engineering • genius • 10x

Wine Country fires

Excellent story telling about the first night of fire

2017-10-16 fire • california • disaster • winecountry • sonoma • napa

Cliff Judkins' survival

Fun first person account of surviving an aircraft failure

2017-10-16 flying • aviation • via:metafilter • badass

A new black hole

First simultaneous observation of gravity waves and EM radiation

2017-10-16 ligo • gravitywaves • astronomy • blackhole

Monteiro on Twitter

"Twitter today is a cesspool of hate. A plague of frogs."

2017-10-15 twitter • harassment • trump

Vikings for Allah

Evidence of cultural exchange in 10th century Sweden

2017-10-15 viking • history • islam • muslim • silkroad

St Helena Independent

Newspaper from remote British territory

2017-10-15 uk • britain • sainthelena • sthelena • news • journalism • newspaper • island

Windows tool for enabling compressed storage on folders and files

2017-10-15 windows • compression

Damning description of the state of a broken standard

2017-10-14 usb • usb-c • hardware • laptops • thunderbolt

Camp John Waters

Misfits weekend at a campground

2017-10-14 johnwaters • trash • lgbt • camping • culture

Bad scientist spreading fake science around America

2017-10-13 gop • politics • mercers • science • badscience • trump

Trump at the Family Research Council

President gives a 30 minute speech to a hate group

2017-10-13 hate • lgbt • familyresearchcouncil • perkins • hypocrisy • gay • politics

Charley Shively

Gay liberationist from the 70s with unfashionably radical ideas

2017-10-13 gay • history • 1970s • lgbt

Equifax hacked. Again.

Consumer site serving malware.

2017-10-12 equifax • hack • badtech • liability

Yet more Uber sleaze

2017-10-11 uber • ethics • scam

Essential django packages

A list of addons for web development

2017-10-11 django • python • web

CIA torture techniques

Details from the Bush Administration's torture program

2017-10-11 torture • bush • humanrights • cia

Kaspersky security concerns

Intelligence agencies fighting the battleground of private company security software

2017-10-11 kapsersky • badtech • antivirus • russia • israel • nsa

National Tracing Center

America has no database of guns; we have boxes of paper. By law.

2017-10-11 america • guns • gunculture • policy • politics

RIP Michael Friedman

More about the young theater genius behind Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson

2017-10-11 theater • aids • hiv • newyork

U-Bahn ridership 1927

Map visualization of passengers in Berlin

2017-10-11 berlin • maps • ubahn • 1920s • transit

Corker breaks ranks

GOP senator finally says out loud what a disaster Trump is

2017-10-09 gop • republican • politics • trump

Jason super excited about being on Halt and Catch Fire

2017-10-08 tv • kottke • jason • jkottke • 0sil8 • haltandcatchfire

Stencil Art Prize

Awards for a popular form of street art

2017-10-08 stencil • art • streetart

Jeffrey Hall's Nobel

Cranky scientist quit 10 years ago because funding sucked, now seems to be a grizzled hippie

2017-10-07 science • nobel

Monopoly Man IAmA

My new hero, a cause-playing activist

2017-10-06 activism • funny • equifax • protest • monopolyman

Computer gerrymandering

Overview of how software is used to pervert democracy

2017-10-06 gerrymandering • voting • democracy

Trump ACA sabotage

Personal intervention to make health insurance more expensive

2017-10-06 trump • ohio • politics • healthcare • obamacare • aca

Kaspersky NSA hack

Popular anti-virus was used to exfiltrate secrets from an NSA employee

2017-10-06 kaspersky • kremlin • badtech • russia • nsa • spies

Murderous fraternities

Penn State fraternity kills a pledge

2017-10-06 hazing • fraternity • murder • psu • pennstate

Loot box design

Behind predatory game design, gambling mechanics

2017-10-06 gambling • games • overwatch • blizzard • hearthstone • lootbox • skinner

Rep. Gosar is insane

Congressman suggests Charlottesville was all a secret Jewish Soros plot

2017-10-06 conspiracy • infowars • arizona • gosar • charlottesville

Harvey Weinstein, piece of shit

Years of sexual harassment

2017-10-06 women • sexualharassment • feminism • movies • weinstein • harveyweinstein

MongoDB marketing

How a dangerously bad database became a tech darling

2017-10-06 marketing • mongodb • 10gen • usergroups

Andy Baio on Auerbach

Personal run-ins with a reporter named in the Breitbart article

2017-10-06 auerbach • gamergate • politics • breitbart

Inside Breitbart

Details of how the alt right operates, from Milo Yiannopoulos's private email

2017-10-06 milo • breitbart • politics • media • news

Performance dashboards for Firefox's new Quantum browser, an ultra-fast browser

2017-10-06 firefox • quantum • browser • performance • engineering

Dreamers Discord

American immigrants chat online

2017-10-05 america • immigrations • daca • dream • politics • discord

Karl-Marx-Allee

The Champs Elysee of East Berlin, now feels empty, a lost opportunity

2017-10-05 berlin • cityplanning • ddr • streets

1953 DDR uprising

Resistance from the people against the communist government

2017-10-05 germany • history • 1953 • sovietunion • ddr • rebellion • revolt • demonstration • uprising

Uncle Moneybags vs Equifax

Some cosplay at a senate hearing

2017-10-05 politics • funny • monopoly • equifax • monocle

Always-on camera using AI to decide what photos to keep

2017-10-05 camera • photos • google • ai • wearablecomputing • wearables

Silencers for kidz!

Don Trump Jr makes gun nut infomercials

2017-10-05 trump • politics • guns • silencers • death • secondamendment • america

Dan Gillmor: New Co/Lab

Excellent tech journalist has a new project improving media literacy

2017-10-04 journalism • facebook • news

Efficiency Gap explained

NYT Upshot takes a crack at explaining the political science measure

2017-10-04 gerrymandering • politics • elections • votingrights • supremecourt • efficiencygap

Programmable computer from 1960s East Germany

2017-10-04 germany • ddr • eastgermany • computer • soviet • 1960s

Russian ad targeting for Trump

Strange how the Russian ads exactly matched the Trump campaign strategy

2017-10-04 russia • trump • politics

Pot farming clashes

Cultural problems in rural California

2017-10-04 california • marijuana • crime • farming

Static type checking for Python

2017-10-04 python • programming • tests • typechecking

Report your neighbor! Bonus: ICE doesn't handle confidential data correctly

2017-10-04 america • politics • immigration • ice • voice

Gerrymandering at the Supreme Court

details on the hearing of the important Wisconsin case

2017-10-04 wisconsin • supremecourt • gerrymandering • politics

Uber / Levandowski details

Just gets uglier and uglier

2017-10-03 uber • otto • levandowski

Hedge Funds scamming ICOs

Scammy investments are themselves being scammed by hedge funds

2017-10-03 funny • hedgefund • ico • fraud

Truffle Man goes legit

San Francisco's open secret marijuana provider switches to legal sales

2017-10-03 pot • marijuana • sanfrancisco • weed • sf

Facebook ads and politics

Details of how online advertising works in the political sphere

2017-10-03 politics • russia • trump • facebook • ads

Donald Trump’s dog

Vicious op/ed about the state of diplomacy in the United States

2017-10-03 rextillerson • trump • politics • statedepartment • funny

Python spinners

Halo, a package for terminal spinner indicators

2017-10-02 spinner • python • progress • halo

NFL / kneeling spam botnets

Propaganda bots twisting the knife creating divisons

2017-10-01 trump • politics • russia • nfl • takeaknee

Javascript ES6 cheat sheet

Examples and discussion

2017-10-01 javascript • es6 • es2015 • programming • code • via:hackernews