Ireland’s first dedicated poutine place opened in Dublin today and it’s delish
SOUND THE POUTINE KLAXON
(tags: poutine canadia canada frozen-wastes food chips dublin)
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Dropwizard for Go, basically:
a distributed programming toolkit for building microservices in large organizations. We solve common problems in distributed systems, so you can focus on your business logic.
(tags: microservices go golang http libraries open-source rpc circuit-breakers)
Year: 2016
Meteor | What are the full list of short-codes for voicemail/diverts?
bookmarking for future use
In Phibsboro, a New Deli For a Changing Neighbourhood
"Bang Bang", new fancy deli on Leinster Road North
Tara Pilgrimage 2006 - Indymedia Ireland
OMG, this is hilarious. High drama among the arch-druids (via Lisa Carey)
Tim O'Reilly vs Paul Graham: fight!
'In his essay on Income Inequality, Paul Graham credited me for pre-publication feedback. Because he didn’t do much with my comments, I thought I’d publish them here.' ... 'Mostly, I think you are picking a fight with people who would mostly agree with you, and ignoring the real arguments about what inequality means and why it matters.'
(tags: inequality silicon-valley tech paul-graham tim-oreilly piketty politics economics wealth startups history work stock-options)
Fairytales much older than previously thought, say researchers
Analysis showed Jack and the Beanstalk was rooted in a group of stories classified as The Boy Who Stole Ogre’s Treasure, and could be traced back to when eastern and western Indo-European languages split – more than 5,000 years ago. Beauty and the Beast and Rumpelstiltskin to be about 4,000 years old. A folk tale called The Smith and the Devil was estimated to date back 6,000 years to the bronze age. The study employed phylogenetic analysis, which was developed to investigate evolutionary relationships between species, and used a tree of Indo-European languages to trace the descent of shared tales on it, to see how far they could be demonstrated to go back in time. Tehrani said: “We find it pretty remarkable these stories have survived without being written. They have been told since before even English, French and Italian existed. They were probably told in an extinct Indo-European language.”
(tags: history mythology stories folk-tales jack-and-the-beanstalk rumpelstiltskin language phylogenetic)
Transform your oyster travelcard with sugru!
probably totally dodgy where the Oyster rules are concerned, but still pretty damn cool
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handy -- search Netflix in all regions, then show where the show/movie is available. Probably going to be less handy from now on now that Netflix is blocking region-spoofing
Why Eircode is a shambles, by someone who works in the transport industry
This is full of good points.
Without having a distinct SORT KEY for a geographically distinct area, a postcode is of no real benefit to any type of transport firm or agency. To take one example, Eircode have used the same sort key, F92, for Arranmore (Donegal’s largest inhabited island) and the north western Donegal mainland. Cill Rónáin, Inis Mór, the largest of the Aran Islands, has the same sort key H91, as Connemara and Galway City. Galway city and the Aran Islands may be in a relatively small geographical area, but keen eyes may have noticed that the Aran Islands are separated from the mainland by a small section of the Atlantic Ocean. Sort codes which ignore clear and obvious boundaries, like seas or oceans, need to be redesigned. In two seconds a [UK] website could tell a Hebridean that his delivery will take 4 days at a cost of fifty quid by using the first three characters of the postcode. The Eircode-using Irish equivalent website would need to lookup a large database to tell an Arranmore resident the cost and time for delivery – and they’d need the full exact code. Any mistake made here, and your estimated delivery time, and cost for delivery will be wrong.
(tags: postcodes eircode loc8code fail couriers delivery geodata geocoding galway aran-islands)
The Magnetic Air Bonsai Creates Surreal Levitating Plants
this is amazing. $200 on Kickstarter!
(tags: kickstarter bonsai plants gardening levitation air-bonsai cool)
AWS Certificate Manager – Deploy SSL/TLS-Based Apps on AWS
Very nifty -- autodeploys free wildcard certs to ELBs and Cloudfront. HN discussion thread is pretty good: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10947186
(tags: ssl tls certificates ops aws cloudfront elb)
AWS re:Invent 2015 | (NET403) Another Day, Another Billion Packets - YouTube
Eric Brandwine details the internal workings of Amazon VPC
(tags: eric-brandwine vpc aws amazon networking security vlans sdn)
Unikernels are unfit for production - Blog - Joyent
Bryan Cantrill gives unikernels a 10-point dismissal. This is great
(tags: unikernels flavour-of-the-month devops joyent bryan-cantrill docker containers ops)
"So you have a mess on your hands" [png]
Excellent flowchart of how to fix common git screwups (via ITC slack)
(tags: git reference flowchart troubleshooting help coding via:itc)
Journalists, this GSOC story isn’t all about you, you know
Karlin Lillington in the Irish Times, going through journos for a shortcut:
All the hand-wringing from journalists, unions and media companies – even politicians and ministers – over the GSOC’s accessing of journalist’s call records? Oh, please. What wilful ignorance, mixed with blatant hypocrisy. Where have you all been for the past decade and a half, as successive Irish governments and ministers for justice supported and then rammed through legislation for mandatory call data retention for one of the longest periods in the world, with some of the weakest legal constraints and oversight?
(tags: karlin-lillington privacy data-protection dri law journalists gsoc surveillance data-retention)
!["So you have a mess on your hands" [png]](https://web.archive.org/web/20160115225829/https%3A//justinhileman.info/article/git-pretty/git-pretty.png){kind=link}
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Good plug for emrfs for encryption
Gilt Groupe Is a Cautionary Tale for Startup Employees Banking on Stock Options | Re/code
Good explanation of why RSUs are becoming increasingly common
(tags: rsus startups shares share-options work)
Powering your Amazon ECS Clusters with Spot Fleet
sounds feasible
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Ughhhh.
Amazon Echo sends your WiFi password to Amazon. No option to disable. Trust us it's in an "encrypted file"
(tags: amazon echo wifi passwords security data-privacy data-protection)
21 of the most Stoneybatter things that have ever happened
ah, <3 the 'batter
(tags: stoneybatter dublin hipsters funny)
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This is absolutely appalling. IP law gone mad:
DNC Parks & Resorts at Yosemite, Inc (a division of one of the largest privately owned companies in the world) used to have the concessions to operate various businesses around Yosemite National Park. Now that they've been fired, they're using some decidedly dubious trademark to force the Park Service to change the names of buildings and locations that have stood for as much as a century, including some that have been designated national landmarks. The Parks Service has caved to these requests as it readies the park for its centennial celebration. It will not only change the names of publicly owned landmarks -- such as the Ahwahnee hotel, Yosemite Lodge, the Wawona Hotel, Curry Village, and Badger Pass ski area -- it will also have to change all its signs, maps and guidebooks.
(tags: yosemite ip trademarks law fiasco national-parks usa)
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'THE DRAGNET: How a man accused of million-dollar fraud uncovered a never before seen, secret surveillance device'
(tags: stingrays crime fraud surveillance mobile police imsi-catchers)
Introducing: The World's First Fully Functional 3D Printed Watch: The Christoph Laimer Tourbillon
wow
(tags: watches 3d-printing clocks things via:bruces)
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Online chart maker for CSV and Excel data; make charts and dashboards online. One really nice feature is that charts made this way get permalinks, and can be easily inlined as PNGs or HTML5 divs. (See https://www.vividcortex.com/blog/analyzing-sparks-mpp-scalability-with-the-usl for an example.)
(tags: data javascript python tools visualization dataviz charts graphing web plotly plots graphs)
CRISPR Patents Spark Fight to Control Genome Editing | MIT Technology Review
Patents ruin everything, CRISPR edition
(tags: crispr algorithms gene-editing genetics genomics genes patents)
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Nchan is a scalable, flexible pub/sub server for the modern web, built as a module for the Nginx web server. It can be configured as a standalone server, or as a shim between your application and tens, thousands, or millions of live subscribers. It can buffer messages in memory, on-disk, or via Redis. All connections are handled asynchronously and distributed among any number of worker processes. It can also scale to many nginx server instances with Redis. Messages are published to channels with HTTP POST requests or websockets, and subscribed also through websockets, long-polling, EventSource (SSE), old-fashioned interval polling, and more. Each subscriber can listen to up to 255 channels per connection, and can be optionally authenticated via a custom application url. An events meta channel is also available for debugging.
Also now supports HTTP/2. This used to be called the Nginx HTTP Push Module, and I used it with great results in that form. This is the way to do HTTP push in all its forms....(tags: nginx pubsub websockets sse http http-push http2 redis long-polling nchan)
David Bowie: Father Of The Sleng Teng Riddim
A great theory!
I don’t have contact information for Hiroko Okuda, but I am positive that the track she is referring to [as the source of the Casiotone MT-40 "rock" preset] is “Hang Onto Yourself” by David Bowie.
(tags: david-bowie sleng-teng-riddim riddims reggae casio presets samples history music trivia)
The Open Guide To Equity Compensation
A very US-oriented, but still useful, reference for all the aspects of stock options, RSUs, and other forms of equity compensation
(tags: equity startups money pay salary rsus stock-options stock)
About Microservices, Containers and their Underestimated Impact on Network Performance
shock horror, Docker-SDN layers have terrible performance. Still pretty lousy perf impacts from basic Docker containerization, presumably without "--net=host" (which is apparently vital)
(tags: docker performance network containers sdn ops networking microservices)
Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity
'Norman Maurer presents how Apple uses Netty for its Java based services and the challenges of doing so, including how they enhanced performance by participating in the Netty open source community. Maurer takes a deep dive into advanced topics like JNI, JVM internals, and others.'
(tags: apple netty norman-maurer java jvm async talks presentations)
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excellent blueprint-style poster covering all the major cocktails
(tags: cocktails drinks engineering posters blueprints graphics pdf)
Introducing dumb-init, an init system for Docker containers
Yelp fixing one of the sillier shortcomings of Docker
(tags: docker tools yelp init containers signals unix linux dumb-init)
Can't sign in to Google calendar on my Samsung refrigerator
LOL, internet of broken things (via Dave Bolger)
(tags: internetofshit iot fail samsung google apis fridges connected future via:davebolger)
5 subtle ways you're using MySQL as a queue, and why it'll bite you
Excellent post from Percona. I particularly like that they don't just say "don't use MySQL" -- they give good advice on how it can be made work: 1) avoid polling; 2) avoid locking; and 3) avoid storing your queue in the same table as other data.
(tags: database mysql queueing queue messaging percona rds locking sql architecture)
BBC Digital Media Distribution: How we improved throughput by 4x
Replacing varnish with nginx. Nice deep-dive blog post covering kernel innards
The Importance of Tuning Your Thread Pools
Excellent blog post on thread pools, backpressure, Little's Law, and other Hystrix-related topics (PS: use Hystrix)
(tags: hystrix threadpools concurrency java jvm backpressure littles-law capacity)
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good explanation of this new data structure for searching multidimensional data
(tags: search lucene bkd-trees searching data-structures)
The Guinness Brewer Who Revolutionized Statistics
William S. Gosset, discoverer of the Student's T-Test. Amazon should have taken note of this trick:
Upon completing his work on the t-distribution, Gosset was eager to make his work public. It was an important finding, and one he wanted to share with the wider world. The managers of Guinness were not so keen on this. They realized they had an advantage over the competition by using this method, and were not excited about relinquishing that leg up. If Gosset were to publish the paper, other breweries would be on to them. So they came to a compromise. Guinness agreed to allow Gosset to publish the finding, as long as he used a pseudonym. This way, competitors would not be able to realize that someone on Guinness’s payroll was doing such research, and figure out that the company’s scientifically enlightened approach was key to their success.
(tags: statistics william-gosset history guinness brewing t-test pseudonyms dublin)
How open-source software developers helped end the Ebola epidemic in Sierra Leone
Little known to the rest of the world, a team of open source software developers played a small but integral part in helping to stop the spread of Ebola in Sierra Leone, solving a payroll crisis that was hindering the fight against the disease. Emerson Tan from NetHope, a consortium of NGOs working in IT and development, told the tale at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. “These guys basically saved their country from complete collapse. I can’t overestimate how many lives they saved,” he said about his co-presenters, Salton Arthur Massally, Harold Valentine Mac-Saidu and Francis Banguara, who appeared over video link.
(tags: open-source software coding payroll sierra-leone ebola ccc)
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A good review of RethinkDB! Hopefully not just because this test is contract work on behalf of the RethinkDB team ;)
I’ve run hundreds of test against RethinkDB at majority/majority, at various timescales, request rates, concurrencies, and with different types of failures. Consistent with the documentation, I have never found a linearization failure with these settings. If you use hard durability, majority writes, and majority reads, single-document ops in RethinkDB appear safe.
(tags: rethinkdb databases stores storage ops availability cap jepsen tests replication)