We’re delighted to see Roderic Page and Kris Shaffer putting the Hypothesis API to work. For us, the API isn’t just a great way to integrate Hypothesis with other systems. It’s also a way to try out ideas that inform the development of Hypothesis.
Today I’ll share two of those ideas. One is a faceted viewer that displays sets of annotations by user, group, and tag. The other exports annotations to several formats. If you’re a Hypothesis user, you may find these helpful until proper implementations are built into the product (faceted viewer: soon, export: later). And your feedback will help us design and build those features. If you’re a developer, you can use these as examples to learn to form API queries, authenticate for access to private and group annotations, parse JSON responses, and navigate threaded conversations.
Reads
Reading list of books, magazines, newspaper articles, other physical documents, or online posts
👓 Doomed to fight the Civil War again | LA Times
White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is wrong about what caused the Civil War, and wrong to give the benefit of the doubt to the slavers over the slaves.
👓 Neil deGrasse Tyson and the Careers That Weren’t | The Atlantic
The women who have accused the famed science educator of sexual impropriety have made claims not just about traumatized minds, but also about traumatized careers.
👓 Ayers not taking job as White House chief of staff | CNN
Nick Ayers, the leading candidate to replace John Kelly as President Donald Trump's chief of staff, announced Sunday he will not be taking the job, reviving discussions about who will succeed the retired Marine general when he leaves at the end of the month.
👓 Robert Rauschenberg, Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953 | SFMOMA
From 1951 to 1953, Robert Rauschenberg made a number of artworks that explore the limits and very definition of art. These works recall and effectively extend the notion of the artist as creator of ideas, a concept first broached by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) with his iconic readymades of the early twentieth century. With Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953), Rauschenberg set out to discover whether an artwork could be produced entirely through erasure—an act focused on the removal of marks rather than their accumulation.
I love the idea here of making art by removing things. It’s somewhat akin to removing stone in a block of marble to create a sculpture, but at the same time this is also different. I’m also reminded of the idea of a photo negative or the concept of publishing negative results in science to give us a fuller picture of an area. Translating this idea from art into broader life could be quite interesting.
Hat tip: graffiti story, body art
👓 Saturday, November 17, 2018 | Scripting News
So what does a Like mean here on Scripting News? It's a way to tell me that you saw what I wrote and found it likeable. It doesn't mean you necessarily agree. You're also registering your presence to other people who read this blog. Maybe it's more like a ping? Hmmm. I know the Like icon doesn't show up in your feed reader (maybe that can change) but it may be worth a trip to my blog if you want to say hi to me and others who read this blog. That's what it means. #
An interesting method for adding “likes” to one’s site, though I suspect that it’s entirely dependent on Twitter’s API but really only uses Twitter identity. I wonder what happens to the data if Twitter were to disappear? Is he just saving Twitter usernames?
The UI isn’t completely transparent. Am I liking something that was syndicated to Twitter from Dave’s site and also thereby indicating a like for something that exists on Twitter? Or is it just using my Twitter identity and username and saving it on that particular permalink without creating a like on my actual Twitter account that’s related to something in Dave’s account? Based on some Twitter searches, I’m guessing it’s the latter.
This is also somewhat reminiscent of my experiment last year: Adding Simple Twitter Response Buttons to WordPress Posts, though my version allowed people to retweet and reply and kept copies of the data on both my site as well as on Twitter.
👓 Slightly new uniforms set for Notre Dame's matchup with Clemson | IrishIllustrated.com
When Notre Dame takes on Clemson in Dallas on Dec. 29 during the semifinal matchup of the College Football Playoffs, the Fighting Irish will have a slightly different look.
👓 Kevin Hart Steps Down as Oscar Host | Variety
Kristopher Tapley (Variety)Just 48 hours after agreeing to host the 91st Academy Awards, Kevin Hart unceremoniously stepped down late Thursday night on social media. The turn of events followed outcry over previous anti-gay tweets, and comments Hart made during stand-up routines nearly 10 years ago. Some of the tweets were feverishly deleted throughout the day on Thursday, leading to an Instagram video from the comedian that only made matters worse for him.
👓 I Tried Predictim's AI Scan for 'Risky' Babysitters on People I Trust | Gizmodo
The founders of Predictim want to be clear with me: Their product—an algorithm that scans the online footprint of a prospective babysitter to determine their “risk” levels for parents—is not racist. It is not biased.
Another example of an app saying “We don’t have bias in our AI” when it seems patently true that they do. I wonder how one would prove (mathematically) that one didn’t have bias?
👓 MoviePass changes its pricing and plans once again | CNN
MoviePass wants to win back angry customers.
👓 Trump's pardon power doesn't come up in Supreme Court argument that could affect Mueller probe | CNBC
The case concerns the so-called "dual sovereignty" exception to the Constitution's Double Jeopardy clause.
👓 Programming CSS | Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith (adactio.com)There’s a worrying tendency for “real” programmers look down their noses at CSS. It’s just a declarative language, they point out, not a fully-featured programming language. Heck, it isn’t even a scripting language.
That may be true, but that doesn’t mean that CSS isn’t powerful. It’s just powerful in different ways to traditional languages.
👓 I decided to work on my website theme for a bit. | David Shanske
David Shanske (david.shanske.com)I decided to work on my website theme for a bit. In order to support it, today I shipped(with a minor bug, sorry), a new Indieweb plugin that adds the ability to add the rel-me links inside the h-card widget instead of by themselves. I’m now using it. In my theme, I added support for a dedicated h-card page. I’ll be turning it on on my site likely in future as I experiment with moving my feed off of my main page.
👓 59 percent of links shared on social media have never actually been clicked, study finds | The Independent
'These sort of blind peer-to-peer shares are really important in determining what news gets circulated and what just fades off the public radar'
👓 Engage. Disengage. Repeat. | Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Kathleen Fitzpatrick (Kathleen Fitzpatrick)I believe that I have caught myself just this side of a major case of burnout. If that sentence is an exaggeration, it’s not by much. A few friends who had the dubious pleasure of talking wit…