skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly, the primary surprise in your comment is that you say that just about 20% of website are not accessible - I'd have expected that percentage to be far higher! Of course, there's a difference between "usable" and "easy to use", I guess.

As a note, for any sighted developers (like me) reading along: I'd highly recommend you to spend half an hour to learn and practice navigating software with a screen reader some time. It's a relatively easy step that gives you a lot of insight into low-hanging fruit in terms of accessibility improvements.

(Also, keep in mind that accessibility is not just vision impairments. Things like small click targets can make things a lot harder for people with motor issues, e.g. many elderly people.)
I have a few friends that moved to that role and basically it is like creating a personal brand.

Start sharing knowledge on your personal website, blog, linkedin, twitter and other social media and also make sure to make it clear that you are open for conversation and could help other people/businesses. Attend local events and conferences, even become a speaker. Talk to a lot of people, see what problems they have and discuss how you could help. Get engaged with them, give an advice or do some small work for free. This would give you better impression of the project and the people that you would be working with and then tell them that you would be happy to consult them and offer them your rates.

When you have completed a project, ask if you could use them for future reference. On your blog/twitter write about your experience with this project and how you helped that company (without sharing any sensitive or business critical information) - this will show future clients that you are trustworthy. Rinse and repeat.
What next? I just checked how many game companies owned by Tencent. I don't think situation will going better. Especially these are popular esport games (Fortnite, LOL, PUBG)

https://www.pcgamer.com/every-game-company-that-tencent-has-...
Anybody here that did it that way and succeeded?

In my opinion the main road-blocks are finding clients who are convinced you can do whatever you want to sell.
Booking has been around forever but I thought the later was a newish company? Did they consciously pick Perl in 2010 when they launched? I guess that makes sense if that’s the founders’ background and their business model is practically (crawling and) extracting and reporting job postings from all over the web.
There's wide reports of Ableton Live 9 not working in Catalina, including from Ableton itself... but I just updated to Catalina and it launches and works... so either I'm doing something wrong or they're trying to get people to pay for an upgrade?
Working with Structured Data in Java
And they said Gavin Belson was just a fictional character...
Same for Spain.
NHS opens clinic to help child addicts of computer games
Why do we expect that people should live in house or have a home?

Maybe we need to design our cities and public places in a way that they would be approachable for people living outside?

Why we wouldn't have camping spots in cities with infrastructure that supports living outside?
To be fair: I can type pretty easily without looking at the keyboard. I am typing this sentence with my eyes closed, even fixing a typo while I do it. Touch typing solves a lot of this and a tab helps to hit the reply button.

IIRC, the screen readers will read back texts you just typed as well, but I'm not sure that is as necessary since most folks can get by with typing just fine.
EuroISPA strongly supports end-to-end encryption and opposes calls for backdoors
it is similar, that does not mean it's the same. Show me where to watch these episodes in France now...(legally) Also, I'm sure it's pretty easy to watch the censored episode in China... So yeah, very similar.
Another example in France is Soral who got one year jail for sharing a music video about Gilet Jaune[1]. Whatever you think about him, it's what we can call political repression.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxFchAvqwK4
I think this is a symptom of providing a legal remedy of 'you can sue'. There are dishonest lawyers with no interest in helping people with disabilities and they will sue you if they think you have enough money to make it worthwhile.

This is also the reason many of us have to step over used needles on the way to work every day, there are people who are going to die very soon from using heroin on the sidewalk, and there are lawyers lining up to sue if anything at all is done to discourage them from shooting up and passing out on the sidewalk.
I think you can be an unbearable character and a sucessful boss at the same time — it is certainly nit unheard of.

I remember we had a school headmaster who did a great job in taking the school in a new direction, but he was a sexist, choleric maniac with little self control and a lot of irrational behaviour. These thinga don’t necessarily exclude each other
I recall when I worked on Billing for Telecom Gold (Uk Dialcom) one account manger in charge of online databases wanted our billing system to assign the revenue from the data traffic during a data base session to his LOB.

We told him NO - though we could have done it I suppose, the billing system capable of incredible granularity - unlike BUCK$ eh Vint
Libya got destroyed when they wanted gold for oil. At least China has established yuan for oil for their trade with Russia.

> I am always surprised at how long we have kept this advantage.

With the amount spent with US Military (more than all the next 9 countries combined), not surprised. Military bases everywhere, wars everywhere etc.
If you cannot watch the episode in your country, here is a link to the "Band in China" on facebook (subbed in traditional Chinese): https://www.facebook.com/fighterstudiohk/videos/396572967928...
I know dropping 32-bit support will cause issues but isn't is broadly positive? Windows has always had a strong focus on backwards compatibility and look where it has ended up. I feel like in 5-10 years time, we will look back and say it was the right decision.

I remember when Apple dropped the CD-ROM drive....I haven't used a CD/DVD since 2013...over 6 years ago and I cannot remember a time when I needed to use one other than playing old DVDs which is not a big deal with Netflix & co.
This was already attempted:
https://www.newsweek.com/house-republicans-americans-disabil...

And blocked:
https://rewire.news/article/2018/04/03/sen-tammy-duckworth-s...
And what's wrong about letting whoever won a tournament have their 10 seconds of free speech to pass on a message?

Are we so afraid of free speech that we must insist on compartmentalizing subjects in that way? Just have Blizzard make a statement saying "That person's opinion is only his own, not Blizzard's" and be done with it.

And yes, that means the next one may shout about veganism or white supremacy. So what? That will benefit or hurt the people speaking, not Blizzard.
Because some, like, Adblock Plus and I assume all the other ad blockers who take part in the ridiculous "Acceptable Ads" programme, receive money from Taboola to allow those ads to show. Here's an entry where Taboola was added: https://adblockplus.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=25991
I get the downvotes, but this gets ignored at our collective peril.

E2E encryption, for all it's many benefits, does allow bad people to do bad things with impunity. Turning a blind eye to that because we want the privacy benefits isn't going to fly forever, and the solution that non-tech-savvy legislators will come up with if nothing is done will invariably be much, much worse than anything we can think of.
America's ISPs Object to Encrypted DNS
It’s the opposite: if you insist on keeping your browser maximized that can mean that you probably need all the width on some other site which scales poorly.

I never keep my browser maximized.
> the sloppy way with which science attribute importance to whatever is statistically significant.

But we don't. Just because an effect is statistically significant doesn't mean it could not also be explained by some systematic effect and physicists are very aware of that.

The famous five sigma rule prevents a claim of discovery without statistically significant evidence. It does NOT mean that we automatically accept every five sigma deviation from the background model as new physics.
Lack of programming skills is certainly an issue for you. I recommend remediating that, little by little. You don't need to join a bootcamp and land a developer job in 3 months (though why not?) but a little coding here and there can't hurt!

A lot of companies would like to employ open source technologies, but lack the manpower to setup and maintain that software. There is a lot of "enterprise ready"-ish projects out there like Nextcloud, Mediawiki, Keycloak etc, which can replace much more expensive and vendor-locked solutions. Maybe that is right up your alley?

You say you are living in a non-english native country. If that country generally has lower living-expenses and salaries, maybe you can use that to your advantage. With connections both to your local community and a higher-paying market you could start an outsourcing business and in the process help local developers. Or maybe there are alreay outsourcing firms in your area which might pay reasonably well?
I do not support the way the french government dealt with the yellow vest protests, but you cannot compare it with countries where opposing the government gets you systematically arrested and no free press exists. It's not because some of the actions of the french government are really questionable that the situation is the same
You might be able to hack something like that with espeak (a formant-based speech synthesizer): http://espeak.sourceforge.net/

Or like this HN submission on transliterating Esperanto to Polish to piggy-back off an existing text-to-speech system: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20802326
Yet another transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich by taxation with corrupt non-representation.
I think their biggest weakness is their relationship with sellers. Sellers hate Amazon because their livelihood is dependent of Amazon's ever changing policies and bans. This is why most of them have a Shopify store and hope to create a brand on their own. But, they haven't succeeded yet. If you can provide a credible alternative for these sellers, there will be a stampede of sellers out of Amazon.
When Schmidt says 'privacy is dead', he means your privacy.
You're plainly wrong. According to the "fired" mod herself, the issue is centered on SO's (soon to be introduced) policy of using preferred pronouns.

See https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2064709.html

> the company is changing the CoC to require use of preferred pronouns

In other words, it's a policy whereby an individual may request to be addressed a certain way, and that request must be honoured.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

It sounds like you're the one generating false outrage.

NB: It's not exactly clear how/if she violated anything, in fact, it sounds to me like she did nothing wrong. But that's not the point I'm making: The point is that everything stems from this new policy.
I have the same problem at the moment.... I want to update my Windows 10 (from 1803 to 1903), but it is simply not possible. Everytime I want to update I get an error (0xc190012e)... I uninstalled VeraCrypt and decrypted all of my drives (Took quite a long time..), but no success.

Probably this does not even has to do with VeraCrypt: After a bit of research I found some posts. It seems like this error is caused by my SSD... I guess I have to reinstall my Windows.
Even 20 years ago not having any FK's is problematic I would have never done that as a green developer 35 years ago.
Or to use a patch (http://dev.zeppel.eu/luca/SidecarCorePatch). But the image quality is abysmal.
For many people, the problem with that is that you have to pay the bills during that startup phase.

But yes, in general you are right.
I just use a single sequence for the whole database. It's much less information leakage and you never have to worry about confusing thing 5 with otherthing 5 in a query.
Hi,
The phone provisionning is not done using TR-06x as it is not relevant for these endpoints. We use https based provisionning to be closest to vendor specifications.
Documentation is here : http://www.wazo-platform.org/documentation/overview/provisio...

Regarding your 1st question : you can pass the provisionning server throw DHCP (it is explained on the doc link)

Regarding your second question : as the process is to deliver a flat file to a phone, it scales easily.
Not a surprise. If you still do not get, prepare for a world with no freedom of speech. Starting from Cathay, nba abd this.

You have to kill Winnie the pool per South Park advice. You have to ... there is choice when you have to no freedom.
You forgot Disney.
Trump would have gone on a rant, and some pro-Israel advertisers and supporters would pull their money out, but otherwise they'd be fine. An entire country wouldn't boycott them, probably not even Israel (but if they did, so what).
> People with more controversial ideas no longer want to contribute content to a website which censors difficult topic

I'm sorry, but I just think this a horrible mis-characterization of what reddit does. I'd encourage people to go look at the list of communities that have actually been banned[1]. Every single community that was removed was removed for particular problematic behaviour, not for the difficulty of the topic. /r/fatpeoplehate wasn't banned for its views on fat people, it was banned because it was harassing the people that appeared on the sub-reddit. And take the counter example - /r/The_donald arguably has been involved in some real dodgy stuff including actively pushing pizzagate including the harassment of the businesses accused to be involved in it. Reddit has gone to extreme lengths to try not to ban it because of the cooling effect on discourse that would have.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_Reddit_communiti...
Hi,
Could you report the 404 links you had ?
Thanks
Mathias
Yeah, I worked a lot on software written by russians, ukrainiens and chinese; basically the software has no usable comments for me (translation software was not helpful back then) and a lot of variable and method names were wrongly spelled english or ascii (not cyrillic etc) written russsian etc. It had a solid feeling of being obfuscated code a lot of the time. Fun times.
At the risk of getting downvoted for this, I urged caution against VeraCrypt in the past, because of the ties the company of its developer (IDRIX) has with the French government, lack of a history in cryptography before he took over VeraCrypt, and the overall possibility of nearness to the French security apparatus. People say that you can audit the code and compile it on your own, but who does that? Who checks the binaries?

To me with my overly vivid imagination, the fast forking of TrueCrypt to VeraCrypt looked like a hasty power grab by DGSE. Pure speculation, though.
Its economical, as you might learn if Chine doesnt like something in your product and removes half of your target audience overnight.
Yes they should. But china is too big. Money is too good. Failure to endorse human rights got big rewards. Done.
Same here.

I wanted to believe that even despite Activision buying Blizzard, it would stay an awesome company. I should have known better.

Starcraft 1 was the first game I ever bought. I feel sad to have to boycott them now.
It is strange that this subject gets so much attention but so little actual investigation. It is asserted that San Francisco simply backed off from enforcement and then this happened, but the reality is far more complex. Heavy ongoing use of incarceration caused both a backlash and extreme expense. Troubled people from all over the globe come to San Francisco. Most homeless only stay in the City for a couple of weeks before moving on. Making it sound like deciding to enforce crimes would be easy and cheap and fix the problem is a gross distortion of what is going on and what resources are available.
I think accessibility is very important, but I share your worry about the future for very small startup projects. I think it’s already almost impossible.

I worry about it getting much worse, especially with the animosity the larger tech companies face from the public. What people don’t understand is that those big companies will weather any of these regulations, and that they will stop smaller startups from ever happening.
Now you're just saying pure bullshit.
Soral is in jail for exactly "provocation to discrimination, hatred or violence against Jews".
Freedom of speech doesn't remove any responsibility behind it. Looking at all the hate speech and racists lies this guy have been spreading for years, it's even surprising he avoided this kind of sentence before.

This is the result of more than 20 sentences since 2008, mostly for "negationisme" (negating that the holocaust happened, which is not legal in france), publishing antisemitic caricatures, hate speech and other things.

The list is available here, in french:
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Soral#Condamnations
"The new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Find My can help users locate a missing Mac even if it’s offline and sleeping by sending out Bluetooth signals that can be detected by Apple devices in use nearby, and then relaying the detected location of the Mac to iCloud so a user can can locate it in the Find My app."

I'm curious about what kind of T&C will need to be accepted for this to work.
Hacker News could easily set a max-width on the problematic items. Every designer (and so should every web developer) knows that the sweet spot for reading is around 60 characters and a column of text if readable between 40 and 60 characters. Check for example the free course from https://betterwebtype.com/
You can view the diff of the scrubbing via NewSniffer: https://www.newssniffer.co.uk/articles/1375881/diff/7/8
I'm also interested in real hands-on reviews by HN readers!
I just checked and both domains are already on my DNS blocklists, and I'm just using the default blocklists from DNSCrypt. I look forward to blocking them and their combined entity. [Deity]bless the people who maintain those lists.
Ah yes the Guardian, Fox news for rich center-left people that have a fable for hating trans people.
Further reading: https://medium.com/@VitalikButerin/exploring-elliptic-curve-...
Well, I don't know if that helps them from legal perspective, but I'm sure many disabled (and non) wouldn't mind if there was an alternative super simple text based version (but equal) on the web that they can lead their disabled customers on every platform needed.
RobbinHood Ransomware operators take away all hope of decrypting files for free
Oh, and for your censorship claims:
https://www.amazon.fr/s?k=south+park+saison+10&__mk_fr_FR=%C...
Extended Monaco, find out what it means
I'm quite curious, what did you find far-right about this article? I thought it was quite centrist, moderate, gentle.
A New York author suggesting to Californians how to police is a bit... tilting at windmills?
I've paused to really think about this -- I think you may be taking the show very literally when it's not meant to be taken that seriously.

It does often have that surface-level message: Good people will always prevail, evil is a necessary part of the status quo, etc. But that's always part of the joke.

I don't think anyone leaves South Park episodes thinking "wow that is so true" and having introspective thoughts about our country. It's more like "what the fuck did I just watch" and "that's about right," dismissive of the average American lifestyle or unhappy with the problems we often face.

I'll keep that in mind though. Interesting perspective.
That might pay $150k, which is significantly less.

Also being "extremely type A" doesn't sound like a difficulty, really. And I don't see how it justifies 99th percentile pay either.
All sorts of personal expenses can be deducted through a company. Travels, restaurants and hotels, car rentals, car maintenance.

Even holidays, there is a whole business of seminars on cruises and exotic locations, people sign the presence sheet and skip classes and declare everything as an expense.

You can pay your Internet, phone, buy coffee machines and coffee, office items and have all that deducted as a company expense.

All of this is pretty significant for most people and would make a huge difference in most people budgets.
Try subcontracting for an existing consultancy. Local meetups often have consultancies with excess demand to fill.
Censored in China. Not censored in France. Looks like different results to me.
Apollo AGC up for auction [video]
You should put:
- get a shiny office
- raise your rates even more

Somewhere in there.
Don’t underestimate the image of your business, unless you wanna play the “solo star” career.

Also, write about what you know and do somewhere (a blog, a specialized magazine): it gives you credit.
Google maps butchers a lot of place names in the UK even when it's set to British English. In fareness, that's because many are simply not spelt phonetically.

Driving around Wales or Cornwall are particularly fun, it really can't deal with the names. Not sure if it manages better when it's in Welsh language mode (if that's available).
While there are many things extremely wrong with the quantitative output requirements of modern science, arguing that "a great deal of scientific papers are just written as a requirement to finish a masters/doctors degree" is somehow a bad thing is not sincere.

For many their PhD thesis is probably both the most laborious and the most scrutinized piece of work they will have to produce.
That is a natural consequence of the way in which the United States chooses to enforce rules like this. In some other countries, there are regulators who do this kind of thing and issue relatively small fines and compliance notices. Since the regulator itself is publically funded, it does not need to live off the fine income.

In the US, the choice was made instead to create a private right of action and to allow legal fees to be recovered. That means that lawyers who make this their business have to aim high to cover their costs (including from cases they lose) and are no incentivised to let a company off with a compliance notice and a deadline to improve.

As a result, there are a certain percentage of ADA cases which are not brought in good faith but that is the system the people have decided they want.
Google Has a Graveyard for Dead Products
> There's a lot of stuff out there that's not maintained, but is still useful.

I can't see how this is Apple's problem. Holding up development of a platform and technical progression generally for unmaintaned software is not a good working model for anyone, no matter how useful it is.

> So "recompiling every few years" is a pretty big burden.

As is "supporting everything ever implemented in perpituity"...
> Our site is of zero interest to them.

How do you know? It's not like blind people are all the same. They're just people with the same wide range of interests as everyone else.
If the assumption is that the user is looking for the cheapest option regardless of how he's been treated, this strategy makes sense.

But that leaves you at the mercy of the competition, which in an open data business (I mean, airlines are more than happy to tell you which flights they have available) implies that your product is undifferentiated. So eventually you resort to this tactics: as soon as a user gets in, do anything that's humanly possible to convert that sucker.

That's in essence what's wrong with Booking. This trickles down, unfortunately: Ryanair hides most of its costs in effectively forcing you to upgrade to Premium in order to be treated as something just a bit more than lifestock, because the assumption that travelers' main concern is price pervades the industry, even if the price they are shown isn't the price they pay in the end.