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Shaq's personal assistants are probably paid to set this as the default home page on all devices and workstations.
> Crafting semantic HTML markup with a strong focus on accessibility, in order to make experiences that are friendly to browsers, assistive technologies, search engines, and other environments that can consume HTML.

> Creating CSS code that control the look and feel of the web experience, tackling colors, typography, responsive layout, animation, and any other visual aspect of the UI. Frontend designers architect resilient CSS code with a focus on modularity, flexibility, compatibility, and extensibility.

> Optimizing the performance of frontend code in order to create lightweight, fast-loading, snappy, jank-free experiences.

I can't help but chuckle at this. I admit that good frontend designers do this, but they are extremely rare. Judging solely by the top Google results, 95% of frontend designers don't do any of this: they don't care about accesibility, friendly experience, compatibility or anything like that.

I applaud the author for caring about these things. His website is the biggest evidence that he does, but most designers don't do these things.
So did Portugal [0], except they didn't resort to draconian rule-of-law policies and instead took a more compassionate approach.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/05/portugals-radic...
You also probably want to read their Talk Platform Acceptable Use Policy https://coralproject.net/acceptable-use-policy/
PL/1 grew out of a project in the early 1960's to develop a successor to Fortran. It was decided very early on that it would do decimal arithmetic (like COBOL) and then that it would provide good support for record-oriented I/O and the common access methods used for sequential and random-access disk, tape, cards, printers, etc. typically attached to mainframe computers, which you pretty much needed to compile it anyway. This made it quite a horse of a different feather than Algol. Minicomputer and microcomputer versions of PL/1 subsequently appeared (I recall Digital Research had one that implemented something called subset G,), but these were limited subsets, pretty much matching simple implementations of Fortran, Pascal, or Modula-2 feature for feature -- not as elegant as Algol, but about as close to Algol as they were to IBM's full PL/1 level F. For a long time, many IBM System/360 and System/370 mainframe were not suitable to run the famous IBM OS/360, and there were two levels of simplified versions of the operating system (called DOS and DOS/VSE), and each of these, in turn, offered only its own distinct subset version of the full mainframe PL/1.
Explorer Edition units are mostly useless, but they're pretty cheap these days. Mine's good shelf decoration, so I don't intend to ever give it up.
Source? Those are pretty serious accusations.
You have a shockingly narrow understanding of addiction
Can you explain how OP‘s wife is subjugated? I’m ex Microsoft. My wife is a better programmer than you and me put together. She stays at home with the children voluntarily. I told her if she wanted to switch places, I would stay at home with the children. Is she subjugated? Would I be subjugated if I stayed at home instead?
Interesting comment. So your style of commenting consists of creating arbitrary statements that were not present in other people's comments, ignoring the valid claims they had and sprinkling it with a touch of stupidity of your own?

Anyone who thinks populating space and space governance at this point in time should be a priority, obviously has no idea about where our planet is heading right now. And judging by the utter uselessness of space exploration at this point in time, it's not too hard to realize that these billions spent for landing even just a rover on Mars, would be better invested in any other project that improves the place where we actually live...
Do you have particular uses for open source social network software for which the AGPL would be a problem for your usage?
Hi there - my name is Spencer and I'm one of the co-founders of Rent the Backyard.

We're very much focused not taking the Uber approach. We're working within the context of a set of laws California has passed over the last several years that establish and regulate what the state calls "accessory dwelling units" aka ADU. We're initially focused on building in cities like San Jose that have factored the sustainable and conscious development of ADU into their thoughts on how to combat the housing crisis they face.

4300 ADU were permitted and built last year in California with hundreds of these units being built in the Bay Area (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Are-accessory-dw...).

We're really conscious of the impact we'll have on the neighborhoods we operate in and are committed to working with everyone involved to make the process of installation and ongoing housing have a minimal impact. Our studio apartments are almost completely built when they arrive in your backyard and require very minimal (a few weeks if not days) to bolt together and be ready to go. We're excited to see California have strong laws to protect neighbor's privacy and rights as well and will go beyond what is required by those laws when it's the right thing to do.
I hope you didn't post this from a computer made abroad, and collaborated in the exploitation of your fellow nationals.
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It's all personal experience and research from using these database products. I've also talked to the devs for each one, including here on HN sometimes.

What's esoteric about it though? I consider this to be standard knowledge if you're going to be investing into a database.
You should see art more! James Turrell, Jeff Koons, and Anish Kapoor, all referenced in the article, all have lovely works, and are all very popular and influential, both with the gallery-going public, and with artists.

The article features a work by Catherine Opie, that is hard to look at. I recently saw a collection of her mid-1990s photos of LA freeways, taken of less-trafficked interchanges in the wee hours — no cars. They are lovely, architectural abstractions, and very different from the piece shown. She has another series of storefronts that is just as beautiful and closely observed, but also not shown.

http://jamesturrell.com/work/type/projection-pieces/

https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/topic/freeways
Why do you do it? I'm sorry if it sounds callous, I'm just curious really. I personally wouldn't be able to endure such a precarious and stressful situation.
You need to instill more responsibility into your "12 kids". Mewling babes are fine if there are one or two of them, but you're way past that...

Also who on earth ever takes "12 kids" out to eat, in the city or out of it? Do you and your wives go in separate minivans, or do you own a bus?
It started as a Mozilla Foundation project, and then Vox Media took it over.
I don't think true, and the other part is also pretty far fetched.

But the folks who run that website are the real deal and not "virtue signalers." They're running experiments and creating great content, not trying to get some social currency you hypothesize.

If you'd can demonstrate data suggesting a better encoding, they'll redo the pictures. They optimized for size.
Lens quality, focusing, time to compress the image, etc. People want to take a few photos in quick succession, which has it’s own issues.

Film is superior to digital for those issues, for now.
Good luck. I would be happy with even two nines of reliability and 5mb down and 1.5 up. But here I am, a whole hour outside a top 30 metro area, with only one internet option that isn't broadband or hughesnet. Rural people are the forgoten population in the tech progress.
golang compiler on a raspberry pi 3 compiles applications really slowly, think minutes, but there's a workaround which is to cross compile on x86, think seconds plus sftp transfer. i assume the primary use case is to speed up compilation and create smaller binary sizes? this could be helpful as binary sizes for golang compiled binaries are pretty large, my apps typically are around 2-20MB, but i understand they include all dependencies.
Mirage exists and works reasonably well.
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It is one of the greatest blunders of the constitution.

Everything is interstate commerce.

Yes and yes. Unfortunately that ship sailed a long long time ago.

E.g. in 1942 the US Supreme Court held in a unanimous opinion that a farmer growing wheat to feed his own animals on his own farm could be regulated as interstate commerce.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

More than 50 years later, the Court walked that back, very slightly. But the decision in 1995 was 5-4. This more recent decision would doubtlessly upset many on HN once they learn that it limited the ability of the US government to ban possession of handguns near schools.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Lopez

A more recent evolution of this (as Matt Levine likes to frequently point out) is "everything is securities fraud".
But seriously why can’t I just do modern webdev with a <script src=“”>?
Truly amazing that this shit gets flagged.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Is this Jeopardy? Did the contestant not phrase the answer in the form of a question?

Gay.
How many of us get to walk into green field projects or even decently architected projects? Accessibility isn’t too hard if you build conventions around doing it from the first commit, but adding aria tags and labels to 100s of old files is going to be a massive undertaking that few product managers will sign off on. I think it is less incompetence and more when it comes down to the wire, those are the first things to get cut or ignored.
I hear ya. Same in the US for me. Ultimately feel like I don’t care about the place I live in - still care more about Germany / EU (where I am from). Still, such a hard decision to make, especially if you have a partner
Find a company that's going to grow.

This single factor can dramatically affect your career growth.
Accessory dwelling units are the thing that most municipalities are into now in order to meet affordable housing mandates. I guess this is a way to finance the construction and try to be the next airBnB. I wonder how it will work legally? I get the financing angle... but you’d have to attach to the primary mortgage (or a second one) I assume. Once the unit is built what’s to prevent the homeowner from reneging on the deal? How would it work if the homeowner wants to sell? Is the deal similar to how a solar lease works? An ADU will cost $150k basically and financing it shouldn’t be difficult but I can see the appeal for and end to end. I assume the homeowner is effectively on the hook for the financing and some minimum 50% term reduces the capital cost.
I guess a question for you would be why should someone choose a Node / full JS stack over Java Spring, or Django etc?
Yes, read my other comment at the top of this page.
Ask HN: Employers, why do or don't you offer relocation?
Those of you who are responsible for finding / hiring candidates, I'm curious what motivated you to seek employees outside of your area.

How far are you willing to relocate someone?

What's stopping you from relocating someone overseas?

I'm seeing a lot of interesting jobs in foreign countries that don't offer any relocation and I'm wondering why!
Hi there - my name is Spencer and I'm one of the co-founders of Rent the Backyard.

It's worth noting that this is actually something the article wasn't great on. If your buyer is excited about continuing this agreement, we're happy to sign the unit over and even take a second position to a new mortgage so you don't ever need to pay anything.

The great thing about a backyard apartment is that it is a permanent improvement to your property and increases the value of the home but you have a great point. We aren't the best short term partner. If you don't plan on staying in your home for a long time, making substantial improvements to your property doesn't make sense. We're focused on helping homeowners be able to stay in their home as the cost of living rises. We're committed to doing the right thing and turning away prospective customers who don't fit this profile.
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>It's the same old discussion about whether something is right just because it's legal or allowed.

It's actually not about legality. I didn't even suggest that.

>Just because a company has a right -- and an incentive -- to do something, doesn't mean that's a morally or ethically right thing to do.

As I said, it is expected to do it. Because companies have their own interests. The interests of the shareholders in Google's case. And Google is expected to act to protect them.

This includes getting rid of employees that act to sabotage the company, in this case by publicly badmouthing it.
Damn, are you the Cliff Stoll? I must say I thoroughly enjoyed your book back in the day. Upon reflection, it may have even affected my career (for the best).

Cheers!
Zig lets you bring your own allocator. https://ziglang.org/
I mean.. move and work from home? Or sacrifice some of the retirement savings to get a down payment? Or wait for the market to crash?
Don't be dishonest. I find talk of "good faith" so laughable when all that's offered are dishonest attempts to defend the Chinese government's deliberate effort of cultural extermination.
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I think England is notorious for slum lords and that tenants have very little legal protections.
Do we encourage toxic masculinity on HN these days?
You have your timeline mixed up. First they were dependent on Google. Then Google started competing. Then they were cut off.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukihiro_Matsumoto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junio_Hamano

https://nehanarkhede.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral_B._Shah
Well, why do we generally call two year leases two year leases, but thousand year leases 999-Year leases? Where is the cutoff point where we switch terminology?
I think his point is that it's the fault of the people who, ironically, would be at less of a disadvantage now if they'd been less imperialistic in the past. Native Hawaiians had a government that was dismantled by force; it's not their fault that they don't currently have a government.
I doubt the lot is subdivided. I’m guessing construction lien.
The less advanced a society, the less options for adults with gainful employment. Making babies is one option pretty much always available, so when you introduce more options it makes sense that making babies would get pushed back among all the other options, right?

So why are we continually surprised that non-agricultural societies have declining birthrates? I feel like we should have all gotten used to this by now.
"CMOs, social media directors, agency heads, people who use Twitter to drive business"

... are merely one class of users and by no means authoritative on what makes sense for users or Twitter itself.
Looks like the ultimate resolution was that the IRS dropped it in exchange for it being formally donated to the MoMA, so essentially just solidifying the status quo: https://www.thelegalpalette.com/home/2018/7/17/rauschenbergs... https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2014/01/24/diving-in...

Since the heirs couldn't sell it and it was forced to be on display in a museum, seems like it made very little difference, while allaying the IRS's theoretical concerns about it potentially being sold on the black market, I guess...
I mean that’s not really true, right? Here’s a residential neighborhood in Chicago: https://images.app.goo.gl/o9crCx8EYGJcz7NcA. Another view: https://images.app.goo.gl/2AFgALbMTH3KsxYbA. Not exactly the hellacape you describe. And homier than many new suburban subdivisions. (None of the suburban neighborhoods I’ve ever lived in have even had sidewalks.)

You can get a surprising amount of density from low rise buildings, with narrow tree-lined streets and generous sidewalks.
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Hi there - my name is Spencer and I'm one of the co-founders of Rent the Backyard.

You're totally right about possible zoning restrictions in most places. The climate in California has really changed in the last two years to allow what the state calls "accessory dwelling units" or ADU (https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Are-accessory-dw...). These laws cover everything from parking, to setbacks, to privacy requirements. We'll go beyond what is required by those laws when it's the right thing to do.

These new laws have led to an explosion of building. 4300 of these units were permitted in California last year with 187 in the City of San Jose -- our main focus to start.

We love dogs too but this is definitely an issue. Ultimately, this is a product you'll have to decide works or doesn't work for you :)
The launch of LiveVideo was not the issue. We had more traffic than we knew what to do with, and way more than YouTube at the time.

Honestly, things didn't go sideways until Google decided to mess with LiveVideo and the rest of our web properties in search results. Had Google never purchased YouTube, LiveVideo would have probably won that battle hands down.

Without Google money, YouTube would have failed, not LiveVideo.
At Donner Pass in California there is the Chinese Wall. A dry stone wall built in the 1860's to carry to the Transcontinental Rail Road. It looks in perfect condition after 150 years.

It's short 1/4 mile hike from the road.

http://cprr.org/Museum/Sierra_Grade_8-2003/Donner_Pass-Summi...

http://www.calexplornia.com/china-wall-truckees-memorial-chi...
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Literally nothing you described is unique to a city. Have a lovely cynical life!
> I can’t fathom how people raise kids in the suburbs.

Well, the vast majority of families could never afford to raise a child in NYC or any other 'dense urban' area, so the decision is mostly made automatically.
The image previews looks like it's very crips, looks great - and the multicolored emoji is a nice touch.

It seems like this would have the same challenges as multi channel signed distance fields [0], where for unicode (e.g. Chinese characters) you need to generate textures on the fly and ship them to the GPU for the fragment shader to work off of.

[0] HN Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20020664
Obligatory Boeing edition:

* If trim adjust > 2.5deg { deactivate mcas }
They seem to have more than that:

https://www.google.com/glass/partners/
Funny, I don't see these as accusations, I see these as curated engagement.

The upside is there, if you know up-front its the basis of the engagement. If its applied retrospectively it sucks, for a number of people.

But curation is not always bad. "it depends"
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Given the rise of HTTPS, intentionally or unintentionally, politics now lives in the endpoint (smartphone/tablet/computer)'s tech stack. Some part - the browser (and thus its vendor), the operating system (and its vendor), or some add-on (and thus its vendor) - gets to determine who/what's considered a root CA, and is thus allowed to decrypt message contents.
>Are you saying that all these people are fraudulent / incompetent

This sound vaguely like an appeal to authority - or perhaps I'm not using the correct phrasing, but the underlying logic of "X number of scientists can't be wrong" isn't a good look. While I hate when people say things like "evolution is just a theory", it's not a good idea to use # of scientists who hold a view as a proxy for if it's valid if the idea is much less tested than things like evolution or climate change.
Personally, I welcome all comers, regardless of intent or completeness. That they offer a minimal refcounted implementation for the platform more likely to need it sooner seems to signal good intent.

I say this watching 30+ years of alternate implementations of different languages and runtimes. Even those that failed (or maybe moreso) indirectly inspired positive changes in the survivors.
Hard to sell and get a mortgage on a homeowner built house. It’s doable with licensed subcontractors in some places. It would take a lot of political lobbying to get something like that approved and standardized.
Maybe that's what Facebook wanted. I can see it going like this:

"OK, Zuckerberg wants us to come up with a payment system that can dominate payments the way WeChat/WePay does in China. How do we do that?"

"The banking system and the credit card companies are going to fight us. How do we bypass them?"

"Bitcoin? That bypasses the banking system."

"We wouldn't be in control. Our own crypto coin, maybe?"

"OK, let's brainstorm that a bit."

"So we have our own coin, and we issue it. What happens?"

"Probably it doesn't get used much outside Facebook in-app purchases, like Microsoft's old tokens."

"Apple Pay and Google Pay never really got scale."

"We're not the first mover here. We need something that pulls in some big financial players."

"What if we open it up more, so we head a consortium that issues our tokens".

"Who can we get? Visa would be great."

"Yeah, we need somebody who's already in the payment system."

"The important thing is that you pay through Facebook, and we get a cut."

"Right, that gives us a controlling position, like WeChat has."

"OK, that's the basic concept. How do we make it work?"

"Who stands behind the token? What backs it."

"We set up some organization that holds the value that backs it."

"You mean like E-Gold did?"

"Shut up."

"We don't need to steal the backing. Just keep the profits from investing it."

"That works."

"OK, what about compliance?"

"If we make it too open, anti money laundering won't work."

"If we make it too closed, we won't be able to get the banking people on board."

"Hmm. How about this. We start out claiming it's really open. Then the regulators get upset, because it looks un-regulatable, like Bitcoin. So we change the plan. We tighten up our control, and collect lots more data about users, to make the regulators happy."

"Collecting lots more data about users. I like that part."

"OK, looks like a plan."
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There was absolutely no pornographic content on LiveVideo.com itself. Nor was it ever intended for LiveVideo to have adult content. We created the family filters for mature content. However, sexy content is just simply what people started uploading. We deleted anything that was even remotely pornographic, but there was still some sexy content as there is still plenty of sexy content on YouTube right now.

We did not promote any adult content on LiveVideo.com itself. So LiveVideo.com itself wasn't in violation of these rules.

Some of the other sites in our network possibly had more adult content in nature, but were not adult content websites and were not running AdSense on them.
Actually. These incredibly interesting Wikipedia articles pop up here on HN from time to time. And with that here is my contribution. I suggest you search for wikipedia.org with the HN search engine to find more Wikipedia articles with interesting stuff.