April 2011
the @RICHMOND_SFPD plans to keep the public safe, one tweet at a time. hilarious.
March 2011
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Twitter Kills The #Dickbar →
Yes, it’s happened. Three days after Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey comes back in to head product, the dreaded #Dickbar, or the Quickbarthat inserted trending topics and promoted ads into your tweet-stream on the iPhone, is dead.
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At work? Try this Hacker News homepage inspired by... →
A work friendly version of hacker news (if you’re a coder).
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Clint: Python Command-line Application Tools →
Clint is awesome. Crazy awesome. It supports colors, but detects if the session is a TTY, so doesn’t render the colors if you’re piping stuff around. Automagically.
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Announcing the HTTP Archive →
The HTTP Archive code is open source and the data is downloadable. Approximately 17,000 top websites are examined every two weeks. I started gathering the data in October 2010. The list of URLs is derived from various sources including Alexa, Fortune 500, and Quantcast. The system is built on the shoulders of WebPagetest which downloads each URL and gathers a HAR file, screenshots, video of the...
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node.js guide by Felix Geisendörfer →
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Pianobar On Mac OS X →
Pianobar is a command line interface to Pandora, which is more gentle on your memory footprint (no Adobe anything!), and is easier to tuck away in the background.
bonds may end up surviving this whole thing from a legal standpoint, but all these details about his personal life have screwed him for life
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Autistic boy,12, develops his own theory of... →
A 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.
Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry...
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Hack Obtains 9 Bogus Certificates for Prominent... →
In a fresh blow to the fundamental integrity of the internet, a hacker last week obtained legitimate web certificates that would have allowed him to impersonate some of the top sites on the internet, including the login pages used by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo e-mail customers.
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A fifteen year old TCP bug? →
The following post is a bit longish, and details my foray into the BSD TCP/IP stack debugging and finding what I think is a 15-year old bug.
san jose was found to be “soccer city usa” by the oregonian. they must have forgotten about selling the 5x champion quakes team to houston
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Open-source, JavaScript JSON HTML viewer released →
Online HTML5 JSON Report format to view any JSON data in a human-readable HTML view
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Why so little looting in Japan? It's not just... →
If your home was hit by a 9.0-magnitude earthquake, a tsunami, and radiation from a nuclear power plant, you’d be forgiven for not remaining calm. Yet that’s what many Japanese quake victims appear to be doing. People areforming lines outside supermarkets. Life is “particularly orderly,” according to PBS. “Japanese discipline rules despite disaster,” says...
RT @SJEarthquakes: Matchday Info: Download Yorder, Liveshare, MLS MatchDay apps to enhance your in-game experience #SJEarthquakes #MLS h …
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RIP Digg →
Startups in Silicon Valley are like old generals. They don’t die anymore, buoyed on life-rafts of lingering venture capital and modest revenues. They just fade away, eventually purchased for assets that are a shadow of their former promise. It’s pretty clear that Digg is on that path. The company isn’t dead, but it’s been fading away for a while, and its soul is all but gone. The company can spin...
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Sight - A Google Chrome extension →
The Syntax Highlighter for Chrome
i met the real life version of andrew dice clay just now…this guy is straight jersey trizzzash
today = a lower haight pub crawl with free guinnes, food, and a party bus! the perfect start to march madness!!
thers’s something about dr. dre’s chronic 2001 album that just never gets old….
RT @SnoopDogg: all doggs go to heaven yo homie n baby brotha bigg snoopdogg!!
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Bracketology 101: The Wired Guide to March Madness →
Delta scores!
q: guess who just became a master at tiny wing? a: this guy!!
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Wire' actress among 30 arrested in Md. drug raids →
RT @kevinrose: .@VeriFone fails to mention that ANYONE can build a fake credit card swiper for a few dollars, clearly they are terrified …
portland is seems like sf, but without any ethnic people…
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VeriFone Takes The Gloves Off, Accuses Square Of... →
Mobile payments are heating up and companies are taking ruthless steps to knock down competitors. Today, VeriFone is claiming that Square’s mobile payments processor contains a serious security threat to credit cardholders and businesses.
twitter’s #dickbar sucks and foursquare’s new features seem cool. that’s the last time anyone will say either of those things (not)
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Why Generic Machine Learning Fails →
I’ve been lucky enough to have spent a significant chunk of my time over the past five years hacking the machine learning stack at Google. It is every bit as awesome, magical and fearsome as you can imagine. It is, very literally, the beating heart of one of the world’s largest economies; it’s immensely complex, it can’t be turned off and classification error is measured in money. Fundamentally,...
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i saw a strikingly similar 3rd grade version of me and @allycat26 this morning (they were holding hands and everything) that girl is screwed
i was extremely happy to hear kid dynamite playing on the jukebox at 540 club tonight….sometimes it’s the little things :)
i think my computer likes being treated badly. every time i swear at it, the problems seems to go away…
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HackerNews: Chrome Extension →
another reason to love japan…canned highball drinks! http://goo.gl/NgwUp
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Prezi - The Zooming Presentation Editor →
A great presentation editor!
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WatchHow to set up a 4 node Cassandra cluster in under 2 minutes