eastendguy

Can someone please ELI5 this for me? Why is a private Tesla better? As long as Elon and employees own more than 51% of the stock (do they?), can't they not just ignore the stock price swings?

> it becomes extremely simple to steal the designs created on those computers

If it is so simple, so how does it work? (It might or might not happen, but it is certainly not simple or known)

I don't have that many. But when I need to OCR a receipt or in general get text from an image, I use the Copyfish extension and then copy & paste from there to the accounting software:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copyfish-ocr-...

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/copyfish-%F0%9F%90...

Exactly. That is the whole point of anti-monopoly laws.

As a HN reader, I would ask you to _do_ post Danish content, or in any other language that you know. There is so much more info on the web that is not available in English. And once we know about, Google translate helps to read it.

This reminds of the "WOT, Web of Trust" (haha) privacy issue in 2016: Reporters (disguising as business men) were offered data that includes the surfing habits of three million German citizens. This data was, at least partly, collected by the “Web of trust” (WOT) browser extensions. The reporters were able to use this data to identify the browsing habits of individual persons – including high-ranking German and EU politicians.

English: https://ocr.space/blog/2016/11/wot-browser-extension-collect...

They (randomly?) change IDs and the DOM structure, and thus break scripts. One workaround is to automate visually (KantuX, Sikuli,...) but that is much slower and makes only sense for low-volume scraping.

>... German rigidity shows

And what has Germany to do with this?

Things have changed a lot the last years, because of companies like Flixbus and now Flixtrain, which finally offer a real _price_ competition to the train. Now you can get from Stuttgart to Berlin for 10 Euros on Flixtrain, if you book early. I expect the same for Munich to Berlin, when Flixtrain starts to service this route next year: https://www.flixtrain.com/

"...beyond that"... that is funny. The "ability to work anywhere in the EU" is a huge win for all countries involved, and it alone would be worth having the EU. And what kind of "regulations that seem to be hurting a lot of smaller countries" do you mean? I can't think of any.

Some brands like Birkenstock shoes stopped selling on Amazon for this reason: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/07/20/birkenstock-quits-amazon-in-...

Point and click with OCR: https://a9t9.com/kantu/web-scraping

From the article:

"I'm not planning on taking money out on a daily basis to live off of — I have a job for that," Ingram said. "This is for the long term. It's basically taking all of my savings so far and putting it towards it. It is a little risky, but I'm young."

Sounds like he knows what he is doing, so I am confident he will be fine.

In Germany, smaller companies get reimbursed by the health insurance for the salary they pay their employee during the sick leave.

Good point. OCR powered web scraping is even available out of the box nowadays.

https://a9t9.com/kantu/docs/scraping#ocr

The listed techniques not only detect Chrome headless, but all custom browsers built on CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) https://bitbucket.org/chromiumembedded/cef, such as Kantu from https://a9t9.com

If your goal is to only allow the original Google Chrome browser, that is fine. Otherwise this might cause false alarms.

Not me (but also curious to hear!).

I tried it but never understood the value they provide for users with basic programming and scripting knowledge.

I either use the API directly, or, if not available or I only need some quick and dirty solution, resort to web browser automation tools like Kantu.

All these apps give the government more control, that is why their use is encouraged.

Bitcoin "as app" (once or if it works) will be more like cash payments, privacy wise. That is were I see the main advantage. I find it spooky what Visa and Mastercard now about all of us... at least about me.

You can compare Google vs Microsoft vs OCR.space without signing up here:

https://ocr.space/compare-ocr-software

OCR.space is a "good enough" option for many projects. It has a very generous free tier of 25,000 free conversions/month per IP address (Google only 1000/month per account). In my tests it performed not as good as Google, but good enough for many applications (much better than Tesseract).

Strong statement - any data to back it up?

People Still Don't Get the Link Between the Number of People on this Planet and Climate Change

(I hardly eat meat these days, but nothing will help if the population continues to grow at the same rate)

There is the blue card http://www.bamf.de/EN/Infothek/FragenAntworten/BlaueKarteEU/...

Essentially all you need is a normal IT job above a certain threshold

Is this hearsay or your experience? "regular accountancy checks"... I even forgot when our last one was...maybe 5 years ago. And this seems is typical.

Both, Kantu and Sikuli use image recognition with screenshots to find the elements, not Xpath/CSS-selectors.