Entries from February 2017 ↓
February 28th, 2017 — pinboard
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RT @getwired: That’s it. We need an IQ test for this office.
- Twitter
RT @ClimateCentral: The U.S. has seen an astonishing 116-to-1 ratio of record highs vs. lows this February as warmth bakes the country…
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RT @nytimes: Former President George W. Bush levels tacit criticism at Trump
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/27/us/politics/george-w-bush-criticism-trump.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=1)
RT @nytimes: Former President George W. Bush levels tacit criticism at Trump
- Twitter
RT @anamariecox: So the real problem with that image is that POTUS getting a photo op with black folks meant they didn’t get HEARD.…
- (500) https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/women-in-stem
RT @smithmegan: Shinning a Light on Untold Stories of Women in STEM for @WomenScienceDay – surface…
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RT @smithmegan: Shinning a Light on Untold Stories of Women in STEM for @WomenScienceDay – surface…
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RT @HeerJeet: We need to spend much more on matches, lighter fluid, and kindling wood, says leading arsonist.
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RT @rakyll: David Thornton from Sydney is another who has been interviewed about programming skills at JFK upon arrival.…
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RT @AoDespair: Christ. A murderer’s row of grifting fucks.
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RT @seldo: You may not be sure the Trump administration is pro-Nazi, but you should know by now the Nazis have no such doubts:
- Campaign Zero
Familiarize yourself with the 10 policy goals of Campaign Zero & encourage accountability in your community: https://www.joincampaignzero.org/
- Before Vaquitas Vanish, a Desperate Bid to Save Them – The New York Times
- Jerry Kaplan: "Making Machine Learning Great Again" | Talks at Google – YouTube
- Jeff Sessions drops DOJ lawsuit against discriminatory Texas voter ID case, reverses 6 years of litigation – Salon.com
- Is The United States Still The United States? | The Huffington Post
- Twitter
RT @allafarce: There is, I believe, a word in middle English for the simultaneous sensation of schadenfreude and blinding rage, bu…
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RT @greenhousenyt: Another former female Uber employee describes horrendous sexism, racism, homophobia & putdowns at Uber headquarters…
- British parrot missing for four years returns speaking Spanish – Telegraph
- Getting started with TensorFlow: Big data conference: Strata + Hadoop World, March 13 – 16, 2017, San Jose, CA
- InfluxData | Documentation | Authentication and Authorization
Enable authentication by setting the auth-enabled option to true in the [http] section of the configuration file:
[http]
enabled = true
bind-address = ":8086"
auth-enabled = true # ✨
log-enabled = true
write-tracing = false
pprof-enabled = false
https-enabled = false
https-certificate = "/etc/ssl/influxdb.pem"
- Twitter
RT @bitchyologist: Hillary Clinton changed the rules at State to let trans people change their gender on their passport. I want everyo…
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RT @astroehlein: The Soviet Union eventually stopped using the Stalinist term "enemy of the people." Trump now embraces it.…
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RT @ForrestW: Forget the embarrassing mixup. The real story is Moonlight’s historic win. From @craftingmystyle:…
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February 27th, 2017 — pinboard
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February 26th, 2017 — pinboard
- CPAC conservatives drink the Trump Kool-Aid, but who will pick up the tab?
- Steve Bannon Is Making Sure There’s No White House Paper Trail, Says Intel Source | Foreign Policy
- Why Testosterone Rex is extinct | Cordelia Fine | Life and style | The Guardian
- Treasure-hunting in the desert | 1843
- Twitter
RT @RepMcGovern: BREAKING: GOP @RepKevinYoder joins growing list of Republicans to call for #TrumpRussia investigation.…
- Twitter
RT @Henry_Rousso: I confirm. I have been detained 10 hours at Houston Itl Airport about to be deported. The officer who arrested me w…
- U.S. authorities almost deport French Jewish Holocaust era scholar | Jewish Telegraphic Agency
- Remember the Waldorf-Astoria before it closes Wednesday with these stunning photos
- Twitter
RT @JuddLegum: Under political pressure, Kuwait cancels major event at Four Seasons, switches to Trump’s D.C. hotel…
- Under political pressure, Kuwait cancels major event at Four Seasons, switches to Trump’s D.C.
- International scholar visiting Texas A&M “mistakenly detained” by customs officials – Local News – The Eagle
- Twitter
RT @SarahCAndersen:
- Immigration Agents Discover New Freedom to Deport Under Trump – The New York Times
- The best of Atherton police blotter – The Mercury News
- How banks are using Watson – Digiday
- Obama loves it, Trump called it racist: why Black-ish is TV’s most divisive show | Television & radio | The Guardian
- Melania and Ivanka’s plastic feminism cover Trump’s misogyny – CNN.com
- Twitter
RT @MarkHarrisNYC: Remember when Presidents could use words to make sentences?
- Okla. AG’s office confirms Pruitt used private email for state business | KOKH
EPA chief Scott Pruitt said at confirmation hearings that he didn’t use private email for state biz.
But he did.
http://okcfox.com/news/fox-25-investigates/ags-office-confirms-pruitt-used-private-email-for-state-business
- An Introduction to Programming in Go | Go Resources
- carto – How to use weighted heatmap in CartoDB? – Geographic Information Systems Stack Exchange
As @oriolbx suggested in the comments it is possible through the torque-aggregation-function. You can change the standard heatmap CartoCSS like this:
/** torque_heat visualization */
Map {
-torque-frame-count:1;
-torque-animation-duration:10;
-torque-time-attribute:"cartodb_id";
-torque-aggregation-function:"round(avg(weight))";
-torque-resolution:2;
-torque-data-aggregation:linear;
}
#your-dataset{
image-filters: colorize-alpha(blue, cyan, lightgreen, yellow , orange, red);
marker-file: url(http://s3.amazonaws.com/com.cartodb.assets.static/alphamarker.png);
[value < 1] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.05;}
[value < 10] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.1;}
[value < 100] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.2;}
[value < 1000] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.4;}
[value < 10000] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.6;}
[value < 100000] {marker-fill-opacity: 0.8;}
[value >= 100000] {marker-fill-opacity: 1.0;}
marker-width: 7;
}
The only differences are the -torque-aggregation-function, for which I used my weight column, and the marker-fill-opacity, that has to be modified to take into account the output value of the torque aggregation function, stored in the value variable.
- Richard Avedon: In the American West – in pictures | Culture | The Guardian
- Donald Trump May Have Just Committed an Impeachable Offense | Vanity Fair
- Trump’s lies are not the problem. It’s the millions who swallow them who really matter | Nick Cohen | Opinion | The Guardian
- Twitter
Fowler’s Uber post did this effectively too.
- Twitter
RT @cjciaramella: Remember, Donald Trump used to call reporters pretending to be someone else and gossip about Donald Trump.
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February 25th, 2017 — pinboard
- Watch Network Traffic in Mac OS X via Command Line with nettop
- InfluxData | Documentation | Service – UDP
- Twitter
RT @DavidCornDC: Three guesses. First two don’t count.
- How to Retire at 40
- I’m with the banned: International visitors are already turning their back on Trump-era America | The Economist
- Why Demography Does Not Equal Destiny – Third Way
From @ThirdWayTweet: Why Demography Does Not Equal Destiny. ‘Democrats now resemble a regional, not national, party’ http://ow.ly/EPZn309lFiI https://twitter.com/ByronYork/status/835471320511021056/photo/1
- Hate Crime Is Feared as 2 Indian Engineers Are Shot in Kansas – The New York Times
- Trump, Putin, and the New Cold War – The New Yorker
- White House blocks CNN, New York Times from press briefing hours after Trump slams media – The Washington Post
- Fake News Meets German Racism – NYTimes.com
- For Nextdoor, Eliminating Racism Is No Quick Fix
- 100 days of Trump claims – Washington Post
- How Pamela Colloff became the best damn writer in Texas – Columbia Journalism Review
- Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories – The Washington Post
- Trump administration sought to enlist intelligence officials, key lawmakers to counter Russia stories – The Washington Post
- Immigration authorities detain Muhammad Ali, Jr. at Florida airport, demand to know if he’s Muslim / Boing Boing
- Spicer Bars CNN, New York Times, Others From White House Press Briefing : NPR
- From Georgia to Maine: What I learned on a 6-month hike along the Appalachian Trail – The Washington Post
- Jodie Foster at Anti-Trump UTA Rally: ‘It’s Time to Resist’ | Variety
- Hate Crime Is Feared as 2 Indian Engineers Are Shot in Kansas – NYTimes.com
- UK officials think Russia may have interfered with Brexit vote – Business Insider
- Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/technology/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-google-lawsuit.html?_r=1)
RT @puiwingtam: Uber said self-driving car ran red light due to human driver. @MikeIsaac @daiwaka found otherwise in internal docs
- A Lawsuit Against Uber Highlights the Rush to Conquer Driverless Cars – The New York Times
- In Their Own Words: CIA Cables Document Agency’s Torture of Abu Zubaydah – ProPublica
- Our Talons Can Crush Galaxies – Uncanny Magazine
- Twitter
RT @MiaFarrow: Australian author detained by US border control: “I have never in my life been spoken to with such insolence, treat…
- 10+ Animals That Look Like They’re About To Drop The Hottest Albums Of The Year | Bored Panda
- Google’s Adoption of RCS Will Save Messaging on Android | WIRED
- Google Online Security Blog: E2EMail research project has left the nest
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February 24th, 2017 — pinboard
- Fasting diet ‘regenerates diabetic pancreas’ – BBC News
- Twitter
RT @Green_Footballs: Today Bannon openly admitted Trump’s appointees intend to destroy the agencies they’re heading.
- Border Patrol Agents Stop Domestic Travelers at New York Airport – Rolling Stone
- Twitter
RT @AoDespair: When they came for the pineapple, I said nothing because I understood what should be dropped on a pizza.
- Twitter
RT @EdJoyce: More than 420,000 #pangolins poached and trafficked since 2015. #wildlife
- NGO: Over 420,000 pangolins poached and trafficked since 2015
– Chinadaily.com.cn
RT @EdJoyce: More than 420,000 #pangolins poached and trafficked since 2015. #wildlife
- Google pledges $11.5M to fight racial bias in policing, sentencing
- Twitter
RT @ekp: On @Uber “we have hit a dead end in trying to influence the company quietly from the inside” @mkapor…
- [1610.05755] Semi-supervised Knowledge Transfer for Deep Learning from Private Training Data
- Twitter
RT @BCAppelbaum: It’s very common for generals to step in when elected leaders wobble. Sometimes nations even revert to democracy in…
- Gabrielle Giffords Urges Lawmakers To Listen To Their Constituents & Hold Town Halls – Americans for Responsible Solutions
RT @GabbyGiffords: I was shot on a Saturday morning. By Monday morning my offices were open to the public.
- An Open Letter to The Uber Board and Investors
- Losing a Fortune Often Comes Down to One Thing: Family – The New York Times
- Twitter
highly recommended-
- "Programming and Prejudice: Can Computers Be Racist?" | Talks at Google – YouTube
- Ultracool Dwarf and the Seven Planets | ESO
- Twitter
RT @SageLazzaro: I talked to 12 women w/ stories of sexism/harassment in tech just like Susan Fowler’s. A cringe-worthy excerpt:…
- 12 More Tech Sexism, Harassment Stories Like Susan Fowler’s of Uber | Observer
- WATCH: In The War Between Tigers And Drone, Chalk One Up For Tigers : The Two-Way : NPR
- Inside Uber’s Aggressive, Unrestrained Workplace Culture – The New York Times
- Making a RESTful JSON API in Go – The New Stack
- Alphabet’s Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets – Bloomberg
- A note on our lawsuit against Otto and Uber – Waymo – Medium
- Google to take over former gym space from Tableau as it continues to grow in Seattle – GeekWire
- Measuring execution time in Go (Example)
Timing functions in golang
When it comes to timing function calls, there is this neat little trick adapted from Stathat:
func timeTrack(start time.Time, name string) {
elapsed := time.Since(start)
log.Printf("%s took %s", name, elapsed)
}
which can be placed near the top of your code, and then used to time any function like this:
func factorial(n *big.Int) (result *big.Int) {
defer timeTrack(time.Now(), "factorial")
// … do some things, maybe even return under some condition
return n
}
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February 23rd, 2017 — pinboard
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February 22nd, 2017 — pinboard
- Adding machine learning to a serverless data analysis pipeline | Google Cloud Big Data and Machine Learning Blog | Google Cloud Platform
- In photos: Frogs tinier than the human fingernail have been discovered in India’s Western Ghats — Quartz
- Senior Donald Trump aide warns European Union it can expect ‘hostility’ after Brexit
- White House: States Should Get To Decide Whether To Discriminate Against LGBTQ Students | The Huffington Post
- Donald Trump’s streak of falsehoods now stands at 33 days – The Washington Post
- The Myth of the U.S. Immigration Crisis – Bloomberg View
- The Uber story that everyone’s talking about right now, and some helpful background info — Global Nerdy – Joey deVilla’s mobile/tech blog
- Solar power battery storage would solve SA’s electricity problems, company says | ABC Radio Australia
- New species of bushbaby found in disappearing forests of Angola | New Scientist
- David Simon | Remarks on John Waters receiving the 2017 WGA Ian McLellan Hunter Award for Career Achievement
- Buttercups focus light to heat their flowers and attract insects | New Scientist
- Tech, advocacy groups slam DHS call to demand foreign traveler’s passwords | TheHill
- Google Is Discontinuing Google Site Search | Fortune.com
- Electron on Twitter: "This week we’re featuring @dat_project, an open-source, decentralized tool for distributing data sets. https://t.co/AbnCSsna82 https://t.co/bIV4dKawGX"
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RT @climatehawk1: Tasmanian kelp forests dying as water warms, dive operator Mick Baron says – @abcnews …
- Tasmanian kelp forests dying as water warms, dive operator Mick Baron says – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
RT @climatehawk1: Tasmanian kelp forests dying as water warms, dive operator Mick Baron says – @abcnews …
- Uber has a sexism problem, and so does Silicon Valley
- Twitter
oooh #everybodyLikesLava
- Big Blue’s big blunder: IBM accidentally hands over root access to its data science servers • The Register
- Twitter
RT @DionNissenbaum: This is now atop the Washington Post @washingtonpost home page:
- Overflowing Glory Hole Spillway at Lake Berryessa Drone Report – Lake Berryessa News 2-18-17 – YouTube
- ‘Total Catastrophe of the Body’: A Russian Story | by Masha Gessen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
- Twitter
RT @jpodhoretz: Saturday at CPAC. Not a parody.
- Twitter
RT @JessicaHuseman: .@AnneFrankCenter ain’t mincing words.
- Streaming databases in realtime with MySQL, Debezium, and Kafka
- Victoria to get its first large-scale solar plants
- Nigerians in S Africa ‘living in fear’ after attacks | South Africa News | Al Jazeera
- Data.world raises $18.7 million to remedy our post-fact society | TechCrunch
- Review: Doppler Labs Here One smart earbuds | TechCrunch
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February 21st, 2017 — pinboard
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February 19th, 2017 — pinboard
- John Kerry Finds a Job as a Yale Fellow – The New York Times
- Why some Tories fear blood on the streets in a couple of years | Andrew Rawnsley | Opinion | The Guardian
- Pay for, or move away from Slack · Issue #372 · kubernetes/community · GitHub
- President Trump, White House Apprentice – The New York Times
- Haywire immune responses to worms may solve nodding syndrome mystery | Ars Technica UK
- Disappearing Seagrass Protects Against Pathogens, Even Climate Change, Scientists Find – The New York Times
- Can’t load a specific webpage using Chrome or Safari while logged in, but they work on other account and Firefox also works – Ask Different
- With "Fake News," Trump Moves From Alternative Facts To Alternative Language : NPR
- Twitter
RT @RBReich: I spoke w/ my friend, a former GOP congressman, who’s as worried as I am about Trump’s mental state & potential tie…
- Donald Trump Will Leave You Numb – The New York Times
- U.S. inquiries into Russian election hacking include three FBI probes | Reuters
- Ornithologists are using drones to eavesdrop on songbirds | TechCrunch
- Sea Ice Hits Record Lows at Both Poles | Climate Central
- Twitter
RT @NewYorker: David Remnick on Donald Trump and the enemies of the American people:
- Donald Trump and the Enemies of the American People – The New Yorker
- China violated its own law to grant Trump a trademark
- Twitter
RT @garydunion: Season 4 of Black Mirror is coming along nicely.
- Why AWS has such a big lead in the cloud | TechCrunch
- Twitter
RT @xeni: brutal papal subtweet, and I’m here for it 🔥
- Twitter
RT @michikokakutani: ‘That’s How Dictators Get Started’: @SenJohnMcCain defends the free press. via…
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RT @michikokakutani: ‘That’s How Dictators Get Started’: @SenJohnMcCain defends the free press. via…
- Twitter
RT @anamariecox: I think about it every day.
- True Allies Listen
RT @juliaferraioli: True Allies Listen | Great piece by @the_thagomizer on allyship
- Twitter
RT @ezramechaber: I’m sorry, but we absolutely cannot confirm a Supreme Court justice in the middle of an election. It’s just common…
- Twitter
RT @Neera_jah: So… by now everyone knows about Trump’s handshake wars with Abe and Trudeau but I just remembered – he’s meeting…
- Micah Zenko on Twitter: "My fav book on how states stupidly go to war. https://t.co/Gv4O7lJHzX 8 key factors: https://t.co/OaL2q7Wof3"
- The City Born Great | Tor.com
- Twitter
RT @nkjemisin: They’re going to slaughter hibernating animals and cubs so that sport hunters won’t have to work as hard to bag a d…
- Twitter
RT @robertloerzel: Someone in China watched Trump’s news conference and correctly predicted what Trump tweeted a day later…
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