skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t think you quite understand why this area is regulated at all: precisely because disabled people are too small a minority to have that kind of power.

The disabled being denied access to critical infrastructure is a market failure†. That’s why there is a discussion about regulation.

It would be super great if everything could be solved by the market (politicians tend to be clumsy, not the brightest and not super efficient), sadly I cannot see that being possible. A world in which the market solves everything neatly along our moral views would be pretty awesome, I just don’t think that’s the world we live in.

I want market solutions to as many problems as possible and will happily accept them whenever they exist. If they don’t, however, I’m more than happy to begrudgingly accept a regulatory approach.

—

† Underlying this is the assumption that the disabled should not be violated in their human dignity. If you do not share this view then you might arrive at different conclusions and I don’t think I want to talk to you any further.
Looks pretty nice! You have a classic chicken and egg problem...nobody will be active on it until other people are active on it. But with you in NY, me in Chicago, and presumably many HNers in SF it shouldn't be too hard to get a few first meetings going.

(And if anyone wants to talk to a young, ignorant hacker who just inherited a startup and works for a second...hit me up! http://hackerscoffee.org/users/98727/pub)
Crisp! By the way:

- Any idea why this view isn't used in file managers other than Finder? (especially Windows Explorer & GNOME Nautilus/Files). This view has so many advantages (very visual, enable quick round-trips in a hierarchy, show the path leading to a leaf while conserving screen space, enable copying files from anywhere to anywhere, more adapted to our horizontal screens and vision than traditional WindowsExplorer-ish views) that I can't understand why it wasn't copied elsewhere. Is it patented?

- Any option for such a file manager under Linux/Windows? Maybe a Nautilus extension/fork (and under windows, an Explorer patch/extension)?
Maybe not a burden for the Amazons of the world, but for smaller e-comm stores it is most certainly going to be a burden IMO.

I'd suspect that many online retailers would be forced to go down the path of outsourcing most of this using something like Shopify or similar -- it's just a lot of tax rates and calculations to keep track of, not to mention report on and optimize for!
I doubt it. They're trying to patent this because the economic incentive is to patent everything regardless of if you plan to use it.
In this UX mockup it shows it working with gmail https://bug629280.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=520...

Is this API compatible with Chrome's implementation, or would Google have to add support in Gmail for Firefox?
Did anyone else notice that the pie chart wedges are sized incorrectly? The one labeled "28%" is clearly less than a quarter of the chart. Not really sure why they felt the need to try to make the numbers appear more skewed than they already are.

Edit: Should note that it's not TC's fault, it's grabbed from the source article: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Professors-Behind-the-MOOC/...
> He does describe interesting models/theories, but I don't
> actually think they're relevant.

I have to agree. Google is very efficient at profiting from casual users unwilling to pay, but clearly they just didn't exist.
People with this mindset have never been to a conference this size before or they're forgetting what the environment is like. You are going to come across opinions and jokes that may not be in your taste, and it is up to you to either choose to ignore them because you were not a part of that conversation, or to discretely alert someone to the presence of this humor because you think it is actually harmful to people and the event itself.

She took a comment that had nothing, nada to do with the sexualization of women and tried to spin it into some sort of anti-women/"This is what we're talking about!" ridiculousness (p.s. this isn't actually at all what we're talking about when we bring up inequality, which is why women like me are furious about this).

We know from her blog post (and her previous tweets about stuffing socks into pants to impress TSA agents and her playing Cards Against Humanity at the same event - where she held up "Eating all the cookies before the AIDS bake sale.") that she wasn't actually offended; she saw the guy was a sponsor and determined that she was going to use him and his total non-issue of a statement to humiliate him because that little girl on the screen was going to grow up so fragile that she couldn't possibly handle two guys in public making an audible joke. Less people congregate at a random public place than at this event, does that stop you from hearing filth there? Can you handle it? Are you going to make a mockery of them over your public and professional Twitter account with thousands of followers?

Worse, she'd already had a dialogue with the men in which she butted into their conversation to add to it just a few minutes prior. So here we have someone admitting they're eavesdropping into conversations, which in itself isn't a crime, but you can't just listen in on what people are saying when you're not a part of the conversation and pull out a penalty flag when you hear something that "offends" you. A flag so big that the dude got fired over a joke that less people overheard than people saw her tweets on stuffing pants and eating AIDs cookies.
Having studied at a university, I think Online Courses are not (yet) a replacement for university courses. They still need work. On Coursera for instance I noticed a lack of advanced and even intermediate courses. It seems almost all courses there are introductory. A paranoid person might say this goes well with professors being afraid of online courses. I say this is just not very elaborated yet.

Anyway it's ridiculous to claim that you shouldn't get credit from online courses. Top universities all over the world give you credit for stuff you do at home, in particular when it comes to advanced courses.

I'm not saying you should be able to do your whole Master or whatever from home -- it's definitely necessary to have tests where you physically attend -- but this survey result seems stupid. Maybe the question is just stupid. They asked about the status quo, not about online education in general.
These were not the tax loopholes people wanted to be closed!

On the other hand, this will benefit brick and mortar stores.
"I can't wait for the next big thing because honestly we've made a gigantic step backward."

One of these days, those of us interested in a 21st century Usenet should really get together and make it happen. I never used Gnus (I was more of a trn guy) and I think Stack Overflow is pretty cool, but I do miss the ability to sift through large quantities of high-quality posts using the tools and interface that worked best for me.

The concept hasn't completely congealed in my mind, but some cool features would be: separation of content from interface, great APIs, pseudonymous identity with encryption and signatures, and some sort of a reputation system.
Thanks for writing this. It's a succinct and lucid description of the problem with the "commitment & faith" class of interview questions.

There are two sides to the coin, of course. I personally don't mind being asked about my motivations because I tend to only apply to companies that I actually want to work at (paychecks notwithstanding).
And the general trend with Bitcoin "banks" is that at some point people lose a bunch of money and the website either shuts down or loses all trust. Your point?
But doing the gruntwork online, and focussing on quality interaction with professors? I can see real-time lecturing dying out: that's time that could be more profitably spent doing the coaching and feedback that as you point out has much greater value.
Can anyone find the text of the resolution? This seems to link to a blog that links to a blog that links to a blog...
Hm. A lot of this should be easy for sites who care about modern design. A few anecdotes:

- Any valid HTML site has an `alt` attribute in all of its image tags. This helps screenreaders read the image, and could probably satisfy the "spoken captions of images" requirement.

- Sites that cleanly separate layout from presentation are already quite easy for screenreaders to parse. Go ahead and run `links -dump http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindness` for example; it just has a bit of boilerplate and then the content begins. There's even "Jump to: [navigation], [search]" links that are hidden with CSS for those who don't use it.

I think this will primarily affect sites that rely heavily on javascript to try and create the sense of a large application. This is another good argument to separate the presentation and logic from the content of the site.
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS is on Linux 3.5.0 now.
I think a consumption tax is the best solution. Basic necessities like food, housing, etc.. are not taxed (or are minimally taxed). Luxury items like televisions, cell phones, etc. should be taxed though. This wouldn't penalize the poor, but the government would get the money they're looking for.

Can anyone think of any downsides to this?

EDIT: Yikes, I leave for half an hour and come back to a maelstrom of comments. So, to acknowledge one of your points, it could be difficult to categorize what is or isn't a luxury item. But, c'mon, is a $90,000 car really a necessity? I think it's easy to tell which items definitely aren't necessities.
It is actually because it is nearly guaranteed to be collectible when it is attached to inelastic goods which are needed by everybody. On the other hand, raising things like estate tax and income tax increases the amount of legal tax dodging through trusts, municipal bonds and the like so it's unpredictable and difficult to collect. This dates back to a reversal of Andrew Mellon's prudent and lucrative tax policies by FDR and Morgenthau, who turned to gasoline and alcohol taxes to cover shortfalls caused by their extremely high progressive income tax rates, and since then high earners have gotten in the habit of tax avoidance regardless of current political and fiscal strategies, permanently entrenching the regressive taxes as necessary.
Pretty much, yes. The more complex the app the worse it tends to get.

Say you have a button that says "Send Email" - the default accessibility label would have the screen reader just read the text, and that's great. And your testing framework can layer on top of this and, say, make sure the button works.

It gets a bit more complicated when you apply more rigor to testing - you need the ability to query the state of your program in a way that isn't truly necessary for usability, and forces developers to implement things in ways that are far from intuitive.

Take an example, let's say you're building a Facebook app. Instead of "Like This Post", you might have to label the button "Like joebob's post at 3/23/2012 2:17PM" just so the testing framework can uniquely identify one button over another. And this brokenness is hidden, since the visible button is still labeled "Like This Post".

Worse, say you want to test that a view changes size when interacted with. Now you're literally embedding sizes and coordinates into accessibility hints/values/labels to make this happen. This devolves very, very quickly.

There's been some promising progress on iOS automated testing - the fact that it's happening represents a maturing of the platform and an embrace of quality engineering rather than the seat-of-pants approach we've seen thus far. That being said, the most popular frameworks are still woefully immature.
it is your blog.
Nokia Lumia 710 is engineered like that. Despite dropping it literally hundreds of times onto concrete, tiles etc mine still just falls to bits and has never broken.

Still scares me every time though!

I've seen so many people depressingly dragging their fingers over cracked iPhones and HTC handsets its unreal.
Sure, the button exits the game immediately. It doesn't appear immediately, though.

Since you don't believe me, you can see what I mean at the tail end of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8YKYKgqzSs

(And despite this now interminable forum conversation, it's certainly very far from being the worst crime against gaming out there. Grumbling about it has already eaten up more than it's fair share of time and effort on my part!)
I actively threw a Nokia 3310 against a concrete wall from a couple of meters away. It disassembled into several parts, I put them back together and everything worked as new. One of the most durable mobile phones ever built.
Sales Taxes are the least economically destructive of all taxes. If a government's goal to optimize economic growth they should eliminate income, property, capital, etc taxes are replace them with a sales/consumption tax. Bobby Jindal proposed this in Louisiana.
What insight does this article provide other than making sweeping over-generalizations and making statements based on unfair stereotypes?
But when he goes to buy doritos and a red bull at 7-11, some of that money is captured. I.e., Lot's of black market dollars wind up being used to make legal taxed sales purchases.
Poor people are disproportionately likely to shop in-store rather than online because they're vastly more likely to be unbanked (i.e. no credit card) and be low-education.

I'd hazard an educated guess that the percentage of income spent by the poor online is tiny. Both because the above factors and also because the majority of spending for those group is going on rent, groceries, vice (cigarettes and alcohol) and transport which aren't commonly bought online in any case.
Unfortunately you guys hit a Satoshi Perfect Storm time to commence Beta - still, trial by fire, hang in there, lotsa Diet Dr Pepper/red bull!
Oh the irony... the showcase site's flat design makes it very hard to distinguish the showcased sites as they visually blend into each other and into the parent site, in the process making a case against flat UI design!
My sympathies. I know someone with a some similar mental health issue on SSI. It's tough out there. (And they have relied heavily on basically working at home online to have a little extra money. It's tough right now due to the recession and basically nothing comes in, but the process of doing that work is positive.)

I can also understand being overwhelmed. I don't have autism, but have done the programmer thing, and have trouble interacting with people so might be on the spectrum a little bit. I swear, if it weren't for our mechanized society with machines to repair and computers to fix and program, I'd be a poor dirt farmer.

I wish you the best of luck.

If you'd like to brainstorm possible jobs or business maybe we can talk on this thread.
I wonder where their delusion that C89 allows reading past the end of an array comes from...
> The following code changes the default behaviour of ls from listing
> files to turning your terminal into an unstoppable steam locomotive.
> The only way to end it is closing the terminal, so use this with caution.

erm, that's easily stopped:

[ctrl]+z
$ pkill -9 sl
I was referring to the voice stuff mentioned in the article. For a small business or a bloggers having voice version if everything is not feasible.

Correctly adding meta and title etc for screen readers, I'm in for that. In fact, I make sure to add proper alt tags for images already. Will improve of other things for sure m
If we had some way for users to ask the templating engines in Rails, Django, ... to render a text-friendly representation of the sites they visit, that could also be a great technology-centric way of doing this.
At some point we're going to have to ask ourselves, "what is a 'credit' and what is it really good for, anyway?"

At least in their current incarnation, MOOCs are not intended for credentialing, they are intended for learning and enrichment. I like it that way. I can learn as much about a topic as I want to, skip the parts I'm not interested in, and I don't need to care or worry about what's going to be "on the test" or whether I got a fair grade. And I don't have to go sign up and pay for a community college course and go to class at night to learn about how databases work or something--I can do it for free from the comfort of my own home.
I have several friends at a Magento consulting company. You need to do two main things:

1. Run Magento Enterprise on the best servers. Enterprise scales better with SKUs and traffic, and you don't want a lot of servers because you pay a lot per year per server for Enterprise. I'm talking about 192GB RAM and so on.

2. Cache everything using Magento's tools and by putting lots of Varnish servers, Memcached, balancers etc. in front of your Magento server(s). Be very careful about clearing Magento's caches because it'll probably bring your site down.
I agree about this - the fact is, there's a gradient of disability, and a gradient of employability, and a gradient on the ability of people to participate in the market.

Having benefits pulled out doesn't work, particularly health insurance.
Where do you draw the line? Is a home broadband connection a necessity or a luxury good? How about a computer? Or a car?
If you were talking about a single national sales tax, you could be right. But what is being discussed is 50 different state taxes, which would be a burden, regardless of modern tech.
You'd have to figure out where "basic necessities" stop.
No taxes on a 10 million dollar house but the poor family buying a TV will have to pay?
In my experience, it can be a little awkward. At one point I interviewed with a company that uses Rubymine almost exclusively, and I had previously only used Sublime / vim (and Eclipse for Java).

It was definitely more distracting than I would have thought going in. Everything is a potential hickup, from tab switching, file navigation and basic shortcuts. It's definitely less than ideal, given that you're essentially context switching into basic operational stuff when what actually matters is the logic of the problem at hand.
I reason there is a middle ground. The aim is to, at the very least, get hackers to start thinking about privacy and about building systems that are beneficial to society whe respecting the rights of those who use them. I am using open source software, and I am releasing the code when it reaches a point where it can be useful (as django apps/python packages and Lisp libraries). The ALPHA and beta versions f the system (will) reside on my servers until the de-coupled design is completed. Because the real beauty about Nuuton is that is simply a loosely coupled system built on top of a collection of APIs. The client drives all of the logic and simpy send/receive encrypted data. All data on Nuuton is encrypted. All of it. So, at the ALPHA level it will not be completely open as you state. But it will respect your privacy and will be open to audit to researchers. I believe in privacy and am building a system that respects it.

I had never talked about the system itself, but its about to hit early ALPHA. Keep posted for the announcement. Note that those who signed in as ALPHA users get a hacker account with access to the first APIs.

I'm pretty sure this project will not become huge. But it will get a of us thinking about making more open systems.
Because they work for their fucking country's government, and they will justify any shit the government wants to do.
I imagine that would have severe economic implications.
The social part is difficult. I did attend a Coursera Coursera and at the beginning I though, cool, so now I make a study group. They have a dedicated forum for that. So I said, look, here's my study group and I got more feedback than I thought, someone even nearly begging to get in. ;)

Then I created a Google Group and posted it in the thread. Guess what: 3 people joined the Group, one was active. (So 2 in total including me.) Lesson for me: when suggesting a study group, have the Google Group link ready.

That said, I think the social part is fine, we have social networks for that. Users just need to learn how to socialize online. This is becoming more important everyday even outside Coursera and friends..

Tutors would be cool, but IMHO they are not necessary for successful learning. I remember a dutch math professor saying basically: "I am unnecessary, you just need to ask the right questions." I.e. if you ask the right questions, you will find the next steps best case by yourself.
Yesterday I mentioned that app to my work colleagues (here in Brazil), all they said was: "Now I can put my finger on your Rego and open it. Also, we will see all your photos stored in Rego, and all your shared anotations".

Everyone laughed so hard that the app itself didn't matter anymore.
Another tax increase without any corresponding budget relief. So more taxes and and the same debt.
I 100% agree with your comment. That is most definitely the goal of a UX engineer. However it's kind of like striving for perfection, it's impossible. If anything a really good UX engineer shoots for that 100% and fills in the rest with these types of tools. Can anyone here point to a complex webapp that doesn't have some kind of instructions system?
I have done a lot of distro-jumping, but I have been using LMDE-xfce for quite a while now, and love it. I almost liked the Ubuntu-based version of Mint, but in the end, I just like the Debian-Testing base much, much more than the Ubuntu base.

Sometimes I like my distro to "just work," and sometimes I wanna get in there and muck around a bit, and LMDE is the first distro I have used that seems ok with both "modes."
alias sl='sl;ls'
In New York, shoes under $120 aren't taxed. You can segment taxes easily by price range.
> That could mean websites will be required to include spoken descriptions of photos and text boxes for the blind, as well as captions and transcriptions of multimedia features for the deaf, said Jared Smith, associate director of WebAIM, a nonprofit group that trains and evaluates companies on Web accessibility.

This is what I was talking about. I support correct HTML tags and standards anyway. But all the things mentioned above are an overkill.

And it's not about small guys only. Imagine YouTube being sued for not having captions over all videos? Why due anyone for this, ask them nicely!
Exactly, like the flipped classroom: covering the material is through videos, questions and discussions are in person.

@blahedo: True, it doesn't have to be video. Personally I prefer reading to watching a video.
pretty cool, could be very handy for sales presentations but its unusual to be lucky enough to get access to a network of a company you are pitching to.
iPhoto on the ipad has overlays. Same sort of app, focus on usability, on a usability focussed device, but still overlays are needed...
Will 2013 be really the year of linux on desktop thanks to China?
You're complaining about more speed? Why don't we see the same complaints with asm.js?

If SIMD on Dart works out well, you can bet JS will get SIMD support too, and then dart2js will use that. It's this type of competition that pushes things forward.
3310 is a famous meme

http://i.imgur.com/fcCwKF8.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/BeS47ZJ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GlnPCk1.jpg

etc.
If I hire a general contractor, I expect them to be abreast of the law enough as to when to bring in the specialists. Shifting the responsibility onto the person contracting to manage all of this is both unreasonable and unacceptable.
Televisions and cell phones are not luxury items.
Why not both? Maybe the engineers said "Oh cool, what a nifty side effect, this further validates our decision"
The answer to this objection is, as always, "somewhere reasonable."

What I'm trying to get across is that it is totally pointless to complain that an internet comment isn't exhaustive in its detail.
GMail uses a old draft version of the API, and they check for the vendor-specific window.webkitNotification rather than the spec window.Notification, so a Firefox add-on or a GMail update is necessary.
github: naelyn