I would not be surprised if the opposite happened. They likely copied a snippet from one of the SymPy examples on that page to use in a test question. Then, their hired-gun using an automated tool found the similarity between their code and the SymPy example. This is a clear example of not understanding the "downside risks" of automation -- and putting appropriate measures to mitigate.
-Travis On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 9:54:40 PM UTC-5 Jeremy Monat wrote: > Hopefully this can get resolved soon! So is HackerRank's contention that > one of the examples on our solvers page was taken from their site, for > example one of their quizzes? > > Jeremy Monat > > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2022 at 10:50 PM oliphant <teoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> By the way, because I get to work with Aaron, I was chatting about this >> with him. I saw the CEO post on Hacker News and I've reached out to him >> asking him to rescind the DMCA notice. This is likely the fastest way to >> get the site back up -- though it will still take a couple of days, I >> suspect. >> >> I also suggested he make a donation to NumFOCUS to sponsor SymPy >> development for the trouble his vendor caused this community. >> >> Thanks for all of you who continue to make SymPy a very useful project. >> >> -Travis >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 19, 2022 at 4:48:54 PM UTC-5 Aaron Meurer wrote: >> >>> Hi All. >>> >>> As some of you may have noticed, the SymPy documentation site is >>> currently down. This is due to a complaint that has been filed to >>> GitHub under the DMCA by HackerRank. You can read the complaint here >>> >>> https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/5de8f80b171afdc3741c9ab9d4c32ea32c44e59c/2022/04/2022-04-15-hackerrank.md >>> >>> >>> As a result of this complaint, GitHub has taken down our site. We are >>> looking into the claim and working on getting the site back up as soon >>> as possible. >>> >>> Aaron Meurer >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "sympy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to sympy+un...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/d276c484-56c8-4f8d-b1a5-22fe15e04bb4n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/d276c484-56c8-4f8d-b1a5-22fe15e04bb4n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sympy+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/cfce523a-2447-46f4-935b-c882f40fd71fn%40googlegroups.com.
