5,000 developers talk about their salaries.

Let’s dive into the most interesting results from the O’Reilly 2016 Salary Survey.

“Not only are women grossly under-represented among developers, but they are grossly under-paid.”

Back to the Future of Hand writing Recognition.

An Active Essay Revisiting the GRAIL Handwriting Recognizer.

Hollywood hates women.

The Largest Analysis of Film Dialogue by Gender, Ever.

Ghost town, Garden, Borgesian map or singularity?

OpenStreetMap past(s), OpenStreetMap future(s) (via hi.stamen.com).

The far right in Austria: small on the streets, big in parliament.

Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?

Answer questions about three videos of simulated interactions involving police officers.

“What we see in police video footage tends to be shaped by what we already believe.”

Professor Frisby’s Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming (via github.com).

38°N 97°W.

How A Strange Internet Glitch Turned This Kansas Farm Into A Digital Hell.

Why Luck Matters—Much More Than You Think.

“Seeing ourselves as self-made leads us to be less generous and public-spirited.”

Private land ownership is a beautiful dream gone badly wrong. It’s time to reinstate the forgotten ideal of the commons.

“The point was for an individual or family to gain the means for an independent life, not to grow rich from land ownership.”