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by bcx 3y ago
Seems like most local planning offices would have a lot of training data, possible even publicly accessible via foia
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by bcx 3y ago
I like this idea, but any sophisticated attacker will ignore the Bluetooth names and just pull vendors off the MAC addresses. Though it would be interesting if you can define the Bluetooth MAC addressees in software to match your fake name
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by bcx 3y ago
Companies like these do exist. I think if you looks for smaller companies, bootstrapped companies, and/or companies that are run by their founders who managed to retain control and valued culture you'll find folks who are more va
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by bcx 3y ago
Yes AND! It's pretty amazing what you can accomplish with a philosophy of progress over perfection, the right framing, and some specific goals. I'd challenge you all to set some public goals for accessibility (even if they are sma
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by bcx 3y ago
I'd challenge you to expand your understanding of disability and ability. Small and Medium businesses "waste time" on all sorts of things, one anecdote that might help your libertarian leanings is that majority of disabilitie
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by bcx 3y ago
I was curious too. Joe and Jennison started GAAD 12 years ago from a discussion on a forum/blog post ( https://accessibility.day/about/ ). So I suppose if you want to put 10 years into trying to get something mains
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Tell HN: Today Is Global Accessibility Awareness Day
202 points by bcx 3y ago|61 comments
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by bcx 3y ago
This feels like a good long term vision for Mozilla. The browser wars are basically over , and Mozilla as an organization would benefit from a longer term vision to improve veracity on the internet. With the ability to generate content at t
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by bcx 4y ago
I recommend taking a look at https://teachaccess.org/ as a starting point. They are non profit focused on bridging the gap between accessibility and education. I think they are mostly focused on college level exercises, bu
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by bcx 4y ago
We (Olark YC S09) are in the process of building out a fully accessible platform for realtime communication (live chat, bots/automations) for both agents and visitors, and regularly work with folks to help our team test and improve our
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by bcx 4y ago
I think there is some nuance here that is helpful to unpack. We'd almost all agree that: 1. Things that get in the way of solving customer needs are annoying. Most modals, popups, proactive notification that don't happen at the r
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by bcx 4y ago
I thought by this point PayPal would be "a bank", however ( https://www.paypal.com/us/digital-wallet/manage-money/start-... .) Clearly states "PayPal is a financial technology company, not a bank
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by bcx 4y ago
What I think is surprising about this legislation is apparently Zelle is not required to do the same reporting threshold. https://www.zellepay.com/faq/does-zelle-report-how-much-mone... So IMO, this set up is almost en
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by bcx 4y ago
I spent 3 years in a PhD program, like many of the posters it was one of the most fun experience of my life. I ended up dropping out to do Ycombinator, but it was an incredibly hard decision. Like many things in life not all PhDs are creat
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by bcx 4y ago
Does it only fall one time to 6% in 6 months or will it track against inflation over time? (i.e. short-term return > long term return?)
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by bcx 4y ago
I'd be curious to understand the interest rate the US government is paying on the debt verses some other highly indebted countries. I poked around on google, and it looks like China has around 50% Debt to GDP ratio , Japan had somethin
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by bcx 4y ago
Thanks for the nostalgia :) I cut my teeth in a very similar way and ended up with the same conclusion webalizer was far more maintainable than AWSTATS. Though the UI on AWstats was definitely pretty nice. At some point I actually had a pe
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by bcx 4y ago
I agree. This is poignant indeed. In general over time communication has become far lower cost and more ephemeral. The richness of the faxes back and forth, or handwritten letters from even earlier eras - in contrast with your average SMS
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Olark (YC W09) Is Hiring an Account Executive who cares about accessibility(olark.hire.trakstar.com)
1 points by bcx 4y ago
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by bcx 4y ago
Personally, I don't see what the hubbub is about. A 409a is a standard instrument used to price options, a standard approach to a 409A valuation is the base the value of a company on its comparables, including public comparables. If I
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by bcx 4y ago
Or even better they could continue to vertically integrate their stack and provide affordable housing to warehouse employees.
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by bcx 4y ago
I think it's interesting to summarize this thread as: - Government can't offer competitive pay due to politics. - Government contracts big projects to 3rd parties who pay competitively, but lack the transparency that government is
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by bcx 5y ago
I want to hear the story about how they went from 4M in sales in 1998 to 170M in 2021. It might help more entrepreneurs choose to follow a similar direction in building long lasting, opinionated, mission driven companies, and pushing throug
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by bcx 5y ago
Both the comments on this thread would fit well on https://www.shlinkedin.com/ , if you haven't seen it, it is basically the sarcastic version of linkedin that you all live in. Personally, Linkedin has been incredible f
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Harvard just launched a beautiful tribute to web accessibility(harvard.edu)
2 points by bcx 5y ago|0 comments
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by bcx 5y ago
With all the sensationalized headlines around flight cancellations I've been looking for actual data on the number of flights cancelled, and really appreciated the graphs and analysis.
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1 in 13 flights were canceled during the holidays(thepointsguy.com)
1 points by bcx 5y ago|1 comments
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by bcx 5y ago
Anyone who can become the youngest head of government (his first elected position was when he was 31) is impressive. I am not sure how chancellors in Austria are elected, but Austria has 72.45% voter turnout, and I'd imagine anyone who
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by bcx 5y ago
I once TA-ed for the guy who runs https://www.sakailms.org/ , I know his vision is to make a good opensource LMS, so you might be able to tell him what you are finding lacking in other projects. Dr Chuck is one of the top pr
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by bcx 5y ago
Impressive achievement. But for fun, as a skeptic, let's assume he outsourced some of the work, and then serves as an editor. How would we know the difference between this, and him answering the questions himself? Would we care?

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