kinow

Very interesting and creative way to visualize related papers.

Indeed, we are building a web app now to replace an existing GUI. In our group, in at least two companies we have people with color blindness, so we decided to incorporate WCAG design practices from the beginning.

It's quite hard for us, as we relay on browser extensions to test and tell us whether we are doing accessibility right or not, before we send the app to be tested by our co-workers/users.

These tools lack somewhat, they are not easy to integrate in the build process, and instead developers have to remember to run them, and check different things (e.g. there are multiple types of color-blindness, EU vs. USA regulations for accessibility, ARIA roles/labels where possible for screen readers etc).

So you could definitely start working on something in that area. Maybe more tools, more information, services for testing, consultancy.

Looks interesting! Haven't heard about J before. I only knew Matlab toolbox for fuzzy sets/logic, and a C and another Java libraries. Shame GitHub syntax hightlight doesn't seem to work well with J files. Will check out the project and try to learn more about it, thanks!

Small community, with few readers, but still gets some links submitted every now and then: https://www.reddit.com/r/fuzzylogic/

I think washings machines, some digital cameras, and also a train station system in Japan were some other famous applications (from what I can remember).

Thanks for sharing it! Really interesting, and well done!

Skosmos (used by unicef and EU) and Annif too, both from the national library. https://github.com/natlibfi

I work on a meta scheduler that solves the problem of periodicity on cron - https://cylc.github.io/

It was created to manage weather forecast model runs. The new version which we are working on will have a simpler web GUI to replace its old PyGTK and Py2.

It handles o ly scheduling, and supports cyclic graphs (contrary to most workflow managers build with DAGs only).

No Python API yet, but coming in future release. So only a custom suite.rc INI style file that supports Jinja2 too.

Well done and thanks for sharing your story! I miss São Paulo a lot, the North where I grew up, and the Augusta/Paulista place where there were always interesting geeks in coffees, lots of meetups, companies, conferences. Hope you will enjoy it too!

Yeah, love this kind of discussion and interaction on hnews!

Sounds interesting! Thanks for the link!

I remember reading about him in Brazil while I was graduating. He is definitely born in Brazil, but I think he has another citizenship too. Wikipedia says

>is a Brazilian-born French businessman of Lebanese ancestry.

And

>Nationality French–Lebanese–Brazilian

Also a programmer, but have a copy of Zinsser's book next to me right now. Got from local library a few days ago, and am really enjoying. My pull request comments will hopefully become clearer, as well as company e-mails. Plus the whole book is fun, especially when he talks about some writing style and you realize he is starts using that style in the same paragraph/chapter.

Thanks!

RaboBank, here in New Zealand, translates to something not really nice in Brazilian Portuguese (rabo means tail, but is common slang for ass/arse).

Bunda, jewel store in Australia, literally means butt in Brazilian Portuguese (not slang).

Not really a brand I think, but the Tintin character also means male genitalia in Japanese. (it's also common in Brazil to toast with drinks saying "tintin / chin chin" because of the sound that glasses make, which gets a few jokes among the Brazilian-Japanese community.)

Thanks! I thought all those comments were one sided. Interesting!

I feel like I heard about this book somewhere. Big Bang Theory?

Loved it when I read the first time. Still have the first copy I read, lent to some friends, and every now and then I browse it a bit. Really fun!

>The top changes include "scoped storage" to give users more control over files by only allowing Android 10 apps a filtered view of their app-specific directory and specific types of media.

A great change. I don't mind having to spend some time going over each time, making sure the right settings are in place for security and privacy.

The other changes for location and camera access by apps are good too. Just hope the update will include my old-ish device.

Fair enough. There are probably some that liked the other way. I find Tokyo city centre amazing with all the ads/signs/etc.

In New Zealand it is easy to see the effects after countries stopped accepting our rubbish.

We have a few landfill, but they are slowly piling up now. And NZ has always been popular for its green landscapes.

So now the gov, councils, and local businesses started prohibiting some types of plastics.

But it is still at early stages. Supermarkets have banned single use plastic bags, but pretty much everthing you buy still has plastic that goes to the landfill.

Recycling here is also different from latin america. In latam normally you have multiple recycling bins... one for glass, one for plastic, one for paper, etc.

Here we have a single container for plastic. Some times you find multiple bins, but that's still rare.

In my company, there is one huge bin for cardboard only downstairs. One for paper (but only for confidential docs to be properly destroyed), and the bins in the kitchen areas, where you are supposed to throw only milk packages.

I looked around where I could dispose oil, and a restaurant owner told me to just dump in the sink. He said there is a company that goes around the CBD collecting used oil, but only from businesses that pay for that.

There is a place that collects electronics waste. But the collection places and dates are sparse, and I see a lot getting dumped in the normal waste.

We still have a long way to go. At least the council here reports on landfills and is doing their part trying to promote green ideas https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/building-and-consents/ty...

Paulistano here too, and nikkei (so pretty much every weekend went to liberdade and sao joaquim).

I find it easier to walk around Sao Paulo now. And Liberdade is still a special place with the asian lanterns in the lamp posts, the Bradesco building, and there are stores with Noren and signs.

Only difference is that the signs are now proportional to the store facade.

And we still have grafitti that helps to keep the city interesting, as well as our Portuguese stone pavement and other little things that make Sao Paulo beautiful even without all the billboards and ads.

Also interested!

>Because there’s a ton of different needs, and a lot of these focus on a few in particular:

Indeed! I am working on Cylc [1] right now, which is a cyclic workflow system, where users need more than DAG.

It was created to automate weather forecast operations, but now there are a few cases of users trying to use it for cyclic graphs for more general problems.

[1] https://github.com/cylc/cylc-flow

Not much into running, more gym and judo. But have been traveling a lot recently, and running would be easier than finding a gym or dojo for me.

I had a look around in my last trip to the UK for short circuits with 5 to 10 KM, flat, not much obstacles, but couldn't find any.

Would be even better if I could also find some markers around the map indicating things like pull up bars or abs bench.

Looks interesting! Thanks!

Would be great to have - someday - everybody driving on the same side of the road. I wonder if space agencies have agreed to build space vehicles on a standardized side.

I moved from a country that drives on the right lane, to one in the Commonwealth, driving on the left lane. It's interesting the amount of adjusting it takes for you as pedestrian to get used to which side to make sure to look to before crossing, and as a driver (roundabouts are especially challenging in the beginning).

And not all cars here have the seats on the right side. You can find cars that were imported and have the driver seat on the left. Or old/classic cars too.

Looks like rya is a triple store on top of accumulo. Jena has SDB (stores data in relational DB), TDB (single machine, single JVM, transaction-wise, on-disk store [with mmap, journal, cache, etc]).

Jena API is also extensible, and I remember someone was talking in the mailing list about an example with HBase I believe, as the backend for the triple store.

Both HBase and Accumulo can be scaled to multiple nodes. So you should have some pros and cons of using either (or rya), as well as pros and cons of using Jena.

Finally, I believe Jena is not simply a triple store. It has a web layer via Fuseki, services for managing graphs, command lines, and other tools useful for data processing with semantic web technologies.

I worked more with backend (Java, Python, PHP), but in my current project we needed a good UI, and decided to use Vue. No regrets. Using it almost everyday. I knew Backbone and a bit of Angular, but after using Vue, its cli, i18n, vuex, and also vue mastery, I'm not looking at any other tool for now.

The community around it is also extremely helpful.

Ditto here. Been overseas for a while, but foun a rice and beans that taste like ours, plus steak/chicken/mistura.

I wish I could have pingado (espresso with milk) and pão francês na chapa (a grilled bread with margarine or cream cheese). Dinner would be the left overs of lunch, of just some salad, bread, turkey... never get tired of it.