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(GP here) re: the second part, I guess I consider most scraping 'unwelcome'

To the first part: I would characterize certain scraping, usually behind an authentication wall, as malicious--though admittedly that's not the right word. An example would be scraping Facebook profiles to build a marketing list.

So, by 'non malicious,' i mostly mean 'publicly available data'

As someone often engaged in nonmalicious (but unwelcomed) scraping, this is one of the anti scraping measures I fear most

I'm not sure what 'newsworthy' means these days, but I thought it was suitable HN because the point if failure was the user input validations on the website.

My point wasn't that I'd be a-ok in the homeowner's shoes.

I'd be pretty pissed off if people rented my place for any business purposes under the guise of tourists.

...Newman.

I'm just taking all my contact info out of my site's footer so lawyers can't reach me.

...but really, no idea. Im likely just going to put a contact form in and handle any requests manually.

I think assuming porn production is intrinsically 'dirty' in a way that, say, a cocktail party with 20 ppl wouldn't be is exactly the sort of prudishness you're claiming is irrelevant here.

Hell, a family with three kids and a gallon of ice cream seems more likely to create an obscene mess than all but the most avant garde of porn (though I don't have kids and have never made a porn, so this is speculation)

"good entrepreneurs copy ideas, _great_ entrepreneurs steal ideas"

Reminds me of one of my favorite Simpsons gags ever.

"Marge: [sifting through mail] Aww. A rejection letter from the New Yorker subscription department."

Sounds like someone's procrastinating :)

VC bucks creating discounts is about the only form of wealth redistribution we [the U.S.] can count on these days.

I do a lot of front end work and this is a pet peeve of mine. And I _still_ screw it up sometimes. For whatever reason, layout is still really hard to get bug-free.

CSS Grid will help a lot as it gains adoption, but if FlexBox's adoption is any indication, that won't be for some time.

This is neat. How does it work with search engines? Just lots of 404s once articles 'disappear'?

"...made simple" might be a bit of an overstatement.

Hey, speak for yourself pal. Some of us have been making shitty websites all along.

(I'm not affiliated w/ this product at all)

this seems un-constructive and mean-spirited. IMO, at the _very_ least, you should offer a reason as to why this isn't your cup of tea.

very clean looking productivity tool. desktop client looks especially slick.

aside: i thought the time lapse transition[1] in the demo was pretty cleverly done

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/X6BwS9c.gif

key part:

"[A lawyer specializing in this sort of law] explained that when dad and Chrysalis came to a handshake agreement, as long as the paintings were originally considered “works made for hire,” the copyright for the paintings always belonged to Chrysalis, thanks to the 1909 Copyright Act. Copyright laws were amended in 1978, making it more difficult for commissioned works to qualify as “works made for hire,” especially in instances where a contract was less-than-specific. Unfortunately, the courts have heavily favored publishers for cases that dated prior to 1978, which means dad missed the cutoff by a scant seven years."

ack, yes. thank you!

That's a pickle. And what abt white noise? I know a lot of therapists use this machine[1] to maintain privacy--sort of a similar goal

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Marpac-Classic-White-Noise-Machine/dp...

I had the same problem. I've been doing 100% audiobooks for several years now and I'll never go back. I can work through a regular length book in a week w/ retention on par with regular book reading.

Has to be an easier way.Noise cancelling head phones? White noise machine? Even some sort of cheap sound dampening material applied to the ceiling etc should make a meaningful difference no?

All of these are novels. In my 20s I felt guilty and frivolous for reading fiction, but eventually I realized I could learn a lot more walking in a protagonist's shoes than I could reading self help etc.

'My Struggle' by knausgard. Lengthy but worth it, even if you only read book 1. On face it's just the angst of some middle class writer, but following him into the recesses of his own introspection is really something.

The borderlands trilogy, Cormac McCarthy. This guy tackles major existential questions in his fairly simple (but dark) stories. it'd help to have basic grasp of Spanish for these books

And maybe my favorite book, Lullabies for little criminals by Heather O'Neill. It's about a little girl who's being raised by a junky and is coerced into prostitution. Obviously a very dark premise, but the way the protagonist experiences it made me think a lot about resilience, relative hardship,etc.

I'd love it the SQLite page wrapped content in a div of a reasonable max-width. Text running edge-to-edge is hard to read.

Anyone know if the site is hosted on GitHub?

^ math checks out

Looks cool. I use netlify's form capture a lot but I've always thought there should be a host-agnostic solution for 'fire and forget forms'

I never felt like this story got enough coverage. This modern day Chuck Feeney[1] demonstrates the precise sort of selfless generosity we need more of, but most of my news feeds are busy baiting me with the latest bit of gossip.

I don't have solutions I guess, just grumbling. But thinking about that makes this historical act of kindness a little bittersweet.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Feeney

Heads up, code snippet is overflowing on Mobile (at least on Firefox)

https://i.imgur.com/lTLwd3U_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&f...

I don't want to get too technical in my assessment here, but: holy shit that's cool.

I think this is a class-driven norm. I grew up in a poor neighborhood and dropping by unannounced was the norm. If you called beforehand, it was likely just to make sure your pal was even home.

Overall, I think most trappings of etiquette fade away as you climb down the socioeconomic ladder (I think rich folk have a lot to learn from poor here, fwiw).

Maybe for a _very_ specific subset of people, but I think by & large we can count on Americans' distaste for organizing our schedules to preclude any kind of hyper-optimized child-rearing from becoming too popular.

That is: the caricature's funny, but it sounds like _way_ too much damn work.