skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting that some commenters here seem to have an attitude of "let's build an app for the blind", "there is no hope for the blind" etc. I'm born blind and build software and do some accessibility consulting for a living. Fortunately we've reached times where the blind community can build software themselves.

An excellent example is NVDA[0], an open source screenreader for the Windows platform, mainly build by two blind guys. With Firefox, I think it is the best combination for browsing the web these days, even outperforming commercial screenreaders.

Oh, and if you want to know why semantics are important, grab a screenreader and read a HN discussion. The lack of nested lists and/or headings to indicate the relationship between comments makes it just a stream of comments without any structure. If proper semantics was being used, I could for example skip an entire subtree of the discussion if the starting comment didn't interest me.

[0]: http://www.nvaccess.org/
This is too mean and angry to be a good parody. This one is better: http://friedisms.tumblr.com/page/4 (the one about monkeys is still my favorite).
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"I would assume that the average"

how very scientific
This reflects a misunderstanding of the study, the article written about the study, the words "productivity", "economics" and the phrase "economic productivity". Jesus christ.
> Why would anyone use Windows; an expensive, proprietary, bug ridden OS when they can use Linux or Chrome OS to perform the same tasks?

Because for most people, for most setups, for most use cases, it just works. Expensive? It's rolled into the price of the PC they bought. Proprietary? They don't care. Bug ridden? I rarely see a Windows machine crash these days. Even the years old XP machines I deal with sometimes, for all they need a good fix to be running at acceptable speeds, still run.

With Chrome there's certainly an argument that it can be more convenient than Windows. However, the argument for Linux needs to be stronger than being a free version of Windows or Mac OS with relatively poor hardware support and access to the underlying code that most people won't understand anyway.
I live in North Newark, its really not as bad as people say as long as you stay away from the west side of town. Much like most cities east of the Mississippi. Also if you take NJ transit in Newark it is exactly 20 minutes from the train station, the Path on the other hand is more like 35 min to 33rd street or 25 min to WTC.
Vaios and Thinkpads target two very different groups of users. Issuing business laptops for business purposes doesn't really mean much. It's a catchy line but not relevant at all.
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Let's say Verizon was intentionally throttling all traffic to AWS at certain times of the day (which seems like an awfully blunt weapon, but whatever).

Where is the part of this where they are promoting their video services over Netflix's "inferior" experience?
> I'd say 95% or more of the web is accessible if you are good with screen reading software.

True, however 80% or more of the blind users I've seen are not good with there screenreading software at all. Many people don't even know how to use navigation by heading for example... sad but true.
Not sure if it was in the article or not but I think the Hairy Ball theorem from Topology would be important. Since earth is a sphere the wind can't blow all in the same direction. Some currents must oppose others. In a torus the wind could start blowing in one direction and stay that way forever.
Have you tried using zoom, instead of changing the minimum font size? It would be reset for every different site you visit (at least on FF, not sure about other browsers) but from my experience scaling the whole site up instead of just the text doesn't break websites as much.
Stop trying to make the web look 'beautiful' – I've forgotten it already
That's a seriously narrow definition of "incentive." It's only an incentive if the amount they're offering you is more than the difference in income, which you and I both know it isn't.

And I have no clue what state you live in or your age obviously, but in Florida, which (previously) had some of the highest health care costs in the country, a family Bronze plan is only like $4k a year. I could get a Platinum plan with $0 deductible for about 30% than the price you're quoting. So, let's not act like those are normative numbers.
For a good 30 seconds I thought that the author had linked to a blank page, and that it was very elegant epitome of the experience of being blink (the article initially took unusually long to load on my phone).
That's not how traffic costs work, but it's much less than one cent per GB just to move the data
I won't entirely blame the legal interference for Microsoft's software design in IE.

It would have been possible to keep the core HTML components without shipping a functional browser frontend.

It would have also been possible to make these core HTML components versionable, so that a given Windows version could offer multiple versions of IE at the same time.

The fact that they failed to do both of those things wasn't the fault of the courts. Some of their design decisions were explicitly made to make the browser itself appear more integral than it really was.
It reminds me of the article published a few days ago on why the author doesn't trade in stocks. The reason was following.

"It's going to go up!"

I say same is true for India. India hasn't reached it's high yet.
a while back i noticed this when i moved from windows to osx. and still i feel a little (not as much though) that osx is not as "fluid" and has less "finesse" and that the UI in osx is not well designed, especially things like buttons, menu, placement of items, and even the look of the buttons, the dock, etc.

It seemed possible that it was due to my getting used to Windows and not being familiar with os x.

A part of me though thinks that Windows UI is in fact superior to OSX ui, and that OSX has a somewhat amateurish feel to it. If I ran a design-centric company and my OS looked like that for a decade, it would bother me strongly.
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Yes, but the reputation isn't going to deteriorate overnight. There's a reason why they both had it. It's a good product (or it was).
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Do you know how many homes in your neighborhood have FiOS? I am wondering if it's a congestion issue - have you checked RTT in the day vs afternoon? What about looking at wireshark to see how many duplicate Acks/Re-transmits you're seeing?

As only the first-hop device appears to be different in the tracert, I doubt it's something upstream - if they were throttling, they'd probably do it at the network core - before it left the Verizon network for transit, which would apply to both circuits.
But then again it can't be a good thing to reduce the income of the young just so the old can retire earlier.
Why? Why wont you die FreeBSD?
Paymo time tracker also comes in mind :) (shameless plug)
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Here's a guess: Women, on the average, are older than men. So women, on the average, have fewer teeth.
Yes. Any moderately intelligent and informed person could look at a government program and identify both positive and negative impacts.

As an example, the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem started from the confluence of government programs, such as one where private investor dollars were matched by government dollars to create the very first valley VCs. I don't think anybody inside or outside of the government, projected the immensity of the impact of those programs.

Or y'know... about 90% of the stuff that spun out from NASA.

Anyway... I get it: you're a closed-minded ideologue and you weren't REALLY asking a question, you were just being snarky. So I'll stop pretending that I respect you now. And I'll stop pretending that we're having a conversation.
The hope is that we will observe an increase in real wages at the bottom end of the scale, which will have a very positive effect on the economy. This is evidence that people have been effectively trapped in jobs just for the healthcare.

I actually worked with someone (who knows python, JavaScript, c#, t/sql, etc.) who had to work loading boxes at UPS on the night shift while he was between jobs because, while he could afford to quit and look for a new job, he couldn't afford a gap in his insurance. It's not that he was sucking down tons of services either - just having a gap would have been bad news.

Now I hear that jobs at Whole Foods and Starbucks are pretty good all around, but there are others that I think will rightly need to pay more going forward.
Yeah agree. Not going past the T420!
That would be a shame. I've had a series of VAIOs since the late 90s, and aside from the S series in the mid-2000s they've been stellar Linux machines.

The VAIO Pro I replaces my Z with in November is a fantastic machine and pretty much everything worked out of the box with Debian+Xmonad.
"One of the reasons "Web 2.0" has such an air of euphoria about it is the feeling, conscious or not, that this era of monopoly may finally be over."

While it seems that there is no longer the complete monopoly that Microsoft had, the new monopoly that Google has is functionally similar. While not fully there yet, they are heading towards near-complete lock-in to Google services. Web 2.0 may have raised the bar for monopoly (or lowered the bar for competition), it definitely didn't do away with it altogether.
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https://github.com/bit-c/bitc

bitc is a thin SPV bitcoin client.

* 100% C code,
* support for linux and mac platforms,
* console based: uses ncurses,
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You'll need basic dev skills to install it: check-out the code, install dependencies then build. It's all in the README file. I'm interested in all kinds of feedback you may have: feature requests, bugs, etc. Thanks!
Thanking people for wishing you a happy birthday... like a programmer should
It's only tangentially related to region. Comcast bring all of Netflix's traffic onboard in NYC and their East Coast routing is handled in New Jersey. Their eastern seaboard routing is about the only area where they're not having massive internal issues. Both their Denver (Midwest) and Oregon (PNW) iBone routing centers are having serious capacity issues that are manifesting as packetloss, giant latency increases and generally shitty route-arounds in the hope that it'll relieve pressure.
If I understand correctly, the problem is that persistent storage (either S3 or EBS) is network-attached, and you pay by the gigabyte and by the number of requests or IOPS.
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because diversity in operating systems is healthy? Not everyone subscribes to the 'GPL is best' mindset that permeates parts of the linux ecosystem?
http://trysnitch.com, simple mobile notifications to send from your code in JSON format.

It's cool because dead simple and flexible.
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Microsoft's future will be determined by its past profit margins. To maintain it's historical margins it must succeed with devices. Cloud services are a low margin business. Their online applications will never generate the profits that their packaged software has. The fact that they are losing money on every Surface they sell is not encouraging.
Well, in its defense, it's not doing anyone any harm, and actually is a pretty awesome operating system (ZFS is, to put it mildly, delicious).

The world would be much poorer if FreeBSD left this mortal coil.
Randomness isn't exactly how most people would define control either.

Nevertheless, I agree with your critique of determinism. Think outside the "system". Nobody knows why stuff exists or why it behaves the way it does, it's all just observation and ideas.
Thanks, I've had success at web analytics Wednesdays. I don't have one in my local city, but I have organized one and it had a great turnout. Speaking at conferences and on panels has been good as well, but my company is on a downturn right now, so travel & conferences are locked down for the time being.

I REALLY like the idea of showcasing side projects. I do some web development and hosting for several non profits associated with my extended family. Historical Associations, political websites (ranging from the left to the right), my wife's recipe blog, a christian campground, etc.

I'm going to start digging into the analytics for them and blogging about it. It's definitely worth my time, and small amounts of cast for some SEM campaigns to showcase those skills.

Thanks for triggering this thought process. Genuinely appreciated.
AFAIK Netflix doesn't stream directly from AWS, but (while using it for their transcoding and so) uses a CDN. So blocking AWS wouldn't help in changing the quality of netflix, right? It certainly could be related though.
Scenarios don't allow you to make blaming statements. We don't actually know anything about the connection between Verizon and AWS, other than it's slow. Making statements like "they're demanding Netflix make it worth their while to upgrade the interconnects" is speaking for others based on a presumption you had.

Saying they are 'desperate' makes them sound fearful. Verizon made $70B in gross profit last year. I can't see how they would be afraid of upgrading their network - it's part of the business.
Details matter.

It's where the Devil lives.
I worked with MS technologies for years at a previous job and you are right that MSDN docs are the best out there. Javadoc, doxygen, etc... all pale in comparison. Now that I mostly work with OSS technologies I usually just read the source and any comments/docs that happen to be included.
Requiring insurance companies to charge you and a person at a healthy weight the same price is a subsidy (and applies at all income levels).

You agree with his claims, just not his tone.
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Hahahahaha, zoom. Since I installed the 13.04 version of ubuntu on my MBP retina, I get the pleasure of cruising the web at 200%. Half the sites out there break.
Great resources out there. Thanks.
Not really. They barely support it, it's half integrated into RPM and is impossibly difficult to persuade a lot of stuff to work with it due to system dependencies on certain jars. You end up having to pull a full JDK from somewhere else which isn't supported.

If you look at the CLR there are only two major current versions: 2.0 and 4.0 and perfect legacy compat and wide support across all windows server versions.
Thank you! Checking out Aha! now. Seems Solo may come in handy too sometime...
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DHH co-founded a multi-million dollar business, created one of the most famous web-frameworks, races on Le Mans, and has one-of-a-kind sports car made specially for him [1]. He's fucking cool.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pagani_Zonda#HH
> Unfortunately, there's no way to determine the actual cause of the slow down.

Is networking the most frustratingly complex field in technology? As someone who admittedly knows little about it it all seems like a pile of hacks stacked on top of one another. It's the only explanation I can come up for why it's near impossible to figure out why a network isn't behaving correctly.
> I just googlemapsed Newark to Manhattan (mid-town). It's 17 miles, 30 minutes best case, 45 in 10:00am weekday traffic.

Its also $140/month, which is on top of the MTA fare unless you work within walking distance of Penn Station.
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Maybe it's a difference of generation problem. I'm 25 and I found that article really refreshing.
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It's one thing to recognize your civilizational and societal achievements as good, useful and constructive and therefore love them and cherish them. Nothing wrong with positive self evaluation. Whoever sees a problem with that is an anti-intellectual.

However, for most people national pride is something that manifests as "we are better than them" and allows them to engage in all kinds of atrocities against other people because "they're outsiders/they're not us". It's very easy to justify all kinds of things when you adopt "us vs them" mentality.

Gotta be careful. Since most people can't be counted on to be well behaved and not let their pride devolve into justifications for colonization/genocide/ethnic violence, it's best to keep those feelings down to a minimum.
Same here, :'(
I delet my vedio ,i was accident.my lil baby was playing with computer.

I viewed the fb lookback video it wasss asesome.that was made for me but pictures... I was wondering how I could retrieve the video as I would like to share it? Thank you in advancc.plzzzzz help
Me out :'(
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"Silicon Valley is dying because it's too crowded."

Wait, what?
I tend to think the only reason TI and Freescale have good documentation is because they've been in the market a lot longer than the others and have had time to mature the work. TI had early wins with Nokia and Freescale has been in the automotive market and had some early multimedia work like the Toshiba Gigabeat (aka Zune 1).

Providing a complete doc set for these chips runs well above 10,000 pages. I recently got to evaluate a Marvell chipset and...um...let's say it wasn't pretty.
I would, because the infrastructure is crumbling, the tax base to fix it is non-existent, and the bureaucracy running the city is overbearing and corrupt. Detroit is still in the early stages of a death spiral, and it would take something mind bendingly huge to snap out of it.

Detroit is going to stand as the lesson to all cities in North America.
It looks like this:
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Am I the last guy still paying $7/month for a solo Backpack account? I've looked for good alternatives a few times, and never found anything I like as much as Backpack for basic note-taking. As long as they'll keep taking my $7, I guess I'll keep using it.
Nationalism doesn't make sense when a nation's citizens feel powerless to shape the nation. But if a nation's citizens, through actions and decisions unique to their nation, feel like they are building a better place to live... what's wrong with being proud about it? Just the other side of the coin. I think striking a balance is optimal
Ethnicity is an accident of birth. Nationality can be chosen.

Indeed it was chosen by Nobel laureate who made the quote.
I have been in the valley for a quarter of a century. It has never been so vibrant. Here are some links to prove the point:

http://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2014.pdf

http://www.siliconvalley.com/sv150/ci_23055045/sv150-searcha...

http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2013/12/24/the-years...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/joelkotkin/2013/05/06/americas-b...

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/march/applications-set-re...
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TeamWork.com their biggest competitor, did this last week.
Point taken about challenging courses, Whistler, and Sochi. The bike park at Whistler is a pleasure every time and still the best in the world IMO, in no small part because Whistler aren't afraid to build big features.

I certainly don't think that the snowboard cross course as reported so far is dangerous in a deadly way like an alpine course with flawed fencing design or a skeleton or bobsled course with solid obstacles in proximity, but the reasons that the snowboard cross course are bad are still very worrying.

Based on what athletes said for example here: http://www.ctvnews.ca/sochi/safety-concerns-over-sochi-slope... , the snowboard cross isn't huge because the builders wanted to go big by design, but rather to anticipate extreme melting activity. And, like the Whistler courses, the slopestyle course was supposed to have been tested a year ago but was unable to be constructed due to a lack of snow.

I certainly don't think it's a good sign.
I have a lot of experience in government, so I have a little perspective on this.

Just like if you hire a guy to remodel your bathroom, you get exactly what you ask for. If you tell the contractor "I need a toilet", you will get the cheapest possible toilet available.

Likewise, if you are contracting with a big vendor to deliver an IT project, they will do as much or as little as you require them to do. The government did not build in the gates/controls into the process that they should have, which is incompetence -- particularly with a service that is citizen-facing and critical to both the end-users and the government.
Haven't seen this version yet, but the 1.5 edition was a great resource for me. If you've done something with Django already and are trying to improve, this book is perfect.
What classes of applications benefit from that level of integration between processing and storage?

It strikes me that both AWS and various PaaS providers (especially Heroku) encourage strong separatioin between the application and its storage. Applications are supposed to treat all persistent storage as network-attached, while the VMs or containers running the appliication are ephemeral. I guess you're saying this is untenable for some kinds of application.
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According to my logic, a french owned company, established in the U.S. and making money on the U.S. market (so, from U.S. citizens) should pay U.S. taxes.

The problem is not the "citizen" part but the market or soil one.

The fact that I, as a french company, am able to sell products on the U.S. market is, in part, due to the fact that the U.S. as a country has a litterate workforce, infrastructures, a stable legal system, etc...

This costs money and tax is supposed to put some fairness in this. Otherwise, we would all be trying to make money in Afghanistan with a 0% tax on revenue.
Not necessarily. It might just be bypassing the congested route that everyone else on your ISP is using. Comcast and Verizon have had disagreements peering with Cogent, one of Netflix's ISPs:

http://gigaom.com/2013/06/20/verizon-that-peering-flap-about...

It's not throttling, but rather the peering points along the "best" route between Cogent and Comcast/Verizon are overloaded, resulting in lousy connections between them. Look at this traceroute hop from Comcast to Cogent I just recorded:

7 he-0-10-0-1-pe03.111eighthave.ny.ibone.comcast.net (68.86.83.94) 21.377 ms 20.379 ms 19.387 ms
8 be7922.ccr21.jfk10.atlas.cogentco.com (154.54.13.161) 67.126 ms 67.747 ms 69.083 ms

40 ms to go one short hop in, I believe, the same data center.
Sigh. Hacker News top comment. It's not "wow this is great!" or "nice work, great illustrations, I'll show this to my students!"

It's "I'm so irritated that I already knew what you just told me and I learned it from a better source that I want to assault you!! Why don't you read the same things I read!!?"
As they say, a leading question's answer is usually no.

We need this to be verified by someone with intricate knowledge of whatever is going on inside Verizon's network. The number of people with the exact knowledge of what is going on will be necessarily limited.
There are many things which frustrate me. This is not one of them. HN does what pretty much every other link site does, so you must be plenty frustrated. FWIW, control-click / command-click should open in new tab, and is just about as fast as click.
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