Daily Links Friday 5/29/15

• Tracking economic development with open data and Algorithmia: Algorithmia partners with Socrata.com to bring predictive analytics to open data and analyze economic development in different cities.
• Automatically removing reflections from photos: New algorithm has been created by MIT researchers to distinguish reflection from photos take through windows
• Neueral networks used to identify drunks: Neural networks and infrared imagery used to identify people who are currently intoxicated.

Daily links Wednesday 5/20/15

• https://noncombatant.org/2014/03/03/downloading-software-safely-is-nearly-impossible/
• https://noncombatant.org/
• https://danpalmer.me/blog/ssl-labs-grade-a
• https://danpalmer.me

Two articles from two blogs of security engineers.

Chris Palmer – from noncombatant.org “Hi, I’m Chris. … I work at Google as a software security engineer on Chrome, where I focus on secure usability and duct-taping over the foibles of the web PKI.”

Dan Palmer – from danpalmer.me “I’m a software developer at Thread in London, and recently graduated from the University of Southampton where I studied Computer Science, specialising in Mobile and Secure Systems.”

Daily Links Tuesday 5/19/15

• https://h2o.github.io/index.html
• https://github.com/h2o/h2o
• http://getyourshittogether.org/

The first two links are for a very fast HTTP server written in C.

The third link has guides and resources for life and death planning that everyone should probably have, but is always to busy to actually accomplish.

Daily Links Monday 5/18/15

• http://xn--thibaud-dya.fr/robots.txt.html
• http://rayli.net/blog/data/top-10-data-mining-algorithms-in-plain-english/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9563418
• http://goodui.org/
• http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31602745
• http://www.nngroup.com/articles/smartwatch/
• http://www.engadget.com/2015/05/18/timelapse-from-public-domain-photos/

Quick summary:  interesting things found in robots.txt files, comprehensive post about data mining algorithms, discussion on whether selling a six year old start up that never generated a profit is “successful”, some UI links, and creating time-lapsed videos of landmarks from photos in the public domain.