skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Exactly, it sort of re-inforces my point that when I was designing that site I didn't really think about it.
I don't have to be an accessibility expert to discuss the fact that developers don't tend to create accessible sites!
Which "these programmes" are you referring to?
> I'm surprised that Uber hasn't put forth licensing a version of their infrastructure for use by black/yellow cabs for dispatch. They can provide access to customers along with a pretty seamless payment process.

They have: http://blog.uber.com/UberTAXI
In most cases you're more likely to be hit by a car if you're riding on the sidewalk. Last numbers I suggest that your risk of being killed by a car is about twice as high when you're on the sidewalk.

The reason is simple: Bikes move quickly, and bikes on the sidewalk are much harder for motorists to see than bikes on the street. That makes it extremely difficult - sometimes impossible - for drivers to see or anticipate when a bike is about to cross a street, alley, or driveway. Meanwhile, cyclists are relatively unaware of their surroundings compared to pedestrians, for the same reason that motorists are: They're moving faster. These two factors can easily combine to create a sudden use-of-space conflict that cyclists never win.
You'll be pleased to know that the website works absolutely fine in IE9
> Show me a virtual machine that I can test with

>> Making a web site or mobile application accessible is about making it parseable to the accessibility application that the user with disability has installed on their machine.

He wants access to a VM (or many VMs) with the accessibility application that the user with disability has installed

That doesn't sound like a straw man at all.
It is not telling people to be quiet, it is telling people 'Yes, we get it. Can we move on to the action items, please.'

It is like being pulled into meeting after meeting where the same problems are discussed -- and most of the discussion is about how such and such is a problem and a problem worth solving even after we've all decided 'Yes, this is a problem and yes, it is worth solving.'. Now is that point in the meeting where we discuss solutions. Beyond even that, it is time to hear about what people have done and how it has worked out for them to help other people and organizations along on their journey.
This is amazing! Any thoughts on why Google did this?
I end up using Django Rest Framework (http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) generated UIs along with the debug toolbar, and then disabling the generated UIs when I'm done profiling.
Apparently it's only temporary, they're about to launch a new version:

"We have removed the Skype for iPhone app from the Apple iTunes store in some markets, as we begin rolling out the latest version. Skype 5.0 for iPhone will soon be available worldwide for download"

http://blogs.skype.com/2014/06/09/skype-5-0-remastered-for-i...
Good read, thanks for the link.
There's a great article on the design of the Hancock tower, which goes into the reasons for the (now iconic) diagonal bracing: http://khan.princeton.edu/khanHancock.html. During my time at NU, I lived right next to Onterie, which has architectural diagonal bracing as a nod to Kahn's work on the Hancock tower.
Give a skater a wall, and they will manage to hurt themselves.
Google engineer: What the world needs is more web programming languages
The Onion uses those same clickbait websites as its advertising revenue. So it's either brilliantly brave or completely dense of them.

EDIT Holy crap: http://www.clickhole.com/video/video-seems-silly-it-makes-go...

EDIT I just realized in lowerclase "clickhole" looks like "dickhole". Maybe this was an obvious joke all along and I'm slow.
In need of some peace for 10 mins? Then I give you the mountain 
Hi all,

I run a site where we try and dish out inspiring content. I came across a video a couple of days ago that totally took my breath away. It is entitled 'the mountain' and as one person puts it 'A man filmed heaven for 7 days, what he filmed took my breath away.'

Many of us are living busy lives and often don't take time to reflect on the beauty around us. If you are stressed, or just want to reflect, then have a watch of this for 5 minutes.

You can watch it via my site - getinspired365.com/20140611 or if you'd prefer straight from YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6_hdRtJOE

Enjoy!
I'm not a satirist, but if I were, I'm guessing this would be the best kind of praise.
Here you go https://www.readability.com/articles/8jmyuikb

The article has horrible fonts.
Rust is also a bit like C (and not C++) by not having implicit calls to constructors, copy constructors etc, so its values are less magic.
Clickables Via my site - http://www.getinspired365.com/20140611 or if you'd prefer straight from YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk6_hdRtJOE
interestingly, Go was originally envisioned to do exactly this - a systems development language
The site looks very promising so far. The Onion has been running listicle-type articles for a while (in the form of captioned photo sets, bulleted lists, and more) so this seems like a natural extension. And the Buzzfeeds of the world certainly deserve the lampooning.

I love how there's a persistent click counter in the footer, which seems to be implemented with localStorage and also seems to be tied to some badge system.
I wonder what it would take for MRI machines to become commoditized?

What if it were normal to have diagnostics like tumor detection at a very early stage made possible by your bed = MRI machine in disguise.

Something like that would be phenomenal - daily diagnostics and now and then introspection plus treatment for things like the mentioned executive function impairment.
The language itself doesn't need the runtime: it's entirely implemented in libraries, and the libraries are slowly being rearranged to offer as much as possible to clients who wish to avoid the runtime (e.g. "libcore").

High-level description the runtimes: http://doc.rust-lang.org/master/guide-runtime.html

Avoiding the standard library/runtime: http://doc.rust-lang.org/master/guide-unsafe.html#avoiding-t... (don't miss the "Using libcore" subsection)
You don't have to give up on fancy stuff. You just have to ensure that you don't rely on fancy stuff. Which many of us think is a good idea anyway.

For example, it's fine to use color to convey information as long as that information can also be obtained in other ways. This approach not only makes your stuff usable to the colorblind, but makes it easier for regular folk too.
Don't worry, my non-technical management have turned our in house app into a rainbow colored mess. Its ugly, but it does convey information quickly
Practical experience shows that once you run into even routine systems programming elements, like writing device drivers and whatnot, you eventually have to concede some safety, or end up with an unprogrammable behemoth of such baroque complexity that you likely have more security holes, just of some other kind. There has been a lot of research into this back in the 1990s; most of the useable results produced security by architecture rather than tools.
The article mentions language processing, interpreting audio and visual material, and playing games as goals that have been set for AI, and then suggests as an alternative goals that "can expand with our own abilities and desires."

But there is little mention of creativity, empathy or emotion - aren't these the types of dynamic, responsive cognitive abilities that are uniquely human? Certainly there's an ethical dimension to the question of whether we should strive to recreate these in AI, but they seem like the type of goals that depend on complex and dynamic intelligence, that would be the most difficult types of tests for computers to pass.
IdeaPlaces – A new iOS app that puts the WHERE in the Evernote experience
Ethics?

I don't think it's necessarily cost-effective for many places to have accessible toilets. They do it because they've decided it's the right thing do to, or because society has decided this and made a law. Nor do I yield my seat to the elderly because it's somehow cost-effective.

While you and I may consider IE8 a handicap :) it's theoretically possible to upgrade. Barriers to upgrades are usually corporate policy, very old OS versions, or low tech knowledge. All are solvable, to some extent, by action on the users part (or their IT guy). There are exceptions, but it's a tool issue on the user's side, and other tools are generally available.

True disabilities are usually not within the users, or their companies, control. They can't use their own resources (time / money) to fix the problem, or lobby someone else.
They pay income taxes.

The primary intent of medallions is not to raise funds for infrastructure. Their goal is to keep people out of the business. You can tell by the fact that they're regressive: they burden lower-income persons more than higher-income thereby preventing new competition from low-skilled workers and guaranteeing safety to the incumbents.
> However, [other ports of coreutils to Windows] are either old, abandoned, hosted on CVS, written in platform-specific C, etc.

I don't get how on the earth can using CVS for version control be an appropriate reason to consider a software project bad. Yes, CVS is old and centralised, but, is it that big of a deal that it's usage by a project per se projects the project old and inactive?
Dangers of leaning in
Big fan of Plex but haven't used the music features yet. How reliable is the metadata fetching? Or do you just point it to an iTunes library file?
It went up $20 right, is there another increase scheduled?
I had a similar difficulty with reading the font. I opened the site in lynx and was surprised to discover that it was relatively well structured (easy to read/navigate).
$1,500 in Monthly Recurring Revenue Came From Hacker News
May I suggest an octopus, stretching its arms out, the tips curling around hapless victims? Something resembling the NROL-39 logo [1] would do fine.

I tend to stay away from any 'Share', 'Mail', 'Like' and related buttons. If I want to share something, I'll use my own server so that only those who I intend to share with are party to the conversation.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_Launches#mediaviewe...
Umm... Perhaps address the actual problem here, which would be poor driving?
Interesting and seemingly well researched article. That said, there are a handful of things are are phandroidy about it, perhaps too much so.

1. Android is fragmented as ever OEM has their own flavour and most devices do not get upgraded to the latest version by the OEMs. This is a problem for consumers and developers.

2. High-end premium marketshare is owned by Apple.

3. Most instanced of malware targeting iOS is targeting jailbroken devices. Android malware doesn't seem to care whether you rooted your device or not.

4. App quality on Andoird still suffers, more so in some categories than others. It feels that developers feel/think that Android users do not expect as much polish as iOS users since they are more used to sub par apps.
Correct. I built a fairly big api in flask, and managed to get everything properly isolated using blueprints. Nothing to worry on that side for me.
Mozilla has an opportunity to gather a lot of data about non-text usability.

Let's hope they can release that data in an open format to allow researchers to make use of it.
> Taxi drivers are not protesting against the regulation.

I think perhaps both are true, though one only accidentally so. Taxi drivers' see themselves as protesting for stronger enforcement of the regulations. I suspect a large portion of the public, though, will recognize the protests as a sort of performance art designed to illustrate that the regulations are problematic and could perhaps stand to be revised.
Exactly. And, if you don't already have the Cloud Player application on your computer, you're shown nothing and told to sign up online. No link, no further explanation.

Okay, except you can't actually sign up online. Searching through Amazon and Google, you may eventually discover you need to download another application, which of course requires you to enter separate credit card information from that Amazon already has on file for your Prime membership, download a downloader, then use that to download the music application, which may finally allow you to sign up to use the service for which you are supposed to be already paying for (e.g. Prime).

I'd say that fairly well qualifies as the worst possible "new" user experience. I mean that quite literally; it appears to have been optimized at each and every step to be as bad as is possible given current limitations. Well played, Amazon; I expect total music dominance within the quarter.
I have a hack for that!

https://gist.github.com/leetrout/ab136dbfb97f8ee1d309

;)

Edit: After install appending `?dbg=1` to a JSON returning view will inject the html wrapper. e.g. http://foo.com/bar.json?dbg=1
Jackhammering street concerns and installing rubber bits with a texture that said to help the blind.
joblessjunkie means the original article's site.

Pinch-to-zoom works fine on HackerNews on an iPad, and the HackerNews font is nothing unusual.

Regarding HN being too wide, why don't you narrow your browser window?

Personally, I like the fact the traditional web design in which HN adjusts the line to screen width rather than imposing a width.
In the US it's going up $20, from $80 to $100.
In many countries, including the UK, there's a big difference between "private car hire" services that are not allowed to pick up passengers without pre-arranging the hire, and taxi services which can pick up passengers at the kerb or at taxi ranks.

Private car hire services (minicabs in the UK) does not have the same licensing requirements as black cabs (licensed taxis)
https://github.com/mtford90/silk doesn't do aggregates but you can sort etc.
I'm not the OP, but as someone whos both a programmer & dyslexic - I do it because i enjoy it & and IMHO am pretty decent at it. Sure I naturally make a few more typos in my code comments & docs than most people, but a minute of extra proof reading (+ F6 in sublime) fixes that so why should anyone care?

> I'm sure everyone on your team says the same thing when you spell all your shit wrong and can't do 90% of the refactoring shit legacy code that they do.

I wasn't aware dyslexics magically got to avoid ever having to debug weird issues in legacy code bases? Hell, i may as well not come in some days if thats the case.

> ugh, hn, get a grip seriously. Programming can be hard, that's the deal. It's not an every-one is the same we can all bring our special snowflake to the party deal

Sure, programming can be hard, and true, it isn't for everyone. But what has my (or anyone elses) being dyslexic got to do with whether they are the best person for the job?
The irony is this website is better implemented (more responsive, simpler to navigate) than 99% of the "news" sites out there.
Maybe you mean rom monitor?
posted by joblessjunkie... WHO ARE YOU KIDDING. A chick posts something on this useless site and it gets so many upvotes, oh awarness etc, am tired of all those hippies around.
Well, to be fair, Apple have other books that cover Cocoa and Cocoa Touch. A book about Swift is... about Swift.
This is a great, unfortunately under-appreciated point. In many ways it's similar to good responsive design – if you can't maintain the pretense that you can cram every control onto a screen, you're forced to actually think about what is most important to the person using your app.

(One bit of serendipity: sites which were designed to be accessible were ahead of the curve for touchscreens, too. Designers could fool themselves into thinking a 6px button was a good idea when they have a high-precision mouse but the first iPad made everyone appreciate how bad that assumption is)
I know from my own experience—when you want to start a project that has been done before you, it's easy to fall into the trap of faultily rationalizing why none of the other attempts have worked and why you're going to do it better.

However, I don't think you should ever avoid writing something you'd enjoy for the sole reason that there are prior attempts (successful or unsuccessful). If you aren't motivated by money, you won't lose anything if your project doesn't get a single user, but you will always gain enlightenment and great experience.
Report into potential electronic surveillance of Irish Police Ombudsman
Secrets of ant rafts revealed
20 Reason Why Making Your Show News Digital Is A Great Idea
NSA : We're too complex to comply with law, so we're destroying evidence
Well this is great. We're told to "just give women in tech a voice". So some organizers go looking for someone who's comfortable with keynoting the damn conference on these issues. She gives a weak "no, but maybe I could generalize to a talk about diversity in general", and they DO NOT cancel the diversity keynote, they find someone who's more confident to talk about this PARTICULARLY bad targeted issue. And she assumes that they are just dum-dum conference organizers... or something.
Twitter COO resigns
I'm really glad to see accessibility on hacker news this morning!

There was a talk at WWDC about improving accessibility and usability in web apps if anyone is interested in learning more: https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2014/#516
Realistically cynical is the description I'd use.
I was actually pretty excited about this because they happen to have a lot of music I listen to (electronic). I loaded up about two dozen albums and downloaded their Android MP3 app. Tried to play a track and was told the track was no longer Prime eligible. The whole album grayed out and when accessed says "We're sorry but this album is no longer available in Amazon's catalog".
At the risk of going off-topic: as an iOS dev who's interested in learning web dev, is there a book that comes closest to a "BNR for web dev"? Or a set of books you'd recommend?
Google "5 easy tips to get paid writing stuff like this that you won't believe!" and you'll probably find something.
Seattle is the Silicon Canal? I would have thought Amsterdam or some city with...you know...more than one canal, would get that title.
Walls are generally less of a surprise than a random, sometimes concrete coloured, surface.

Also keep in mind scooters (which I added in edit) are also affected - a lot of young kids in big cities scoot rather than walk and they get hurt too.
In Turing's paper he suggests a game with a man and a woman and a human interogator. The human knows that there is one woman and one man and the interogator has to discover which is which.

Turing then suggests using this game, but with a computer instead of a woman.

It is a perverse interpretation of the paper to suggest that the human interrogator does not know that they are talking to one human and one computer.

To reach that conclusion you have to mangle the meaning of normal every day English words.
I don't understand this kind of sarcasm except as a way to insinuate an opinion without having to defend it. The article cites numerous sources.
Remember these people are cooperating with you. They are living with their disabilities full-time, and they might have found some remarkably clever ways to get along with it. I've seen blind people with iPhones (I have no idea), and a kid who used his wheelchair as a tractor to pull machinery around his parents' farm. You can work with these people, they're smart.

Whether you make your site fully screen-reader compatible is up to you, but enabling some simple hacks (e.g. custom stylesheets, browser zooming) really goes a long way. People are not homogenous anyway, so it's a good idea to not narrow down their path, impairment or not. Some people don't like to read as much, some are confused by complex looking graphics, some like animation while others are easily distracted. You need to provide different access paths anyways, at least in many of the more complex cases.

Personally I love reading large bunches of text, but I usually hate videos where I can't go at my own pace. I'd happily read transcripts if I could, but providing video only would lose you a visitor. Incidentally providing transcripts also helps with accessibility.
IMO we are seeing that form sells more than function. MAC and Win 8 are a prime suspect.

I am seeing UIs that look nice but are difficult to use for a fully able user, let alone a user with some kind of disability.
Yes, because the only reason those regulations are in place is a lobbying industry trying for a monopoly. Care for the safety and treatment of the actual passengers would never enter the mind of a politician.

And of course this is true for every country affected.
i thought a car hire service isnt a taxi if you first pre-arrange the pickup (whcih is what i thought uber is). That you can do it quickly via an app on a phone is irrelevant.
She did say "we".
Twitter Chief Operating Officer Ali Rowghani Resigns
I thought they had an "ultimate" get your money back option, with the big limit of your only being able to invoke it 5 times in your life. I started to do it once, during which I noticed the limit and decided to reserve it for really big purchases.

I have noticed that there doesn't seem to be any category of items sold by 3rd parties with more fraud than software, although this doesn't sound like such a case.

What does Amazon do after you place a chargeback against them?
I don't agree that accessibility is a training issue and I certainly don't agree that it would take a month to become familiar with accessibility guidelines.

Rather, download a screen reader (for Windows I like Windows Eyes), learn to use it, shut off your monitor and spend one hour trying to use the web. That will give you all the context that you need. Once you're armed with this experience, make navigating through your site with your screen reader part of your regular QA process.

If you follow these steps you will:

- craft sites that are significantly easier for people with visual impairments to use.

- build sites that are easier for search engines to crawl.

- gain an understanding of WCAG that you can apply to everything you develop.

This method will not prevent usability nightmares like horrible font/icons, but it will get you most of the way to WCAG.
Were you living in the east side? If so, you aren't really living in Seattle, but Bellevue.

I got by just fine without a car in the city, food is much cheaper than the east side also. Housing is smaller (for the same amount of money), however.
Yeah the Wired article is altogether crap. It describes the Turing Test as being about 'imitating human conversation', missing the point entirely.
I use this bookmarklet (taken from Stack Exchange [0]) on webpages that disable pinch-to-zoom to re-enable it on iOS devices. Some pages crash Safari after using it and zooming for unknown reasons.

javascript:document.querySelector('meta[name=viewport]').setAttribute('content','width=200,initial-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=10.0,user-scalable=1');

[0]: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/28391/how-can-i-for...
I've read this post. I would still recommend that you jump straight into Swift. Objective-C has its own set of quirks and pain points. If I was starting over, I would go straight to Swift. It's an altogether nicer and more consistent language.
There are no seperate bond issues that back federal lending to students. They are funded out of general obligation debt (i.e. treasuries). Despite being warned over and over again that bond vigilantes are just around the corner, for the better part of a decade now investors have been willing to take near zero interest on them. There's no reason to believe that a few hundred billion in lost repayment over 10-30 years, would move the needle at all.
"it always rains" is our way of scaring off the Californians.
> It's one of the most beautiful places on the planet,

When people say this, do they literally mean one of the most beautiful places on Earth, or do they really mean really beautiful? This might be an obtuse question, but the literal interpretation of it feels a bit... well.