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Cenk··on Man spent $150 eating every meal at Six Flags since 2014 to pay off student debt
Here’s the original story: https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/six-flags-dining-pass
Cenk··on Show HN: Resume maker with no sign-up or subscription
Yep, they did studies in Germany with German sounding names and Turkish sounding names: https://www.zeit.de/gesellschaft/2010-02/studie-bewerber-aus...
Cenk··on Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone (2016)
That is exactly what the EU is attempting to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_S
Cenk··on An Open Letter Against Apple's Privacy-Invasive Content Scanning Technology
The first quote says it happens to “all photos stored […] on a user’s iPhone”. The second quote clarifies that it only happens to photos that are going to be uploaded to iCloud Photos, and that the scan is performed before the upload happens.
Cenk··on On academic writing: a personal note (2016)
If the sci hub link is blocked for you (like it is for me on Hyperoptic in the UK), this link should work: https://paperpanda.app/viewer?doi=10.1080/07294360.2016.1172...
Cenk··on Mexican billionaire Salinas says his banking business may embrace Bitcoin
Mexico is in North America
Cenk··on Paper linking frequency of search terms to violence against women retracted
> Using date range commands, the author claimed to compare searches for five months in 2019 to the same five months in 2020 — pre-pandemic to mid-pandemic. They did so not by turning to Google Trends data — the method promoted by the scholars they cited — but by inputting their search phrases with date delimiters using Google search.

> They reported the number of hits Google displays at the top of the page as the number of searches made for that search string.

>These numbers were exceptionally high because, well, the search phrases were not enclosed in quotation marks. All this in an article arguing for the value of tech-enabled “rapid response” research. A culture of “move fast and break things” is common in Silicon Valley, but academics typically work a bit more slowly and carefully to avoid these kinds of errors.

Cenk··on Apple hires former Facebook exec Antonio Garcia Martinez to ads team
Here’s a fun quote from his book, via Chip Huyen’s blog (https://huyenchip.com/2019/03/11/silicon-valley-misogyny.htm...)

> “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit. They have their self-regarding entitlement feminism, and ceaselessly vaunt their independence, but the reality is, come the epidemic plague or foreign invasion, they’d become precisely the sort of useless baggage you’d trade for a box of shotgun shells or a jerry can of diesel.”

I’m also not sure if his stance on privacy will fit in well at Apple:

> “Most people don’t care about privacy. Media elites care about it, underemployed Eurocrats care about it. And the entire privacy-industrial complex — there’s an entire set of very loud voices who are constantly beating the drum and building media careers around this.”

Cenk··on Show HN: Litmaps – Visual Research Discovery Tool
I took one look at Litmaps when they first launched on ProductHunt and loved it so much we immediately approached them to integrate it with Citationsy (https://citationsy.com/blog/citationsy-and-litmaps/). The features they have added since then, like email updates if a new paper pops up on your map, colour coding, and reference count, show that the team is on the pulse of what’s useful to researchers and students. Looking forward to seeing what they add next!

Take a look at an example map here: https://app.litmaps.co/maps?doi=10.1038/S42256-019-0086-4

Cenk··on Calendso: An open source Calendly alternative
People pay for Calendly, so obviously there’s a market of people who would pay for it?
Cenk··on Show HN: Lofi.cafe
If you like this, you may enjoy PoolsideFM: https://poolside.fm
Cenk··on Apple will finally fix issue that blocked searches for 'Asian' as adult content
Here’s the same chart for 2019: https://cs.phncdn.com/insights-static/wp-content/uploads/201...

1. Japanese

2. Hentai

3. Lesbian

4. Milf

5. Korean

6. Asian

Cenk··on Input: Customisable Fonts for Code
For those who don’t know him, David Jonathan Ross who made Input also runs the “Font of the Month Club”, where for $6 / month you get one font made by him per month, as well as really detailed and well written emails about the thoughts and process behind his typefaces.

https://djr.com/font-of-the-month-club

Cenk··on Fabbrica: A sans serif typeface with a utilitarian aesthetic
Selling typeface licenses by number of seats / CPUs is pretty standard in the industry. Take a look at the pricing on one of Hoefler’s typefaces for example: https://typography.com/fonts/operator/style
Cenk··on Show HN: Singlelink – an open-source micro-site platform
It’s more similar to Linktree - basically a link you put in your social media profile, and then from there you link to other things. A bit like boook.link (but that’s only for books)
Cenk··on Ask HN: What is a creative product you've discovered recently?
If that‘s the reason you like Notion over Evernote, Supernotes (https://supernotes.app) might work well for you too.
Cenk··on Resignation
I recently listened to Episode 357 of Canadaland, “Califail”. It’s about the problems with the NYT podcast “Caliphate”, which was pitched and produced by Andy Mills. It has a fair bit of background on Mills and is definitely worth a listen.

https://www.canadaland.com/podcast/357-califail/

Cenk··on Show HN: YaHNd – HN Books: The Best Books of Hacker News
I wish you linked out to other retailers as well, besides Amazon. Perhaps something like boook.link would be useful.
Cenk··on Sci-Hub Founder Criticizes Sudden Twitter Ban over “Counterfeit” Content
.org is definitely a different site and organization, they intentionally blur the lines to make people think they are associated with Sci-Hub.
Cenk··on 5M+ Wordpress sites use “Classic Editor” plugin
Hi Matt, I appreciate you jumping in to the discussion. I’m a big fan of Wordpress.

> We're now seeing over 235k posts a day made using the Gutenberg editor

Just curious how you know this number. Is this on Wordpress.com or on self-hosted Wordpress sites too?

Cenk··on An Oscar Winner Made a Khashoggi Documentary. Streaming Services Didn’t Want It
FYI the documentary is called “The Dissident”, is available for purchase from January 8th on Apple TV (as per the official site: https://www.thedissident.com) and has 95% on Rotten Tomatoes (https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_dissident)
Cenk··on “I took FSFE to court. This is my story”
I double checked and you’re right, there’s no specific law but there are a couple court cases where attempts to stop employees from discussing salaries were struck down (for example: https://dejure.org/dienste/vernetzung/rechtsprechung?Text=2%... )
Cenk··on “I took FSFE to court. This is my story”
> A female colleague and me had dared to discuss wage transparency and gender pay gap in the office. […] Our boss Matthias was beyond furious. After that office meeting, he told my colleague “there will be consequences”.

Under German law you are not only allowed to talk about your salary with your colleagues, it is expressly illegal for your employer to try and stop you from doing this. I’m surprised a German boss would warn of “consequences” for doing that, and if FSFE had a union I doubt he would have gotten away with it.

Cenk··on Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys
https://boook.link is a useful tool for offering people links to different stores
Cenk··on [dead]
The exact demands are explained in the PDF: https://cloud.progressive.international/s/W9Td3D592F5NY4x/do...
Cenk··on Pitch: Collaborative presentation software for teams
I’ve been on the Pitch beta for the last couple weeks. Previously I spent a couple years making presentations using Keynote, and then recently dabbled in Google Slides. In my experience the #1 advantage Pitch has over Slides is that it is easy to make beautiful decks, and easy to work with non-designers collaboratively because I can pre-define all the document styles and just tell them not to customise any font or colour settings. The ability to upload custom fonts is also super useful.

There are a couple of things I wish Pitch supported, like vector image uploads and better looking diagrams and charts.

Overall I’m a big fan, and can’t see myself ever opening Google Slides again.

If you’d like to see an example of a presentation created in Pitch, check out these two. The first is the Supercast deck, and the second one of many delightful “What’s new“ presentations from Pitch themselves:

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/e6b7e457-430f-...

https://app.pitch.com/app/public/presentation/9787c433-3dc0-...

Cenk··on Slow Ways – a network of walking routes connecting Great Britain
Bill Bryson has a delightful book about walking these routes through England: https://boook.link/Road-to-Little-Dribbling
Cenk··on Craigstarter: DIY Replacement for Kickstarter
A (now sold out) example: https://shop.specialprojects.jp/products/kissa-by-kissa
Cenk··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (September 2020)
FYI your website’s cert doesn’t cover the www. subdomain, so it throws a security error. https://michellelychan.com works fine though.
Cenk··on Show HN: Boook.link – Share a book with links to all stores
There’s this: https://lnk.to/elif

I’ve seen artists use it a lot to link to music platforms from YouTube or other social media channels.

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