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See In Re: Clearview AI, Inc., Consumer Privacy Litigation (1:21-cv-00135)
See "Brewer in dispute with real Sam Adams" (2007) https://web.archive.org/web/20071027024211/http://news.yahoo...
Re:Lambda: The Ultimate Excel Worksheet Function on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:16PM (#26908816)
The common parent is "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative" (1976) https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5790/AIM-353....
Re:We Can Do Better Than SQL on Monday August 10, 2020 @10:32PM (#24116633)
Re:Waymo Via on Wednesday March 04, 2020 @08:49PM (#22490189)
Sounds like rail?
Re:Recursive Drawing on Thursday April 18, 2019 @12:58AM (#19688834)
Whether you like this or feel like it's not as powerful as you'd like, try http://recursivedrawing.com/ in a similar vein with discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3951255. It's simultaneously simpler and more expressive than this tool in my opinion.
Re:OpenAI Five Benchmark: Results on Tuesday August 07, 2018 @12:45AM (#17703930)
There’s a reason their site is Stripe-like: they hired Stripe’s creative director:) https://dribbble.com/luddep
Re:Chatbots were the next big thing: what happened? on Friday June 08, 2018 @10:39AM (#17265843)
How does your chatbot startup address the issues with chatbots that have been raised in the article and in these comments? And how is it better than other GUIs?
Bridge, Hearts, Pinochle, Spades, BS/Cheat, and President off the top of my head all deal the full deck. The first four tend to be played only with 4 players because it's an even deal, which is too bad
Re:Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games on Thursday December 21, 2017 @05:55PM (#15983644)
A loosely related provision of US copyright law, section 108h, does allow books from 1923-1941 to be scanned and made available by libraries if not being actively sold! http://blog.archive.org/2017/10/10/books-from-1923-to-1941-n...
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites on Sunday December 03, 2017 @06:28PM (#15840265)
Some other design elements that stand out to me:

- The transition between dropdowns in the top nav. Really smooth, and something you won't see anywhere else.

- Semi-consistent and sufficiently different color schemes for the different products. See the difference between https://stripe.com/atlas and https://stripe.com/us/sigma.

- Subtle box shadows. They've done this by cranking the blur way up around 30px. For comparison, the Google search bar uses a blur around 1px or 2px.

Re:US Court Grants ISPs and Search Engine Blockade of Sci-Hub on Monday November 06, 2017 @06:47PM (#15640006)
First, the Court sees Sci-Hub as essentially hosting the copyrighted materials. From the order in ACS v. Does:

> ...Sci-Hub has copied elements—and, in many cases, the entirety of—those works, and that Sci-Hub has distributed those works by allowing individuals to download the works from its website, all in violation of the Copyright Act.

But to entertain your argument of First Amendment protections, linking to infringing documents is pretty clearly incitement of imminent lawless action as established in Brandenburg.

Re:APK Golf: Reducing an Android APK's Size by 99.99% on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @10:09PM (#15446820)
One of my favorite things is to see a problem I think is trivial and learn its hidden complexities, like the "X things developers think about Y" series of articles.

However, to take the parent's example of an HTML doc with an associated script...the browser does do this, and a rebuttal has to reckon with that. My Chrome web browser runs on thousands of different devices, countless OSs. A small Hello World file can run _with_ a header that supports RTL languages, can very simply say what version of HTML it's using (doctype yadda yadda...I grant that the situation is considerably more complex for JS nowadays!), and can run in any browser size imaginable. It doesn't have a "large library" of useful layouts—the developer just includes what they need. Yes, I'm sure running native on the phone brings many difficulties browser apps don't have to deal with, but from the comment alone I'm not sure what those are beyond signing.

I'm willing to bet Damore would win his case with the NLRB if not for the new Trump members that will be on the board by the time he gets there. Eager to see some deal with their simultaneous passion for speech freedoms and disdain for the only remedy here—strengthening labor protections.
I don't think this disagrees completely with the cited source!

> So, I say, don't talk to the cops. Ask to speak with an attorney, and get competent advice before you answer the cops' questions. Are there mundane situations in which you might rationally decide to talk to the cops — say, if a neighbor's house is burglarized, and they come to ask if you saw anything? Sure. But you should view each interaction with the cops with an extreme caution bordering on paranoia, as you would handle a dangerous wild animal.

From Ken White, https://www.popehat.com/2014/01/15/the-privilege-to-shut-up/

Re:The Idea of Lisp on Friday December 16, 2016 @04:08PM (#13196861)
> For historical reasons and convenience, the tuple type with no elements (()) is often called ‘unit’ or ‘the unit type’.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html

Yeah, Python tried this as well with their 2to3 tool (https://docs.python.org/3.5/library/2to3.html), but their release bump was a little bigger than the Go prerelease changes (and the users not as flexible) so it wasn't much of a magic bullet.
Re:Show HN: Read Hacker News in a Pinterest Way on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @04:46PM (#10976368)
Some of them do something with the comments, unlike hckrnews.com which just provides a link to them. I do use hckrnews.com for my browsing though—the top 20 is very useful.
Re:OS X El Capitan License: in Plain English on Sunday October 18, 2015 @02:56PM (#10409287)
When you take a loan from the bank, you sign this sort of one-sided agreement. I think this has always been the case.
Re:Cable Robot Simulator [video] on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @04:32PM (#10267958)
It _is_ a Disney ride! I've ridden on it—tons of fun.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tours

The technical description:

> Star Tours utilizes hydraulic motion base cabins featuring six degrees of freedom, including the ability to move 35 degrees in the X-Y-Z plane. The simulator was patented as Advanced Technology Leisure Application Simulator (ATLAS), originally designed by Rediffusion Simulation[8] in Sussex, England, now owned by Thomson-CSF. The Rediffusion 'Leisure' simulator was originally developed for a much simpler show in Canada called "Tour of the Universe", where it featured a single entrance/exit door in the rear of the cabin and a video projector. The film is front-projected onto the screen from a 70 mm film projector located beneath the cockpit barrier. The Disneyland original has four simulators, while the shows in Tokyo Disneyland, Disneyland Paris, and WDW Disney's Hollywood Studio each have six motion bases.

In the late 80s-early 90s there was a movement attempting to prove the communication abilities of those with severe communication disabilities. Very sad story—turned out it was only the facilitator's subconcious manipulation of the communicator's hands that produced the messages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facilitated_communication

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