October 2015 Archive
1471.
Using wget and grep to explore inconveniently organized federal data (gist.github.com)
1472.
The Mathematical Surprises of Triangles, Squares and Pentagons (blogs.scientificamerican.com)
1473.
Latin Speakers of West Virginia (medium.com)
1474.
The CAP FAQ (github.com)
1475.
Tech Startups Feel an IPO Chill (wsj.com)
1476.
Windows corrupting UDP datagrams (blog.geeky-boy.com)
1477.
Brian Eno Examines the Ecology of Culture in John Peel Lecture [pdf] (downloads.bbc.co.uk)
1478.
MathBox2 Demo – Ready or Not Music Visualization (acko.net)
1479.
Annotated version of the paper that led to the 2015 Nobel Prize in Physics (fermatslibrary.com)
1480.
Banknotes for a Japanese-occupied Hawaii (atlasobscura.com)
1481.
The Swift Reflection API and what you can do with it (appventure.me)
1482.
How the 'hoverboards' took off in spite of laws against them (bbc.co.uk)
1483.
The Case for Getting Rid of Borders Completely (theatlantic.com)
1484.
Prison Without Punishment (themarshallproject.org)
1485.
Are Cats Domesticated? (newyorker.com)
1486.
The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Armed Jews vs. Nazis (washingtonpost.com)
1487.
Ask HN: Anything better than Tableau for data viz, dashboards?
1488.
Eric Schmidt-backed startup working to elect Hillary Clinton (qz.com)
1489.
What Politicians Believe About Their Constituents: Asymmetric Misperceptions [pdf] (stanford.edu)
1490.
Ask HN: Resources for learning manual software testing?
1491.
Scholarship, Security and ‘Spillage’ on Campus (medium.com)
1492.
Traffic Jam, a program that helps track prostitution rings by using public data (broadly.vice.com)
1493.
Cast-Free Arithmetic in Swift (realm.io)
1494.
Chromium/Blink – Intent to Implement: Experimental Framework (groups.google.com)
1495.
Background Data and Battery Usage of Facebook’s iOS App (macstories.net)
1496.
The Oldest Galaxies in the Universe (theatlantic.com)
1497.
Rainbow, Binary, Debt Friendship Bracelets (medium.com)
1498.
Getting started with Erlang: a new way to look at Erlang's syntax (medium.com)
1499.
Sentencing Overhaul Proposed in Senate with Bipartisan Backing (nytimes.com)
1500.
Neumann Space Ion Engine Sets Record for Specific Impulse (neumannspace.com)