jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> well, the fact is the use of a screen reader (or at least most) can be detected relatively easily by having an element in the screen reader flow that is hidden from sighted users

This isn't true, at least not enough to be useful. The majority of screen readers present web pages in a kind of virtual buffer, which users can browse with the arrow keys and other shortcuts (e.g. H to jump by heading). In this mode, the majority of screen readers don't fire focus events to let you know, "hey, your screen-reader-only element has been hit". You would be limited to:

1. users operating a screen reader which does fire focus events;

2. trying to highjack scroll events for this purpose; and

3. less technically-inclined users (read: beginners) who move through the page with Tab/Shift+Tab before they've learned the other keystrokes their screen reader offers.
However if you don't use that account for any other activities, it's a dead-end insight
>> When did a leftist public official go on Facebook and encourage protesters to smash store windows and set cars on fire? Can you give some examples?

When did Trump? Can you give examples?
Trump and responsibility on the same phrase? I never saw that happen (and probably never will) unless it's to skirt it.
More likely it's a false memory created after hearing the duck story.
This makes no difference. Players are required to keep notation in tournament games, and the use of external software (like what is used at the top boards at some tournaments) does not absolve the players of this responsibility. Writing down the moves of the game as it is being played is a major part of playing chess, and it is one of the most important things for players to learn because it directly improves play (even disregarding reviewing the games afterwards!).
I wonder if any navigation software needed a rewrite to handle the "water on top of water" case.
Not reCAPTCHA, please. It’s horrendous in any environment that blocks any real amount of tracking. Rate limiting would solve the bot issue without inconveniencing regular users.
Same thing with medium and Facebook. Me no likey.
Montrealer here. Constant construction of everything is the norm.

The roadways are a nightmare of poor construction and tons of detours.

The thing that bugs me the most is that they can’t seem to get the hang of painting lines properly on the roads. Lines painted last 2 months at most, then are gone. I was driving this weekend on 3-4 land highways, that curve around corners and have no lines painted.

Luckily our public transit is decent so I don’t normally have to drive.
> Let's assume Mozilla finishes servo (their browser in Rust). Let's also assume:

> - It's faster than Firefox.

> - It's safer than every other browser out there.

> How do they get people to use it
> Those two are not enough. To the user

If Mozilla wanted to take the route of switching people from Firefox to a new browser, they would presumably do it by gradually stopping development of Firefox. This is basically the strategy that Microsoft is taking with Edge, with the obvious difference being that it's a browser that comes pre-installed on a common OS, although I'm not convinced that the strategy would need to be fundamentally different.

That being said, as sibling responses have noted, I think the strategy that Mozilla has been taking has been to just move over components into Firefox itself when they're ready. This has already been done with a few important components, and it seems to be working fairly well.
Obama did something similar in 2008. He was called a tech genius and starting a political revolution that all future politicians will follow.

The tech articles I saw shortly after were falling all over themselves to praise Obama and his campaign.

It's funny how when someone like Trump does it, it somehow changes the minds of everyone.

I don't think we would really know the depth of political corruption if the Democrats would have won in 2016, because it seems to be perfectly acceptable when your team uses dirty tactics to win an election.

We should be using this as a learning lesson, but I suspect if a Democrat wins the next election, things will be business as usual. Hell, Hillary ran her own mail server with classified emails and the tech community jumped to defend her.

This is why I can't really take the tech community in regards to politics seriously anymore (or the mainstream media for that matter).
The most difficult thing for me, in trying to keep progressing with an original idea, is to know where to draw the line between listening to the outside or "big guys" and staying true to your original idea.
I can confirm that these quad-core Bay-Trail Atom processors are surprisingly fast and since it's an x86-64 CPU it is available with Windows 8.1 too and can handle Microsoft Office without a problem. The ASUS Transformer Book T100 even comes with an Office license and has detachable keyboard.
I think this type of AR / holographic technology has many, many more potential real-world applications than VR. With VR, you're shutting yourself off from the outside world. Here, you're enhancing the outside world with technology. You still get to interact with others. Using HoloLens doesn't stop you from doing almost anything.

What I'm curious to find out is whether HoloLens will run into the same core problem as Glass. People are afraid of people wearing Glass. They're scared that they're being filmed, or worse. Unless HoloLens can avoid making you stand out - by looking like regular glasses, or even contact lenses - I'd guess that HoloLens will end up suffering the same fate as Glass.
The HoloLens description reminds me of the VR technology depicted in Arthur Clarke's "Light of Other Days". Its interesting to see how many of things he predicted of the future we have achieved, through different means than what he imagined.
Maybe the article is, but the product isn't puff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCCXZ8ErVag
You don't know your own consciousness exists. You can just be experiencing something that is not consciousness but that you think is. That's the ludicrous banality of the Hard Problem.
Or "OBEY", "MARRY AND REPRODUCE", and so on.
Don't forget Emmy Noether: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Noether

"In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began. In the realm of algebra, in which the most gifted mathematicians have been busy for centuries, she discovered methods which have proved of enormous importance in the development of the present-day younger generation of mathematicians."

- Albert Einstein
That was my response too. It's like when Apple revealed their iPhone testing labs. Obviously these companies have internal tools/stats that people have no need to know about, but definitely make their company better able to perform.
When did the plural for "person" become "persons" instead of "people"? Is this just some weird Americanism, or is there a specific difference in police jargon?
Yes that is a problem. However the question is what do you prefer, no documentation, or documentation that may be out of date? As a detective (which let's face it that is what an Enterprise programmer's job is to an extent) it is nice to have some information which you can scrutinize, rather than nothing.
The word government is not the best choice, it should probably be state, not at last because governments come and go while the state stays. But in essence the statement is correct - policy and military enforce the laws on behalf of the citizens, the police to the inside of the state, the military to the outside.
I thought ICBMs were trivial to track. They emit a vast plume when they launch, and in the cruise phase they're way up in space, far away from anything that might confuse radars. The threat of ICBMs isn't that they're hard to track, but that their great speed makes them extremely difficult to intercept.
The Bigend trilogy is my favourite. I was actually hoping for another novel in the series. Something along how everything inevitably goes to hell when Bigend has his finger on the pulse of everything and the rest of the world has to "grind the rivets down on their Levi's" to get out from under his thumb.
Indeed it is: http://i.imgur.com/POklTmJ.jpg
This appears to be a story about someone who created no actual value walking away with 2MM.

That's fine; it's not per se unjust. It's just not, like, a moral imperative that it happen that way.

Also: speaking as someone who has been doing startups since 1995 and only recently had a significant success: I call total bullshit on the idea that founders "bet their lives". We're some of the most employable people in the world.
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AUIU, as someone who's very peripherally connected to both.

(I'm an active-ish member of the GNUstep list & in my spare time I've been working on a remix of openSUSE with GNUstep on top; I exchange messages with ProBono about UI design, history, keyboard layouts etc.)

The initial version of the HelloSystem was based on GNUstep on FuryBSD. However, apparently -- I did not see any of the comms -- he found the GNUstep people very hard to work with and fairly quickly ditched it and started to roll his own.

I must say that I've found the GNUstep folks to be rather intransigent myself. I've found it hard to get answers to simple questions, and when I make small suggestions, they've been mostly been shouted down or ignored.

ISTM that the GNUstep project see themselves as building a set of libraries, classes, and tools for building apps. As it happens, as a side-effect of that, they've built a desktop environment as well, but they are not interested in that and don't care about it. Desktops are not their business. They're perfectly happy if others want to use GNUstep to build desktops, though.

For reasons that escape me, the GNUstep team are not bothered about ensuring that there are current packages in mainstream Linux distros. This seems to be seen as something for others to do.

Etoile violated one of the core rules of FOSS, ISTM: "release early, release often." They never actually put out a release at all in some 15 years of work. You want code? Here's the source: download it and build it yourself. It's a tragic oversight.
As someone who works in parallel and distributed systems (which means I write and read papers on parallelism), I find your distinction an empty one. Actually getting good performance from parallelism requires careful consideration of the synchronization between the parallel parts - and in my work, the "careful consideration" is usually done by me. My goal is often to make abstractions so that users don't have to implement or even reason about such synchronization themselves, but it's still a central part of the work.

I also disagree with your assertion that the programming language research community disagrees with my definitions - I'm more of a systems person, but I do end up in their playground sometimes.
Presumably collect payments from the people who kill them.
Should then be trivial to whip up a require.js plugin that leverages riot.tag for working on-the-fly in development, but which compiles during a build/optimize process.
The first relevant-seeming presentation is from 2009[1] and doesn't really get into the pitfalls of low-latency switching/handling like this article does.

I'm definitely interested to see how other operating systems handle this, though. In particular: Windows (is networking in user-mode?) and Solaris-likes.

1 http://quigon.bsws.de/papers/2009/eurobsdcon-faster_packets/
Honestly, social-structure probably has a lot more to do with amount of entrepreneurs in a nation. In America, we utter the word "entrepreneur" the same way a 1960s boy would utter the word "astronaut" (or, if Soviet, "cosmonaut" or "potato"). As an American, I take it for granted that I can do a startup without my wife fearing she'll be ostracized by her friends, that I can still find a job if things don't work out, and the general public thinks it's endearing to support local/small businesses. Plus my parents don't feel the need to wallow in shame if I were to stay in their garage for a year to build my prototype (unless they're Asian), which effectively removes all my internal barriers to quitting my job and going down the path less traveled. The fact that social-security is there for me when I retire at 65 (lol) or so, general medical insurance won't be denied to me (considering the demographic of your average entrepreneur, why would it in the first place?), etc., don't occur to me at all.

As much as your average 20-something cynical know-it-all likes to bag on our education system and its spew of "you're special", "believe in your dreams", "don't be afraid to do something if you truly believe in it", etc., I should think it's that very sort of indoctrination starting at a young age that is ultimately responsible for so many Americans casting caution to the wind and pursuing their "American Dream", and for so many other Americans to sympathize with and be willing to support such folk on their trek.

But I will admit that the one government innovation that definitely helps entrepreneurship is the creation of the corporation. The fact that I can create this entity that's owned by me and the family, friends, and fools who believe in me, and that if things go South, the corporation can die without dragging me down with it, is extremely helpful in encouraging folks to venture. If I was a builder and the law was that if a house collapses and kills its residents, the builder will be found and killed in an eye-for-an-eye manor, I'd seriously think twice about building a house for anyone other than myself.

So what encourages entrepreneurship? Telling people since the founding of your nation that entrepreneurship is good and providing a means of separating the entrepreneur from his corporation.
It wasn't terrible. I was stuck in that job with no escape for 5 years. That kind of sucked, but on the scale of global suffering, mine has been minimal.
Not every part of the world changes at the same pace. There are places where a device running Android 4.2 are the best one on the market.

That being said, its extremely frustrating to see this happening.
You say that as if iPhone is the only alternative, while in fact there (will soon be) lots of alternatives. Right now there's the Jolla, which I personally own (and it's fantastic), but soon we'll also see the Neo900 which will be almost as free and open as you can get, and on the horizon Firefox OS and Ubuntu phones are looming.
I like the idea, but I don't think I could handle looking that silly. I've been running in Nike Frees, which are nice, but not all that different from any other Nike. Can anyone recommend a barefoot simulating shoe that looks more normal?
"It's all available on the internet" might be almost true if you consider P2P and rapidshare likes.
The problem with the idea of 'government' is that, every actual government of the world exists on a 'nation' basis. If US government takes over the Internet, there is not reason for Australia, France, China Russia governments not 'govern' the Internet

The result will be multiple national Intranets and political "internet borders".
In Australia our government is rolling out a nationwide fibre to the home network called, National Broadband Network or NBN.

It isn't free but the capital expenditure is 100% subsidised by the NBN Corporation (A govt owned corporation that has a few very large corporate shareholders).
My brother has developed an app that does this:

http://ilabs.microsoft.com/Project/Pages/Project.aspx?Projec...
They can provide the same thing if they can work it out. It's not wrong to need money per se; as noted above, I am not outraged about this and I don't get the sense that the idea of a Wikimedia fundraiser is immoral.

It is just annoying that the fundraiser has continued for so long and that the practices have been disruptive to the perusal of Wikimedia content for some time now. I am aware that Wikimedia wants my donation; I do not want to give it to them because I don't trust the Wikimedia Foundation to make very good use of it, and I don't like several of the policies they have promulgated and installed on Wikipedia.

I think it would be better for everyone if Wikimedia found a way to become self-sufficient because then: a) nobody would have to be bothered by huge donation banners for months on end; b) Wikimedia would have more consistent and improved cash flow, which ultimately translates into greater flexibility; c) Wikimedia would not be beholden to random subsets of people for its continued operation (they could focus on the subsets that specifically generate revenue and improve their revenue-generating functionality) and would not need to dedicate large amounts of effort to a sustained months-long fundraising effort. And so on.

So, I'm not casting moral judgment here. I just think it would be better for everyone if WM tried to do something less annoying and more focused to sustain its finances.
I work full time, so my projects are done in evenings, on the train etc.

I have an A4 sketch book and pencil I carry with me pretty much everywhere. Ages before i start coding, I'll be sketching out idea after idea for the project; everything from screen layouts, data flow, bits of text (If a good idea for some working comes up), names, db design etc. I've tried doing this stuff in software, but nothing comes close to pencil+paper for me

These drawings/notes aren't means as permanent artefacts, but rather as an aid to helping me think through the idea and flesh it out. As I build up the idea I spend a lot of time playing with it in my head (I'm very visual and seem to have a good ability to mentally model things)

When I have a few hours free, I'll start coding, but then often only until I find the next thing I hadn't considered and then I'll head back to the sketchbook.

When coding, I start with the back end process first. I also use Rails, but I'll build my models first, and I make them so I can control them completely from the console. I don't start building the UI until I'm happy with the way everything sits together.

Then, once things are nicely underway and most of the major problems are sorted out I'll lose interest and start on something new (actually, at any one time I've usually got a minimum of 3-4 project somewhere in their lifecycle between initial enthusiasm to abandonment)
The reality is pretty diverse. Plenty of people use mostly or only free software. I certainly do.
> almost all ventures into specialty hardware ended up with mainstream consumer CPUs catching up

All except for... 3D rendering, image compositing, video encoding, and video decoding?

I'm really struggling to see what you're trying to argue, because we do have multiple meaningful brute-force tasks that most computers today ship with dedicated silicon for.

Yes we can do more real-time audio processing I guess, but that's mainly because CPU speeds increased, not because "people learned how things really worked", or am I missing something?
> Steve Jobs never graduated college. I would still take his opinion on education.

Yes, Steve Jobs is a real-world success. He obviously did not feel the need to finish the college, and took a deliberate decision to do so. His opinion on education certainly would have a different angle and substance that would be worth hearing.

But that is because of the reasons stated earlier he is qualified to opine on the subject matter, the same cannot be said for everyone.

PS - I did not read the article so cannot judge, how qualified the author is to make a opinion of this matter. But the comment is generally applicable, anyhow.
Here's the completely opposite angle... http://danieltenner.com/2015/01/23/fake-transparency/

Complete salary transparency is what should be pursued, if at all possible.
Yes but after World War II we had thousands of working age men return home to start careers and family. Also the pre-WWII centers of finance, industry, and everything important had been bombed to smithereens, so a lot of that moved to America. None of these affects are applicable today.
$5 on renewals for .com is suspiciously cheap (since one has to pay $7.34+0.18 to Verisign+ICANN for .com domains)
It's this simple: circa. 10,000 artillery rounds per minute, falling on densely populated urban neighborhoods.

The first hour of a full-on war on the Korean peninsula would make 9/11 look like a day at the park and would generate more civilian casualties in an industrialized first world nation than any event since WWII.
SkyDrive saves old versions of your Office documents, though this is perhaps not as discoverable as it ought to be.

Not sure what you mean by conflict management--in general, unless you have full coauthoring support (the Office Web Apps have partial support: OneNote and Excel support it on the web, Word, PowerPoint and OneNote support it in the client) it doesn't make much sense to have a 'conflict resolution' story.

(Disclosure: I work on some of this stuff.)
Being a strict vegan and getting all the required nutrients to maintain optimal health is almost mutually exclusive. You can take pills and shots to make up for the missing parts but these use animal products. It can be an insane amount of work for normal people. To say it would be easy if more people do it does not reflect the realities of
nutrition.
I wish you luck but it is not and can not be for everyone at leat not strict vegetarianism I also think that people who are pregnant and maintain the diet are amoral there is no shortage of research that show it can harm the infant.

Note meat little meat and almost shurly less than optimal for health. I don't like the people that go against research.
have you been to hawaii? it definitely doesn't suck to live there.
Curious, can you identify what anything specific that changed the your thinking that it was THAT type of tool?
The SEP[1] is probably a better reference than Wikipedia for most philosophical topics, especially for individuals like Nietzsche (who, for various reasons, tends to find himself in the intersection of vaguely reactionary thinkers and people who want to read philosophy without seriously engaging with the rest of the canon).

In particular, this Wikipedia article gives the incorrect impression that Nietzsche is especially cynical about divine command and deontological ethics and implies that the MS divide is in some ways constructive. Neither is the case: Nietzsche's moral cynicism is universal and the MS divide is meant to be descriptive, not prescriptive or constructive.

[1]: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nietzsche-moral-political...