skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't trust the US government to write good rights for scrapers. They can't even do computer crime sentences well.

At best, it's a burden for no solid gain for society. At worst, there will be loopholes used to DoS businesses because they can't shut down individuals due to law-given rights, and that will lead to court fights.

These rights would do nothing but save scraper authors from learning to obfuscate their actions.
Amp links should be banned.
This doesn't hold up, though, because 64-bit firefox has been the default in 64-bit linux for like 10 years, and it's probably existed in windows for about the same amount of time.
There's nothing wrong with copyrights; 14 year copyrights.
Not to further add to your workload, but one thing I've noticed a few times is that some already subtle colour schemes become even less usable once f.lux has activated. Verifying usability with f.lux/Night Shift/whatever Android solutions there are is probably the biggest win.
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And if they decide to bring out a new service they could for once continue building on one of the 10 existing different UI design languages instead of introducing yet another "sporty user interface".
> I prefer absolute freedoms that prevent interpretation from being used to suppress those freedoms.

So wait, when someone says "kill all Jews" that's an idea to be discussed, but when someone says "let's censor people who call for that" that's somehow worse, and not simply also speech you can also discuss?
>"You call it the "public internet" but it's most definitely not a public space or anything like it."

How is it not a "pubic space"? They publish publicly visible A records for their site as well as route their public IP space to transit providers in order for the public to be able to reach their site.
Especially in light of various american fascist groups interpreting the sitting president's half hearted comments regarding the Charlottesville murder as intentional endorsement of their philosophies.
that's against TOS for Google SERPs

Showing different results to google than you do to users is called cloaking and it's not allowed
I fully support this decision. If you're offering a service that is public, with the intent to your users that such information will be available publicly, you cannot then police what users of that data you consider to be "public" because it serves your business interest.

LinkedIn, of course, wants to get all the benefit of the public Internet with providing as little as they can. This, coming from someone who used to work at LinkedIn.

These companies have built their fortunes on the public Internet and now that they are successful they seek to not pay homage to the platform that give them their success. It's very clearly anti-competitive, and bad for users. LinkedIn should be forced to compete based upon the veracity and differentiation of their service, not because they have their users' public data held hostage from competitors.
It doesn't say which website exactly. If there's an FBI investigation (which seems possible, even likely, considering how extreme antifa and other "resistance" groups can be), it seems pretty par for the course to request information in order to help locate particular parties.
I think this is an important point. I found the Intercept's article[1] about the ACLU defending Charlottesville protesters' free speech right pretty interesting in that regard: Some people insult and blame the ACLU for defending free speech rights of even the most infamous people, but as the article points out, people fail to understand that if a precedent is set on them, it's diminishing everyone's rights.

The ACLU understands this, which is why they defend such people.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2017/08/13/the-misguided-attacks-on...
Although not as convenient as a smart lock, I can re-key my kwikset deadbolts to any key that fits the lock very easily using a provided tool: https://www.kwikset.com/smart-security.aspx .
I'm 100% with you on smoke alarms and lightbulbs.

But I've been quite happy with my smart thermostat and sprinkler controller.

Maybe the difference is in these cases, a controller has been replaced with a smarter controller.

It's a natural line of progress, and there have been obvious deficiencies with the logic of the "dumb" controllers since their inception (heating the home when you're away, watering while it rains)
The interesting part here is that linkedin doesn't hold any copyright on much of the data. You cannot copyright someones name and title.
From a security perspective, absolutely they should.

But then we complain because we don't "own" the hardware and can't hack around on it.
> The greatest hurdle for drivers is the time commitment to keeping their cars fully charged.

For a large percentage of common use cases this is not an issue. EV drivers by and large do other valuable things while their vehicles charge, like work and sleep.

> Current electric cars need convenient locations built for charging ports.

This is only true for apartment dwellers (for now). People who live in houses typically charge at home.

> Designing and building enough of these recharging stations requires massive infrastructure development, which means the energy distribution and storage system is being rebuilt at tremendous cost to accommodate the need for continual local battery recharge

> Users would be able to drop off the spent electrolytes at gas stations, which would then be sent in bulk to solar farms, wind turbine installations or hydroelectric plants for reconstitution or re-charging into the viable electrolyte and reused many times.

How is this fueling and distribution system cheaper or more efficient than the grid plus a bunch of 240v/60a outlets, most of which are already available in home garages. If instant refueling is a really a dire need for someone, they can just get a plugin hybrid (i.e. Chevy Volt) and no new infrastructure needed at all.

Edit: removed snarky words
It looks like the website is http://www.disruptj20.org/

Source: https://www.dreamhost.com/blog/we-fight-for-the-users/
On one hand, LinkedIn is like Twitter, Craigslist and Delicious in that it has sat on a treasure trove of data without helping users mobilize it. (All of the premium services they offer are outright lame; if there was a market for premium services we might seem some good ones.)

On the other hand, privacy is an issue too. LinkedIn lets you download a spreadsheet with the email addresses of all your connections, and if you have a lot of connections you will regularly get e-mail messages from life coaches, "managing directors", software development outsourcers, "SEO experts", and all kind of BS artists.
D'oh! That's what I get for not reading carefully. Thanks for clearing up my puzzlement! :-)
Is there a source for the 30% figure or is that an assumption?
Quite a bit! A number of discussions in the Hebrew Bible:

https://torahlive.com/articles/halacha-teachers-articles/201...
Misc responses:

It's common to see people harvest blackberries, mushrooms, chestnuts.

Sustainable Ballard organizes gleanings from the local public market. Here's one of their projects. http://www.sustainableballard.org/food-gleaning/ I hope this practice is widespread.

My city has a couple groups that will come and harvest your trees. https://www.cityfruit.org/great-seattle-fruit-harvest

Find food near you. https://fallingfruit.org http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/04/23/178603623/wan...

I was once told that one of the bluesky uses cases for Google Maps was to enable someone to publish urban food sources. That person had a map online for while, much like falling fruit above, but I can't quickly refind that URL.

Urban food gathering always reminds me of Octavia Bulter's "The Parable of the Sower", where the protaganist is very resourceful. (A fate I hope we manage to avoid.) http://octaviabutler.org/2017/03/parable-of-the-sower-new-ed...
It's possible that HiQ is downloading and processing things that aren't facts. Long passages of text in LinkedIn posts, recommendations, and comments aren't "facts".

Though that doesn't appear to be the path LinkedIn is using to fight it.
I don't think it would be possible to make finding it as easy as verifying it, but how can we prove that?
That's actually pretty funny. I didn't even know that was there until you mentioned it and I went looking. Like you said, the story is pretty "tucked away" :D
You are begging the question.

I'm questioning whether entries stored on a particular set of DNS servers constitutes a medium.
One thing I think we should keep in mind and that worries me in our diversity efforts is that some cultures seem to me to be hostile to women. For instance as I've been walking around I've noticed that I've been harassed by one race more than the others. I've also been harassed at work by that race more than the others despite that race only being a small percentage in tech. I think we need to plan so that increasing the number of people from that race doesn't lead to fewer women because harassment increases.
No, it's not. Plus the person who wrote the blog post isn't the person who posted it to HN.
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I stand corrected, thank you. I would normally have said "serious bollocks", but this forum is mostly left-ponders who would probably not have caught my drift.
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Would the commission be less?
I've kind of always thought that we shouldn't be using UA strings. Just give the requester the data that they requested according to the current open standards. If they choose not to render it correctly, then thats their problem.

Yes, I realize that it's not that simple, but I think browsers would have tried much harder to adhere to standards if we had done it that way.
Seems like it would save a lot of time, energy, and money if they did (assuming they had the procedure worked out). Push out an update while it's sitting at the gate, powered down, instead of taking it out of service and having to bring it into a hangar (where space is already limited).
We can have that debate but at this time, weather I agree with their opinion or not is not my point.

I feel very strongly that noone should proclaim opinion as a fact.
Of course, the good thing about the bootloader is it is less likely to need updates in the first place, and it's also likely easier to verify an update with a high level of confidence, as its functionality is so tightly bounded.
> ... if they don't get a job that pays $50k+ they don't pay us. Also, if you ever lose a job, your payments stop until you're back on your feet.

This is how it works in the UK and Australia with normal student debt. It's deferred until you're earning enough money and then is taken directly out of your pay cheque. Collection of the debt is also held off until you're earning a certain amount (in any field.)

> ... each student submits a form to the IRS that will essentially copy us on their taxes.

So it's not a truly universal online training environment, then? As a British citizen living in Australia, I can't file a form with the IRS, nor would I give the IRS my details for obvious reasons.
I have a Forerunner 235. I didn't buy the watch for notifications or anything like that, but it's really cool to get a Slack notification when you are halfway across the house.

The GPS also connects to satellites in a fraction of the time my Suunto watch did. It sucks when you're standing in the parking lot waiting to establish signal before your run.
The average driver refills their vehicle using decades old technology which would probably be unsuited for exchanging the fluid these batteries would need. Any kind of system for exchanging the fluid in a flow battery would probably be self contained and would be better designed than holding a lever on a nozzle dumping a flammable liquid into an empty vessel.
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Hello,

I'm wondering if there is a way to programmatically control an app within an emulator, like creating a macro to launch an app, open a given activity within it, input some text and get back the information from it.

Does any body know if something like this is possible?

thanks.
I'm not sure how helpful it is to rake over this guy's history, apart from gaining clicks.
Agreed. I don't see any major changes happening (WRT IoT insecurity) until there's regulation that requires it. The industry certainly isn't trying to solve this on their own (if they are, they're hiding it very well), they're only worried about getting to market as quickly and cheaply as possible.

I expect this to continue getting worse. At some point, hopefully, things will change and begin to improve. I think we'll see many more -- and worse -- incidents like this before that happens, though.
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"2. Any plant that requires maintenance has to provide food."

After consulting my tree hugger friends, I made sure to plant a variety of plants, which bloom throughout the year. Food for the hummingbirds, bees, butterflies, etc.

It was expensive, but I'm not a very good deal hunter.
> So not "every online community" should be barred from censorship on their own properties, but if you're running a core information service, you're danged skippy that censorship is not okay.

Google or GoDaddy aren't running the DNS system, or even street signs.

They are running a phone book service, which is also run by many other companies, each under their own ToS. They can reject service to anyone (well, except protected classes).
Agreed, shared programming is an immensely useful feature for numerical programming, including data science and machine learning. Lots of people will say that those should be written in C++, but I think the rise of machine learning & data science in high level languages argues against their point.
I agree that we need to be careful not to read too much into this, but in most scraping cases I know about, preliminary injunctions are granted as a matter of routine.

The fact that this judge refrained from doing so may signal that the judiciary is finally willing to bring some nuance and rationality to their interpretation of extremely broad statutes like the CFAA. It's a positive signal, even if ultimate victory remains unlikely.

/me is not a lawyer
Is there a FoldIt that doesn't track what I do for other people to profit from?

I want to approach this topic (and have been interested since undergrad), but the "be a forced collaborator -- we'll even include your name while taking the credit and patenting through our organization!" is a complete no-go. (Though, it is more reasonable than a lot of such terms.)

As it stands, I would have to consider if exposing the trial pattern of a ML algorithm to the team would violate any IP agreements about ML optimization I'm party to before I could even get started, while if I weren't disclosing the intermediate trials, I could become invested in the topic before I had to make such a choice (or rather, before I had to manage such issues). The forced collaboration is too high a barrier to entry for me to find out if I'm actually interested in the topic.

So... uh... a non-spyware SDK would be a really good start.
And professors don't just make a fool of themselves because one of their papers had a flaw in it.
Just please don’t tell that to a person that hired you :)
Copyright isn't thoughtcrime, if they aren't redistributing it to anyone with standing to sue (very likely not LinkedIn, no matter their ToS) they can process things all day.
But whatever value Uber adds you ABSOLUTELY cannot state in honestly it is the most important company of our generation? I mean... Come on.
I mean he also pokes fun at his children, himself, and posted a rap video about theoretical computer science on his blog. His blog is not exactly the Annals here... I think he is more than welcome to write about whatever he damn pleases and if you disagree you are more than welcome to argue in his comment sections (and more than likely lose)
The never-wind people in an area I lived in shouted about rogue electricity killing cows.

Worrying about quality control of the fluids is similar. The global energy industry is up to the challenge of reliably producing batches of chemicals that narrowly match a particular specification.
Can you provide examples of how the US is better in this regard?

As a counterexample, in Europe, no company can fire an employee for "perpetuating gender stereotypes", or any other opinion, while in the US it seems quite easy to fire people for any reason.
Feeling bad about feeling bad can make you feel worse
But, again, the response to an increased proportion again isn't necessarily linear. That's an assumption you're making, but not questioning. It's easy to think of reasons why the response might be superlinear: for instance, the more sexual harassment exists, the more comfortable other men might get with stepping up to and crossing that line; similarly, the more men you have, the more trouble women might have reporting. And these things all feed back on each other.

(I think it's hard to come up with ways in which the response would be sublinear).

So it's easy to come up with straightforward scenarios in which you get both: the increase expected from demography, and a cohort of extra-creepy men sheltered by that demography.
Be careful clicking on a website who's IP address logs are being demanded by the FBI. Especially if you're on work network
The article mentions the chemicals. Light alcohols and water.
I think most of those "grey areas" already have plenty of precedent in the world of art & music. Have you heard of "fair use", and what it allows and does not?
Said more eloquently than I could ever hope to...

"If there be time to expose through discussion the falsehood and fallacies, to avert the evil by the process of education, the remedy to be applied is more speech, not enforced silence."

- Justice Louis Brandeis, Whitney vs California
People don't list "music lover" in their resumes. Nor does the fact that he's a professional CEO means he's tone deaf (pun intended) to the company's vision, or that he will destroy it (due to malice or musical incompetence).
Apple is developing its search engine. If you use iOS search you might notice there are results that are not either Bing or maps results. Map on its own eats lots of Google's search share because people search on their iPhones for locations and businesses a lot.
More "chooses to spend what money they have on a phone" plus "has the money to spend", which is almost but not quite what you're saying. I know some very rich people with whatever Android device the network gave them. They just don't care that much.
I wondered this the other day while working on a website. On the top of the site there is a header with three words, each a different color. The third word is blue. It looked fine during the day but at night, with flux turned on, I was unable to see the blue text against the black background.

I actually made the decision to paint the header the same color as the body text. No idea how many people will view the site with flux on but since _I_ need to look at it a lot, I figured it was a good change to make.
I think everyone who cares about freedom should click the link.
There are extra lights on electric that go down to 7s. The fact is that the standard strings for acoustic are 12s and the fact that a usable acoustic starts at $500 new kind of shows how much of a misfit it is for people who are looking to try something out. My first guitar that I spent that much ($500+) on was 22 years after I first started playing.

There are tons of great $100-200 new electrics that are great for playing from almost every single brand now that a beginner isn't going to be forced to restring immediately (and remember that beginners don't know how to tune guitars, let alone string them).
I assume that number is mostly to deter people from going with that option
This is such a tricky issue. I do think so many of these sites do nothing but promote hate and violence. However, let's imagine we decide to go with the rule 'You are allowed to shut down a website that incites violence'

Someone has to determine what constitutes 'inciting violence'. There will be some websites that are targetted for shut down while some won't be; there is no way to get around this. What gets targetted will be the ones that go against the group who has the ability to choose the targets (a government agency or perhaps a private ISP).

Second, what stops a false flag from getting a site shutdown? If a site allows comments, a person hostile to the site could post a violent comment, and then you would have justification for shutting the site down.

Third, you will get false accusations. Take, for example, the civil rights movement in the sixties. You don't think state governments in the south wouldn't have accused the various protest groups as inciting violence? It doesn't matter that they were peaceful protests, they would have certainly argued that organizing sit ins and protest marches was a form of violence. While we might say, "Well clearly those were peacful and would be allowed to have their protest", that doesn't mean a court run by that same government wouldn't see differently. You don't think a southern court in the 60s would have sided with the government when they accused the civil rights groups of being violent?

Once you give the government an out to get around free speech requirements, they will take it whenever they can.
Why is it just a red box in the latest chrome?

https://puu.sh/xaaCh/cae3f64840.png
I don't think he is saying you can't ARGUE for that?
1. no google scholar account
2. three publications on the arxiv.

I am willing to toss this out of hand...but look at yitang zhang or perelman. who knows? best of luck
They don't need to compete with gopro, they should integrate with gopro. Strike up an alliance. They don't need to be battling anymore losing fronts.
Benchmark doesn't need to discredit Travis, he did a mighty fine job of that on his own.
Turns out paying $700 is a pretty good proxy for "caring", though!
Which operating system does the app run in usually? ("app" can mean so many things)
That doesn't explain why half of Tencent's users use iPhone. Some huge % of Chinese phones must have a Tencent app installed.
We're still figuring out the details outside of the US.
I'm skeptical of this.

"To each [Mongol soldier] was allotted the execution of
three or four hundred Persians. So many had been killed by
nightfall that the mountains became hillocks, and the
plain was soaked with the blood of the mighty."

Some historians believe that over one million people died in
the aftermath of the city's capture, including hundreds of
thousands of refugees from elsewhere, making it one of the
most bloody captures of a city in world history.

Really? Each soldier slaughtered hundreds of people within a matter of days or, at most, weeks? And the people never fled en masse, unlike the refugees who had fled before them?

Excavations revealed drastic rebuilding of the city's
fortifications in the aftermath, but the prosperity of the
city had passed.

Who would have been around to rebuild the city? I don't doubt the Mongols slaughtered large numbers of people or that they razed entire cities, but IMNSHO stories like the above are obviously myths.

If you look at the basic mechanics of well-documented atrocities at that scale--Rwandan Genocide, Holocaust, Khmer Rouge Killing Fields, Great Chinese Famine, etc--you'll see some combination of long time periods, very modern technology, and a sophisticated socio-political apparatus leveraged for population control. Without some mix of these things, you have no hope of killing enough people before they literally run for the hills and escape your reach.
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"earning less" than what

Unsuprisingly, NPR is misleading to create a more salacious read, and they failed to cover their tracks:

https://books.google.com/books?id=EchKhEduEBwC&pg=PT50&dq=Pe...

The research found that people who are in stores more, shoplift more.