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by JackC 8y ago
That might be sticker price, but I'm seeing the Bolt in Massachusetts for more like $32,000 before subsidies with the upgrades you mention: https://drivegreen.greenenergyconsumers.org/form_cars.php So after subsidies p
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by JackC 8y ago
> is that seriously the bottom end? It's the middle end by average sales price -- about half of people pay less than that, about half pay more. Check out https://twitter.com/asymco/status/104024077886014668
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by JackC 8y ago
John Gruber thinks Apple probably refuses to allow those cases: "But Apple wields its MFI control in other ways too. In a Twitter thread Wednesday, Nilay Patel pointed out there has never been an MFI-certified battery case with a headp
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by JackC 8y ago
it's not for everyone, but we use a Donor Advised Fund for anonymous giving: https://www.schwabcharitable.org/public/charitable/home You donate the money to a nonprofit run by Schwab, and then later you can t
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by JackC 8y ago
ABBYY FineReader -- I don't have the specific version in front of me unfortunately. In addition to the structured text we're currently serving through the API, we also have 300DPI color scans and per-word coordinates and confidenc
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by JackC 8y ago
> I'm not sure why you have such hope. Hey, I work at the Library Innovation Lab -- being hopeful about open access scenarios is just one of the services I provide. :) But basically I'm hopeful in this instance because (a) ther
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by JackC 8y ago
For now we're stopping with volumes published up through June 2018. The Free Law Project ( https://free.law ) is a good source for cases published after that, although they're mostly unofficial versions scraped from cour
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by JackC 8y ago
Hi! I'm a project dev. In case it's helpful, there's lots of Q&A in this previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18330876 I'll try to answer any questions that pop up here as well.
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by JackC 8y ago
Thanks, I passed on your bug report! For the jurisdiction slugs we use the standard legal citation abbreviations for each state: https://law.resource.org/pub/us/code/blue/IndigoBook.html#T1... This has t
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by JackC 8y ago
Good question! This refers to caselaw from courts that predate the United States, such as Maryland and Massachusetts: https://api.case.law/v1/cases/ State courts didn't come into existence with the US Constit
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by JackC 8y ago
We do have some docs, though suggestions are welcome! Here's the definition of whitelisted: https://case.law/api/#def-whitelisted
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by JackC 8y ago
> Hopefully this means no logins, also, but that's less clear. The only things we have behind logins are what we are contractually required to, yes. This gets pretty fine-grained -- if you do a logged-out search across jurisdictions
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by JackC 8y ago
Definitely! I'll sleep better when we have all the bulk data shipped to everyone who wants it. That will happen by March 2024, or earlier for any states that switch to official digital publishing. (I mean, Harvard isn't a bad home
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by JackC 8y ago
Great question! We love Mike Lissner and have talked with him about connections between our projects. We'll definitely work with him if we get a chance. Benefits of our data set: we're more complete, being a census of all known vo
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by JackC 8y ago
Thanks for this suggestion! We'll definitely kick Blacklight around as an option. We have a complex data model (cases, opinions, parties, citations, courts, jurisdictions, volumes ...), and tens of millions of pages, and weird access r
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by JackC 8y ago
You got me curious -- our first case with the modern term "coleslaw" is from 1935, in Rhode Island, and begins ominously with "The plaintiff in this case was injured by swallowing two small pieces of wire concealed in an orde
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by JackC 8y ago
Caselaw data is public domain, but it's very expensive to digitize -- partly because it's mostly stored on paper, and partly because it's mixed together with copyrighted material. For this project we had to scan 40,000 volume
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by JackC 8y ago
The full text of the cases is available. For example, here is a query for the full text of Illinois cases, which are available without a login: https://api.case.law/v1/cases/?jurisdiction=ill&full_case=tr... F
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by JackC 8y ago
Hi! I'm a developer on this project. Happy to answer questions for the next hour or so, and I'll check back tomorrow as well. This is a first public release and the Harvard Library Innovation Lab is a small team, so please look at
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by JackC 8y ago
Another pypi issue I've been wondering about recently is binary wheels. We saw an issue a few weeks back where pipenv hashes stopped matching because binary wheels were added for a package years after the last release, and it wasn&#x27
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by JackC 8y ago
We add node/npm to Django projects when we need a more complex pipeline for frontend JS than projects like django-pipeline can provide. If you want stuff like babel transpilation or tree shaking for your JS, all the fancy webpack stuff
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by JackC 8y ago
I took 12 weeks of paternity leave after my wife went back to work, and definitely recommend it if you can swing it. Partly just that spending time with a kid small enough to nap inside your hoodie is worth doing -- but honestly I'm no
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by JackC 8y ago
I'm curious about the answer to this! I don't have a good intuition for it. The impact of individual votes is called "voter power," and in US presidential elections is mostly related to how evenly matched a state is -- w
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by JackC 8y ago
Jazzband is interesting from that angle as well -- maybe encourage employees to spend some 20% time as Jazzband maintainers?
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by JackC 8y ago
I've had this experience with a bunch of popular Django-related projects recently, where they stop receiving regular PR review and releases. Keeping up with Django's release cycle then requires digging into the bug trackers and fo
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by JackC 8y ago
No idea if deleting the email is required under GDPR, but for a taste of why it might be, imagine scaling up a bit. If they keep one email in this scenario, they're keeping one personal fact: email A is affiliated with email B. Suppose
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by JackC 8y ago
"The surveillance economy should die." This is the key point. We don't need a perfect fix. We "just" need to change incentives enough that, say, 95% of engineers who work on surveillance and psychological profiling
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by JackC 9y ago
Is there personal data in the domain names queried, as opposed to the IP addresses querying? I think there probably is. For example, consider the bug in iTerm2 that ran a dns query for any text cmd-clicked on. To protect against that, could
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by JackC 9y ago
Congratulations on the launch! I hope you take to heart the privacy concerns here. In case you haven't come across it, here's a useful thread from last year about Unroll.me's datamining and selling of customers' inboxes,
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by JackC 9y ago
The idea is an extension to let users opt into javascript features that allow for side-channel attacks. Here's the source code: https://github.com/IAIK/ChromeZero Note this closed issue from karthikbhargavan point

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