skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could fix some of the barriers like automatically registering people at age 18 or making voting day a national holiday so people aren’t stuck at their jobs unable to vote.

That alone would help.

But every change produces winners and losers, and the losers really don’t want that change to happen.
My first instinct upon seeing that intrusive popup was to invoke the element hider from uBlock and nuke it. I don't want to see that noise on this or any other website. Get out of my way and fuck off with the legalese. I'm browsing, I haven't signed any contract, get out of my face.
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The generally-accepted precedent is that yes, unwanted scraping violates the CFAA. Given the age of the problem, the case law is still developing around it, but there have been many high-profile scraping cases, and the scraper almost always loses.

The reality is that the CFAA is extremely broad and if we want to protect "scraping", better termed something like "data preservation" or "data recovery", we need to change the CFAA, copyright, and the applicability of EULAs (which effectively work to plug any tiny leak that someone may've found through the CFAA-copyright combo).

Copyright itself makes it effectively illegal to read a web page without the owner's consent, even if a) there is no trespass/unauthorized access (CFAA); and b) there is no infringement in the actual content extracted. This occurs because the markup and other necessary supporting material around a page is a copyrighted work, and just reading it into memory and then immediately discarding is considered sufficiently tangible to infringe on the copyrighted work.

This is called the "RAM Copy Doctrine", and it has been [mis]applied to scrapers many times. In Facebook v. Power Ventures, it was used to stop a startup from helping Facebook users extract their own content. That founder was left owing $3M in damages to Facebook.

LinkedIn v. Hi5 is the most notable recent exception, but those rulings seem to be pure judicial activism unsupported by precedent or really any legal underpinnings, and will surely be overturned on appeal.

For every high-profile LinkedIn v. Hi5-style success, there are a good number of losses. It is fairly routine now after 3Taps.

IANAL, but my SaaS business, which depended on a key piece of scraped data, was destroyed by a legal threat from a Fortune 100.
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That's a hypothesis without much backing, history shows an interventionist hyper power reduces conflict.

We've seen Pax Romana, Pax Britannica, Pax Mongolica, and now Pax Americana.

There could be shining utopia without military conflict in the future, but personally I'd rather not take the risk during my lifetime. Many equally matched opponents has historically resulted in brutal warfare.
The masses (especially boomers in America) still use Facebook, they've just retreated into groups, messenger, and marketplace. This behavior aligns with Facebook's product focuses. The Facebook killer does not exist yet.

Personally, Twitter makes me feel gross. Too much marketing spam in a small amount of time. Too easy to get sucked in and lose 30 minutes of my life to informationless noise.
I wouldn't say so. Cython is quite literally C for python, basically making all your python code look like C with most disadvantages, while not always reaching C performance.

Julia in comparison is a fully featured language, with a lot to offer - you can write highly generic + fast code in a very high-level way. E.g. have a look at https://medium.com/@Jernfrost/defining-custom-units-in-julia...
You can see, that Julia can be more elegant than python while being a lot faster.
Because fixed wings require either landing/takeoff strips, or complex systems to transition between two modes of flight. Quadcopters, with their only four moving parts, are a simpler option. If the capacity/range is there, why not go with the easiest to maintain? It's not like they are paying for fuel.
Apple quietly opens Oregon engineering lab, poaches from Intel
Sorry, but this has to be the dumbest comment in HN.

The parent post was saying how living in a country with a generous welfare system can make a lot easier to have more free time and easier to take risks, and you're worried that if you take advantage of that, you might need to help pay that off if you're successful?
Or, perhaps, the optimal survival strategy of a nation-state is to make the thing you don't want used against you until it becomes so onerous that international standards move to ban it.

Gas warfare was banned after WWI, but during WWI, both allies and central powers used it before it was banned. Nuclear weapons are banned... After the Allies used them twice.

International bans on intolerable weapons are a great idea. Unilateral disarmament of a useful weapon with no international ban may be suicidal.
If voting could change something, it would be forbidden already. Dreamers.
Nope, your quote is irrelevant, and it's "one and the same" besides. Why do you think people are pronounced "guilty" or "not guilty"?
There are plans to remove the SNI privacy leak as well.

Note that "your local ISP" means "whatever coffeeshop you are using wifi in", for laptop users, right?

You're right that if the resolver decides to keep and correlate logs that's bad. It's pretty key to use a resolver that you trust to not do that...
Not that he's wrong about open-source abandonware, but that's rather an overstatement. No significant amount of his code remains in any modern browser, and when the engine that eventually became WebKit and later Blink (and which now powers the majority of end-user web client browsing today) was first announced as based off KHTML and not Mozilla tech, he wrote a self-congratulatory blog post[0] that started off with "Summary: I was right", even though it had nothing to do with him or his work. Not to mention KHTML was done using C++, something he was always against (no mention of "I was right" on that part, I see). He's done some good work here and there but he really gets carried away with his blowhard opinionating at times, and I think people should turn a more critical eye towards that sort of thing.

[0] https://www.jwz.org/blog/2003/01/more-khtml/
Yes. That's what Germany does. If your party gets 5 percent you are in parliament even without winning a single district.
If they had any big benift for the users, everyone would be doing MSHTML and XUL apps nowadays.
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Well, it's also a sane business practice. When you have limited abilities to predict what is going to be successful, you are tempted to use the schemes that worked well in the past. You take the ingredients that are known, combine them using aesthetic means that are attractive in a given period, and promote it well. In this way you minimize the chances of failure. Experimenting with novel things is not a safe strategy when you repeatedly invest millions, and your way of doing it works. That's why you have, for example, a remake of the Beauty and the Beast (and many other), both by Disney. They know the target group will go and watch it and enjoy anyway.
A few of my favorites:

Mr. Sunday Movies (comic books, movies, tv shows, etc) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkDSAQ_5-yx5hmuvUcsJL7A

Recording Revolution (recording, mixing, mastering music) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjRzsiP_aDWWLHV4-2LKBtg

Woody's Piano Shack (synthesizers) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC27jRFKGzztB9u9T5GkPH_g
Have you looked at the VS Code marketplace? It is not great. The LSP modes are great and then here and there you get interesting extensions, but a bunch of it I would not call higher quality by any means.

(I use vscode all day for my work projects and generally enjoy it and am not trying to drag it, just trying to be honest about this aspect of it.)
Installing Hyperledger Composer Playground
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All jokes aside, is it the ui if vscode that you prefer? I have a hard time nailing it down, but aside from configuration, I do like vscode.

I might use it more if we weren’t stuck in an old version of rhel at work.
Damn, that's a shame, I hope that the pay is good at least :)
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Yeah but GE isn’t in the business of collecting personal data about you and selling it. Google business is data not jet engines
One time I was in an approval voting election with 100-odd candidates.

I decided to be a smart-ass and check off most of the names.
Are the two candidates of the first round chosen by who gets the most votes? If so it has the exact same problem, as the votes from the 3rd+ most popular candidates will get syphoned off to the two predicted winners.
'bouts of unemployment' this is bad luck and you are correct that it can take the wind out of anyone's sails.

Looking at the math, it's not difficult to find a mainstream mutual fund like FCNTX that has been pretty big for a long time. Since 1993, 25 years ago and encompassing both the dot com bust and the sub-prime catastrophe, it has returned, on an annualized basis, around 9%. I use that example because it's a pretty mainstream fund that has been highly rated by Morningstar most of those years, so it isn't hard to identify it as a fairly safe place to get excellent returns. I've been in it for most of those 25 years and when I first chose it, I was for sure a novice at investing. Note that today, it is only one of several funds in multiple sectors that I hold, I've diversified over time.

There really is no way to get rich quickly that does not involve a large dose of luck. The <30 multi-millionaires in Silicon Valley tilted the odds in their favor via a variety of means, but I'd guess that for every example of those people, you'd find dozens who moved to the area, worked their asses off in startups for a few years and then crashed and either settled for a regular job or moved elsewhere.
Remember to say what you like
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Adding to this, it's not a static group of people on there growing old together. There is a a consistent group of adolescents reaching troll age and joining in.
Of course it sounds like an improvement when those controversial issues have never affected you. Who cares about all the people they do affect though?
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This already happens in decidedly Red/Blue states. They're full of incumbents that nobody really cares to keep in but, more importantly, nobody cares to vote out.
Brave is already working on Tor private tabs though it won't have the same fingerprinting/first-party isolation guarantees as with a Tor Browser, https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/labels/feature/tor Should be shipping soon https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/984231250104733696
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BudgetDuo was inspired by a fairly simple spreadsheet my wife and I use to help divvy up household expenses.

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The more facebook and twitter and youtube censor their users, the more gravity will shift to 4chan, it's the law of conservation of speech on the internet.
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This is a really sensationalist article. I'm not going to ignore the parts of 4chan highlighted by the article, but there are some really good boards you can visit where the level of discussion is far superior than what you would find in most corners of today's popular forums. Personally I don't participate in any conversations, but I'll read the threads on the boards I find interesting.

If anything, 4chan is an authentic reflection of the internet's user base. You'll find both gold and garbage depending on what you visit and frequent. It is unfair to broadly paint the site as only containing the worst of human nature. If you were to similarly depict other popular websites like Reddit in the same fashion, you would get something just as horrifying.
> Putting 4chan in terms of "human age" and development does little to quantify anything.

Drawing parallels between the two exemplifies poor analogous journalism on the part of WIRED.

> The internet makes sense in metaphors. (from the article)

No, it does not. However, it helps immensely in crafting the opening salvo of a clickbait-y article to drive site views.
If its a wedding where a large number of key figures will be then its arguable.

Somehow I see that as far more rational outcome than a meeting of key figures in a nursery or a schoolyard unless you're going to war against babes or schoolchildren which suggests you have bigger problems.

Introducing the school/nursery begs the question though:

> If someone surrounds themselves with children 24/7 but commands an army or commits otherwise potentially savage deeds are they immortal in your eyes from a direct attack?

The blurring of combatants and non-combatants happens often in practice, especially as the scales tilt strongly toward one actor.
Its easy to argue your point when your the scales are even and between completely non-civilian and professional armies but when those lines are blurred your position makes one completely incapable of action.

For example, if an army took its entire family onto the battlefield as civilians how would you respond? Would you consider the non-combatants civilian? Would you authorise the user of air-power against enemy positions? If a standing army has no barracks and operates from their respective family homes are their families still effectively civilians or just non-combatants and as murderable as an army technician or medic?
Surveys are very much a scientific tool. This one surveyed social scientists, who use surveys (like this one) regularly as part of conducting social science.

Yes, they were transparent. You, on the other hand, implied equal numbers.

Nobody likes Trump. There's no need to inflate how bad he is - it's very apparent.