skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giving it a cursory look [1] it seems they score pretty ok on accessibility:

They use a proper content structure with appropriate headline levels, buttons are large enough for people that can't use a mouse properly. The contrast in the default color scheme looks fine and they provide a high-contrast color scheme. They even offer to switch the font to accomodate dyslexics, but fail to include a dyslexic font[2]. The layout falls apart a little if you use the high contrast scheme with large letter-spacing and comic sans, but it still includes all functions, so that's forgiven.

The fact they don't provide alt-tags for all images is totally fine: The images are just visual add-ons to the links that are provided directly underneath the images, so any screen reader will pick up the links and not the images. Quite to the contrary, providing empty alt-tags as they do will hide the images from screen reader and will remove mental clutter. The "always add alt-tags" mantra is - as so many matras in the web design world - wrong when taken at face value.

Forms are designed well with proper placeholders and labels.

Now, there's much more to accessibility than this - for example the writing style and text complexity, but it's obvious they have given accessibility more than a passing thought and taken it into consideration. One thing is certain however: Accessibility is not a roadblock for good design.

[1] Please note that this is only the 10-minute-tick-the-most-important-boxes check :)

[2] maybe for legal reasons, including dyslexic fonts is a legal nightmare with two warring factions
Zombies: inconceivable, conceivable but not metaphysically possible, or metaphysically possible?

Accept or lean toward: [..]
Accept or lean toward: metaphysically possible	217 / 931 (23.3%)

Uhm.. ? :)

What does "metaphysically" mean in this context?
Why "social"?
This looks like a great alternative Popup library. Looking forward to reading through the source later today. Great work!
It will be interesting to start hearing "well Twitter uses Drupal" when marketing people are trying to make a point that Drupal will solve all their website problems when in reality it may be overkill for their needs.
Creating IN Queries With Linq To Sql
:D
In my first paragraph, I am talking about her dislike that a supposedly tech-focused group was more focused on girly things like dressing up teddy bears, drinking cocoa, and talking about boys. Just because a discussion group is supposed to be focused on tech, it doesn't mean that it's not allowed to veer off into other fun topics.

As for the issue of the tech-focused group not focusing on tech, I deal with that in my second paragraph.
Yes, and a compile step is necessary to produce JS code for those macros. Sounds like it would be really good with coffeescript, like.
The success of science in explaining everything else, however, means that practically we can treat the mind as an epiphenomenon.
As someone who have tried on occasion to get used to Haskell (and failed - Haskell makes me want to claw my eyes out), and who have minimal maths background, I found reading Bayes original paper substantially easier than figuring out the Haskell in that post.
Haswell's iGPU will support 4K resolutions.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6926/intel-iris-iris-pro-graph...
> It takes a lot of video poker play to stumble upon a bug like
> that. And Kane, according to his lawyer, played a lot of video
> poker. “He’s played more than anyone else in the United
> States,” claims Leavitt. “I’m not exaggerating or embellishing.
> … In one year he played 12 million dollars worth of video
> poker” and lost about a million, he says. “It’s an addiction.”

You gotta admire this guy's commitment to quality assurance!
I think that both are issues, and that dismissing the internal culture because external discouragement exists is counter-productive.
Unsurprisingly, that actually exists: http://hugeurl.com/
You are right. For now it runs the minified js in both envs. Yes, it is possible to fix it. There is a local_settings.py which can be customised for each environment separately. If you set the DEBUG variable to TRUE, you can include appropriate assets by checking debug variable in django template. I will add this functionality asap.
where is the data that is associated with "b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF" stored

In the Racket process that's running the Arc code for news.yc
The font in the Ubuntu image is not Verdana.

Ubuntu does not install Microsoft fonts by default. It will fallback to Ubuntu's default font.
Most of the features added to Rails 4 came directly out of David's work on making Basecamp Next fast.

In fact, Rails 4 is so extracted from David's working knowledge that some people feel it's _too specific_, hence the whole "Omakase" thing a few months back.

(I'd also note that your two sides aren't actually opposed: if you pull things out from 'working knowledge,' then you obviously think that they're the best. Both conditions can absolutely be true.)
I'm definitely not in charge; I've only just graduated from college, so the sum total of my work experience is two internships. The companies I worked at did both ask for advice/feedback on how they could recruit more women; they both view their lack of gender diversity as a problem. (neither had any full-time female developers; only one had female dev interns other than me)

I don't think I had anything useful to tell them at the time, and I'm still don't have especially clear ideas on how to solve the problem. Both companies are full of very nice, very smart people. They weren't doing anything wrong that I could see. It seems to me that the problem might be advertising.

They might be (unintentionally) advertising in male-dominated spaces (online or otherwise). This might be somewhat counteracted by the fact that both companies support/advertise-at specifically for-tech-women events (sponsoring a Girl Geek dinner; attending the Grace Hopper conference job fair).

Another possible factor is that both companies are known for having challenging interviews. (like a lot of well respected tech companies) It's possible that some potential female applicants talk themselves out of applying; I've seen (male) friends come pretty close to talking themselves out of applying because they felt they wouldn't get the job.

This is also something of a circular problem. The lack of female developers makes them less appealing places to work for potential new female hires; the imbalance signals that there might be problems at the company and the situation is a problem in itself. The company might also be less likely to hear about female-focused events to advertise at.

I don't claim to have a solution. I just wanted to back up that have enough women in general around does not really help with a lack of technical women.
A bunch of options with prices. http://pinterest.com/finklean/diy-3d-printers/
The thing I didn't like about the Aeron is that the fabric seating base wasn't flat/wide/firm enough and the frame edges would roll my legs together. The Chadwick Chair has the same basic design, and looks like it would do the same thing.

I found that the Herman Miller Embody was a good choice for me, and a good value despite the stunning price on them. With their 12-year warranty, it came out to about 28 cents a day. Three years into it and the fabric still looks good, and cat hair is easy to remove (always a plus).
I saw when this was released. Will be keeping a close eye. Right now, I'm really enjoying the service. Wondering what YouTube will do - may not be in their best interest as they found a whole new application for the existing data/music.
5 minutes have elapsed. I didn't think HN still operated without patio11...
In the question, "communitarianism, egalitarianism, or libertarianism", 40% said "Other".

I'd really like to know if any one idea dominates here - for example, if 38% of philosophers espouse totalitarianism, that's worth getting into.
We've made significant steps towards not having a 'careless attitude,' that blog post being one of them. Now the exact policy is spelled out.

Another big one is the 'not deprecating something in z releases (of x.y.z)' policy, which should help too.

Remember, Rails does not follow SemVer, so if you're expecting interface compatibility to line up with it exactly, you're gonna have a bad time. If we _had_ followed SemVer, you wouldn't see all those comments upthread about how this was 'the smoothest major upgrade ever', since in SemVer 3 -> 4 would mean no compatibility.
Please show us an example in one language.
I used to work for Ion in R&D for their sequencers. Sales would claim, "the chip is the machine!" However, the chip really does nothing in Ion's case. Like you said, millions of little ph sensors. This thing actually lives up to the Ion Torrent promise. They could gain a lot of traction if they actually marketed it that way.
s/my lexicon/Whovian[1] culture/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_fandom
I was just going to say that! Before I saw this post I was on LinkedIn looking for something, and you simply cannot miss when something like this shows in your address bar:

...gid=3396514&goback=%2Enpv_152562310_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_1_*1&trk=NUS_JGRP-grp-nm
Much prefer that one. Straight away I can see where to navigate to what I want, and I am not misdirected by the so called style. That nasty flat modern monstrosity that is the Manchester site is like a child's templated wet dream.
Buy my Stupid eBook (long form parody)
Quite the Freudian slip for Mr Church.
People who tend to be interested in philosophy and are theists probably tend to go into religion rather than philosophy.
"it'll cost far more"

And you'll be able to afford it better then.

"at this point where it's extremely inexpensive"

Not necessarily compared to how much you're investing in it.
It is great that you posted this here. This is a big discussion that we will have in the following years.Obviously we have to find the right model for public universities. Clearly the MOOC classes can provide a lot of benefits. But we also want to keep good professors in College.

I personally think that MOOCs should supplement the lectures and professors should focus on directing discussions in class, solving problems, directing projects, making sure no one is left behind, providing his own view and experience.
The contrarian in me can't help but think that the least popular answer is the "right" one :-)
I agree. It is easy to complain about how boostrappy or wordpress like the theme is, but it is immaterial the source of the design inspiration. The most import thing is, that it works and is functional. Try going to the birmingham.gov.uk or london.gov.uk or any of the boroughs in London and see how much of an improvement this approach actually is.
Racket (arc's host language) keeps continuations on the filesystem, or you can write your own "stuffer" to do what you want with them (store them in a database or whatever). But you have to keep them somewhere or else (assuming the server uses continuations) you can't keep track of the user's path through your code as they click through links and such.

Racket does have an option to serialize the continuations, gzip them, sign them with HMAC, and then send all of that to the client so the server doesn't have to keep track of anything, but HN doesn't use it.

See http://docs.racket-lang.org/continue/#(part._.Advanced_.Cont... for a quick introduction.
The coming widespread adoption of MOOCs is another great example of what Jaron Lanier calls Mass Unemployment Events. Driverless cars will be another.

Together we trudge on towards a future requiring a basic minimum income.
Also, Robert Griesemer studied at ETH Zurich and was a disciple of Wirth, working on Oberon:
http://books.google.de/books?id=6kHs4s-79bkC&pg=PA257
Have a good flight back home, Patrick. It has been a pleasure to meet you in real life.
Thanks for all the information you shared and for entertaining us at the buffet. Those stories were gold :-)
I have used 3D printing in two different contexts:

- At a research lab. They had a massive Stratasys which cost around $30,000. They used it all the time for experiment setups; they had a whole workshop with CNC mills, lathes, etc. and the 3D printer was one machine among the others. It was used as much as the others, no less, no more.

- At a hardware startup. We never bought a 3D printer, but we used on-demand 3D printing services (Shapeways, Ponoko, Sculpteo, etc). This allowed us to iterate rather quickly on design matters - we were doing consumer electronics.

For my personal use I don't think I'll buy a 3D printer within the next 5 years.
I tried to register a Year 2038 related domain in the late 90's. Anything good was taken.

I assume the more interesting aspect of Y2038 will be the societal... Will we all be stocking our bunkers with 5 gallon pails of dried pinto beans and arming our personal attack drones?

I'd like to think we'll be a bit wiser, but somehow doubt it. Software is full of date related bugs and fails all the time. The world didn't end before, during, or after Y2K. I don't think it's ending in 2038.
An offline mode might be ephemeral and unpredictable as a natural occurrence, but should be pretty easy to create...
The World is perfectly just.

God says...

increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.

48:19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the
tribes of Israel.

48:20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and
twenty thousand: ye shall offer the holy oblation foursquare, with the
possession of the city.

48:21 And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on
the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city,
over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the
east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand
toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and
it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be
in the midst thereof.

48:22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the
possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the
prince's, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin,
shall be for the prince.

----

God says...

served doings awaited pet crucifixion reward unfriendly
distended Thou entered day-break never plans exports materials
shared an Saints grammar-learning liberty slightly patterns
sooner commiserate or tookest pressed Curiosity fathers
locking springeth sour regions philosophers THE companions
wild message revenge forms trouble Psalmody beatings wonted
transferring incorrect entrails concerns ninth envenomed
god abhorring sinner's excellence irrevocable foretold
mixture fire accomplished just_lovely palace keep glories
followest utterly plunging pain jests I_was_just_thinking
bred inviting strengthenest ipod urged Euodius killed
next shoe dared supposed dragging shut mercies General
reconciled deep Ostia darkenings Chatto
I'm sure the acronym MOOC is obvious to those in the area, but I wasn't sure what it stood for, and it seems sloppy to me that it wasn't defined in the article.

All it takes is writing "Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)" the first time it was used.
What should hackers expect regarding the subjectivity/objectivity of aesthetic value? Should we have expected that particular choice to have broken down into thirds? What does it mean that it did break down into thirds?

Even with a minor in philosophy & a degree in linguistics which involved a good deal of philosophies of language and mind, i'm not sure what to make of the results of this survey. Anyone have a better perspective on what the deal is here?
Although it is named as such this is not actually a popup, it is a modal.
The slowest site ever and it is in sync with how government works :-)
I think I have a relatively good understanding of consciousness:

* Content of consciousness is the only thing that we can be sure of. Let's say I'm scared. This fact is true no matter if I'm in a dream or hallucinating. (We could argue if "scared" is the correct label for the feeling but that's not the point.)

* It's impossible to define consciousness objectively. Subjective definition is simple: Consciousness is my current feelings, perceptions, thoughts, etc. There's no way to create a definition, that 1) is logically consistent 2) matches our intuitive understanding of consciousness 3) is objective: you can say whether some group of atoms (like brain) is conscious or not.
Even among the Ubuntu variants, font rendering is only smooth in GTK-based desktop environments, i.e. GNOME/Unity and XFCE. Last time I checked, fonts looked awful in Kubuntu, especially if you opened either Firefox or LibreOffice. Lubuntu likewise looks like it received none of the font rendering improvements that Ubuntu has had by default for ages.

Of course, "awful" is subjective so you might prefer the way KDE and LXDE render fonts. But it doesn't change the fact that they're different.
The metric system is a group of measures that was poorly thought out and people using said system cannot built fighter jet parts that fit together?
Farming promoted "development", but it was also the cause of the majority of social inequality in society. Those who controlled the food supply had an inordinate amount of power over the population, far more than could be achieved in hunter-gatherer societies. Read "Guns, Germs, and Steel" for a decent introduction regarding this.
Educators are going to need to deliver in-person value in excess of their cost. The writing is on the wall, there is no technological limitation preventing world-class instructors from teaching everyone. This will doubtlessly be the first of many attempts by the entrenched to prevent this superior education from becoming the norm, out of fear they can't actually deliver real value aside from presenting slides.
In academic philosophy, a "zombie" is a person without a "soul" - it is physically indistinguishable from any other person, but lacks conscious experience. It simulates the outward appearance of conscious experience by virtue of having a fully functional brain.

Sadly, this question is not related to the possibility that chemical spills can cause the dead to rise and eat brains.
Especially those that answered "Other"...
Can anyone else read the article. The above link just asks me to "log in".
The actual "open letter" sent by the SJSU philosophy department: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Document-an-Open-Letter/138...
That's not what a mad lib is.

That is how every real estate / rental,contract works in the real world.
Sorry about that, it doesn't have the proper keyword DevOps - I'll fix that.

We're using the super official fancy title:

"Career Opportunities: Development Operations Infrastructure Engineer (3683)"

https://performancemanager4.successfactors.com/career?compan...

https://performancemanager4.successfactors.com/career?career...
I like this site. The theming is broken though. When you choose creme, it messes up some of the layout elements
Despite the title, the article fails to say how Funny Or Die got to be the top search result. There's a small comment about how the pages have metadata keywords, but so do billions of other web pages.
Shoot, that's competing with my framework "RedHotChiliPeppers".
Hasn't changed, people are only aware of it these days.
It (Grote St library) has multiple printers. There's also FabLab Adelaide which will let you use their printers too.
That is a rather vague question. Google has 50K hearts.
Phil major here.

Imagine a being that acted exactly like a human, it spoke, laughed, etc. - everything that you'd imagine a human being to do. However, it does not actually feel or think.

For example, if you were to prick one of these "zombies," they would say "ouch," recoil, perhaps berate you, but the zombie does not actually feel pain - it's a purely mechanical process.

Metaphysics is concerned with the nature of being, properties, identity, etc. What one means by whether such zombies are metaphysically possible is really an answer to the question: are such zombies really any different than how we are?

For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie
They're completely irrelevant.
OpenBSD is in the process of doing an upgrade to 64-bit time_t. Well, of figuring out the best way to do it. They seem to have most of it worked out, it's just a question of when to pull the trigger.
I dont think you looked hard enough. :) The late 90s to about 2004 most good domains were being registered. Now we have to settle for foreign TLDs.
I don't know that this does, but the Aeron comes in three different sizes. You can adjust the tension of the fabric base (that's the twisty knob on the right-hand side), also.
Reverence is the debatable aspect here. Statue of a goddess implies respect, pornography implies objectification and a very different power relationship. So if we draw conclusions about the role of women in that society, interpreting statues as porn versus pedestals makes a difference.
That's one hypothesis. An alternative hypothesis would be to suggest that the more educated one becomes in philosophy the less that religion makes sense, and the clearer it becomes that there is no evidence for theism.

(Note, I'm not advocating for either of these hypotheses, but correlation is not causation.)
"Their primary source of information was a detailed ethnographic description of over 1,200 language groups across the world."

This method could be extremely error-prone, due to borrowings, etc. between languages, e.g. see some of the criticisms against gluttochronology (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottochronology#Discussion) which uses similar techniques to determine relation between languages.
For PHP developers - date(), mktime() and strtotime() (as well as other functions) use 32bit signed integers for storing the date representation (except in some instances of a 64bit version of PHP on a 64bit OS), which is not y2k38 safe. It is preferred to use the DateTime class available in 5.2 and above which stores the date in a 64bit signed integer. There are other reasons to use the DateTime class as well - and it should generally be best practice to move away from date(), mktime(), strtotime() and other similiar functionality.
The quote wasn't about their technology. It was about their decision making.

Google is famous for data driven decision making.
Making an Operating System from basic using C++
If you don't mind using the portable versions of the larger apps like Blender, you can install the PortableApps.com Platform on your local hard drive and install and update all of those apps in a couple clicks. (Our portable apps work just fine locally, they just won't appear in your start menu by default, you have to add a shortcut manually or launch them using the PA.c Platform) Apps like Blender, Inkscape, GIMP, LibreOffice, GnuCash, Scribus, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc.
MVP. Mobile and disruptive come later.
Their stock holders may have customers interests at heart. That is how a good business works.
I'm curious what this will do to disrupt the efforts of companies offering tests using the current array of DNA sequencing technologies (which are probably mostly Illumina Hi-Seqs and MiSeqs).

This piece of equipment seems like it cuts out a lot of the pain of those technologies: massive data output, requirement of expensive compute resources, a team of bioinformaticians, etc.