skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yes and previous ADA rulings have said that this means access to the WEBSITE must be available to all - so screen readers, alt-text for images etc

This goes further and claims that all the content must also be available to the deaf with CC, and presumably described audio for the blind as well.

This is the bit that goes beyond reasonable. The ADA requires me to make the store accessible from the parking lot for those in wheelchairs - it doesn't require me to modify my stock of mountain bikes to be usable by the disabled
Actually, He claimed to understand entirely how gravity works and is generated. He also had very extensive knowledge of medical science, and how consciousness works. I've personally listened to about 50 conversations with American researchers he traveled across the country to meet, and not one of them asked him a question to verify the evidence of his claims, or learn more. No one wanted to learn from him, but not one could answer his simple questions about their field of study. I really regret this about them because I'm finding lately that I have some questions I should have asked him when I was younger.

Yet, despite his extensive travels, it seems so easy for people who claim philosophical or scientific knowledge to criticize him before they verify who he is and what he really can perceive.

Psychologically speaking, why do people behave like that? In my experience it occurs when they don't want their falsehoods to be revealed.
Fair enough. I appreciate that bold ambition, and I realize it's an R&D project :). It just has a little bad negative aftertaste to it in this context, considering that Harfbuzz has been a really good example of a body of code that solves a hard problem and has been collaborated on and adopted by many different parties. Going NIH on it, even with noble intent and explicit technical reasons, just feels like a step backward, and like trying to do too many things at once.

I guess what it comes down to is whether what Servo is justifies that lack of pragmatism: That's what it'll have to prove.
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Some times things just fall in place.

It behooves the company to bring him in for a chat and re-hire him, rather than immediately start a lengthy court process that would cost them money, time, and wouldn't even guarantee anything.

Also, as this is (presumably) in the Netherlands, they don't have the same itchy trigger finger as we do in the States when it comes to filing suits.
They just opened Phase 3 in Fremont2. All the racks are 36" and there is tons of available space. I agree that power is expensive, but the bandwidth cost can't really be beat.
> "This kind of violent activity tends to become more prevalent and audacious when grown men and women can no longer provide food and shelter for their families."

I doubt there's much overlap between "people who would commit armed extortion against a giant company" and "people who can't feed their families".

This isn't a crime of desperation, it's a crime carried out by organized criminals who have been in the business for a long time.
Netflix has not claimed anything pertaining to that issue in its defense, so the court cannot rule on that issue.

Netflix's primary defense was, essentially, "We're a website and the ADA doesn't apply to websites." (It also claims that the CVAA exempts them, but I don't think the ruling on that issue is really what folks are worried about here.) The Court's decision primarily affirms that websites are not summarily exempted from the ADA. It does not imply that all websites are subject to ADA requirements, or that all content on all websites is subject to them, or any of the other breathless hand-wavy Chicken Little style speculation that the article engages in.

Netflix did make an argument pertaining tangentially to copyright, but as the ruling points out it was framed as a technical argument that was again intended to demonstrate that it exempted Netflix from the ADA on the grounds that they were a content distributor rather than a content provider. The Court ruled that this argument did not stand, but it also took time to specifically clarify that, because Netflix did not actually make the claim that they may not have had the right to generate closed captions under copyright law, that issue was not actually placed before the Court and therefore could not be addressed by the ruling. It did suggest, though, that it could be visited if a motion for summary judgment is filed. (p. 14)
Having gone through a bunch of wakemates that stopped working or were DOA's, their horribly unresponsive service as a result of that (and not to mention their botched launch), I have absolutely no faith in this team being able to deliver.

Which is a shame because the product itself, like the wakemate before it, sounds very cool.
The fact that you did it "secretly" might get you into trouble- using a company credit card for unauthorized purchases is fraud. I suppose you could argue the kid defrauded the company by spending his time programming rather than doing data entry. I don't think that would be as easy to get a judgement for as credit card fraud.
I tend to be skeptical of these efforts at engineering startup hubs out of thin air by building great new facilities. Many other complex, inter-related factors are necessary to have a successful startup hub.

As pg himself put it: "Building office buildings for technology companies won't get you a silicon valley, because the key stage in the life of a startup happens before they want that kind of space. The key stage is when they're three guys operating out of an apartment."[1] (He's covered this topic more than once -- e.g., see [2] below.)

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[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html

[2] http://www.paulgraham.com/hubs.html
Do you mean it is decreased >= 50% since you started using Emacs 23? What version are you using now?
Ah, I missed that in my skimming of the OP. That does make the situation somewhat extortionary.
They seem to be using Backbone.js now
That's essentially what undefined behaviour is.
By the way, the wakemate.com domain was expired.
My problem with LinkedIn is other people. People want me to say I know them when I don't (hey, networking!). People want me to recommend them when I have only seen them in the hallway and don't even know what they do.

I am very conservative about these things. Does LinkedIn's own model disagree? Does it push people towards larger networks, instead of smaller, higher-value ones?

Am I doing it wrong, or is (seemingly) everyone else?
They don't speak Dutch in Denmark.
I'm a long time emacs user and I work in Visual Studio a lot. VS does have pretty good integration with Perforce and other commercial scs, which presumably is what most of it's target audience needs.

Switching between files works best with Visual Assist added. Alt-Shift-o search string will get a list of matching files, and approximates emacs buffer switching.

Regarding the great IDE vs emacs/vim debate, I find using the IDE is best when working with code, and emacs for everything else. Occasionally I'll need to do something more complicated or that can be automated with an emacs macro and I edit the file there instead.
It also looks like they took down the website and app for Wakemate, which seems to have come as a surprise for the dozens of people that were still using the product.
It's a matter of tone. Write in a dry voice, sound as disspassionate as possible, try to sound academic, and middlebrow readers will assume you must be a fount of un-biased, rational analysis.
When I was 14, bunch of my cousins and I started working at my uncle's start-up as a summer "internship." Bulk of our job was to find product images and resize them in various sizes. For a while, my cousins were using photoshop to do them and at the least, each image would take a minute. I saw the repetitiveness and wrote a Visual Basic tool that would process entire directories in seconds. Their work was significantly reduced.

We decided not to tell my uncle about my tool for a while so that we could all finish our work a bit early and get out to play cricket together before it got dark.
I recently moved to Berlin from Denmark and it is fairly simple. Most of my problems are due do the risk of double taxation caused by EU stupidity.

You can found any type of company in Germany without having citizenship. But you will most definitely need an English speaking accountant. The forms/paperwork are only available in German and there is quite a long way from school German to understanding a discussion with the German tax authorities.

Be careful in choosing an English speaking accountant as the quality of their English abilities varies greatly. As with so many other things you get what you pay for.

The German tax authorities are generally welcoming and pleasant but you better have your papers in order and filled out correctly. Also expect to spend a considerable amount of time at the local registry. The lines are long and employees few.

If you come from outside of the EU you will probably have a more difficult time.

That being said it is not at all impossible. Berlin is a great city and lots of happenings related to start ups and development in generally takes place all the time. The German authorities realizes the value of foreigners starting companies and the have a really excellent website in English here

http://www.existenzgruender.de/englisch/self_employment/inde...

Also check out this site for a short intro

http://berlin.angloinfo.com/countries/germany/business.asp
I would ask you to give me a citation, but I'm not sure if it will be so helpful.

We know all the scriptures were written by monks, perhaps 500 or more years after Gautama Buddha passed away. Most of the time they just wrote down what they wanted, or from their own ideas and opinions.

"Buddha nature" is one of the first lies that Buddhist monks tell people. People donate to the monks who practice meditation because they want to invest in someone who is spending all his time on a path they think will get to Enlightenment. But it is not virtue to donate to the monks.

Someone only can have Enlightenment and Buddha nature by removing every falsehood from inside themselves. But if he did that he'd be a Tathagata in this lifetime, and it is ultimately very rare to encounter a living enlightened being.
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Sounds like they got a software engineer for super cheap, too. I bet his boss's boss was laughing so hard because the kid doesn't realize how much money he could have been making.
full article link:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230444140457748...
Looks like they decided I'm not sleeping enough, as their intro video plays like a lullaby.
Wow, that seems so obvious now! Never occurred to me before, but I love it.
> Also, as this is (presumably) in Denmark, they don't have the same itchy trigger finger as we do in the States when it comes to filing suits.

Surely you mean the Netherlands?
Or better yet, apply to 300 positions and go drinking for the whole year!
Yup. The "spite" motivation. The question is how strong an incentive spite is. Things like money or fame are better in motivating people IMO.
See also: the New Yorker.
Yes I read it and I was trying to point out why I thought you were wrong in using racial segregation as a metaphor.

It is a totally different thing to deny someone service based on factors they cannot control as skin-color or disabilities, than to not extend your service to take every group in the world into account.

If i develop a service that is useful to a lot of people, I shouldn't be punished for not taking into account every possible user.

I am not saying that deaf people don't deserve to be able to watch movies on Netflix, but I think that Netflix should be encouraged through grants etc. to make the site more useful for people with disabilities instead of forced.
Text shaping is hard? How about a browser? If these guys think they've got something innovative, more power to them. We got this comment a lot back when we started Chrome, but fortunately we didn't let it stop us :-)
Also:

Even if you click the link (say two times) from HN (the link that I gave) you run into paywall problems.

To fix you have to open a new browser and search for the title and click over from google.
This sounds a lot like AsterData Database, which I know has been around for at least a few years. I'm interested to know if you are able to write queries that define explicit parallelism like in the SQL-MapReduce language extension, and also the ability of the query preprocessor for the distributed workload.
Sure there is: Google could pay for updates out of store revenues.
It's funny how the first comment is about browsers lacking a "super-mega-fast-quick JS engine". I bet that was one happy Chrome user when it first came out :)
Yes those jobs are shitty, but they are better than 200/500 years ago.

(a) There are more labour laws now. You don't have to work as much. No more shoveling shit for 10 hours a day, 6 or 7 days a week. (b) There are health and safety laws now, if you were to shovel shit now, you'd have to have a mask etc. (c) There are more labour laws now, so that the employer has to provide tools and training. No more "shovel shit for 10 hours, you have to bring your own shovel, oh you're shovel got broken, you're out of a job" (d) There is more of a safety net. No more shovel shit for 10 hours, oh you broke your hand? Hope you can live without food until it heals. etc.

Those jobs suck, yes. But ask anyone doing them if they think mediæval shit shoveling is just as good (or better), and they'll say no.
You need to write a book to help people understand Eclipse versioning.
Well, being a native German speaker I still suffer from all of the above issues with "some locals" on a routine basis...

But yeah, true, sure, knowing languages is always useful and can make a difference :)
New features != unreliable

Python has an extensive set of comparability tests and the system is quite modular. It also follows the maxim that complex systems that work are built from simple systems that work.

You don't have to use the new features. You don't even need to use Python3. Sounds more like "Damn kids and their loud rock and roll."
I'm getting a request from $100,000 Pyramid to access my account?
Perhaps I'm just getting old, but my BS detector is pegged.
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I'd like to hear more about this tension you speak about so that I better address what you have to say. I've personally wrestled with mindfulness vs. action and one of the reasons I continue to practice mindfulness meditation is:
1. It's one of the most accessible types of meditation (in terms of finding a teacher) in the West.
2. Mindfulness and being grounded in the present moment has influenced the quality of my day-to-day action. While I won't go into detail, I feel as though my day to day actions have been guided by an increased sense of purpose and compassion.
I hate to be piling on, I'm sure this is an unpleasant enough thread for the Wakemate team to read, but MiLife+ is a pretty horrible name. Wakemate was a great name. MiLife+? Come on, even Microsoft names their products better than that!
Reading this it sounds like the WakeMate team split up and Greg now has a new company that is trying this MiLife+
It's crazy to me that we as C programmers are flying blind about when we invoke undefined behavior. There is no blinking red light that warns us that something needs to be fixed, only strange and unexplainable behavior, or in some cases things just work fine because the undefined behavior happens to follow our expectations on some combination of platform and compiler.

I keep wishing that there was a Valgrind-like tool that could detect and report undefined behavior. It would have to be a dynamic, runtime tool, since many/most cases of undefined behavior cannot robustly detected statically. But it would need to have more information at runtime about the original C program than Valgrind has; the assembly alone does not contain enough information to know if the source C program is invoking undefined behavior.

I feel certain that if this tool existed, we would find scores of undefined behavior in all but the most conscientious C programs.
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How are they tracking diet automatically through the wristband? Can someone please explain that to me?
I had a co-op job with the Navy (civil service) while in college. I sat next to a really nice lady named Peggy who was on the phone every day fielding lost password requests. She'd reset the password, then read the new password to the person over the phone, day after day after day.

I went to my boss and offered to add a forgot password link to the site. His response: "But then what would Peggy do?"
Oh, give him a break. He's a kid. He got his (manual data-entry) work done.

Yes, legally he developed a program on company time and on company computers.

But he's not being willfully extortionary just because he thought ahead and won't let scumbag boss take all the credit.
> perhaps biological, norm that men make proposals and the women evaluate them

I don't think this is quite true. In a bar or club women invite specific men to hit on them with positioning, proximity, and eye contact. She'll steal glances and stand nearby. The solid majority of flirting is subtley initiated by women in the real world and internet dating breaks that.
There was a bare unlabelled power line wire hanging from a pole and I touched it and was fine, then another friend touched it another day was electrocuted.

How come the voltage on an unknown wire is just allowed to change like that - what are the laws of physics for!
The reason for the "slow" apology (which I have now been on both sides of) is that when you're running a faculty search, you don't want to close the applicant pool until your chosen candidate has accepted the offer, signed the contract, picked their textbooks, rented an apartment, and moved to town. Well, I exaggerate slightly. But there's always this lurking worry that if you send the rejections too early, you may have to re-open the pile if your hire backs out.

That said, June is still ridiculously late. The search should be done by March or so at the latest, with maybe some contract details lingering until April if there's a hard negotiation.

I've often thought that it would be nice to keep candidates a little more apprised of where they stand, but another problem that faculty search committees run into here is that in our litigious culture (in the US at least), we have to be very, very, very careful what we say for fear of a lawsuit. Sigh.
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- The EU is a international treaty whose signatories
are sovereign nations. They can't really have a constitution
in the same role as a nation state.

- No, commission can't overrule the EP. The parliament can reject commission-proposed legislation, and it can fire the commission.

edit: see the parliament doing its thing against ACTA here: http://www.rt.com/news/acta-committee-final-vote-365/
I'm going to echo everyone else's concerns here and say that the drama from wakemate, lukewarm-to-nonexistant support, and now just letting the wakemate domain expire altogether have not exactly inspired confidence in this product. Maybe if a year down the road, it seems to be useful, I'll pick one up.

There's a lesson in PR here, though. I'm normally all over these types of products. This should have been the easiest sale in the world.
While it is true that most younger Germans speak fairly good English I can not recommend enough to learn the language.

Once you venture outside work and start to socialize you will eventually want to speak German as it is much more fun to be able to understand everything.

Further German actually have roughly 35% more words than English. Because of this and the way it is grammatically structured a lot of fine detail is often lost in translation as the words simply do not exist in English.
I really don't like this idea. While it might have helped ensure the OP's longevity in the company, it's selfish and is really doing more harm then good in the long run. And that doesn't really seem like the OP's style.

I hope you and others don't view the world this way. If you do, you're only holding the rest of us back. It reminds me of the other comment here about screwing things up on purpose just to increase budget:

Occasionally a politician will sweep through with an attempt to cut costs (they're the only ones who even pretend to care) -- the bureaucracy will respond by firing the most useful and publicly visible of their employees to ensure that service levels drop thus justifying their case for an increased budget later on.
- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4167459
It is Europe. It may have not been theirs to take via the courts.

I do remember him asking about the program back before he told his boss, and I am not surprised the way it turned out
> I'd love to see exceptions made for very small businesses . . . and for user-generated content.

You mean like all those exceptions that are already provided for in the ADA's repeated use of the phrase, "readily achievable"?

In the US Code, "readily achievable" is a term of art that is specifically designed to account for the fact that different organizations might be more or less able to do certain things. For example, large companies have a whole lot more resources available than smaller ones. In other words, what you're advocating is already deeply embedded into the ADA.
If I were to guess, it's because that there are a bunch of temps doing data entry. They get paid a bonus based on what percentage of data they enter. Then comes this one guy, and he starts getting 90% of the bonus, thus effectively cutting out the bonus money for the rest of the employees (in a manner someone may see as cheating the system)

That's just the other viewpoint of the story. Not saying it's most efficient, or right, but I can see a manager thinking that way.
Eh? There's already plenty of companies that will do that, for example http://4pcb.com/ was one of the earliest ones to specifically target low-cost prototype runs (I've been out of that world for a while, so that's all I've got). Shapeways basically was "Quick turnaround PCB house but for 3D printed objects" :P
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Yes, browsers are hard!* That was sort of the point: If you're trying to crack a problem like that, you might not want to also try to solve text shaping on the side, because you may not have the time to do it properly. There's a lot more out there than English, and OpenType can do quite a lot.

* = I hail from KDE, and am good friends with some of the people who originally made the browser engine you're using today in Chrome :).
> 2. Kid did not respect the authority of Boss. When Boss fired him, Kid went over his head and sold his actions to Big Boss.

No, he did respect the chain of command. He first went to his immediate boss, which promptly fired him. After being fired, I think it's fair game to sell his actions to the Big Boss.
You are obviously cherry picking.

One of the first things you said in this thread is a reference to what Buddha said.

Actually, your reference itself was false. You said that Buddha said enlightenment cannot come through meditation, yet, Buddha stated enlightenment can come through adherence to the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path, one of the limbs of that being right concentration/samadhi/meditation.

"Most of the time they just wrote down what they wanted, or from their own ideas and opinions."

I would ask you for a citation, but it obviously would not be helpful. You only write down from your own ideas and opinions and think it is Truth.

Again, you are cherry picking.
Depends on how hard it is to setup. He seems to think it is a little brittle.