Category: Tech

Technologies

Fair use of web content

This news was buried among many other news, but I felt that it deserves more people knowing about it.

It is about “fair use” of publicly available web content. What is “fair use” and when can content be restricted.

The original article is here.

A small company called hiQ is locked in a high-stakes battle over Web scraping with LinkedIn. It’s a fight that could determine whether an anti-hacking law can be used to curtail the use of scraping tools across the Web.

HiQ scrapes data about thousands of employees from public LinkedIn profiles, then packages the data for sale to employers worried about their employees quitting. LinkedIn, which was acquired by Microsoft last year, sent hiQ a cease-and-desist letter warning that this scraping violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the controversial 1986 law that makes computer hacking a crime. HiQ sued, asking courts to rule that its activities did not, in fact, violate the CFAA.

James Grimmelmann, a professor at Cornell Law School, told Ars that the stakes here go well beyond the fate of one little-known company.

I will leave it up to you to read and make up your own opinion about it.

LinkedIn Celebrate 500M members April, 2017

LinkedIn 500M members celabratory picture.

Big celebration for LinkedIn as the company hits 500M + members.

This picture was at LinkedIn HQ in Sunnyvale.  I am the guy in the middle of that red circle.

The picture was taken by a mavic pro drone, flying above the building.  The drone belongs to one of my colleague.

 

 

Courier Fetch Error: unhandled courier request error: Authorization Exception in Chrome/Safari on Kibana 4.5.0

Getting this error in your Kibana?

You need to increase your max header size as default netty is only 8KB.   You can change the value in your elasticsearch.yml file.

Add the following line (or uncomment it if it is already there).

http.max_header_size: 32kb

 

Moving or copying files from one Google drive account to another

I have seen questions on the web about how to migrate (copy/move) files from one GDrive account to another. There are many reasons, such as migrating from one Google account (such as company) to your personal account, etc.

WARNING: you may be violating your company policy by moving/copying files from your company Google account to a personal. I advise you to consult your company security officer or equivalent before doing this.

There are other reasons for wanting to copy or moving large number of files from one GDrive to another. Such as for me. I shared a folder in my GDrive with my family for putting our family photos in a central location. My family have G account, and there own GDrive. It seem that Google make it painful to copy files from one GDrive to another. Their suggestions is some form of downloading the files to your local drive first, and then uploading it to the other GDrive that you want.

This is painful!!! There are so many reasons why it’s painful…. 😉

The solution I’ve used is to install Google Drive app (supports OSX, Windows, Linux, Android and IOS).

Link Google Drive app to one Google account, and now you can treat the files in it as on your local drive and drag from there to the GDrive account you want to copy to.