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- Show HN: Bookmark in Public – Curate and Share Collections of Links Easily https://linkcollect.io 16 comments
- US Senator calls for the public release of AT&T ‘Hemisphere’ surveillance records. Senator Ron Wyden says the program has access to trillions of phone records collected by AT&T. https://www.engadget.com/us-senator-calls-for-the-public-release-of-att-hemisphere-surveillance-records-083627787.html 3 comments politics
- Trump Admin to Deny Green Cards to Immigrants Who Collect Public Assistance https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/24/headlines/trump_admin_to_deny_green_cards_to_immigrants_who_collect_public_assistance 29 comments politics
- Iowa House Approves Bill Cutting Collective Bargaining Rights for Public Workers http://whotv.com/2017/02/16/iowa-house-approves-bill-cutting-collective-bargaining-rights-for-public-workers/ 6 comments politics
- Larry Summers: Data Collection Is The Ultimate Public Good https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/04/larry-summers-data-collection-is-the-ultimate-public-good/ 3 comments economy
- US union leader has attacked a "corruption of democracy" after the Wisconsin senate approved a plan to strip public-sector unions of most of their collective bargaining rights. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12706251 4 comments politics
- Seeking opinions on supporting no_std by switching between std::collections::HashMap and hashbrown::HashMap, when that HashMap is public API https://git.chrismorgan.info/anymap/blob/HEAD:/src/lib.rs#l349 13 comments rust
- Trump administration to stop collecting money from companies that damage public lands https://thinkprogress.org/trump-administration-to-stop-collecting-money-from-companies-that-damage-public-lands-1d882c7d473a/ 6 comments politics
- Library of Congress will no longer collect every public tweet http://thehill.com/policy/technology/366494-library-of-congress-will-no-longer-collect-every-public-tweet 5 comments technology
- Library of Congress will no longer collect every public tweet http://thehill.com/policy/technology/366494-library-of-congress-will-no-longer-collect-every-public-tweet?__twitter_impression=true 8 comments politics
- My go-to Public Domain collections https://www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/comments/6l47l0/my_goto_public_domain_collections/ 21 comments gamedev
- This bill completely guts collective bargaining for public employees in Iowa http://iowalabornews.com/?p=16504 16 comments politics
- The Software Heritage project, trying to collect and preserve all publicly available software in source code form https://www.softwareheritage.org/ 6 comments programming
- A COLLECTION OF HARDLY ACCESSIBLE PUBLICATIONS IN THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE WITH A HISTORICAL INTEREST http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/pierre.lescanne/not_accessible.html 3 comments programming
- LPT: You can apply for a Brooklyn Public Library card for $50/year and get access to their entire Ebook collection. https://bpl.bklynlibrary.org/card/ 719 comments books
- Guilty of bribery and extortion, ex-public employees still collect public pensions https://www.wxyz.com/news/local-news/investigations/after-admitting-to-bribery-and-extortion-ex-public-employees-still-collect-public-pensions 3 comments nottheonion
- Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum has put over 700,000 digitised copies of its huge art collection online, and is making them available to reuse as public domain https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2021/01/21/over-700000-paintings-from-the-rijksmuseum-online-copyright-free/ 21 comments web_design
- Osama Bin Laden's porn collection will not be released by the CIA when evidence from his Pakistan hideout is made public 'very soon' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4880212/cia-not-release-bin-laden-s-pornography-collection.html?ito=social-facebook 31 comments worldnews
- Help Reddit! Newly elected WI governor Scott Walker wants to bust all the public unions except fire/police and take away all collective bargain rights! Get the word out! http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/115911379.html 3 comments reddit.com
- I built a website with my friends to make to make medical prices searchable, now that that hospitals are now required to publicly publish prices. We collected close to 20 million prices from around 380 hospitals thus far, and we’re adding more every other week http://finestrahealth.com/main 291 comments internetisbeautiful
- I've spent the past couple years writing code to collect data that is sold to professional investors for thousands of dollars a month, and making it publicly available. This week I built a dashboard which tracks and visualizes discussion on r/Cryptocurrency. Check it out here! https://www.quiverquant.com/crypto/xlm 44 comments cryptocurrency
- "Philosophy is a public good and a philosophical education produces citizens capable of addressing the problems we collectively confront" -Alsion Assiter (UWE) on Arendt, Employment, and Education. http://dailynous.com/2020/07/22/philosophy-employment-public-good-guest-post-alison-assiter/ 135 comments philosophy
- Supermarkets have been accused of exploiting a loophole by using excessive and unnecessary plastic bags for click and collect and delivery services despite vowing to curb the practice. Environmental charities accused the retailers of failing to take public outrage over “pointless plastic” seriously. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/12/24/supermarkets-accused-using-excessive-unnecessary-plastic-bags/ 143 comments worldnews
- Report: Microsoft’s enterprise products covertly gather personal data on users - Microsoft collects and stores personal data about the behavior of individual users of its enterprise offerings on a large scale, without any public documentation — according to a new report by Privacy Company. https://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2018/11/15/report-microsofts-enterprise-products-covertly-gather-personal-data-on-users/ 154 comments technology
- A state-owned French art museum has discovered that more than half of its collection consists of worthless fakes and experts fear that other public galleries may also be stuffed with forgeries https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/04/28/french-museum-discovers-half-collection-fakes/ 111 comments worldnews
- In Delhi, public services may come to your doorstep for an extra fee of Rs 50. The Delhi government plans to deploy specialised representatives who would apply on your behalf, collect the required documents and deliver the approved certificate to your house http://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/in-delhi-public-services-may-come-to-your-doorstep-for-an-extra-fee-of-rs-50/story-t1jioqo5xk2br2wqcwey6o.html 167 comments india
- Swabbing a car door handle in a public lot to collect DNA is a Fourth Amendment trespass search--So holds a new decision by a federal judge in the Eastern District of Louisiana. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2017/04/24/swabbing-a-car-door-handle-in-a-public-lot-to-collect-dna-is-a-fourth-amendment-trespass-search/ 15 comments privacy
- What Would Happen if the Court Kneecapped the Unions? - After Scott Walker pushed through his 2011 right-to-work initiative and gutted public-sector unions’ collective-bargaining rights, Wisconsin’s public union membership dropped by 70 percent. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2016/01/teachers_union_dues_case_at_the_supreme_court.single.html 5 comments politics
- Republican candidates called the government “stupid” during their first debate, had testy exchanges on civil liberties, and said pimps and prostitutes are collecting public benefits. But they had nothing to say about the nation’s landmark climate plan introduced earlier this week. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/republican-candidates-avoid-climate-change-in-first-debate/ 66 comments politics
- Armed guy takes Dutch crew and newsreader hostage. Apparently wanted to be aired live & read a letter to disclose 'important information for the public'. Supposedly said he belonged to a hackers collective who worked for an intelligence agency. Police suddenly rush in and overwhelm him.[video] http://nos.nl/artikel/2016195-korte-gijzeling-bij-nos.html?npo_cc=126&npo_rnd=901877094 4 comments worldnews
- Librarian Recorded 800,000 Hours Of News Footage Over 35 Years: "Metelits has teamed up with non-profit digital archive company The Internet Archive with hopes of converting Stokes' 140,000 video cassette tape collection into a digital, searchable archive that would be made available to the public" http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/digitizing-35-years-of-historical-news-footage-234615351.html 20 comments technology
- There is a big difference between having a device like this one on your private property and in a public space,” he said. “Once you enter public space and collect images and sound recordings, you have entered another realm. This is the kind of pervasive surveillance that has put people on edge http://knightscope.com/ 4 comments privacy
- Defeating the modern Leviathan of corporate-government data collection | Individuals face an unholy alliance of data-hungry private firms and public agencies. Only citizen action can win back our privacy http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/06/corporate-government-data-collection 105 comments technology
- Prostitution for the Price of a Happy Meal - 32 states in the country ban anyone convicted of a drug felony from collecting food stamps. Punishing people by denying access to food is terrible policy; threatens overall public health. It does not fight drug use, nor does it save taxpayers money. http://prospect.org/article/prostitution-price-happy-meal 313 comments politics
- Mich Elections Board cancels next week’s meeting, GOP member has resigned, "The reasoning: to prevent the validation of the petitions to repeal Public Act 4 — the Emergency Manager Law & the “Protect Our Jobs” petitions to place collective bargaining protections in the state constitution" http://eclectablog.com/2012/06/breaking-mich-elections-board-cancels-next-weeks-meeting-preventing-decision-on-pa4-collective-bargaining-referendums-gop-member-rumored-to-have-resigned.html 7 comments politics
- NO on 2! Early election returns show Ohio voters delivering a stunning rebuke to the Koch Brothers, Gov. John Kasich and the U.S. right-wing, voting overwhelmingly to repeal a new law that killed collective bargaining rights for public employees http://vote.sos.state.oh.us/pls/enrpublic/f?p=130%3A6%3A0 3 comments politics
- Mother Fool's stands in solidarity with the public sector workers of Wisconsin in their fight to preserve their right to collective bargaining. Donate to give free coffee to anyone who is on their way up to the capitol to demonstrate. http://motherfools.com/news.php?uri=news 3 comments politics
- Undercover cops brutally beat an unarmed innocent man; collect pay for a year, refuse to investigate. Meanwhile, police raid the office of someone trying to publicize the case. http://reason.com/archives/2011/01/24/a-beating-in-pittsburgh 118 comments politics
- Now is "the moment of truth for Democrats." Will they cave to the health-care industry, or pass real reform? [I may switch to a third party if their spines collectively snap and they don't include a public option] http://www.thenation.com/blogs/edcut/449824/real_health_real_reform 22 comments politics
- Controversial geneticist Anthony Martin announces plans to collect DNA from the general public for use in organ farming and cybernetics http://www.eyeondna.com/2007/10/29/new-line-genetics-and-sellmydnacom 2 comments science