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This is why I hate the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines:

> In the following code examples, the names associated with the text input controls are not properly determined by assistive technology.

Which assistive technology? Why doesn't the assistive technology simply implement HTML properly? Associating a label with an element by nesting has been standardized since HTML 4.01 at least (I haven't bothered to check further back), and I'm pretty sure all of the browsers implement it properly.

Now, instead of simply writing a bunch of guidelines that say vaguely "not properly determined by assistive technology", they could show the results of testing, in a format similar to http://caniuse.com/. That would actually be useful; you could determine if the problem still exists or not, based on how many people are using some old buggy version of assistive technology.

But, rather, the WCAG are simply a bunch of prescriptive rules with vague justifications, and then various people on standards list try to argue that because there are laws that have been written that specify that certain things must comply with accessibility standards, these kinds of guidelines have the force of law and thus trump all other interests in standardization.
work in long stretches

Nope, that idiotic open offices isn't conducive for that.
Explain your downvote please. It's not at all helpful to me if you don't explain.
Spotify Site Redesign
Sounds like you have a number of tangible, palpable, feasible ideas for such super-smarter next-gen programming tools -- care to share?

(Just hoping what you have in mind isn't UML + SOAP + some unintelligable über-abstracted-meta-code-gen...)
An SLA isn't about promising what they will deliver, not really, it's about what they will deliver if they want to keep 100% of the customer's payments.
> Woah, people actually use that to verify their actions?

s/verify/validate/
I actually co-located a server in a datacenter in 1998 just to macro UO. I would pcanywhere into it from home and keep the macros going, etc., and it never lost connection or ping-timed-out since it was right on the backbone (as we said in those days...)
I could understand this sentiment if the iOS device in question was an iPhone, but do you really rely on Google Maps' directions to help you navigate on your iPad while you're out and about on the road?
Show HN: Feedback on app/website http://zapaang.com
I am looking for feedback from the community to see if this is something you would use.
Zapaang arose out of a personal need where we had items lying around that we dont necessarily want to sell but would give it to friends or neighbors if we knew they were looking for something similar. We werent keen on posting about it on Facebook and spam our friends with things that we have for sale as our work friends might not be so interested in my used diaper genie for sale. Neither did we want to post on craigslist and having to deal with people we dont trust.
Zapaang explores the idea of what if you had a way to list, share and invite people to view things that you know will be relevant to them. Zapaang banks on the trust factor by building on top of a user’s existing social circle on Facebook. Facebook groups is a logical extension to that group where a group of people with similar interests post messages relevant to that its members. We started off with a version of Zapaang where you can list, discover and interact with items posted by your facebook friends or shared with facebook groups you belong to. The app is available on the iPhone store and the Windows Phone marketplace. For more information you can visit http://zapaang.com
Clickable. http://zapaang.com
As long as people don't think iPhones and iPads will be made in US, because that would just be misleading. I assume most of the components will still be made abroad anyway, and just the assembly in US, which again makes it kind of misleading to say it's "made in US", if 90% of it is made elsewhere.
The driving thing serves their purpose: a wide reaching campaign to show that dogs are really smart, even shelter dogs.
Focus on being grateful and being forgiving, don't worry about God, He can take care of himself. Lead with that, let Brian find his own path.
Not only is it easier and doesn't require the use of an ID, it also allows you to click in the space between the checkbox and the label text.
Your title no verb.
SnippingTool is great too
(Windows Vista+)
Why isn't the burden placed on assistive technology to operate properly? There is this habit in web development of being enablers for users with dated clients that's holding back progress. I know it sounds cold in this context, but it's the truth.
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I doubt it's an either-or situation.

However, I'll note that all shelter neuter and spay, so if it irresponsible pet owners who are responsible, than it is limited to those owners who did not get their dogs from a shelter.
Yeah, both fortunately and unfortunately I expect myself to be able to sooner build small business income to 100k than amass 2.5 million. Not that either is easy of course. Or even a reasonable expectation.

I wouldn't worry about stock price as you hopefully never have to sell a good income payer. But if you are buying, at some point a good dividend payer will fall until it's cheap enough for a good return, ie wait for the next crash. I think the dividend stocks are being sold off now because of uncertainty over tax rules in 2013 for dividends, and also since money has been chasing yield and made those stocks overbought.
no he does not.

He makes money from free software himself for about 20 years now.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling
Yes, the dogs are smarter than the writers for The Fast and the Furious.
While Silverlight seems to continue under the umbrella of MSDN, it never took off and basically remained a mere nuisance, so I'm not surprised to see it being "shifted" out as a product.

Silverlight was (implicitly?) positioned to compete with Flash and just like Flash, it was mostly an obscure piece of proprietary technology and mostly just a nuisance. What made Flash matter was video streaming and YouTube: suddenly all those who had been avoiding Flash because of stupid games and stupid Flash advertisements had to get Flash to view videos on YouTube. This never happened on Silverlight to a major extent; it always remained a weird alternative to Flash.

Curiously, Flash got killed too. I consider Flash dead in a similar manner that I consider Microsoft dead. They will both churn along for years but their supply of momentum is running out.

What practically killed Flash was the highly excretory nature of the Flash codebase. With the huge installation base induced by video streaming the Flash plugin had great opportunities per se but their codebase barely ran on a fast PC, and mobile Flash never materialized for real. First it was slow and when mobile devices got faster, it was a battery hog. So Flash got stuck in remaining the de facto web video player device and that space is slowly eaten out by various HTML5 based video technologies.

I hope we can ditch first Silverlight and then finally Flash in the shortest order of time.
I am lazy. Django forms do it for me.
Thanks. I'll try that. :-)
Python is a cool language but performance is performance. This is why C++ and Java will continue their domination.
So in the end, assembly language and optimization experts are the king makers?
It's also the primary driver behind the principles of object oriented programming - but those are almost dirty words these days. Somehow OO tried and failed in many ways to solve this problem, but I think it gets too little credit for at least having its heart in the right place.
I'd be willing to bet the "killer app(s)" just haven't made themselves apparent yet.

I'd agree with that. I'm not saying there won't ever be a need for the extra bandwidth, just agreeing that there probably isn't widespread demand for it right now.

Many people saw the appeal of smartphones, but professed they just didn't think they'd use them all that much.

Heh, now there's a mindset I can't understand. I was champing at the bit for what we'd now call a smartphone, in like, 2000. I desperately wanted a phone sized device with a real browser and ubiquitous wireless broadband. It sucks that it took so long for it to happen. Actually, to that point, there is where I'd appreciate more bandwidth... my 4G (or so-called 4G) wireless data connection. :-(
'Proud of you': How parents, kids interact on Facebook
There was a piece at AnandTech recently that summarised Intel's very successful business model as selling lots of low-margin chips to consumers to ensure reaching the right economies of scale, and then making money on high-margin enterprise versions of the same chips. If that's right, and AMD only succeeds at selling lots of the latter, they still have a problem because without those economies of scale the high-margins don't come through either.
I'm currently testing this, took me a second to figure out the setting for android/exchange

user: \user@domain.com
password: password
server: m.hotmail.com
Globalization distributes the chains of production enough that most "made in X" statements just mean "assembled in X."
Even more powerful approach is minimalistic design with objects placed where they belong, to achieve harmony. Design, that among other things, minimizes a number of objects required to hold in one's head.

Personally I call it a design with good Feng Shui :) When things and objects are in their right locations, and in harmony, one don't have to remember where they are! One can just remember the harmony and find them in their places.

That's precisely why Python is so damn good, by the way.
I remember the first 4 digits of my credit card and I want the whole of it. I do a search and "boom" the first 4 digits of my credit card are online.
Is Bitcoin Becoming a Bank?
As I recall, recent X Games and Olympics had all their online video content accessible only through Silverlight players also. I remember trying to watch some of these events and being annoyed because the Silverlight player was locking up Firefox.
The secrets of the Windows Phone 8 keyboard
it's also the rock most of websites are sitting on.
They're just search results, not ads. Read the blog post from Shuttleworth.

Search results from a collection of commercial products, provided by a retailer of commercial products, are ads.
Outlook.com makes me love email again
I've always used nested elements within a label tag, I've been advised to do so by people specifically concerned with HTML accessibility issues.
Our experience with Rackspace email at $12 per user per year has also been great. Although I suspect our pricing is grandfathered in, looks like they have doubled their price in recent times to $24 per user per year:

http://www.rackspace.com/apps/email_hosting/rackspace_email/
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Off on a bit of a tangent here, but has anyone noticed that Google's efforts to HTML5ize Youtube seem to have totally stalled out for desktop browsers? Progress seems to have stopped after deals were announced with adobe over android flash.

It also seems virtually certain Google has the source code the the flashplayer, as it came out relatively quickly for Chrome's PAPI (adobe moves like a snail when it comes to supporting new apis, especially ones where older apis continue to function), and chrome flashplayer appears to receive patches before even the "official" flashplayer releases do.

I wonder if that doesn't somehow factor into the seemingly arbitrary flash requirements on youtube.
Python will be better supported in knitr in future; for now it only has preliminary support: http://yihui.name/knitr/demo/engines/
Yes, it's not that hard when it's totally immersed in the school culture.
I did see the numbers. They don't support your point.
I wish I could just run the last version of Ubuntu whose version of GDM supported complete theming, but still get security and feature updates.
I completely disagree with his idea that one should hack for "36 hours straight". Not only is this extremely unhealthy for your wrists, it depletes your mental energy and will cause you to make more mistakes. I guarantee that if I managed my coding time in short 1-2 hour bursts working on the same project as Paul, given that he is working 8-16 hour shifts nonstop, that my code will not only run more efficiently but have fewer bugs.

Is someone like Paul actually advocating such an idiotic and self-destructive practice? Perhaps his idea of "working on a program" also includes the time you spend thinking of it. While it's not so stupid thinking of it this way, his notion that one can achieve a higher level of productivity by working long hours are still incorrect, as many of the best ideas have come from breaking out of long coding sessions to "recalibrate" the mind and think about the problem differently.
When Trammel was launched, I quickly fled to Siege Perilous - the newly created veteran server. Having completely immune, trash-talking hoards take over normal servers took all fun out of the game. Siege was much closer to the original wild west ideal, where you had to answer for your behavior. In general, it was much more mature in interaction... With a few exceptions.
This is why I like Ruby...it feels like Lisp under the hood but is actually useful because it can model real-world objects.
The New York Times quoted Rob Enderle? Whoa.
EVE online strongly shares in all of your mentioned characteristics, with the exception that even in their version of "trammel" you can die, but whoever attacks you will get destroyed by NPCs after a small delay.

A fun game aswel, chock-a-block full of backstabbing and intrigue. But definitely brutal as hell.
Also, bring back 16:10! Stop putting 1366x768 screens on laptops that are 14, 15 and even 17 inches and saying it's HD! Get off my lawn!
Seriously? Who are you? Why are you doing this?
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Let’s get the Adobe Suite on Ubuntu already
This is old, and includes an update mentioning Apple's Retina Macbook Pro, introduced after the article was published.

I think a better question is why nobody else is offering high-res panels on laptops. The Nexus 10 tablet has more pixels than any non-Apple laptop ever produced.
Maybe Apple actually plans to assemble iTVs in USA; it would probably make the most sense. Unit sizes are huge, most customers are domestic, keeping it more under the wraps etc...
16:10? Let's just go all the way - 16:12!
I think programming tools and technology have become much better over the decades (more expressive and easier to interact with). Programmers today are building far larger and more complex software than ever before.

Programmers will always be working at the limit of their abilities -- if the tools make anything easier then we'll just start tackling harder problems.
If somebody wants to sell something used, why do you think they would choose facebook? Craigslist or Ebay are infinitely more likely.
>People search on Google -- they opt-in to Google Search -- because the
results satisfy them (more than the competition).

Um, no. A lot of people don't even know there is competition to Google. They
don't "opt-in" to Google just as much as they don't "opt-in" to using Windows,
they've just always used it because it comes with their browser/PC. There's a
reason Google pays Mozilla a few million every year to be the default search
engine.
Previous submissions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4700799

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4756263

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4819394
I hope you realize that this is just the fancy version of the argument that runs, "Women! They're unfathomable, and probably made crazy by their lady parts!"

Understanding the mental state of the people around you is called "society". It's not particularly easy, which is why it takes us years to learn it.

But if you need a simple heuristic to not get in trouble at a conference, here it is: do not make sexual advances to people unless you are 100% sure they are welcome. Or, if that's too hard, use this one: do not make sexual advances at conferences. Seriously, it's not hard. You can hop on OK Cupid when you get home.
Derek Khanna author of memo on copyright is fired
honestly I read this and that was instantly where my hope went. I mean, picking silverlight in the first place was a bad enough decision on netflix' part. Maybe I'm just bitter because I'm on ubuntu though.
Excellent idea. Some suggestions:

- Syntax highlighting, with subtle colors

- A dismissable help popup in the beginning

- Some means of getting a clean HTML output
I wonder what the most complex system is, to date, that has been made and that can all fit in one head.

A recent example, though not a program, is Mochizuki's proposed proof of the ABC conjecture. I wonder what program would be comparable to that in complexity.
Okay, I have implemented the following changes suggested here:

1. Fixed the space+shift=tab bug.

2. Fixed the inconsistent mode jumping and saving bug.

3. File Saved prompt is only shown the first time the file is saved. For subsequent saves, a label is displayed in top left corner.

4. Links are opened in a new tab so as not to lose unsaved work.

Also, I have cleaned up the code slightly and open sourced it using the MIT license. [https://github.com/asleepysamurai/pencil]

Fork, change and send me a pull request and I'll gladly look into it.
Ask HN: Stripe.com for android free app. Is it legal?
I'm going to distribute my android app via different app markets. The primary market is Google Play. Is it legal to use 3rd party APIs (like stripe.com) to receive payments from the user?
After Taking Flak For Sketchy Promotion, Cherry Cancels Trial Memberships
So basically it will work exactly like mechanical clock with weights (and cuckoo) do.

Hell, they should combine this thing with clock: a clock with weights that is also a lamp when needed.
Fair question and the answer to that is trust/convenience. There are people who dont want the hassle of dealing with strangers by posting to Craigslist. The trust factor is just not there. I have personal things that I will not put on ebay at all because its not that high price of an item to sell. I am part of a sport club where we routinely give off old equipment or sell things if we bought extra or bought the wrong size. We think what if you had a convenient place to list and share such items. next time someone joins a club looking for used gear or new family moves in to the neighbor hood, one can point them to Zapaang app where items shared with the community fb group or club fb group is visible.
Some WP ads were great. "Really?" was simple and to the point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9evyGr57hs

Internet Explorer karaoke wasn't bad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk
Also pressing desktop version just takes you to the desktop homepage.

Relevant XKCD
http://m.xkcd.com/869/
I sincerely hope AMD can turn things around. With Intel already talking about stuff like soldered on CPUs (need 2 lan ports? that will be an extra $500, need IO virtualization? that will be even more, etc), the future of high powered laptops/workstations/servers looks bleak if Intel is allowed to be totally unopposed in this segment.
Sorry - couldn't help it.

Related:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ueg7Q7hO7U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwpWaLrDHnU

There was another prank but couldn't find it
I'd rather hear an answer to the main point: if the theory is so good, where are the great companies that have been created by people consciously applying it? (Of course, if it's just about listening to feedback, that's something that anybody competent would do, and hardly a new approach to building startups.)
The villains appear to be Bjarne Stroustrup and James Gosling - perhaps Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson as well.
Go will replace Java when it will offer generics, same GC execution speed and the amount of libraries Java currently enjoys.

Channels and Goroutines are easily available in java.util.concurrent.

If you really want compilation to pure native code, there native code compilers for Java as well.
Both of your examples are new to me as well, however I can make sense of topics discussed. Just to use your example, the first equation for B-splines defines it as a function from a tuple of ordered reals to real vector of dimension d. The real difficulty with math is not so much the symbols as they give a precise but very legalistic way of defining things but the underlying concept or intuition that it represents, the deep semantics if you will. The best analogy is law. The way a lawyer or judge defines things will be different from the way a lay person would due to the difference in precision. The descriptions will be technically correct but will make you second guess on what it really means. I wouldn't go so far as to say it sucks but math is definitely scientific legalese.
> Curiously, Flash got killed too. I consider Flash dead in a similar manner that I consider Microsoft dead.

Game developers beg to differ
They say in the video that it gives "gentle glow" for 30 minutes. For brighter modes you will use faster modes, which is still cool.
The math somehow does not add up.

The order was reduced from $500m to $115m + a penalty of $320m (i.e. $435m in total). So the savings are only $65m for 75% or $385m less product.

Is this a cash infusion for GlobalFoundries?
One thing good about Silverlight is that you don't have to use Javascript.

Has anyone here successfully developed a JS app with a quarter million lines of code? And maintained it?
Pair App, by TenthBit. (San Francisco)

Hey guys, we're looking to hire a full-time:

- iOS developer

- Android developer

- Web developer

If you don't know what Pair is, it's a messaging app for couples. At this point we're processing 700k messages a day between couples and and have some awesome new ideas we're working on. Drop us a line if you're interested. We're open to relocating people to the Bay Area to keep the team in the same place.

Check out http://tenthbit.com/jobs for details, or send us a message directly to jobs@tenthbit.com for web developer positions.

You can also send me an email directly to oleg(at)tenthbit.com
If monitors are stuck at 2560x1600 forever because it's "good enough", I'm going to be very disappointed. I'm sure I'm not the only one who sits 10 inches away from his screen.
Plastic? The motor in my CD drive is made from plastic and it doesn't seem to break at all.
The 'Music and Life - Alan Watts' animation is a nice yet still succinct play on your 16)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbvKrH-GC4
Tapir: Search for Static Websites
Did you see the video? They tell you how there are various modes of operation.
Towards Gender Balance in UC Berkeley EECS
Beat me to it. I always click on that label expecting it to tick the box. Why must people avoid convention?
Hi, Your Encryption Sucks
"Then there is the removal of code review meetings/gate keeping."

I'm not so sure that pair-written code should be exempt from code reviews. The two people who wrote the code made a bunch of decisions in the heat of the moment (and possibly under time pressure), and both are emotionally invested in the code that they wrote. If it's reviewed later by people who weren't involved in writing the code, it's likely that they'll notice problems that the original programmers did not, or see better ways of doing things.