skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Disclosure -- I work on this for EFF)

You can read the recitals this commenter is describing here, including the latest amendments that were voted in the Parliamentary plenary. As you'd imagine, I disagree with his interpretation.

https://juliareda.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Copyright_Se...

Firstly, these are just recitals. They're not a binding part of the Directive, they just lay out the justifications for the law.

If you do read the listed recitals, they mention links once, and don't define the term at all. When they do, the context is that "the act of hyperlinking" is not protected (ie the new ancillary right does not explicitly cover the act of hyperlinking).

This is an attempt to refute an argument that no-one is making (though the language echoes a previous fight that rightsholders are still pursuing, which is links to infringing content should be punished as strongly as hosting content itself. That's what the "communication to the public" is about, and has been ongoing, but that's another story.)

The concern over Article 11 isn't that it would criminalise linking to a news item; it's that if you use any text of an article, including its title, you can be sued or made to sign a license. Such snippets of text are usually used when linking to a news article, especially when you're doing it automatically, so that's where the threat to linking to stories.

A couple of other things to note in these amendments. One of the earlier arguments as to why Article 11 isn't so bad we heard is that there are already exemptions in copyright for quotation and critical review. We argued that under EU law, these exemptions are entirely optional at the national level, and news publishers will lobby to limit the effect of them on this new IP right. If you look at the amendment for Recital 34, this is now being explicitly set up to happen: the Recital now says that member states can apply these exceptions, instead of should.

Just because the recitals aren't law, doesn't mean you can't use them to better understand the motives and justifications of the drafters.

As others have noted, the "banning memes" line is about Article 13. An amendment proposed by a Parliamentary committee to create a "fair use"-style exception for user-generated content, specifically to protect remixes and memes, was struck down in today's vote.

By contrast, an entirely new provision that gave organizers of sports events complete ownership of the IP rights to their games was voted in. https://juliareda.eu/2018/09/copyright-sports-fans/

Basically, this directive remains an IP maximalists' dream. A bunch of new IP rights, some of which only apply online, with clear signals that they should be interpreted as broadly as possible.
Study: Citizens United as Bad Corporate Law
The conditions under-which something is fair-use are not features of the content. So there is nothing a system can do.
That sounds like properly dumb approach to save a penny on an item - understandable with some quick grab scam scheme, but not something to do when building/maintaining long term business.

I guess some manager got his yearly bonus for lowering expenses to next bottom, and who cares about the future because f*k 'ya all.
I would like to support gaming on Linux, but do not want a game sniffing /proc as I suspect some do, or will shortly do. The equivalent practice under Windows is common as an anti-cheat measure.

If you want to game, I recommend dedicating a separate Windows machine to the task.
Exactly. Unfortunately many fail at step 1.
Time to pivot to caffeine vaporizers. Or one of the many other stimulants that are found in energy drinks and are legal to sell to children.
The article itself reference the acts of linking and hyperlinking without any words about "significant portions of the text". I would like to see some support to the claim that "what is being protected is substantial or harmful copying of significant portions of the text".

In particular, the phrase "This protection does not extend to acts of hyperlinking which do not constitute communication to the public." It is all over the text and amendments. What is the exact legal effect of that?
When is a patch not a patch? When it's for this McAfee password bug
Before LSD, it wasn't widely believed that brain chemistry had any effect on the mind. It was LSD that created the framework that allowed for things like antidepressants and whatever. Can't remember any specific books about this right now, but I know there are several.
>Using ChromeOS or Android with Googleplex as gateway for every mouse movement or click is tenfold worse than using Windows 10.

Is it?
Did somebody compile data on Android telemetry already?
Anyway, ChromeOS is a wash, but you can always remove Google software from an Android installation (well, more like flash a new AOSP installation but eh) which is 100% worlds better than any Microsoft software offering, in my opinion.
What Do 90-Somethings Regret Most?
Google already knows what you will be thinking about in the next minutes; no fMRI needed.

I bet they will soon replace the search bar by just a button.
I bet the US could save boatloads of money if they abolished Medicaid, VA and other programs and instead went to Medicare for all as base coverage. Then you can add private insurance on top of that if you want more extensive coverage.
Reading your comment history, it seems like you've been having a hard couple months. I'll save our adult conversation for another day.
Training 4-5x a week is within your control. Winning the lottery is not.

I get up every weekday morning at 5 to 6am to do a spin or group fitness class and lift 1 to 2 times per week Arnold superset style. I'm loving this lifestyle. (I guess the gym being Equinox helps.)
Juul is the first mass-market e-cigarette product I'm aware of that isn't directly or indirectly owned by a company that was already in the traditional tobacco market.
A special tax on storage devices and legal status for downloads matches Russia.

Not a western democracy, though.
Except they have to comply with the law too.
He means hand brakes with direct mechanical action. Electronic emergency brakes do not count.
If there are viable competitors then can’t consumers simply move to different platforms? I primarily use DuckDuckGo, so how is Google search a monopoly?

If you’re going to base it solely off number of users then you’re effectively punishing businesses for being successful and NOT from harming consumers.
Beyond the chilling effect others have mentioned, it also adds a huge barrier to entry for any Youtube competitor
> From what I understand, it's actually better to have a mix than to stand only.

Yeah, we like to think that standing is something new, but cashiers have done it for years, and, having spent time as one in my youth, I can tell you that there is a lot of discomfort during the work week. I'd really recommend sitting and standing.
My favorite should be hooks. They're not exactly a shortcut, but they allow you to write logic to prevent yourself from doing dumb things.

Namely, I have two I need to write. One preventing master pushing, as sometimes I forget which branch I'm on if I'm all over the place. And two, preventing committing past a `wip` commit message. Arguably I shouldn't be using wip commit messages, but I prefer being able to have a "stash" per branch, of sorts. If I stashed it, I fear namespace clobbering as well as forgetting I even had a wip.
I am not exactly happy about this, but this isn't behavior that makes them stand out from the pack. Google constantly nags me about visiting their sites in Edge, and I understand that the situation is much worse on iOS.

But if Microsoft wants to convince people to use Edge, they should start by dumping a bunch of resources into sanding down the rough spots and applying some spit and polish. It's like 90% of a satisfactory browser at this point, maybe even 95%, but the remaining bits can be really, really frustrating.
When interviewing I would often ask one (and only one) question of this type. The rest of the interview was your standard set of questions to see what type of person you were sitting across from.

The one "brainteaser" question was "Estimate how fast human hair grows in miles per hour. Order of magnitude is fine."

I just wanted to see that they not only knew how to estimate something but that they understood this particular estimation wasn't important given the job they were interviewing for and could thus be answered quickly rather than accurately.

The one person who answered immediately was off by 3 orders of magnitude but he was the best hire we had. He could spot BS a mile away.
I don't think they'll end up doing that for the same reason that Google didn't put the Dart VM in Chrome. Nobody wants to be the one to start the nuclear war.
I don't know that it's very well known, or widespread. But, they do pay their salespeople commission. It wouldn't be unusual for a commission salesperson to do and/or say anything needed to boost their income.
Vaporization (boiling) is not a chemical reaction.
Prostrate cancer? don't take it lying down.
They tried banning alcohol? It didn't work? It would be nice if alcohol consumption diminished, but that ship sailed sailed like, 9000 years ago.

But no, it's got to be the smarmy wine drinkers who read actual physical copies of the New Yorker.
And the default PDF viewer... Apparently some Windows updates change the user-defined PDF viewer to Edge.
It feels like this story was suppressed from HN. Here's a story that's older but has a similar number of points that's still on the front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17964942; 64 pts, 13 hours ago), while this story is on page 4 (63 pts, 8 hours ago). Seems to be happening a lot for stories on topics like this.
AI is their paintbrush, but the artwork is no less human
Rsync.net reduces online backup prices
Yes. They must be, how shall we say... "re-educated".
They weren’t asked until we had some internal hackathon where we were trying to implement tested fizz buzz in new languages we were working with.
Crypto’s 80% Plunge Is Now Worse Than the Dot-Com Crash
Counterpoint: my wife and I are well into our 40s yet often mistaken for being much younger. Being significantly overweight gives us nice smooth wrinkle free skin.
The MOnSter 6502: transistor-scale replica of classic MOS 6502 microprocessor
Full stack Webdevelopment. Had 2 years of experience.
Good riddance then. Not gonna cry for them like I'm not gonna cry for a restaurant that gets shut down because complying with health standards is too expensive.
Are the State governments the problem here though? From what I(not American) can tell the issue seems to be more that local residents have a surprising(to me) amount of political control over zoning on the municipal level. I guess this is all part of the American approach to the distribution of power and there are certainly good sides to this, but it also means that NIMBYs can have so much control by voting for the mayor that supports their issues.
The majority dissent here isn't that the EU do not have the right to regulate the internet in some way, it is that they are not doing it well.

You can believe GDPR is a good law and this a bad one without hypocrisy. As much as you can believe murder ought be illegal but not cannabis.
I'm in my 40s. Too often people use a 'recovery day' to just skip the gym. Life throws enough curve balls, that few of us need a scheduled recovery day.
That's not how things work. A study can only prove something was not carcinogenic during the study. It cannot prove it's not carcinogenic [period]. The other way around works: if a study shows something was carcinogenic during the study, it proved it's carcinogenic [period]. All of this assumes properly conducted studies.

On the other hand studies proved UV rays are carcinogenic [0]. Assuming knowing meat is carcinogenic turns you into a vegetarian let me know how you'd approach getting out of the house from now on.

[0] https://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancer-causes/radiation-exposu...
Regarding the SSL certificate issue, it appears as though the Certificate has a name mismatch. Your cert will only work for the following domains:
.scm.azure-mobile.net
.azure-mobile.net
.sso.azurewebsites.net
.scm.azurewebsites.net
*.azurewebsites.net

You may want to fix this... ;)
> The entire point of art. 11 is to transfer money from Google News (and other aggregators, like Facebook) to publishers. This also covers search.

Honestly, it doesn't seem a bad thing to me. But lat's see how Google plays it out.
Agreed. As someone currently moving my infrastructure to Dokku, where I have legacy apps on a range of ruby and non-rubies, this approach isn't scalable for my needs.

That said, I wonder if there is a middle ground - where we can use this technique to build a docker container that keeps the copy of ruby, holds known gems, sass caches, etc... all the expensive operations get quietly persisted, but the buildpacks still get run. This container could be created on a per-project basis, so maybe the first push would take longer than the others and that's fine, but instead of it taking 10-15 mins to push a project update, it could take less than 5?

One day I might even find the time to try...
It’s multiple prefixes and suffixes around “establish”.
When you see a URL like news.ycombinator.com/item?id=foo, that isn't implemented by having a file called item.php. That is implemented by having URL routing handled by the application instead of by the filesystem.

I don't think there's any point removing extensions from images, CSS, javascript, etc., but I do think it's worth handling routing in your application instead of just doing it with a bunch of PHP files.
While there isn't much research on long term effects of vaping, there are a lot of studies which examine the parts of vapor and almost all, especially when testing under normal conditions, find that they contain much less of the carcinogens that normal cigs do precisely because they aren't combusted.

See https://www.gov.uk/government/news/e-cigarettes-around-95-le...
The organization MAPS is doing fantastic work in this space. MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for treating severe PTSD is getting ready for phase 3 trials, the last major step prior to FDA approval. Based on the very strong results in phase 2, the FDA has awarded it the "breakthrough treatment" status. If this passes, it will be an enormous game-changer for society's view on psychedelics. The results so far suggest also that it will be an immense help to the tens of millions of Americans who suffer from PTSD. I believe they are working on approval in Europe as well, but are not as far along.

As for the article: MAPS is also doing work related to expanding marijuana research, but I haven't been following that as much. However, based on the above, I recommend donating if this is something you care about!
The Road to Leadership Mastery Runs Inward
> ...have ways of getting the loot boxes free through gameplay...

That's actually rather reprehensible as well since the free loot boxes involve spending extensive time in the game grinding. These children are essentially Judas goats; living enticements to other children to join their friend in the game and possibly spend money.
The actual numbers matter. Suppose vaping is 20% as harmful as smoking, and out of every 100 children, the availability of e-cigarettes causes 5 to switch from smoking to vaping and 5 others to start vaping who wouldn't have started smoking. That would be a substantial improvement.
Sure they're misused; but they're still relevant as a first-level analysis. If the results are promising, more studies can be justified. No one is claiming that humans and rats have more than the most minor physiological similarity.

But just because 'most studies' into EMF radiation at this frequency are not convincing, does not mean that they all are not. Those poorly conducted studies should be ignored, not used as mud thrown onto good studies.

I thought this one was interesting. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376454/
Could you provide some references? I'd love to read more about it.
Guys.. just trust us. We're Adobe, and the good guys. Remember how awesome Flash was?!? /s
Local policies actually make a lot of sense in most places, as most places have unique concerns.

In Madison Wisconsin there were, for a long time, policies that tended to discourage building on the main east-side thoroughfare. Over time, no one really remembered why those policies, some of which one might construe as "inclusionary zoning", were in place. So we jumped on the urban development bandwagon. We were "All In" on it. I mean getting rid of older policies, introducing things like TIF for that very east side corridor, the whole nine yards. Fast forward to today, and there are buildings built down that corridor with giant footprints. And some people even think they are beautiful. So we congratulated ourselves.

Then something strange started to happen. Whenever it rained, that very corridor would flood. Odd? It never did that before? Well, we never built like that down that corridor before. Not to worry. The flooding wasn't really that bad. But it's gotten worse and worse. And only now are people starting to realize why those old guys back before and during the Greatest Generation wanted to discourage building anything critical there. Long story short, we're a city situated on a system of five lakes, we can't just look at what everyone else in the nation does and copy them. We need to follow a plan that makes sense for our geography. We need policies that make sense for us, even if on the surface, those policies appear to hamstring us economically.

I'm sure Madison is not special in this regard. It's likely most cities have some feature endemic to them that would similarly constrain where and how a wise man would build in that municipality. Like us, most cities have probably even forgotten the why of their constraints. I sympathize. But just as a piece of kindly intended advice from a people who have "been there, done that, currently trying to clean up the mess"...

don't look at old policies and say they're "outdated", or "nonsense"...

look at old policies and ask, "OK, what was the reason for this?"
You were pretty accurate!

Have a group of friends touring China right now. They tried for days to get a SIM card but finally gave up - nobody would sell one to them!

The only place they did not try was a vendor at the airport where they arrived. They judged that vendor would be overpriced so waited until they got into the city.
It's all in relatives, but having a better life than the next person above might still be living dirt poor.

I think what a lot of us a eluding to, is that some people can work as much as they can, up to burnout, without ever reaching above the poverty line.

I think that would be basically fate for a minority group single mother with low education living in a poor neighbourhood. People could blame her for her life, but except if her kid is exceptional in some way, he/she would also be doomed to be poor, for instance.
One slight pro of it is that at least Chrome doesn't have 80% of mobile traffic as well due to iOS users being unable to switch default browser. I mean, that's the only pro.
I don't assume anything. I just point out, that cost of self-education is indeed huge, if you measure it in profits not received from performing some labor. However, its 'price' would still be on par with being completely idle. Of course, not all poor people are idle, but some are. And if those who are indeed idle can afford idleness, non-idle people may afford self-learning.
Agreed. When the web technologies were more simple and rudimentary and HTML page hosting free and easy for beginners (e.g. geocities), it took very little to start writing HTML, adding some tiling background images, gifs and midis to express yourself. The variation in website look and feel back then was extreme.

Myspace then Facebook (plus forums) obviated the need to build your own site to express yourself online, and disdain for "poorly designed" sites, i.e. general snobbishness, I think discouraged people from messing around. I love that old web! You can still do something similar on Google Sites or similar, but of course it's more constrained.
My point is that they can very well manage their processes if they want to.

They could run proper retail for B2B if they wanted as well.
I see people failing across all 3, often even at the same time. It's a recipe for disaster.
That still makes torrenting illegal
You can’t just add in “moar housing” in a vacuum and declare mission accomplished. Let’s say SF doubled its housing. Where are all these new residents going to park? So, now it’s housing and parking that needs to be fixed. Assume none of these new residents have cars? Ok now it’s housing and public transit that needs to be fixed. Where are their kids going to go to school? So we need more school capacity, too. How much more water, sewage, electrical capacity will you need? How many more grocery stores will you need? Restaurants? Gas stations? Where will all this new development go?
... which would also have to comply.
It's amazing that Americans keep putting up with a system that literally lies all the time, hides information , steals, has the power to bankrupt them at a whim and is full of corruption and conflicts of interest.

Especially considering that there are plenty of examples around the world for doing better. When you look around Europe they all are very different but none of them is even remotely as f...ed up as the US system is.
Even if it were handled at the state level you'd see a big improvement with municipalities playing games to get "the wrong sort of people" to more to the next town over.
I completely agree. But it is the absolute basic level at which you start to secure your application.

I’d expect security experts working on a government ID program to be a bit more distinguished.
Analysis: 40K+ World Cup illegal streaming links
Habits vs. Workflows
Not the worst idea. We have already boxed ourselves into the worst type of socialized medicine, we might as well try to fix it.
Most people get stuff like that through friends and family members. Aggressive enforcement of minor laws like that tends to be harmful to society in the long term.
LIST OF COURT ORDERS
Novelist who wrote about ‘How to Murder Your Husband’ charged of husband murder
You can get some coworking space for about $100 a month, at least in my city, for 7-8 days a month visitation

Big franchises like panera bread, McDonalds in nicer neighborhoods, starbucks come to mind. Bookstores, coffee shops, local library, etc. Some local independent restaurants are okay if you get to know the owner and if its not as busy, and you get food there. Drink shops / bar areas that have board games are good too. If you have friends that have coworking spaces / their company workspace, its not a conflict of interest on your end. Some gyms have some desks you can work at as well

If you have a local university or college there's plenty of empty classrooms sometimes openly available and never opened. If you need a legitimate reason to go on campus (and aren't an alumni), you can buy a gym membership there

If you don't need public wifi just use your internet, any place with seating is okay.

Hotel lounges, but you won't get internet access though, but if your tethering it won't matter. Depends how much work you are doing. Bigger chains are better, they don't care nearly as much. So long as you don't look like a homeless bum your good here.

I would also include golf and country clubs along with hotels, since they are resorts too.

Additional locations are makerspaces, but that might be only at certain times of the day. Checkout your local science center or any local museums, do a wifi scouting and seating availability.
I was going to say this. It seems no different to me than when was setting up a Win10 installation and searched "Firefox" on Google. It injected something to the effect of "Edge is the superior browser" into the page.