skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article (or the judge) didn't overlook it. The whole basis is that Democracy Now made a reasonable settlement offer.

The point of the article is that the copyright infringement is a mouse to the trolling elephant.

The lawyer basically offers a risk free offer to clients en masse where if he finds someone to sue, you'll get a cut. He basically gets enforcement rights to a portfolio.

Then, he finds targets (who ideally did use someone's photo without paying for it) and threatens to drown them in legal costs. Settle big or we keep going. Now they're under legal attack, expensive and scary.

Then, it turns out that this massive trial generating >$100k in legal costs was over a stinking $1000 that the copyright owner/troll could have had months ago.

The judge thought this was abusive.
Again, given the defendant's compliance, reasonable offer, and the judge's obvious distaste for the whole ordeal, it is unlikely that they would be awarded anything but the minimum for both statutory and actual damages which would result in a smaller payout than the original offer.

Also, sure, the rejection alone may not imply that the offer was reasonable. However, the fact that this is apparently a common pattern of behavior, to the point that the judge (who has heard his cases and is familiar with his antics) decided to put their foot down, implies that the offer was reasonable and that Liebowitz is attempting to use the court for his own gain.
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Articles like this do not make them neutral. They only make them look neutral.

It's the equivalent of claiming to have a black friend as proof you're not racist.
Elon Musk: Neuralink, AI, Autopilot, and the Pale Blue Dot [video]
I think this article was just as incorrect as the last time it popped up in 2018.
UX guy from Metabase here. Glad to hear it's working well for you. Happy to answer any questions folks might have.
The numbers men seem have done a great job of branding themselves to the local communities.
Counter point. If this(free postage) is an easy and good proxy for detecting this type of scam. By doing this they might stop(doing free postage) . And then you and others lose their easy no effor detection?
I do that with every piece of junk mail that I receive that has a business reply envelope. I thought that I was the only one!
I think those in external USB drives are the most likely to fail. It seems that they put their lower quality stuff or at least drives that didn't quite pass qc into those because they know the huge majority of those will have some data out on them and then never touched again.
Why do you think that's satirical? It's been proven that Adam Schiff lied in statements made in Congress and he's repeatedly leaked information or cherry picked parts of testimonies to support his narrative. Trump is suggesting the republicans release transcripts too, to better represent what's happening in the hearings.
w3m works well for me, can display images in xterm too.

lynx can show all URL links on any page, which is handy but missing from w3m.
I just throw out any mailing that pretends to be official but isn't (it's not hard to distinguish - official ones tell you who's sending it and why, scam ones don't), regardless of what it says. If they feel the need to trick me even before our business has started, there's no chance they intend to be honest later, so why would I want to do any business with overt crooks?
Thank you. I was surprised at my downvotes with no comments, reread what I wrote, and still agree with it. Sad that apparently this isn’t a common sentiment. Life is about so much more than just money, and given we have such a limited time on earth, we should strive to have some positive impact on the world.
There was a post from BackBlaze a year (?) or so back where they commented on the Toshiba low failure rate with something along the lines of "they seem really reliable, but we buy in bulk and just don't have enough offers at low price for those, otherwise we would buy a lot of them".

Well I run a couple dozen Synology NAS in professionnal setup, as well as two in personnal setup (mine and my parents'), and ever since that post I made the experiment of having almost 50% of all drives be Toshibas, and I have to say they do seem to be much more reliable (on the scale of "why do every other drive from Seagate and WD keep dying first, and often their replacement dies first too").

It is still a scale of use where it's mostly anecdotical rather than verifiable data, so don't take this fun comment for more than that.
But I suspect a lot of people reading these posts are not interested for some large scale setup or anything like that but rather to know which drives to put in their home computer or NAS, and honestly I can highly recommend the Toshiba for that. They do tend to be a bit more expensive (around 10% more ? I buy them from ldlc.com and grosbill.com , french IT stores, no bulk buying or anything like that)

Of course no matter the brand never expect no failure and a Toshiba drive may just as much die in the first ten minutes so always plan for it.
I want gameplay, I could care less about some big dumb story.
I cannot imagine any org being able to pull off such a large scale launch as one single event. Makes me wonder why they didn’t try to phase it by offering “insider” access, trial periods, limited invites, etc. like Gmail did back when it launched.
What you're saying is literally the entire point, though. There are actual posts on the Snopes forum asking for that page to be debunked. Whether it's because they didn't actually read the article, didn't understand it, or any number of reasons the fact is that there are requests for it.

This is exactly why Snopes is a valuable resource, in my opinion. People today can't be bothered to think critically so they just accept things because it fits their pre-decided narrative.
You can divide searches into 1. Shopping searches where you want to buy something and 2. Non shopping searches. This article is about a type of shopping search.

Lots of us have little interest in doing shopping searches on Google--we search directly on Amazon, eBay, Walmart, Target or whatever.

With respect to non-shopping searches for a huge proportion of queries the top page of results are dominated either by shopping responses or fluff articles.
> They "founded" America

No, they didn't, either in fact or tradition. We have a set of people honored as founders, and it's not the Pilgrims.
Above all, Disney+ is an attempt to reclaim the massive royalties Disney was reaping from every cable subscription that carried ESPN. Almost a quarter of The Walt Disney Company's revenue originated from ESPN in 2015-ish (which was the last time I looked), making it neck-and-neck with Parks and Resorts for Disney's most valuable business unit. Cord-cutting was a serious risk to them then and I'm sure they've only felt the sting more over the last five years.
"well trodden problem" does not make it any easier.

Scaling is hard. For everyone. Testing that scaling works is harder.
> Where are Google, Microsoft and the other big names you would expect?

Those folks are the incumbents. What do they have to gain from joining? Google especially has developed a colossal amount of tooling in-house that gives it an edge over others; new tech may make the lives of competition easier. Ditto to an extent for MS, though there, I suspect it's more bureaucracy and not seeing anything to gain.
Netflix has had A-Z sort for years. On web, click on TV Shows / Movies, then click on the four box icon, and then change it from 'suggestions for you' to 'A-Z' or 'Z-A'.
Yev here from Backblaze -> the company started by providing unlimited online backup, and that's a great industry for us. About 4 years ago we released Backblaze B2 Cloud Storage, which allows developers or sysadmins or enthusiasts to directly upload/retrieve data to/from our data centers. Our core competency is data storage - so while most folks do use us for a backup (either of their Mac or PC on the consumer side or servers/NAS devices with B2 Cloud storage) - what we really do is store and retrieve data.
> So I need a full install of Firefox to use Browsh for just text-based browsing?

Yes, but at the server side you SSH into so your local connection isn't downloading the full images/other and your local compute resource isn't processing them.

Of course you can run it all in one place, but as you suggest that would be a little pointless beyond the "cool plaything" factor.
> This is interesting for cleaning up internal combustion engine use, but it's not so useful for climate change because although burning hydrogen doesn't produce carbon dioxide or methane, it does produce water vapor.

Water vapour is exactly something we want from sea water, in addition to the hydrogen we can use as fuel. It's easily condensed into fresh water, which will likely become increasingly scarce over the next century. Looks like a win-win.
I did something similar with the Peter Popoff scam letters...I would either fill it with old dead batteries, or just go outside and fill it to the brim with dirt. Nothing really identifiable with that, and it was a was a relatively easy way to cost him money.
Let me know if you have any questions so far about Metabase (I'm on the core team).
Employment claims are perhaps one of the top liability concerns of almost any business based in the US at least.
The toolchains for building WebAssembly from numerous languages, for one thing. The existence of an LLVM WebAssembly backend helps. (While eventually there were other languages that targeted the JVM, for a long time if you wanted the JVM sandbox you had to write Java.)

WebAssembly also provides a fine-grained API surface area; you can run a WebAssembly sandbox with no external functions provided, or just a few.

WebAssembly's sandboxing isn't tied to the web; we're keeping all the same security properties when running code locally, and we're protecting modules from each other too.

Also, the WebAssembly bytecode format is designed from the beginning to support many different kinds of languages, including languages that directly store types in memory, rather than keeping everything as garbage-collected or reference-counted objects on the heap.
I can't understand how the fine print is not deceptive and/or misleading per se.

* wording
It took me about a year before I stopped getting any legitimate email at my gmail address. Start changing everything you can to your new email address at a domain that you own, and start forwarding your gmail to it. Every time a legitimate message comes in to your old gmail address, tell that person about your new email address, or update your email address with that service.
I'd be curious how projections were calculated and what the timeline is to get to 60 mill for this calculation. Seems like adhering to business as usual is a slow but profitable death for their home video / TV department.
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Yeah, but they keep trying to shove other monetization schemes down our throats.
I wonder if we can get Congress to ban the word "this" from news headlines?
Even before the split, they were outsourcing articles years ago. It's been a borderline content mill since at least 2015.
They are clearly engaging in user hostile behavior hoping that the number of users who cancel due to being inconvenienced is less than the number who are retained/gained by being fooled into thinking there is more than there is.
Snopes exists for people who think that a claim is outrageous and want to check other sources to determine the truth.
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I‘ve been working for an online news network in Germany for several years. They hire people (mostly students) to do nothing but update their old articles on at least a weekly basis. Even too a point where it becomes almost unreadable because of so many useless and non-contextual updates. But it works in terms of ad revenue from google traffic.
I also run Linux, and I use rclone[1] with Backblaze B2 (cloud storage). It works really well. I have it set on a nightly cron job locally. I also trigger it manually if I have something immediate (like photos transferred via adb from android that I want to ensure get backed up).

[1]: https://rclone.org/b2/
> Not sure why you'd want to work to enrich a guy like Elon Musk though

If you look at the alternative (Dieselgate), which is killing millions of people every year thanks to air pollution (sadly I'm highly affected by it, trying to not go near any polluted area is what my life is about at an age of 37), I'm happy for Elon Musk and I hope Tesla's mission will succeed as soon as it is possible.
1. For the third time, the business model is licensing images.

2. "The precedent is only relevant because the defendant will incur $100k in legal fees to defend against likely damages of $1k, that he'd/she'd already agreed to settle."

If they believed damages were likely to only be 1k, they'd have taken the offer. Their calculation neglects statutory damages. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=6f0de0d0-e0a7... is another case from the same lawyer where statutory damages of $2500 were awarded.

If you're entitled to $2500 (for argument's sake) and the other side makes a maximum offer of $1000, rejecting can be reasonable. And if you turn out to win less than $1000, sure, pay for the other side's fees.
If you're a covered entity (CE) under HIPAA, you are allowed to have business associates (BAs). BAs are other parties that the CE exchanges PHI with in order to provide services (billing companies, cloud storage providers, etc.). According to the HITECH Act, BAs are bound by the provisions of HIPAA.

Per their press release (https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/our...), Google is playing the role of a BA as a part of this deal. They have signed a business associate agreement (BAA), as HIPAA requires. This agreement will have defined the permitted uses for the PHI that Ascension is transmitting to Google.

Basically this all sounds utterly ordinary. It's 2019 and even healthcare companies want to be in The Cloud (and especially want to be associated with AI and ML). My last company stored lots PHI in AWS. AWS signed a BAA with us. Now, if someone at Google with access to this PHI misuses it (e.g., accesses it for an invalid reason or sells it on the black market), then they could be in violation of HIPAA and face penalties. But the mere fact that a covered entity is transferring data to a business associate in no way suggests a HIPAA violation its own.

(Disclosure: I work at Google, but know nothing about this project.)
> Is Google just not able to compete with SEO tactics? Or are they over-excited about/reliant on ML/"AI" techniques that don't work well in practice?

Those SEO'd pages are optimized for generating revenue, so they're packed to the brim with Google ads and referral links.

Prioritizing such pages generates revenue for Google, too.
Yev from Backblaze here -> Yea, the Toshiba drives are great! If the price was lower, they'd likely play a larger role in our hard drive mix!
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Pretty sure it's not built on top of Hulu. They bought a majority in BAMTech way before getting Hulu.
on a related note, is there anyone with a swardley map for this industry? Would be interested in seeing it next to Stratechary
Which contradicts the article, which I suspect is based on that book that has some shifty agenda to re-write history. The fact is, at least technologically, Europeans might as well have been gods. Anyone doubting this just read the history, a handful of Spanish conquering a whole empire (twice!). Imagine if Spain wanted to engage in a full fledged war with the Aztecs or Incas. They could have easily wiped out everybody.
You don't think adware and spyware could be considered akin to "harassing" material? Obscenity and violence aren't the only categories explicitly called out in that list.
>In this case, that's anonymized video browsing/viewing data

So the view count publicly available and something like the Google search analytics already available? Personalized data offers a huge competitive advantage.
Call it paranoia but I see this "WD is amazing, Seagate is shit" sentiment everywhere, but the data doesn't back it up. Is this guerilla marketing by Western Digital?
As well as the annoyance of snippet videos auto-playing as you're trying to browse titles, without an explicit user action for "show me a snippet of this".
It's pretty clear over the past few months that Facebook has decided that it's going to support specific candidates and is abdicating it's role as a "communications medium" (Trump on the right, Buttigieg on the left).

Their decision to accept paid lies (ads) by candidates (as opposed to Twitter) should tell us everything we need to know that FB views the targeted conspiracy-theory factually untrue bullshit - as a thing to be embraced (nay, not to avoid) - all for profit.

Time will tell if they permit all such ads or only the ones that they prefer.
It's the American way to encumber basic government functions with commercial activity in the name of "efficiency" or cost savings.

I disapprove of it.
How would that work exactly and how would it be router insecurity?
It's not becoming useless (what's better overall?) but increasingly more difficult to use. It's not the inflation of the content of the web causing it, it IS google (e.g. they make anyting that is > a few years old almost invisible). I don't know what is the endgame of this , though. There is clearly a failure of competition here, it is disheartening to use another engine and get the same results
This does beg the question, if your company relies on dark patterns to get people to sign up for your service to survive, why should it be allowed to continue to operate? Seems to me like the market is speaking
I feel like if I were an Aztec and came across a mysterious figure covered from head to foot in silver plates and on top of a massive beast, I'd be highly intimidated albeit curious as to what he was. If I saw him off the creature and possibly out of the silver plates, then I'm not so sure that I'd see him as a deity.
Only for people like us, technically inclined and on this forum and probably those who saw Google being born and innovate its way to the top of the market. Most of the people I know find google's results insanely useful. It's no longer a search engine or an app. You want to find out something? You "google" it. They do not distinguish it as "just" a search engine.

>it breaks the user expectation that Google search will give you the best results from the open web,

That expectation is no longer true. That probably died a decade ago when Android started gaining steam all over the world. And certainly not true for those who don't remember the world before smartphones or when gmail offering unlimited storage was "big" deal.
"Who knew hosting could be so complicated?" - Mickey Mouse
Did you actually look at those coupons? I got 10% off Amazon (up to $200 savings over 90 days which is reasonable to achieve) and 10% off Home Depot (up to $100 saving).

A lot of people can benefit from that Amazon discount regardless of a recent move. Plus Home Depot is super helpful if you moved into a house. There's always something that needs work.
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I won’t cry for TripAdvisor and Expedia, their websites were awful.

Booking Group websites (booking.com and agoda) are still doing great in 2019 as the article states, because they don’t suck
The difference is the numbers man works with the loan guy, and when you get in over your head, you get beat up.
The sad thing is they're having issues with loading login pages, authenticating via API, app API backend routes... pretty much every layer of their app stack and that's _before_ any video can be streamed to end users.

I hoped they would've had the first few layers pretty scalable and load tested, but either they had orders of magnitude more load than they ever planned for, or they didn't actually load test to millions of users (more likely IMO).
Nothing is ever going to be perfect. Saying "it's not perfect but it's private" is claiming that it's doing the job it purports to do. It's not. It's been broken from the beginning.

Most of reddit is self-aggrandizing cliques who believe they are much smarter than they really are -- especially in the cryptocurrency space. My concerns are not obscure or unknown, everyone who pays attention knows that Monero has issues.

There are multiple projects that are better in terms of financial privacy -- Monero is primarily an ugly hack to barely obfuscate transactions.
Ding ding ding, I think this is the only way how this kind of calculation makes any sense at all: they are expecting Disney+ to replace all the cable revenue they lost, and until then, it's not "break even".

Because it sure as hell is not the opportunity costs of having their content on their own streaming service. Like Toy Story 4 released months ago, did a billion in cinema, but they still won't have it on Disney+ until.. somewhere in 2020. Their version of "betting the company" is "all the stuff you used to have on Netflix, but now you are paying extra".
No plan survives contact with the enemy.

Simulating the real world is hard.
It’s true that getting video “right” can be extremely challenging, but it’s worth noting that Disney has quite significant previous experience here, including at massive scale.

Disney+ operates on top of an expanded MLBAM (BAMTech Media [1]) platform, which has been powering all of ESPNs OTT, Playstatiom Vue, and ran HBO’s OTT offering for a while [2] (Game of Thrones). Disney also opted only to launch in the US, Canada and Netherlands today. So overall, this is still a bit of a botched launch, and the expectation absolutely should have been that they would handle the volume.

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

[2] https://www.fastcompany.com/90373706/hbos-tech-is-prepping-a...
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Here's an example:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/10/...

The claim is correct, and the article even acknowledges that. They then throw in a bit about "negative wealth" amongst the world's poor and somehow award it "Three Pinocchios" as a result.
Not being on Roku's kinda weird, as it's hugely popular, widely deployed, and sees high usage. It's an odd platform but if your product is a video streaming catalogue + service well, that's exactly what it's built to do and getting that going's not all that hard.

But maybe they're looking for access to whatever special SDK the big boys (Netflix, Google) get so they can make their branding folks happy (more consistency with experience on other platforms). I'd imagine developing with that's more involved.

Samsung, some kind of custom Android probably? TV operating systems are a pain in the ass to test, fairly expensive to develop for, and relatively bad at drawing actual usage no matter how widely they're deployed. Might be the delay there. Big enough service needs to pay attention to that junk eventually, but I could see them dropping that for launch.
>"well trodden problem" does not make it any easier.

Yes it does.
I applaud the effort, but projects like this (and/or rather it’s dependencies) make me realise how truly distant we are from the Web I grew up with: a hypertextual document model.

Now we’ve got a heavyweight thick-client-orientated client/server runtime environment. And not a very well designed one, at that.

Things were almost sensible until just after AJAX. What we have now is just totally unfathomable.
> Articles like this do not make them neutral. They are only designed to make them look neutral.

Are you asserting, then, that the stories about left-wing idiots are true, but the ones about right-wing idiots are false? I'm honestly curious. Are all of the linked Twitter accounts secret false-flag trolls?
>We take the sun being the center of the universe for granted today

Only if you define the universe as the solar system ...
There is a middleground, with flat file CMS. I setup a Kirby install for a client not used to any sort of online administration and they're doing just fine.