skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm not a lawyer, so I probably have this wrong

IANAL, but you definitely have this wrong, in terms of the history of this case, at least. The DOJ has made clear since their first guidance in 1996 and courts have held repeatedly that the ADA applies to websites in the service of public accommodation.

Domino's absolutely has a defense if they are able to demonstrate that their services are "equally" and "effectively" provided to all. The lower court held that they didn't even need to look into the facts at issue, i.e. they don't even need to find out if the phone line provides such service. The court of appeals rightly said that, in fact, it is important to find out if there's evidence of discrimination.
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And 20% of the laureates are Jewish, while Jewish population comprises less than 0.2% of the world's population

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Jewish_Nobel_laureates
Yes because there is only one government for any given piece of land. Fortunately for you, there are many private businesses to choose from. You can even start your own if you like.
True but you need to access the libraries in Java. That is a little bit hard in some cases.
It IS being worked on but in the meantime, gio apps can be run on X using https://github.com/Hjdskes/cage (a very simple wayland compositor)
I think this is where MLK’s “injustice anywhere is injustice everywhere” comes into play. There is no better or worse. There is only right and wrong. And there is plenty of wrong in plenty of places. Lots of right too, but right in any quantity does not negate the wrong.

Or to put it another way, I think that representative democracy is the least worst form of government, and plenty of Chinese may think that the CCP’s autocracy is better. The fact that both forms of government have been responsible for human rights abuses (to use a rhetorical big tent the size of Greenland) neither is justified by their system of government nor does it render either system as fundamentally wrong. A lot of Chinese who would have otherwise etched out a life of hopeless extreme poverty have all the reason in the world to side with the CCP.
The same error correction is used in qr codes. To correct errors you have to guess which bits are unsure.
I thought Western companies had to pursue profits at all costs? China is a big juicy market.
Indeed, they are a huge turnoff to audiences.

But the people responsible for ad operations at publishers will often insist on placing such widgets on every remaining patch of white space, saying that failing to do so is "leaving money on the table."
Well it wasn't full of diesel and petrol fumes. The great stink was forty years earlier, they already had decent sewage systems (many of which are still in place now).
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National Socialism was state capitalism. The CCP's control of their corporations and conglomerates is almost like they took Speer's notebooks and followed them to the letter. It's possible that Krupp and IG Farben and Messerschmitt were able to wag the dog a little more than their Chinese equivalents, but the resemblances are striking.
I'm not sure if this all-in-one game is going to work. IMO, Unifi's hardware apart from their Wireless offerings is limited compared to other players in a similar price range. They should stick to what they're best at, which for me is their Wireless range and build around that.

In our case, we ended up using Mikrotik devices for our physical layers and Unifi as our APs. So far, the performance of the Wifi devices is excellent (though tuning high density configs was a bit of a pain), and the Mikrotiks give us exceptional control over the behaviour of the network topology.

Playing to the strengths of each vendor was the way to go for us. Worked out way cheaper as well.
That makes me wonder whether they'd nowadays act on the "Bolvar died for our sins" [1] meme from BlizzCon 2015 (for those who aren't familiar with the WoW universe: Bolvar is one of the heroes of a WoW expansion, as he sacrificed himself for the world ie. he is a martyr).

[1] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CTP0qTWUcAA3N_F.jpg
This has nothing to do with national borders. In US, UK and Germany the Nobel's don't come from all over the country but from very small areas.

If Princeton/Newyork/Boston declared independence tomorrow those new countries would be at the top of the list too.

Where cash concentrates Science happens.
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"People are going to start dying publicly in HK"

Live free or die. Fuck oppression.
As a Lyft driver, how did you feel when Lyft lowered the pay rates (per mile)?
How do you set up a decent adblocker / content blocker on the new safari?

I used to use uBlock Origin and forget about it, but now I don't know what to use. The market feels scammy or very expensive or even both.
If you think back to before gay marriage was accepted as a culturally obvious fact, some of the arguments against it involved hating gays, but others didn't. Without the ability to tell which beliefs actually motivated his donation, it is not possible to discern if he was against gays or not. (I'll refrain from giving any specific examples in order to avoid starting that debate again, but I think most of us can remember that time in fair detail.)
How would you like it if you couldn't thoroughly peruse a restaurant menu and coupons at your own pace, but instead had to call a customer service rep and ask them to talk you through it, knowing that they need to get your order completed and get you off the phone as fast as possible? Putting these things online is really ideal for everyone, as long as the web developer doesn't screw up accessibility.
How is the PR author supposed to fix it without complex Git commands? Error prone copy and paste?

I _really_ love working with Git, but in my experience engineers unfortunately do need to tap into the long tail of “advanced” commands fairly often. At least often enough that they will quickly be frustrated by it.

(I’m currently helping move a bunch of our engineers from SVN to Git, and while I believe the better ecosystem will be worth it, it does break my heart every time someone has pointless trouble simply because of Git’s CLI.)
There's potentially going to be more to come in Wednesday's episode given their "apology" and it may start WW3.
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I don't believe he is absolving the US. He is pointing out there is a false claim of moral superiority for the Chinese. For example, could you have the equivalent debate in China?
I have to say, this is really the only way to respond to China when it comes to their no-humor censors: just come out and mock them. They don't really have any way to reply.

One wonders if there is an entire revolutionary class within China sharing South Park videos for freedom.
I don't think you're disagreeing with the poster.

They're saying that cancel culture has normalized private sector political censorship in the west prior to this, making it a smaller reach.

The $ considerations are certainly there in all cases.
Now I want to know how it will recover after fires. I read it will burn/collapse well after occupants have escaped. But will a building with some burnt CLT members be a total loss?
That's a different issue. If they're in that situation without any custom scripts and the latency is cropping up, they should consider using a different tool or changing their codebase.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/io/en...

"NIO stands for non-blocking I/O"

Funny, I thought it was NATIVE I/O.
Sure most of the times its shades of grey.

But sometimes like in this instance it really is black or white.
> The idea that the discussion of a supreme court nominee being a rapist is what is dangerous, and not the fact that a supreme court nominee is a rapist, is frankly sickening.

I see what you did there.
>It's really hard to tell the difference between what is genuinely offensive and what is not.

It's not hard to tell the difference actually. You know when you are offended quite obviously.

The hard part is knowing when other people are offended. This is why we can't have rules based on subjective experience.

I remember reading an article about how someone breaking your heart is a much more egregious crime than shoplifting. Yet, there is no law against breaking hearts.
There is unfortunately a gaping hole where United States leadership should be and I don’t feel the companies or countries that used to be able to “follow the leader” have figured how to deal with it.

Good on your paper for having the some fortitude.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21184008
From Reddit - https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/de1ysj/china_acc... -

"If you ever wondered how the whole world stood by and watched as the Nazis came to power and began committing atrocities here’s your answer."

The whole thread has similar commentary - along with morbid humor: "The next Disney movie will feature forced abortions to appease China."

Makes me think of brand names - who are still in existence today - who provided services, products, to similar regimes; Russell Brand Rips on GQ, Hugo Boss, referencing Syria War and Nazi Germany - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inB-6R1-4ng

Edit to add: Seems the pro-tyrants of China's leadership brigade is here: I had 2 upvotes, now at 0. Or if the people downvoting don't understand what's going on in China is akin to Nazi Germany then they're either indoctrinated in propaganda or haven't studied, analyzed, understood the situation adequately.
Well if people can get hurt because they see a nipple of course a grown up person can also get upset about some rando on the internet having an opinion on Hong Kong. Both things make equal sense to me at least.
"Make the issue personal for the companies by fomenting discontent from within."

But the only options available to the employees from that point onwards is group organization (eg. unionization) which is itself politically controversial and prone to ruining their careers (see: google employees' organizing efforts resulting in the majority of the original organizers being foistered out of google) or leaving which puts their livelihoods in jeopardy as they abandon one of the biggest employers of their industry..
How China Is Using Artificial-Intelligence in Classrooms [video]
I agree 100% that we should boycott and sanction, however doubt there will be enough people who will, and enough people who care. And I don't blame most for not caring, there are more things to worry about than we have time available. Maybe 1% of hearthstone players will see your comment. Similarly, there are other entities which need to be sanctioned, which you and me won't find out about as it's outside of our areas of interest.

Which makes me believe we need some kind of trusted "morality authority", which would process information similar to this and make informed decisions who to boycott, how and when. Less informed would be able to make an impact without having to do research (which not everyone would do equally well)

Obviously this authority must operate with complete transparency, so that we could verify its decision process when required.

Any hostile actions against it must be treated as a crime against humanity?

Somehow it must be immune from corruption. Perhaps some mechanism to revoke user trust in case of wrongdoings.
Isn't that the guy who hates gamers? It wasn't difficult to figure out why people dislike him [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Kotick#Business_strategy...
Sounds to me like an inferiority complex of some description. But that's just my layman interpretation, I'm not a psychologist.
Begin rumors of "China has stolen Tesla technology" then
I was able to walk to the library as a child, actually - plus some places have Bookmobiles. There were also libraries at schools.

A kid's experience might vary with all of these, though: I also lived a 5-minute drive from a place with no free public libraries with the exception of a school.
Yup, I'm cancelling my wow sub over this and read about it first on Reddit.
It happened with a journalist on a gun magazine as well. Lifelong second amendment supporter blacklisted for not spewing exactly the party line. This makes me wonder whether the whole right to bear arms things is AstroTurf at this point.
I've been boycotting Blizzard for a while now. They made it really easy by releasing nothing good.
You're in luck - this is for gaming and social media.
No.

Your free time should be about rest and recovery, not about grinding out even more code.

Even if it looks bad on your CV
Chocolate!

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunctio...

http://www.biostat.jhsph.edu/courses/bio621/misc/Chocolate%2...
> It is a horrible idea, which is why it’s not true for defined benefit retirement funds in the US.

What exactly about this idea is horrible? Of course it sounds like socialism but what's the concrete things that are "bad"?
> It also sounds like you don't really believe that disabled folks deserve any consideration.

No, that's not at all what I believe so let me clarify what my objections are. First, by its very nature "accessibility" is open to interpretation and allowing people to sue companies for non-accessible sites gives way to frivolous lawsuits. As far as I remember, there isn't even an attempt to define "accessibility" in US law. Currently it's something like "Go look at WCAG and see what you can do". This is further exacerbated by the way these lawsuits work - it makes sense to settle even if you think everything is OK with your site. The plaintiff doesn't pay anything, his lawyers work on contingency so even if you "win", you'd spend a fortune on defense and you're not allowed to recoup those expenses from the plaintiff.

Second, these are private businesses we're talking about. They should be allowed to weigh in the ROI of investing in accessibility vs the potential income from disabled customers. I'm a reasonable guy and I was happy to fix some legit issues that the lawyers pointed out. They were relatively easy to fix and I would have done it even without any threats. Not in the least because they could have affected sighted customers as well. Other issues are completely out of whack and could take man-years to sort out fully. I don't have that kind of time. So, let me reverse the question. Do you believe everyone with disability must be able to use any service, no matter the expense to the business? Do you draw the line somewhere? What about people with nut allergies? Should we force restaurants to offer guaranteed nut-free food along with their other products? Why should a blind person be able to enjoy a pizza from Domino's but a person with nut allergy shouldn't?

> I don't disbelieve that shakedowns like you describe happen.

You seem to think that the shakedowns are the minority and most cases are legit. It's the other way around if you do a quick "ADA lawsuits" search. Here is good article about the practice:
https://www.city-journal.org/html/ada-shakedown-racket-12494...
I'd counter with a paraphrased line from Rick and Morty (yes, I know...) --

When you're an asshole it doesn't matter if you're right or wrong, because people don't want to give you the satisfaction of admitting you're right.
But does it have higher customer retention over the long term? Conversions are only one piece of running an online business
I read the headline and said "I don't even know what a Flesch-Kincaid test is." Then I read the article, and realized that I actually do use this test every day. TIL

The Boomerang extension for Gmail applies a test, in the free version, to give you a readability grade level. I always find this scores me at 12+ and I try to do better (lower score), because I know that there's nobody reading my emails and I will have wasted my time, unless I make it short and to the point.

And now I know the name of the test. Cool.
Talk to people you’ve worked with. They will value you more than anyone who you advertise to.
In fairness, the obit in Nature is strictly about his career and discoveries. Let's see what the NYT obit looks like. However, thanks for pointing this out. I save obits of notable people, and in this case I concatenated both articles.
Unfortunately no, I get reminded every single update when something else which has worked for fifteen years suddenly goes wrong. Mozilla has gutted themselves politically.
Here's to the crazy ones, the square pegs in the round hole...
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I've poked around some of the gioui windowing code. It should be pretty easy to add an X11 backend if you're up for the task.
actually the shit counter was making fun of the fact they previously had to play a game with their bleepers, who wouldn't come out and say exactly what the swear threshold for an episode was.
We don't seem to get that in the UK anymore, thirty years ago it was different but there are so many cyclists on the roads now people seem have got used to them.
I like how esports is so close to sports sports. This is the equivalent of “taking a knee” during NFL games while the national anthem is played.

What’s curious is that it now pits free speech vs China with Heartstone own Kaepernick. The NFL issue, I think, was two social groups (kneeler vs people upset by kneelers) with NFL/Nike/etc in the middle.

This new situation has a social group (players/free speeches/HK) vs a state (China) with Blizzard/etc in the middle.

It’s curious how Blizzard so quickly picked their side while NFL and Nike are still not going all in on one side (NFL didn’t ban, just no one hired player).
No matter what difference you see between them now, trying to topple their government would make the US far more immoral.
Your free time should be about enjoyment. If you enjoy doing some code that is fine. If you enjoy playing on your PS4 or (hopefully) enjoy spending time with your kids, that is fine to.

You're an adult, do what you want in your free time.

Edit: softened the response a bit because I do agree with the parent that you also need some rest and relaxation. :P
I doubt it would make sense for them to do it. Most of the heavy lifting is from the controller which you could run anyway on prem and for FREE.

The cloud deployment AFAIK would allow for better multi-tenant management, and SaaSifying the management experience.

From personal experience, running the controller on a Pi in your home network is good enough for most scenarios. Plus if you want to customize, you can poke around the APIs and wire up what you want. It's pretty powerful once you get the hang of it, and there are some fabulous libraries available thanks to community contributions on Github.
Doesn't the code still technically belong to you? Can't you submit a takedown request?
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If you read the "making money" numbers as how much you could make from a side project, remember that the values appear to be revenue and not profit.
I think I wasn't clear, the Opium Wars reference was to the US and Canada's current opioid problem wherein the bulk of fentanyl is being imported to the US from China.

Given how tightly the Chinese government controls domestic drug production and distribution I'm very skeptical that this export operation is in-spite of Chinese government action, maybe at best they ignore it. That is what I was referencing, I think it is at least probable that the Chinese government tacitly condones the export of opioids to the US and don't lose much sleep over it. This was exactly the same thing that Britain did to China during the Opium Wars except that that also included military force whereas this is the black market approach that the US has traditionally used when they've done it.

To cut off a possible avenue of criticism, yes the US has done exactly the same thing in South America time and time again, that was wrong too.
>it was one of the most lucrative dev jobs I did

>there really is no reason for even mom and pop sites to not provide even a base level of accessibility

Which is it?
> I think it's just the one of a vocal minority on the far left.

I think you might be allowing your bias to zero in on one particular group here. Outrage politics is everyone's tool these days, not just one "side" (if you insist on picking sides).

I don't consider myself to be on either side, but a counterpoint for you to consider: "if you're not with us, you're against us", or "pry my guns from my cold dead hands"..

These are examples of using ideological offence to an idea or concept as a way to shut down discourse.
> “For some of our students, “Don’t tell” repeats the abuse they will have endured along with its highest commandment: secrecy.”

This is way too extreme. Surely people who have experienced abuse shouldn’t be treated like they are too frayed to understand the difference between a literary tactic and oppression of their suffering? Surely it’s not healthy to cast trauma victims and survivors in this kind of way? They can think for themselves like everyone else.
And 96% are men although men comprise only 49% of the population. Just saying...go men!
The study of resource allocation cannot be a hard science?
If they did, they'll have to stop offering the controller for free, but that would really hurty their SMB/Enterprise adoption.
They have some sort of sequence worked out. There was a paper cited in previous discussion here of this flareup. Maybe a month or so ago. I've gotta deal with stuff now, or I'd find it.
We had a "professionalism" class in my CS undergrad program. A day using the web with a screen reader would do wonders, I think, for awareness of the issue.
>and I honestly care for them

Caring happens with actions, not words.
I think they already "substantially" increased already
My relationship with Adobe went from love to hate when they bought up Macromedia and stopped developing FreeHand in 2003. I'm still using it and won't ever pay for any of their other products. Venezuelans will just have to give up cloud and Adobe can't do much about anything else.
That is needlessly black and white and hyperbole.
Out of 100 websites you will have now, some of them are currently discriminatory. Some of them will shutdown, some will stop discriminating, some never discriminated to begin with.

Instead of going for the hyperbolic "none" put an actual number to it.
Is not discriminating worth it if we then only have 99 websites? 95? 50? 20?
I run this user script in Firefox using Greasemonkey. It will also run using Tampermonkey in Chrom[ium] as well. It might work for you until the CSS is changed. It might not.

// ==UserScript==
// @name hn_resize_subtitle
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// @include https://news.ycombinator.com*
// @version 1
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==

window.$hn_subtext_text_target = document.getElementsByClassName("subtext");

for (var i = 0; i < $hn_subtext_text_target.length; i++)
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Why wouldn't a blind person just call for a pizza?
> Well, in many countries it absolutely is. And there is no way to fix this.

That a legal government of a modern democratic country cannot represent its people is a horrendous claim. As a strong believer of democracy, I'd rather assume that you were the minority in this case. The everyone claim may hold true for everyone you know (among the minority of your country of course).
Why does anyone care about someone's nationality when they win a Nobel prize?
Being off on semantics isn't really the same as lying, in much the same way as nit-picking isn't widely considered a virtue.
That's a pretty good point considering Turing award winners (computer science) get so little media exposure compared to Nobel winners. Same for Field medal winners...
The solution is very simple. The government should take possession of any company that grows beyond a maximum size and distribute the shares to the public.