Weekly roundup - 4 #leak #privacy #torrent #swift

A panorama night shot with Nexus 6p, 2015

• Apple use swift only in calculator app in iOS.
  • https://medium.com/@ryanolsonk/is-apple-using-swift-4a6c80f74599#.d35wfcl91
• Turkish citizenship data leaked (50m records)
  • https://twitter.com/dchest/status/716934572949299200
• Panama Papers leak
• ng-infinite-scroll CDN
  • https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/ngInfiniteScroll/1.2.2/ng-infinite-scroll.min.js
• Easiest terminal torrent client: Aria2c
  • wget http://example.com/some.torrent
    • sudo apt-get install aria2
    • aria2c some.torrent
• Today I learnt (TIL), there is a neo4j alternative developed by a Googler:
  • https://github.com/google/cayley
• Read large files with python without pullling whole file into memory

  with open("log.txt") as infile:
    for line in infile:
        do_something_with(line)
  

• Impressive: Grindr Manages More than 1,800,000 API Calls Per Minute with Less than 5 Engineers - What do they use? App Engine?
  • http://get.treasuredata.com/WBN-2016-04-15-Grindr
    • Other impressive metrics
      • 900MM API Calls per day
    • 65MM Chat Messages per day
    • 10k Geo Spatial database operations per second
    • 300k Profile Image upload per day
    • 2MM Chat Images exchanged per day
      • Source
• Interesting presentation on linux filesystem - Trials with 1 billion files
  • http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon2010_wheeler.pdf
• Sia - Cheap thrills video is awesome
• Macklemore - Dance off - i guess this is unofficial