skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This technique is akin to hire an artists to draw a high resolution version of your pixelated photos.

A good example of this is "They Of The Tentacle Remastered" (http://dott.doublefine.com/). The new game looks extremely similar to the old one but it has been redrawn.

As some one suggested you should be able to take an old TV show, train the neural network with HD pictures of the cast. And let it redraw it in its own "artistic" interpretation of the images.
How is this different than the situation 20 years ago? The same thing could have and probably did happen.
I agree but no need to drag Roger Ver into this, afaik he was in the dark as much as most of the people who had bitcoins left in mtgox back then. Didn't he also lose some coins there?
Did you read my comment? I said, if a Roma doesn't want to be identified as a Roma, he can because there's almost no visible differences between a Roma and a native, so if a Roma is being discriminated against, it's because he wanted it to be that way.

My point is: a black will always suffer from prejudice, because he's black, and he can't change his skin colour. A Roma, on the other hand, won't be suffer from prejudice if he acts as a civilised person would.
In Java, heap allocation is a single instruction, most of the time.
For Americans, mostly read Texans or maybe Southerners more broadly. A lot of us joke that the hotter the climate in a US state, the colder they tend to crank the AC.
no because that would make it a racial discrimination.
Ours was more a cultural one.
Why the Internet Is an Echo Chamber of Your Own Head
FYI, Atom isn't particularly screen reader friendly.
I agree as I also found the lack of transition of ECC into consumer level pricing and hardware a lamentable state.

Now with these public issues becoming more open, one can only hope that some consumer product moves to ECC and ends up driving ECC memory prices down in much the same way as mobile phones have driven many sensors and associated hardware down in price, thru volume.
Except you describe the kinds of problems you typically solve (placing a button in a row) which are the smallest/simplest case of the problems that we're talking about, so it seems that you might not know about the problems that other devs face in composition of business logic, layering of complex build chains, etc or see a reason why solutions to these problems would ever be useful. Fair enough, but then you probably aren't the target market, so it doesn't make much sense to ask for a pivot to something else.
Is there anything that would be a relatively small change, but would make a big difference to blind developers?

If it's closed source like a feature in Visual Studio or some other company, I'll volunteer to ask them for it.

Maybe low hanging fruit is the easiest way to convince people at first.
Here is the same idea from 2002:
http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/easy-email-sec.html
“The app’s editor is based on the WordPress mobile app’s editor.” If I were being honest, I’d say that Wix copied WordPress without attribution, credit, or following the license. The custom icons, the class names, even the bugs.

The part about the bugs is what gets me.
Web development has two flavors of graceful degradation
Curious if there is a repository and what encryption scheme Chaabi implements.

Also, if it meets the guidelines, this might make a good 'Show HN'. Show HN guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
I have never seen a 16GB MacBook Air for sale. Please advise?
I am a completely blind developer and have been working on and off with code for about 20 years. When I started I was able to see well enough to work without the assistance of a magnifier or screen-reader, now I rely completely on VoiceOver and JAWS.

I too find frustration with some of the tools with which I work. Although they may slow me down, they seldom create complete barriers. Most of my work at this point in time is with PHP and Javascript, so this may help the situation, I am less familiar with the current state of affairs of the accessibility of developing with other languages.

All of the complaining I do about JIRA aside, I do find it to be a reasonably usable tool for what I need (page load times annoy me far more than accessibility issues). There are some tasks that I cannot complete (reordering backlog items), but I collaborate with team members, which can help us all to have better context about the rationale for changes.

Gitlab I find quite poorly accessible, but thankfully it is just a UI on top of an otherwise excellent tool (git). I find that the same trick that works with evaluating GitHub PRs works with Gitlab MRs. If you putt .diff after the URL to a PR or MR, you can see the raw output of the diff of the branches being compared.

Debuggers are definitely my biggest current pain point. I tend to use MacGDBp for PHP. This is quite reasonably accessible. It allows me to step through code, to see the value of all variables, and to understand the file / line number being executed. It isn't possible to see the exact line of code, so I need to have my code editor open and to track along.

I haven't found a very accessible Javascript debugger. For Javascript and DOM debugging I still find myself using Firebug. I use lots of console.log() statements, and would rather be able to set breakpoints and step through code execution. That being said, other than "does this look right?", I find there is little that being blind prevents me from doing with Javascript. As recently as last night I was squashing bugs in a React app that I am helping to build for one of my company's customers.

I'd be happy to learn more about any projects you take on to improve web application development tools and practices for persons with disabilities. Feel free to reach out on LinkedIn if you would like to talk.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ezufelt
It’s Game Time for the Web – A Comparison Between Web Performance and Games
Just for context: 0.8.0 and 0.7.0 were both release near the end of the year with one year between them[0] (2015 and 2014 respectively). If there is a 0.9.0 coming up I'd expect it in late November or December this year, accordingly.

However there has been barely any progress[1] on the GitHub repo since February (compared to the previous years), the last commit was 20 days ago and even before that there were typically several days in between commits. So it's fair to say the IDE seems abandoned.

However, the LightTable devs have stated that they see Eve as the logical continuation of the idea behind LightTable[2]. While the promise that "LightTable will continue to go on strong" seems to be the typical startup pivot lie I don't think their behaviour is quite as erratic as you make it seem.

By the way, I'm also a Kickstarter backer and I have the shirt to prove it. I was hoping for a nicer JavaScript IDE and would have been very satisfied with their original promise but I can see the appeal of going a step further. The move from LT to Eve feels a lot like a bait and switch to those who just wanted a better IDE for the languages they currently get to work with.

[0]: http://lighttable.com/blog/

[1]: https://github.com/LightTable/LightTable/graphs/contributors...

[2]: http://www.chris-granger.com/2014/10/01/beyond-light-table/
There will have to be onsite maintenance for battery/invertor swaps long before any battery power product, let alone energy backup, reaches 5000 cycles of lifespan.
doubt he actually cancels it and changes his mind next week, this was more spur of the moment and his investors calmed him down?, way too much attention being brought to it
Open Source Protocol
I didn’t talk about americans, I talked about the average German. (as Soylent is a product with a global market, but I can only speak from my experience as German, not having experienced how life is like in the US – such simple things as longer working hours can affect such things a lot)

Which spends on average 225 bucks a month[1] on food. That comes down to 7.50€ a day.

Soylent, including shipping, is actually more expensive than this.

> As for eating out, another survey in 2013 showed that 58% of Americans eat out at least once a week. That's way higher than you claim.

The German statistics for that are below 13%.

> I'm also not sure where you came up with "horrible quality." Care to qualify - or better yet, quantify - that claim?

I’m comparing Soylent, a product with no taste, no texture, which is basically torture, with cheaper, higher quality meals, handmade, with organic ingredients.

Soylent can’t measure up in taste or variety even to public cafeteria food.

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[1] German Federal Agency for Statistics: https://www.destatis.de/DE/ZahlenFakten/GesellschaftStaat/Ei...
> Nope, there is no xserver so really nothing to talk to locally.

I think the relevant Google keyword for this is "vcxsrv", an X server running under Windows. I saw something about people using it in WSL to launch regular Unix applications talking to X, but don't remember where.
Excellent introductory post! There's so much to digest when you start playing around with things like OpenGL that you quickly get lost in the details... just memorizing things ("now for some reason I have to type "bindBuffer"). It's hard to build up a mental model for WHY you're doing all the steps. This gives a great bigger picture overview! (though, the next step is still the ocean of nitty-gritty details ;)
Well, I clicked on the link, and it just said, "You have to log in to view this article." Are you seriously suggesting I have to register with the New York Times before I'm permitted to share an opinion?

(just kidding)
Generally went renting a room, you are allowed to discriminate. A post of three girls looking for a forth girl to share is generally legal.

So it seems like this commitment is actually going past what the law says.

I would never rent our my place so maybe I am not the target audience. But this would lower my odds even more. If I own the place, I want to discriminate on who stays there.
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Another way to approach the question is to compare the energy density of LNG to Lithium-ion batteries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

You'd need about 10-20x more shipments of the same volume or 50-100x more shipments of the same weight to transport the same quantity of energy.
GV isn't an investor in Magic Leap, Google the company is (Sundar Pichai Google's CEO took a board seat)
Computers vs. Elections
I did, and I'm telling you racists in the U.S. think the same way, but perhaps for "I wouldn't even know they were black if they acted right." They say "I'm not racist, I just see how trashy black people behave, I'm fine with black people that behave right, it's just that most of them don't." I could find examples if you really want, but I don't particularly want to do that research.

Everyone that's racist thinks it's because they are justified by the behavior of the ethnic group they are racist again. It's always been that way.
I was just thinking about searching for an app for sun/moon rises. I'm glad I found it here. This is a life-changer.
I think it's more likely because Netflix uses the JVM -- probably the Oracle
JDK -- which is supported on Linux but not on FreeBSD.
That's what the racists think too, here in the U.S. anyway. They think they are just not okay with the "culture" of the people they are racist against.
Easy way to locate web elements with Selenium WebDriver
Don't get the downvote. Seems like it would be constructive to discuss why they didn't succeed on youtube, are there workarounds to whatever to platform difference are, etc.
Tesla Autopilot vs. Comma.ai: Geohot Challenges Elon Musk to Navigate Golden Gate
Its what those company executives want, its targeted advertising. I assume the new discriminating solution will be, that company's will be able to hand over some ethnic filtering script.
He "sciences the shit".

Really?
I think racism is a big deal outside of the Anglo Saxon sphere. I mean, it's the non-whites that are in a position to point it out and complain about it.

Similarly, here you are speaking about your disdain for calling someone racist, and no one's saying you're trying to excuse your own racism for it. Where is this sentiment coming from?

I literally don't see people's bristles up because of "dogma". It's mostly you using his very strong language and then throwing up very significant claims without evidence, such as that post modern academia has invaded tech with totalism circulated around the supposedly untrue ideation that reverse racism isn't a thing and that racism involves structural discrimination. A large chunk of this thread is talking about how Airbnb is toeing the line between ownership of property (i.e. deciding what can be done with it) and business decision (i.e. refusing to allow your services to be used by those who discriminate).
> everyone kind of accepts that Ethernet [is] gone now

I just want to emphatically disagree with this particular point.
Arq supports coldline now. It also helps with creating buckets and choosing from among the new regional and multi-regional storage classes.
Probably? Like over a 50% chance? How did you reach that estimate?
Streets? Where we came from, we needed no.. streets ;)

I mean, didn't "streets" emerge really from commonly-travelled paths carved by feet and horse hooves and time, and really most non-paved paths are quite fine for most wheels? Perhaps they last longer on pavement, but other than that..
Also, the wheel is not very helpful without compact, step-free pathes.
They should have really mentioned the real most likely burial place of the historical Jesus, which was found some decades ago by the archeaologist James Tabor, the Talpiot Tomb.
The same guy also found the tomb of Jesus' family before.
This tomb was opened in 2005 for some short time, but there's a new jewish apartment building on top of it, so they rather go with the Church of Holy Sepulcher fairy tale.

Not many scientists but many Christians believe that Jesus actually lay in this Church of Holy Sepulcher for 3 days.
Oh, and if you are interested, here's a chart of them all:

http://www.blogarama.com/home-garden-blogs/320928-inspired-h...

Or one big image:

http://mentalfloss.com/sites/default/files/p-americanhouses_...

I think it almost feels like the deconstructionist modern style (bottom right)
The wheel is one part of a two part invention:

1) The wheel

2) smooth hard-ish surfaces that are large enough to be worth going anywhere

Without either, the wheel on its own isn't worth much. It turns out roads are a much older, more useful invention without which the wheel doesn't make much sense.
HoRNDIS needs a new maintainer
If you think INVENTING the wheel took a long time, wait till you learn how long it took to put them on suitcases:
http://www.worldatlas.com/articles/did-you-know-that-we-went... (spoiler alert: we got to the moon first!)
Show HN: Cortina Rentals Flats for Rent in Cortina Residence Bucharest Romania
Somewhat relevant: http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...

We set up a control group for science. An entire field of science devoted to studying a phenomenon which doesn't exist. And they still manage to produce tons of significant results and findings, despite using much higher standards than regular social sciences.
Are those legs shiny or have they been painted?
I’ve heard of bootstrapping a machine shop from a lathe as well—apparently there’s a series about it, written by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_J._Gingery
Lights are normally visible from outside the house...
That can't be good for health! SE Asia like to do that too. I joked that tropics there were a sham since I had to wear a jacket all the time because of the polar-like A/C.
They have the right to be as racist as one likes, of course, limited to hate crimes. Airbnb is making a business decision that it doesn't want to service these people. That's Airbnb's right as a business, in a classical libertarian view.
But think of the important reasons why this page requires JavaScript:

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For whoever doesn't know what Enigmail is... it's a security add-on for Mozilla Thunderbird. It allows you to use OpenPGP to encrypt and digitally sign your emails and to decrypt and verify the messages received.
Some MacBook Pros are leftys
Given that Airbnb discriminates in hiring based on race/gender[0], does this mean Airbnb will be in violation of their Community Commitment and thus unable to use their own service?

[0]: https://www.airbnb.com/careers/departments/position/230510
I can already imagine websites placing the "Buy now" button where "Esc" used to be.
This reminds me of Peter Watts's novel <Blindsight>. Two captured "Scramblers" (the highly intelligent alien without self-consciousness) managed to communicate with each other in a way defying all human analysis, even with human knowing what they are saying (the plain text).
Was your app for iOS, or Android?
You could possibly also reduce your costs by using an economy7 meter and only charging the powerwall over night (assuming you can set times on it).
If it's a serious concern, then process the issue manually and figure out what is going on rather than trying to automate it. Handle it on a case by case basis.

Alternatively, there are many situations where a new email address could simply mean the site requires creating a new account.
The "what would I try to invent?" question one is fascinating. If I found myself transported back to Roman times, I'd aim to make a lens. The Romans had glass so the raw material is there. With a lens you can fairly quickly go a telescope, which has immediate military application, so would perhaps be widely adopted. Astronomy might then follow, heading off the whole "Earth is the centre of Universe" thing that held back modern thinking. You can also make a microscope, which fairly quickly leads to the discovery of microscopic organisms, and perhaps the germ theory of disease.

For bonus points I'd give them the decimal number system.
Not necessarily - research shows that burglars enter a flow state when robbing a house, meaning that they have expertise and routines familiar enough to get pushed to subconcious processing.

Skills and persistence get used for many things, from english phds, triathlons to code.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150618-the-strange-experti...
5 Psychological Triggers That Drive Viral Marketing
Well that's a possible outcome of course, another possibility is that people who wish to discriminate realise that AirBnB probably isn't the platform for them and move on to other approaches.

Sample auditing and enforcement with financial penalties isn't exactly an unknown approach for policies, so it seems like its a valid possible approach here.

without any attempt at enforcement, it would see that the policy would have limited impact. If people get the idea that it might be enforced, they may well be more inclined to take it seriously.
Youtube can be a nasty place. Take a look at the comment section of pretty much any video with a black person in it.
Looking at the page's source code you can actually see the whole text there.

Thrice: inside the `content` attributes of `<meta property="og:description">`, `<meta itemprop="description">`, and `<meta name="twitter:description">`.

The `content`attribute of `<meta name="description">` is empty. A missed opportunity.
A dive into the python virtual machine
World on track to lose two-thirds of wild animals by 2020, major report warns
Thus, a better title would have been "ZCash, the anonymous cryptocoin". People may care about an "anonymous cryptocoin".
An election that could bring major gains for anti-establishment Pirate party
Going nuclear over normal hiring practices doesn't really say that much about the the company or prove that its actions/inactions were not reasonably prudent.

Good luck.
cringe.

How ecactly is having to check twice the amount of cases an improvement (note btw, that checking for Left/Right is doing it wrong)?
But isn't racism about prejudice? I'm telling you there's no prejudice with Roma because they look like natives. They are judged 100% based on their actions.

Blacks on the other hand are prejudiced against because you see the colour of their skin as soon as you meet them. Which is the topic at hand: you see an airbnb request from someone who's black, because you see their face in their avatar, and you reject them outright. That simply couldn't happen to Roma. (I'm not sure airbnb has avatars at all because I don't use it, but I imagine the procedure hosts use to discriminate against blacks is something like that)
Cold Run
How are cryptocurrency investments different than securities investments?
>> Very excited to see the V extension is already in a proposal-quality draft...

And Go on RISC-V, and a JVM, and video decode instructions, and security work, VM work, thousand core concepts, dev boards, multiple hardware implementations, better simulators, and all the rest. This shit is getting real very quickly.
Rollers work well on all sorts of terrains.

Wheels are good, eg wheelbarrows, on hardened earth of a footpath.
How LinkedIn is shrugging off the $175B hardware industry
Settlers beat trails across the American west. Granted, much of it is hard and flat, but it didn't take a lot of improvement to get that way.

There's also still lots of relatively major roads in undeveloped countries that are not smooth or hardish. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/globalizepeace/3832727846/
Could the most successful people on Twitter have the same success on Medium?
Good points. But for me, I live on 80 acres and it happens that the county natural gas pipeline runs under it. The easement (signed in the 60's) included the right to connect to the pipeline at will. When we built the house, we exercised that right.

So even though I am rural, I don't have to buy liquid propane to heat my house. I'm tapped into a 100,000 home supply line. Its been depressurized maybe twice for maintenance in 50 years.

Not a solution for everybody. But a pretty good one for me! And everybody else on the line.
Godel did not destroy formalization. He showed that there would always be true things that cannot be proved. It's true that the axioms used by Whitehead and Russell are not the axioms usually used today, but PM is still an important book that has influenced much work through today and Beyond. You might find this website interesting, which formalizes axioms and then proves many things from them: http://us.metamath.org/index.html
I don't understand. Why would it cost anything to run it? It's just a big battery. Maybe a small charge to keep it topped off?
Putting whole operating systems into peripheral devices is not particularly outlandish. The external keyboard on which I'm typing this has its own ARM chip and memory to drive its programmable backlight. The engineers at Apple will surely have designed the T1 chip and appendices to be easily transplantable from an MBP into an external keyboard.
A careful reading of your phrasing suggests that you're saying that the only people who are refused service from an Airbnb host are also in the category of people whom discrimination laws protect.
Another good take on the idea is Lest Darkness Fall, which features time travel to 6th century Rome.
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When hosts cancel on you, their calendar gets blocked for those dates and a notice is automatically posted to their reviews that they cancelled on a guest. These are there to prevent this sort of behavior you are describing. Hosts that violate these rules frequently will get banned.
Does Facebook?
They merely show ads to selected audiencies.

And in any case race on Facebook profiles is not quite a secret.