Bookmarks for November 30th through December 1st
by danhon
This is an auto-posted collection of public links I’ve either posted to, or favourites from Twitter, my Instapaper bookmarks and my public links posted to Pinboard.in for November 30th from 18:43 to 00:59:
- Billionaire white guy, together with team of white guys, tries to fix politics – Imagine you’e been tirelessly and passionately working for a cause for years. You’ve relied on hard work to win small, incremental victories in your nascent…
- countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization – A couple of months ago, Trixter of Hornet released a demo called “8088 Domination”, which shows off real-time video and audio playback on the original 1981 IBM…
- 8088 Domination Post-Mortem, Part 1 – Posted by Trixter on June 19, 2014 These next few posts are a technical write-up of how I created 8088 Domination, which is a program that displays fairly…
- Cryptography for dummies – A CAMPAIGN by American and British lawmakers and security officials to get social-media companies to take more responsibility for handing over information about…
- Autonomous car – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia – An ,[1] also known as a driverless car,[2]self-driving car,[3] or robotic car[4] is an autonomous vehicle capable of fulfilling the transportation capabilities…
- The Startup That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car | Hacker News – 510 did many great things and got credit for nearly none of it. We barely had a website b/c big companies like Google, Microsoft and Nokia liked letting people…
- The Unknown Start-up That Built Google’s First Self-Driving Car – IEEE Spectrum – One of technology’s time-honored traditions is getting intellectual property by buying companies rich in ideas but poor in cash or connections. Burroughs Corp.,…
- Tock – Tock represents years of thought on solving a number of problems endemic to the restaurant industry. But it has applications far beyond restaurants to any small…
- Yet Another Big Funding Round for a Big Web Publisher – This Time for Vox Media – Re/code: Yet Another Big Funding Round for a Big Web Publisher – This Time for Vox Media http://t.co/UhZAgqdVg3 by @pkafka
- On wellbeing in a smart city: when I hear the word dashboard… – Dominic Campbell: Lovely stuff RT @leisa: This is very good by @mattedgar on well being and smart #cities http://t.co/gMHmAynpDp /cc @cityofsound #localgov
- Log In – The New York Times – Retailers, most of which don't pay living wages, at a loss to explain why Americans are spending less.