Some nice GNU/Linux-based ways to secure erase SSD and other disks.
New startup by friends Ward and Sasha. Good luck guys!
"Cube is a system for collecting timestamped events and deriving metrics. By collecting events rather than metrics, Cube lets you compute aggregate statistics post hoc. It also enables richer analysis, such as quantiles and histograms of arbitrary event sets. Cube is built on MongoDB and available under the Apache License on GitHub."
"Cubism.js is a D3 plugin for visualizing time series. Use Cubism to construct better realtime dashboards, pulling data from Graphite, Cube and other sources. Cubism is available under the Apache License on GitHub."
"The Data Privacy Lab is dedicated to creating technologies and related policies with provable guarantees of privacy protection while allowing society to collect and share private (or sensitive) information for many worthy purposes. We do this by partnering with institutions, agencies, and corporations facing real-world privacy concerns."
This reminds of a mailing list I really want to set up.
My friend Rahul has created what looks like an awesome blog about visualization and presentation of data.
"RAID5 isn't sufficient redundancy anymore, you need RAID6."
Cool. But where's the source?
It turns out, Google has data on enough search terms that something is always quite highly correlated with your curve! This is a crackpot conspiracy theorists dream!
"hind-cite is a set of tools & data for analyzing the time-based performance of Hacker News posts."
"DataKindâ„¢ (formerly known as Data Without Borders) brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations through a comprehensive, collaborative approach that leads to shared insights, greater understanding, and positive action through data in the service of humanity."
I'm a little disappointed in this article. It's a little incoherent and doesn't do a great job of talking about what it means by statistics. It's something about the political power of data collection?
