On: FOILing NYC’s Taxi Trip Data

[IanCal]

Useful tip, if you add "?torrent" to the end of the url for something stored in S3, you get a torrent. I think this only works for files < 5GB though.

[mikeash → IanCal]

Any idea of the reason for the size limit? That's a pretty weird limit to put on a torrent feature.

[mentat → mikeash]

Reducing the incentive to host uncompressed DVDs / BluRay?

[toomuchtodo → mikeash]

Its an S3 torrent endpoint architectural limitation.

[morisy → IanCal]

That is awesome. Thank for the tip.