The secret rules of the internet
The murky history of moderation, and how it’s shaping the future of free speech.
Hasnain says:
An absolutely essential read on content moderation and how large companies are effectively playing the role of the gate keeper here. Too many quotes, it's hard to cherry pick a single one. Really long but every word is worth it.
"While public debates rage about government censorship and free speech on college campuses, customer content management constitutes the quiet transnational transfer of free-speech decisions to the private, corporately managed corners of the internet where people weigh competing values in hidden and proprietary ways. Moderation, explains Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford, is "a profoundly human decision-making process about what constitutes appropriate speech in the public domain.""
Posted on 2016-04-19T06:10:44+0000
Quit my full time corporate job. Built an iOS game. It became #1 in the App Store. Here are...
## TL;DR Made a little over $700k selling a premium mobile game with no IAP or Ads as a one man shop. It _is_ possible to create sustainable...
Hasnain says:
A great post from the guy who made A Dark Room and other games on making money and the nitty gritty of writing indie games for a living
Posted on 2016-04-19T05:38:22+0000
Shrink your Go binaries with this one weird trick
Ok, I lied, there's no weird trick. However, you can easily reduce a Go binary size by more than 6 times with some flags and common tools. Note: I don't actually believe a 30MB static binary is a problem in this day and age, and I would not trade (build
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Posted on 2016-04-19T05:36:33+0000
For Female Astronomers, Sexual Harassment Is a Constant Nightmare | Broadly
Earlier this year, famous Berkeley astronomer Geoff Marcy was found to have sexually harassed his students over a period of a decade.
Stephen's Sausage Roll review
One of the best puzzle games in years is a total sausage fest. In a good way.
College Student Is Removed From Flight After Speaking Arabic on Plane
Khairuldeen Makhzoomi, a senior at the University of California, Berkeley, was taken off a flight after he called an uncle in Baghdad and a passenger overheard him.
Hasnain says:
Sigh -- now I have to worry about calling my grandma when boarding a flight, in case someone mistakes Urdu for Arabic
Posted on 2016-04-17T22:15:19+0000
Smoking dead scorpions is KP's latest dangerous addiction
Experts say scorpion venom is more harmful than any drug— addicts start living in a constant state of delusion.
In Cramped and Costly Bay Area, Cries to Build, Baby, Build
An activist who calls her group BARF is pushing for more housing, pitting cranky homeowners and the political establishment against newcomers who want the region to make room for them, too.
Hasnain says:
"“There’s that book, ‘What’s the Matter With Kansas?’” said Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of SPUR, an urban policy research organization. “What’s the matter with San Francisco? Why is it that in a city that’s two-thirds renters we have adopted a housing policy that is horrible for renters?”"
Love that they're called BARF
Posted on 2016-04-16T16:49:39+0000
VR is the opposite of cinema « Ken’s Blog
I was on a panel this evening about the future evolution of VR. At one point I made the argument that people who try to “make their film in VR” are getting it very wrong. In fact, I argued, VR is essentially the very opposite of cinema.
Hasnain says:
A gem from the HN comments: "For a long time, game developers struggled with how to tell a story while not locking the player into a track ride. A movie is a story. A good game today is a place you visit. VR track rides are somewhere in between."
Posted on 2016-04-16T05:51:24+0000
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services
[This is a guest post by Vitaly Shmatikov, professor at Cornell Tech and once upon a time my adviser at the University of Texas at Austin. — Arvind Narayanan.]
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Posted on 2016-04-16T05:48:14+0000