skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... it's more simple than that. He had registered several trademarks under the name France.com. The French gvt sued him to transfer these trademarks.

And they won thanks to trademark law that prevents registering trademarks when people have prior rights on them - which the French gvt has on the name France.

The judges also explained that he never tried to demonstrate that the French gvt was aware of this use and that let us do it.

And finally, they explained that he was exactly the same thing as if someone had registered a website using the name and the identity of someone else.

They end up explaining that there is a risk of confusion between his website, and the official website of the French gvt.

Thus, web.com decided to transfer the website as the French gvt was the new legal owner of these trademarks.

There is no bad faith in it. He used these trademarks for a while, but when their legit owner decided to stop him, it did and that's it.

The two legal decisions provided on his website are quite clear.
Is it aliens?
Really? There is a long list of criteria to consider on that exact page you link, and those will be checked by courts if the DPAs appear unreasonable. I didn't say a 20 million fine is impossible, but it'll need a very good basis.

Yes, the maxima are high, but it's crazy to believe the DPAs will be able (both legally and politically) to hand fines even close to that out left and right, even if you assumed they over night suddenly turn into organizations hell-bent to do maximum damage.

It's weird how people see that maximum amount and somehow believe those will be the norm, throwing all experience with both the DPAs and other regulations out of the window. How many undeserving businesses have been fined to death in other areas (financial regulation, environmental protection, ...) and why should this suddenly start with privacy law? No government has an interest in its enforcement arm ruining business, of course they care about downsides. Regulation and its enforcement doesn't exist in a vacuum, as much as the revenge-boner some "privacy advocates" (ideally selling some GDPR advice on the side...) get right now wishes it were otherwise.

(On the other hand, these numbers seem to be the only thing motivating some business owners to care, so even if they're never used they've served a purpose. Really, the amount of conversations you see that go "And they are complaining that suddenly doing X is so much work", "Didn't they have to do X under previous law as well?" "..." is mind-boggling)
It takes an insane amount of time to compile ghc. I can't stand apps that use it because of that. Could take hours on some machines, would have considered riding on that bandwagon if it wasn't for that limitation.
I don't know if I would personally want one,
but it does seem pretty darn cool. Especially the physical old-school look esthetic of it.
Humans Are Dumb at Figuring Out How Smart Animals Are
Well this one tool is 'only' $60 per year[0]. But what if your compiler moved to subscription, and your text editor and your e-mail client and
...

It's the thousand-cuts problem. And once you start on that path you can't go back, or else the tool stops working.

[0] which is a substantial chunk of a day's after-tax pay for many people in the UK, for example. 1/400th of their salary for a password database.
In theory, the Mercedes can be reposessed if she starts missing payments, and she can file bankruptcy to protect herself from spiraling debts.

In this situation, "a degree can't be repossessed", so the IRS and banking system will squeeze every penny they can out of her since she can't declare bankruptcy to get rid of these loans (that she's paying!)

What she really should do is negotiate a refinance, put the loans on a credit card, and then go bankrupt. She won't have good credit for 7 years, but she will also lose the $65,000 worth of debt hanging around her neck too.
I would caution anyone from buying a telescope unless they're planning to use it for astrophotography.

The sad truth is that we're so used to stunning Hubble images that looking through a real eyepiece can be disappointing, even with an expensive and powerful instrument. Affordable instruments are even less satisfying. (I'm basing on that on occasional access to a 20 inch Dobsonian, which is far more powerful than most scopes, but still rather meh visually.)

There's some pleasure to be had in finding your way around the sky, but for impressive images with some wow factor, astrophotography is much more rewarding - but will roughly double the outlay.

Location also matters. If you're in a big city, even the best optics will be wasted, and if you want to buy a portable scope you can take out to good locations, there's the inevitable trade-off between performance and portability.

The ideal is a rural location with minimal smog and light pollution and good weather, where you can set up permanently. Then a good scope can be worth it.

I don't want to seem downbeat, but I went through this a few years ago. If you're in the UK like I am, where we're very lucky to get 50 cloud-free nights a year, it became obvious that the practical limits of weather and location mean that the expense of a good scope is very hard to justify.
CGTalk is a forum for designers and animators to post their 3D and 2D work and discuss industry news and topics: http://forums.cgsociety.org/

TypeDrawers is a discussion forum for typeface design, lettering, and typography:
http://typedrawers.com/
I've never noticed the guards changing when going through town. What I /have/ noticed is the swell of tourists that surrounds the gates every time it's happening and how it always seems to be when I'm trying to pass through, but maybe that's too personal a grievance...
Unfortunately I'm not in a financial position to donate my time right now.
> You can't just decree a seizure of a domain because you're a political entity that wants it.

This is literally a case of that happening. So, you can decree a seizure of a domain because you're a political entity that wants it.
We are actually more than 100 people now. A big part of our team is dedicated to customer support. After all there are over 15 mln 1Password users and we get several thousand emails per day. There are over 30,000 businesses using 1Password.

We have designer and development teams for Mac/iOS (Objective-C, Swift), Windows (C#, .NET), Android (Java, Kotlin), browser extensions (JavaScript), 1Password server (Go), 1Password web client (TypeScript, ReactJS), command-line client (Go), SCIM/LDAP integration (Go, Docker, Kubernetes), and a ton of other smaller projects.

There is a Security Team that does security reviews, works with BugCrowd researchers, and does SOC 2 compliance. DevOps team works with AWS and Google Cloud.

We want to do more. We are hiring :)
Deployment of EUV technology was initially expected in 2007. They had probably at least some valid reasons to stay with known technology. This is probably a mistake, but every company do mistakes.
Ask HN: Is it ok for Lyft/Uber drivers to solicit unrelated businesses?
Yesterday I ordered a Lyft to meet up with a friend, the ride started out normal enough with some small chit chat where the driver told me about a camping trip he went on with his church, and then asked me what I did for a living.

He then launched into what I could tell immediately was a pitch for some kind of pyramid scheme where he testified that his friend (the guy a level above him) had made "hundreds of thousands of dollars per year." I knew he was about to sell me on something I was not interested in. Not wanting to engage, I just sort of listened while he carried on for the duration of our 15 minute ride. I never asked him exactly what the nature of this business was, but from the sounds of it, it seemed like a network of people who click each other's google/amazon ads.

He went on at length talking about how ethical it was before I even asked anything about the nature of the business. After saying nothing for most of the ride, he finally said "This sounds like you might be a perfect candidate for something like this." I politely declined and told him I was satisfied with my current career.

Is this kind of thing considered OK? Normally my Uber and Lyft drivers have been very friendly, but on occasion I have gotten sales pitches from drivers with side businesses.

I gave him 1 star and moved on, but frequently encountering this kind of behavior would make me hesitant to continue using the service.
Sure, and I suppose you could decree yourself ruler of the world, too. Reality, however, is another matter entirely.

France will not win a legal battle over this outside of France.
Because the industry isn’t dominated by well thought out solutions. Most programmers I talk to love the idea of spending time and using the perfect tools to design outstanding solutions to problems. They discuss how much they supposedly like to learn.

But when push comes to shove, your 9–5 career growth is probably going to be best optimized by cobbling a bunch of Python together and shipping it. Especially if you wrap around it a bunch of buzzword frameworks and deployment technologies. Unless your boss or your boss’s boss are technical and opinionated about good software engineering, nothing is going to be optimized for such. And a $100k+/year paycheck is a hell of an amount of inertia.

A two month boot camp is sufficient to pump out an individual who can be opinionated about their technology choice, and even produce an individual who can duct tape some services together to produce some semblance of value. Likewise a stock 4-year compsci degree. Be it a boot camp, a university, an online coding school, or an Ivy League: They’re not going to teach you Haskell (or Lisp or ...), they’ll teach Python, because it’s easy, even if it rarely produces simple solutions. And once somebody has put in the energy to learn one thing that has become profitable for them, they’ll need an enormous amount of rationalization to learn and invest in something else.
Mastodon/ActivityPub: GDPR Compliance?
I still don't understand why web.com obeyed a French court order, since its parent seems to have no significant operations in the EU. Could Maduro shut down DolarToday.com with a Venezuelan court order?
I'm so jelly! ("jealous")

I've been (slowly and painfully) working my ways towards constructing a self-reproducing robo-boat swarm for a few years now, ever since learning about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

My idea is to set up a simple artificial ecosystem of interacting bots that collect and recycle oceanic trash to create more of themselves. This permits exponential growth, making it realistic to attempt to tackle such a large-scale problem from a relatively tiny "nucleus".

I want to use Molten salt oxidation [1] to convert trash to "synthesis gas" [2] then feed that through a water column to convert CO+H2O to CO2+H2. Recover the hydrogen for power (more power, the MSO reaction is exothermic) and feed the carbon dioxide to algae tanks. The algae can be processed to create both plastic membranes and a kind of ocean-water-proof glue. Rather than build boats, you make spheroids out of the plastic and glue them together to make foam. (I call it "spittlebug architecture" [3].) Foam and tendons allow you to make e.g. artificial hydras [4] which can be attached at their bases to long conduits (also make of glue-foam) to collect and sort trash and carry it (via peristalsis) to the MSO unit. The long hydra-lined conduits can be arranged in a (huge) spiral which can then be driven to rotate by positioning of sails and rudders embedded in the conduit. The MSO unit would be in the center.

The idea, at every stage, is to do and use the minimum of action and materials and energy throughout the system to maximize scalability and throughput-per-unit.

The outputs of the system will be power, fresh water, building material, and packets of recovered molecules (the ones that aren't made of H C or O) to hopefully be reused.

Glue + membranes + geometry + pressure = An open-ended variety of light-weight rigid structures with a very easy construction method. [5]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten_salt_oxidation

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthesis_gas

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spittle_bug

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydras

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflatable_air_cushion & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-supported_structure
Ugh, I really hate when articles have no timestamps...
Isn’t Selenium server (JAVA) required?

Or is there a way to run Se without the server?
You’re oversimplifying—Amazon definitely has higher prices on many items, and I know this because I comparison shop, but in the end it appears to me that I am still saving money.

You’re making a lot of uncharitable assumptions about other people.
Show HN: OpenTerm 2.0, an iOS terminal app with scripting
Just to note, a day has only 86400 seconds in it (and 28800 of them belong to sleep).

It is also a funny coincidence that seconds-per-day is a multiple of a 14.4k baud rate.
It's kind of morbidly hilarious how if this spreads to the US at some point MIT will start using a service that they spent lots of effort to stop from being engendered in the first place.
I've written some high req/sec projects in Rust, but nothing that would be apples-to-apples to that particular Go project.

The memory access patterns are straight-forward enough that the remaining GC could definitely go away. If I had to make a wild, from the hip, and unsubstantiated guess, maybe a 2x to 5x performance multiple. That would include a comparable amount of time spent optimizing and would depend greatly on the quality of the Kafka crates for Rust (which I've never used).
I assumed the HN crowd was familiar with the fact that "90% of everything is crap" is someone else's idea. This was probably not a good assumption to make.
GDPR: data protection in an uncertain and insecure cyber world, says top lawyer
woah i had no idea zinkevich worked at google. that guy is really legit.
My gut (non expert) feeling is that when 3D printing can be indistinguishable from natural, and quality assurance can make it reliably indistinguishable, we won’t need humans digging around inside us.

How long that takes I would only embarrass myself by guessing.
Escort Reviews as Seen by Metro News
DDG results can be hit or miss (it doesn't yet do a good job of filtering spam, for instance), but a simple 'g!' In your search terms will have DDG query google for you, thus acting as a sort of proxy. This means you can have the anonymity of DDG and the breadth of google.
Great quotes, like
I wish to God these calculations were executed by steam... C. Babbage, The Analytical Engine
As far as I'm aware, French court does not have any jurisdiction over web.com - therefore the transfer was unfounded.
Keychain Access lets you view your local keychain (i.e. your device's secure trust store). If you have iCloud keychain turned on then certain parts of your keychain will be synced across devices so you'll be able to find, say, a web password you generated on your phone on in your Mac's keychain (via Keychain Access and otherwise). The terminology is a bit confusing, that much is true.

If you can live within the constraints of iCloud keychain (the Safari/Apple devices thing, don't need stuff like 'team sharing, etc) it's arguably a better solution than 1Password.
Much better: First hand account by Mike Dailly http://www.javalemmings.com/DMA/Lem_1.htm
Also with animated screenshots of early Lemmings demos.
It’s amazing that such simple websites from 1969 survive modern browsers, yet Facebook cannot fix zoom on Safari...
Even if they are, framing matters. Your framing sounded like "this is my (ugly) opinion" not like "Everyone knows this common saying."
That was my point. JS has a huge advantage in the ecosystem but not many as a language itself.

If we compare pure Node with Python then I think python is better for learning as it has less weirdness to it.

You are right though. Such comparison is only useful as a mental exercise as in the real world the browser and js are intimately tied.
The part about a solid pipeline is very important. Recently I talked to someone who had a bad experience detecting phrases using gensim. I always have had a good experience so I was curious. Turns out they were doing OCR on PDFs and feeding the result directly into gensim. As anyone with OCR experience knows, there is often a lot of noise which is definitely going to screw up gensim or any other NLP tool. The quality of your preprocessing is important!
> "Avoid success at all costs."

> I mentioned this at a talk I gave about Haskell a few years back and it’s become quite widely quoted. When a language becomes too well known, or too widely used and too successful suddenly you can’t change anything anymore. You get caught and spend ages talking about things that have nothing to do with the research side of things. Success is great, but it comes at a price. -- Simon Peyton Jones

There's not much in the way of marketing for Haskell. There isn't any drive to make it super-simple like Python, or super businessy like C#. It's fast if you make it so, but it's never going to be as fast as C. The cognitive defects required to like it are far less prevalent than those of JS-lovers. It's not built for the mainstream, even though it'll happily run GUIs and games and webpages and chat servers and whatever else is cool.

Even if it wanted to, taking over the world takes a lot of effort and luck. And it doesn't want to, and spends its effort and luck elsewhere.
I think it’s pretty safe to assume this limitation/problem affects almost nobody else, so not really relevant for most people.

Also: how do you run running Firefox and Chrome? Do you download and build the whole chain of dependencies and build tools needed to build and run those? And if so, why?
What Sucks About Erlang (2008)
Mate if you think being a salaried employee sucks you might to want to try working as a blue collar worker in a slaughterhouse.

Don't take this the wrong way but your coming across as super entitled.
You can use prebuilt binaries of ghc. If you don't need the bleeding edge builds.
Thank you for this! I was disappointed to not even find mention of pebble on the website.
Looks like this is still in the early stages, but I'll be keeping an eye on it.
Many Asian arthouse films are of the spice of life variety (not many Chinese/Taiwanese films anymore, but definitely many Japanese ones). If you ever have time to kill on a transpacific flight, the Japanese section of the entertainment system is always lots of fun.
It will also go a long way toward determining if a person is actually interested in going out at night and looking at celestial objects enough to warrant buying a telescope...I bought one about thirty years ago and sold it about twenty without much use. I've got one sitting in a closet now that was bought about fifteen years ago and given to my child about ten years ago...and after fooling with it a couple of times back then, it's been sitting in a closet ever since. My limit seems to be about a full moon.
Multiple browsers, Windows, Linux, Chromebooks, encrypted documents and other item types, sharing, travel mode, item history, watchtower (security audit), ...
Interestingly, the comp-sci program at University of Maryland does start with a list-esque system. They start with a very basic language and slowly add new features throughout the first course.
Lots of music is 'musicians music'. It won't entertain people who aren't musicians, but for musicians it is very entertaining because they are able to appreciate the skill as well as the music. Numbers juggling is similar, it entertains other jugglers.
100x now? You're saying there are electron apps in the wild using 10GB of memory? I was trying to argue that the 10x claim was an exaggeration but you've just leapfrogged that.
Did you just call JS-lovers and Haskell-lovers cognitively defective?
But the weird thing is that France didn't have to--the American registrar obeyed their order, for no clear reason. The domain has now been transferred to a French registrar. So even if an American court would never have ordered the domain transferred, it will be trickier (but probably not impossible, since Verisign ultimately controls .com and that's a US entity) for an America court order to get it back.
i have railed/ranted (occasionally belligerently) about haskell after having a professional brush with it two years ago. haskell hasn't taken over the world because the community is haughty about haskell's giant warts. yes it's very welcoming and open to indoctrinating you on "best practices" but as soon as you diverge in the slightest (because someone before you diverged or because you need to do something unconventional) they're completely obstinate about how ugly the language/experience can get.

the most of obvious instance of this is point free form combined with overloaded operators combined with 8? arities. if you bring this up on r/haskell or #haskell you will get shouted down about how it's not best practices to abuse that so why even bother discussing because you can write unreadable code in e.g. python. this is absolutely true but the ugliest python is still clearer than the brainfuck homage that haskell turns into with stuff like

$<><>$%%^^^ a b (@@@<> c d) $$$ e f

the point here is not to rehash the debate but that no one takes this complaint seriously because elegant haskell is the one true scotsman and everyone else's haskell is irrelevant.

another obvious thing is the complete lack of good tooling. stack/cabal/cabal-sandboxes/another cabal thing that's been created since i stepped away last year. there's no ide because real programmers write code using butterflies flapping their wings so why would you need anything other than cobbled together vim/emacs plugins. wanna debug? set a breakpoint in ghc but you can set breakpoints in ghc only 20 calls deep! don't even get me started on how slow the compiler is. does anyone listen to these complaints? no. why? my hypothesis is that it's like a fraternity with a hazing ritual (combined with many serious cases of stockholm syndrome).

i think a fair comparison is rust (despite being imperative). linear types are probably as foreign as purity/immutability to people and yet rust has 10x more mindshare than haskell. why? because rust maintainers care about ergonomics!

i could go on but i'm sure i'll get responses that chastise for not sticking with it long enough or not putting in the work or something else when the reality is that it wasn't worth it - i wanted a strong type system and the price i had to pay for it was too high. plenty of other strongly typed languages (ocaml, rust, f#) without all of the pain of haskell and the intransigence of the community.
[article in german] Thunderbird-Update notwendig, um Efail zu verhindern
I use lots of versions of GHC across several architectures, and can't remember the last time I compiled GHC. I think you must be doing it wrong. It's not without its flaws, but `stack` can do a lot of the work for you too.
Nomad is one of my favorite modes in AoE2 I wasn't even aware 0ad was capable of doing it, so this is awesome.