skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much of this is really about "adding features for the blind" and how much of it is about simply not adding things hostile to accessibility?

If this sticks, it might be a blessing to more than just disabled users. Everyone who has to suffer through the currently fashionable javascript-needed-to-do-everything web stands to benefit.
The dead links are dead companies. But you are correct they don't identify exits.
I hope writing that down helped. Because that is not sustainable. I tell developers that I interview that I don't want them working long hours because it leads to bad code. Go home. I want you to have a life and one you enjoy.
I'm seeing a bit of the employer side burocracy: Currently, I have a weird job. I work in Germany, but am payed from abroad. My employer would have to pay German social insurances, but can't/won't deal with that. So they give me the cash and I hand it to the insurances, and do the paperwork.

It was quite a steep learning curve: registering a company with the health insurance agency, calculating the different contributions (health, unemployment, care, pension, ...), and making monthly reports.

Was it hard? Hell yes, it was horrible. But that's just because I hate paperwork. Everything has its internal logic, it's entirely learnable in a few afternoons. Most importantly, the burocracy was incredibly patient with me, even though I screwed up a few times. I overpaid, and realised months later, but they will still pay me back. The thing is, they want you to fill out everything correctly, they have no interest in you failing or do so, so you get support. And many many people have gone through that same process before.

Also, I think in an actual business, I'd just pay somebody to deal with these things.
Let the work pile up. Who cares if they insinuate you are doing something wrong. Don't take it personally. Resourcing issues are not something you should be worried about.

I wouldn't worry about them replacing you if they don't understand what you do either.
Thanks for that. It's a big read, but I'll try to work my way through it. I actually care about this stuff -- supporting the blind is something that I should be trying to take care of.
PyPy today is nothing like pypy years ago. It had improved in many areas including cext and python 3.5 is fully supported now. complex suite like odoo ca
run on it effectively. Their next goal is to run entire scipy suite on it without modification.

We are running production systems in pypy and performance improvement is significant. Average 40percent faster than node in many areas.
This doesn't seem to include training scripts ?
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I think the owl drawing image is an apt simile for starting a business. Because the part in between is not something you can really teach. It takes lots of practice and erasing and rework and trial and error. If you want a step by step process, join a franchise.
You bring up an often overlooked point. The friction of switching tasks. Some people (non-technical managers especially) don't understand the price. They think "oh, I'll just have them jump on this for 15 minutes, then that for half an hour, then the other until lunch". Wrong. You don't get 15 minutes + half an hour + whatever until lunch. You can take 30% + off the top for the switching. This holds true in non-technical fields as well.

The ideal workday is doing just one or two things. That's where a person gets the most return on effort.
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This is a great comment, and after thinking about your question, I think the answer is: acquire a mentor to teach you how to draw an owl. "You should found your own company, and I’ll give you a couple of hints."

(That's actually actionable, and maybe I should look into that...)
> the plot revolved around an energy crisis or something along those lines.

I'm not going to defend the GI Joe cartoon at all, but as I recall, the plot of the movie mainly revolved around mutant snake-people trying to take over the world.
Could cloudflare estimate the cost of Argo, from a previous months usage?
Any tldr? I have a very hard time getting through this, but as the founder of a Europe-based messaging company (https://talkjs.com), I wonder whether this is trouble.

En-to-end encryption is great but it also kills quite a number of use cases. For example, our group conversations couldn't be e2e encrypted because then users can't see the message history from before they joined it. In whatsapp this is indeed the case, but for our platform it is a core feature. Same for Slack, I suppose. Similarly, Slack search would be totally out of the door. (unless, again, you make it only search the stuff sent to you)
Elite ideological advocacy: perspectives on neo-Marxian theory
Ask HN: How to manage my bookmarking habit?
Hey there! Long time reader (and bookmarker) of HN. I wondering how others deal with an obsession to bookmark things. I constantly scan HN all day and few other sites and bookmark things I fear I'll miss or could be useful in the future.

This nasty habit has accrued 10k+ of bookmarks/pocketed articles/saved threads. I'll never get around to reading them all but I have a ton of anxiety of removing them. I feel like a digital hoarder.

Any advice on how to set me down a path to change this habit?
Heterogeneous moral views in the stateless society
Working on several projects at once
Somewhat ironically this page has awful scrolling performance...
There's clearly a huge difference between having a building code and requiring people to design websites in a certain way. It doesn't matter what your opinion of wheelchair ramps is; the two situations aren't comparable.

I am absolutely 100% against the government doing the equivalent of zoning law for privately owned websites. Leaving out the fact that this is almost certainly a bad thing for society (remember how Berkely had to take down their free online classes because some deaf people sued them for not being deaf-friendly enough?), it's also completely indefensible for the government to stick their nose into how people choose to communicate online. "Oh, hey there art website; we're going to have to shut you down because your music and films don't support subtitles and screen readers."
Tesla kills the duck with big batteries
Solar powered weeding robot for your garden
"The providers of electronic
communications services shall ensure that
there is sufficient protection in place
against unauthorised access or alterations
to the electronic communications data,
and that the confidentiality and safety of
the transmission are also guaranteed by
the nature of the means of transmission
used or by state-of-the-art end-to-end
encryption of the electronic
communications data. Furthermore, when
encryption of electronic communications
data is used, decryption, reverse
engineering or monitoring of such
communications shall be prohibited.
Member States shall not impose any
obligations on electronic communications
service providers that would result in the
weakening of the security and encryption
of their networks and services"

I interpret this as the following clauses:

* "sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations" [through]

* "guaranteed by the nature of the means of transmission used "

* "OR"

* "state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption of the electronic communications data"

aka:

- HTTPS, non-ETE: fine

- HTTP, non-ETE: not fine

- HTTP, ETE: fine
1. Pressure.

2. Speed. 1600 km/s is pretty snappy.

Thunderf00t tends to wibble on a bit and repeat repeat himself, but he does make his point.

Relevant bits start about 6m22s.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z48pSwiDLIM

Or at 10m28s in this video:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RNFesa01llk
As I understand it, drh simply disabled Windows Defender entirely for these tests.

SQLite gets an additional advantage with Defender enabled because Defender doesn't try to scan inside the SQLite DB file for the sub-files, whereas with separate files, Defender must at least look at each file's header to determine whether it's a potentially dangerous file type.

While I was vetting this article, I did some of my own tests, and I found that simply excluding the directory containing the test tree was sufficient to get the same benefit.

My point in other posts here is that you don't need to disable Defender to get this benefit when you use SQLite.

But let's be clear: the 35% claimed performance benefit has nothing to do with Windows Defender. That's a wholly separate issue. Defender pays more attention to a pile of individual files than to an amalgamation of that same data into a single file, and this magnifies SQLite's advantages, but it is not the source of the advantage the linked report talks about.
Then why doesn't the metric account for companies that have not shutdown and not exited, i.e. have grown beyond a certain value? Isn't that closer to the most favorable founder outcome?
Apple puts GPUs in these things? Sorry, I thought it only put Intel Irises. /s
You think, if only they were given more space, the trolls would suddenly find themselves unspinning their vitriol into coherent, well-expressed and thoughtful sentiment?

Or would they just shit-talk with more words?
As much as I hate the current script-heavy web, is it really so hard to see why using the law to enforce aesthetic choices is a terrible idea?
The key is the OR:

* "sufficient protection in place against unauthorised access or alterations"

* "guaranteed by the nature of the means of transmission used "

* "OR"

* "state-of-the-art end-to-end encryption of the electronic communications data"

aka:

- HTTPS, non-ETE: fine

- HTTP, non-ETE: not fine

- HTTP, ETE: fine
How does it help Ethereum users to have a different currency, BAT tokens, bloating up Ethereum's blockchain?
Finally! Been eagerly waiting for this. Congrats Debian team.

This is surprising though:

> Python 2.7.13 and 3.5.3

I thought 3.6 was in Stretch out of the box. Why 3.5 only (especially on a LTS)? :\
In how many countries can you travel and reasonably expect to get by with just Mandarin?
Golang 1.7... 1.9 is due out soon. Sigh, this is why I end up installing things myself without a package manager.
Couldn't group chats be encrypted with a shared key that is provided to the new user by whoever invites them to the chat? The messages would still be encrypted and decrypted only at the ends.
Planning next day ahead reduces the randomness in your work.
Wunderlist is best app to keep the focus on important tasks with deadlines. It helps you review the day too, whether you could accomplish whatever you had planned for the day.

The great feeling you get when the task completed is strikethrough when you press the tickmark.
This isn't people communicating online; this is a business communicating to it's customers and offering core functionality such as refilling prescriptions. The situation is absolutely the same as wheelchair ramps: Winn-Dixie on the internet is being treated the same as Winn-Dixie's physical locations.

In fact, Winn-Dixie seems particularly incompetent; according to a different article

The software has allowed Gil to use 500 to 600 websites, including Publix,
Walgreens and government sites, but his vocalizing software could not read
information on www.winndixie.com when he tried to order a prescription and
look up store hours. [1]

The fact the plaintiff didn't ask for damages, but merely for the website to be made accessible seems a pretty good measure of good faith on his or her part.

[1] http://www.miamiherald.com/news/business/article155927249.ht...
says a guy who just commented on something on the internet
>because the us helped to overthrow peron it's okay that Russia interfered in the us elections?

It's never OK, because of the US past actions it's hypocritical to get overly upset when it happens to the US unless also accompanied by an effort to stop in the future. If the US deserves untampered elections, the rest of the world does too. Even if it means the new government isn't fond of the US
My first father's day. How I used software to choose my son's name
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Can you elaborate some more on this? What kind of equipment and resources for learning more about this?
he says one recent morning as he sits in the Hastings McDonald’s, sipping a skinny vanilla McCafé Latte. Such “foo-foo coffee,” as he calls espresso and its variants, is partly why he bailed: He loves the taste, but the complexities of making it came to epitomize his disillusionment with McD’s. “The service times went up

If McDonalds didn't sell this hard to prepare "foo-foo coffee" then potential patrons will just go across the street to Starbucks... and pick up a sandwich there for lunch too.

I can see why a complex menu creates financial and operational demands on restaurants, but driving customers to other restaurants does too.
We still need English to talk amongst ourselves. Thanks UK for leaving this parting gift.
This is what happens when an industry purposely ignores making websites accessible and more importantly ignoring principles of progressive enhancement. This is the first of many lawsuits to come, I fear.

I hope the web development industry will self-correct itself and get serious about a11y principles in websites before laws get made that convolute what web developers do best.
Debian stable releases have a 2+ year lifespan so even 1.9 would be out of date for most of the distro's life.

Luckily Go is quite easy to install and use from an isolated directory, and the majority of Debian usage here would be as a target OS where the Go compiler version doesn't matter.

Also jessie shipped Go 1.3 but it was updated to Go 1.7 in jessie-backports, so you can probably expect further Go updates in stretch-backports when it's released.
The Geometry of Reflection Groups (2015) [pdf]
I wonder if they'll gain the widespread acceptance like Grimm's fairy tales, propaganda for the unification and strengthening of Germany.
You don't need to use stable. Debian testing is rolling and only stalls during release freeze period.
Is your local job market that bad? I basically took a 1 year and a half break and I got a job within 3 months, after interviewing with 6 (I think?) companies.

And this is in a small (albeit rich) European city of about 400k people.
Very true.

The basic income is an idea that is supported by people who don't seem to understand humans, or who want to take power away from most humans.

Basic income is essentially another form of theft from the workers. People resent the rich because they do nothing for their income, but apparently if everybody does nothing for their income then that resentment is magically disappears.

That doesn't work in human society. Humans require that others contribute. As the Great Ali said: "Service to others is the price you pay for your room here on earth".

The problem the UBI has is that, like the rich, it is unfindable in real terms. Those that produce see the fraud, gather together and politically agitate to have it removed.

And you end up with what we have now - a depleted unemployment benefit system, and various small handouts to people others consider 'scroungers'.

The actual solution is to expand the definition of 'job', get beyond the neoliberal idea that everybody and everything is a business trying to create profit and implement a Job Guarantee full of activities that deliver social value - allowing people to serve others.

Once you do that, then you just pay them the living wage and the system works. From an individual's point of view their experience is that they have a job, one that is matched to their skills and that others consider a useful use of time. If they move jobs to the private sector, they still get a wage of about the same value. But the public spending stops instantly - which gets rid of the need for additional taxation.

https://medium.com/modern-money-matters/job-guarantee-jobs-f...
> I missing something but aside form the gradient capability I didn't see much advantage presented here.

* You can re-use existing carriages without having to seal them hermetically.

* You don't have to build a sealed tube for humans: No emergency exits every mile or so, no airlocks at stations except for maintenance access.

* Because the system seems to be just as wide as the tracks, existing tracks could step-by-step be retrofitted.

* Give the construction crew a few extra bucks to put some fibres in there ;)
Could be it didn't make it in because of bugs. Some packages will be added post release.
> This isn't people communicating online; this is a business communicating to it's customers

I'm confused; do you not see the very obvious contradiction here? Perhaps my use of the word "people" is confusing. The proprietors of a store or an art gallery or other business would also qualify as "people".

> Winn-Dixie on the internet is being treated the same as Winn-Dixie's physical locations.

The internet isn't a physical location. There's no good reason we should pretend it is.

Even if you completely buy the idea that physical storefronts should be forced to adopt certain (possibly socially sub-optimal) standards for the sake of some customer base, this reasoning absolutely does not carry over to private digital communication. You can't just say "a website is like a building" and call it a day. That's simply untrue.
Yep, to make it clear, TensorFlow is like Angular (acclaimed, widely used) and PyTorch is like React (much more flexible and composable). By the way, funny, both are made by respectively Google and Facebook. History repeats itself.
> I thought there were already many GPU accelerated paths for graphics in the browser, even including basic CSS functionality which leverages hardware acceleration in a significant number of scenarios.

That is true, and therein lies the catch. Those paths must support a significant number of scenarios, which means they must be very generic. This incurs (comparatively) huge performance penalties.

Using webgl trades genericity for performance. To put a bunch of 2d coordinate points on a canvas like this library does, only requires the equivalent of 1-2% of CSS functionality that browsers have to go through for every DOM element. It also means that whatever you're drawing has no impact on the rest of the page layout so there's another ton of overheads the browser can skip.
Not likely. Computers can do a double-take, just like humans.
Did you miss the part in the article and its title where it said the man suing is blind? For someone who can't see, a website actually is a better interface to "buy groceries and prescription drugs".
It worked once in medievalish Italy (not sure how you classify the period going from ~0-1800 A.D.). All houses had to be a certain color, for instance. I think it looked kinda cool, but obviously choice is often considered the greatest of all goods.
> At least we've learned the lesson with newer languages.

The thing is, we already knew that from older languages as well. C's UB is a consequence of the people involved in ANSI C89 not wanting to fully define the language, like the other languages were doing.

I think the lesson is that "Performance trumps correctness" is the wrong path to follow, specially since not everyone using C is a 10x coder that always makes use of best practices.
Except it's not just an aesthetic choice - it's an accessibility problem. The point the OP is making is that it's not like this somehow disadvantages any abled person - it's probably an advantage.
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This is what the Backports repo is for.

Jessie shipped with Golang 1.3, but has 1.7 via backports.
You can label it however you want; using the law as a bludgeon to force people into obeying arbitrary design policies like "you can't use JavaScript for this" is stupid for a huge number of reasons. An obvious problem is that there's no way to codify specific technology practices into law without severely damaging the ability of businesses to adapt to rapidly changing fields like the internet. "You must use these tags in your HTML pages"; OK, cool, what happens when we stop using HTML?

The inevitable effect of this kind of legislation is that technology gets worse for everyone, rather than better for a small group.
I remember when it took me an hour to understand what regularization is. These simple frameworks take that for granted. They are not really accessible if you don't have a good intuition about the algorithms, hyperparameters and architectures.
It is one of those ideas that is neat, plausible and wrong. It suffers from several fallacies of composition.

The money becomes worthless in the eyes of those that receive it, and that's because if I have spent my time growing carrots - even if I have used machines to grow lots and lots of carrots, I still need to see you give up your time in the service of others before I am happy to let you have carrots.

If you don't, then you are not seen as contributing to society and humans get upset when that happens.

That's because you get paid twice in real terms. Once by the self-consumption of your own time and once with the consumption of the output of others you have purchased with your basic income.

That is seen as unfair.

The correct solution is to organise your time to the service of others as a job. A job that is focussed on social value, not profit. You then get the living wage for that job - a wage that is much higher than any suggested basic income, without any need to increase taxation.

The problem is a lack of jobs. The problem is the fallacy that the private sector creates jobs, when in reality its task is to destroy them and replace them with automation. A task we need it to do if we're to drive productivity forward.
Yep: http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2017/06/the-shouting-clas...
You clearly didn't even read Eevee's post, yet you suggest he "just go live on an island". Way to go!
> This will set a dangerous precedent and cost businesses a lot of money and adding zero value to most existing paying customers.

Unluckily for you, we as a society decided that we will accommodate those with disabilities rather than just look at their business value. If we only made choices based on utility, we'd already be implementing widespread eugenics and killing off anyone who gets sick or old. And it wasn't a case of not using the right accessibility tags, check out the quote in another comment, his software couldn't read any text. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14579029
fyi Debian names their releases after Toy Story characters.

Sid (Debian unstable) is named after the guy that breaks the toys.
No you can't, not every place of the world is a Silicon Valley hungry for developers.

Many of them is already quite hard to even have one in first place, let alone getting back with a hole on the CV not 100% related to the bullet points they are looking for.
damn that is exactly my situation! it happened a little earlier for me though; i'd say around 27-28. it accelerated after working for google that short bit I did
There's likely a dichotomy in the outbound message and the inhouse message. Imo that's totally fine.
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You've mentioned the hyper loop thing a few times now, what exactly are you upset about?

He wrote, and had some engineers from his company help write, a proposal for a high speed transit system.

Some companies have been started to try and develop the technology, which to my knowledge Musk is not involved in.

Additionally, SpaceX has already hosted a student competition for hyperloop pods and built a test track for it. By all appearances they seem intent on continuing that.

So what exactly happened to hyperloop, and why does that relevant to a discussion on plans to go to mars?
No. The proportion of the world's population that speaks English is greater than the proportion that speaks Mandarin. Mandarin is the language most spoken as the first language (and that's actually very debatable). This is irrelevant for choosing a language for people to speak with each other.
Maybe it could be used for those kiddy trains at amusement parks.