Nelson's Linkblog 2014-10

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Long piece about one of my favorite places on the Web

2014-10-31 culture • internet • metafilter • via:waxy

Hearthstone AI postmortem

Blizzard's talk at GDC

2014-10-31 ai • blizzard • games • gdc • hearthstone

Hacking Hearthstone

Defcon talk about applying machine learning to the game, some assisted AI

2014-10-31 ai • defcon • games • hearthstone

Basic browser for Postgres, written in Go

2014-10-31 database • golang • postgres • via:onethingwell

Crazy collaborative pixel art creation MMO

2014-10-31 games • mmo • pixel • via:metafilter

Chip credit cards in US

Details on which banks have modern credit cards

2014-10-31 banks • creditcard • emv • security • us

Nice writeup of a map project

2014-10-31 d3js • maps • sanfrancisco

Chip and Signature

Details on why US credit cards have moved to a different security mechanism than standard

2014-10-31 banks • chipandpin • credticard • emv • security

Collateral Internet damage

Comcast / Netflix war also hurt anyone else who happened to connect via Cogent

2014-10-31 cogent • comcast • internet • isp • netflix • netneutrality • via:reddit

ISP Amtrak uses, at least for the Capitol Corridor in California

2014-10-30 amtrak • california • isp • mobile • wifi

Tim Cook comes out

Nicely written essay.

2014-10-30 apple • gay • timcook

BitTorrent Sync commentary

User is happy with what he's found with the DropBox replacement

2014-10-30 bittorrent • dropbox • files • sync

Non-profit that crawls the web and makes snapshots available to the public for free

2014-10-29 crawl • opendata • search • searchengine • web

Legal white paper looking at OpenStreetMap licensing issues

2014-10-28 license • maps • odbl • openstreetmap • osm

Trouble with the ODbL

New thoughts on OpenStreetMap licensing

2014-10-28 license • maps • openstreetmap • osm • viral

Fresh slate for OSM

A prolific OpenStreetMap old timer argues it's time for a fresh start for OSM

2014-10-28 maps • openstreetmap • osm • osmf

Failure testing at Stripe

Details on some "game day" exercises seeing how resilient their system is

2014-10-28 faulttolerance • redis • software • stripe • testing

Sarkeesian NYT op/ed

Great observation on how gaming has become for everyone

2014-10-28 feminism • gamergate • games • gaming • nyt • nytimes • sarkeesian

Uber, Lyft pricing

Details on surge pricing, relative costs, etc

2014-10-28 lyft • ridesharing • sidecar • uber • via:rodbegbie

GamerGate tweets

Waxy does some simple data collection and analysis

2014-10-27 feminism • gamergate • harassment • twitter

Voter suppression in Texas

The details of why voter ID requirements are anti-democratic

2014-10-27 civilrights • democracy • texas • vote

Plazas de soberanía

Bits of Europe in North Africa; Spanish exclaves in Morocco

2014-10-26 europe • geography • morocco • spain

Stories of sexual harassment in tech journalism

2014-10-26 feminism • journalism • sexism • tech

360 Secure Browser

Very popular browser in China; alleged to be malware

2014-10-25 badtech • browser • china • malware

Notes From Behind the Firewall

Quick overview of some differences in the parallel Chinese Internet

2014-10-25 china • design • firewall • internet

1852 foldable globe

Very cool globe that folds up into a book

2014-10-25 globe • maps • via:reddit

Palua: Mac function keys

Software to make switching keyboard mode for function keys better

2014-10-25 apple • games • keyboard • macos • palua

All the streets, centered

2010 visualization of map data for cities

2014-10-24 alignment • cities • maps • orientation • streets • via:metafilter

Ello funding: PBC

Bold move, incorporated in a way that prevents them showing ads or selling user data

2014-10-23 ello • ethics • pbc • startups • vc

Burrito unboxing

What's inside the wrapper?

2014-10-22 burrito • funny • onion • parody • theonion

Twitter's new app strategy

From Twitter Flight, building various mobile developer tools

2014-10-22 developer • mobile • twitter

Gyro-Stabilized Systems

Grass Valley tech company; aerial imaging

2014-10-22 camera • drones • grassvalley • nevadacounty • startups

OpenVPN instructions

Humane-looking set of notes on how to set up an OpenVPN system

2014-10-21 linux • networking • openvpn • privacy • security • vpn

Poor man's VPN, scripts to automate setting up IP in IP tunnelling over SSH

2014-10-21 network • privacy • security • ssh • tunnel • vpn

Abstract polygon art

2014-10-21 art • gifs • polygons • via:sha

Yet another ad blocking extension for Chrome; aims to be lighter weight

2014-10-20 adblock • ads • chrome • extension

Cindy Brewer profile

Geography professor behind the excellent perceptual color scales

2014-10-20 brewer • colorbrewer • design • maps • via:mbostock

SFW: great profile of eSports, Cloud 9

2014-10-20 c9 • cloud9 • games • leagueoflegends • lol • playboy • via:reddit

Secret military spaceplane flew around 400 km, 43° inclination

2014-10-20 classified • orbit • space • x37b

eSports in Korea

Some coverage of the gaming phenomenon

2014-10-19 esports • games • korea • lol

Robot space plan returns home

2 years in orbit for X-37B, running autonomously, now it's back

2014-10-19 drone • space • x37b

Write desktop apps using Javascript and HTML

2014-10-19 apps • javascript • node • nodejs • webkit

Silence of the Lambs analysis

Terrific breakdown of how Demme works the camera

2014-10-19 film • foster • hopkinds • silenceofthelambs • via:boingboing

Twitter Block Bot

A spam filter of sorts for Twitter, blocking anti-feminist obsessives

2014-10-19 feminism • gamergate • spam • twitter

Slovakian Tokaj

They make dessert wine like Hungarian Tokaji in Slovakia

2014-10-19 slovakia • tokaj • tokaji • tokay • tourism • via:ckline • wine

UDP in practice

Some data for low bandwidth UDP uses

2014-10-18 internet • network • udp

Kerbal Space Program MLG

Hilarious parody video

2014-10-18 420noscope • games • kerbal • kerbalspaceprogram • ksp • mlg

Faroe islands maps

Some confusing geometry for a tiny northern nation

2014-10-18 faroes • maps • via:reddit

Yosemite vs /usr/local

Apple manges to screw up their upgrader

2014-10-17 apple • badtech • homebrew • macos

Justin Hall at XOXO

This talk was great

2014-10-17 xoxo • conference • jah • justinhall • links • talk

Sarkeesian interview

Clear, inspiring words from the feminist game critic

2014-10-17 feminism • gamergate • games • sarkeesian

Very easy site for uploading a file to share via HTTP; command line friendly

2014-10-16 http • sharing • tools • via:onethingwell

Big news for the best play-video-on-your-TV system

2014-10-16 plex • video • xbox

n'est pas un sextoy

Eyebrow raising sculpture installed in Paris

2014-10-16 buttplug • france • funny • paris • sex

The Making Of Berzerk

Classic arcade game, the story of design

2014-10-16 berzerk • games • stern

Chrono Trigger design

"Reversing the design", game analaysis

2014-10-14 chronotrigger • games • snes • via:metafilter

Square D3 tutorial

2014-10-14 d3 • d3js • javascript • tutorial

Spy agency's first public historian reminesces

2014-10-13 bamford • civilrights • nsa • via:metafilter

Columbus in Chains

Happy Columbus Day!

2014-10-13 colonialism • columbus • history

Cardinal Fashion Plate

Jackass cardinal known for saying jackass things also has a flair for costume

2014-10-13 cardinal • catholic • fashion • gay • priest

Mainstream press about the esports game, awkward article

2014-10-11 esports • games • lol • mobas • nyt

Organs of Paris

Guides for hearing organ music in Paris

2014-10-11 concert • music • organ • paris

LoL position visualization

Data on player positions over time

2014-10-11 games • leagueoflegends • lol • nyt • visualization

The First Female Gamers

Detailed history of women playing D&D

2014-10-10 dnd • feminism • games • via:metafilter • women

Online restaurant reservations. Like OpenTable for Paris, reports are it actually works

2014-10-09 dining • opentable • paris • restaurants

10 ways to be a male advocate

Simple, actionable ways men can help women in tech

2014-10-09 feminism • sexism • tech

GamerGate deconstruction

Analysis of how the "movement" is structurally flawed

2014-10-09 feminism • gamergate • games

Trouble at the Koolaid Point

Amazingly thoughtful essay about online harassment, the culture we have built. "Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier."

2014-10-08 feminism • gender • harassment • kathysierra • seriouspony • sexism • twitter • weev

Belkin router fiasco

Firmware fails when some Internet service is broken

2014-10-07 badtech • belkin • fail • router

New browser tool for managing what advertisers know

2014-10-07 ads • advertising • chrome • extension • google • privacy

Sarkeesian at XOXO

Talking about sexist backlash to her feminist critique of gaming

2014-10-07 xoxo • feminism • gamergate • gaming • sarkeesian • xoxofest

monit dmca claim

Open source project goes after a rewrite clone

2014-10-07 copyright • dmca • github • go • monit

German computer designer; built arguably the first working stored program computer

2014-10-07 berlin • computers • germany • history • z1 • z3 • zuse

Twin Peaks 2600

Fan-made Atari game, "Black Lodge"

2014-10-07 atari • games • retrogaming • twinpeaks

Internet troll talks about his growing racism, sexism, his swastika tattoo

2014-10-06 awful • batshitinsane • nazi • ugly • weev

BGP 512k problem

Detailed analysis of the routing problem that screwed the Internet in August 2014

2014-10-06 badtech • bgp • bug • internet • router

Why nerd culture must die

"We’re still behaving like the rebel alliance, but now we’re the Empire."

2014-10-06 culture • feminism • geek • sexism • tech

SF's shittiest streets

A handy guide to our urban dysfunction

2014-10-03 city • disgusting • gross • sanfrancisco • sf • shit

Xen Security Advisories 108

The bug that had Amazon and Rackspace rebooting all of their computers

2014-10-01 amazon • badtech • ec2 • security • xen