skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Screen readers provide information about headers on a page, and users use that to navigate to the relevant portion of a page. When headers are in sensible hierarchical order, this is easier to do.

That said, while it's a best practice to keep headings in a sensible order, skipping heading levels is not a WCAG AA violation.
> Unlikely, because they won't see what you've done as help

So many times this.

It is peculiar how people view computer janitory as "simple" activity, despite not being able to do it themselves. Is that because all you do is press some buttons here and there? It is in fact perceived to be so easy that you get people complaining for your free work.

I've been asked by literally total strangers to "fix their PC" for them; would they ever consider asking a random plumber for a favor like that?

- "Oh so you do something with computers, could you please fix my laptop?"

- "Eh what are you doing for a living?"

- "A mason"

- "Cool then, we long wanted to change tiles in the bathroom"

[awkward silence]
He owned between $100,001 and $250,000 of Oracle stock at the end of 2013.

http://www.opensecrets.org/pfds/assets.php?year=2013&cid=N99...
It's not an abstraction, it's an accidental byproduct of physical hardware placement.
The problem is that people are different. I love working in the library; I can't get anything done in an open space office. A personal office is ok but not my first choice. Cubes are completely dependent on my neighbors.

Businesses are really bad at accommodating differences.
Personally, I like to think the culture here is above jumping to conclusions and armchair speculation.
The article states "Indeed, you may be able to offset a ton of CO2 for as little as $1"
and also: "... If we were to use the mean rather than the median estimate, we would get a social cost of carbon of $48 per metric ton of CO2."
So for every $1 spent, you can save society a cost of $48? A 4,800% social return on your money seems pretty good!
The problem is that the effect being compensated for is so tiny that it's really noisy. It's not like leap years, where all you have to do is measure the actual period of the Earth's orbit very precisely and come up with a nice way to fit the appropriate correction factor into the calendar.

The Earth's rotation is slowing, but it's not a steady process. For example, the Boxing Day earthquake in 2004 permanently decreased the length of the day by about 3 microseconds. Here is a graph of the changes over the past few decades:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Deviatio...
Polycal.js: A tiny JavaScript library for building custom calendars
I find myself needing this every other week. Best of luck. I wish I had time to be more than an onlooker.
Moron.js: A new ORM for Node.js
As Google cars roll out, Deere reminds us of its 1000s of self-driving tractors
Yes.

I would say I'm shocked anyone thought this was a good idea, but I'm not, sadly.

Privileged nerds seem perpetually oblivious of any problem that doesn't personally harm them.
> But I've lost the ability to read for pleasure, I used to be able to finish a novel in an evening.

I'm convinced there is such a thing as a "reading muscle".

After being "lost" for many years in the "I can no longer read fiction" territory, I dove into it unexpectedly one weekend and found my fiction-for-pleasure groove again. (Ironically, it took a long non-fiction book to do that!)

But this does mean I no longer allow myself to aimlessly binge on TV or the web for pleasure. Reading certainly requires a stronger intention and attention.
I don't feel like you're deserving the downvotes you're getting. Printing money is indeed theft or taxes, depending on your bias, because it dilutes your cash savings.
As long as people keep tolerating open offices, it might make economic sense for the employer. But for the employee, if it actually affects his personal productivity and overall happiness, it makes sense for him to consider a distracting environment as a cost. (ie require more money)
Impossible to pair up with someone, unless you both put on headsets and share a channel like a tank crew.
I'm the same, I can't wear any kind of "on ear" headphones for more than an hour or two before my ears hurt. Instead, I got some studio monitor style over ear headphones (Sennheiser HD380P to be specific) that are super comfy and have a huge noise reduction to boot. I can wear them all day no problem.

As for noise, I don't work in an office (mostly at home), but if I need to cut out the noise but don't want music I still will put on my headphones. If I really need to cut out the world, some white noise will do the trick.
Probably, but it still left me feeling a little alienated.

Not to take anything from Om tho, people using it seem to enjoy it a lot! I guess I'm just less smart ;-)
I'm surprised at this, as in my experience, the overwhelming trend in north america is to avoid talking about bodily functions at all costs, nearly to the point of denying they happen.

The words they use after they break this nigh-impenetrable barrier are usually codified in the most non-offensive ways possible. Someone having a conversation about "shit", for instance, will have a far more uncomfortable audience in North America than someone passively mentioning the existence of "poo" to a group of people. Often, the very subject's focus in a conversation will make listeners question the mental health of the speaker (seriously).

TL;DR - The culture around bodily functions is way crazier than what we call them.
How did you select your components? I've never heard of Rum or Datascript, for example.
That's an awfully unfair assumption.
>Everyone is contributing what they can for free to the common knowledge base and can use everyone else's stuff also for free.

Not necessarily. In reality the flow of IP-value is largely one way.

Many corporations have done incredibly well out of FOSS without offering much in return. Just because Famous Router Company puts up source code of firmware it has glued together from various FOSS projects doesn't mean FRC has made a significant contribution. (Some corps do, of course. But even there they don't share other core IP as they would in a genuinely flat FOSS economy.)

In fact FOSS is about commodification, not innovation or invention. If innovation happens, it's usually in developer-land. FOSS culture doesn't seem all that interested in solving new classes of problem in user-land. So "according to his (her) needs" is very limited and partial.
I don't think anyone really associate the the "rest" in "restroom" with resting. May as well call it infantile to call it a "bathroom" when only children take baths.
Good question, I guess there are still people that talk to each other, but I believe the unlimited sms/voice is just a sales pitch for the plan. They don't really expect you to use it.

In my current plan I have 5000 free SMS per month. That's just silly, I'm not sure if I have even sent that many SMS in total since I got my first GSM phone in the early 90s. :)

But as long as the price for the data plan is good, I don't really care what else they tack on to it.
Good old IS-LM has done fairly well the past decade. I'm not sure what you're saying: that both Keynesianism and monetarism suck, or that there is a debate between two credible schools of thought and an unclear winner?
Having worked in a couple large enterprises that tried to make the Data Lake concept work, I would love to see this concept in practice where it actually does something useful. Thus far, both attempts I've seen ended up falling back to traditional reporting structures, like data warehouses. This was in financial services and energy.

Serious question, does anyone know any companies that are employing this successfully? And if so, in what fashion? I'd definitely love to hear about a success story and what value was provided.

Edit: The example in the article seems to be more related to the failure of the data warehouse than the success of the data lake.
Tontines: Retirement plan of the future?
Where Europe is growing and shrinking
There's certainly a large element of uncertainty, but that is hardly a reason to avoid taking these into account.

You say it sounds like a justification for acting against one's values - I'd put it in reverse: values, much like rights, are a system for deciding what to do when the uncertainty or cost of making a decision is too great. Blindly following them is folly if you actually want to avoid harming people.
Which countries are most exposed to Greece?
Most web services expose an API to facilitate access to their resources, and there is a tendency to over-rely on these services that is extended to the software. With HeliosBurn we aim to provide developers with a fault injection platform that will enable them to identify and prevent failures before deploying the software into a production environment
Doesn't Twitter ban you if you send too many @-messages to random people?
In that case we'd probably just import real sugar. Agricultural handouts lead to more agricultural handouts.
SQL was initially developed at IBM by Donald D. Chamberlin and Raymond F. Boyce in the early 1970s.[14] This version, initially called SEQUEL (Structured English QUEry Language), was designed to manipulate and retrieve data stored in IBM's original quasi-relational database management system, System R, which a group at IBM San Jose Research Laboratory had developed during the 1970s.

In the late 1970s, Relational Software, Inc. (now Oracle Corporation) saw the potential of the concepts described by Codd, Chamberlin, and Boyce, and developed their own SQL-based RDBMS with aspirations of selling it to the U.S. Navy, Central Intelligence Agency, and other U.S. government agencies. In June 1979, Relational Software, Inc. introduced the first commercially available implementation of SQL, Oracle V2 (Version2) for VAX computers.

Does IBM have a case to go after Oracle for using the SQL API SSO in their database products?
Given the scope of their work it seems odd they wouldn't be required to put their money in a blind trust. At least as a matter of good taste.
Right now it's two of us. We are in NYC and Chicago. We raised a small amount of debt from an advisor. We have developed a long-short trading model based on data mining of SEC filings. We have innovated on academic white papers in our area. Between the two of us, we have a background in tech, software, math, sales, and marketing. Our latest selection model has a Sharpe over 90 but there are only one or two such opportunities per year; we have another model with Sharpe over 3 that offers more plentiful opportunities. We are looking for someone experienced and connected in quantitative finance to join the team. Email admin@armini.us with LinkedIn or whatever.
MarI/O - Machine Learning for Video Games
Copied from youtube description:
MarI/O is a program made of neural networks and genetic algorithms that kicks butt at Super Mario World.
Source Code: http://pastebin.com/ZZmSNaHX
"NEAT" Paper: http://nn.cs.utexas.edu/downloads/pap...
Some relevant Wikipedia links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evoluti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artific...
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>If GitHub vanished entirely, it could be rebuilt using individual user’s own copies of all the projects. It would take ages to accomplish, but it could be done.

>Still, such work would be painful. In addition to the source code itself, GitHub is also home to countless comments, bug reports and feature requests, not to mention the rich history of changes

I'm glad that they mention this. There's a tool called Fossil which is a distributed VCS but it includes a wiki and bug tracker within it.

I'm just not sure how a totally decentralized VCS + bug tracker would fit into a model like GitHub.
Yeah, but the future of self-driving cars seems brighter than the one of self-driving tractors (on pre-computed routes): you can solve a massive urban problem VS help some rich farmers to save some time
Then we rebel, "Atlas Shrugged" style.
However there is probably a quid pro quo somewhere in there that will give Microsoft leverage.

So the previous point still stands, with one minor modification. The giants will come to terms and the small-fry will be screwed.
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There has been only one time I was willing to work for free, to establish some credibility as a freelancer when reaching out wasn't working that well and I didn't had anything to show in my portfolio, plus I didn't want to go on bidding wars on Odesk, Elance. I think that (desperation) might be one of the major reasons why someone might want to work for free.
For libc at least, the API is actually an ISO standard. Same with the C++ standard library. Therefore, you should not expect issues like this.

Now, using a language which is owned by one company, Google's lawyers really dropped the ball in terms of risk.
Designing the Financial Planning Software of the Future
"Computer-related things" isn't a thing, any more than an evolutionary biologist who works with fruit flies is well-qualified to work on a particle accelerator (despite both being "science"). I'm an engineer. I'm not a Microsoft help-desk staffer, a GMail support center, or an Acer repair technician. If my family members don't use the same equipment, software, and services that I do, I'm unlikely to have any special knowledge that will help them more than what they'll get from tech support (bad as it often is). Half the time I can't even understand what they're talking about and just end up reading the manual to them until everyone is too angry to continue the conversation.

If you work on a consumer e-mail app, sure, by all means get them using that and help them with it. But many (most) of us don't work on products that are targeted at consumer needs, or have any special knowledge about the products our family members use. Let the people who do, do their jobs; everyone will get a better outcome that way.
> without documenting any of the best practices

What kind of best practices are you thinking about? Any pointers?
I'm crowdfunding code camp tuition. Afterwards, I'll pay what I raised forward
Additionally, there are the APIs that no one thought too much about the copyright of. Who owns the Javascript API, for example? The W3C, or the first browser vendor to implement each component on a component-by-component basis?
>> How can you do a fault tree analysis before things go wrong?

Formal fault tree analysis has been used byt the nuclear power industry for decades. You may consult the "Fault Tree Handbook" also known as NUREG-0492 which can be found here:

http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/s...

It has been adopted in parts of the auto industry for at least a decade (I was directly exposed to this).

You start with a preliminary hazard analysis based on what could go wrong and work backward through the system to identify things connected to the component in question that would lead to the undesired outcome. You'll build a large binary circuit where the inputs are events or problems and the output is a failure. The tools can do an analysis to determine what combinations can lead to that failure. If the simplified boolean expression contains any single terms, you have a single point of failure that will lead to the undesired outcome. You then redesign the system so that no single point failures lead to disaster.

THIS ANALYSIS HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE YOU BUILD IT TO BE ANY GOOD.

I always liked this way better than the more common "faulure modes and effects analysis" or FMEA, which makes you try to determine system-wide consequences of component failures - often down to individual resistors. These do find problems at design time, but IMHO it's too much work. With a fault tree you get to treat larger assemblies as a component.
That's true of all torts, but not paying a consulting contract is very unlikely to be considered a tort; it's a contract dispute --- like, the archetypical contract dispute. The whole point of limited liability is that contract disputes end at the company.
I'm not sure how the small claims court in California works, but from my experience in Alberta, it would take multiple trips to SF to even get a court date (which may be months or years down the road). Even if you get a settlement you still have to collect it and if they declare bankruptcy, that is going to mean more court time and more money.
OM components are complex. There are global transaction/message channels, component local state, an OO backpane, lifecycle functions, functional zippers, hierarchy organised data, etc. I can't understand how anyone could claim it to be simple.

Look at this example code, apparently held in such high regard that it is referenced off the front page of OM:
https://github.com/swannodette/om-sync
To me that is a ghastly, inexcusably complected hairball.

Don't get me wrong. I really like clojurescript. I program in it daily, on purpose. It is just that I'm shocked at the level of devotion and adulation for OM when there are really lovely alternatives like Reagent and Rum.
Helios Burn developer here if anyone has questions about this software. It's new, nifty, and there isn't much like it that already exists.
355ml glass bottle in mex costs 6 pesos, or 0.30usd, while the plastic bottle version at half a liter goes the same price. cans can go as much as 10 pesos in vending machines.
2L plastic is around 25 pesos or $1.50USD. I don't buy soda so my numbers may be off by 10%.
SQL is an ISO standard (ISO/IEC 9075). This is completely different from implementing the API of a proprietary language.
I'm not sure why you're getting downvoted, because you're right. To be more specific, server code has very different responsibilities than client code, not to mention very different runtime characteristics (e.g. servers are both trusted and under total central control, unlike clients).

To say that the client/server split is "arbitrary" is rather silly.

(That's not to say I'm not a fan of an end-to-end language. Meteor shows what you can do with this. Maybe ClojureScript can do this, but with a better language.)
> How on earth can I possibly succeed as an individual investor in a trading environment where institutional investors are so privileged?

Economists have sort of argued that it was impossible to succeed in the way you're talking about since long before HFT came along. The classic explanation is presented in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Random_Walk_Down_Wall_Street.
Out of curiosity, are there reasons why this shouldn't be solved at the browser or even OS level? The only reason I can think of is that solutions at the app level makes it possible for people to refer to a blue line, red bar, and whatnot and it means the same for everybody. But if we need many color profiles anyway because there are many kinds of color blindness, perhaps we should just make the labels pop out or have fewer series per graph (so that we can just refer to these graphs instead of individual series in them).
I recommend using https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools, if only for the defcomponent macro: https://github.com/Prismatic/om-tools#defcomponent

This abstracts out all the reify stuff and makes for far cleaner component definitions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9713802
The alternative is to have small rooms for teams, or just let people work from home.
Creator here!

I've heard of some ways to visualize this with SVG filters - so this will be coming soon.

Still thinking of creative ways to find and label the errors, rather than just showing the user how the page will look under a certain type of color-blindess.
Top open source interviews of 2015 (so far)
I reckon I will put something up on my blog. Its a game dev blog but my painty endeavours have a great deal of influence on that side of my work.
I would love todo something in VR that took the best from tactile and digital.
Flying on Southwest is actually the most pleasant experience that I've had, compared to the other carriers. They allow two free checked bags for example, and their employees are much friendlier and helpful. They give out free beer and wine several days a year (Mother's Day, Father's Day, Southwest's birthday, etc.) There certainly has been a race to the bottom in air travel the past few years, but it doesn't look like Southwest is participating.
I always teach them what I am doing and why. Results have been better than expected but of course the person being helped has to be open.
Expanding the definition to include animals necessarily involves redefining personhood, and that's the risk. Expanding personhood doesn't necessitate removing classes of people from personhood, but allowing for its redifitinion makes it possible.
Do all of those schools require upfront payment or do any of them instead take a percentage of your first year salary once you're employed?

Also, could this service be helpful? https://www.upstart.com/
I'd be interested in hearing about the process of returning to the District Court (or really any previous court) to defend on a fair use argument. Was that case not closed? Was it left pending until the question of copyright itself was addressed by the appeals court?
You need to make the incentive a lot bigger. Examples:

- If your rate is $150hr for 10 day net. 30 day net is $200 hour.

- If you are charging a $50K license fee if paid within 10 days, make it a $60K license fee if paid withing 30 days.

Client: "Oh, but I don't think we can turn that around in 10 days"

You: "I totally understand, I can work on retainer if that's easier."
Regardless of whether SQL is an ISO standard, doesn't IBM still own the copyright to SQL or were they forced to give it up as part of the condition to becoming an ISO standard?
I was thinking this was going to be one of those websites that just says NO in big letters. Sadly it's not.
It's actually "The Evening Star"

Grab it used for $0.75 http://product.half.ebay.com/The-Evening-Star-Venus-Observed...
I'm trying to understand the issue here -- UberPop drivers were picking up folks via hail, and not the app? Is that the issue here/in general in France?
That's nice: they will have time to (finally) explain to our government what's the difference between Uber and Uber-X services versus Uber-Pop when offered by unlicenced (for private hires) drivers. And we can hope that at least here they are safer than in the streets of Paris
Arredamento Mobili OnLine
Two European Uber directors in custody
Peter Jackson turns home into replica of Bilbo's Hobbit house
There are also solitary bees that don't form hives and are important pollinators.
Era of Distraction
Yeah, I don't really believe the claim that it's the only one, it's probably fair to say it's the most widely used though.
That's a huge compliment, thank you!

HTML_CodeSniffer is significantly more comprehensive than tota11y, so I encourage everyone reading this to also check out corney91's link.

tota11y takes more of a visualization approach, because in our experience being greeted with several dozen errors which we've never seen before didn't motivate us to keep the site accessible. My aim was to make the experience more interactive while explaining errors (and fixes!) as best I can.

We're still figuring out where tota11y fits in this great big world of a11y testing, but so far folks have responded well to this approach.
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