pinboard July 31, 2016

• Fences: A Brexit Diary by Zadie Smith | The New York Review of Books
  Terrific piece by Zadie Smith. If Brexited out don’t be put off by title, its reach on class in London is v long. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2016/08/18/fences-brexit-diary/
• Twitter
  RT @intlspectator: There are now more Syrians who are displaced or refugees than there are Syrians who’ve remained in their homes.
• GitHub – sidewalklabs/s2sphere: Python implementation of the S2 geometry library.

  Python implementation of the S2 geometry library. – http://s2sphere.sidewalklabs.com/

• S2 cells and space-filling curves: Keys to building better digital map tools for cities — Sidewalk Talk — Medium

  An open geospatial library for all the civic hackers out there. Truly fascinating tool by @svenkreiss @sidewalklabs https://medium.com/sidewalk-talk/s2-cells-and-space-filling-curves-keys-to-building-better-digital-map-tools-for-cities-a312aa5e2f59#.h7bdwjymc

• The Oppressive Gospel of ‘Minimalism’ – The New York Times
• Climate Central on Twitter: "CO2 levels at the South Pole have hit a level not seen in 4 million years https://t.co/A73ikwygxO https://t.co/QNSkTVvVuY"
• Greenland lost a staggering 1 trillion tons of ice in just four years – The Washington Post
  RT @olewin: Greenland ice sheet lost mass at an avg rate of abt 269 billion tons/year from 2011 through 2014. #climatechange
• Twitter
  RT @spllck: A friendly reminder from your friends at the New York Botanical Garden
• How to Listen When You Disagree: A Lesson from the Republican National Convention — Urban Confessional
• London Picture Map – COLLAGE – The London Picture Archive

  The London Picture Map lets users find old images of the city by location:
  http://collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk/london-picture-map?WINID=1469830594028#51.506304405365%2F-0.1259049224854607%2F13%2FRoadMap%2F-1 http://twitter.com/michikokakutani/status/759563147015495680/photo/1

• Brian Dorsey on Twitter: "Multi zone Kubernetes cluster on Google Container Engine? Check! https://t.co/fh44OSajoi https://t.co/6GoZVG1ARo"
• snapshots.pdf

  Distributed Snapshots: Determining Global States of Distributed Systems. So much of this applies to Kubernetes. https://www.cs.swarthmore.edu/~newhall/readings/snapshots.pdf

• Winograd Schema Challenge tests machine learning skills
• Untitled (http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2016%2F07%2F31%2Fus%2Funiversity-of-texas-marks-sniper-attack-with-memorial-and-new-gun-law.html%3Fsmid%3Dtw-share%26_r%3D2)
  RT @michikokakutani: The day the University of Texas honors victims of a deadly sniper attack, a law allowing "campus carry" takes effect
• IEC – World Plugs: Plug Type D
  South Africa230V50HzC, D, M, N
• IEC – World Plugs: Plug Type M
• What Makes People Feel Upbeat at Work – The New Yorker
• Breast-Feeding the Microbiome – The New Yorker
  Ed yong
• Some Seattle doctors now prescribe fresh fruits and veggies to patients | KING5.com
• In Megan Abbott’s New Murder Mystery, a Teenage Gymnast Sharp as a Knife – The New York Times
• jacobtomsky.com | Short Story Thursdays
• Internet of Things Key Terms, Explained
• Harnessing the Immune System to Fight Cancer – The New York Times
• Seven Minutes That Shook the Convention – POLITICO Magazine

  Moving account of how Mr Khan came to speak at convention. And he wrote the speech himself. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/07/seven-minutes-that-shook-the-convention-214126

• New species of Pacific beaked whale confirmed | Environment | The Guardian
• Soylent CEO charged over defiance of permits and codes for ‘unsightly’ container home – LA Times
• A Great way to learn Data Science by simply doing it
• MadeWithCode on Twitter: ".@kthomas901 created @WeReadTooApp. And that’s just the beginning of her #inspiration! 🙌😍 https://t.co/ExZpbod0yc"
• The Same Healthy Food, but It’s Cheaper Across Town – NYTimes.com

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