Entries from February 2016 ↓

• The City of the Eternal Boom – Texas Monthly
  Austin
• Directory of Women in Machine Learning
• totes profesh: how to blog about code and give zero fucks
• Motoko Rich on Twitter: ""I want someone with a womb in the White House at least one time before I die,” Mrs. DeBose said. https://t.co/PeA8mEQAn1"
• Niagara Straw

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• Hesston violence a theological dilemma for Mennonites | The Wichita Eagle
• Inside the GOP Implosion and the War to Stop Trump
• Inside the GOP Implosion and the War to Stop Trump
• Jonathan Haidt: The moral roots of liberals and conservatives | TED Talk | TED.com
• Space Photos of the Week: The Milky Way Gets a Close-Up | WIRED
• How Deep Learning Gives Us a Precise Picture of All the Water on Earth
• 11-11-11-0301.jpg
• What It’s Really Like to Risk It All in Silicon Valley – The New York Times
• Twitter’s missing manual / fuzzy notepad
• Before Donald Trump, There Was Jan Brewer – NYTimes.com
• Twitter
  RT @EdJoyce: #Antarctica may be headed for major meltdown: @ClumpedIsotopes via @UCLAIoES #SeaLevelRise
• Antarctica could be headed for major meltdown | UCLA
  RT @EdJoyce: #Antarctica may be headed for major meltdown: @ClumpedIsotopes via @UCLAIoES #SeaLevelRise
• America has locked up so many black people it has warped our sense of reality – The Washington Post
• Untitled (https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/imagebuzz/web03/2011/4/6/21/ernest-hemingways-spot-the-dog-20648-1302140930-0.jpg)
  RT @cdespinosa: “He would go to Harry’s where the kibble was strong and brown. He would eat his kibble alone and think of the war.“
• The Governing Cancer of Our Time – The New York Times
• Lupita Nyong’o and Trevor Noah, and Their Meaningful Roles – The New York Times
• Obama Administration Set to Expand Sharing of Data That N.S.A. Intercepts – The New York Times
• 17 ‘Internet Of Things’ Facts Everyone Should Read – Forbes
• Giving housing to the homeless is three times cheaper than leaving them on the streets – Vox

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• Twitter
  RT @michikokakutani: .@UN study: Bees, birds, butterflies & beetles among growing list of pollinators in jeopardy
• Bee study: Pollinators face extinction, UN group says – CNN.com
• Dean at University of Texas Resigns in Part Over Handgun Law – The New York Times
• Ex-Obama speechwriter: electing Clinton is more important than electing Obama was – Vox
• Twitter
  RT @jonlovett: This section of Christie’s Trump endorsement got a little bleak.
• Lands’ End takes down interview with Gloria Steinem after customer backlash | Books | The Guardian
  RT @GuardianBooks: Lands’ End takes down interview with Gloria Steinem after customer backlash
• Slack’s $2.8 Billion Dollar Secret Sauce — Medium
• FBI admits flaws in hair analysis over decades – The Washington Post
• GitHub – apache/incubator-beam: Mirror of Apache Beam (Incubating)
  RT @francesjperry: Just did the first Dataflow code drop into @ApacheBeam!
• Tech Workers: Please Stop Defending Tech Companies by Shanley Kane | Model View Culture

  Why in the fuck would you stand with billionaires, corrupt power centers, and technology dynasties… over the very people that you work alongside?

• Google’s Transition from Single Datacenter, to Failover, to a Native Multihomed Architecture – High Scalability –
• Maintaining Success for the Long Term · The Macro
• Twitter
  RT @theGrio: That time a young Barack Obama said American culture is black culture and has to be ‘affirmed.’ #BlackHistoryMonth
• GearpumpProposal – Incubator Wiki
• Come join the Firebase Slack community – Firebase
• Australian Animals That Won’t Kill You, Ranked
• Official Google Blog: Strengthening our commitment to racial justice
• Donald Trump is not a joke: A warning to Americans from an Italian who survived Berlusconi – Quartz
  RT @notscientific: Donald Trump is not a joke: A warning to Americans from an Italian who survived Berlusconi
• Twitter
  RT @notscientific: Donald Trump is not a joke: A warning to Americans from an Italian who survived Berlusconi
• Deploying Django, Postgres,Redis Containers To Kubernetes — Google Cloud Platform — Developer Advocates — Medium
  RT @waprin_io: Deploying #django/postgres/redis to #kubernetes #docker
• Deploying Django, Postgres,Redis Containers To Kubernetes — Google Cloud Platform — Developer Advocates — Medium
• The Faces of American Power, Nearly as White as the Oscar Nominees – The New York Times
• B&H forced Hispanic workers to use separate bathroom: feds | New York Post
• Police mood appears to hit a low amid fallout from Laquan McDonald video – Chicago Tribune
  RT @tanehisicoates: "When people criticize me for shooting innocent people, it makes it hard to do my job."
• Google gives $1M to Bryan Stevenson’s racial justice effort
• Preload: What Is It Good For? – Smashing Magazine
• tensorflow/tensorflow/core/distributed_runtime at master · tensorflow/tensorflow · GitHub
  RT @mrry: I got up early this morning to push Distributed TensorFlow to GitHub:
• Sarah Parcak Is a Space Archaeologist. Soon You Will Be Too | WIRED
• jneen/rouge: A pure-ruby code highlighter that is compatible with pygments http://rouge.jneen.net/
  A pure-ruby code highlighter that is compatible with pygments http://rouge.jneen.net/

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• Giving Up on Hong Kong – NYTimes.com
• How The Internet* Talks | FiveThirtyEight
• The Value of Empathy — Medium
• Paragraphs for Mac
• Poll: Nearly 40 Percent of Florida Voters Think Ted Cruz Might Be the Zodiac Killer
• Mercedes halting robots’ reign on production line | The Salt Lake Tribune
• Twitter
  RT @EdJoyce: "As far as we know, it’s a death sentence" for #honeybees @SFStateLCA #science
• Untitled (http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/26/science/tracking-a-parasite-that-turns-bees-into-zombies.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur&_r=1)
  RT @EdJoyce: "As far as we know, it’s a death sentence" for #honeybees @SFStateLCA #science
• Tracking a Parasite That Turns Bees Into Zombies – The New York Times
• Stanford researchers use dark of night and machine learning to shed light on global poverty
• Watch All of 2015’s Weather in Super High-Def | Climate Central
• How Glowforge Made Crowdfunding History · The Macro
• Diversity – Equity – Inclusion at MIT Diversity – Equity – Inclusion at MIT – – Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT
• Twitter
  RT @HCookAustin: Closed captioning tonight courtesy of the world’s most honest closed captioner.
• iTunes Live from SoHo by The New Pornographers on iTunes
  becoming peculiarly fond of The New Pornographers’ cover of “Don’t Bring Me Down”
• Twitter
  And then of course there’s campus carry #Texas
• Twitter
  I have relatives in Hesston … #thoughtsAndPrayers
• President Weighs In on Data From Genes – The New York Times
• Google Unveils Neural Network with “Superhuman” Ability to Determine the Location of Almost Any Image
• Why you should always buy the men’s version of almost anything – The Washington Post
• Arctic thaw opens shipping waterways, risks to environment | Reuters
• Climate Council on Twitter: "EnergyLab: Australia’s first incubator for #renewables tech ideas https://t.co/DHljE26WtO via @renew_economy https://t.co/YodlIbe5PJ"
• Till Death—or Donald—Do Us Part: Couples Spar Over Trump – WSJ
  RT @DanAmira: What’s funny is you can tell that the husband is the Trump supporter just from the photo
• Twitter
  RT @DanAmira: What’s funny is you can tell that the husband is the Trump supporter just from the photo
• Twitter
  RT @Tesseraconteur: It’s like surviving a basilisk stare because you were only looking at its reflection in the water
• America loves women like Hillary Clinton–as long as they’re not asking for a promotion – Quartz
• Charctic Interactive Sea Ice Graph | Arctic Sea Ice News and Analysis
  RT @PeterGleick: What is happening in the Arctic now is unprecedented & possibly catastrophic. #climate
• Twitter
  RT @PeterGleick: What is happening in the Arctic now is unprecedented & possibly catastrophic. #climate
• Twitter
  RT @sundress: Please read this whole thread. As usual @EricaJoy nails it.

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• SnapAndSearch – Android Apps on Google Play
  uses the vision api
• SharedCode/BlogPosts/2016/02/Cloud Vision PHP at master · tpryan/SharedCode
  terry’s php gae vision api example
• Vegetarian Skillet Chili Recipe – NYT Cooking
• Google Will Now Favor Pages That Use Its Fast-Loading Tech | WIRED
• Jeb Bush, and Dying With Indignity | Rolling Stone
• Anti-Abortion Infighting Makes for Mud-Slinging House Races
• Tommy Hilfiger Just Made History With a Clothing Line for Kids With Disabilities – Mic
• Google Laser-Beams the Film Real Genius 60 Miles Between Balloons | WIRED
• The Downround Tracker
• Google’s DeepMind AI group unveils health care ambitions | VentureBeat | Big Data | by Jordan Novet
• Porting my brain from Python to Go | Testing Clouds at 128bpm
• Health | Google DeepMind
• Research Blog: On the Personalities of Dead Authors
• Confirmed: Carnegie Mellon University Attacked Tor, Was Subpoenaed By Feds | Motherboard
• How We Built Uber Engineering’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go – Uber Engineering Blog
• 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2016
• Working with Cloud Vision API from PHP | Terrence Ryan
  RT @tpryan: Wrote a blog post on using Google Cloud Vision API from PHP
• Twitter
  RT @tpryan: Wrote a blog post on using Google Cloud Vision API from PHP
• Visualizing the mechanics of on-demand pricing in big data technologies | Google Cloud Big Data Blog — Google Cloud Platform
• GitHub – rossgoodwin/lexiconjure: Twitter bot generating invented words and definitions using RNN + genetic algorithm

  @lexiconjure is a twitter bot that uses machine learning to define invented words, posting truncated definitions on Twitter and complete ones on Tumblr.

• Trump’s victories aren’t mysterious if you understand why people are angry | Jeb Lund | Opinion | The Guardian
• Elided Branches: In Defense of the Repetitive Business Book
• How People Learn to Become Resilient – The New Yorker
• Microservices.com
• Research Blog: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Machine Intelligence
  RT @GrayAreaorg: #DeepDream Collab w/ @googleresearch Explore the intersection of Art & Machine Intelligence
• Twitter
  RT @GrayAreaorg: #DeepDream Collab w/ @googleresearch Explore the intersection of Art & Machine Intelligence
• Easy-Peasy Slash Commands: Getting Started — Slack Platform Blog — Medium
• Open Source Paradigm Shift – O’Reilly Media
• JSON Web Tokens – jwt.io
  JSON Web Tokens are an open, industry standard RFC 7519 method for representing claims securely between two parties.

  JWT.IO allows you to decode, verify and generate JWT.

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• New Alzheimer’s treatment fully restores memory function – ScienceAlert
• How to save email into Evernote – Evernote Help & Learning
• What It’s Really Like to Work in Hollywood (*If you’re not a straight white man.) – The New York Times
• NBC Nightly News on Twitter: "This may look like a large art installation in Beirut, but it’s a massive pile of garbage. https://t.co/fEaU5aFprE https://t.co/H3YqQetxBH"
• Moishe’s Blog – I Don’t Know
• Research Blog: Exploring the Intersection of Art and Machine Intelligence
• Kubernetes: Kubernetes Community Meeting Notes – 20160218
• Seas Are Rising at Fastest Rate in Last 28 Centuries – The New York Times
• Tutorials
• David M. Perry on Twitter: "Confirmed: Advice given to @UHouston faculty concerned about armed students #TriggerWarning https://t.co/lKHqCMQ9hS https://t.co/Qb7yE1BVJo"
• The Kubernetes Dashboard – YouTube
• Google Cloud Platform Blog: Spotify chooses Google Cloud Platform to power data infrastructure
• Spotify Moves Itself Onto Google’s Cloud—Lucky for Google | WIRED
• Atlas, The Next Generation – YouTube
  boston dynamics
• android – Google Cloud Vision API Permission Denied – Stack Overflow
• Announcing Spotify Infrastructure’s Googley Future | News
  Did you hear‽ We’re migrating from our own data centers to Google Cloud Platform!

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• Historical Pics on Twitter: "Princess Elizabeth, 1942 https://t.co/BV3hCZFWli"
• Chocolate intake is associated with better cognitive function: the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study — ScienceDirect
• ESA Rosetta Mission on Twitter: "New view of #Comet #67P by @Rosetta_OSIRIS on 13 Feb from a distance of 46 km https://t.co/gCtyQTDtLz #CometWatch https://t.co/rgO6J5iuXl"
• To push or pull? Part 2 – F1 2014 – YouTube
• UPDATE: Photo of B.C. sea wolf honoured by National Geographic | Globalnews.ca
• Prevalence of Healthy Sleep Duration among Adults — United States, 2014 | MMWR
• Ian Lewis on Twitter: ""Kubemark – a system that allows performance testing of a Kubernetes cluster" https://t.co/vf0SVgtxQ3"
• Improving Kubernetes Scheduler Performance
• Dell UltraSharp U3415W 34-Inch Curved LED-Lit Monitor
• GitHub – bloomberg/kubernetes-cluster-cookbook
• soft question – Why do people use "formal calculation" to describe informal calculations? – MathOverflow
• GitHub – jbeda/slides-kubernetes-101: Slide deck for Kubernetes 101 presentation
• The New Yorker on Twitter: "Jill Lepore examines how the current chaos in the primaries has been driven by new media: https://t.co/eovKJ1jRDW https://t.co/bo3NGIKgcd"
• The Party Crashers – The New Yorker
• Joe Beda on Twitter: "Slides from my #NetAppCTO University Day 2016 presentation on #kubernetes: https://t.co/N3vM4yccrJ. Also on github: https://t.co/QIq3RdBVEq"
• Twitter
  RT @ClimateSignals: The Arctic is melting in the middle of winter: ice extant far below normal & slightly declining (!) #climatechange
• GoogleEarth Outreach on Twitter: "Introduction to planetary-scale geospatial analysis with Google Earth En… https://t.co/5oMkfRhthO via @YouTube"
• Twitter
  RT @tobyjaffey: No Mr. Die, I expect you to Bond.
• Datatonic: GDG Cloud Belgium – Kickoff : Big Data on Google Cloud
• A formal definition of Big Data based on its essential features: Library Review: Vol 65, No 3
• Just released! → Data Wrangling with Python — The coderSnorts — Medium
• Is Big Data Still a Thing? (The 2016 Big Data Landscape) | Matt Turck
• Atmel launches the industry’s first hardware interface library for TLS stacks used in IoT edge node apps | Atmel | Bits & Pieces
• Creating Smaller Docker Images: Part #2 – Ian Lewis

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• Twitter
  RT @brownlashon: #screaming
• An Open Letter to Millennials Like Talia… — Medium
• Twitter
  Not clear why there are no women in this photo, but maybe they were too smart to put on the blinders
• seattle.watch, an exploration in IBM Bluemix, a Raspberry Pi and some Time-Lapse magic — Medium
• The First Rule of DevOps Club – Bridget Kromhout
• Twitter
  RT @peterseibel: Final results. 58% of respondents would take a pay cut of $10k or more to get out of an open floor plan.
• Why Sexism at the Office Makes Women Love Hillary Clinton – The New York Times
• The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence
• Tim O’Reilly on Twitter: "The wide toe box of @AltraRunning shoes really does make it feel like you’re running barefoot, even more than so-called barefoot shoes"
• www.altrarunning.com
  Loving my new @AltraRunning shoes. They really are better than any other shoe I’ve tried. http://Altrarunning.com http://twitter.com/timoreilly/status/701535449915887616/photo/1
• Doe Bay Resort & Retreat – Your getaway on beautiful Orcas Island
  San Juans
• One HTTP Request From Stardom: How Alan Shreve Built ngrok using Go
• GoogleCloudPlatform/DataflowPythonSDK
• The moment of truth: We must stop Trump – The Washington Post

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• Leica Q (Typ 116) Digital Camera 19000 B&H Photo Video
• The Leica Q — Craig Mod

  The Leica Q is the best travel camera I’ve ever used.

• ‘Links Golf Course’ – meaning – Scottish Golf History
• Our impossible expectations of Hillary Clinton and all women in authority – The Washington Post
• Starting up Slack’s Search, Learning, & Intelligence Group in the New NYC Office — Medium
• Amazon to Launch Internet of Things-based Artificial Intelligence Next Year – CoinSpeaker
• Unruly Tumbleweeds Are Overtaking This Australian Town | Mental Floss
• The Guardian – Refugee cat’s epic journey to find family | Facebook
• rsc comments on [AMA] We are the Go contributors: ask us anything!
• Google Opens Its Cloud Vision API To All Developers | TechCrunch
• DataFlow Monthly hangout #1 (2016-02-25 15:00 GMT), 25th February 2016 | Lanyrd
• VersionEye – Notification System for Software Packages
  VersionEye notifies you about outdated dependencies in your software projects. Nowadays software projects are based on many open source and self developed components. Checking manually for updates for these components is a very time consuming task and not fun at all! VersionEye notifies software developers about outdated dependencies in their projects. That way they can save a lot of time and focus on development.
• Albert Woodfox speaks after 43 years in solitary confinement: ‘I would not let them drive me insane’
• A Harvard Sociologist on Watching Families Lose Their Homes – The New York Times

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• For Silicon Valley, the Hangover Begins – WSJ
• All the Awesome People You Might Not Realize Were Part of The Force Awakens
• The 2016 Machine Learning Conference SEA
• Feb 2016 DAML meetup — Pattern mining on log data Tickets, Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 6:00 PM | Eventbrite
• Kubernetes Solo cluster for OS X
• A Skeleton Key of Unknown Strength | Dan Kaminsky’s Blog
• Australian Coffee Culture Is Inspiring a New Wave of American Cafes – Eater
• New Email App beta program
• iOS_Security_Guide.pdf
• Dear Investors: So You Want to Take Diversity Seriously (Part 1)
• Tipping screws poor people, women, brown people, restaurateurs, local economies and…you / Boing Boing
• Dr. Michael Greger: "How Not To Die" | Talks at Google – YouTube
• Fixing broken token acquire endpoint on GCE. by dhermes · Pull Request #411 · google/oauth2client
• never a straight line: Exploring the world on-the-go using Google Cloud Vision and Twilio
  RT @juliaferraioli: Get information about the world around you using the @googlecloud #Vision API with @twilio!

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