Thomas Steiner (@tomayac)

Now at @tomayac@toot.cafe

The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @tomayac ever

July 2014

@RubenVerborgh @juansequeda Maybe what we all want (as author & reviewer) is something like peer review ombudsmen: anonym. until complaint.

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“Reviewers shouldn’t hide their name”, by @RubenVerborgh feedly.com/e/rlUjSa6F

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.@TIME: “Twitter Shocks Wall Street With Big Growth in Revenue, Users” http://t.co/XYArz7BB4x Congrats, $TWTR!

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RT @stilkov: I found Facebook’s experiment despicable, not true for OkCupid’s. Optimizing their algorithm is what users pay for. http://t.c…

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Apparently Maria Ozawa http://t.co/aMiJFDRsf4 [NSFW] is popular _now_ w/ Wikipedians. @WikiLiveMon @mediagalleries http://t.co/l53wpOI8lo

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Pardon the pr0n on @mediagalleries. The #BreakingNews algorithm fires as User:JimmyWang adds https://t.co/8Jn2Xu1GKY widely.

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~RT @SemWebDev: […] 43 submissions […]mWeb de2pic.twitter.com/CMMl1kFYwpFYwp // Congrats on filling this ho@RubenVerborghorgh!

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RT @jindrichmynarz: “Big data: a small introduction” by Aidan Hogan. http://t.co/U5BM6verXf (pdf)

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TorrenTV (torrentv.github.io)—Streams Torrent downloads to Apple TV & Roku, using the tech of Popcorn Timepopcorntime.ioYE).

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The TwitterKnitter: mechanical knitting machine upgraded to knit tweets, by @tangentmonger: http://t.co/5xzeOtBaQT (via @iammyr)

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~RT @sympapadopoulos: proceedings are at last available on CEUR: ceur-ws.org/Vol-1198/ // +1! Thanks :-)

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rigow The Internet has made everything easier, especially for Video pic.twitter.com/onOfdIEse0 cc/ @w3c @timberners_lee (via @bendrath )

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RT @Politie: Dutch National Police is investigating the crash of #MH17. Do you have pictures or video material? Please upload it: http://t.…

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RT @marijnjh: Also, if anyone wants in on the action of reviewing Eloquent JavaScript 2nd edition, you can start now! Full text at http://t…

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The #HTML5 #IndexedDB API http://t.co/6O5rv476MB is IMHO so scary that in 2014 I prefer localStorage w/ LZ compress https://t.co/TKbrHz9zG1

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Everybody excited about the latest static LOD cloud, @edsu still runs a daily updating version inkdroid.org/lod-graph/ twitpic.com/e8umi4

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RT @lysander07: A new LOD Cloud diagram has been published
http://t.co/vNnIQIgSLQ #linkeddata #SemanticWeb

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mhausenblas I will make sure our kids know this by heart before they’re allowed onto the Web:

RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines

tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855

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The probably most complete intro to the new <picture> #HTML5 element as of today, by @oDevRel: http://t.co/Mh63YtjctU

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@alexmilowski I reckon that means you’re Dr. MiÅ‚owski now?! Congratulations!

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Persistent Web tracking mechanisms: https://t.co/s1RlUGzMlf [PDF]—Cf. #HTML5 <canvas> fingerprinting: http://t.co/lOjbHFrkZb [PDF] #Privacy

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>$ du ~/ | sort -nr | moreâsh tip du jour: finds disk space hogs in your home directory…

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RT @natematias: You know those Twitter bots that track Wikipedia edits? Well, @RuGovEdits found an astonishing story yesterday http://t.co/…

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jarib 8 years of anonymous Wikipedia edits by the US Congress bit.ly/1sxouQT, more to follow at bit.ly/1sxoG2E @congressedits

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SemWebDev The deadline of the Developers Workshop has been extended to 28 July. Spread the news and submit: iswc2014.semdev.org/participate/

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.@GeohotUS to join Google’s Project Zero: http://t.co/yxGra5OnGM

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RT @jospang: The Malaysia Air Crash: Should We Publish Pictures of Bodies? - Atlantic Mobile http://t.co/uePh2RwiTw

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@fotofalle_nycts You finally did it :D But why limit to 40.7577°N,73.9857°W? You should also add attribution to the photos (embed URL).

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.@ndiakopoulos: “Some […] [news] bots do look at data feeds to generate novel insights, like […] @mediagalleries […]”—http://t.co/bq4zH0skim

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.@TeXtip is an immediate follow :-) Daily #LaTeX, #TeX, and #typography tips. (via @bkeegan, CC: @RubenVerborgh)

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This 2013 blog post on human computation at Twitter just popped up again: http://t.co/p8YINHC1zc Well worth the read still now!

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@sympapadopoulos That’s your #xkcd 723 moment: http://t.co/XoGrRJtd2E. On a more serious note: http://t.co/7p5AZuOcOI [PDF]

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RT @Souders: mozjpeg 2.0 announced by @mozilla. Reduces jpeg size by 5%. @facebook is evaluating. https://t.co/XJuQ5lJC3q

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Hacking Facebook’s legacy API: great write-up of the creative approach: http://t.co/NfAlDkbR15

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Stay up-to-date on Google’s Project Zero #security issue discoveries & subscribe to their Atom(!) feed: https://t.co/JcwGSHLraM

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Project Zero—http://t.co/4hlj5QPfbr. A top-notch Google #Security research team operating in the open: https://t.co/fI0fmQEam7.

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The trouble w/ #DBpedia by @paul_houle of http://t.co/5PTc7PmucR fame: http://t.co/ZJ3hUgvTy8. Note the comment by J.Taylor! (via @rtroncy)

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simonw nyctaxi.herokuapp.com is an absolutely beautiful visualization of the day in a life of a NYC taxi, based on the recently released taxi data

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@ndiakopoulos @parliamentedits Just wondering when the first smear campaign leverages any of the bots, now that it gets some press…

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Watch this video: the one and only Thomas Müller (https://t.co/NFJqaDFobW)… [de-BAR] #GERARG

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The man behind Cydia, @saurik, on competition vs. community in the jailbreaking scene: saurik.com/id/20

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RT @adambarth: HTMLMarqueeElement.js is a small step towards making the web platform self-hosting:
http://t.co/HXU7kdyb24

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An IPython notebook describing how Google predicts the #WC2014 outcomes w/ BigQuery: http://t.co/aqHF6QJVa8 #GERARG #BRANED

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@apassant Looking forward to the next blog post then :-) Have a great weekend!

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@apassant Fantastic blog post & showcase. Thanks for the link. Actually, the latest version w/ media galleries is at wikipedia-live-monitor.herokuapp.com

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Music rec’s based on Wikipedia edits http://t.co/OT6Zbcn2yB by @apassant. BigQuery dataset https://t.co/yUfay7Stl3

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@olafhartig Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Dr. Hartig!

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RT @lilcoccinelle: Configurar tu propio dominio en Blogger: Quién ha dicho que es difícil? http://t.co/MEmcvo5CHN http://t.co/XaXSFTWFKP

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A walk down memory lane: why do we even use the “www” subdomain? http://t.co/K2JtcGU6kc

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RT @NiemanLab: Do you find TweetDeck overwhelming? Here’s a handy guide for how to better use it for newsgathering http://t.co/9cVMBlVdng

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Discovering pm2: a modern CLI process manager for Node.js apps w/ built-in load-balancer by @strzel_a: github.com/Unitech/pm2

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@edsu @tomscott @IFTTT I think it works w/ a conditional check on the author field of the Wikipedia recent changes RSS feed (not realtime).

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@edsu If you want to deploy (@)BundestagEdits, here you go: https://t.co/5s91OxvOwJ (German)

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@edsu It wasn’t really on my radar neither until I noticed that at Google we use externally visible IP v6 addresses now…

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edsu I just renamed congress-edits github repo to anon since it can be configured to listen to custom, named ip ranges now github.com/edsu/anon

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@edsu Awesome work! Considered supporting IP v6, too, for the future? https://t.co/ChXXC4pMvG

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tomscott Yesterday, I made @parliamentedits. Today, @congressedits, @gccaedits and @RiksdagWikiEdit are up and running, thanks to some smart people!

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You know history’s being written when a sole #WC2014 match gets an own Wikipedia page https://t.co/B1gsnKLqz2 http://t.co/dsNKEeVm27 #BRAGER

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@vambenepe LOL, I stand corrected. @RubenVerborgh & I are working on an extension that inserts http://t.co/ic8JUyxqbb in such cases ;-)

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@debugglesoft @mhausenblas @vambenepe: @RubenVerborgh & me even got a scientific publication out of it: http://t.co/lcOXcWHfDM

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@sdkstl As long as IP ranges are publicly known, yes. I doubt that they’re public for most institutions & there’re unknowns (proxies, VPNs).

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Interestingâ@tomscotttt’s Twitter bo@parliamenteditsts tweets anonymous Wikipedia edits coming from UK Parliament IPstomscott.com/wikiparliament9B

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RT @benward: Do you have a site with a JSONP API? You need to read this and patch your implementation; major x-domain abuse: http://t.co/6…

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W/ yet another incident of unauth’d digital certificates (story http://t.co/xk6jMVfBfQ), good to know that http://t.co/ZtGLoawJF1 are here.

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#Research: that moment when not even Google knows what you’re talking about: http://t.co/IrBjtUvW3p #PhDComics

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~RT @mathias: Dear Google, please fix plain text emails in Gmail: http://t.co/w5HHyTG2DT // +1! It’s more “Dear @gmail” rather than @google.

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Brilliant comic on research ethics in the Facebook emotional contagion paper: xkcd.com/1390/

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SPARQL-MM: SPARQL extension that allows for querying Linked Data for Media Fragments http://t.co/GZdrZ3Gbmd (via @tkurz, CC: @rtroncy)

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.@Vjeux about applying Knuth’s line breaking algorithm to image layout: http://t.co/l2Qr957CSn

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RT @LeaVerou: Brilliant post by @meyerweb on “What Not To Say To a Grieving Parent”
http://t.co/rOaTBaNzAA
Most points apply to anyone grie…

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juanmillan85 Thomas Steiner talking about .”Enriching unstructured media content about events” from Google @cubrikproject pic.twitter.com/olANhPgD0o

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RT @VincenzoCroce1: @tomayac at @cubrikproject Summer School in #CUbRhodes, nice presentation on breaking news detection http://t.co/rkQ7T6…

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The ideal opportunity to turn that accept (reject) into s.th. (more) by highlighting features of the code: iswc2014.semdev.org/participate/

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@moustaki Félicitations! Sounds like a great career move! Enjoy the free content, too ;-)

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