Reading List
This is a list of the 169 (đ€Šââââ) links that are currently saved in my Pocket account that I haven't tagged as 'private'. The Pocket article links only work if you've got a Pocket account.
I've written up how this website pulls in that data in a blogpost here.
My Python Development Environment, 2020 Edition by Jacob Kaplan-moss
Pocket article linkSummary: For years Iâve noodled around with various setups for a Python development environment. A couple of years ago I wrote about a setup I finally liked; this is an update to that post. Bad news: this stuff still isnât stable, and Iâve had to make some changes.
The new dot com bubble is here: itâs called online advertising by Jesse Frederik And Maurits Martijn Jesse Frederik+
Pocket article linkSummary: Sometime in June 2003, Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Google was a hip, young tech company that made money â actual money! â off the internet.
https://act.more-onion.com/sites/actmo/files/Supporter%20journeys%20and%20automation.pdf
Pocket article linkhttps://act.more-onion.com/sites/actmo/files/Consultation%20actions_%20report_2019.pdf
Pocket article linkRanked: Every Ticket to Ride map by Keith Law
Pocket article linkSummary: Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. You may have played one of the most successful titles in tabletop gaming, Alan Moon's Ticket to Ride.
The State of Machine Learning Frameworks in 2019 by Emily M. Bender
Pocket article linkSummary: Since deep learning regained prominence in 2012, many machine learning frameworks have clamored to become the new favorite among researchers and industry practitioners.
Americans and Digital Knowledge
Pocket article linkSummary: A majority of U.S. adults can answer fewer than half the questions correctly on a digital knowledge quiz, and many struggle with certain cybersecurity and privacy questions By Emily A.
The Failed Political Promise of Silicon Valley by Kim Phillips-fein
Pocket article linkSummary: July 1945, the engineer Vannevar Bushâone of the founders of the Raytheon electronics corporation, and director of the federal Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War IIâpublished a meditative essay in The Atlantic.
The Fantasy of Opting Out by Finn Brunton
Pocket article linkSummary: There are still ways to carve out spaces of resistance, counterargument, and autonomy. Image: Lianhao Qu, via Unsplash Consider a day in the life of a fairly ordinary person in a large city in a stable, democratically governed country.
The Dark Side of Techno-Utopianism by Andrew Marantz
Pocket article linkSummary: In 1476, about two decades after the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, a merchant named William Caxton built Britainâs first printing press, in a building near Westminster Abbey.
Design Justice: Towards an Intersectional Feminist Framework for Design Theory and Practice by Costanza-chock, Sasha
Pocket article linkSummary: Design is key to our collective liberation, but most design processes today reproduce inequalities structured by what Black feminist scholars call the matrix of domination. Intersecting inequalities are manifest at all levels of the design process.
Data About Us: âthe peopleâ know and care more than they are given credit for
Pocket article linkSnapchat launches political ads library as 2020 election ramps up by Kerry Flynn
Pocket article linkSummary: Snapchat launched a political ads library as the mobile app becomes a campaign tool for 2020 candidates.
https://www.thersa.org/globalassets/pdfs/reports/data-about-us-final-report.pdf
Pocket article linkâSelf-careâ: how a radical feminist idea was stripped of politics for the mass market by Andre Spicer
Pocket article linkSummary: What do professional golfers, radical queer feminists and Instagram lifestyle influences have in common? They are all devotees of âself-careâ. While the earlier self-help movement focused on improving yourself, the relatively new self-care movement focuses on preserving yourself.
intro-to-alternative-keyboard-layouts.md by 262588213843476
Pocket article linkSummary: This is a post to satisfy your curiosity about alternative keyboard layouts, why some people use them, and whether they're for you. It is intended to discuss the topic in broad terms, but I will share my personal preferences towards the end.
From ball pits to water slides: the designer who changed childrenâs playgrounds for ever by Nicholas Hune-brown
Pocket article linkSummary: Eric McMillan revolutionised playground design in the 1970s. Why has the spirit of experimental play that he championed been lost? By
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Summary: Do you feel like you are in control of your privacy? Do you wish todayâs privacy functioned like times past, where details about you, your photos, old ...
A Conceptual Framework for Studying Internet of Things: Virtue Ethics, Capability Approach and Care Ethics by Funda Ustek-spilda
Pocket article linkSummary: This blog is based on Values and Ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe, July 2018 Report.
Selling Your Private Information Is a Terrible Idea by Sarah Jeong
Pocket article linkSummary: We donât allow people to sell their kidneys. We shouldnât let them sell the details of their lives, either. Ms. Jeong is a member of the editorial board.
How to Give a Great Speech by Nick Douglas Email Twitter Posts
Pocket article linkSummary: When youâre preparing a speech, says marketer Seth Godin, âDonât memorize your talk. Memorize your stories. Ten stories make a talk.â This is actually how most stand-up comedians build their routines. They donât write jokes so much as they re-tell them over and over.
https://codepen.io/joshatoutthink/full/byLzQG
Pocket article link2019 Logo Trend Report by Bill Gardner
Pocket article linkSummary: Another year older, but the logo design industry shows no signs of old age. Like an unruly kid ripping through a stack of unopened presents, I eagerly dive into each annual report knowing an experience awaits.
The GDPR: one year on by Ius Laboris
Pocket article linkSummary: On Saturday 25 May 2019, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which aims to protect personal data including by introducing rules on how data is collected, stored, processed and destroyed, will have been in force for one year.
Dating apps have a responsibility to better protect our emotions by Adam Haworth
Pocket article linkSummary: Dating has always been stressful, I'm sure. By its very nature, dating is an emotionally intense thing to do. You've always had to open yourself up and make yourself vulnerable.
Can data ever know who we really are? by Zara Rahman
Pocket article linkSummary: Introduce yourself: your name, where youâre from, and three words to describe yourself. I watch as others standing around me in the circle answer these three prompts with an ease that Iâm almost envious of.
Why I Donât Believe in Empathic Design by Don Norman
Pocket article linkSummary: I approve of the spirit behind the introduction of empathy into design, but I believe the concept is impossible, and even if possible, wrong. The reason we often talk about empathy in design is that we really need to understand the people that weâre working for.
Software, the Tough Tomato Principle, and the Great Weirdening of the World by Florentcrivello
Pocket article linkSummary: Marshall McLuhanâs theory that âthe medium is the messageâ famously describes how media are not neutral. Rather, a mediumâs nature has a deep impact on the very content of its messages.
Privacy UX: Privacy-Aware Design Framework
Pocket article linkSummary: 14 min read Privacy, User Experience, Design Share on Twitter or LinkedIn From Sketch To Code Quick Self-Service Setup.
You Canât Stop Robocalls. You Shouldnât Have To. by Brian X. Chen
Pocket article linkSummary: Todayâs solutions for fighting spam and scam calls are ineffective. But the onus should be on the phone companies, not you, to solve this problem. The robocalls come when you are driving and they bother you at night. It doesnât matter if youâre in bed or in a meeting.
Jen Simmons on Thinking With Grids at SmashingConf SF 2019 by Smashing Magazine
Pocket article linkSummary: CSS Grid revolutionizes how we create layouts on the web â but how exactly should we use it? When someone emails you a PDF, how do you know the best way to get started? Where should you use what code? How do you translate a static drawing into a dynamic layout? In the spirit of Smashingâs âno
Think Youâre Discreet Online? Think Again by Zeynep Tufekci
Pocket article linkSummary: Thanks to âdata inferenceâ technology, companies know more about you than you disclose. Dr. Tufekci is a professor of information science who specializes in the social effects of technology.
How to display nested data on the DOM? by Frente_fin
Pocket article linkSummary: Specifically, an array that contains objects. Below is an example of what the API returns in the console.
How Capitalism Betrayed Privacy by Tim Wu
Pocket article linkSummary: The forces of wealth creation once fostered the right to be left alone. But that has changed. For much of human history, what we now call âprivacyâ was better known as being rich. Privacy, like wealth, was something that most people had little or none of.
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Eartracking: A New UX-Research Method by Jakob Nielsen
Pocket article linkSummary: Eyetracking has long been a common way to enhance usability studies with insights that are more detailed than those gleaned from usersâ thinking-aloud comments. Since 2005, Nielsen Norman Group has run many eyetracking research studies, some documented in the book Eyetracking Web Usability.
'Bias deep inside the code': the problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley by Sam Levin In San Francisco
Pocket article linkSummary: When Stanford announced a new artificial intelligence institute, the university said the âdesigners of AI must be broadly representative of humanityâ and unveiled 120 faculty and tech leaders partnering on the initiative.
PRIVACY FORECAST 2019 by Data-profile
Pocket article linkSummary: There is a gap between translating privacy legislation to technology created by engineers and designers. In parallel, there is gap between understanding how products work and how data is maintained and safeguarded that leads to the creation of misinformed policy.
What Will Happen When Machines Write Songs Just as Well as Your Favorite Musician? by Clive Thompson
Pocket article linkSummary: Ed Newton-Rex grew up immersed in music. As a child, he sang in the Kingâs College Choir in EngÂland and played piano. He went on to earn a music degree, and one of the things he studied was, âWhy do people like music?â he told me.
https://edpb.europa.eu/sites/edpb/files/files/file1/edpb-2019-03-13-statement-on-elections_en.pdf
Pocket article link10 reasons why the GDPR is the opposite of a ânotice and consentâ type of law by Gabriela Zanfir-fortuna
Pocket article linkSummary: 10 reasons why the GDPR is the opposite of a ânotice and consentâ type of law. A ânotice and consentâ privacy law puts the entire burden of privacy protection on the person and then it doesnât really give them anyâŠ
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.01439.pdf
Pocket article linkFAT* 2019: Law and Policy by The Conference On Fairness, Accountability, And Transparency (fat*)
Pocket article linkSummary: Law and PolicySession Chair: Andrew SelbstRobot Eyes Wide Shut: Understanding Dishonest AnthropomorphismBrenda Leong, Evan SelingerExplaining Explanations in AIBrent Mittelstadt, Chris Russell, Sandra WachterRacial categories in machine learningSebastian Benthall, Bruce D. HaynesMeasuring the Biases
âYou can track everythingâ: the parents who digitise their babiesâ lives by Richard Godwin
Pocket article linkSummary: Socks that record heart rate and cots that mimic the womb might promise parents peace of mind â but is the data given to tech firms a fair exchange? You donât need to spend much time in the presence of a small child and an iPhone to feel a little disconcerted.
âMen Are Scumâ: Inside Facebookâs War on Hate Speech by Simon Van Zuylen-wood
Pocket article linkSummary: The company blew it on privacy and fake news. Can it do better against trolls and racists? An exclusive embed with Facebookâs shadow government. Itâs nine A.M. on an autumn Tuesday, and Iâm sitting in on a meeting about âmen are scumâ at Facebookâs campus in Menlo Park, California.
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Summary: Online expression is blocked, filtered and throttled in a variety of ways by those seeking to suppress it.
Facebook Grew Too Big to Care About Privacy by Shira Ovide
Pocket article linkSummary: Now, another academic paper from a former advertising technology executive and Yale law graduate is arguing that Facebook Inc. abuses its power.
How to Design With Ethics by Christian Beck
Pocket article linkSummary: If youâre looking for a proper definition of design ethics, then youâll be disappointed. If you are, however, looking for the opinion of one particular designer (whom you likely donât know from aâŠ
Evaluating scholarship, or why I wonât be teaching Shoshana Zuboffâs The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Bhaggart
Pocket article linkSummary: Iâve been trying to sort out my opinion about The Age of Surveillance Capitalism since I read it almost a month ago.
Privacy is a commons by Jon Evans
Pocket article linkSummary: âThe commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,â quoth Wikipedia, âheld in common, not owned privately.â We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me.
Duty of care: an empty concept
Pocket article linkSummary: There is every reason to believe that the government and opposition are moving to a consensus on introducing a duty of care for social media companies to reduce harm and risk to their users.
Supposedly âFairâ Algorithms Can Perpetuate Discrimination by Joi Ito
Pocket article linkSummary: During the Long Hot Summer of 1967, race riots erupted across the United States. The 159 riotsâor rebellions, depending on which side you tookâwere mostly clashes between the police and African Americans living in poor urban neighborhoods.
Capitalismâs New Clothes by Evgeny Morozov
Pocket article linkSummary: In a series of remarkably prescient articles, the first of which was published in the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in the summer of 2013, Shoshana Zuboff pointed to an alarming phenomenon: the digitization of everything was giving technology firms immense social power.
Adding Webmention Support to a Static Site by Keith J. Grant
Pocket article linkSummary: This is Part 3 in a series exploring short-form posting, the IndieWeb, and taking control of your own online social workflow for your statically-generated site: Webmentions are a key building block of the IndieWeb. They are they way for one webpage to notify another when it has linked to it.
The Problem With Power Users by Roxanne Abercrombie
Pocket article linkSummary: Power user. The very term evokes a sense of authority and prowess. Your power users are that segment of your user base with in-depth product knowledge and are the most active, expressive and influential members of your productâs community.
How to cut Big Tech down to size by James Ball
Pocket article linkSummary: On each day of 2018 Apple sold almost 600,000 iPhones, Amazon made more than $500m in sales, some 1.47bn people logged onto Facebook, while there were 3.5bn searches on Google.
Just Trust Us by Will Oremus
Pocket article linkSummary: In August, an analyst for a little-known U.S. startup called NewsGuard tried to contact the editors of the Daily Mail Online, the U.K.-based news and celebrity-gossip site that ranks as one of the internetâs most-read publishers.
The case against behavioral advertising is stacking up by Natasha Lomas
Pocket article linkSummary: No one likes being stalked around the Internet by adverts. Itâs the uneasy joke you canât enjoy laughing at. Yet vast people-profiling ad businesses have made pots of money off of an unregulated Internet by putting surveillance at their core.
Preparing Your Site for Posting Notes by Keith J. Grant
Pocket article linkSummary: This is Part 2 in a series exploring short-form posting, the IndieWeb, and taking control of your own online social workflow for your statically-generated site: If youâre eager to get going with short-form posting using webmentions and micropub, itâs worth giving your site structure a little tho
A Low-Friction Workflow for Short-form Posting on a Statically Generated Site by Keith J. Grant
Pocket article linkSummary: This is Part 1 in a series exploring short-form posting, the IndieWeb, and taking control of your own online social workflow for a statically-generated site: I am thrilled to see more and more folks are moving to their blogs for posting short-form content, usually referred to as Notes.
UX rant: The nightmare horrorshow that is the Apple TV remote by Steve Brykman
Pocket article linkSummary: Iâve been an Apple guy since the beginning. My first laptop was a Powerbook 100 with a built-in plastic trackball.
https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/NEF_Blocking_Data_Stalkers.pdf
Pocket article linkHow to Build an Audience of 1000 True Fans in a Noisy World by Www.facebook.com/srinirao
Pocket article linkSummary: Building an audience for your work is easier and harder than it's ever been. It's easier because we have the tools and resources to create our work, and the distribution channels to spread that work. It's harder than ever to build an audience because there's a scarcity of attention.
Take these 5 things into consideration when youâre trying to find your calling by Christian Jarrett
Pocket article linkSummary: If, like many, you are searching for your calling in lifeâperhaps you are still unsure which profession aligns with what you most care aboutâhere are five recent research findings worth taking into consideration.
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Petersen Anne Helen Petersen Buzzfeed News Reporter
Pocket article linkSummary: I couldnât figure out why small, straightforward tasks on my to-do list felt so impossible. The answer is both more complex and far simpler than I expected.
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Summary: Ninety of the worldâs data was created in the last two years, and over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are produced every day. Whole companies are built around principle of relentlessly collecting as much data about internet users as possible, and monetising it.
How to create a UX portfolio without UX experience by Sarah Doody
Pocket article linkSummary: This is the third post in Sarah Doodyâs portfolio series. Read the first one, The product of you, and the second one, What format should your UX portfolio be in?, when youâre done here. So you want to get a job in UX?
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Summary: Some of my professional experiences have involved participating in cross-functional areas, so I knew all my colleaguesâ way of working. I remember a company which just started using Git a few weeks before I joined. They didnât know the reason why those steps.
The rise of the recommendation site by Eliza Brooke
Pocket article linkSummary: Say you want to buy a travel mug. You could go to Target, but staring at the display isnât going to tell you which one is difficult to clean and which is likely to spill coffee down your sweater during your morning commute. So you Google âbest travel mugs.
An analysis of board games: Part II - Complexity bias in BGG by Oliver Kiley
Pocket article linkSummary: This is part II in my series on analysing BoardGameGeek data. Other parts can be found here: In Part I, I describe how I generated a dataset from BoardGameGeek and explored general trends in the rate of release, ratings and complexity.
Who Do Designers Really Work For by Mike Monteiro
Pocket article linkSummary: Iâve been working in client services for almost twenty years. Thatâs long enough to learn a few things.
This is (almost)Â everything I learned in design school in one website.
Pocket article linkSummary: Getting a design degree is not a waste of time. In fact, it's one of the best decisions I've ever made. However, most people aren't as lucky to have the sort of professors I did. Some people don't have the access, the ability, or the time to go to school for this stuff.
Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer by Nellie Bowles
Pocket article linkSummary: The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari worries about a lot. He worries that Silicon Valley is undermining democracy and ushering in a dystopian hellscape in which voting is obsolete.
Google's trying to win at hardware. Meet the woman altering its design by Katia Moskvitch
Pocket article linkSummary: âTo Googleâ entered dictionaries a long time ago, but what does âGoogleâ mean when you hold it in your hands? Does it come down to subtle touches, like the small mint-green power button on the side of my blue Pixel 2 smartphone, the positioning of the fingerprint scanner on the back, or the
UX design heuristics meets psychology by Shane Ketterman
Pocket article linkSummary: Something happens when Iâm at the gym. Iâm not sure how to explain it but whenever I start exercising and reading my UX articles (yes, I really do that), itâs as if things start connecting that I had not thought of before.
Essen 2018: The best board games from the biggest board game con by Owen Duffy
Pocket article linkSummary: Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com.
Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical? by Kara Swisher
Pocket article linkSummary: Some think chief ethics officers could help technology companies navigate political and social questions. Ms. Swisher covers technology and is a contributing opinion writer.
Jack Dorsey on Twitter's Role in Free Speech and Filter Bubbles by Nicholas Thompson
Pocket article linkSummary: On Monday, at WIRED's 25th anniversary summit, I spoke with Jack Dorsey about some of the biggest questions he confronts running Twitter and Square.
It's Okay to Be Good and Not Great by Brad Stulberg
Pocket article linkSummary: When you buy something using the retail links in our stories, we may earn a small commission. Outside does not accept money for editorial gear reviews. Read more about our policy. âGood is the enemy of greatâ is one of the most popular self-improvement expressions there is.
Why weâre losing the battle against fake news by Mark Scott
Pocket article linkSummary: LONDONÂ â Tackling fake news was supposed to be a slam dunk. France wants new laws that would allow courts to decide on the accuracy of online reports ahead of national elections. The United States proposed legislation to boost transparency over who buys (political) ads on social media.
The Internetâs keepers? âSome call us hoardersâI like to say weâre archivistsâ by Nathan Mattise
Pocket article linkSummary: AUSTIN, TexasâAs much as subscription services want you to believe it, not everything can be found on Amazon or Netflix.
Algorithms by John Quiggin
Pocket article linkSummary: For the last thousand years or so, an algorithm (derived from the name of an Arab mathematician, al-Khwarizmi) has had a pretty clear meaning â namely, it is a well-defined formal procedure for deriving a verifiable solution to a mathematical problem.
Change Everything You Hate About Meetings with this ONE SINGLE WORD. by Allan Chochinov
Pocket article linkSummary: By Allan Chochinov, Chair, MFA Products of Design Sept. 25, 2018 I hate meetings. We all hate meetings.
How the Right to Privacy Became a Human Right by Oxford Academic
Pocket article linkSummary: The right to privacy became an international human right before it was a nationally well-established fundamental right. When it was created in the years after World War II, state constitutions protected only aspects of privacy such as the inviolability of the home and of correspondence.
Town v gown: is the student boom wrecking communities? by Brian Oliver
Pocket article linkSummary: In towns across the country, many locals fear the relentless expansion of universities threatens the fabric of their neighbourhoods by For some, they represent the very best of British, hubs of learning and commerce attracting the brightest and the best from around the world who bring huge wealth to
How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It
Pocket article linkSummary: Have you ever come into work, sat down at your computer to begin a project, opened your editor, and then just stared at the screen? This happens to me all the time, so I understand your struggle. Even if you love your job, you don't always feel like doing it every day.
Media Manipulation, Strategic Amplification, and Responsible Journalism by Danah Boyd
Pocket article linkSummary: In early September 2018, Facebook and Twitter were accused during a Congressional hearing of having anti-conservative bias. This should sound familiar to many of you in this room as you too have been accused for political purposes of being the âliberal media.
Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? by Evan Osnos
Pocket article linkSummary: At ten oâclock on a weekday morning in August, Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and C.E.O. of Facebook, opened the front door of his house in Palo Alto, California, wearing the tight smile of obligation. He does not enjoy interviews, especially after two years of ceaseless controversy.
How to Make a Big Decision by Steven Johnson
Pocket article linkSummary: Have no fear. An emerging science can now help you choose. Mr. Johnson writes about science and the history of innovation.
How AI-generated music is changing the way hits are made by Dani Deahl
Pocket article linkSummary: The idea that artificial intelligence can compose music is scary for a lot of people, including me.
Welcome to the Age of Privacy Nihilism by Ian Bogost
Pocket article linkSummary: A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle to a companion to pick up some Red Bull; on the ride home, Instagram serves a sponsored post for the beverage.
The Impossible Job: Inside Facebookâs Struggle to Moderate Two Billion People by Jason Koebler
Pocket article linkSummary: This spring, Facebook reached out to a few dozen leading social media academics with an invitation: Would they like to have a casual dinner with Mark Zuckerberg to discuss Facebookâs problems?
Odd Numbers â Real Life by Frank Pasquale
Pocket article linkSummary: Algorithms increasingly govern our social world, transforming data into scores or rankings that decide who gets credit, jobs, dates, policing, and much more.
Coder - Secure and Productive Software Development
Pocket article linkSummary: Coder automatically configures, secures, and powers development environments, letting developers focus on the product. Coder represents each environment as a Docker container built from a shared image.
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/projectsbyif.com/ebooks/A-Look-Back-at-Privacy.pdf
Pocket article linkFintech Frenzy : Hype or Reality? A Closer Look at 6 Key Sectors
Pocket article linkSummary: A top fintech investor at Bain Capital Ventures surveys the state of the industry, grading each category from payments to crypto.
âThe Lean Startupâ is an unproductive legend by Luis Perez-breva
Pocket article linkSummary: The only real measure of success for a startup is not to stay a startup. And yet, the gurus of innovation and entrepreneurship admonish us to âinnovate continuously, like entrepreneurs do,â âfail forward,â and âfail fast.â
'The discourse is unhinged': how the media gets AI alarmingly wrong by Oscar Schwartz
Pocket article linkSummary: In June of last year, five researchers at Facebookâs Artificial Intelligence Research unit published an article showing how bots can simulate negotiation-like conversations.
Why youâve been drafting your Privacy Policy all wrong
Pocket article linkSummary: Sure, copy that privacy policy from your competitor ⊠at your peril. Did you suffer a flurry of âWeâve updated our Privacy Policyâ emails recently, many from organisations you donât even remember dealing with in the first place?
A Landmark Legal Shift Opens Pandoraâs Box for DIY Guns by Andy Greenberg
Pocket article linkSummary: Five years ago, 25-year-old radical libertarian Cody Wilson stood on a remote central Texas gun range and pulled the trigger on the worldâs first fully 3-D-printed gun. When, to his relief, his plastic invention fired a .
Strings and Character Data in Python by John Sturtz
Pocket article linkSummary: In the tutorial on Basic Data Types in Python, you learned how to define strings: objects that contain sequences of character data. Processing character data is integral to programming. It is a rare application that doesnât need to manipulate strings at least to some extent.
Design Thinking WorkshopâââSharing Experiences by Lipika Dugar
Pocket article linkSummary: Design Thinking Workshop! Sounds too creative and XD kind of thing, isnât it? Designers? Are you thinking the sameâŠ? Well, even I did until I attended the Design Thinking Workshop organized by ThoughtWorks last month.
âI Was Devastatedâ: Tim Berners-Lee, the Man Who Created the World Wide Web, Has Some Regrets by Katrina Brooker
Pocket article linkSummary: âFor people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,â Tim Berners-Lee told me one morning in downtown Washington, D.C., about a half-mile from the White House.
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Summary: This is the third of four papers exploring power and accountability in the data economy. These will set the stage for future interventions to ensure power becomes more evenly distributed.
Thermostats, Locks and Lights: Digital Tools of Domestic Abuse by Nellie Bowles
Pocket article linkSummary: SAN FRANCISCO â The people who called into the help hotlines and domestic violence shelters said they felt as if they were going crazy. One woman had turned on her air-conditioner, but said it then switched off without her touching it.
Surveillance and the City: Know When You're Being Watched
Pocket article linkSummary: Ingrid Burrington, author of "Networks of New York," explains how big cities like New York are constantly under surveillance.WATCH NEXT: The First Artificially Intelligent Surveillance Camera -- https://youtu.be/2xVNgP0PHzgSubscribe to MOTHERBOARD: http://bit.ly/Subscribe-To-MOTHERBOARDFollow MOTHER
BEM For Beginners: Why You Need BEM
Pocket article linkSummary: 23 min read Tools, Coding, CSS Share on Twitter or LinkedIn From Sketch To Code Builds. Tests. Deployments. Docker. Try Free! Earn Your Masterâs Degree Online CSS styles isolation is the most frequent start point of the BEM usage. But this is the least that BEM can give you.
Rise of the machines: has technology evolved beyond our control? by James Bridle
Pocket article linkSummary: Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpredictable ways that even its creators donât understand. As machines increasingly shape global events, how can we regain control?
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Summary: Welcome to the latest instalment in the weekly series about Liberal Democrat political philosophy. I hope you find it interesting and useful - and if you do, please tell your friends and colleagues that they too can sign up for the series.
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Summary: A critical and much-disputed concept in political philosophy generally and in liberal political thought in particular, the notion of social justice is concerned with the ways in which members of a political community determine the extent of their obligations to one another.
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Summary: Human beings are free to the extent to which they are able to take their own decisions. A state of freedom, or liberty, provides the conditions which minimise coercion and maximise the ability to take your own decisions.
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Summary: Well, that's it. Your weekly series about Liberal Democrat political philosophy has come to an end. I very much hope you enjoyed reading and sticking through to the end. If you did, and so think others might enjoy it too, would you mind sharing the sign-up form with them? It's here.
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Summary: A concept which is more often associated with socialists and social democrats than with liberals, but which is crucial to all liberals in terms of equality before the law.
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Summary: Peter Hain (ed.), (John Calder, 1976) John Meadowcroft, âThe Origins of Community Politicsâ, Journal of Liberal Democrat History 28 (autumn 2000) David Thomson, The Shocktroops of Pavement Politics? (Hebden Royd Paper No.
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Summary: Liberal democracy, otherwise known as constitutional and representative democracy, is the form of government espoused by liberals.
Free Trade, Keynesianism and Laissez-faire
Pocket article linkSummary: Welcome to the next instalment in the weekly series about Liberal Democrat political philosophy.
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Summary: A political and ethical set of values that seeks to improve and protect the quality of the natural environment through changes to environmentally harmful human activities, through the adoption of forms of political, economic, and social organisation necessary for the benign treatment of the
How a Hacker Proved Cops Used a Secret Government Phone Tracker to Find Him
Pocket article linkSummary: On a warm summerâs day in 2008, police spotted a man walking outside his apartment in Santa Clara, California, one of the many bedroom communities spread across Silicon Valley.
Itertools in Python 3, By Example by David Amos
Pocket article linkSummary: It has been called a âgemâ and âpretty much the coolest thing ever,â and if you have not heard of it, then you are missing out on one of the greatest corners of the Python 3 standard library: itertools.
How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men by Ken Auletta
Pocket article linkSummary: Once, Mad Men ruled advertising. Theyâve now been eclipsed by Math Menâthe engineers and data scientists whose province is machines, algorithms, pureed data, and artificial intelligence.
Tories will struggle to turn desire to regulate internet into policy by Jim Waterson Media
Pocket article linkSummary: Towards the end of the Conservativesâ 2017 general election manifesto was a largely overlooked chapter setting out the partyâs stance on the future of the internet.
Visual Hierarchy: Organizing content to follow natural eye movement patterns by Mads Soegaard
Pocket article linkSummary: Letâs look at a topic that deals with, oddly enough, how we look at designs. Once you understand how the human eye processes these, youâll find yourself better able to arrange your elements more effectively. Content in any digital page layout will follow a specific hierarchy.
How Humble Leadership Really Works by Dan Cable
Pocket article linkSummary: When youâre a leader â no matter how long youâve been in your role or how hard the journey was to get there â you are merely overhead unless youâre bringing out the best in your employees. Unfortunately, many leaders lose sight of this.
The Watchdogs That Didnât Bark by April Glaser
Pocket article linkSummary: When Democrats and Republicans in Congress agree on something, it usually involves symbolic acts of patriotism or minimally decent acts of disaster relief.
A Short Overview of Object Oriented Software Design by Stanislav Kozlovski
Pocket article linkSummary: Most modern programming languages support and encourage object-oriented programming (OOP). Even though lately we seem to be seeing a slight shift away from this, as people start using languages which are not heavily influenced by OOP (such as Go, Rust, Elixir, Elm, Scala), most still have objects.
Ban Targeted Advertising by David Dayen
Pocket article linkSummary: For the first 35 years of my life, like most Americans, I was exposed to lots of advertising. I absorbed billboards and print ads and direct mailers and television commercials and radio jingles. I learned about available products and services, and chose which ones I wanted.
A Right to the Digital City by Richard Pope
Pocket article linkSummary: Earlier this year, the London Chief Digital Officer and the Smart London board started a listening exercise to help develop the Smart London plan. The following is our response to their question of how to define a new deal for city data.
How to Use Generators and yield in Python by Kyle Stratis
Pocket article linkSummary: Have you ever had to work with a dataset so large that it overwhelmed your machineâs memory? Or maybe you have a complex function that needs to maintain an internal state every time itâs called, but the function is too small to justify creating its own class.
An analysis of board games: Part I - Introduction and general trends by Oliver Kiley
Pocket article linkSummary: This is part I in my series on analysing BoardGameGeek data. Other parts can be found here: Over the last few years, board games have become one of my favoured pastimes.
A Comprehensive Website Planning Guide (Part 1)
Pocket article linkSummary: 27 min read Web Design, Guides Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Discover the future of web design agencies Earn your masterâs degree online Get Angular code from Sketch designs with 1 click Planning is essential for most businesses and organizations.
It's the (Democracy-Poisoning) Golden Age of Free Speech by Zeynep Tufekci
Pocket article linkSummary: For most of modern history, the easiest way to block the spread of an idea was to keep it from being mechanically disseminated. Shutter the newsÂpaper, pressure the broadÂcast chief, install an official censor at the publishing house.
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Summary: Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design thatâs more usable. Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) that ensures that neither has to wait on the other.
Beyond the Rhetoric of Algorithmic Solutionism by Danah Boyd 10103365017275213
Pocket article linkSummary: If you ever hear that implementing algorithmic decision-making tools to enable social services or other high stakes government decision-making will increase efficiency or reduce the cost to taxpayers, know that youâre being lied to. When implemented ethically, these systems cost more.
Ethical Design And Sustainability On The Web
Pocket article linkSummary: Ethical Design is a term often used by various people in the past year and now even predicted as a trend for 2018. Interestingly, when you read more about what it means you get a variety of responses. It lasts from the user experience over sustainability to business concepts.
ES6 for beginners part-3 by Srebalaji Thirumalai
Pocket article linkSummary: Map operator is used to do a specific operation on all elements of an array and it returns an array with modified elements. Itâs very easy to implement. Letâs see an example.
2018 Highlights by Fabricio Teixeira, Caio Braga
Pocket article linkSummary: If you landed here hoping to find out whether rounded corners and brutalist typefaces will be trending in 2019, we have some bad news. This is not an article about UI trends â youâll find those on Medium every week, produced by specialized publications.
Python Decorators From the Ground Up by Pablo Arias
Pocket article linkSummary: Decorators are your friends. Despite this they tend to be seen as a rather obscure feature and are often left horribly neglected. In this post I will show you that decorators donât need to be complicated and that, when used correctly, can become your MVP in many situations.
JavaScript Promises | Understand JavaScript Promises by Building a Simple Promise Example by Trey Huffine
Pocket article linkSummary: In this tutorial you will learn JavaScript promises by walking through building a JavaScript promise from scratch. This lesson is great for beginners to intermediate developers who are still learning the fundamentals of asynchronous JavaScript.
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Summary: Part one of this article appeared here. I covered some interesting features there. :) Promises are one of the useful features in ES6. They are used to make async operations such as API request, file handling, downloading images, etc.
Learning Python: From Zero to Hero by 952511121459825
Pocket article linkSummary: First of all, what is Python? According to its creator, Guido van Rossum, Python is a: For me, the first reason to learn Python was that it is, in fact, a beautiful programming language. It was really natural to code in it and express my thoughts.
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Summary: In this post, I will cover some new features in ES6. It will be helpful if you are new to ES6 or learning front-end frameworks. In the above example variable âaâ is defined inside If statement and so itâs not accessible outside the function.
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Summary: Webpack is becoming the standard in bundling JavaScript, but what does that even mean and how does it work? Let's find out. The source of these problems is that Webpack is a monolithic system that does many unrelated things in an opaque way, while also being designed around extreme flexibility.
Presentation tips for people who donât like giving presentations
Pocket article linkSummary: Presentations at conferences or at work events are only one way of sharing information. Theyâre far from the only ones, and maybe they carry too much weight in tech. But! If youâre going to do one, hereâs some nuggets of advice Iâve given people in the past few years.
Do we still need human judges in the age of Artificial Intelligence? by Ziyaad Bhorat
Pocket article linkSummary: The Fourth Industrial Revolution is fusing disciplines across the digital and physical worlds, with legal technology the latest example of how improved automation is reaching further and further into service-oriented professions.
Rise of the machines: who is the âinternet of thingsâ good for? by Adam Greenfield
Pocket article linkSummary: Interconnected technology is now an inescapable reality â ordering our groceries, monitoring our cities and sucking up vast amounts of data along the way. The promise is that it will benefit us all â but how can it? By
JavaScript: Execution of Synchronous and Asynchronous codes by Siddhartha Chowdhury /@siddharthac6
Pocket article linkSummary: Recently I was in a discussion with a couple of descent JS devs regarding - how JS allocates memory and how a script is parsed and executed. This is one of many (most) important topics which were never a part of our academic career, neither one needs to know to write a JS program.
How Privacy Became a Commodity for the Rich and Powerful by Amanda Hess
Pocket article linkSummary: Recently I handed over the keys to my email account to a service that promised to turn my spam-bloated inbox into a sparkling model of efficiency in just a few clicks. Unroll.
Build a Better Monster : Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance
Pocket article linkSummary: This is the text version of "Build a Better Monster: Morality, Machine Learning, and Mass Surveillance", a talk I gave on April 18, 2017, at the Emerging Technologies for the Enterprise conference in Philadelphia. I came to the United States as a six year old kid from Eastern Europe.
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Understanding Class and Instance Variables in Python 3 by Lisa Tagliaferri
Pocket article linkSummary: Object-oriented programming allows for variables to be used at the class level or the instance level. Variables are essentially symbols that stand in for a value youâre using in a program.
DIY Cybersecurity for Domestic Violence by Noah
Pocket article linkSummary: A website, DIY Cybersecurity for Domestic Violence, will be launched tomorrow. Consider this an introduction. In writing the DIY Guide to Feminist Cybersecurity, I expected state surveillance to be one of the most imminent threats to my readers.
Why is Object-Oriented Programming Useful? (With a Role Playing Game Example) by Al Sweigart
Pocket article linkSummary: This blog post is those still new to programming and have probably heard about "object-oriented programming", "OOP", "classes", "inheritance/encapsulation/polymorphism", and other computer science terms but still don't get what exactly OOP is used for.
Minimalism: another boring product wealthy people can buy by Chelsea Fagan For The Financial Diet
Pocket article linkSummary: In terms of its visual merits, or as a capital-S style, the hyper-curated minimalism really only conveys one thing: âI wanted to take the very safest route to chic, cut away every possible misstep or risk.
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Summary: This is a living document. Design mediates so much of our realities and has tremendous impact on our lives, yet very few of us participate in design processes.
Empathy and vulnerability in the digital age by Richard Raber
Pocket article linkSummary: The cyber-world collapses the distance between the spectator and the scene of brutality, but does this encourage voyeurism or solidarity?
Remote only by Jobs Page
Pocket article linkSummary: While there is sometimes value in the items on the right, we have come to value the items on the left more. At large tech companies people on the same campus now routinely do video calls instead of traveling 10 minutes each way to a different building.
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Summary: Airtable works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power of a database to organize anything. Sign up for free.
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Summary: JavaScript is great, and by all means use it, while also being aware that you can build so many functional UI components without the additional dependancy. Maybe you can include a few lines of utility code, or a mixin, and forgo the requirement.
Learn Git Branching by Peter Cottle
Pocket article linkSummary: Learn Git Branching $ Git Hg
So, youâre going to be a user researcher: top tips to get you going by Leisa Reichelt
Pocket article linkSummary: More and more teams across government are putting user needs first and the demand for user researchers is high. In some parts of government, people who havenât had any experience doing user research have now taken on this role.
The East India Company: The original corporate raiders by William Dalrymple
Pocket article linkSummary: One of the very first Indian words to enter the English language was the Hindustani slang for plunder: âlootâ.
Improve Your Python: Python Classes and Object Oriented Programming by Jeff Knupp
Pocket article linkSummary: The class is a fundamental building block in Python. It is the underpinning for not only many popular programs and libraries, but the Python standard library as well. Understanding what classes are, when to use them, and how they can be useful is essential, and the goal of this article.
Butterickâs Practical Typography
Pocket article linkSummary: ButÂtÂerÂickâsPracÂtiÂcalTyÂpogÂraÂphy 2nd edition ButÂtÂerÂickâs PracÂtiÂcal Typography Typography in ten minutes Summary of key rules Start Please pay for this book Why typography matters Type composition Text formatting Font recommendations Page layout Sample documents Afterwor
Object Oriented Programming by Mark Hammond
Pocket article linkSummary: Though Python is an object-oriented language without fuss or quibble, we have so far intentionally avoided the treatment of object-oriented programming (OOP) in the previous chapters of our Python tutorial.
What Happens When You Put The New Testament In Order by Marcus Borg
Pocket article linkSummary: A chronological New Testament is different from and yet the same as the New Testament familiar to Christians. It contains the same 27 documents, but sequences them in the chronological order in which they were written.
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Summary: Here at VitsĆ we stand for the inordinate power of good design in everything we do: designing thoughtfully, responsibly and intelligently for our company, our furniture and the many people who share a profound interest in all of our tomorrows.
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Summary: OVERVIEW K2pdfopt optimizes PDF/DJVU files for mobile e-readers (e.g. the Kindle) and smartphones. It works well on multi-column PDF/DJVU files and can re-flow text even on scanned PDF files. It can also be used as a general PDF copying/cropping/re-sizing/OCR-ing manipulation tool.
Theological Cultural Analysis of the Free Software Movement
Pocket article linkSummary: "Free software" is computer software for which the source code (the original, human-readable form) is available under terms which give you the "freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve [it]."1 That is to say, "free software is a matter of liberty, not price.
The Principles of Design by Joshua David Mcclurg-genevese
Pocket article linkSummary: This column is about Web designâreally, it isâthough it may at times seem a bit distant and distracted. In my opinion, any good discussion about design begins with the fundamentals.