skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>How is it breaking TOS?

Obviously, it's up to each site's specific TOS. Tons of sites explicitly call out scrapers and non-human/automated means of accessing the site. You might debate over definitions and intent, but ultimately it's up to the site owners when they say, "you know what? X _is_ against the ToS and we're just gonna ban anyone doing it"; users won't/don't have any recourse to argue their point.

For example, here's a few relevant parts for the top sites on Phantom Buster:

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/apps/site_scraping_tos_terms.php

>These terms govern your collection of data from Facebook through automated means, such as through harvesting bots, robots, spiders, or scrapers ("Automated Data Collection"), as well as your use of that data. You will not engage in Automated Data Collection without Facebook's express written permission.

Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/478745558852511

>We prohibit crawling, scraping, caching or otherwise accessing any content on the Service via automated means, including but not limited to, user profiles and photos (except as may be the result of standard search engine protocols or technologies used by a search engine with Instagram's express consent).

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/56347/prohibit...

> In order to protect our members’ data and our website, we don't permit the use of any third party software, including "crawlers", bots, browser plug-ins, or browser extensions (also called "add-ons"), that scrapes, modifies the appearance of, or automates activity on LinkedIn’s website.

I'd give a read through each of the APIs offered and make sure that users know 1) your service has the potential to get accounts banned for use, and 2) since the service is on behalf of the user's accounts, it'll be their accounts getting banned if the websites ban anyone.

FWIW I wrote this comment while watching a bot (that I wrote) play a game on my behalf on a second monitor. :)
If they don't add cosmetic testicles, it's a constant reminder that testicles are missing, which causes psychological stress.
Cue the "that's not real X, if we did it my way it'd have worked"..
Infant female survival is most certainly not higher than male in India and China. If a girl is born, her birth is often not even reported, which makes it difficult to establish the exact scale of the problem, but you can kind of extrapolate from the extreme gender imbalance in some regions of China.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_infanticide_in_China
I had the exact same experience, it was really freaky and I had to turn it off.
Why would you be entitled to an explanation? I’m not asking to be rude, and I think it would be a decent service to provide, but it’s also that, a service, not a right.
This guy can write. Another good one: https://kimonote.com/@mildbyte/starving-children-or-the-fall...
This was 4+ years ago, so I have no idea of the current market, but I bought from this eBay vendor:

http://stores.ebay.com/deepdiscountservers
So I've been knee deep in glue for the past month. Great service but we really need more examples and an easier dev flow. I wasn't able to get consistent results between juypter and dev endpoint as i was with the glue running the script directly. So i spent a lot of wasted time waiting for glue to run my job that eventually failed and then getting a less than helpful error message. Now that i have my jobs running and orchestrated with step functions it's a thing of beauty but should have taken 1/10 of the time if i had good examples and a proper environment.
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I'm reading the article and it seems to say that the government decided to not fund it further. But the headline "trial falls flat" seems to imply that somehow the trial returned a negative result. Am I missing something?
Good examples.

LinkedIn example tho: I think an interesting argument could be made that they should be blocking accessibility extensions / tools. Since these ( to some extent ) modify and automate UX.

I guess the question in the end is not terms. It is enforcement. Clearly ToS do not cover all cases, and even tho LI ToS say "Thou shalt not scrape" the courts adjudicated differently. So what matters is -- what is enforceable and actually enforced?

The issue of acting as "agent" for user is very important. I don't think the current way this tool does it is OK, because banning is a bad thing. Maybe there is a better way to set it up. Or maybe I'm wrong.
> Not by parcel, total.
That's a perfectly fine, full-throated endorsement of Western values and I'm glad you are willing to take that position.

Just remember though that under this rubric, it's very likely that you and fellow liberals in Western societies are going to be sitting in judgment of other cultures to decide the meaning of the terms 'freedom' and 'rights' — even if people in those cultures disagree with your definitions, or if even if they decide that other things are more important to them than freedom.

That sounds like a very weak form of multiculturalism, one that only accepts other cultures only if they are already compatible with the value systems of the West—which basically presumes the inherent superiority of Western value systems over all others.

That also immediately leads to the question of what gives you the moral authority to judge other peoples and societies, and finding them wanting. When the West was Christian, that question was easy to answer—Christians have access to the true faith. I'm not sure what the answer would be today.
The article really doesn't address why the program wasn't continued. That seems like really important information. Perhaps it is unknown at this time why support is dropping, at which case it is good journalism not to speculate. However it would be great to know the why.
It is what first found them out.

Nevertheless, it is likely that a traditional investigation would have found them out too. Especially through the link between the victim and the sister, coroborated by phone records. Finally, their culpability could have been put beyond doubt by using a DNA test.
For Google at least. Salary and Stock are low end of the range. Bonus numbers seem ridiculously high: 49k bonus for an L4, even with Superb you don't get that.
Why is it bizarre? Users are very intentionally using a specific protocol to create a single shared blockchain, not creating isolated objects of independent value.
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They should try the "unbridled capitalism" model, it seems to work great for the poor in our great US of A /s
It seems that the article is drawing a conclusion without evidence. It states further down in the article that the full results will not be released until 2019.

The trial could easily have not had positive, but its also just as possible that the program died due to political reasons.

I'd like to see the statistics on the program as it'd be good to know if universal income is something that has no plausible chance of working, needs to be rolled out to more people to work, or if this is just basic politics killing a program
Interestingly, in Chile (and possibly other South American countries, perhaps someone else can weigh in) you can already buy Chinese car brands at dealers.

I was told that BYD vehicles are the cheapest option but also have terrible reliability.
In Oracle this is kind of hidden away since it is case sensitive, but unquoted identifiers are silently converted to uppercase, quoted identifiers are used as-is. So, for queries against something like

create table foo (
Bar integer,
"Foobar" integer
);

Referring to Bar, BAR, bar, and "Foobar" will work, but foobar and Foobar will not.
My CV has health IT written all over it, but sometimes I fear being pigeonholed. Yes, I know what FHIR / HL7 is.
Did you read the article, or just the headline?
This is great. The device is interesting. I've accomplished the equivalent thing manually by putting my elbow on the bed and keep my arm straight up. As I'm falling asleep, the arm would fall down, bringing me mildly back to consciousness again. It works, and is gentler than using steel balls, but the method used here is even more refined.

The even more notable aspect of the story is that it seems lucid dreaming and related phenomena is finally moving firmly into the realm of reality in the minds of sleep/dream researchers, if this article is to be any indication. Though I'm aware that lucid dreaming was technically proven to be real ages ago, the notion that it's not seems to have stuck.

Side note; one of my favourite things to do when flying is to induce a hypnagogic state and then compose, and simultaneously listen to, music in my mind. Or rather, have music be composed almost automatically with gentle nudges from me using emotions (it's hard to put into words). It requires noise cancelling headphones and either white noise or a good binaural beats track. And of course, I don't always end up in the correct state of mind to be able to do it.

The music I hear in this state is incredibly beautiful. I'm no musician however, and I've never been able to "bring anything back" that's been of any significance.
> but deletion is deletion.

Is it? Cases like this [0] make that seem unlikely.

[0] http://europe-v-facebook.org/
At the same time, it isn’t uncommon for breast cancer survivors to get implants after a mastectomy. I just wonder why they bothered with the scrotum otherwise?
You don't have a country to call home?
My biggest fear with basic income on a national scale is that it might get soaked up in bidding wars for limited rental housing and just end up being inflation soaked up by landlords.
> Also note: attractive people have more girls. If you’re a rich OG with a young model, she’s likely going to water-birth girls. That’s just scientific fact.

What
Yes, yes, reeducate me! Help me censor my ideas more completely! Thank you, kind guides, your wisdom in the protection of the glorious community from harm is undeniable! All I can do is submit my stupid and pathetic self more fully to your teachings. Show me the glorious way of True HN Thought!
"Such projects should at least consider using Electron"

I don't think QT and Electron are architecturally equivalent.
Whenever you read an article like this ask yourself why it hasn’t happened yet. Geely, Great Wall and numerous other Chinese domestic brands have been operating for decades. Why haven’t they cracked the USA market?

The dealer network system in the United States.
As compared to what?
Couldn't Qt's webassembly library be cached in your browser, to be reused by any Qt webassembly app?
> In other words, if a group of users all run the same Ethereum client software, then it sounds like the author is considering then centralized by definition, regardless of the reasons each user decided to use that computer program, the fact that they chose the same implementation means that technology is centralized.

Seems logical to me. The motives of the individual users have created an outcome of centralization because they all use the same program to do the same thing.
It shard to trust someone whose thesis is that the thing they know intimately is inferior to the thing they are unfamiliar with. The seaweed is always greener...
Does anyone else feel really put off on the idea of working at a big tech corporation by articles like this? If I wanted to play the career game, I would have studyied something more business related and got a graduate job at somewhere like KPMG.
Smart lights are the killer app for Alexa. There's no going back once you have it. And the only thing keeping most people from getting smart lights is the cost which will fall.
Basically it was a political decision to not continue. Researchers would have liked to continue with more resources:
https://translate.google.fi/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=y&prev=...
The below may sound a bit harsh, but I'm trying to be clear - apologies in advance. I've got nothing against you or any circumstances you've been in.

> Not preposterous at all. The line is clear: viability outside the womb.

That's not an argument that makes any sense at all, nor does it stack up when put under scrutiny.

What about the viability of an infant that you arbitrarily decide you wish to eject from the home? You ask them to leave; well they can't walk. You ask them to find suitable accommodation elsewhere; well they can't talk. You tell them to feed themselves. Oh, you can't leave on your own? I still don't want you here -- leave, leave now. No?...

What about the viability of a minority group that the government decides they don't want in their country? Lets say it's a bunch of Jews, eh? Follow through with your principle and see where it leads you.

So I'd argue that this is an argument of selfishness, lack of responsibility and willful foolishness - traits which are considered highly unhealthy to self and society.

Putting that aside, the other issue is that this argument completely skips the point at hand - human life. As a society, we deal with human life carefully for a reason - it's beautiful and important - it's something to be cherished and nurtured. Arguments like these try do deny this fact by looking the other way.
QT is a developed by a corporation. I would presume most QT core devs are employees of that organization.
It doesn't sound like they picked people are random but rather unemployed people. So it doesn't seem a reasonable test of just giving some random group of people money but rather just something looked to everyone involved as a kind of welfare. Thus it doesn't seem like a fair.

That's not saying I think this could work but that it's different from the experiment in India I remember where everyone in a village was given an income.

One problem with universal income I would imagine is it would give landlord a strong incentive to immediate raise rents - IE, how could it not create inflation?
Shouldn't that bring more housing stock into the market, reducing prices?

Also: there are more participants than landlords: food, utilities, etc.
I find it crazy how AT&T keeps trying to sell me the same DSL for more money with data caps than I pay Sonic.
Every researcher wants to continue with more resources.
You can try Qubole [0]. The pricing is a small percentage of what you pay to the cloud provider, so it's predictable to an extent.

[0]: https://www.qubole.com/

Disclosure: I work here.
Last big C10k discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7250432 (4 years ago, 57 comments)
Student allowance recently went up $50 per week in New Zealand. A lot of students also found their rent went up $50 per week at the same time.
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I've always enjoyed working at small companies. I've worked at larger companies which have the "level" concept of employees, it's kindda funny to me now :)

In my experience at smaller companies you get treated better, you are a more significant factor to the overall success of the company and there is very little corporate crap which often has silly requirements that get justified by a mystical word of being "professional", which often actually seems to achieve the opposite of treating adults as bunch of kids that need to be managed and controlled :)

Though I know it also can go very bad for people in small companies that have mini dictators in charge.
That's pretty similar to what's been happening in Silicon Valley lately. According to investor Peter Thiel, the majority of capital invested in startups just flows to local landlords rather than funding real innovation.

https://www.sfgate.com/expensive-san-francisco/article/peter...
It certainly feels more native than web/electron, swing, XUL, GTK and just about every other cross platform technology. It's about as good as you'll get without a native client for each platform, which will always be the best option.

The only other options is the hybrid approach which uses native widgets like wxWidgets, but this means you're limited by the lowest common denominator.
Will it be dockless rent-by-the-minute electric hatchbacks on every block? Please let it be dockless rent-by-the-minute electric hatchbacks on every block.
If global markets aren't transforming China out of totalitarianism, then morally, shouldn't we stop assisting the economic development of China?

I'm horrified by some of the stories I've been told by my Chinese co-workers. Threats of violence to family members (for speaking freely) by the Chinese government is extremely common.
I'm not sure that tell us much. Is there a researcher on god's green earth that doesn't want more funding?
Agree there are more participants, I just think housing has supply issues in ways most other things don't.

Land is limited, for example. And replacing buildings with higher density ones is... Frequently not easy.
As suspected, smaller companies seem to be hurting a lot more than the giants. From the article:

A digital-advertising firm called AdUX recently closed a service that harvested location data from people’s smartphone apps to show them targeted ads, said CEO Cyril Zimmermann, because his firm had little hope of asking for—much less getting—consent from users. Instead, AdUX will aggregate data from bigger companies. He said the shift has cut into revenue. “For them, it’s easy,” he said. “The problem is, who knows AdUX?”
performancedba answers ... the sound and the fury.
SpaceX I think has a better chance of succeeding simply because it's Musk doing the thing that's historically worked for him: moving into a space where somebody else already shelled out for the fundamental R&D, then delivering iterative improvements slathered in tons of marketing sheen.
I've read several and didn't see any initial units. Could you be more specific?
Im actually going to make the order for a new thinkpad today, to run NixOs on.

What specs and model do you have? Are there any tips, or something you wish you knew? My config reaches >€2500 quite fast.
Good Idea.
The parent comment is removed, but on the thought of a personal improvement plan (pip), they are often paperwork to protect the company when they terminate you.

This is not always the case, and if you can turn it around, that is fantastic. It really helps to have a manager who can help guide you. A coworker of mine was place on a PIP and, honestly, was expected to be managed out by just about everyone. However! He rose up with guidance from manager and became a _very_ productive team member. To the point now that I am very glad he is on my team and I think a big part of our latest project's success came from him. He grew a lot and is on a great path in our org now.
Curious, did you upgrade to 2.0? I went to check in on my site recently, and found that they nuked the project and rewrote it in Go.
I hope it is urban legend or exaggerated, because that is terrifying.
> The dealer network system in the United States.

So I get that franchising laws require dealers to be independent from manufacturers and they're up there with occupational licensing, but how exactly does that prevent a new manufacturer from entering the market?

I assume if you can raise a few billion to build a plant, kickstarting a bunch of new "independent" dealerships is just another line item you plan for...
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These countries seem so easy compared to US where it can take 20+ years for a residency if you're from India, and you need to live on annual visa renewals until that time
https://github.com/aaronduino/jay -- an encrypted replacement for jrnl.sh
Do a Show HN [1]. That will be the quickest way to determine what the market response is likely to be. You could email the mods - hn@ycombinator.com - and they can advise you on how to get the best result.

The best entrepreneurs and creators these days are able to bootstrap awareness and early growth for their product through blog posts, word-of-mouth referrals and other grass-roots techniques.

Any media outlet or professional PR agency will look for things like that as indicators of whether your product is something they want to cover or promote.

Every media gatekeeper is being pitched dozens or hundreds of times per day by people who sincerely believe they have a world-changing product, so you need to have some objective evidence that your offering has a degree of viability that the others don't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/show
> Some companies will dangle money at you as an alternative to going on the PIP.

Can someone tell me a little about this? Is this a situation where a company pays you to quit without firing you?
Only kamikaze use their coffins on wheels. In any light road accident this "car" folds like a cardboard box.
Nope, you're not missing anything. This is the exact same criticism made in the top comment on every site I've seen this story posted on (I think this is #4).
I wonder what the least fortunate people in villages in Africa and Asia would think about our desperate push to figure out UBI.

A looming threat of declining living standards (and a decline that will still never leave us anywhere close to where they are now) has us so terrified, quaking in our privilege boots. Meanwhile easily 3B+ people have been left out in the cold and hardly anyone gives a shit.

Every so often, I still find myself surprised by how unapologetically shameful humans can manage to be.
Quite the opposite: universal basic income of a fixed amount would be much better spent outside of SF. Figure a 1k monthly stipend would be enough for rent and food in the mid west or some other small town. Currently the city of SF spends 2k a month per homeless person...
I'm not familiar with this trial specifically, but my guess is that the reason for limiting it that way is to focus on the most plausible kind of welfare program in the group most likely to benefit in a large way (the unemployed) and get as much certainty out of the data as possible. They had limited money (only enough for 2000 people, apparently), so if they split it across a random set of people, or a specific village, they would get a much less precise answer (eg n=200 unemployed, n=1800 employed; or arguably, n=1, at the village level). And if you don't get a clear good result in the unemployed, why would you expect clear or good results in the employed?

Clinical trials do a lot of screening of enrolled participants for similar reasons: you want the sickest or most likely to benefit, so you can see effects clearly, and you want to avoid participants with conditions that might override or obscure the benefits, like old age (a couple dropping dead on you at random might cover up a real benefit).
Dynamic DNS :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_DNS
Thanks for working on that. I've been trying to use Avalonia and it already drives me slightly insane.
Yes. I added all submissions.
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“It is paradoxical,” said Bill Simmons, co-founder and chief technology officer of Dataxu , Boston-based company that helps buy targeted ads. “The GDPR is actually consolidating the control of consumer data onto these tech giants.”