Entries from March 2016 ↓

• Improve BigQuery ingestion times 10x by using Avro source format | Google Cloud Big Data Blog — Google Cloud Platform
• Luuup Litter Box – The Best Cat Litter Box Ever | Indiegogo
• Unfiltered.news
• A new data viz tool shows what stories are being undercovered in countries around the world » Nieman Journalism Lab
• Fertilizer produces far more greenhouse gas than expected | Science News
• Danielle Fong on Twitter: ""I Love the U.N., but It Is Failing" Startling, terrible revelations and a plea for reform by key insider https://t.co/OWtkrtMWqR"
• How Many Decimals of Pi Do We Really Need? – Edu News | NASA/JPL Edu
  RT @skimbrel: today’s fuck-yeah-science: 15 digits of pi is sufficient to place Voyager 1’s location within 2 inches
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programmers : In which I interview so you don’t have to
• [Easy Chair] | Bird in a Cage, by Rebecca Solnit | Harper’s Magazine
  RT @MrEchs: This piece on Harpers is amazing. Can’t stop thinking about this 1st graph, it’s haunting me
• Twitter
  RT @MrEchs: This piece on Harpers is amazing. Can’t stop thinking about this 1st graph, it’s haunting me
• Why does Russian-made Telegram messaging app irritate its competitors? | Russia Beyond The Headlines
• The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991 : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• Twitter
  RT @crtr0: Read all 30 tweets. Let it sink in. Then read them again.

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• Version 3 Beta – iTerm2 – Mac OS Terminal Replacement
• Shell Integration – iTerm2 – Mac OS Terminal Replacement
• How To Mansplain In 6 Easy Steps — Life Tips — Medium
• Unprecedented Spike in CO2 Levels in 2015 | Climate Central
• How Diversity Makes Us Smarter – Scientific American
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateCentral: One graph, all the world’s sea level rise via @wxshift
• Sea Level Rise • Climate Change | WXshift
  RT @ClimateCentral: One graph, all the world’s sea level rise via @wxshift
• Obama just took a big step toward powering New York with offshore wind – The Washington Post
• Twitter
  RT @Alex_Verbeek: The longest-ever global coral bleaching threatens Great Barrier Reef
• Coral bleaching threat level raised on heritage-listed Great Barrier Reef
• Julian Barnes remembers his friend Anita Brookner: ‘There was no one remotely like her’ | Books | The Guardian
  RT @paullaity: Completely wonderful. Julian Barnes remembers his friend Anita Brookner: ‘There was no one remotely like her’
• Twitter
  RT @UNEP: White storks in Europe not migrating south during winter. They eat trash instead: #UNEA2
• White storks swap migration for a junk food diet at rubbish tips | Environment | The Guardian
  RT @UNEP: White storks in Europe not migrating south during winter. They eat trash instead: #UNEA2
• Hiking on New Zealand glaciers banned because of rapid melting
  RT @Alex_Verbeek: Hiking on New Zealand glaciers banned because of rapid melting #climate
• Twitter
  RT @Alex_Verbeek: Hiking on New Zealand glaciers banned because of rapid melting #climate

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• Suck: A Landmark Magazine of the Early Web – The Atlantic
• "The Best Magazine on the Early Web" – via Nuzzel
  http://nzzl.us/R3uWPh8
  theatlantic.com – Anna Wiener – Mar 18, 8:00 AM
  Suck
• Top 7 Most Irritating Food Commercials | Dallas Observer
• My Astounding And Yet Not At All Unusual Day In Culture – The Awl
• Flint Weighs Scope of Harm to Children Caused by Lead in Water – The New York Times
• Bright Wall/Dark Room August 2014: "We’ll Jump and We’ll See" by Chad Perman | Balder and Dash | Roger Ebert
• Tweets are disappearing on Twitter. Why? – The Washington Post
• Thanks to a bionic fingertip, amputees can feel textures again – Quartz
• As Women Take Over a Male-Dominated Field, the Pay Drops – The New York Times
• The first iOS malware has been discovered
• Untitled (http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over-a-male-dominated-field-the-pay-drops.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=3&referer=)
  RT @acdha: “when women moved into occupations in large numbers, those jobs began paying less even after controlling for …”
• Twitter
  RT @Spacekatgal: Extremely disappointed @Microsoft and @Xbox hired women wearing these outfits to perform at @gdc. PLEASE RT.
• Kubernetes: Kubernetes 1.2: Even more performance upgrades, plus easier application deployment and management
• Untitled (http://www.theverge.com/2016/3/18/11262888/microsoft-gdc-2016-party)
  RT @EricaJoy: Your @ghc Diamond Sponsors, ladies.
• How To Mansplain In 6 Easy Steps — Medium
• Twitter
  RT @Whatleydude: ‘Guys, I’m not sure this ad promotes a positive image of women in tech’

  ‘Stick ‘front end developer’ on it’

  ‘OK!’

• Twitter
  RT @juliaferraioli: So true it hurts.
• Google Could Beat Apple At Fashion–Just Like It Did Phones | Co.Design | business + design
• Twitter
  RT @marginoferror: This is really important.
• Twitter
  RT @jilljubs: This quote from @holman’s article pains my heart. 1) Because my roots are in HR & 2) Because its too often true.
• Twitter
  RT @rockbot: I cannot stress the importance of reading this piece by @TessaHarmon
• Former Google CEO Schmidt to head new Pentagon innovation board | Reuters
• Untitled (http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/03/study-women-30s-leave-jobs-because-money.html?mid=twitter-share-thecut)
  RT @schemaly: One Weird Trick for Keeping Female Employees From Quitting I love this from @annfriedman!

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• Apple Encryption Engineers, if Ordered to Unlock iPhone, Might Resist – NYTimes.com
• Gaming analytics for Crank – an incremental game – on BigQuery — Google Cloud Platform — Developer Advocates — Medium
• Twitter
  RT @moritzheiber: All male panels speaking on gender diversity
• Clarifying & Formalizing Runner Capabilities
  Dataflow/ Apache beam
• Release Release v1.2.0 · kubernetes/kubernetes · GitHub
  RT @brendandburns: Get it while it’s hot!
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2016 Results
  Female Developer Age
• When you’re into BDSM but it’s too soon because you’re black | Fusion
• A Journey Across Greece, a Bankrupt Land at Risk of Becoming a Refugee Prison – NYTimes.com
• The Human Fingerprints on Coastal Floods | Climate Central
  RT @ClimateCentral: It’s clear that humans are driving oceans to higher levels and with them, flood risks
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateCentral: It’s clear that humans are driving oceans to higher levels and with them, flood risks

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• DevRelCon: San Francisco 2016
  Microsoft Reactor, 680 Folsom St.
• Climate Change: Earth Surface Temperature Data | Kaggle
• [BEAM-11] Integrate Spark runner with Beam by amitsela · Pull Request #42 · apache/incubator-beam · GitHub
  RT @takidau: Moar progress! Initial @ApacheFlink and @ApacheSpark runner code drops now in @ApacheBeam.
• [BEAM-5] Add Flink Runner by mxm · Pull Request #12 · apache/incubator-beam · GitHub
  RT @takidau: Moar progress! Initial @ApacheFlink and @ApacheSpark runner code drops now in @ApacheBeam.
• Kubernetes Community Meeting Topics – Google Docs
  RT @kubernetesio: Have something you’d like to share with the k8s community? Join us for our weekly meetings and schedule a demo –
• Make America Great Again — The Problem With Donald Trump’s Campaign Slogan
• Twitter
  RT @kazunori_279: Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google – High Scalability –
• Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google – High Scalability –
  RT @kazunori_279: Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google – High Scalability –
• Kazunori Sato on Twitter: "Jeff Dean on Large-Scale Deep Learning at Google – High Scalability – https://t.co/QkgFWv85Yr https://t.co/mpFmGyjvP1"
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Google shares software network load balancer design powering GCP networking
• Silicon Valley’s Unchecked Arrogance — The Development Set — Medium
• Bernie Sanders Needs a New Reason to Stay in the Race. Here’s One. | New Republic
• It would be nice if GitHub supported a Gerrit-inspired code-review process, wher… | Hacker News
• Container Native Package System · 80%
  from Joe: These are some thoughts on how to improve what we consider a “container image.” I’m looking at both the container format itself and what goes on inside of it. This obviously builds on ideas in other systems and I’ve tried to call those out. These thoughts are still early so I’m hoping to find others of like mind and start a good discussion.
• Saving hundreds of hours with Google Compute Engine Per-Minute Billing | IT with Passion
  I’ve been working on the ECARF research project for the last few years addressing some of the Semantic Web issues, in particular processing large RDF datasets using cloud computing. The project started using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) – namely Compute Engine, Cloud Storage and BigQuery – two years ago and now that the initial phase of the project is complete, I thought to reflect back on the decision to use GCP. To summarise, the Google Compute Engine (GCE) per minute billing saved us 697 hours, an equivalent of 29 days, a full month of VM time! Read on for details on how these figures were calculated and for my reflections on 2 years of GCP usage, starting 1,086 VMs programatically through code, completing 100s of jobs on a 24,538 lines-of-code project.
• ECARF – Elastic Cost-Aware Reasoning Framework for the Semantic Web
  Cloud-based Elastic Cost-Aware Reasoning Framework for the Semantic Web

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• Slack at Work
• Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet – The New York Times
• Boxy. Inbox by Gmail, finally on your Mac.
• EPA email: "I’m not so sure Flint is the community we want to go out on a limb for" – Vox
• Working-Class Whites Have Moral Responsibilities — In Defense of Kevin Williamson
• DANIEL SLATERS BLOG: Deep-Q learning Pong with Tensorflow and PyGame
• Google Introduces Products That Will Sharpen Its Ad Focus – NYTimes.com
• Databricks Integrates Spark and TensorFlow for Deep Learning
• Twitter
  Really interesting and great
• How One Hardware Startup Solved Silicon Valley’s “Woman Problem” — Backchannel — Medium
• More code review tools
• LG Watch Urbane – Gold or Silver – Google Store
• Running WordPress on Managed VMs – Back to PHP
  RT @tpryan: My coworker @tmatsuo has a great blog post about running WordPress securely on App Engine Managed VMs

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• Mathematicians Discovered Something Super Freaky About Prime Numbers
• Twitter
  RT @OwensDamien: Well, @frankieboyle called the shit out of this one.
• Twitter
  RT @OwensDamien: Well, @frankieboyle called the shit out of this one.
• ‘True shocker’: February spike in global temperatures stuns scientists
  RT @QUT_IP: ‘True shocker’: Spike in global temps stuns scientists as warming goes into overdrive
• Twitter
  RT @QUT_IP: ‘True shocker’: Spike in global temps stuns scientists as warming goes into overdrive
• Twitter
  RT @Alex_Verbeek: By 2050, our oceans will hold more plastic than fish #environment
• Niume | Posts
  RT @Alex_Verbeek: By 2050, our oceans will hold more plastic than fish #environment
• Trump Is No Accident – NYTimes.com

  But back to the Republicans: Let’s dispel with this fiction that the Trump phenomenon represents some kind of unpredictable intrusion into the normal course of Republican politics. On the contrary, the G.O.P. has spent decades encouraging and exploiting the very rage that is now carrying Mr. Trump to the nomination. That rage was bound to spin out of the establishment’s control sooner or later.

• Trump Is No Accident – The New York Times
• Are as Many Civilians Dying in South Sudan as in Syria? – The New York Times
• Trump vs. Obama: Dealing With Protesters
• Google’s Cloud Studio proves that cloud-based tech doesn’t have to be boring | Macworld
• Mysterious fairy circles now discovered in Australia’s desert | New Scientist
• Passive Wi-Fi
• Why Big Data Needs Thick Data — Ethnography Matters — Medium
• Cloud Router – Compute Engine — Google Cloud Platform
• Modeled After Ants, Teams of Tiny Robots Can Move 2-Ton Car – The New York Times
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Calculating and searching 500 billion digits of Pi
• y-cruncher – A Multi-Threaded Pi Program
• The kind of boss who doesn’t like to promote women – The Washington Post
• Time-based One-time Password fob for Google Authenticator using @Espruino Pico « Adafruit Industries – Makers, hackers, artists, designers and engineers!
• Lemurs Suffer Through Small Talk, Too — Science of Us
• The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire | WIRED
• FLUIDSTANCE l Balance and Motion Redefine the Workplace
  You were designed to move – It’s likely your workspace was not. The patent-pending technology of the Level® elicits subtle, constant movement below your feet to increase your range of motion and heart rate. From your office desk, to the conference room, to the living room, we aim to provide a shift where you need it most – physically, emotionally, and intellectually. The Level® is the perfect addition to a standing desk, gaming system, or classroom.
• Helen One Hundred | Bad Hostess
• About | Bad Hostess
• Ten Years in the AWS Cloud – How Time Flies! | AWS Official Blog

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• Kubernetes Dashboard UI questionnaire
  RT @kubernetesio: what do you want from the #Kubernetes dashboard? #ihaveopinions #survey #k8s #docker
• 10 Women in Tech to Watch in 2016
• The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do | Lindy West | Opinion | The Guardian
• Twitter
  sigh.…
• February Smashes Earth’s All-Time Global Heat Record by a Jaw-Dropping Margin | Dr. Jeff Masters’ WunderBlog
  RT @carlzimmer: February was the hottest month in the record books, by far. image:
• Twitter
  RT @carlzimmer: February was the hottest month in the record books, by far. image:
• World temperature anomalies for Februari 2016 | Datagraver
  RT @carlzimmer: February was the hottest month in the record books, by far. image:
• Amazon.com: You and I: Jeff Buckley: MP3 Downloads
• Twitter
  RT @wintwoo: Come and hear about Kubernetes at tomorrow’s Google Sydney cloud meetup – see you then!
• Sheryl Sandberg on Why There Should Be More Women In Tech
• Twitter
  (Only 60%?)
• Twitter
  RT @marsrader: Late afternoon on Mars, by @MarsCuriosity.
• Once Upon a Time…We Created CODE2040 — Medium
• Donald Trump is so predictable, a bot has his sass down to a science – The Washington Post
• Untitled (http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/Fig.C.txt)
  RT @windjunky: Crikey. February redraws the NASA global temperature graph – nothing like it ever observed
• Twitter
  RT @windjunky: Crikey. February redraws the NASA global temperature graph – nothing like it ever observed
• DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future | The Verge
• The macabre truth of gun control in the US is that toddlers kill more people than terrorists do | Lindy West | Opinion | The Guardian
• Twitter
  One of my teammates, so sad and upset to hear about this. #texas
• GitHub – alexjc/neural-doodle: Turn your two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks! An implementation of Semantic Style Transfer.
  Turn your two-bit doodles into fine artworks with deep neural networks! An implementation of Semantic Style Transfer.
• Covering Donald Trump, and Witnessing the Danger Up Close – NYTimes.com
• Twitter
  RT @alexismadrigal: I have not kept up with the extent to which Google’s services have been rebuilt on AI.
• Google DeepMind: What is it, how it works and should you be scared? | Personal Tech | Techworld
  RT @alexismadrigal: I have not kept up with the extent to which Google’s services have been rebuilt on AI.

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• A better offer letter — Medium
• A Behind-the-Scenes Look at the Atlantic’s "Obama Doctrine" Photo Shoot – The Atlantic
• AI won’t exterminate us. It will empower us. — Backchannel — Medium
• Gareth Rushgrove on Twitter: "slides from my #kubecon talk on high level Kubernetes interfaces, including examples of @puppetlabs and @opendeis https://t.co/yh8mMJbzm9"
• The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind – The New York Times
• Pandoc – About pandoc
• Coding a book | Lara Hogan
• Blog | Lara Hogan
• The Time-Consuming Activities That Stall Women’s Careers
• 🔥 Git Hot Tips | Wes Bos
• Ten Years at Mars: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter’s Best Images [Slideshow] – Scientific American
• Why Are We Fighting the Crypto Wars Again? — Backchannel — Medium
• Introduction to Data Mining, Notes
• Open Carry Demo Attracts Topless Protester, Confuses SXSW-Goers
• Twitter
  RT @UNEP: .@UN Special Envoy: 90% of disasters are now #climate-related #EcoDRR
• United Nations News Centre – INTERVIEW: Managing disaster risk vital for sustainable development, UN official stresses
• 8 Ways to Say No Without Hurting Your Image | Adam Grant | LinkedIn
• Google Cloud Platform News Roundup for February 2016 — Google Cloud Platform — Developer Advocates — Medium
• markcallaghan on Twitter: "One algorithm (b-tree, LSM) can’t be optimal for read, write and space. Paper has been published to explain this. https://t.co/TwHtGclQBV"
• Twitter
  RT @vidalwuu: this @newinquiry paragraph has stuck with me for almost an entire year
• Norwegians using ‘Texas’ to mean ‘crazy’ actually isn’t so crazy
• Why the German language has so many great words
• Google AI versus the Go grandmaster – who is the real winner? | Media Network | The Guardian
• kubedash – GitHub · Where software is built
  Performance analytics UI for Kubernetes Clusters.

  The goal of Kubedash is to allow the user or an administrator of a Kubernetes cluster to easily verify and understand the performance of a cluster and jobs running within it through intuitive visualizations of aggregated metrics, derived stats and event patterns. It is not intended to be a general-purpose Kubernetes UI. Instead, kubedash uses multiple sources of information to summarize and provide high-level analytic information to users and to the cluster administrator.

• Twitter
  RT @NateSilver538: Deceptive headline. Trump cancelled the rally amid protests. Need active, not passive, voice.

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• Surprise! NSA data will soon routinely be used for domestic policing that has nothing to do with terrorism – The Washington Post
• In the Waiting Room of Estranged Spouses – NYTimes.com
• The Senate Just Passed a Bipartisan Drug Bill—One That’s Not Meant to Put People in Prison | The Nation
• The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps – NYTimes.com
• The states with the highest concentrations of racist, misogynist, and homophobic tweets.
• INTJ Women: A Rare Myers-Briggs Category
• Graph Databases 101 | Cray Blog
• Men Really Are Clueless About Women (at Work) – Fortune
• this-heart-in-a-jar-could-make-heart-transplants-safer-1764322626
• thedatatribe
• Zoning Plays a Big Role in San Francisco’s Housing Crisis, Gentrification, and Wealth Disparity – CityLab
• Frog and Toad are Cofounders — Medium
• Oxitec Mosquito
• Newly-discovered spider named Brian rides waves to hunt prey
• The David W. Niven Collection of Early Jazz Legends, 1921-1991 : Free Audio : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
• To download or stream: 1000 hours of classic jazz, mixed and annotated by a master collector / Boing Boing
• At Trump University, Students Recall Pressure to Give Positive Reviews – NYTimes.com
• Tensorflow: large-scale analytics and distributed machine learning with tensorflow, bigquery, and dataflow (apache beam): Big data conference: Strata + Hadoop World, March 28 – 31, 2016, San Jose, CA
  strata talk

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