This was new to me when I heard about it recently: 26 million LiveJournal credentials leaked online, sold on the dark web (May 27, 2020)

The ground carries a deep sound. A car out in the lot? A train further away ( Read more... )

I see the light of the screen on my knee. I see the lamp outside that'll be on all night through a crack in the shades. I hear them breathing sleeping. I hear it raining. Before that I heard the hiss of the sprinklers watering the wet grass.

I hear the light humming besides my head. I see its fluorescent form dimly through the fiber of the paper and the grid of wood. The bumps on the wall cast a halo of shadows around it. Beside me is my wife. In the corner is a crib.

From Brad Fitzpatrick's Google Plus account ( Read more... )

For the time being, I'm moving most of my activities over to Google Plus: https://plus.google.com/117808384777851490555/posts I guess four has already gotten to most of you, but if you'd like an invite, just let me know how to get it to you ( Read more... )

Grouped: How small groups of friends are the key to influence on the social web. A Brief Introduction to Graphical Models and Bayesian Networks. Edward Tufte’s “Slopegraphs".

Corruption Perceptions Index 2010. (Why would you use a background image for header text?) How well does perceived corruption correspond with real corruption? How fair are ( Read more... )

Yesod Web Framework. The future of data analysis (1962) from Tukey. JavaScript AST trickery with burrito. U.S. life expectancy declines. British PM announces inquiry into tabloid scandal, calls for new press regulation system. England seems less attractive. What is the best governed country in the world as of now? (What is the best governed state ( Read more... )

Floating Point to Decimal Conversion is Easy. The Harvard Classics. ICML 2009 Tutorial on Reductions in Machine Learning. Jenny Rose Finkel. Options, Futures and Other Derivatives (6th Edition). Bayes and "big data" [PDF]. Experimental reasoning in social science [PDF].

Heading to Iowa.

I guess this is compiled from CoffeeScript (but is still pretty nice and readable): http://disaster.mmx-dns.com/js/_/heatmap.js -- why does (CoffeeScript?) execute the wrapped code with .call(this) rather than just ()? Is that to make it easier to embed CoffeeScript inside of JavaScript, eg, function javaScriptFoo() { ~~ CoffeeScript blah blah this ( Read more... )