skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's worth pointing out that this view, while common, is a misconception. IANAL, but as I understand it a company need only address blatant, public infringement. If it could be reasonably argued that this is a parody (and that can at least be argued, even if you disagree), it wouldn't be considered for the purposes of abandoned trademarks.

And a minor point - "precedent" is commonly used to mean simply "that which came before" but it has a very specific legal definition (generally just decisions issued by a court) that doesn't apply here.
I have imagine (for my toy language) that is weird to force one way or another (always handle or always check), but instead use the unix idea of STDOUT/STDERR.

A function return values in STDOUT, and exceptions always go to STDERR:

This is GO style:

file | maybeError? := open('thisnotexist.ever')

And is totally ok to say, python style:

file := open('thisnotexist.ever')

and upper in the chain is possible to catch it:

match MyAwesomeFunction():
StdIn:
StdErr:

Or maybe

try/catch.

The idea is that if stderr is consumed is handled right there, but if not it "throw" and work like a exception.
Alternatively, Google keeps all the money it (allegedly) collected improperly, but hey at least no lawyers get rich.
I think this is related too.. for 256 color terminals, a little off-the-cuff go lib I wrote that converts pictures to blended colored ascii https://github.com/minikomi/ansipix
On the page layout: one very positive sign is that my custom stylesheet appears to make no difference whatsoever to how the page displays. Which means that either the CSS classes have all been changed or my suggestions (recently here on HN) were all adopted.

I noticed the change, and it didn't annoy me much (any change is a bit discombobulating), which is actually high praise. I haven't stumbled into any "woah, that's cool!" features yet (though I'm noticing a few things and nodding appreciatively).

Just checked the "what's new" and I'm pretty much liking.

I'd still love to see time-bounded search provided. That's one of the very few uses that will draw me back to Google for general Web search (Google's special collections: books, scholar, news, etc., may bring me in more often).

I've been using DDG off and on for a couple of years and solidly since last June. It's definitely working for me.
Amazing! Thanks for the tip. For others, the two colors I went with are:

Normal: #C22D00
Visited: #CF6D5A
Ruby's Current State with David Brady
I wrote a simple email to David Brady, which launched into a deep and truly amazing view of the current state of Ruby. Lots of great info and references.
Sorry, git blame might be able to hold people accountable for their decisions. This is the reason it would take revolution or something equally disruptive to introduce it.
More than interesting. It would be a way to account what people say and what they do.
If you want to see the differences between the version introduced in October of 2013 and the most recent amended version see here:

https://gist.github.com/dfc/1819eace21dc47358f38/revisions

Sadly I have never had much luck/success with the bill changes interface on opencongress.org.
I'd say it's more like harvesting with a sickle when the competition uses John Deeres.

Doesn't mean you can't make a lot of money with your sickle.
Nah, Google refunds fraudulent ad money
I nominate this idea of the month. Github for all bills.
Ironically, that page fails with JS disabled.

Related: I've spent more than a few minutes on sites unwrapping carouseled content to just display stacked on the page. It's fucking annoying.
Courts don't charge people.
Adblock, do not track, ghostery, privacy badger, and Google's opt-out cookie are among the tools I'm aware of which may affect this behavior. It's complicated.
Courts can't dismiss charges just because they don't think they're worthwhile.
You're hardly the first to think this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_governance

Of course, this would require politicians to have some basic technical literacy. Though I wouldn't imagine using a VCS to be difficult, even for an unacquainted person.
Whoa jeffbarr hangs out on HN? Go figure.
The takeaway of this story for me, after reading this, is not the scientific implications, but I come away with tremendous sympathy and respect for the parents.

Having just become a father a few weeks ago, I'm beyond grateful that our son so far appears to be a healthy boy and when I read about parents having to deal with adverse health events of their children, I can't think of anything tougher to go through than that. I don't know if I would have the strength or resilience to do what these parents did (raise these girls, who never develop beyond infancy), nor do I know whether it's the "right thing to do" (or if there even is such a distinction under the circumstances), but I respect the hell out of them.
A few things must be noted concerning this lawsuit:

1. This is the second class action attempt launched against Google by this trial-lawyer outfit: http://www.androidpolice.com/2014/05/02/class-action-lawsuit...

2. This Steve Berman guy behind the suit was a Microsoft lawyer, it's notable becase another Microsoft lawyer tried and failed to sue Google on ad/antitrust grounds a few years back: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110901/14553415771/court...

3. Ultimately a judge would have to decide if this ever goes forward but reading the the two fillings for the two separate lawsuits, both are no more that just PR statements with news clippings.

The purpose here is likely an attempt at obtaining documents via discovery, doubtful it goes that far, it's an obvious money-grub scheme.
What is the most serious attempt out there of trying this?

I would want a law saying all bills must be put through a system that can be audited to see precisely who makes the changes.

And if it allows pull requests like GitHub, anyone could fork a bill, make a change, and people could comment on the best proposed recordings.

I think this could honestly get people more involved in politics in a productive way, rather than watching talking heads spout reactionary crystal ball gazing on the 24 hour news networks.
With a name like the USA FREEDOM Act, how could you go wrong?
I use adsense and let me say sadly there isn't a better alternative to it, its simply the best paying ad network out there. However it is also the only business related service that puts me into constant state of stress.

Here is my comment reposted from an early discussion regarding the adsense that got flagged off the frontpage[1]:

I am not sure about the claims made on the post but there was something else that caught my eye a while back. I registered for Adsense when starting a side-project. I tried my best to follow all the requirements such as only 3 block of ads per page, no self clicking even if the ad was relevant to you etc. Since it was relatively new, it din't have much traffic. Then it started booming but it wasn't predictable by any manner, one day it would get featured on Reddit and then the traffic dies down, the next week it will another wave because it got featured in some popular blog, so on. However, despite the traffic being not predictable, the percentage of invalid clicks judged by Google remained the same. i.e. say your account shows up the earnings as $1200 but the check gets issued to you for around $1175, next month if you made $1500, your check will be for $1468. The reason Google claimed for this difference was the final audit that looks for invalid clicks right before a check gets issued. I thought it was crazy that I could easily predict what I would be actually getting instead of what is shown to be earned, moreover my super ability to predict invalid clicks. So I decided to keep a log of the difference for ~ a year, and what do you know, the difference in final audit was almost always the same percentage despite huge variations in traffic. I am happy to post the log but I will be breaking one of the adsense rules of revealing your earnings and thus risk losing my account.
Anyways I am not bothered by it anymore, I just learned to write off the difference as expense and/or consider it as "protection money" that needs to paid. Too bad there aren't any good alternatives. Adsense is by far the best paying ad-network but if it had less shady tactics and better support I would have definitely put it on my recommendation list.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7667976
Secret is helping create a more transparent world
I hit the gym two or three times a week to lift heavy (e.g., squat, deadlift, overhead press) and go for a walk most days. The walks are hardly a breakneck pace—I'm carrying on a conversation, stopping to check out wildflowers, and observing what's going on around me. Both are fun and contribute to overall fitness, but in different ways.

I need to think a lot at my job will get up and wander around regularly.

Food wise, paleo-style eating seems to help with energy levels and staying lean. So does getting eight hours of sleep every night, which doesn't happen frequently enough.

I'm not a fan of steady-state cardio. It seems to hurt muscle mass and contribute to belly fat and joint pain.

I'm 41, 5'8", 175#, 32" waist, 40" chest, and recently squatted 315# for a single and have deadlifted 430#.
I would assume that by using "Obama administration" in this context it was meant to be purposefully vague. The Executive Branch is massive. This could be anyone from the Pentagon, CIA, DHS, to many others who just happen to eventually report to the President. Many of these organizations have the motivation to maintain their current legal powers.

According to the EFF (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/05/eff-dismayed-houses-gu...):

"Many members of Congress, the President's own review group on NSA activities, and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board all agree that the use of Section 215 to collect Americans' calling records must stop."

It could be possible that the President overruled his own policy review group. But I find it unlikely given his propensity for consensus.
The distant court venue really irks me. Levison is a 3rd party and thus not protected under Article 3 of the Constitution (venue), but how is being called to court 1000 miles from your residence not a gross abuse of power?
How to Trick the Gullible into Learning a New Programming Language
How do we kill the password in online shopping (Portuguese)
The book is Infinite Jest; it's the unrivaled best piece of writing I've ever put my eyes on.
The point is that if Netflix throttles Comcast customers, the customers stream from Comcast On-Demand instead. They don't switch away from Comcast because they can't, which is what makes this an unbalanced situation.
[nothing personal]
by that logic (no one is around to correct you and also you don't give a shit) you can start making plenty of things up. Oh what a stories you should have about your travels and adventures!
> Fiber optics are awesome now; but what happens in 10 years when we need a new type of quantum fiber made from carbon nanotubes to go faster?

Fiber optics are awesome now. Fiber optics were awesome in the 2000s, and the 90s, and the 80s, and the 70s...

Quantum fiber isn't a thing. Nobody has even proposed anything to replace fiber with and copper has lasted more than a hundred years. You can get Tbps out of fiber so we should be good for a while. If somebody invents something to replace fiber with, we can deal with that when it happens (probably a hundred years from now).
So why don't we have full blown graphics/widgets in the terminal?

I'm thinking a hybrid console meets explorer: When I type "ls *.png", why don't I get a sortable table? Or, if I mouseover a filename, get a preview?

I remember "type BBSAD.ANS" in the DOS days - you'd see an animated ANSI right in the terminal - but I can't type "view lolcat.png" in 2014 (without shifting focus to the GUI).

Maybe this is overkill and not worth it, but I've always felt there's room to make the CLI a little more GUI-like
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7699332.
No, I can't control those conversations. I also don't see it as reasonable to limit my child's knowledge on a subject merely because someone else might make an opposing decision and take offense.

Kids are going to be frank when talking about any topic amongst themselves. I would rather my child be overheard telling a peer about how babies are made and how STDs are passed, than have her believe that douching with Coca-Cola after sex will prevent pregnancy.

I also strongly disagree that speaking truth in such discussions can ever be "damaging". Can you provide an example?
it's now on their front page
Not in SF proper... I'm a native san franciscan that grew up in the mission in the 90's, and virtually every native san franciscan I've ever met has been a renter. I only had like 1 friend in high school whose parents actually owned a duplex in noe valley, but other than that, pretty much everybody was in small apartments. I think this is the reason why a lot of the "if you wanted a stable living situation, you should've bought a home" type arguments aggravate a lot of the anti-gentrification people in SF...
Host them on a separate domain like Google and Github does (eg. Google uses googleusercontent.com and Github uses githubusercontent.com).
It is always amusing to see how they come up with the short titles:

USA FREEDOM Act: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-collection, and Online Monitoring Act
Motorcycle Ride
He wasn't just their trial lawyer though.

From Wikipedia:

Berman helped found his namesake firm in 1993. He was lead attorney in individual and class action cases against Enron, Washington Public Power Supply System, Purdue Pharma (over OxyContin), Exxon (with respect to the Exxon Valdez oil spill), Boeing, Intel (over alleged monopoly practices), Michael Milken, the Rio Tinto mining company (with respect to human rights violations and environmental destruction in New Guinea),[3] and VISA and MasterCard (in which he achieved a $3 billion settlement). He was also instrumental in the state attorneys general’s litigation against the Liggett Group and subsequent $216 billion settlement, against the tobacco industry, serving as special assistant to the various states. He was lead counsel for Microsoft during part of its defense against antitrust claims.[4]
Funding Smart City Startups
There are a number of explicitly allowed privileges, like with lawyers. Society sees value in letting people be able to discuss very personal matters with people, and the conversations would not be happening without the explicitly granted privilege. Can't be compelled to testify against your spouse, for that matter (that's by Constitution, not by statute).

(Even then, priests and lawyers have rules about when to break confidentiality. If someone said they committed a murder, nope. If someone said they are going to commit a murder tonight, then yes.)

If you want a new kind of privilege, you should lobby your legislators, not try to start a for-profit business.
Extremely secure, eh?
SF prices are driven by intense demand due to the tech industry. Tech continues to import more and more people but there isn't enough room for everyone.

Vancouver prices are driven by speculation, primarily from international investors. The actual demand for housing in the city is comparatively low, and the typical salary for white collar work in Vancouver also doesn't support sky-high prices.

The large disconnect between sale and rent prices represents the large disconnect between who is buying vs. who is actually living in these homes.
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I actually thought this article did a pretty good job explaining why we age. As pointed out, our bodies fall apart because they are the product of an evolutionary process.

Our genetic code is like a computer program that runs into a bunch of fatal errors after it has been left running for too long. These fatal errors do not matter to our genes provided enough time has elapsed since our birth for our DNA to pass on several copies of itself. There is simply an absence of selective pressure for us to live past a certain reproductive age.

(If I wrote in laymen's terms it is because I am a laymen on the issue, but a well informed one at that.)
Even in my hardest libertarian days, I still thought that the court system is exactly what taxes should be paying for.
MH370 satellite data to be released
Has anyone ever provided an example of a brand losing its trademark status for not aggressively addressing minor/maybe/kind-of/sort-of infringement? It seems like a scary story designed to keep IP lawyers fully employed.
Encapsulation isn't just information hiding, though I guess that is how people usually grok it. The essence of an object is its identity, with identity you can own things like state, but then that state needs to be protected. In a pure system, this identity is problematic: all values are are identified simply by their structure, and state would be unheard of. We might try to fake it by providing identities manually (see immediate-mode UIs), but then you are just trying to build objects again anyways.

Do you have values that you can name and talk about independent of their structure or how you get a handle to them? Yep, those are objects. I think most languages that claim to have objects actually have objects, the bar is not high! What is more problematic are communities who claim not to have objects, like the entity component people, or the functional programming people who start passing around numeric/string based identifiers to "solve expressiveness problems." But they are just in denial in that they have recreated objects.

Note that information hiding, what we more generally understand as encapsulation, is not even meaningful without objects. So if your values don't have identity, it is only their structure that is important, and then it doesn't make sense to hide that structure without chopping it off of the value itself!
This is a new article on a condition that's been written about already.

These are children who fail to reach maturity normally.

All of this was evidence of what Walker dubbed “developmental disorganisation”. Brooke’s body seemed to be developing not as a coordinated unit, he wrote, but rather as a collection of individual, out-of-sync parts. “She is not simply ‘frozen in time’,” Walker wrote. “Her development is continuing, albeit in a disorganised fashion.”

The first this subject came up here, someone pointed out this has nothing really to do with the aging that anyone would want to stop. It might help understand the process of development and maturation but it clearly won't help us directly stop aging.

And "never grow older" seems like a rather poor and even cruel way to describe a unfortunate syndrome.
Autohinter did make things better for the "i" letter (but not completely).

Here is my final result for adding to $HOME/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf

<!-- Fixing DuckDuckGo font -->
<match target="font">
<test name="family">
<string>@font-face:DDG_ProximaNova</string>
</test>
<edit mode="assign" name="autohint">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
<const>lcddefault</const>
</edit>
</match>
Thomas, you're still stuck in the technical mindset. This is not a technical issue. Forget about the discrete log problem. The NSA can frisk you away tonight to Gitmo and torture you until you spill all your secrets.

Before you say I'm being dramatic, consider the fact that this is a government that extra-judiciously assassinates its own citizens and then shamelessly defends it. If you think your shiny protocols are secure, you may want to rethink your entire perspective. At the end of the day, humans can be compromised, which makes all systems designed and developed by humans inherently risky regardless of implementation detail or operation. Any time the NSA really wants to gain a piece of information, the discrete log problem is at best a short delay. A minor inconvenience. A drop in the bucket in terms of the resources needed to go around it, since solving it is not necessary if the system is poorly implemented or has other, undocumented vulnerabilities.

edit: downvotes are expected. This is a techie forum and techies don't like it when someone points out that technology can't solve every problem.
Women work less than men and nonlinearity exacerbates the effect this has on pay. The more jobs become commoditized, the more gender equality and flex time we will have.
It's not the last mile that needs to be upgraded.
dict protocol? As in http and FTP? That's so cool! Are there any more protocols to play around with?
A career of spray and pray lawsuits.
I just hit CTL+SHIFT+ESC and Task Manager was there instantaneously. If things have gone so screwy that you really need Task Manager, then yeah, it will probably be slow.
'Sorry, this page requires JavaScript'
This is true, but it can't apply to the kernel. If your kernel has crashed, it is a terrible idea to try to write anything at all (such as a screenshot) to the disk -- because the kernel's safety guarantees disappear in such a situation, you're likely to make a bad situation worse and e.g. corrupt the filesystem.
That would work out to $6600 a month for mortgage, insurance, and property tax. Or over half of our take home pay.
Which is why there isn't such a thing. :)
There's nothing charming about aging and the horrible conditions that come with it. Those people are delusional.
Actually there is a "Cloud Save" feature that helps you save (and restore) your setting without using cookies. Scroll to the bottom of the settings page and you'll see it.

As the page says, "The benefit of [Cloud Save] over using the URL parameters bookmarklet is that when you change settings, they will automatically be saved in the cloud."
Absolutely. Isn't this what the FCC's Title II / common carrier provisions are for?

my understanding is that's what happened to make long distance affordable: the maintainers of the copper had to allow other forms to connect to customers.
That seems awfully hacky given the availability (and reasonable fallback) of the async option.
> Features are not added in service packs

Security Center
Popup Blocking in IE
Image Blocking in OE
DEP
Some others I can't remember

IIRC those were features introduced with Service Pack 2 of Windows XP.
Ny checkbox is dead. Deadline passed?
Do you think it is well worth a watch for people who have been following the issue? I thought it was a nice introduction but there was hardly anything shocking or new in the show.

Was it entertaining? I guess, but professional documentaries that reinforce your world view are usually somewhat entertaining. Was it informative for someone that has read the coverage in the Guardian/FirstLook/NYT/WaPo? In all honesty, no.
I'd say this post is mildly hypocritical. You're using two script-injected async scripts, one from Google Tag Manager and another from Disqus!

Which is to say: if it were that harmful, then maybe you could try fixing them yourself and tell us how it goes? It would be great to provide some advice on how to convert a few popular script-injected async scripts from third parties (especially Google Analytics) into non-"harmful" ones.
Damn, I just think creating a domain name like: trademark1-partnerstrademark.com such as google-nest.com is trademark infringement and that the eff is wrong. I am sure I'm not alone in this.

The content itself is fine (there's an archive.org link below). It's the domain I suspect they had a problem with.
> What will you do once you've got the job,

Do your job? I'm having trouble understanding what you're getting at. If you don't like your work environment, then leave. Just don't take six months to figure that out. But really, you should know whether you would like working there before you take the job. It's not that hard to take a few of their current employees out for coffee and ask them what it's like to work there.

Not every job has the insane level of politicking described. Just find a place where you fit in. It exists.