pinboard July 30, 2016

• CODE2040 CEO heads to the White House
  Laura Weidman Powers, who has built CODE2040 into a major force for diversifying the technology industry, is taking her advocacy to the White House with her appointment as a senior policy adviser to U.S. Chief Technology Officer Megan Smith
• Symone Sanders Interview – Symone Sanders Bernie Sanders former spokesperson
• Could Trashing Junk Proteins Quash Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS and Huntington’s? – Scientific American
• A tale of two conventions: As GOP nominates a dangerous lunatic, Democrats reaffirm commitment to diverse America – The Washington Post
  By nominating a sociopath, GOP has enabled Hillary to push progressive agenda while expanding Dem party: http://wapo.st/2aA2wKI
• Feminist writer Jessica Valenti quits Twitter after “rape and death threat” against 5-year-old daughter – Women in the World in Association with The New York Times – WITW
• Das Keyboard 5Q: The Cloud Connected Keyboard by Das Keyboard — Kickstarter
• Anthrax sickens 13 in western Siberia, and a thawed-out reindeer corpse may be to blame – The Washington Post
• What is the probability your vote will make a difference?
• Israel Proves the Desalination Era is Here – Scientific American
  One of the driest countries on earth now makes more freshwater than it needs
• Ten Breakthrough Technologies FREE Download
• The New York Public Library Lets You Download 180,000 Images in High Resolution: Historic Photographs, Maps, Letters & More | Open Culture
• Robert Fano, 98, Dies; Engineer Who Helped Develop Interactive Computers – The New York Times

  “You know, information is entropy”: Norbert Wiener, 1948. That remark led, more or less, to the phone you’re holding http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/27/technology/robert-fano-98-dies-engineer-who-helped-develop-interactive-computers.html

• GitHub – grpc-ecosystem/grpc-simon-says: Multiplayer Simon Says game using bidirectional gRPC streaming

  .@Neurotic & I open sourced our real-time Simon Says game built w/ @grpcio & @kubernetesio! https://github.com/grpc-ecosystem/grpc-simon-says http://twitter.com/SandeepDinesh/status/759137631514996736/photo/1

• Twitter
  RT @shondarhimes: I know it exists and yet every time I’m faced with actual proof of systemic racism, it still breaks my heart.
• When Women Engineer — Winnie — Medium

  Being an engineer on a team of 80% women sounds amazing. http://buff.ly/29KkBlh /by @annekate /via @triketora

• Twitter
  RT @CoralReefWatch: This just in from Guam’s top coral disease expert:
• Federal Appeals Court Rules New NC Voting Laws Intended To Discriminate

  Holy shit. 4th Circuit rules that NC’s voting laws “targeted “African Americans with almost surgical precision.” http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/north-carolina-voting-law-fourth-circuit-ruling

• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Regional Managed Instance Groups beta gives GCE users new performance safeguards
• Navneet Joneja on Twitter: "So excited about this. Automatically spread GCE VMs across multiple zones, with dynamic rebalancing and autoscaling. https://t.co/7jxkSxArWG"
• Google Chrome on Twitter: "Watch yourself turn into stardust with a Chrome Experiment by Daniel Brown. https://t.co/3oXgHjEMx9 #YoureAStar https://t.co/sZJH4mIMyW"
• NodeSource Packages its Commercial Node.js Software for Kubernetes Clusters – The New Stack

  Nice story about @NodeSource selling their software on top of @kubernetesio

  http://thenewstack.io/nodesource-offers-one-click-deployment-node-js-across-kubernetes/

• The “Slayary” T-Shirt
• Google Brain will be doing an AMA in /r/MachineLearning on August 11 : MachineLearning
• GitHub – kubernetes/minikube: Run Kubernetes locally

  Easily run #Kubernetes locally on your laptop with #Minikube – give it a try: https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube #k8s

• Fourth Circuit strikes down North Carolina voting restrictions.
• A Q&A with the 91-year-old “Someday, a woman will be president” T-shirt designer
• Kathryn Schulz on Twitter: "Having a bit of fun with spurious correlations. HT @PGourevitch https://t.co/dgqlC7SrqE https://t.co/iU55DIWyWO"
• Developing and Testing a Scale to Measure Need for Drama — ScienceDirect
• Google’s Famous Kitchens May Serve Fake Shrimp Made of Algae | WIRED

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