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>How should I keep my links working?

Build functionality that lets you mass-update all scihub links across your site, and manually update it whenever a domain goes down

Or link to .onion versions (and a link to TOR)

Or stop linking

Yes, they had been successful with voice search long before Alexa ever came out, and continue to do it well. Google is THE search giant, you'd have to be acting intentionally obtuse to not understand his point.

They didn't say anything was wrong with that, they said it used to be the only option. Now there's other options.

Now here's a device that actually is a straight wiretap.

I wonder if they just hope that people don't care, or if they are actually going to design it in some kind of not-a-wiretap way (hopefully following Google/Amazon's example)

What have you been smoking?

Admins: why did you take this down? The previous submission didn't get any attention and this had some good discussion.

What does this have to do with politics? 'Meltdown' is a very common term.

This is super clickbaity and full of rich-hate. The city sent a bill to a deceased person for years, and it's basically pocket change to the people that live there. It would be absurd for the city to sell the street over something like this.

I guess I fundamentally disagree that them providing an 'answer' is somehow unethical, unless there is some kind of verbiage on the feature that claims 100% accuracy that I am unaware of.

Is your argument "Google should not be allowed to do anything if their algorithms aren't 100% flawless and perfect"? I really am failing to understand your viewpoint.

>This response creates no opportunity to argue a compelling case for why scientific knowledge should not remain pay-walled by publishers and/or establish new legal frameworks for copyright of scientific knowledge.

You somehow think this would have been the correct platform to do that? While being a target of a copyright-infringement lawsuit?

From their site:

>Curecoin puts ASICs to work at what they are good at–securing a blockchain, while it puts GPUs and CPUs to work with work items that can only be done on them–protein folding.

Do you (or anyone) have more information in how this works? Does this reward you directly for doing the folding (as opposed to validating)? How does that work? That looks like a very interesting concept, and if it's technologically sound then I'd love to see it gain popularity.

>it would be cool if Bitcoin didn't require throwaway computation

Sure, but that's a technology that does not exist. If you can figure out how to create a blockchain-like concept, where the 'proof of work' actually contributes to humanity, you have invented the next big thing.

Edit: Reading the comments below me, it looks like this is a space that is being actively explored. Exciting!

>I'm sure that the intent in this case was not malicious

What other explanation is there? Is there a valid reason for an audio driver to silently install a CA cert?

Why are they allowed to bundle malware in their drivers? Why is this not illegal?

Why does it have OS in the name? Is it an operating system? (This is a question I cannot find a direct answer to on their site)

Their site makes it incredibly difficult to actually find out what this really is.

The only text visible on my screen when the page loads are the lines "Airborn OS", "Even if we get hacked, they can't read your documents" and "Collaborate in real time" which tells me essentially nothing about why I'm here, what this website is, or what you're trying to sell/advertise.

The only indication as to what this software actually does is in this Hacker News title.

For contrast, Google Doc's homepage[1], the first two things I see are "Create [persuasive/adjective] documents" followed by "With Google Docs, you can write, edit, and collaborate wherever you are. For free." This tells me basically everything I need to know, as a casual user, to understand what Google Docs is and why I might want to use it.

I hope this doesn't come across as overly critical, just some (hopefully helpful) feedback.

[1] https://www.google.com/docs/about/

Is this suggesting that this would rely on browser implementation?

... Is this serious?

What motivation do browser-creators have to implement this? Google wants the javascript widget so they can properly track everything, among other reasons. Who would back this? Who would develop this?

This isn't like playing a media file, this is a highly interactive piece of content, with a metric shitload of complexity behind it. I don't think the author really understands the scope of what he is asking.

Although if you feel I'm mistaken, please enlighten me.

How are Austin suburbs a "cultural wasteland" ?

It always seemed insanely stupid to me every time I read something about people claiming certain genes being "non-important" or "non-functional"

We have about a 0.0001% comprehension of this whole system, how can you possibly be so arrogant as to think you KNOW that certain parts of the sequence are not important or used in _any_ way? Then again, I'm definitely not qualified to comment on the topic.

>I can call Google any time and get great customer support

For what, specifically? Because this is the opposite of reality for everyone else.

Why is this on Hacker News?

It's a shame that it took so long before we started to truly study the positive uses/effects of drugs like MDMA and Psilocybin. I wonder how long it will take society to really drop the "DARE/DRUGS ARE BAD" mentality and start having more rational discussions about this stuff.

Maybe I just live under a rock, but this is actually the first time I've heard of Groove music. I don't know if that's saying more about me or MS' marketing department.

>And she said she did not need to understand how they worked to know they were "helping criminals".

>She insisted she does not want "back doors" installed in encryption codes, something the industry has warned will weaken security for all users, nor did she want to ban encryption, just to allow easier access by police and the security services.

>"I understand the principle of end-to-end encryption - it can't be unwrapped. That's what has been developed. "What I am saying is the companies who are developing that should work with us."

Well I hate to "sneer" at her and reinforce her perception of tech people, but Jesus Christ, what a moron. If you refuse to learn how it works then you cannot reasonably expect to be capable of offering any kind of input on how to change it.

All she's capable of understanding is "WE MUST STOP THE TERRORISM"

This seems like a great way to obfuscate all your code without any actual benefit. Can anyone give me a real example of how this is somehow a better way to do things? Maybe the application for this is only for a specific field that I'm not familiar with?

Flagged: dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342486

Title should be "Sears' History Predicts Almost Everything Amazon's Doing"

(or "The History of Sears Predicts Nearly Everything Amazon Is Doing" - the actual title of the article)

I thought this was already known? Is this a new revelation?

For "simple economic reasons" you believe companies will go out of their way to block Linux users for some reason? If the browser supports it, that's all that really matters.