skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is how pretty much every large data warehouse works as well. It's very useful to be able to say "What was the state of everything at time X", even if it's been deleted you want to be able to see the state at certain times.

I also imagine with all the data that FB has, they probably have a legal obligation to keep data as it can be useful in solving crimes or gathering evidence. In fact their TOS explicitly states that they will preserve data: "We may access, preserve and share your information in response to a legal request"
Counter-counter-claim: No, it wouldn't, because Google screwed the pooch with their update mechanism. The reason people were faced with the decision of not using the new features, using unofficial backports, or cutting off older devices is because Google could not update their devices in a reasonable manner.
Yes looks great. Blog post is 6 years old though, is it still valid?
It may be helpful for readers to look at the actual meat and potatoes of the decision itself. I recommend jumping in at Page 27 of the decision so that they can see how the fair use factors were evaluated in this case:
http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/sites/default/files/opinions-or...

Fair use has four factors, lets see how it shook out:

1) Purpose and Character:
Google tried to argue that because android is free that it isn't commercial. Bzzt. Nope. You don't need direct monetization to make something commercial.

Was it transformative? They verbatim copied shit. Google claimed it was transformative because they used it in smartphones, yo. No. You guys who think patents that slap "but use a computer to do it" onto the end of some existing process are bad? Google's trying to say the same thing per computer form factor.

2) Nature of the Copyrighted Work:
Dealt with previously - APIs are copyrightable. Lots of people have an issue with this, but the previous opinions on that point are where you should go for material on that point.

3) Amount and Substantiality:
Bad faith usage came out around neutral; wasn't a huge amount copied but it was important material, as admitted by Google themselves.

4) Effect on Work's Value:
Direct evidence of market harm demonstrated by showing that Amazon leveraged Google's infringement to lower their license payment. Slam dunk.

Overall, I agree with the other posters indicating that once API copyrights were upheld that this was going to be a clear loser for Google. Maybe they'll get cert and have the supreme court take a look at this following the re-trial.
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> irrespective of whether the topic of their ruling fell within their subject-matter jurisdiction.

The opposite. Binding only within their subject-matter jurisdiction.

Which is good, because this ruling is so broad it's essentially trying to argue there's no such thing as fair use (because plagiarists arent protected by fair use, and all copyright infringers are plagiarists, and fair use is inherently copyright infringement, therefore...)
All of it? It's not like the VCs aren't expecting a return on investment. They're literally Venture Capitalists. You don't seem to equate investing (which this is) to capitalism, but you're mistaken.
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Oh, how about the F22? It's not 100x more the cost, but it was ridiculously expensive to develop (~$66bn), only ~200 were made, and it will almost certainly not be in service for 30 years.
I like ss if only for the mnemonic "ss 4chan" which sort of but not quite maps to "ss -4tan" ( https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=ss+-4tan )
Well Rocket is about as verbose as express:

#[get("/<name>/<age>")]

fn hello(name: String, age: u8) -> String {

format!("Hello, {} year old named {}!", age, name)

}
Support minority projects – do your part
Ever heard about the Pale Moon project? A small browser which tries to be safe space protected from Google Chrome and Mozilla (who wants to be like Chrome) who is selling and betraying their own user base since years.

Ever interested in helping small minority projects? Well, Here is your chance.

https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/
and
https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/UXP

As everyone of us - should be interested that diversity is kept alive... perhaps someone is interested in giving them a closer look. There are also bounties offered for help of certain tasks.

So, as technology enthusiast and "white hatter" i encourage anyone of interest, take a look!

Greetings!
More data centers for Afrika
Plenty of us are interested in ethics - and actively practicing them - hence an unparalleled sharing of knowledge and tools ranging from linux, gcc through to github. We're also quite happy consumers of the humanities in our spare time.

Which need to put their own house very much in order... looking at you in particular Economics.
There's hard data to support the drunk driving claim, too. It has been noticeably reduced in areas that allow Uber vs. those that don't.
"Facebook Container leverages the Containers feature that is already built in to Firefox."

I appreciate this. I was aware Firefox already had a container system, but didn't want to employ the effort to set it up. A one-off for Facebook though, feels easy to work with.
This article reminds me of a sci-fi series I read a million years ago, The Golden Queen by Dave Wolverton. In the series, some characters had a "mantle," an external mind worn on the head that could either passively impart knowledge to the wearer or actively help them develop a skill.

After I read the series I started thinking about notes and books and references as being a sort of external brain that I shouldn't be ashamed of utilizing if I needed to. Or maybe more like the secondary storage to my brain's RAM (long-term memory) and CPU cache (short-term memory.)

That isn't to say that I would actually recommend reading the Golden Queen. It was cheesy and campy, but it had a couple of neat ideas and a talking bear.
मिलाएर पिए रक्सि पनि औषधी, यी रोगको सम्भावना कम हुन्छ
There are a variety of methods. Some people will teach you formulaic approaches to drawing people/faces, and instruct you to always lay out the 'proper' measurements that most people fit, then just add detail. More traditional methods teach you to draw what you see, but focusing on the structural lines and forms of the person, while merging it with knowledge of anatomy, perspective, and lighting. And other methods are purely 'draw what you see', without additional context, trusting accurate copying to paper to look correct.

What any specific artist uses will vary greatly. But it usually falls into one of those three camps.
No, there's no system-wide handwriting recognition in iOS for regular UI elements.
Which is fair enough, but the point is it's not Mark or Sheryl.

They want a celebrity they can shake their fists at and give a right telling off to. Politicians don't build their careers giving tongue-lashings to non-public figures, and that's going to be a problem now.

As I type this, I've just read that Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before a congressional committee - this is going to piss off MPs in the UK all the more though because he snubbed them first (which in turns means whoever gets sent is going to get a lot more abuse and more of the "Where is he!?" feigned outrage).

I'm frankly surprised that Sheryl Sandberg isn't being sent to the UK if Zuckerberg is testifying in the US (although I don't see why he can't do both). The whole angle at the time of her hiring was that she would be "the grown up in the room". I realize that was a long time ago now, but if ever there was a time for the COO to step up this has to be it.
After all NASA has achieved its a shame its not funded like it was in the 60's.

Maybe the prospect of China and India in space will jump start the politicians. We might end up with the correct result but for the wrong reasons.
> Rust is a good language but I don't see it any time soon in the web space with that syntax and the lack of mature libraries, plus the time it takes to get anything done.

Lack of mature libraries is always a problem, syntax is subjective and "time it takes go get anything done" .. which time do you measure? Time-to-first-running-example or Time-to-debugged-productions-ready-code? I have my doubts that Rust takes significantly longer for the second one.
In the lab, yes. Presumably in real time. Presumably without configuring things differently than normal, except that they used a pre-recorded feed. Presumably without multiple attempts. Presumably without...
Key line from the article:

"In a closely watched 2014 decision in the dispute, the Federal Circuit said the APIs were entitled to copyright protection."

Apparently, header files (which were subject to much discussion in the case) are still a legal minefield.
Kamala Harris may be a political darling at the moment, but she is not a celebrity politician and so it doesn’t make sense to compare her to Oprah or Mark Zuckerberg. Harris has been in law/politics for basically her whole career:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamala_Harris
Corporate environments were different (easy was to expose Java business program to user without hiring Web people), but the doom of Java in the browser was the whole applet concept and not the DOM integration that JavaScript had. It might have been quite a difference if the JVM could have controlled the webpage like JavaScript.
~I sort of imagined more of a kinetic sculpture, like Buckingham fountain in Chicago, except filled with silver pennies and tiny rails and springs and flippers and catapults. And he'd just stand in it wearing a hard hat, letting the little coins fall all over him and roll back into the hopper, to be thrown up in the air again.~

He buys companies with it. He invests and invests and invests during the day, and at night, he sits in his $150k house, with all the lights turned off except the room he's in, with the mechanical thermostat set low in the winter and high in the summer, mending his own socks.

He's an octogenarian, and it doesn't look like he has any plans to support the luxury goods and services industry any time soon. Nor does he seem all that interested in starting new, risky ventures with a lot of R&D. Instead, he has pledged to leave the majority of his fortune to the Gates charity, so they can spend it for him. He literally can't think of enough ways in which he'd like to spend his earned wealth, and has to give it to someone else.

It's not quite leaving it in a money bin, but there's a luthier out there severely disappointed that the best ukulele never made won't be bought by the richest ukulele player that ever lived, because he's just fine with the same $15 model they sell to elementary school kids. There's a professional cook out there severely disappointed that after all those years in school and as a sous chef, the guy that could give someone a break on the way to their own restaurant is still eating his breakfast at McDonald's. And there's a Patreon dependent only one $10/month subscriber away from making rent. And a Lyft driver that would rather be a personal driver. And a landscaper that is one big account away from buying another truck and hiring more employees. And a TaskRabbit peon that would rather be an executive assistant. And a gym teacher that would rather be a personal trainer.

He's just not doing what everyone expects from people with enough money. He's selling underwear and insurance policies and Dilly Bars, and not buying anything fun and expensive from any of the people who would desperately like to sell something fun and expensive, to anyone who could afford it.

Gates is buying malaria and parasite eradication. Musk is buying a Mars colony. Buffett is buying all the same old boring crap that poor folks can buy.
> torpedoing whatever rent-seeking strategy Oracle had originally devised

They will get damages for everything that has already happened if they win, which is more than zero, so they do have a clear profit motive.

Oracle gains nothing by having Android use Java so if they force Google to use something else it doesn't matter to them.
This is what you're looking for:

https://adnauseam.io/
There's a fundamental difference between:

Blackbox testing -> API Specification -> Implementation

and

Copy API Specification -> Implementaton

In the first case, you will come up with something similar but ultimately original. In the second case you are blatantly copying someone else's work.
As many others have pointed out, it's very difficult to take these disengagement stats as a direct comparison between the two companies' systems. Basically, there's no information about what miles driven by Uber and miles driven by Waymo are covering. Perhaps Waymo is driving its cars in less complex environments, or maybe Uber is driving them in more diverse environments (whereas Waymo is sticking to the same few roads and neighbourhoods).
this.

It's becoming clear exactly what the cost of social surveillance is in our lives. This is just one of many significant problems with it.

There have always been jackasses willing to sacrifice morals (or rightness) in favor of power. Social networks just make it easier to ignore signals that should humanize power.
I really fear for this project. Because if it blows up on launch, misses an orbit, or has a failure to deploy, or some flaw, basically decades have been lost.

As another commentor said, the marginal cost of these things must be must cheaper. Why aren't they just launching new iterations like every year or so. Rather than starting from scratch after the HST, there should have been an HST 2.0, HST 3.0, a whole bunch of marginal iterations. This would create an efficient pipeline around producing many of these one-off specialized parts.

Building the mirrors would become a pipeline of incremental improvements instead of 2-decade redesigns.

I feel like if Elon Musk ran this project, he'd have built 5 different versions already, 3 of them would have failed, we would have learned something useful, and two of them would be in space delivering 2x the science.
It read as a positive to me. Uber is losing in Asia and here's Google partnering with Jaguar who's owned by Tata Motors. This sets Google up for North America, Europe, and Asia.

For a self driving taxi, I don't understand the need for a cost focused option.
Waymo and Jaguar will build up to 20,000 self-driving electric SUVs
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But isnt that based on Java again?
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"there's hard data to show that Uber and Lyft reduce drunk driving in any area where they operate"

More cabs would likely do the same.
Both the articles you cite concede that some meeting some time somewhere at which somebody from Facebook said "they allowed us to do things they wouldn’t have allowed someone else to do because they were on our side" doesn't mean that the Obama campaign violated Facebook policies. It's an important distinction.

If we trust The Daily Mail article:

Davidsen said that she felt the project was 'creepy' - 'even though we played by the rules, and didn't do anything I felt was ugly, with the data'

If we trust the IBD article:

The only difference, as far as we can discern, between the two campaigns' use of Facebook, is that in the case of Obama the users themselves agreed to share their data with the Obama campaign, as well as that of their friends.

The users that downloaded the Cambridge app, meanwhile, were only told that the information would be used for academic purposes. Nor was the data to be used for anything other than academic purposes.

It's an important distinction, to be sure, and Facebook is right to be attacked for its inability to control how its user data were being gathered and shopped around.

(Though it should be pointed out that it wasn't a Cambridge Analytica app, and Cambridge Analytica obtained the data from a 3rd party who wasn't authorized to provide it.)
Apple's push to include AR in the classroom setting is what excites me from this event today. I think AR has tremendous potential in education sector where it can easily encourage students on applied learning.
I'm unable to watch the video right now, I'll check it out in a bit. But I can say right away that you are not responding at all to what I said. I'm aware that Republicans love to fund science, but usually that only happens when it aligns specifically with industry, economics, business, revenue, etc. I very specifically wrote in my post about 'basic science' - that is, science research that is done for the purpose of science research and has no likely vision or anything to be commercialized. That research is extremely important, and is the kind that NASA does a lot (especially stuff like JWST) and is the kind of science that Republicans specifically do not like to fund.

I'll watch the video in a bit.
That's actually a really good point, and obviously I didn't get into it.

"Medallions are good because they keep wages high" is a position I thoroughly disagree with, but "medallions are justified as a traffic control system by the people who own the roads" is much better. Congestion and road wear aren't meaningfully priced into taxi fares, and it's possible that the socially-optimal number of cabs in circulation is well below the number a driver/rider market would generate.

Already we see a lot of complaints about Uber drivers circling blocks and stopping in traffic, especially since they're most active in high-demand areas. (This also justifies the gap between low-density cities without medallions and high-density ones with them.)

I still object to the medallion system. It's inflexible, doesn't scale automatically to demand, and creates ludicrously overpriced bearer instruments - with predictable consequences whenever supply increases.

But I can definitely accept that cities have a good reason to keep the cab count lower than consumer demand would. I just wish they'd do it by taxing rides or something similar. We've got perfectly good tools for fighting externalities that scale with demand, so why are we still using medallions?
Thanks for writing this. Actix is really cool but I haven't really spent the time looking into it - I was unaware of the SyncArbiter abstraction.

This is a very helpful post for me.
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Cheap storage doesn't look all that easy. None of our current technologies can pull it off; we simply run out of raw materials for existing battery technologies, and we're close to geographic limits for hydropower storage. There's research on new batteries using more abundant materials like sodium, but like many things, battery breakthroughs have a history of taking a long time to pan out.

I read the above book cover to cover so you could say I've spent a decent amount of time looking into space solar. It's well worth a read. The early designs from the 1970s would have been hugely expensive even if launch were free, but new work since the late 90s has changed matters enormously. One key innovation is a change from a monolithic design to a self-assembling modular design, with a limited number of component types that are churned out in factories in large quantities. Another is retrodirective arrays, which use a ground signal to allow an array of small microwave transmitters to return a coherent focused beam to the signal source. The book estimates a retail cost of 15 cents/kWh; substituting the estimated BFR launch cost takes that down to 4.5 cents.

Tokamak scaling laws are very well established at this point, and MIT's ARC design actually looks quite practical. The construction is modular, the inner wall is 3D printed and replaced annually, the coolant/blanket is FLiBe molten salt, and the whole thing is about ten times smaller than ITER with similar power output. The JET reactor is about the same size and was built in four years.
One of those three people is a sitting US Senator.
This looks potentially delicious. There's some other options out there, but they either felt a little aging (RakNet) or did too much (libuv) the last time I used\evaluated them. Interested to see what this one is like.
Been waiting for this for so long. :D
>I still interpret `return a` as a special case...

I think this is interesting. I wonder if our personal experiences with how we learned programming, maybe first languages or first teachers or jobs, etc... would effect our perceptions on logic flow.

I simple don't see anything unusual about the logic flow in the example. It's a simple if/else - return with less cruft to me.
Is this even necessary in the age of GDPR? I mean, with GDPR Facebook can not just thumbstone your profile, it has to delete every copy of every data that can uniquely identify you, which includes "your" likes and of course comments.
The US can absolutely default. You're correct that they also can inflate away the debt. But it's perfectly plausible that nativists would tell foreign lenders to fuck off. Note the increasing willingness of the US right to inch up close to a debt default: https://qz.com/1062153/will-trump-actually-default-on-the-us...
I don't know that it's so much about "finding" organs anymore, it's more a process of "defining" them.
I am Jill’s complete lack of surprise.

Disclaimer: since some folks can’t separate explaining something vs agreeing with something, this is just me explaining based on observations and having read Thiels’ book Zero to One. I’m still forming an opinion on the matter.

Did anyone not see this coming in one form or another? Thiel openly supported Trump on the grounds that globalization is bad and that a nationalistic president would slow globalization. He believes globalization is bad because it makes us more like China, a country that produces nothing original and instead clones everything innovative from the world. If I do have an opinion on anything, it that Thiel only supported Trump not because he believed in him, but because he knew it would put the brakes on everything he despised.

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/08/thiel-globalization-is-over....
NASA has an HST 2.0. Two of them. They're sitting in storage, and they cost NASA absolutely nothing out of its budget to develop.
It's perhaps that the 'getting myself in order' part is still in progress, and I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop.
The cost of the kit Waymo will add to the cars is surely more than enough to make any vehicle choice quite expensive by conventional standards.

It shouldn't matter too much though, drivers are very expensive compared to cars. Not paying a hypothetical Uber driver $100 a day could easily finance a supercar, let alone a Jaguar. And the autonomous car can work triple shifts.
We just pushed some changes to fix this. If you want quick access, take a look at the code over at: https://github.com/textileio/textile-facebook. Those fixes will go 'live' later. To get it running on your own system right away, you download the zip (click clone or download) and run it locally.
As someone who doesn't give two cents about 'national prestige', I sincerely hope some other country picks up the slack and does great things in space. The US is certainly not heading down a road that leads to renewed leadership in this area, but hey we'll have some border walls soon to keep out them nasty criminals!
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