skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Missed opportunity to give them all derpy eyes.
No, the correct form is "e.g." and "i.e.", and screen readers cope with those fine. People also get "etc." wrong a lot, writing it as "ect", which presumably screen readers would fail at, too.

Since people get it wrong, and there are more natural ways of writing these, these guidelines seem quite reasonable.
Very funny to see Apple playing catch up on design to Google in the area of flat style design. Google are the ones who pushed flat design into UI and everyone else is following their lead.
FFS can we stop spending billions on designing around screen readers and fucking spend billions on good screen readers.
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PHP’s CVE vulnerabilities are irrelevant (2015)
Google Voice is a disaster. They are recycling numbers and many are from folks owing debts, so tons of collections companies call.
> The only trick that really stuck to me is to write down on a piece of paper where I'm at during a context switch.

Oh, maybe I do that too? I'm not sure if I blame this on my memory, but sometimes to do X I need to do Y and then Z (specially when starting a project), and then I forget why I was doing Z in the first place. I'm using Trello for doing things at work, and after a "Doing" column, I put a "Doing now" that usually has only one task to simulate the writing in a piece of paper. Sometimes it turns out into a "stack" of tasks with the switchs. It's usually really short term tasks. Not sure if you are talking about something like that.

Before that I used to write in my notebook what my task was, so I don't lose focus.
do you get a lot of actual work done? I found communication slows things done a lot. waiting on answer from other people seems to be a pretty big bottle neck. I like to have a couple project going at once to be more productive.
They could have changed it to their original form: "et cetera", "ergo", "id est"
Dropbox vs OneDrive or Google Drive could be a better example here.
Tmobile still has 100 minutes plan with unlimited everything else for $30.
France here, and the new one feels so much better. I definitely viewed the old one as a U.S. centric thing (similar to units).
Yea..the biggest problem with Ember is an individuals ego,as if we care that he's a core committer on the projects he is. Gmafb
Ah, this seems to make sense, thx! Pity that this extended rationale is not present in the original article. Actually, this seems to render the article's claim rather unfair in laying the blame on screen readers ("[screen readers] read ‘eg’ incorrectly"), as it appears it should be rather "we have many errors of 'eg' instead of 'e.g.' in our texts, and they're too hard to catch for our editors"

edit: personally, I don't have to use a screen reader, but I do read words "aloud" in my mind when reading, and I believe seeing "eg" or "ie" without dots would make me stumble mentally too...
Indeed, but nobody (I certainly wasn't) was advocating to not do your homework and evaluate your risk. Sometimes, however, things just happen, for example James Simons stumbled upon the industry by chance.
How many companies were motivated by killer instinct? Did Gates want to kill IBM? Did Xerox plan to kill Kodak (they didn't but they serendipitously started a revolution)?
Ios is just as bad, still need about a minute to figure out how to add a reminder if i can't use siri. icons still dont make sense (serious travesty, my compass icon is actually safari, while my compass app has a cross icon). And the sheer stupidity of flatness everywhere makes it slow to read the interface.
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On a related note, there is a model of the Bay Area by the US Army Corp of Engineers located in Sausalito:

http://www.spn.usace.army.mil/Missions/Recreation/Bay-Model-...
A beautiful interface can be better but I suspect it's better to have an uglier consistent and intuitive interface.

I'm not sure why the parent comment was downvoted. If the above statement was intended to mean that being consistent and intuitive is more important than aesthetics then that is almost certainly true, in my experience designing and testing UIs. Of course, the ideal is to have it all by using the aesthetics to support the functionality. Being attractive and being functional aren't mutually exclusive.

This is where, IMHO, a lot of generic minimalist/flat designs following the current trend go wrong: they sacrifice so much detail and so many possible ways to be visually distinctive or interactive that what remains inevitably all looks very similar and loses some of the visual cues that could help to guide the user in how the system works.
Well, if I am not mistaken, this pressure has been tested on the kind of tube to be used. Also I think it extremely misleading that he compares the total volume of hyperloop and of the NASA vacuum chamber. It makes it feel he does not understand what he is talking about.

It makes almost no difference if the tube is 20 m long or 200 km long. If a small section of the tube can withhold the pressure a long section can as well. And thinking we can't make a low pressure environment in a tube that's a few meters of diameter is... weird.
Change for change's sake disgusts me. It is rampant in Apple's macos, iOS, as well as Google's Android.
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"e.g." does not mean "ergo".
I'm writing this post form an late 2015 Mac Book Retina (not air, not pro). The mac book stands on a book, a small fan points to it's back so that I can write this. Without this the machine would get to hot, which results into a slower user interaction (think: write a letter, wait for it, wait for it, wait for it, letter appears on the screen). On the left hand side a huge adapter (99EUR) is plugged in. It enables me to plug into an USB device and the charger. I do a lot of presentations. so basically the adapter is part of the machine. The color of the keyboard begins slowly to fade. Especially the "S" is now more grey than black. The Max Book is advertised to have a battery lifetime of 8 to 10 hours, I normally get up to 4, sometimes less.

It's garbage!
e.g. is not ergo, it's "exempli gratia" (for the sake of example)
True, most banks have both. But the hardware tokens seem to be dying, slowly.

Personally I consider the transaction description a pretty killer feature of Mobilt BankID compared to the hardware tokens.
How so? Manning had a sex change, Assange rape charges. What was Snowden accused of, apart from being a traitor (which, factually, he is)?
this doesn't address the complaint that non-native english speakers may not know what `e.g.` and `etc.` mean.
I don't think this will cost that much...
>I wonder how much the negatives of being short are caused by lower self esteem due to simply what people say and think about heights.

There are statistically proven negative points in being not very attractive in general. Beautiful people have (significantly) higher chance to become successful in their job and/or businesses.
I've not had a yellow notebook for a long time, but in my view right now I have 5 stacks of yellow sticky-pads (aka post-it notes), some of which are A5, notebook sized.

When I buy cheap recycled-paper notebooks the paper is often off-white and has a yellow look to it. At least to me; yellow implies disposability or cheapness.
I think they can't think of all situations (like people writing eg instead of e.g. or eff eff ess)
https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-drop/n-14-21.pdf

The IRS has said that it is currently treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes.

The document has some interesting bits to it. If you mine bitcoin, you're likely liable for self-employment taxes. When you use bitcoin to pay for things, you might create a gain or loss compared to your basis (even though you aren't exchanging for cash). Wages received in bitcoin still have taxes due on the US Dollar value of the bitcoin received (and payable in USD).

I'm a little surprised that the IRS didn't treat it as a foreign currency with the Section 1256 60/40% split long-term/short-term gain tax treatment.

Anyway, this case doesn't change anything from a tax standpoint. The IRS has already clarified all of that for your federal taxes.
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Incidentally, that ALT+F4 trick worked in WoW too, since we're on the subject.
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Neat. Although in most of the examples I looked at, the NN seems to get the shape of the eyes uncannily wrong. I would have thought that would be the easy part. I haven't looked at the paper.

I thought that this was going to be about 'Gaze Manipulation' in the sense of manipulating which part of an image draws your attention, e.g. [0]

[0] https://sites.google.com/a/g.rit.edu/gaze-manipulation/
I still nave the May '90 edition in print; the month I graduated high school then went on to EE. Keep it just for nostalgia, to see how things have changed. That issue had plans to build a digital dashboard for your car.

Do the "popular" magazines still have the ads in the back with the pirate gal advertising cable TV test boxes?
Cuba? Greece? Portugal? Switzerland? Lebanon?
Except for airline seats. Because tall people now form an opportunity to extract a premium. You can get an economy seat and suffer, or get an economy seat 'plus' that is the same exact seat located at the emergency exit (meaning leg room and freezing cold from the door).

You used to be able to just book early and select those seats, but the airlines figured out that people who are tall, want to significantly lower the risk of thrombosis in the legs, and travel with at least some measure of comfort, really want those seats. So now you pay extra with a lot of airlines (looking at you KLM).

Being able to traverse busy areas quickly is a benefit though.
I'm an American and I've certainly seen plenty of white paper pads glued together at the top like the dude complains about.
How does a screen reader translate FFS?
A lot of developers aren't familiar with ADA compliance, it could become something we're (edit all US based developers) all talking about in the near future.

http://www.technologylawsource.com/2015/06/articles/informat...
Perhaps it was never about the arguments themselves, but rather their veracity.
I think that when the articles refers to not being universally accepted, it means that Bitcoins do not constitute legal tender. Their value is not guaranteed by any government (which is also one of the reasons the coin is, at least at this point, inherently less stable than most fiat currencies in the world).

The point that was being made, if I am correct, is that you can't convict someone of money laundering if it doesn't involve money, not that the transaction these people hypothetically would've had was OK. If the accused had been trading in, for example, sheep (which also do not constitute money in the United States) the ruling would probably have been the same.
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Very cool. I imagine this is targeted at video calling.
Yes, this patent is supposed valid but any court would invalidate it. The EU patent bureau has produced a lot of these "method and apparatus". Turns out that one can't patent algorithms, but one can patent the machine composed of a computer running such an algorithm. It is a known loophole and I don't think any of these patents hold up in court.

Actually, I am not even sure that they can enforce anything against a software company with this patent. Someone who distributes a software does not produce an "apparatus" so I am not sure if they can even launch a procedure based on that patent.
It seems that a lot of style guides these days actually recommend "eg" and "ie" over the versions with dots in a misguided attempt at simplification. I guess with those guides out there, the damage is already done.

Personally I always try to re-write sentences that use "e.g.", "i.e." or "etc.", as I think they're symptomatic of lazy writing. There's usually a much better way to write what you're trying to say. Similarly with excessive use of parenthetical clauses.
Absolute pitch doesn't require you assign character to the notes that you remember. Well, I don't, so I count as a counterexample. I'm no synaesthetic that way, at least not in any conscious way.
> yellow paper is used primarily for quick throw-away notes and scribbles in reality (at least here in the UK).

Is it? I know yellow is the default colour for sticky notes, but for everything else -- at school, university, work, home -- the paper is white.

Ryman stock over 500 notepads. Three have yellow paper, and are described as "Being Yellow in colour [they] may appeal to people with dyslexia as the coloured paper can aid reading and writing in people with this condition".

http://www.ryman.co.uk/stationery/pads-books
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Have we really resorted to "hide it under your mattress" as the best we can do for security?
It has worked because they've done what goes against normal government behaviour and that is, "keep it simple". They are also learning to share resources so that multiple government sites can share postal and payment engines - something which is so obvious but so lacking!
i thi in common usage 'note' could cover both your narrow meaning and his the parent comment's wider one.
The Guardian style guide is the only one of the newspapers for which I could find an entry on this.

https://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-e

It recommends dropping the dots.
I know we were taught in school to treat them as abbreviations and therefore include the dots so I'm not sure where this new fashion comes from.
The "famous" January 1975 issue featuring the Altair 8800 that Paul Allen showed Bill Gates before writing BASIC for the machine. http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Poptronics/70s/1...
Presumably native latin speakers will feel right at home. :-)
Why on Earth did you buy it knowing it only had one port if you do presentations often?
No tab titles in TNR in FF here - sanserif (but can't tell a font by sight). No add-ons apart from NoScript and Flashblock.
> I hate how Safari hides the full address in the address bar, for instance.

You have no idea how much this change makes the URL field palatable for regular Joe. Previously: hhtpttpp://faceblablah.com/techmumbo/jumbo?not=h4ck3r. Now: <lock icon>facebooook.com.ru => "wow this really is not Facebook!". I basically witnessed such behaviour change first hand.

> Or, how they removed scrollbars and force people to actually scroll every piece of the interface to check if there's something more to see, while before you could tell just by looking at scrollbars.

No need to scroll, you can check just by resting fingers on the touchpad (except in Chrome) and look at the scrollbars.
Well, considering that this is a Stallman maintained Emacs project, it's not misleading at all: if you know Emacs is a family of editors, than you know enough to know which of the Emacs he's talking about, and if you don't, than when you think "Emacs," you think GNU Emacs anyways.

Stallman hasn't maintained every Emacs, but he's maintained the definitive Emacs since '76, with some gaps here and there. When you think Emacs, you typically don't think THIEF, EINE, ZWEI, FINE, Edwin, Climacs, Hemlock, Efuns, Zile, QEmacs, Multics Emacs, Gosling Emacs, JOVE, JEmacs, Guile Emacs, or Ermacs.

You either think of GNU emacs and its derivitives, or the original EMACS. Both of which RMS maintained.

It's not a bad idea to give respect to other implementers, but when you maintained the most popular incarnation, twice over, you don't NEED that kind of specificity: people will know what you're talking about.
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This is one of these suggestions that sounds reasonable and would be dreadful in practice. We should encourage people to cycle or take public transport. Cycling frees up roads and makes people healthier. Charging cyclists would decrease cycling, disproportionately impact the poorest, and hurt public health (I'd make a case we should actually pay people to cycle). Likewise charging to use cars, in locations where there's no good public transit, would be terrible for the poor.

The amount of damage done to roads by vehicles scales as something like the fourth power of weight at the axles, so the repair cost of cycling is nil, anyway.

Everyone benefits from roads one way or the other, so the cost of roads and infrastructure should be spread. It's not an ethical issue, just a matter of who can afford to pay. Bill Gates profits greatly from his employees having infrastructure by which they can get to work, even if he doesn't drive. That's kind of the whole point of having a state.
The use of metaphors worked when people didn't know what a computer was, and the only way to make its UI make sense was to mimic real-world objects. Now, this is no longer necessary. It's been 40 years.

My first computer had a text display and a manual, in 1983. I had no trouble teaching my college house mates how to use it for word-processing.

Everything else that I did with the computer involved text symbols such as GOTO. ;-)

Today, when I use most software, beyond a few familiar icons like the floppy disc symbol, I have to hover the cursor over each icon to figure out what it does. When I learn keyboard shortcuts for those icons, I use them, to reduce eyestrain and wrist fatigue. A great feature would be a single button that reveals all of the icon descriptors at once.
I was about to make the same comment. Here in Italy we do not have the yellow notepads.
People still know what that kind of camera looks like, just like they know what a floppy disk looks like or an old phone handset. The new icon isn't evocative at all.
Thank god.

Are there any major differences between Pharo and Squeak I should know about?
"I know! I'll create several sock puppet accounts on Hacker News, pretend to care about a particular discussion, then I'll just happen to include my email address and say I'm looking for a job! They love that kind of stuff on HN, right?"
Can anyone with knowledge on the issue comment on whether this will affect state-run entities, like BBC and RTE? It seems unlikely that nationally-funded organizations will be made to cover bandwidth to stream outside their countries.
Writing 'eg' instead of 'e.g.' or 'ie' instead of 'i.e.' is just dumb, though. So is confusing the two.
Linguistics is a multi-paradigmatic field.

Chomskyian/generative linguistics completely dominated a generation of young linguists in the 1970s and 1980s: it provided a research program for writing dissertations. But the results were often dubious; generative grammar has great things to say about syntax, but little about morphology, phonology, semantics, &c. Moreover, Chomsky has radically changed his theories several times: his earliest theories, that were most influential, have been all but completely abandoned. Then he went to principles-and-parameters (which is where he lost me, with the argument that pro-drop is conditioned by binary brain switches), and then to the Minimalist Program, which I haven't really bothered to read as much about. But this is a minority paradigm these days. Chomsky's ideas start to really fall apart when you look too closely at some of his premises, like the poverty of the stimulus.

Then there are more traditional linguists (who do more fieldwork and comparative linguistics), applied linguists, and cognitive linguists. All of these groups tend to have separate conferences and have all the problems of scientists in different paradigms, always talking past each other.

EDIT: Chomsky made real, lasting contributions in formalizing the field. He completely transformed the discipline of linguistics for good and bad—but I think his good contributions will endure for a long time, once we get over the Chomskyan hangover.
Maybe that's just the Grauniad codifying their well-known propensity for typographical error, though.
The new Photos app icon always looked like a thinly veiled colorful shutter/aperture thing to me.
Well, it is related slightly regarding height. Overall disappointing domain name :)
I feel like there's an inordinate amount of effort going into making funnier and funnier gifs these days.
>he wouldn't continue developing the very valuable network or pedigree during his remaining years at Harvard, and he'd be stuck with knowledge that wasn't as valuable then as it is now.

Except this is not a black and white matter, nothing is stopping him from going back to college except time and money of which he already had enough. I'm pretty sure his parents had a contingency plan in case his company failed.
You could re submit it as an Ask HN. It's likely the community would enjoy this
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Somehow I get the impression farmers weren't the ones who were pushing for seed licensing.
A Trump presidency right now would be a perfect recipe for World War III [1]

Would Donald Trump start World War 3 by accident or on purpose? Does it matter? [2]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/matthew-d-taylor/donald-trumps...

[2] http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/5/23/1529460/-Would-Donal...
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Regardless of whether Bitcoin is classified as money or not, its use has lead to convictions for money laundering in other districts. For example, in the Silk Road case.
Warning in Safari too.
You make a complain and Google ignores you forever, you make 10 more complains, all of them are ignored, you're frustrated so you have to change your phone number. Same procedure when Google blocks your Gmail, youtube, analytics or adwords with unpaid money on it.
sheesh, I was kidding. I know the real reasons ST didn't catch on.
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American men were third tallest in 1914 and 37th tallest in 2014.

The growth in the height of American men is the same as Mali, and similar to Burkina Faso. Senegal did better.

Shouldn't the world's richest nation be doing better?

PS There's a story that's easier to read at https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/26/tall-story-m...

The Guardian story says: "European countries now scoop the top 10 positions for height, with Dutch men and Latvian women the tallest for their sex. That, says Bentham (1), could be down to the introduction of a welfare state in many European countries."

(1) co-author of the research from Imperial College, London
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There isn't a binary choice between "flat design" and "skeumorphism". You can use lots of different visual cues to indicate things.

I loved hearing that Windows 10 was going to go 'authentically digital', but that emotion died when it became apparent that they decided that mean 'flat design'. Just because something is on a computer screen doesn't mean it has to be made of simple single-colour polygons.
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> Isn't that BETTER compared to anybody getting a phone number and using it to hack into your 2FA account?

Huh? Are we talking about the same thing?

> There are websites using SMS for 2FA that DO offer a backup way to authenticate in case you have an issue with your phone.

A backup is not the same thing as a master key (even if we call those "backup codes"). I'll grant you that those are usually enough.
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Big tech asked to pay their 'fair share' in taxes to help SF's homeless
No, that won't happen, but a lot of the code that you write in a functional language can be optimized far better than another language, because the compiler has more, stronger guarantees about your code.
This would be my concern -- potentially half-assed engineered products significantly influencing nationwide (worldwide?) standards that suddenly many developers must now accompany. It'll be like supporting IE 7-9 all over again.