skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Two things:

a) the context of the entire conversation is Flash and the web. If you can point me to developers that are writing airplane autopilots, astronomy signal processors, reactor core monitors (oh God), or video compressors in Flash, you are welcome to bring those categories into the conversation.

b) you're applying moral judgement to a statement of fact. I'm not. Everyone discriminates. There is no such thing as universally-accessible software (if nothing else, it fails the first test "Not everyone has hardware to run it"). The reasons we discriminate and the consequences of that discrimination are what matter. I'm personally against the casual, thoughtless discrimination that can result from declaring the HTML render model "too hard" and throwing up one's hands without considering how all relevant user agents that can consume the model do, but if one has considered those user agents (and the users behind them), it can be a valid decision a company can make.

... all of that having been said, for at least the set of developers whose primary target is "the web," not having thought once about assistive access is a mark of an amateur. You can cover a lot of ground in this industry as an amateur, but you'll be held to a higher standard by huge swaths of potential jobs (banks care, universities care, government websites care, consumer websites that do enough business to notice if they lose ~2% of users care). And the nice thing about HTML as a technology is that more often than not, if you do almost nothing, you'll cover 90% of use cases for assistive access.
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I am unfamiliar with material sciences. Are 3d printed metals as structurally sound as other techniques for metallurgy?
Fortunately, iOS devices won’t allow this.
remember when everyone was bailing on github because of evil microsoft?
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> we ask for 100 lines of code

Why?
I was at one point subscribed to Playstation Vue when I was determining what alternatives were viable after canceling my cable subscription. I remember it being a bit meh. The channels were decent but I was not a fan of the UI/UX. Also in the end $40/mo was quite steep for something we rarely used to begin with so we dropped it and continue to just use Netflix/Hulu for watching TV/Movies.
"I bet one day people are going to make GPL'd custom clients for popular websites."

People do, it's just hard to do so against any website that has an incentive to prevent you from creating a third-party custom clients, which is every site that serves advertising, which is... uhh... basically the internet.

But, see Hacker News: https://play.google.com/store/apps/collection/cluster?clp=gg... (At least, I hope that link sends you to a search on "Hacker News" on the Google Play Store. If not, well... search for "Hacker News".)
When is the statement balance due? Every 30 days? I don't see how this is 0% APR/any different than a consumer credit card?
This is why I said "be careful" ;-). Someone who thinks that a balance transfer offer is easy math may not be making the best financial choice. As you point out, managed carefully, that can be mitigated.
> to provide a pop-up notification?

The fact that you can easily describe what their modifications do as a new feature (w notification) that wasn't part of the original work is stro9ng evidence that their modifications were transforative.

> These MITM alerts are typically customer-beneficial and customer-relationship-oriented;

That doesn't give them the right to make a derivative work based on my webpage. I'm not their customer!

> the purpose is to alert that the user is getting close to a bandwidth cap

So what? Communicating with their customers doesn't require violating the copyrights of many 3rd parties. 3rd parties shouldn't even be involved.

Instead of vandalizing a lot of webpages, they could:

* Simply send only their own page instead of appending of trying to mix it into other people's copyright protected works. This is how captive portals worked ever since they were invented.

* Instead of trying to notify their customers in-band with the service they provide, send any necessary warnings to the phone number (or other contract information) listed on the customer's account. This is what many businesses did in the past, and many still do.

* (re: bandwidth limits) They could stop trying to impose artificial scarcity and use a business model with more honest pricing.

* They could add a small message display and alert light (and buzzer?) to the modem/router.
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My cofounder and I are about to close an angel round, and will give one board seat to the lead angel. How do we decide who to appoint as chairman of the board? Is there a standard practice for this?
Agreed, this is better, though I might add ", wildfires implicated". TIL one cannot edit posts and change links, unless I am missing something. Thought I could but maybe that is before it gets votes.
Yeah, I was disappointed they did not bring night sight to older iPhones. Google has made night sight available to all models of Pixel phones.
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They won't though. How would they upsell customers if they provide them with the same features that newer phones have?

I wish they would, but that doesn't fit Apple's typical MO.
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcN3WETCDzM

That's a beautiful line!
many of us have already saved it. If they go full-streisand on that, so good!
Most hobbies have a cost and time length of enjoyment and thus you can determine how much you are spending per hour of enjoyment.

Movies is like $25 an hour, though skipping concessions and going to a cheaper theater can bring it down to under $10 an hour.

A short video game (assuming full price release day) is like $7 an hour. (Cost is higher if you play games less because the upfront cost of the system is split over fewer games).

A long video game is goes from $2 an hour to $.50 an hour, and can go much cheaper for games you enjoy for extremely long times.

Books for me are around $2 to $.50 an hour ($20 book that last 10 hours to a $10 book that lasts as long). Libraries make all of this much much cheaper if you have one.

I actually read a lot of web novels/fan fiction which are generally free and thus my only cost is for the internet access that I'm paying for anyways.

Sports can be a lot harder to measure because there is a large variance in the costs depending on numerous factors, but I would assume they aren't that much cheaper (though generally much healthier for you).

I find art, especially for anything that is above crayola level brand, is quite a bit more expensive. So for kids it is cheap, but for adults who spend any serious amount of time in it, the costs go up pretty fast.

So in comparison, $1 an hour for TV isn't bad, but it is filled with ads. So many ads I personally refrain from TV.
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Not for me.

I like my terminals tiled (hence tmux) and everything else free floating.

People say a tiled wm makes you more productive. But most of my time goes to thinking, I don't work in a factory...
This is such nonsense it's just incredible that people with such seemingly strong conversational strengths in music could say something so perversely false.

If you are looking at the kind of music that makes it onto Top 40 radio stations, then this is undoubtedly true. But that's not what is meant when you say

> For the past 30 years music has definitely become more "bland"

When you suggest that, you appear naive and ignorant. Because it means you don't know about Tyshawn Sorey [0], Mary Halvorson [1], Anthony Braxton [2], John Zorn [3], etc.

Pop music, a tiny sliver of all the important music being composed and performed today, has gotten progressively shittier. Fine, I'll grant you that. But who cares? That's not what we're talking about when examining the vast complexities being propagated and explored by today's musical masters. We are in a golden age of harmonic and compositional innovation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqw-HE9szrs
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEfK0ZfbLRA (featuring Nels Cline, who is actually much more important for his participation in the NYC avant-garde than for his involvement with Wilco)
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNJfU0AJK2c
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYis3q0vv7g
IP law with fonts is kind of unintuitive. From what I’ve read, the design of a font can’t be copyrighted, but the implementation can. So you can make a font that looks identical to Helvetica and be okay, but if you copy and paste anything from the original, you’re on shaky ground. Kind of like how recipes can’t be copyrighted, but the wording and formatting of a recipe can. IANAL of course, but that’s what I’ve read in the past.
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I like working from bed in my laptop, but I feel that my posture is unhealthy for the long-run. I am looking for a healthy way to work from bed without breaking my neck. Do you have any method or tool to work from bed ?
As a victim of such a falsified crime, testified by half a dozen police officers who couldn't get their stories straight but whom "somehow" were believed, you're only adding credence to the claim with that analogy.
Could you link sources on this? Want to share with a friend
To my (IANAL) nose, this is a good dissection.

The risk with making business decisions around language like "reasonable accomodation" is that the criteria for "reasonable" can change. I'm not an expert in the space, but the watchdogs I read are smelling a change in the wind direction towards increased scrutiny of web accessibility (relevant interest groups are watching the web eat e-commerce and are concerned about what that looks like if the accessibility drum isn't beaten hard early on in the process). Lawsuits like this are expected to increase in 2019.
Oh... This Makefiles stuff is interesting... mind to share a little more about it (or maybe some links)

I'm a script junkie... So it may be really useful for me to learn about this! =)
>Books can be free if borrowed from a library - but ownership has an ‘hourly cost’

Even the library has a cost, but it is generally much much lower if you have good access to a library.
Wildly inappropriate sentencing? The question of whether it's really appropriate to deny a kind of democratic participation is also worth discussing.
> fit Apple's typical MO

Apple, or any business trying to make money?
> or (2) the user to install a certificate generated by the person doing the MITM

You mean like that "setup software" Comcast spent ages trying to pretend I had to install just to get things running?

I ran Linux in those days, which always meant a little extra support time but I never had to install jack.
My first take on opening the link is "Wow! What an amazingly readable page."

(This on a mobile tablet.)

If but that more of the Web were like this.
"Those who would give up essential control, to purchase a little temporary memory safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety" --Ben Franklin
What is your opinion on riotjs?

I have followed that project for many years & it has always had an interesting component system, but I have never done anything serious with it. They have recently released a new major version. Very small community.
Most people wouldn't care about it's usage and will keep it as the default.
Did they said that because they always speak they're minds or because forced telemetry is becoming a norm? We will never know I guess.
You can't force people to be considerate.

... which is why we have laws to force people to do the right thing even when they don't have the right emotions behind it. I think we're coming at this from two different directions; the people I work with have come to learn that if you don't beat the drum more or less continuously, things don't get better.

Not nearly enough folks are inclined to be considerate; consideration without force of law just isn't good enough.
Like Frank Capra's 1938 film, "You can't take it with you"
Funny how that technological innovation have sped up so much that 50 years is now (actually, today it'd be less) considered to be the time that the average person should have something better than the state-of-the-art at the time.

This is definitely not true for the majority of history. The way the world ran in 1979 would not have been that much notifiably different than 1929, even though people have landed on the moon. Today, the life of the average Joe is completely transformed by internet.
Yeah I was really blown away by that. +4 hours. We're getting into territory of having virtually no 'range anxiety' with your phone.

On my S10 I now have a cheap $5 charging pad at the office, and I never really think about charging anymore when I get home.

Only on vacation trips I still have to budget my battery.
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I feel like evidence dis-confirming a hypothesis is as valuable as confirming it. How many other grad students are going to attempt the same experiment/concept if null results are never published?

I wish there was more praise for negative results in publication, because whether confirmed or not, the knowledge has value.
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Writing on Games has a very good video about why that comparison actually really doesn't hold very well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ySPq0Sw10

tl;dw: Those other games are more about generating absurd and funny situations through (carefully designed) intentionally awkward controls and silly physics. Goose Game is carefully designed to allow the player to set up and execute a joke for themselves.
fantastic article, loved the obvious effort put into it!
I don't understand why this is not the default behavior.
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That you pay for via inflated prices and fat profit margins.
We need the same for cameras and microphones, too.
Haha, thanks for the shout out. Here was the HN convo for smelvetica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17925352

Yeah, like a lot of people mentioned here, I didn’t really fight the takedown. Didn’t really have a lot of interest wasting any time with people who’s sole job was to ruin the fun. And on the flipped side, found it even funnier that they felt it hurt their brand at all.
Examples:

- Support for less-popular or customized keyboard layouts. From time to time popular OSes had a wrong version of supported layouts as well.

- Deterministic autocorrection. For example, normally an initial jamo (e.g. ㄱ) should be followed by a medial jamo (e.g. ㅏ) and not vice versa, but many IMEs offer a feature that automatically swaps them. With a carefully designed layout this can catch lots of transposition typos.

- Custom candidates for special characters, as Korean IMEs show special characters as candidates when a jamo is being "converted" to Hanja (popularized by MS IME).

The IME in question [1] also allows an extremely customizable input system, to the extent that it forms a soft of wholesale DSL for Hangul IMEs.

[1] http://moogi.new21.org/en/ngs/index.htm
A great article and a lovely author - he helped me develop some ideas on my final year essay while I studied at the University of Sheffield, even though he wasn't lecturing me.
they are of course tracking us right now. This announcement is just an explicit reminder that they can do so, to try to scare the people. The dates are irrelevant.
Not in Europe they aren't.

You hardly see a Chromebook anywhere in most consumer shops, and when they appear, it looks like testing waters, followed by endless promotions to try to get rid of them.

It is all about Windows 10 over here.
I have Cox Internet and they do the same thing when you reach 85% usage. I probably don't see it very often though because most of the sites I'm on are https.
> A static layout will never know how to reflow itself when the window size changes; it needs code to define that behavior.

This is no longer true. CSS grid solves this completely.

https://youtu.be/7kVeCqQCxlk
Oh awesome, I really enjoyed your book! Now I'm wondering if I first heard about it on HN, or through some other means.

If you don't mind answering - what made you decide to write this book in particular?
Gitlab has also committed to doing a post-mortem on this, just as they do for crashes or data breaches, which is a good thing.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with it. I'm just pointing out that there is a significant hurdle that doesn't exist with HTML.
You may or may not agree with that comment, but it is not nasty. What is nasty, on the other hand, is the vitriolic reaction to it. So far I count 16 "middle finger" emojis, including one with the subtitle "incompentent or malicious CFO". In what world does a disagreement over the right level of telemetry justify this kind of behavior?

It's mind-boggling to me how entitled and aggressive the open-source culture is allowed to be. Does a company like Gitlab really deserve to have its employees publicly insulted in this way, after giving away so much to their users, for free, and being so much more transparent than 99% of tech companies?

At this point I don't understand why anyone in their right mind would go to the trouble of making their product open-source. It's just not worth it.
Playstation Vue was their TV service (not to be confused with Playstation Now - their game streaming service which is comparable to Xbox Game Pass).

Their TV service if I can recall started at $40/mo for their basic subscription. Their game streaming service was $20/mo but was dropped to $10/mo earlier this month. To compare Xbox Game Pass is currently $10/mo. The difference is (correct me if I'm wrong) PS Now _streamed_ the games whereas Xbox downloads them. PS Now seemed to focus more on older titles where Xbox Game Pass is heavily indie games with a few newer AAA releases mixed in.

Xbox certainly provides a lot of value for the $1.00 entry into the Game Pass with their current sale (provides games for both Xbox and PC).
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> A few snotty Sheldons mastering auto-flow math doesn't scale well.

How about we quit ignoring the elephant in the room?

CSS sucks. It was designed for a time when Javascript wasn't required for every website.

Now that we've thrown in the towel and every single website is dependent upon Javascript, we should toss CSS, too.
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That's disappointing. We've used them for some time. Even though it was far from the cheapest streaming option, they seemed to have the best set of channels.
Having gps trajectrories and two locations in the city, like home and job address, it should be quite easy to find corresponding trajectory and thus deanonymising a single person. No need for imsi or any other data. Therefore to make data anonymous it should be encoded in terms of number of subscribers in given time and area. My guess would be it isn't
Nothing says accessibility needs to be immediately incorporated into the same content as the non-accessible content.

Restaurants can offer Braille menus. They aren't forced to put translations in Braille immediately next to every piece of text on the menu they give to everyone.
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Sure, but I’m not sure how easy it is to back-port neural engine training data to a less sophisticated, previous generation neural engine.

I know Google made their night model generally available, but I don’t think it depends on specific custom hardware.
Source of table: https://www.techcenturion.com/7nm-10nm-14nm-fabrication

Link referenced earlier by "lettergram".
The polar extremes are good examples? Hardly.

Design is much like politics right now, it's hilariously sad when there is no concept of moderation or a middle ground.
I've had to force myself to use that ammo/elixir/etc. because I'd do the same. Playing something like DOOM (2016) where you're constantly swapping between weapons due to ammo running out helped. Or play everything on hard
You can create a custom store in Svelte and do almost the same:

import { writable } from 'svelte/store';

export default function(state) {
const { subscribe, set, update } = writable(state);

return {
subscribe,
getArea() { ... }
};

};
Tesla, in SEC filing, says U.S. auto sales fell by $2B
Of course, this whole thing is also overlooking the absurdity of a 1 TB monthly data cap on a service offering up to 1000 Mbps bandwidth.
Retirement income + money market investment income. I've left the market, because I'm a pessimistic investor. I've sold my house and it too is in cash investments.
For an economy, too much saving is as much a problem as too much debt. We're all just paying each other to do things and acquiring capital just to have it past the point where you need it kills jobs and concentrates wealth away from people less fortunate.
It's the work of the Zucc, it's not enough that they can feed you ads, it's essential they know every move you make on the web with a GUID
I love automatic door openers for those days I have to heft some big dumb package in and out of the office.

... and I'm extremely confident that without the law forcing them to, no office I ever worked in would have spent $2,200 per door on that feature, no matter how useful it is to everyone on the odd day.
I don't have any insights to add here but I did just build a new PC this weekend with an Asus X570 MoBo a 3900x, and 32GB of 3600Mhz memory w/ Ubuntu 19.04 and everything worked as expected. I haven't even updated the BIOS yet. I did spend all day Sunday getting the Nvidia/CUDA drivers configured for Tensorflow, but that's a different story.

I just hope people don't think that every system build will deal with these problems.
This is a very american thing. I'm french and live in China, what you're describing is really foreign to me.

I'd say "most people" save a lot for retirement and their first house buy, "most people" live way below their salary max, "most people" would slap you for considering a consumer loan.

What happened to you guys to go so deep in the hellhole to not even see it's madness to live that way...
Why? Did we change what we call these things because some people in power are afraid of the taint of woo and made up a new designation? I like UFO:)
Notes, video summaries, etc. are always welcome, I think. It would be great if in addition to raw notes, you add 1-2 sentence summaries to each note cluster.
ok. so your mind is made up. thanks for sharing.
That's different.

Apple's capricious app store review policy aside, iOS is so locked down that even a completely malicious sideloaded* iOS app can't dig itself into the system like this. Without a local privilege escalation exploit there's just no way to set up a persistent background service and no way to escape the sandboxing to allow an app to leave a mark on the system after your app is uninstalled.

(*a developer can basically sideload any app on their iOS device with an Apple developer license)
Purposely sidestepping the entire spirit of the issue is not going to help whatever this is you're doing in the name of The Users With Actually Serious Problems.
It will be ugly, just like the venezuelan government setting prices of food items led to farmers abandoning agriculture.
Supporting and improving previous generation devices fits Apple's MO better than any other company's.
> "It's mind-boggling to me how entitled and aggressive the open-source culture is allowed to be."

'Allowed' to be? The "open source culture" is the sum of the participants and participation is open to the general public. If being rude were "not allowed" who would be doing the not allowing and why should they be so empowered over members of the general public?
I use Halide on my iPhone SE, so the app is still fairly backwards compatible

It obviously doesn't have the features related to multiple lenses and smart HDR, but it is my go to camera app.