Entries from December 2014 ↓

• The dude map: How Americans refer to their bros – Quartz
• Seventeen U.S. Cities on Track for Hottest Year | Climate Central
• Harassed by Algorithms — The Message — Medium
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• Stanford study finds walking improves creativity
• If This Terrifying Report Doesn’t Wake You Up to the Realities of What We’re Doing to This Planet, What Will? | Mother Jones
• NextDraft: The Most Fascinating News of 2014
• In search of lost time: Why is everyone so busy? | The Economist
• EVERYTHING WILL BE OK – by DON HERTZFELDT – YouTube
• In 2015, Software Eats The Wearable World | TechCrunch
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• 2014 in review: The best things written about women this year.
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• Technically Speaking
• Ancient Trees: Beth Moon’s 14-Year Quest to Photograph the World’s Most Majestic Trees | Colossal
• Google got it wrong. The open-office trend is destroying the workplace. – The Washington Post
• gsutil setmeta – Set metadata on already uploaded objects – Google Cloud Storage — Google Cloud Platform
  gsutil setmeta – Set metadata on already uploaded objects
• docker – What is the difference between CMD and ENTRYPOINT in a Dockerfile? – Stack Overflow
• Docker multiple entrypoints – Stack Overflow
• Calling Go from Python via JSON-RPC
• Elena Cresci on Twitter: "2014: the year women refused to shut up http://t.co/r0ZloEJ7ZW http://t.co/NraEN5kndr"
  RT @elenacresci: 2014: the year women refused to shut up

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• The 9 Most Overlooked Threats to a Marriage | Kelly M. Flanagan
• America’s fear of black rage: Why tragic NYPD shootings are so misunderstood – Salon.com
• A Brave New Modernism, Part 2: Dubai – Core77
• If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
• Readers Choose the Top 10 Scientific American Stories of 2014 | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
• Best photographs of 2014 – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian
• On Nerd Entitlement
• The 25 Worst (Best) Spelling Mistakes on Twitter | The Poke
• Why the Bone Clocks was one of 2014’s cleverest new novels – Vox
• The Things I Just Accepted | Leading Geeks
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• sql – Convert unsigned int to signed int through google BigQuery – Stack Overflow
• Austin Kleon on Twitter: "A reader’s manifesto: http://t.co/5IfRReiJfB http://t.co/GDaxDsjwcS"
  RT @austinkleon: A reader’s manifesto:
• 33 thoughts on reading
• Golang BigQuery example
• Geometry on the Sphere: Google’s S2 Library – Google Slides
• Proximity Search in GO Appengine. – Google Groups
• s2 – GoDoc
  package s2
  import "github.com/golang/geo/s2"

  Package s2 implements types and functions for working with geometry in S² (spherical geometry).

  Its related packages, parallel to this one, are s1 (operates on S¹), r1 (operates on ℝ¹) and r3 (operates on ℝ³).

  This package provides types and functions for the S2 cell hierarchy and coordinate systems. The S2 cell hierarchy is a hierarchical decomposition of the surface of a unit sphere (S²) into “cells”; it is highly efficient, scales from continental size to under 1 cm² and preserves spatial locality (nearby cells have close IDs).

  A presentation that gives an overview of S2 is https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hl4KapfAENAOf4gv-pSngKwvS_jwNVHRPZTTDzXXn6Q/view.

• golang/geo
  The S2 Geometry Library is a spherical geometry library, useful for manipulating
  regions on the sphere (commonly on Earth) and indexing geographic data.

  See http://godoc.org/github.com/golang/geo/s2 for documentation.

  For an analogous library in C++, see http://code.google.com/p/s2-geometry-library/.

• s2 – GoDoc
  Package s2 implements types and functions for working with geometry in S² (spherical geometry).

  Its related packages, parallel to this one, are s1 (operates on S¹), r1 (operates on ℝ¹) and r3 (operates on ℝ³).

  This package provides types and functions for the S2 cell hierarchy and coordinate systems. The S2 cell hierarchy is a hierarchical decomposition of the surface of a unit sphere (S²) into “cells”; it is highly efficient, scales from continental size to under 1 cm² and preserves spatial locality (nearby cells have close IDs).

  A presentation that gives an overview of S2 is https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Hl4KapfAENAOf4gv-pSngKwvS_jwNVHRPZTTDzXXn6Q/view.

• dynamodb-geo/pom.xml at master · awslabs/dynamodb-geo
• Cannot "brew update" anymore – fails to git pull formulas · Issue #11448 · Homebrew/homebrew
  git reset –hard origin/master
• Source Checkout – s2-geometry-library-java – Java library for spherical math – Google Project Hosting

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• Salinas v. Texas, right to remain silent, Supreme Court right to remain silent, Supreme Court Fifth Amendment, Fifth Amendment right to remain silent, constitutional right to remain silent, constitution right to remain silent, Nicholas Yarris
• Black Mirror: White Christmas – YouTube
• The Top 10 Retractions of 2014 | The Scientist Magazine®
• Amphipolis Tomb Timeline: What We Know So Far About the Magnificent Ancient Greek Monument | GreekReporter.com
• Dropbox Tech Blog » Blog Archive » Open Sourcing Our Go Libraries
• Lessons in giving from the wave that took all – The Globe and Mail
• Now that the Dow has hit 18,000, let us remember the worst op-ed in history – The Washington Post
• Postmodern jukebox

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• Why Airlines Want to Make You Suffer
• Can digital cameras stop war criminals? This activist thinks so. – Vox
• Bill Cosby, Himself: Narcissism, Fame and Sexual Violence – The New Civil Rights Movement
• People In The 1800s Did THIS With Dead Bodies – LittleThings.com
• Mike Hale’s Best TV Shows of 2014 – NYTimes.com
• My Most Retweeted Tweet

  Well.  It’s official.  Far and away my most re-tweeted tweet appeared Christmas day.  Here are the 125 characters (my usual length) in their entirety:

  “On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642”

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• WANDERERS – Short Film
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• B. Fuller’s Mortar & Pestle on Yelp
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• London Review of Books
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• Hilary Mantel on CS Lewis’s A Grief Observed | Books | The Guardian
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• The ‘I’m so ronery’ jokes mask the real evil of North Korea | Peter Walker | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Jenny Diski on Doris Lessing: ‘I was the cuckoo in the nest’ | Books | The Guardian
• Withings Activité review: a slightly smarter watch | The Verge
• Newly Identified Bourbon Virus Has Nothing To Do With Alcohol | Popular Science
• Fremont brewing – Google Search
• Fremont Mischief | Handcrafted • Vodka • Gin • WhiskeyFremont Mischief | Handcrafted • Vodka • Gin • Whiskey
• jarvisinc/PhilipsHueRemoteAPI · GitHub
• api – How to connect backend service with philips hue bridge remotely? – Stack Overflow
• studioimaginaire/phue · GitHub
  Full featured Python library to control the Philips Hue lighting system.
• Getting started | Philips Hue API
• The year in media errors and corrections 2014 | Poynter.
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• Year in Photos 2014 – WSJ.com
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• The Islamic State is failing at being a state – The Washington Post
• The Web Is the Real World – Atlantic Mobile
• Rescued scientists bring back a warning from the Antarctic | Science | The Guardian
• Ellie Gibbons on Twitter: "Best Christmassy fact I’ve learnt this year – via @Phoebe_A_Morgan http://t.co/QemAK1aYgd"
  RT @NicoNovito: This is simply magical. Merry Christmas!
• NASA’s Best Images of Earth From Space in 2014 | WIRED
• Michael Palin: ‘The world is an absurd and silly place’ | Culture | The Guardian
• Sydney to Hobart 2014 under way – in pictures | Sport | The Guardian
• A Sticky Sensor That Attaches To Internal Organs | Popular Science
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• The 20 Most Popular Recipes of 2014 – NYT Cooking
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• Making Computers That Don’t Forget – Forbes
• How Kazuo Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks: theguardian.com/books/2014/dec…
• LET’S ALL MOVE @EllieJGibbons: Best Christmassy fact I’ve learnt this year pic.twitter.com/SPvpgImHmI
• Seth’s Blog: The meritocracy trap
• We are passive consumers of the pornography of violence | Will Self | News | The Guardian
• FastMail – Email, Calendars & Contacts Done Right on the App Store on iTunes
• Announcing the FastMail Calendar | FastMail Weblog
• Ayelet Waldman | Booklog
• Breathtaking Aerial Landscapes of Iceland by Sarah Martinet | Colossal
• There Are Way Too Many ‘Best Of 2014′ Lists | FiveThirtyEight

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• Go with the flow: See all 250,000 rivers in the US – environment – 23 December 2014 – New Scientist
• Unlimited Online Backup – Easy, Secure Online Backup Services | Backblaze
• Obama economy: What should Republicans say now that the GDP is growing, the deficit is shrinking, and gas prices are falling?
• Chiari Malformation Fact Sheet: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS)
• 7 of the Ocean’s Strangest Creatures, Including a Fish With a Flashlight | WIRED
• I like this list of what sundry @NewYorker contributors read & liked liked this year. Good stuff, & non-predictable: nyr.kr/1AGwAcL
• A baby polar bear hitches a lift from its mother (Image: Kevin Schafer)… pic.twitter.com/JulrH1x7Lf
• 6 things I learned from riding in a Google Self-Driving Car – The Oatmeal
• Maps Mania: The Taxi Data That Keeps on Giving
  RT @gmapsmania: Chris Whong’s New York taxi data just keeps on getting mapped. This one uses Google Maps with Google Cloud Dataflow.
• Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life: Martin E. P. Seligman: 8601200475142: Amazon.com: Books
• Safe Conferences Are Deliberately Designed — Medium
• TheLADbible on Twitter: "Pineapple… http://t.co/MoPQ2S97Le"
  RT @LeftSentThis: I said Pineapple damn it!
• 10 talks you won’t be able to stop thinking about | Playlist | TED.com
• Coffee Poster by Im Different Press Flat by ImDifferentPress
• What if Downton Abbey told the truth about Britain? | Polly Toynbee | Comment is free | The Guardian
• Go with the flow: See all 250,000 rivers in the US – environment – 23 December 2014 – New Scientist

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• Six Months After His Death, Doctors Determine the Alarming Cause: ‘No Virus Like That Has Ever Been Identified in the Western Hemisphere’ | TheBlaze.com
• For Stanford Class of ’94, a Gender Gap More Powerful Than the Internet – NYTimes.com
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• Essays After Eighty — The Barnes & Noble Review
• Paul Szoldra on Twitter: "Now I will reinstall the internet http://t.co/AgMYKweJbR"
  RT @PaulSzoldra: Now I will reinstall the internet
• Research Blog: Call for Research Proposals to participate in the Open Web of Things Expedition

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• Moon Rover ‘Andy’ Takes Home Two XPrize Milestone Awards, Totaling $750,000 | Popular Science
• T-Mobile to Pay $90 Million to Settle Claims of Wrongful Phone Charges – NYTimes.com
• New Biotech Makes It Much Easier to Genetically Modify Monkeys – Scientific American
• Which Stores Accept Apple Pay? The Always Up-to-Date List « iOS Gadget Hacks
• Scientific American’s Top 10 Science Stories of 2014 – Scientific American
• Why I *still* dont think it’s likely that North Korea hacked Sony. | Marc’s Security Ramblings
• How Exercise Changes Our DNA – NYTimes.com
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• Best podcast episodes ever: The 25 best from Serial to the Ricky Gervais Show.
• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo is a best-selling guide to winning the war on clutter.
• Jane Bown’s portraits | Art and design | The Guardian
• Jane Bown obituary | Art and design | The Guardian
• Amazon.com: Anker® 40W 5-Port Family-Sized Desktop USB Charger with PowerIQ™ Technology for iPhone, Samsung Galaxy, Nexus, HTC, Nokia and More (White): Cell Phones & Accessories

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