skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This part is pretty settled, I think - an .h file is copyrightable, for example, because it is code (that happens to define an API). That's fine, well-established, and people have worked around it for a long time now - e.g. MinGW uses their own <windows.h> for this exact reason, even though it describes the same API as the one that comes with MSVC.

The question at stake is whether the API itself is copyrightable, and that workaround is therefore not sufficient.

It has been conflated in this particular case, because IIRC there were some infringement claims around the literal contents of the .java files, and others over the "structure, sequence, and organization" (i.e. the API proper). But then for that first part, Google pointed out that in Java, there is usually only one way to describe one particular API; and if you use the standard coding style, then even independent definitions will end up looking the same verbatim.
This test in LA is interesting, using existing power infrastructure:

https://electrek.co/2019/11/13/la-adds-hundreds-of-ev-charge...
Good question.

The asymmetries of the cost of improper legal work versus saving some amount upfront may not seem worth it.

There is probably some cognitive bias in play here.
I have to admit this annoyed me as well, they should change it to the notifications that just exist on your lock screen or as a banner.

It's started to frustrate me when I've just unlocked my phone to call or reply to someone and I get hit with a forced notification I must respond to about location tracking for an application that I absolutely do want location tracking set for.
Eh, it's gotten noticeably worse of late, almost as if their resources are going somewhere other than UX. The client as picked up a habit of hard-crashing on certain files when "Automatic" transcoding or "original" is selected instead of manually choosing a certain bitrate.
I cannot for the life of me find the blog post where I learned about this, but I learned long ago that the only reliable way to get Excel to open a CSV file with Unicode in it - regardless of whatever ancient version and OS they're using - is to use tab separators and encode as UTF-16LE with a leading BOM.
One of the biggest complaints people have with ios13 right now is RAM management. It quickly kills off apps.
True, but the trades typically aren’t pushed as a viable option like “higher status” paths. For decades now, I think the system has pushed the “need” to go to college, regardless of after effects (debt, job prospects etc)
Ask HN: What may be happen if I break license of open source project?
I want to know what could be happen if I or somebody else break rules of software license. Is they really working nowadays?

Thanks
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They didn’t. If they had, they wouldn’t be ‘pivoting’ now.
> What's the name of the fallacy where you dismiss something that has has been successful for centuries or more just because it doesn't have a Latin/Greek-derived name granted by a European?

I bet that Ice age survivor Europeans were perfectly aware of fire and all its possible uses, a few thousands of years before 1606.

The idea of Australian aborigins teaching Europeans about how to use fire in that new thing called agriculture is very funny.
When an Android app wants my location, I get prompted to Deny, Allow while using the app, or Always Allow.
Disagree. At $bigtech sometimes senior managers will manage principal scientists, who can make millions but only want to be ICs.
This is total bullshit. Not one citation.
That’d probably risk a counter-suit for willful negligence.
https://www.atrium.co/inside-atrium/the-future-of-atrium/

For someone who has spent so much telling founders to cut buzzwords and speak in plain and simple English, this blog post by Justin Kan is something special. Case in point:

> Similarly, at Atrium, we’ve made the tough decision to restructure the company to accommodate growth into new business services through our existing professional services network.

Simple facts hidden in positive-sounding buzzwords, as if, they believe that the reader doesn't know better. It seems like a variation of 'Our incredible journey..' template

Honest question, why do companies do this? It seems disrespectful to everyone - employees (both fired and current), customers, and any adult for that matter.
I don’t disagree but I think the argument you would typically find is that the value they bring is as symmetrical with pay.

I can find someone on my parents couch who can’t be hired for $100k/yr. That doesn’t mean they are worth that much to the economy
Also keep in mind the more control users have to install things like that, the more differentiated each user will become.

This is one of the paradoxes that exist with certain tracking protections that exist today. Eg. Enabling Do Not Track or fingerprint blocking could make you easier to track. Though these are becoming more ubiquitous, and therefore harder to use to track you, as browsers make them the default settings.
The ACLU's advice on this question is:

> Once you say that you want to talk to a lawyer, officers should stop asking you questions. If they continue to ask questions, you still have the right to remain silent. If you do not have a lawyer, you may still tell the officer you want to speak to one before answering questions. If you do have a lawyer, keep his or her business card with you.

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encounter...

In many countries the police would provide you with contact information for publicly-funded duty lawyers who can help in this emergency (assuming you are under arrest, and not just free to walk away). Sounds like in the US, it would be wise to do a bit of research and check if there are any emergency services like that in your area.
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It’s not open source for now. You can contact me on Twitter @jevinsew
Probably best to make it clear you are the author at some point.
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QUIC is just a way for a browser to make more HTTP-like connections in parallel more efficiently. It doesn't affect ad-blocking browser extensions. The browser can still implement the APIs for extensions the same way regardless of whether QUIC or a previous version of HTTP is used.
I'd argue that their weakness is governments more than companies.

Governments are eventually going to see "a foreign company owning our major payment networks" as a national security and sovereignity risk, especially if we end up in a multi-major-power world. They'll also eventually covet the data and the ability to disable "inconvenient" business. You might see it take the form of a government-mandated account (would Visa/Mastercard have taken off at the same angle if universal, instant direct debits were available in the US?), or just providing a glidepath for local commercial alternatives. Look at what Russia is doing with the Mir card.
It changed months ago. It's all Apache licensed.
How is this different from somebody demanding that Microsoft refuse to allow any app to run on Windows if it only works via a GUI and not also on the DOS CLI?

The purpose of websites is to provide information and functionality to humans. It's up to publishers and developers to decide how to deliver their work in a way that is accessible to their chosen audience.

It's already a high bar for people to write content and build apps.

The higher you raise the bar, the less content and functionality will be available to all of us.

Also, many people who write content are not developers, and will simply publish their writing where it's easiest for them to do so.

Are they now required to audit all the publishing platforms available to them, to see whether or not their content will be allowed on HackerNews? How are they meant to learn how to do that?

And what about web-apps that are not just text content, but rich apps and games that could never possibly work via text alone.

Are they now not allowed to be viewed by anyone via HN?

Overall, this idea is impractical but also reeks of a sense of entitlement.

We should show gratitude and encouragement to anyone who makes the effort to produce content or functionality for us to read and use, not punish people for failing to cater exactly to our narrow preferences.
Congrats to Plaid!

Overall, I'm no fan to these scrapers. Apart from the army of engineers (internal cost) required to maintain them, on the outside they sell a promise that is putting user's privacy at risk.
This is especially prevalent in the bookkeeping space.

Many "me too apps" stitch their services using Plaid to provide bookkeepers with bank feeds & statements for their clients.

Other's use Xero's HubDoc (which Xero paid 70m for few years back) which basically does the same thing; scraping financial statements from many online services using a combination of tools and humans. It's a goldmine for hackers; plain text logins are stored in their database to practically many online accounts owned by business owners.

Amazing to what degree people will go to to save few hours of labor each month.
Hey, good one, mate. Now let's try the First Amendment. I'm going to try replacing "speech" with "cocaine".

> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of cocaine, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Good god. This is immeasurably disturbing. Forsooth, we must ban the freedom of speech!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis
Both Bank of America and Wells Fargo do technically have APIs, though they're limited in scope to corporate accounts for treasury purposes. I've applied for access to both and both declined to even a sandbox account.
I don't know why you think it's backwards.

It makes lots of sense to put "m=n" first. It's giving the definition of equality. "[term] is [definition]".
Could NEVER understand what the heck they do and how they got $75M. Just sounded like they were a law firm specialising in start ups. Big whoop.
Of course, I'm aware of that. That's why I mentioned the friction on both sides (including mine) was relevant.

Setting up a "better" funnel would have cost me much more time, spent on stuff I didn't really enjoy doing, with no guarantee that I'd ever make enough money to give me a reasonable reward for that additional work. (Which would be more than the work that went into the tool.)

Maybe it would have worked and hundreds or thousands of people would have given me $5 or $10. Maybe the resulting support load would have been worth it. But again, I'd have to somehow make the free version less useful to have a decent chance on that. In retrospect, I regret not making the tool free from the beginning.
Former cop here: You're right on the first part.

Until you realize your friend left his gym bag with weed in it in your trunk. That looks bad man, and comes back on you. My best seizures came from consent searches. I've also had cars that I've stopped where I was darn sure they were moving something in it, but I didnt have PC, and I didn't have a dog nearby that I could get in reasonable time. I asked for consent, and got told "No" in no uncertain terms. They left on their merry way, and I still wonder sometimes if a compartment full of stolen guns was in that dang car.

Sometimes we have a reason to be suspicious, sometimes were just guessing. Just to account for confirmation bias, I'd ask for consent to search completely randomly. Sometimes I got it, spent 10 seconds searching, and was done. Sometimes I didn't and said have a nice day. Sometimes I got the consent and a stolen gun and some hard narcotics

There have been a few cases where we had enough PC to search a residence, and asked for consent. Each time it was an unusual circumstance (e.g. the roomate was selling drugs or wanted or something). Each time we were in and out in 10 minutes. If we had been told to get a warrant, we would've had to detain the home owner (which in this case means hang out with him in our car or in his yard, casually talking and killing time) while we go to get a warrant.

This means driving to the magistrates office 45 minutes away, writing the affidavit, waiting in line, doing the hearing, then driving back, maybe 2-3 hours total. If during that time the homeowner goes "Hey, screw this, just search it", we won't, as we don't want it to seem like coercion. Once consent is denied, we aren't going forward without a warrant.

So again, general rule, "Dont talk to the police, assert your rights". Except when maybe you should. If you come home and your spouse is missing and blood is everywhere, you are a suspect. Heck, at the beginning, you are probably THE suspect, but you may want to talk to the cops to help them figure out where your wife went. If the cops want to look in your house for a stolen gun that your shady roommate allegedly stole, it may be BS to just search your house, or they may just want to check that 1 room, get that stolen gun, and go.
“ One other thing which goes along with being polite and courteous, never lie outright to an officer. Use weasel words like, "not that I can think of" or, "I'm not sure why you would think that." That might sound suspicious at first glance, but they'll assume in the moment that just about any direct statement is a lie, anyways.”

This is really bad advice. You need to re-watch the video you alluded to in your first paragraph.

You do not talk to police. Period. Unless you are asking a.) if you are being detained or b.) asking if you are being placed under arrest. Or to state your legal name.
I don't think Google originally planned it this way, but their release strategy gives them an interesting gradient of users that I think benefits them. (This is entirely off the cuff, I may be sticking my foot in my mouth.)

Early adapters, who are more likely to engage with the bigger questions raised by tech, are likely to use new devices with the latest revision of what Google thinks you should share with the advertising world - lately, this has been giving users slightly more control. Meanwhile, older and cheaper devices (a much larger segment) mostly run older OSes that more more data-sponge-friendly.

So the picky and wealthier customers have reason to tell others "Google is getting better" while everyone else keeps feeding the beast.
Not until we get rid of lobbying
A crash course on whether to offer a bribe, how much is customary, and the manner in which such an offering is made really ought to be included with the SkyMall magazine.
I always feel like 'Catch 22' is underrated as a reference point for bonkers situations, including current US politics. It is very lengthy though, so that explains why it's not so widely read.

The movie 'Brazil' treads some of the same themes. Basically, not just dystopia, but incomprehensible absurdity.
Sadly, this is not true. The police can say you were joking and some (racist) judges believe it.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2017/11/02...
> Most of the apps we use on a dAily basis exist thanks to that model.

Don't count me in that 'we'; an app coming from a VC funded company is a red flag for me not to use that app. Any app that I've used from that category I've later come to regret. The last one was duolingo, and I now realise I was suckered there too.
Still not coming to the US?

https://ww.electrek.co/2019/12/13/vw-not-launching-id3-elect...
I know right? He didn't even cite maritime law and claim to be 'traveling'!
the photo and the first frame of the youtube video are from columbia (in ny). kind of ironic since elite schools probably aren't facing these issues.

>According to Moody’s, in the next few years the closure rate for non-profit, U.S. private colleges will climb to around 15 a year—triple what it was in 2014.

you know what kind of editorializing of titles i'd like? one that puts the lede front and center. there are 1687[1] private nonprofit unis in the US. so this is a rate of less than 1% a year. is that really alarming?

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2019...
"Writing is Nature's way of showing you how sloppy your thinking is"
This is exactly the reason that I have started a blog recently. Before, I have only read the material and got a feeling of understanding while it is far from the truth. When I start writing, I know I can gain a deeper layer of understanding in a way that is not impossible with just reading. Really appreciate this.
Pompeo: ‘Don’t let China use American tech for Orwellian surveillance state’
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who is saying "bullshit"? I think I am making a pretty reasonable argument that seems to fit into "Some level of skepticism is of course warranted".
And don't forget, in the USA, complying with requests given by a person carrying a gun and a license to kill you, is considered freely given consent that waives your rights.
Let's be honest. US colleges did this thing where when they grew they also just grew costs without growing delivery. The problem with costs is they're sticky downward.

This, of course, is a good thing that these colleges are closing. Can you imagine a place teaching economics when it cannot apply it to itself?
(def-func-end) and other ‘ends’ look pretty un-lispy to me. Helps readability, though.
There are some interesting ideas in this. However music also might have evolved as a form of communication - for example birdsong, whale songs, or the songs various insects make. They might not necessarily be communicating emotions - although maybe sometimes they are. It's a bit of a logical leap to decide all music evolved for emotion processing purposes, rather than say, language and communication purposes.
> While annual tuition was around $36,000, no one paid that. “We were actually discounting that about 67%. So the average student was really only paying about $12,000 for tuition,” said Allen.

The opaque cost of college is one of the problems. If it cost $12k to go there they should advertise a $12k tuition and maybe wouldn’t be closing.
Commerce and freedom are protected by lawyers.
This kind of error shows up often when people who are freshly learning something decide they should make a tutorial of it before they even understand the subject at anything nearing an authoritative level. It literally means everyone who follows the tutorial is doomed to make the same mistakes - it becomes part of their foundation since "that's how I learned it!" And if they're not still on board when/if the mistakes are discovered and corrected, the misinformation spreads virally.

Nobody should ever follow a tutorial from someone who is still in the learning phase. Those mistakes are part of the learning, and they certainly don't belong in a tutorial. It's better to make your own mistakes than to make someone else's mistakes part of your repertoire.

It's also why there are a gazillion unfinished tutorials out there. People who are not at all ready or capable of making sensible tutorials eventually peter out, either because it is more complicated than they expected, or more work than they expected, which leaves incomplete and highly erroneous material behind to spread virally to unwitting people who unfortunately found the wrong material to learn from.
- pilots on some airlines make more than the CEO.
- traders routinely make millions more (admittedly on commissions) than the bank's CEO.

i'm sure there are other examples.. Stating "Your direct reports should never make more than you" as fact seems a little overreaching :)
Well, the checkbox right above the UI option you pointed out will zero-out your identifier.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_an... elaborates on the special rules you've alluded to, which apply in certain situations in England and Wales. Unfortunately, the answer to "what should someone do if questioned by police" is still "it depends."
> Corporations are a thing.

Corporations aren't a thing. They're a legal construct. They're owned by shareholders, who are mostly institutional investors ... pension funds, 401k, etc ... everyday people. So you will be taxing everyone. The same people who already pay income taxes on their earnings. And that's assuming they don't just pass the additional cost down via increased prices on whatever it is they produce.

If you want to tax the wealthy, this is not the way to do it.
So it's true that you're liable in the US to having your brains blown out if you try to reach for anything?
Heh. <waves cane> Damn whippersnapper! Get off my lawn! And button up that RCE vulnerablity of yours! Does your mother know what code you've been running? <grumbling> Kids these days...
> Part of the problem is demographics.

> The number of high school seniors is dropping – dramatically in some parts of the country

Are we headed for inverted pyramid like Japan?
I am probably missing something, but what’s stopping OP from just continuing to use their old account?
Anti-Moocher Bill
Happy to get pushback on this article submission. I did take note of the source (China Global Television Network) but the thesis presented of demographic change and increased wariness about taking on debt seemed plausible.
The ghosts of Richard Stallman, Eric S. Raymond, and Bruce Perens will come and visit you while you're sleeping, and fly you around the world, showing you all the evil that has befallen the world as a result of your infraction.

Or you could just get sued. Or publicly shamed in a very visible way.

Or maybe nothing at all. It's really hard to say.

But don't do it. If you can't accept the terms of the license, don't use the software. This isn't rocket science.
I meant in general, worldwide with other countries, but that is good to know.
Then again, I don't think defaulting to an inferior product is an obvious upside for the average user. I reckon the average user is more interested in a more robust search function when they're actually trying to get things done.
This is incredibly rad, both from a design and a functionality pov. Nice work.
It's absolutely true and unfair that getting upset at your predicament can move used an excuse to harm you.

That's why you have to act like a sensible, docile, thankful citizen who also asserts your rights. Do not act "normal". Normal gets you hurt.
Yes. All developed countries are. Most of Africa is holding the fertility rate above replacement rate, but as they develop, education and birth control is wildly available, you'll see the fertility rate decline there as well.

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2014/02/World-population-...

https://ourworldindata.org/fertility-rate

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