skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The legal precedent for data scraping and TOS really needs a rethink.

There is, unfortunately, precedent. So GitHub can say, "Only scrape if you do x, y, z."

But... You can't access the TOS without first requesting the data.

Consider it.

You cannot request and view data but in a way acceptable to the TOS.

You cannot view the TOS without first requesting and viewing the data.
I don't see any proposals for other departments picking up the slack though...
I found it one part hopelessness and one part empowerment. The dream of the internet isn't gone yet and we're still the early pioneers and settlers. We have a lot of work to do but the field of power is wide open to us, if we choose to take it.

Fantastic documentary. Curtis is a genius.
humorously, this makes the front page of HN the day I try out Eclipse Che, at the other end of the spectrum.

http://www.eclipse.org/che/
Yes, there are some good reddit bots that can automatically summarize an article quite well.
i love regexbuddy. I made a similar app (regexpixie.com, windows exe) that also uses the blue-yellow coloring to differentiate between matches.

The biggest difference is that RegexPixie has really good support for named groups. Frankly, it's beyond me why people don't use named groups for regex documentation.
Great piece, but I'm now reasonably certain that clicking around in the SBNation comment section got my Netflix account hacked in some sort of CSRF. It's fixed now, but I won't be visiting that site again outside of incognito mode... although I guess this would be more Netflix's fault.

The Netflix agent assured me that this could only have happened if my "email got hacked". Hmmm, I'm not sure that Netflix is the high-value target there...
Yes, without FASFA, I would have gone to a substantially inferior college than the Top 15 school I went to (which was nearly free with my aid package). I would not have had that rare opportunity to succeed (and believe me, I made the most of it). Cutting this department just means even more of the "rich get richer."
(without breaking at-client priviledge) The full task wasn't exactly simple. It started with a failing part in a product. The issue was when exactly the manufacturer should have been aware of the issue. All we had was a database of emails to and from local reps, who as it turns out had been fixing the problem for a long time by telling customers to disable certain features. This fix caused other damage. From the email pile I created a graph showing when customers emails started to mention problems, when the first reps started telling them of the fix, and when those reps started talking to each other about this fix. My client-manufacturer then had an idea of when his organization should have gotten the message and put a stop to things. This then informed the negotiations. So it was cross-referencing a list of vendor emails addresses, customer email addresses, some keywords, and putting it into a timeline. Bash bash bash, a solid night's work but nothing needing actual code.

Had this gone to trial we would have had the ediscovery vendor come in and do a full and proper report. It didn't, and both sides looked took my report as useful enough to come to an agreement. (I gave them my bash scripts and they verified my conclusions themselves.)
What's the difference between a system administrator and a plumber? I don't mean it as the first line in a joke.
At least in the date check.
>If browsers could expose the available bandwidth

I don't know why this seems like such an imposition, but I think I'd be uncomfortable with my browser exposing information about my actual network if it didn't have to. I have a feeling way more people would be using this to track me than to considerately send me less data.

That said, browser buy-in could be a huge help, if only to add a low-tech button saying, "request the low-fi version of everything if available." This would help mobile users too -- even if you have lots of bandwidth, maybe you want to conserve.
I totally agree with this position. I understand the arguments to cut of their funding but I don't think it is the right position. First of all, it won't work. They will just move somewhere else where they will continue to do what they had before. And secondly it isn't your place. This is what the law is for. If they are truly doing something wrong the justice system should deal with it.
https://www.google.com/search?q=70+cents+on+the+dollar+myth&...

Plenty of reputable sources right on the first page of results. I can't treat people with respect if they lack critical thinking skills, sorry.
Totally agree with you. Instead of providing better products, too many apps and services abuse the approaches to "engage" their users.
I'd definitely recommend GitLab for teams and workplaces... But not so much an individual. Though, the CI stuff being so damn simple makes for some niceness.

Gogs/Gitea are great for individuals as a single drop in file, but it is a hosted service.

If you're willing to drop git and use fossil, it comes with the benefit of pretty much everything any hosted git solution has, as well as not needing to run a service. It has ticketing and wiki inbuilt. The only thing a hosted solution might supply is CI/CD.

If you're going well with fossil, with it's ability to integrate with git repos, I don't think you're going to find anything else that feels as good.
The whole client is open source:

https://github.com/keybase/client

As far as I know, it asks for root because the Keybase filesystem runs on Fuse, and the menu bar app can be quit from its menu.

It's hard to balance making a simple, self-contained app with providing easy installation, a custom filesystem, automatic updates, and a command line tool… if you have ideas on how to improve things, I think they'd be open to issues/PRs. (I used to work on Keybase. I personally trust the devs, but, really, you can build from source if you want.)
With current interest rates, it wouldn't have to fall much more, but yes. Plus opportunity cost, and a return to compensate for the risk [1], etc.

[1] It's very risky to short a stock as you can end up losing a very large amount of money, as stocks can increase many times in value. When holding a stock, your risk is finite, as it can only lose 100% of it's value. When shorting, the stock can double or triple in price.
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A warning, and a appeal process, would remove much of the worry in this area, at least for the businesses I've worked with.
And you are saying that I should base my "ecological guilt" on the thoughts of an aerospace engineer, and a random commenter on the internet?

I feel like you missed my point. The politicization of climate science swings both ways. He brings nothing to the table but browbeating and guilt.

This type of show only preaches to the converted, and only further divides society.

If he goes back to "teaching", i would probably watch, but every time i hear him preach, i want to burn a tire in my front yard.
A friend who's company was bought by IBM is being laid off shortly.
He supposedly will be getting an offer to relocate to Baton Rouge.

In Massachusetts they moved a lot of work to way outside the city to the 495 beltway (littleton). Employees loved that.

(I used to be an IBMer at Yorktown Heights)
While it may sound trivial, it was a bit of an insult to wake up one day and find Cortana begging me to ask her something.

Also, telemetry is not scandalous but it can be subpoenaed or hacked, and given its omnipresence and sheer depth, I wouldn't want less-than-trustworthy people gaining access to it.

Microsoft could have made its privacy settings simple -- an elegant on/off switch with the more legacy-style "click here to report this exception" behavior. Instead they complicate the matter and overwhelm the user with a ton of seemingly pointless options by default, when it should have been a toggle and an "Advanced..." button.

By throwing previously voluntary reporting into the same big telemetry bucket as everything else, they've diminished their product and forced users to accept an inferior experience when such integrations are unwanted (like my example above). Also, they never should have allowed marketing to get involved -- allowing advert pigs to switch people's desktops around is a massive overreach. You know the only reason it happened was to make more money from already-paid users.

Win10 only gets my vote when an upstream netmeter and port-monitor show only essential network activity -- occasional Windows Update queries, local network scans, and so on -- during a long period of idling and local (non-network) use.
Strange, I find it incredibly quick, and quite frankly looks better than pretty much every other emulator out there.

Two issues (256color in vim, scrollback) I currently have are show stoppers but I'm sure some people won't mind.

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/26

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/issues/124
You're right, I was conflating the two. So yes it's mainly about whose water is at risk.
> I can't treat people with respect

You should try a different forum than HN.
The saying is '9 to 5' in the U.S. but ironically the standard work day is 8 to 5(17) just like in Sweden.
The best part of Windows 7 is that it still has Windows Services for Unix. (WSU) Only Windows 8* lacks a posix layer from microsoft.
Northwest Scotland?
Are you extending that avoidance to General Motors, ExxonMobil, Intel, CKE Restaurants, Under Armour and everyone on this list https://assets.donaldjtrump.com/10.14.16_OPEN_LETTER_FROM_BU... ?
Right, widening roads doesn't increase speeds for existing commuters, it serves more commuters at the same speed.
The scientific libraries for Python have gotten so good that Octave doesn't really have a chance, unless you are just interested in running some (old) MATLAB code and can't get MATLAB itself. This is really all about the libraries and frameworks, rather than the language. And with Jupyter notebooks you get a great UI which is something Octave never had.
Note that the app does ask for permission before installing the helper, i.e. via the standard macOS elevation prompt; agreed though that it doesn't actually explain what the helper is for or what it will do.
Wow. I had assumed (without looking) that Patreon took more than 5%. 5% is indeed awesome in my books. How much would it cost me to set that up myself (and deal with charge backs, etc, etc)? Specifically the cost of lost opportunity to do the work (and maintenance) necessary. 5% is "shut up and take my money" level for me. Having said that, you have a point about the automatic recurring billing thing...
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I think I experienced code once as a dream. More as a project design. Can't remember what it was though.
Imagine yourself stuck in the an apartment with a lease with 3 people you hate most. That's the worst case scenario.
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The EPUB spec is a pain. It's both overly simple, and overly complicated, and I'm not aware of a single reader that is completely compliant.

For example, JS and XHRs are in the spec, but few readers allow them, for very good practical reasons.
Nit: WebGL 2 already happened, Firefox shipped it first and it's almost almost done in Chrome too (though disabled by default).
Who says time only travels forward, look we are already in the nixonian days, i can only hope that we do not end up in 1939 at the current rate of stupidity progression.
I have a much better idea: how about you acquire some critical thinking skills instead? It'll serve you well in the long run.
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HL2 made heavy use of going the "path less traveled" to find drop boxes and ammo stashes.

In fact, there were parts of the game that told an "ambient story" that were totally skippable during the driving scene along the coastal highway. The only reason you get out of the car is if your curiosity to see what's in that damn house gets the better of you. Otherwise it is total inconsequential.
Perfectly legitimate and moral? The OP is demonizing our POTUS and anyone that associates with him. This kind of thinking ("Fuck Republicans/Democrats and anyone that empathizes with them") is what divides our country.
Apologies for not being more specific, Northwest US. Specifically, Northwestern Washington. Also known as the Pacific Northwest (PNW)
Only this time, The Truer Scotsman is real ;)
Complete Guide for Driving Licence in India..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_ownership

This doesn't work so well when goods are scarce, but...
I just want my devices to be small. I don't want to have to wear cargo pants all the time.
Before giving tips, how do you experience this frame of mind as a problem?
> Tesla has a big lead over other OEMs in battery cost.

Do they though? How come GM was able to shop a reasonably priced Chevy Bolt as a competitor to Model 3?

I realize that in car manufacturing GM is a leading brand with economies of scale working for it, but in electric battery world they're a nobody, so I'd expect them to pay close to market price, no Gigafactories and all?

Do they lose money on Bolts?
They won't quite break even because of fees and margin interest charges.
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Of course, you could spring for the high capacity Netflix plan.
Left out of these discussions of the joys of automated checkouts is that the illiterate and/or obstinate population makes up a large segment of consumers in certain areas. McDonalds has enough difficulty training their staff to use the checkout machines in particular areas that you do not want to see what happens if you throw the lunch rush to their own devices. Interfacing with such machines is a skill like any other and people like the author dramatically overestimate how common it is.
Yeah - I did pause for a second and reconsider the furthest extreme of the reductio ad absurdum arguement, I'd _considered_ quoting the height of the pile in 0.39" thick jewel cases - which comes out at over 2500feet tall - but I didn't want to get _too_ silly...

(Apologies if you thought I was taking you out of context disparagingly - there's some gross misrepresentations here by people including me...)
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A generic search results page is your evidence? The internet is chock full of BS in all directions. If you want to convince me you're right, you need to pick out the sources you trust and convince me to trust them too.
Create a permanent "wide tornado"
Its not company profits, he clearly makes the point that customers in many faces prefer to interact with machines than humans and its cheaper to have machines than humans.

The work of human in the author's world is designing machines and automate the next step of tasks that haven't been done or spend time on doing more creative tasks and be more inventive.
Well, there's the popup 'subscribe' window that made it difficult to read the article on my phone.
Academic Matlab licenses are cheap. Hook 'em young, and they pay once they're out.
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Wow, eyesee, what you did there looks cool at first glance! Thank you for sharing your idea -- I will try it out and see how it works in different situations.
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> With current interest rates,

Borrowing costs for TSLA stock have been over 20% annualized (I don't know the current situation).
It looks like it hasn't been maintained in a while, but at one point you could run Wine on cygwin, and cygwin on wine .. mostly. I can't find the original post I read on it, but it was an attempt to show how mature each project was at their implementations.
Why is no one talking about the #1 book on legacy code?
I do! You can see the work in progress here: https://jordaneldredge.com/projects/winamp2-js/#playlist

Much of he UI works, (lots of subtle problems solved, like window snapping, tiling of individial sprites from the sprite sheets, etc) but updating the media component to work with multiple files will probably require a non-trivial amount of work. If anyone wants to help out, let me know. Otherwise, slow and steady wins the race
Funniest post on HN in years!
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This is one reason, I look at contributing to open source as a way of building reusable tools I want to use.(in service of some other goal). rather than trying to contributing to them as a goal in and of itself. The most progress i seem to make are in projects of the first kind. As long as I can't justify it(time on OSS) in service to making money on some other goal, I can't work on OSS at all.
in blog dlsiren, i Write about all driving related stuffs, from Driving Licence to Maintainance of a car. :)
Why would that be a safe assumption?

The indictment also alleges that Martin stole documents from U.S. Cyber Command, the CIA and the National Reconnaissance Office.

Why not the office(s) of USCC, CIA, or NRO? Why not internally within BAH itself?
(I am honestly extremely interested.) It seems like Sidekiq is offering a slightly differen piece of software as the Pro version?
> but it's largely a gimmick for most videos as they are now

Absolutely agree. There has been exactly one video where I was constantly spinning around 360 and it was the Lion King musical 360 video (1).

The reason it kept my interest was 1. things are happening 360 the entire time, and (more importantly) 2. I got to see a view that I had never seen before (that is, looking from the stage into the audience). If the Lion King video had been shot in an open field, I doubt I would have been spinning around nearly as much.

TBH, I find 360 video tiresome. It gives me a feeling of anxiety (low level annoyance, not full blown panic) that I might be missing something interesting if I'm facing the wrong way. I really don't find the payoff to be worth it. I feel like 360 video is going to end up like 3D TV.

(1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7T57kzGQGto
Have you actually tried this?
I think s/he meant to say O(nm) vs O(m), n being the number of branches in the regex and m being the length of the input.
We also already get strikes.
Not really. Bringing in an outsider takes time and money. You cannot just grab some kid off the street. You have to go with a vetted pro, someone who can be trusted to handle the material. He or she must be briefed about the task and then be supervised. The result is a report and presentation that me and the other lawyers have to read and attend. It takes weeks. I, already on the inside and not needing any briefing or supervision, got it done overnight.
How come there is no remove scanned item option like the real cashiers have. It happens to me -every single time-.
Prefer the human option, truly.
This line of thinking can only be followed by selfish motivated reasoning.

Suppose I bake 100 brownies and try to sell them one morning. I sell some and as I'm packing up my booth you take one and eat it. You argue, "I was never going to pay for a brownie, I didn't want it that badly, and anyway you can't sell them tomorrow because they will be stale."

There is something deeply wrong and immoral about this way of thinking. The idea that you alone get to value someone else's work output to be zero and then take that output and claim it has no value, and that the taking causes no harm.

It is theft. But you don't want to be called a thief. So you play semantic games.
There was a rumour that split privileges and no-lone-zones were to be required post-Snowden, but that is a huge burden to impose quickly, needs lots more highly cleared and highly experienced staff. I suspect this would be rolled out using technical measures as new facilities are designed, not possible to do all at once.
Octave has a GUI nowadays which is pretty good, but a bit late to make much difference.
> AFAICT, they take a 5% cut in exchange for setting up recurring billing.

Sort of. That recurrence can be time based (monthly), but canalso be based on work produced. It allows people to set the amount they way to pay, and for payment of work produces, it allows you to set a monthly cap. Most importantly (in my opinion), once you've got a patreon patron account it allows you to easily track and change what you decide to fund, and easily fund new things without setting up card/paypal/bitcoin payment individually.

When I signed up for Patreon (for a webcomic, IIRC), I actually went looking for and found a few other things I consumed to add. I've suggested they set up and added a few people from the HFY subreddit for some of the more prolific authors. I actually find it rather annoying when some people/groups specifically decide to not use Patreon in lieu of Paypal or something less automated. That friction has actually kept me from donating a few times, because the friction is real. Reducing that friction can lead to a lot more donations IMO.
Same uphill/downhill rule here in California. Besides being less scary to go uphill in reverse, you're a lot less likely to get stuck.
Ugh. Even if these things are fairly common practice for mac apps, there's no reason that a chat app needs to install a bunch of crap to launch on root.

By default, unless absolutely necessary, your app should install with only user-level permissions and should not attempt to insert itself into the boot process. Just let me click on the app when I want to open it. I don't need toolbars, I don't need a launch daemon, I don't need a global install. If you think those features are really great for some reason, let users opt into them later on.
I prefer automated checkouts far more than human cashiers. It's much faster. Maybe there's some problem 20% of the time which is quickly resolved by an employee. (People who would say that the system still needs humans ignore the fact that one person can now look over six checkouts, thus cutting jobs by one-sixth.)
> Find me someone in a job who has the exact same day at work every day with no exceptions and I'll show you a job you can automate. Exceptions are what define things that machines can't do well, and every scenario brought up in this story has routine exceptions.

We're no where near machines replacing human operators 100%, but a 90% solution with humans handling the exceptions is still a 10x boost in productivity.
You typically go through passport control for the US at the Canadian airport if you are flying to the US.
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Well, it's 5% + processor fees. The 5% is purely Patreon's cut, but personally I think it's well worth it for a lot of people. I know there's at least few hundred dollars of my money in various people's accounts over the last couple years that wouldn't be there without Patreon.
Can't they use pidgin/gtalk? Gtalk works with bitlbee/irssi-otr.
Bought 200 TSLA @ $90, sold half when the price doubled, and have been enjoying the ride ever since. Thanks Elon!
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Haxe training, any news on this?