Month: January 2021

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders - S4 E1: Sophy Lee, HopSkipDrive

Sophy Lee was born in China, but grew up in a lot of countries and places. She grew up in Australia, lived all over Texas, and went to Harvard for undergrad, studying economics. She is an avid bike racer, mainly on the road, and a triathlete. The combination of living in difference places, school, and racing lead her into the tech world. In fact, she moved to San Francisco to race - though he had taught herself to program post college and had an idea brewing in her head on how to become a better engineer in San Fran.


Sophy has been working on her current product for 6.5 years, starting at a different company formerly known as Shuttle. The product was built originally to map out a trip from point a to b, and have a driver give a protected ride to a child. Four years ago, her current company acquired the product, at which point she joined as CTO to lead the Technology & Information Security team.


This is the creation story of HopSkipDrive.


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The Best One Yet - “Got 99 problems, but payments ain’t 1” — Square’s Jay-Z desire. GE’s Obi-Wan Kenobi product. Discovery’s SharkWeek+.

Word that Jack Dorsey’s Square is talking to Jay-Z about acquiring Tidal isn’t the most shocking thing we’ve ever heard, now that we’ve digested it. General Electric’s stock has one great final hope: A fan that’s as big as the Empire State Building. And Discovery jumps into subscripturation, but it’s got the QQE recipe. $SQ $GE $DISCA Got a SnackFact? Tweet it @RobinhoodSnacks @TBOYJack @NickOfNewYork Want a shoutout on the pod? Fill out this form: https://forms.gle/KhUAo31xmkSdeynD9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - The Vaccine Rollout Hits Some Bumps

So far, the vaccine roll out in the United States has been underwhelming. States are scrambling to get doses out to patients before they expire. We won’t be behind schedule on vaccine distribution forever, but to make matters worse, a more infectious variant of COVID-19 has increased the urgency. 


Guest: Apoorva Mandavilli is a health and science reporter with the New York Times.


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NBN Book of the Day - Jonathan Sadowsky, “The Empire of Depression: A New History” (Polity, 2020)

When is sorrow sickness? That is the question that this book asks, exploring how our understandings of sadness, melancholy, depression, mania and anxiety have changed over time, and how societies have tried to treat something which lies on the border between the natural and the pathological. Jonathan Sadowsky's book The Empire of Depression: A New History (Polity, 2020) explores the various medical treatments for depression, classed as a modern illness with definite (but changing) symptoms from the 20th century onwards, in relation to a longer history of treatments for ‘melancholia’ and related states considered either as biological or social sicknesses or as a natural part of some people’s constitution. He also compares the western history of medicalising depression with the experiences of both sadness and clinical depression in non-western cultures, such as Nigeria and Japan. He asks, what have we lost as a consequence of the hegemony of the western clinical model, and how can we reclaim the patient experience in the face of sometimes hostile doctors and pharmaceutical companies? The book is poetic but well-researched, written by a leading medical historian, and distinguished from the crowd of books about depression through its global focus, and its historical rigour.

C.J. Valasek is a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology & Science Studies at the University of California San Diego.

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Short Wave - How COVID-19 Has Changed Science

2020 was a year like no other, especially for science. The pandemic has caused massive shifts in scientific research – how it's being done, what's being focused on, and who's doing it. Ed Yong of The Atlantic explains some of the ways, both good and bad, that COVID-19 has changed science.

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The NewsWorthy - High Stakes in Georgia, COVID Lockdowns & March Madness Bubble- Tuesday, January 5th, 2021

The news to know for Tuesday, January 5th, 2021!

We have updates about:

  • today's high-stakes election in Georgia: why it's so crucial and how the candidates are getting some high-profile help in the final hours of their campaigns
  • countries going into their strictest-ever lockdowns to fight against the new strain of coronavirus 
  • tech workers forming a rare union
  • plans for March Madness in a sort-of bubble
  • the new dog breed making its mark in the U.S.

Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!

Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.

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GA Runoffs Today: AJC, NY Times, WSJ, AP, Elections Project

Trump/Biden Rallies: LA Times, AJC, CBS News, WaPo

CEOs Urge Peaceful Transition: WSJ, Axios, Full Letter

England New COVID Lockdown: NY Times, Reuters, BBC

New COVID Variant in NY: CNBC, CBS News, Bloomberg

Qatar-Saudi Arabia Deal: Axios, Reuters, WSJ

March Madness Happening Only in Indiana: ESPN, CBS Sports, AP, NCAA

Amazon Healthcare Attempt Failed: CNBC, Stat, WSJ

Google, Alphabet Employees Unionize: TechCrunch, WSJ, Reuters, AP

Slack Outage: The Verge, WaPo, CNBC, Slack

Biewer Terrier Recognized by AKC: AP, NY Daily News, AKC

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What A Day - Mask On, Run Off with Senator Ed Markey

Today's Senate runoffs in Georgia will determine control of Congress, the future of economic relief, and the country’s response to existential threats like climate change. We spoke to Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey about the Georgia races, what Biden can do on his own on climate, and how to deal with Republicans who want to erase the will of voters.

And in headlines: the UK says Assange can’t be extradited to the US, hundreds of Google workers unionize, and Florida counties use EventBrite for vaccine scheduling.

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The Daily Signal - How Does Congress’ Electoral College Certification Process Work?

Congress is set Wednesday to certify the results of the Electoral College vote. What is the Electoral College certification process, and how does it work?


Additionally, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas and 10 other Republican senators are asking for an “emergency ‘audit’ of results in battleground states where President Donald Trump disputes the outcome," according to DallasNews.com.


Tommy Binion, vice president of government relations at The Heritage Foundation, joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss that and more.


We also cover these stories:

  • President Trump harshly criticised Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas for saying he will not object to the outcome of the 2020 presidential election during the certification process on January 6th. 
  • House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is ok with efforts in the House to dispute the results of the 2020 election, as Congress prepares to vote Wednesday to certify the results of the Electoral College vote. 
  • Representatives Ted Lieu, D-Calif., and Kathleen Rice D-N.Y., have asked FBI Director Christopher Wray to launch a criminal investigation into the President after Trump spoke with Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger on Saturday. 



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The Stack Overflow Podcast - What can you program in just one tweet?

If you're interested in learning a bit of BBC Basic, there is a fun introduction here. You can tweet at this bot, and it will run the contents as code and reply with a video of the results.

If you are interested in life-logging and want to see it done with a lot of very pretty graphs, check out this post, My Year in Data.

Last but not least we chat about Svelte, which lets you create "cybernetically enhanced web apps." Shout to Murali, a listener who suggested this topic.

Our lifeboat of the week goes to koekenbakker for answering the question:  R plots: Is there a way to draw a border, shadow or buffer around text labels?