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1wheelon Google’s 4k-Word Privacy Policy Is a History of the Internet

They were syndicated political cartoons; not created by NYT employees.

1wheelon Deep learning outperformed dermatologists in melanoma image classification task

Yup, this thread has a nice overview of ways performance on a validation set can overestimate clinical performance:

https://twitter.com/IAmSamFin/status/1122271463170564100

Another example of change over time:

> One difficulty in such a comparison is that Gleason grading standards have shifted over time, so that scores below six are now rarely assigned, and assigning a higher grade has become more common

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3775342/

1wheelon U.S. employment conditions compare poorly to the rest of the developed world

Original version has charts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/07/04/is-it...

1wheelon Using Countdown Clock Data to Understand the New York City Subway

That feed archive haven't been updated in years; you have to scrape and save the feed yourself or scrounge together different sources to look back in time.

1wheelon Are interruptions worse for programmers than for other knowledge workers?

I highly recommend setting something like this up. So nice to type a command and be ready to start sketching 3s later. Mine:

` alias initblock='function __initblock() { mkdir $1 && cd $1 && degit 1wheel/d3-init && gistup -m $1 --private --no-open && subl . && hot-server; unset -f __initblock; }; __initblock' `

https://github.com/1wheel/d3-init

1wheelon Building a Text Editor for a Digital-First Newsroom

git isn't great for quickly writing and editing text. In response to breaking news, it isn't unusual to have two people making changes to the same paragraph at the same time. That's a recipe for messy merge conflict in git.

On the graphics desk we know how to use git— we use it for js/css—but still write words in google docs.

1wheelon Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript

1wheelon The diabolical genius of the baby advice industry

Diapers for infants cost ~$1/day. Day care costs literally 100× more.

https://www.amazon.com/HUGGIES-Little-Snugglers-Diapers-Pack...

1wheelon Ask HN: What is setup for your static blog generator?

Jekyll was slow and hard to customize. A tiny script can convert a template + a directory of markdown files to a blog pretty easily.

Less code and configuration makes it easy to add custom features; I stuck incremental rebuilds and hot reloading into my blog while keeping it below 70 LOC:

https://github.com/1wheel/roadtolarissa/blob/master/index.js

1wheelon Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure”

I added https to my static site last year and it has been a huge waste of time.

ubuntu + nginx worked fine for years without much maintenance, but I've spent so much time reconfiguring things when something breaks (and it is really clear when something a renewal fails... thanks HSTS).

Things that used to be simple, like putting setting up a subdomain (need to get a new cert and reconfigure the cron job now) or pointing at a websocket (can't point directly at node since that's not secure, needs to pass through nginx now) consistently take hours to do now.

I mostly do data analysis and front end work; mucking around in nginx config files is something I would have been happy never experiencing. It sucks that it's harder to host your own website now.

https://pastebin.com/N2sbvULA

1wheelon MedleyText

Typora is great! So many two column markdown editors, but WYSIWYG is what you really want.

1wheelon NYC Subway travel time map

The NYT made one for commuter rail a few years ago. It is one of my favorite graphics.

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/17/nyregion/nyregi...

1wheelon The Book of Shaders

The intro does that:

https://thebookofshaders.com/00/

1wheelon Show HN: Gutenberg – A static site engine as a single executable

Yup. Baby Einstein is trademarked:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Einstein

https://trademarks.justia.com/757/49/baby-75749035.html

1wheelon Nine Rounds a Second: Why the Las Vegas Shooting Was Different

Right now it isn't clear, exactly, what weapon and modifications where used. This piece is being updated as we find out more https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/02/us/las-vegas-mass-shootin...

1wheelon Nine Rounds a Second: Why the Las Vegas Shooting Was Different

I was surprised to see how simple the crank modification was http://twozprecision.com/product/gatcrank-15/

Looks like a bump stock was used though https://apnews.com/e74a33083fb84b1b94c1ce3da986fd4f

1wheelon Publishing with Apache Kafka at The New York Times

> How much would be lost if NYT was just implemented as text articles that are cached and styled with some CSS.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/12/28/us/year-in-in...

1wheelon The New York Times Is Eliminating Its Public Editor Role

Silver's analysis probably overstates the impact of the Comey letter:

> it’s now clear that Mrs. Clinton was weaker heading into Oct. 28 than was understood at the time. Several other polls were conducted over the same period that showed Mr. Trump gaining quickly on Mrs. Clinton in the days ahead of the Comey letter. And the timing of these polls — particularly the gap between when they were taken and when they were released — has probably helped to exaggerate the effect of Mr. Comey’s letter on the presidential race

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/upshot/a-2016-review-ther...

1wheelon Show HN: Interactively explore different map projections

It is possible, but not trivial:

https://www.vis4.net/blog/posts/no-more-mercator-tiles/ (comments are also informative, particularly Tom MacWright's)

https://mapzen.com/blog/escape-from-mercator/

1wheelon Top 20 Most Sold and Most Read Books of the Week

Amazon tracks what & when you read on kindle but doesn't share that information with you. I wrote a little script that extracts and visualizes your reading history:

- http://roadtolarissa.com/kindle-tracker/

- https://github.com/1wheel/kindle-tracker

1wheelon Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

The NBA stopped posting the Sport Vu data early last year - I don't think it is coming back.

1wheelon How can a programmer help The New York Times report stories?

vox tried something with their 'stacks' a few years ago, but have been focusing less on them recently:

http://digiday.com/media/two-years-vox-com-reconsiders-card-...

1wheelon Mozilla Acquires Pocket

I hope they'll remove some of the "growth-hacker" stuff from the chrome extension. Modifying the new tab page and injecting links on pages by default is super annoying.

1wheelon Betsy DeVos Confirmed as Education Secretary

There's no longer a filibuster for cabinet nominees:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/4/donald-trumps...

1wheelon Who Will Command the Robot Armies?

Actually Jar Jar

1wheelon The New York Times to Offer Open Access on Web and Apps for the Election

Most of their donors are older and primarily use the radio.

1wheelon In Investing, It’s When You Start and When You Finish (2011)

Article is from over 5 years ago! Open Graph had only been around for a few months.

1wheelon Textures.js – SVG patterns for Data Visualization

Not sure if Textures.js supports it, but transitioning attributes on a pattern fill will create an animation.

I've played around with it -- looks fun but never managed to make it useful enough to actually use.

1wheelon Simpler GitHub Pages publishing

Is there anyway to make readme.md publish to github pages? I'd like to put talk slide in readme.md, then load client side.

Like this, but without the duplicated file: https://github.com/1wheel/talks/tree/master/graphical-web

1wheelon Analyzing Last.fm Listening History

Streamgraph

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4060954