skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm honestly amazed at how well digital purchases have held up, and the fact that this is an expectation is evidence of the quality of service that's become standard. When I first started purchasing digital media, the expectation was always that you had to back it up yourself. I never expected to be able to download music I purchased on iTunes in 2003 15 years later for free!

Everyone was saying to buy physical media if you want to keep it around for a long time, but almost all the CDs I owned in 2003 are lost or destroyed forever, while music I purchased on iTunes or eMusic remains available to download or stream anywhere in Earth for free, and eMusic has changed ownership multiple times since then. Credit to Amazon for providing downloads of physical CDs purchased from them too. It's so much more than I expected.
> I _am_ curious about the motivation behind Firefox Focus though. I use vanilla Firefox on Android and really enjoy it.. what was the motivation for using a Webkit base for Focus? Seems like the stripped down, privacy focused experience would have worked fine based on Firefox proper?

I'm pretty sure the answer is quite simple, which is that the Gecko embedding story has been diabolical for a long time (i.e., it's hard to put Gecko in a new product), whereas the majority of WebKit ports and Chromium (through its Embedding Framework, or to a somewhat lesser extent its Content API) are designed to be easily embedded in new applications.

AIUI, the fact this led to this ridiculous situation is part of the reason for the renewed interest in embedding Gecko (and the emergence of GeckoView).
Here is a PDF of the amendments adopted today:
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

The most controversial articles 11 and 13 are included in their entirety.
As bonkers as this may seem, I suspect it will fall flat on it's face the second it's put before a court.

For example, someone defends their right to use the title or quote from an article from some other news gathering organisation. Someone will need to convince a judge that it's OK for The Sunday Times, or Der Spiegel to do that, but it's not OK for Reddit or Hacker News to do that.

And eventually, someone will need to convince a court that it's OK for Charlie Booker to broadcast a Cassetteboy video mash up on the UK's Channel 4, but it's not OK for Cassetteboy to upload that same video to youtube.

It is true that the CJEU doesn't hold case law and precedent in the same high regard as other courts, but neither does it ignore them. The ECJ and CJEU serves as a check on government in the same way the courts do in most other countries. I think it is unfortunate that the EU parliament has approved this law. But I struggle to see how it will stand up in court. That said, it will take a very brave person or organisation with deep pockets and a steel will to challenge this law.

However, if this law is upheld in court, then I think we can consider the EU a failed experiment. So abhorrent is this legislation that I, an ardent "Remaniac", would rather see the EU fail and take my chances with whatever comes next, than let the EU stifle free speech and the free flow of information and ideas in this way.
That "asinine design" comes from decades old syntax practices like ALGOL, Ada, and MatLab.

Perhaps exposing yourself to other languages might inform your responses on debatably the largest technical forum in the industry: one with many developers from widely varying backgrounds.
The thing is, when Steve Jobs spoke such words unironically, the apple fans swallowed every word whole. And the non-fans were comparing it to existing products but also didn't really remark much upon it. But yeah, when they keep repeating it when there is nothing new to report...
My my, its certainly easy to tell people off isn't it?

...but perhaps if instead you offered a compelling argument to the counter?

The EFF has laid out a lot of reasons this is problematic, and they are very familiar with the situation.
It is not the latest version. Compare it to today's amendments: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...
Iirc Ivan (post author) spent a few days tracking this down. There were some other debugging dead ends that we omitted in this writeup. One red herring was that the issue appeared to happen during the US morning, so there was some time-of-day component, and we thought it might be a system load issue.

The fix turned out to be fairly involved too – on the order of a week I think.

Ivan works from Bulgaria so sadly he is asleep right now.
I am not familiar with everything relevant here but...

Often sites using ads will have JavaScript enabled. If I wanted to extract private information about my users - I need only scrape the content of sponsored advertisement.

Google does the hard work of aggregating and anonymizing the data, I simple scrape their results on my page.
My sense is the bigger obstacle is the perception that only poor people (and perhaps the violent) take public transportation.
Electricity is far more widespread, easy to handle, and commonly available than gasoline. It’s simply a matter of installing charge points.
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My understanding is that this is not in fact true: there are significant populations of disfavored minorities in urban Japan.
I agree that the incentives behind "publish or perish" are quite problematic. However, this does not seem equivalent to directly earning cold hard cash for each individual paper.
Maybe they do understand.

People communicating very freely has presented many challenges to those same politicians.

Forcing liability makes a choke point, and better control.

At least China is completely overt about these things. That is not a statement of support, quite the opposite. It is a statement as to how weasely politicians are about these things. They want a lot more control, and people want a greater check on authority.

I can't help but notice strong self interest factors in play here.
This 2017 study[1] found the average payout for Nature or Science was $44k in 2016. Much less for others but still more like 2-3k per publication. Average professor salary: $8,600.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/608266/the-truth-about-ch...
Obviously by 2013 his views had changed:

See https://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/02/and-then-there-were-thr... on Presto's demise (except it lives on after death in Opera Mini, to this day!)

And https://robert.ocallahan.org/2013/04/blink.html on the Blink fork.
Exactly it's often just slightly less explicit, emphasis on slightly.

Academia is toxic because again it is being measured. If a university cannot determine the quality of faculty other than counting publications and impact factors, the university itself is seriously lacking quality, alas there is a plague of it.

I wonder if it is directly related to the bloom/infestation of university administration sizes and top salaries.

I'm of the opinion that a university ought to be something like what you'd think a temple to discovery and knowledge ought to be, instead of a mill for producing credentials for students and a shitty game for faculty advancement.

if I had a billion dollars... (to the tune of the Barenaked Ladies)
ASP.NET Core server generator in “OpenAPI-Generator” now supports .NET Core 2.1
Hopefully competition from China will spark a re-investment in education elsewhere in the world.
You are confusing a "copy" (illegal for copyrighted works) with a "clone" (which often skirts the bounds of legality).

Copyright doesn't save us from knock-offs. The hundreds of "Revengers: Age of Boltron" DVDs in the bargain bin at Walmart is testament to that. Those are legal.

What copyright prevents is Cinemark buying a copy of Age of Ultron for $20 and then making hundreds of copies and charging ten bucks a seat to watch them in hundreds of theaters nationwide, never sending Marvel Studios another penny beyond that initial $20.

Helping consumers avoid knock-offs is what trademarks are for.
> The Medicare portion of the ACA being struck down by the Supreme Court is a notable counterexample to your comment.

Except that, AFAICT, didn't happen. (Though there is a current challenge to the Constitutionality of the Medicare changes, among other things.)

You may be thinking of the mandatory (for continued state participation in Medicaid) expansion of Medicaid portion of the ACA being made optional rather than mandatory by the Supreme Court.

Of course, one could argue that is an example that is arbitrary and, while it certainly evidences judicial limits, is hard to connect to it's Constitutional pretext, as it explicitly requires that both pre-expansion Medicaid are post-expansion Medicaid are Constitutional federal programs, but that Congress is somehow barred from replacing one with the others except by consent of the individual participating state.
It's actually accessible. take a look at this tweet and inspect the image. all the code is in the alt attribute. So they have thought of that. This will only be if you tweet it from their webapp though.

It would be cool if there was a way to copy paste the text easier.
Yes, we were late to the party. (Well, we had right-wing parties of course, but the AfD is the first nation-wide party right of the CxU that is sufficiently dissimilar from the NSDAP to attract a wide voter base.)
> For smaller and not well-known streamers, it may be more difficult to obtain justice...

Currently, yes, but that is, as far as I understand it, something this directive actually makes better. Article 13(2b) requires "effective and expeditious complaints and
redress mechanisms that are available to
users in case the cooperation referred to
in paragraph 2a leads to unjustified
removals of their content. Any complaint
filed under such mechanisms shall be
processed without undue delay and be
subject to human review".

Also, "Member
States shall also ensure that users have
access to an independent body for the
resolution of disputes as well as to a court
or another relevant judicial authority to
assert the use of an exception or
limitation to copyright rules".
It’s worthy of a discussion in my mind. There are a few articles in the news this week about Google trying to influence the election in Clinton’s favor. And yet she still lost. Perhaps Google isn’t as influential as they think?

That being said, Google executives are not elected representatives of the American people and they subvert the voter’s will at the risk of regulation that will likely be worse for them and their customers.
I mean that's kinda how most industries work, just replace the word "development" with whatever that industry does
Lua looks like such a fun language to program in, but unfortunately I cannot justify its use in my work aside from small side-projects.
My 5c here. Maybe they just don't have much to do, so they need to justify their salaries, and they need to have some presence in the WWW to let us know that they are out there.
That rings true. Huawei owner here who, when purchasing, was doubting between a Lenovo, Xiaomi and this Huawei. Didn't have to think long when seeing what Samsung asks for a mid- or high-end phone (or when comparing specs of their low-end models).
Except this isn't backed up by empirical evidence, in reality flea markets and used good stores are widespread despite the existence of laws against trafficking in stolen goods. Just because you can imagine a bad outcome doesn't mean it's inevitable or even probable.
Is it really surprising that a multinational company would have a preferred candidate? Although, I'm sure they lobbied extensively for all major candidates.
It is interesting that both major parties seem to want to have their cake and eat it too when it comes to free speech, "common carrier", and antitrust issues.
I wonder if there is anywhere on the internet where you can buy and download movie files. Of course, you can torrent them but that's illegal.
Ask HN: Immigrate from EU to US?
How do I immigrate from EU to US ? How difficult is it with changes in US immigration policy ? My general opinion has been that the EU barring Sweden is mostly a blip when it comes to innovation in software. I snapped after today's copyright law. So how do I immigrate ? I dont care if Trump is president, the American economy and innovation seems to be doing just fine. Any suggestions on how to get out of this hot mess ?
Email clients, irc clients, terminal, in emacs.
Perhaps I'm uninformed, but I was always under the impression there were two camps:

Lua 5.1.5/LuaJIT users, and Lua 5.2+ users. Game developers, performance-sensitive developers, FFI users all tend to use the former, and when not necessary, I've seen people use the newer versions.

Is there more segmentation between 5.2 and 5.3 than I'm aware of?
It feels like you're giving Google's ChromeOS a pass here.
> drinking at least a unit of water per unit of alcohol

What's a unit of water? Presumably not the same as a unit of alcohol which is is 10ml.

(Am currently drinking approximately 6.5 units of water/grape-juice per unit of alcohol on that basis, and am not holding out much hope for hangover avoidance)
Not all of us have become serfs. I haven't bought a Foo Fighters album since "In Your Honour" had DRM that made copying it to my mini disc player difficult. I've enjoyed their albums since though.

I fully believe artists deserve their share of the wealth created from their work. Unfortunately many artists' work impossible to financially support without also supporting DRM.

In all fairness, I don't know if the Foo Fighters still use DRM. It was irritating enough at the time that it became a lifelong grudge for me (same thing with Civ and any Tell Tale Games title).
Mozilla should add a counter install interception notification:

> "You appear to be installing Firefox on Microsoft Windows, there are less painful alternatives you know!"
Seems like you've cherry picked a low number. They claim 50% graphics improvement and the neural net cores' instructions/sec went up by a factor of 8 (600B -> 5T)
Which is not practical for board size, so it most likely would have been some kind of backplane with plug-in boards for the various main sections of the CPU.
But, like all of their tasks in the past, those Tasks are in an entirely separate database. So as I see it, there are currently three Google taskesque databases:

- Classic Calendar tasks

- Reminders (Calendar, Inbox, Assistant)

- Tasks (Sidebar in Gmail, Calendar, and Docs)

Correct me if I'm wrong? They merge and create new task databases all the time it seems, so it's hard to keep straight.
"A Lua configuration file is also code" is what won me over initially.

https://www.lua.org/pil/10.1.html
A very strong lobby exist to prevent gambling rules from applying to games. This discussion is just one battle over it.
>Also, I realize I'm biased, but I don't really get the range anxiety argument. If I run out of gas in a car I need to get towed to a gas station. If I run out of electricity I need to get to literally any wall outlet.

This adds to my thought that EVs will be a massive boon to the working poor. No more scraping the couch cushions for enough change to put in your tank to get to work, just go sit at a free charger somewhere. No more random breakdowns of a transmission, radiator, exhaust, etc. which can cascade into a lost job from missing work since you cant fix it. Once you can get an old used 20kwh+ EV for ~$1000 in decent shape, it’s going to be amazing for these people.
I applaud the move. Curious that these cases stretch as far back as 1978, isn't there a statute of limitations for this sort of charge? If so, I would have expected the oldest to have been closed automatically decades ago.
Stock Keeping Unit, basically an identifier for a unique product. Usually pronounced "skew."

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/stock-keeping-unit-sku....
Firefox Focus first launched on iOS, where Apple's WebKit is the only web engine permitted. Focus on Android followed a similar approach using Android's WebView so the Focus team could focus ;) on the app's user experience and privacy features instead of the web engine.

However, Focus (on Android) is now moving to "GeckoView", Firefox for Android's Gecko engine repackaged into a WebView-like component. GeckoView will be available for app developers (Mozilla or others) to build new browsers. Watch Mozilla's Hacks blog for news coming soon! :)

Here are instructions for test driving Focus+GeckoView now:

https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/focus-android/wiki/Release...
I see an hour old post on the frontpage with 6 votes. This story has more votes in less time and is not on the frontpage. I think this is a far more important news story than "The Known Known".

Edit) So this tech related story is off-topic but the "known known" an explicitly political and off-topic post is not.
I find I don't really care how Microsoft likes to divide up its stuff internally. Either this kind of nonsense is supported by the company or it isn't.
There are nearly 4 billion internet users. 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years. Clicking on those useless dialogs easily adds up to a whole human lifetime every day.
A "fix" for DMCA is small civil penalties for obviously invalid takedown requests. Small ones. $1 to the carrier and $1 to the content poster and $1 to the bureaucracy. Enough to push back on the automated takedown shotgun and make inaccuracy expensive. Little risk to some dude defending his garage band's IP because he's going to be careful, lots of risk to big content's robot army.
The article points not just to number of publications but citations too, which hint that they aren't just paper mill papers. In my field, China is actually committing to investing in my kind of research in terms of facilities and such while the US is cutting of course.
I could be wrong, but I would have guessed we were onto the next phase by now, that could be labelled: "Brilli-ant rhymes with grant"

That tenure would come from earning grants. Now keeping the grant gravy-train running smoothly does require churning out papers, but it is not the papers themselves that would be so important.
I still don't get it though.
> Would the price fall close to the cost of extraction

My guess is we'll see the price fall closer to the extraction price, but less than where these petrostates can sustain themselves. So we'll see a succession of petrostate collapses, each one taking supply offline and popping the price back up. Would be an interesting time to trade crude.
Most of the rules in GDPR apply only to personally-identifiable information that is not strictly required for business operations. The law recognizes that, when you want to ship some goods to a customer, you will have to process and store their address, and no opt-in is needed because the customer explicitly gives that information to you.

Explicit opt-ins are only required when you record personally-identifiable information surreptitiously, or share these information with other parties.
maybe this is true, maybe not. But polls show he is up 40 points on her[0]. Maybe internal polling shows a different race, but not clear to me from publicly available information that he is feeling "real heat".

0:https://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2018/governor/ny/ne...
OK, we changed to that from https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/12/17852502/breitbart-google....
>"...as then senior VP Sundar Pichai explained in a blog post, Inbox was “designed to focus on what really matters.”"

So does "what really" mattered then no longer matter now? Certainly email hasn't fundamentally changed since then.
The article states that the DA's action "does not apply to any cases where a defendant was convicted"
In 2016 I stopped accepting freelance work with an internet explorer or edge requirement.

In 2018 I'm considering rejecting clients with an Eu requirement.
That site has been banned on HN for years. We're happy to make exceptions for specific cases where there's a substantive post, though, like this one.
Speak for yourself, please. I like it and am happy not to waste my time any more on sites that traffic heavily in clickbait.
The MacBook Air didn’t overlap with MacBook as it does now.

The Mac Pro didn’t overlap wih the iMac Pro as it does now.

The iphone overlapping 7,8,Xs,Xr.

iPad Pro 10.5 overlap with regular iPad.
~= is a poor choice in and of itself, because it doesn't have any clear justification. It would make some marginal sense in C, where it's binary negation, but that's not the case in Lua - it only ever uses ~ to mean "not" in that one context of inequality.

And, on the other hand, ~= looks too much like an attempt to spell out ≅ in ASCII, but the meaning is completely different.

If anything, /= (as used in Algol-68, Ada, Eiffel etc) makes a great deal more sense as an obvious rendering of ≠. It's unfortunate that C confused matters by reusing it as assignment.
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I don’t know how concatenative languages fit into category theory—I would guess Cartesian closed categories are the place to start, but that’s not really my area of expertise.

Maybe you can offer some insight if I tell you that the quotation syntax “[ … ]” in a concatenative language corresponds to lambda abstraction:

e : a
---------------------
[ e ] : ∀s. s → s × a

And the quotation operator “quote”, which takes a value on the stack and returns it quoted, corresponds to eta-expansion (or lifting lambda abstraction into a term, if you like) and has the type:

quote : ∀sa. s × a → s × (∀t. t → t × a)

Generally the standard Turing-complete basis in concatenative calculus is the following set of combinators:

compose : ∀rstu. r × (s → t) × (t → u) → r × (s → u)
swap : ∀sab. s × a × b → s × b × a
drop : ∀sa. s × a → s
dup : ∀sa. s × a → s × a × a
quote : ∀sa. s × a → s × (∀t. t → t × a)
apply : ∀st. s × (s → t) → t

(Although you can get away with fewer if they’re equivalent in power.)

The first three correspond to the standard B, C, K, and W combinators from combinatory logic, which give you all the substructural rules from logic—swapping is exchange, dropping is weakening, and copying is contraction. Without swap/drop/dup, it’s equivalent to ordered linear lambda calculus, which can be interpreted in any category (since it’s just B and I); what are the categorical equivalents of linear (BC), affine (BCK), ordered (BKW), and relevant (BCW) logics?
Huh? This doesn't have anything to do with Cuomo. This is the New York County (Manhattan) DA, who is himself an elected official.
So if USA is producing so much oil why is it not able to pay for things like Healthcare? Presumably oil coming out of the ground is free. Where is that money going?
> This story has more votes in less time and is not on the frontpage

And probably more flags.

> I think this is a far more important news story than "The Known Known".

It's also a very likely to be seen as an off-topic political story.
“How to Win Friends and Influence People” was published in 1936.
Can you provide some evidence? Germany, the country being discussed, is exceptionally productive, as is Japan and other countries with a wide variety of corporate governance. China's economy is large, but not very productive compared to advanced economies. Also, can you provide evidence that connects the governance model with productivity?

Finally, if by productivity you mean income, I think it raises other issues: Productivity for who? It would be expected that governance models which favor shareholders generate more benefits for shareholders, and those which favor workers or other stakeholders would generate more benefits for them. It's circular to say: 1) the definition of productivity is shareholder income, 2) systems that favor shareholders are therefore more productive.
I'd think the negative connotations with their brand have something to do with it. Between drivers committing crimes and stories of engineers being harassed, I sort of feel like Uber ought to be on the corporate sex offenders' registry. They might have found too many people share similar views for their liking.