skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
INAL but usually the data, or at least some portion of it, is owned by the users and the service's TOS and Privacy Policy will state how the service is allowed to use it. So they have a responsibility to keep their users' data protected to the degree specified in those policies. But really, the data is usually the service's biggest asset when it comes to creating an advertising business which is maybe the biggest reason they want to protect it.

But data aside, the company owns the servers you are sending requests to in order to get the data. So that opens another angle for them to litigate. This is where things like robots.txt comes in which I don't think has ever fully played out in court.

Yet another angle to go after folks on is the use of trademarks in any marketing copy. It's hard to sell Instagram bots and scrapers if you can't use the word Instagram.

I don't even really think a lawyer would have a clear cut answer without going to court but the cease and desist is usually enough to scare people into shutting down. MassPlanner was a pretty widely used piece of software so you'd have to imagine it was making at least a decent amount of money. Not crazy venture backed business money but definitely lifestyle business money if not more. And FB owned Instagram seemingly got them to close up shop without going to court. Even more interesting is that MassPlanner wasn't SaaS. It was desktop software. So MassPlanner wasn't even running servers that were accessing any of the social networks.

On the other hand, sites like SocialBlade and tools like Scrapebox have been around for years. So who knows?

Ultimately, if you're just an individual scraping for research purposes or maybe you run a social media consulting firm and you're doing it for a client, if you don't publicize it like crazy then you're fine. But just from watching things like this over the years I've noticed most services like this eventually get shutdown if they get really popular. Scrapers tend to fare better than bots but if you get on their radar and they don't like what you're doing you're up against some deep pockets.
> When did you last switch jobs? I recently went through a round of employment where I quit my job at the beginning.

The tone of this implies that lining up a new job without first quitting is outdated and negative. From the other side, quitting before having a new position can look irresponsible.

I have never quit a job without another lined up and have done quite nicely, myself. Why ever invest in trashy projects when one can get good jobs quickly and easily?
Do you assume that the person will be in the $2 job forever?

Social Security is a transfer from current workers to retirees. Does that meet your definition of public assistance?
These guys took the money and ran. Absolute radio silence since the ico. Not to mention nobody is going to run an exit node since being paid to do so would mean you would be on the hook for illegal traffic, unlike TOR. It's a nice idea but completely impractical, even with a dev team that didn't disappear after raising money.
Sorry Middle Class, You’re Just Not That Important Anymore
> Of course, in the jurisdictions that allow it, could be modified for cannabis as well.

I suspect this is the actual reasoning and target product.

Unfortunately, you can't get funding for that legally in most jurisdictions.
To be fair, zillow itself was sued(and lost) recently for its user base uploading images they have no copyright to. I know the case is different here, but it's very likely Zillow is just being overly cautious here.
the court is there to resolve disputes. why should it punish people for trying to settle things?
the fundamental problem is the law is not mathematical (if it would be we wouldn't need lawyers) so the outcome also depends on how much resources you put in.
I was gonna say, "Something that has lost 40% of its value in the past week."
Here in the US, having a 3g/wifi tablet would be a waste of money, because the two major GSM carriers are putting most of their spectrum on their respective LTE bands. T-Moible is planning on sunsetting 3G as well.
before you get too excited, someone tried this a year or so ago. grand total: .002 bitcoins (some really small amount)
Mobile or desktop? On mobile the carousel was 100% AMP. On Desktop the "top stories" was 0% AMP.
There are a number of very valuable boost libraries and I don't think anyone would deny that it's been good for the language. However, to achieve that second goal, the website and documentation need some serious work. It can be difficult to pick up a new boost library and hit the ground running.
Announcing Elemetric
Oh I didn't think you wanted to discourage anybody - I just wanted to point out that of the different sciencies theoretical math is probably the most difficult for an outsider to get and psychology is surprisingly easy.
An enhancement to this method which I've seen is to check the edges of the rectangle for colour boundaries, and also check single random point inside. Presumably you can extend to n x n rectangles and k points inside as a function of n.
I would like to recommend a book to you. It is Intelligence: All That Matters by Stuart Ritchie. I would recommend reading it before forming strong opinions on this topic.
The real teeth of the CFAA are from federal prosecutors, but it does allow for civil actions to get damages/injunctive relief.
I would expect nothing short of this from Zillow.

I'm also not really certain that Zillow has the copyright: those are usually property of the RETS/MLS of that specific area, if not the agent taking the pictures.
Ferrolic was designed from a fascination for the magical material Ferro Fluid
Yeah, I think it's worth a repost. It's a different use case than it just being another jsfiddle/codepen/jsbin alternative.
I meant emotional trust. My grandparents don't even know what an URL is (they just know to google things) but even they know that if the little lock isn't green, you don't go shopping because it is not safe.
Topsoil loss [1] and aquifer depletion.

This happens with decentralized farms, too. The problem is not in the kind of farm, but with the techniques used. Tractor tillage increases yields, but is hell on topsoil.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/only-60-years-of-...
Is this the only place in town that needs rocks toted?
There's a major difference between trying to settle things in good faith and things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_publ... suits.
GeoNames
Of course they would. The country is as corrupt as America has gotten. You think those justices would have kept their heads attached to their necks if they had ruled otherwise? Hah, nope. You don’t mess with the BJP in India like in fascist Germany you didn’t mess with the Nazis.
I agree that web and mobile both seem to have gotten kind of stagnant. Is there a next big platform on the horizon? (I worry that there isn't)
“Laser Apache” Has Successfully Zapped Targets on White Sands Missile Range
Why you should use Git in software projects
It tries to load the images (that Zillow is purportedly threatening the author over) from Tumblr though...
Don’t all the people who need a refund have an equal right to it?
Good luck with name collisions.
After yesterday's death hoax, and the decline in the market the last 18 hours, it's pretty interesting indeed. Oddly though, AEON, a small fork of upcoming currency Monero (XMR), has remained mostly stable, and I was mostly unaffected as most of my holdings are/were in AEON at that time in trading. I was able to use AEON that had technically risen in value to scoop up coins on the rise like SiaCoin (SC) and more Monero (XMR).

Good night overall. I'm still skeptical of ETH, however.
anecdotally, I see a higher-than-normal correlation between those who are "more theoretical" and those who cannot adapt to change or differing situations.

There's also an immense cost to not having CS fundamentals in terms of performance and wasted time; I don't want to pay someone to try and solve a version of the halting problem, or matching opening and closing delimiters with regexes.
There's a lot more information on the actual video page. https://vimeo.com/167126696
Very quickly. I would say I'm only scanning for terms that occur a lot and that I'm not familiar with. And in what order they are introduced.
I believe in some cases a licensee also has standing to sue over copyright; e.g. if the licensee is granted an exclusive license.
The easiest way is still: for file in *; do ...; done

This works fine with spaces and other strange characters, no need to come up with more complicated ways.

If you must use find, the correct way is really tricky and uses obscure bash features like settings IFS to the empty string to split on null bytes and process substitution so that the loop doesn't run in a subshell (which would prevent it from modifying variables in the current environment):

while IFS= read -r -d '' file; do
...
done < <(find /tmp -type f -print0)

See http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/020
Looks like they're doing cool things too.[0]

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/26/15872332/apple-arkit-ios-...
Sony to demo 3D face biometric running on Xperia smartphone
I totally understand the whole "McMansions are bad architecture" thing...

However, something about it really bothers me. There was an episode of 99% Invisible where the guest was talking about their McMansions blog and how it makes fun of these Horrid dwellings. The whole thing stank of classist elitism. The Wrong Type of people were getting the chance to design and build large houses, and of course they're applying their Bad Taste that's neither Genuine nor Authentic. They don't know about the traditions of Fine Architecture so of course they were doing it all wrong...how embarrassing for them!

Edit: It sounds like a lot of the way I interpreted this could come from my background as someone who's transitioned from lower working class to solidly middle class, and so I'm applying that defensively even though (thank God!) I don't live in an Embarassing McMansion. In fact I'm now considering the blog as more of an educational campaign where an expert in the field is railing against problematic and widespread trends in that field. It has less to do with transitions between class and more to do with the decline of an important field of engineering and design as something that people value. I think the word McMansions itself is a bit of a disservice to the purpose of the blog, with its "slobs vs snobs" / Beverly Hillbillies connotations.
Ethereum tokens are just variables defined in a smart contract, except the way the variables are managed has a community accepted standard.

They're not transferrable in the way ETH is between accounts; the original Token smart contract account just moves internal balances between accounts.

Which is really what ETH does at a higher level anyway, lol.
> naturally found in common food

Yes, but that doesn't mean the form found in supplements is the same. Also, "the dose makes the poison."

In the Nineties, Wired and Mondo 2000 were good for piquing interest in nootropics but as they didn't seem to catch on (aside from off-label use of pharmaceuticals like Adderall), I put them in the same mental bin as all supplements; not worth one's time except for individuals who have documented deficiencies.
Maybe it would be available to Amazon Prime or even an add on paid service to prime. Also they would target areas similar to their two hour delivery.
Hey I am building something of this nature but a much simplified version. It's www.kokonaut.com
I can see that.

However, if you still plan on wonly accepting companies twice a year.. doesn't it still have many of the same disadvantages?

I.e. a company which wants funding likely won't wait to hear back / get funded in 6 months.

I know my company is potentially looking for funding. If we jumped on that option, I'd be reaching out to everyone I could tomorrow.
Reminds me of a quote by Steven Landsburg:
> Most of economics can be summarized in four words: "People respond to incentives." The rest is commentary.
Yes. :-)

Give attention to the latest SLAM and other 3D tracking solutions for a sneak peak.
> lack of experience

Some people have 10 years of coding experience. Others have 1 year of experience 10 times.
Don't think about a comparison to organic agriculture. This is not an agricultural technology. This is marketing technology, aimed at separating wealthy people from their paycheck at the grocery store.

As for the future for vertical farming ? i'm more optimistic towards using regular greenhouses, with extra led lights optimized for the right color, and "wavelength shifter"[1] layer, that will transform sunlight to the optimal color for the plants - if that tech becomes cheap enough.

[1]They're made of fluorescent die embedded in a clear plastic layer.
Why not? It's 2017, and it's super-easy to spin up a server and code something cool to demo something you did in any of these fields. Or spin up an MVP of a random product idea you have. Never tell anyone that "they should not be doing something" when they want to. That too stifles innovation. The idea is to create a low-friction path for people to do what they actually want to do.

NAT is technological friction. Telling people that "they should not do something" is also friction.

What about even just learning to write apps in your own time? I built dozens of demo websites while I was a student there. A few were slashdotted. Having IPv4 addresses and access to bandwidth from my bedroom was a massive blessing.

The problem isn't configuring IPv6. The problem is without IPv4 you cannot easily make a server that is guaranteed accessible from anywhere in the world, by anybody. That's not a problem that most MIT students are in a position to solve or innovate in a short time. At least not without spending money for an AWS instance that frankly most undergrads don't have the money for.

Innovating in making an HTML5 app to demo your cool bioinformatics project on the other hand is a weekend hackathon deal.

And servers are basically free at MIT. You can just pick up and assemble them up off of reuse when labs throw away various parts. Plug them into your gigabit ethernet socket in your bedroom, get an IPv4 address, and you're up and running in less than an hour.
The author asks why && and || need different precedence (Unless I misunderstood).

This is because `a && (b || c)` has a different truth table than `(a && b) || c`
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My wife buys live, potted basil plants all the time from a mainstream US grocery store. I don't think she pays more than $5 or $6.
Customizable Django Profiler for Django Version-1.11 or Above
not really looking out to make money with this. The main purpose was just learn more about how bitcoins works (specially about key and addresses generation)
Dude, you absolutely should be trying to be a manager in 3 years, if you want to go down the management track.

Depending on company size, you should probably be a team-lead or something by then.

Junior developers that remain "solo" workers after 3+ years in the industry is a bad sign for value. If you've been developing for a while, at the very least you should be put in a leadership position from a project perspective. Management/leadership experience doesn't just pop up out of nowhere. It's a skill you have to work really, really hard at. Take every leadership opportunity you can grab. You don't have to be "the boss" in the formal sense of the word, but you absolutely should be working towards a leadership role.
Field Notes from my Dementia
I swear, if I were part of the three comma club I would have a very well-funded non-profit legal firm that would jump at the opportunity to take on cases like this.
Tumblr caches everything for a looooong time.
I use the app I made studysauce.herokuapp.com for memorization. Google calendar for tracking progress and lots of personal analytics. I spend about a day on little set up projects such as connecting to Watson, or adding up calendar events using Google API, or learning the basic of some new framework. I'll do one of these little projects 1 to 4 times per month. Reading other people's research is a good starting point for me. I wish API's weren't so expensive. That is cost prohibitive of my turning a little app I write in a weekend in to a product. No one wants to pay 30 dollars on top of my 20 dollar monthly expense. If my use case ends up costing more than about $5 per month, I try it out and then shut it down. Usually there is no output from my adventures except self-improvement, which is pretty disappointing, I'll admit.
I have a CS degree from CMU, and I've only run into that sort of attitude once. The interviewer nit-picked my solution to some character array manipulation question. I didn't get an offer. The interviewer wrote some snarky comment on his Twitter the day after my interview; something about "the difference between a computer scientist and engineer". Six months later his company was bought and chopped up. He got laid off. Karma's a bitch.

Conversely, I've been hired, without a formal interview, twice merely for having gone to CMU. I guess it can work out either way.

In senior positions CS knowledge is less relevant day-to-day, because your experience overrides a lot of that theoretical stuff. However, whenever I apply to companies, the questions about basic CS usually result in me turning down interviews. It would be a poor use of my time to memorize that stuff again only to not use it beyond the interview.
Well, yeah. Shrooms and Weed are the two I could think of that would easily support hydroponic grow systems. Ideally, I could see them taking off in the Southwest, given intensity of the sun and win power. The only thing that would really cost is water, and that should be closed-loop as much as possible. I'd wonder if some of the new metal-organo-frameworks could efficiently get water from the air as they were reported to do.

But republicans are still moralizing christians that wish to force their ideals upon others. Because if anything's been shown, cannabis is one hell of a tax generator and mucho underutilized commerce. But aside this illegal usage in most jurisdictions, this could suffice growing in bad environments or to people with way too much money to spend.

There could be a different segment; people who want guaranteed food supply. And locally, this could make food safety a guarantee. I could also see this as a non-profit as well, with low income and homeless getting free access.
A few minutes ago it looked like the content had been deleted. Right now I tried twice; first time I got a Tumblr error page, the second time I got a redirect to an "Enter Password" field on a Tumblr blog page.

I'm going to suggest that the owner is migrating the domain to point at a Tumblr page. Right Now. Maybe his servers were having trouble with the increased interest?
There may be ways to know for sure that you aren't the only one, but there is quite a lot of one-sided information in the world and the internet tends to be bad about this. Many people seem unaware of the possibility that maybe something was lost in cyberspace, so if you don't get a reply or read receipt of some kind, it is not unreasonable to send a follow up email and inquire.

I tend to send replies to make sure people know that I got their thing, but I have had to reign that in over time because it goes weird places socially. We really have not done a good job in the online world of finding a way to confirm that two-way communication has happened. In person, you generally are going to have a good idea if they heard you or not. Online, it can be pretty difficult to determine.

And then two different people doing the exact same thing can get interpreted vastly differently.

That doesn't make excessive emails less aggravating, but online communication is far harder to do well than many people seem to realize. This anonymous chewing out is not a good faith means to resolve anything.
By a couple weeks, perhaps. Before IANA ran out of IPv4 space in 2011, they allocated a /8 roughly once a month:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#/media...
I think Seatfrog are now gamifying the last-minute-upgrade trick.

http://seatfrog.com/
Switch all Zillow pics to Google Streetview. I doubt they will sue because Google doesn't care if you criticize random houses that they aren't selling. TOS:
https://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines.html#street...
Not a deep copy. Those images are still hosted via tumblr.
They're downvoting because the entirety of your comment was a (baseless) worry about the definition of a word that would have taken seconds to check.
IANAL but we can do some harmless armchair lawyering...

The 4 Factors of "fair use"[1]:

>1. the purpose and character of your use.

Criticism, critique.

>2. the nature of the copyrighted work.

Published photos used in website blog without ads. Also, the photos were not put into a compilation book to be sold at Amazon. However, Kate Wagner does say in twitter that "this blog is my entire livelihood" so it seems that some commercial activity is happening.

>3. the amount and substantiality of the portion taken

Kate Wagner took a tiny percentage in proportion to Zillow's entire photo database. If the proportion measurement is a particular photographer's portfolio, she may have taken most or 100%.

>4. the effect of the use upon the potential market.

Does KW's usage of the photos cause economic harm to the photographers of real estate? Do the McHell photos reduce the value of photographers' other photos in their portfolio?

Doesn't seem so but there may be some additional cause & effect that damages photographers' works.

Seems like (3) and (4) would be Zillow's strongest arguments.

[1] https://www.google.com/search?q=4+factors+of+fair+use
Alright, there are 37,716 grocery stores in the US and 321.4 million residents. That's about 8500 people per grocery store. According to this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1aozn1/how_much...

The minimum amount of farmland per person assuming a vegetarian diet is about 0.17 acres. This comes out to a land area of a little more than 2 square miles per grocery store. Your average grocery store is 46,000 square feet. So if you did stacked farming on the area of the grocery store, you'd only need a about 1400 levels. Give 2 foot per stack, and your grocery store is only about a half mile high.
I doubt an MLS service would permit a user whose intent is to mock some of the listings. She'd have to become a real estate broker, too.
> Maybe their agreement allows them to act as an "enforcement arm" of the agents?

I don't think the courts recognize such agreements as valid, as the demise of Righthaven showed.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13598182
and there are already 3 other parts to this series published, most posted here too, just google for those comments ;)
So, first, a lot of the architectural choices (especially if they were picked out by the homeowners and not by the architects) are done to ape (poorly) aristocratic and "Old Money" sorts of dwellings...so, making fun of them on a classist line is semi-acceptable.

The real problem is that the architecture is just plain bad. Space is wasted, exterior are marred by design details meant only to suggest a style of building without any of the things that make them useful, interiors waste space and destroy any efficient attempts at heating and cooling--there is no defending that.
She might want to double check with Zillow. The Cease and Desist is signed 'Christopher Poole', which happens to be the real name of Moot of 4chan fame?
It's hard to offer guidance around pricing without knowing anything about your company, or how much it is/could be worth. Unless you're the next Uber, spending even $2000/month sounds _insane_ to me.

My opinion is that you should save the money, choose a different name (or variation of the name), and put the $2k/month towards something that will provide real value to your startup. There's a ton of one dictionary word domains available if you have a little creativity, and, since you're new, you're presumably not really tied to any one name.