skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Should Dr. Lui really know how to handle the situation ..."

Yes he should. This [1] is literally the second link to the Google search "what do I do if someone steals my photograph" and it has a nice check box of things to do which includes this step:
Do some research

Find out the infringing person’s name as well as their contact information.
This information is often available in the website’s “About Us” section.
Use a website such as WhoIsHostingThis.com to learn the website’s ISP. This information may be necessary later

Typing "Netflix General Counsel" into Google gives you the address of Dave Hyman as the first link.

If you go to Gough Lui's website (http://goughlui.com/about-me-a-short-bio/publications-and-ap...) he is clearly fairly internet aware and understands how to use search engines.

Based on that I think it is well within the GP's expectation that Dr. Lui should be able to figure that out and send a letter to Netflix demanding either they stop shipping their product or retroactively license his imagery for $<x> where he might want to consult with a Photography Agent to understand what size 'x' might represent.

[1] https://www.whoishostingthis.com/blog/2016/01/27/images-stol...
Anyone else surprised how short the list is?

Also it looks like http://swansislandblankets.com/ did not survive.
Alternatively people are complaining because Amazon is doing something bad.

Imagine if you're trying to sell lemonade on the street at a reasonable price, and the rich kid down the block sells at 50% the cost of goods. And all that just being funded by their dad.

At one point they're going to be the only lemonade salesperson on the block, and those subsidies are probably going to end. Meanwhile a market was up-ended and everyone who isn't the "winner" ends up losing.

Short term, customers are happy because someone is just giving them free money! But in the end it's not sustainable.

If we think we should let VCs subsidize services, we can just cut out the middlemen and tax their money away instead of playing these kinds of games.
> Whenever a user buys or sells Unum through the Unum Smart Contract, the current US dollar value of the exchanged cryptocurrency is found on another smart contract, called the Price Oracle. The Price Oracle is constantly being updated with the current average price of crypto-currencies. This price oracle allows Unum to maintain it's link to the US dollar.

Cool project! How do the updates work? There's a server somewhere running a scheduled task that pulls in the prices and pushes the average. How often does it run? What if it fails to run? Can the lag between the average price given by the Price Oracle and the actual average be taken advantage of in terms of making money?
True, you really shouldn’t care that much about where or who made your stuff. People are people. They all need a way to earn a living. Being an American shouldn’t entitle you to some quality of life that is far above what those around the world doing the same thing are (equal pay for equal work and all that, right?).

That said, many of those brands are of exceptional quality. I’ve been wanting a pair of Alden’s for a long time and I was able to buy some just this weekend. I’ve had a pair of Redwings for 5 years, treated them like shit, and they still look great and feel great.

Not every American company makes top quality products, and there are companies in other countries that make top quality products as well.
That's why I suggested that at most it was worth $300, which is a pretty generous price for a couple of product shots but meant to reflect a half-day minimum for a professional.
For those who haven't followed the link, Formula E is essentially just like F1 but with all-electric cars. It's a bit slower, but the competition is great, it's my personal favorite racing series. The official youtube channel uploads the full races for those interested.

As mentioned in the article, Formula E also runs an e-sports version of its series. They had live e-races at every racing event last year. Unfortunately, the races were quite bad to watch - pretty much exactly like playing racing games online (everyone goes in hard at the 1st corner, lots of collisions). The F1 esports final was 10x more fun to watch, although there was some aggressive driving, they mostly drove the same way the pros do.
He asked them for contact information, nothing more, nothing less. Which they were able to provide after a short wait.
Would be interesting to do peer 2 peer book exchange and just collect fees :)

BTW you can find some of the books very cheap in new condition...

http://www.librarist.com/us/book/9781785041273
A friend was in a similar situation (he was in BD at a quant hedge fund) and had been doing research for over a year when he discovered a ~50 person company doing exactly his idea. He cold emailed the CEO, the CEO was surprised that someone in the wild was excited about their esoteric idea, they continued to talk, and said friend eventually joined as their head of product after a few months.

Just saying that this is a route available to you if you're so inclined and your life circumstances allow you to take this path.
Where did he use Netflix's logo?
> I'm proud of my country. I think it's cool to buy products that support it's continued prosperity.

For me at least, its less of pride, and more of ensuring that the next generation has opportunities. I think keeping as much manufacturing here as we can is good for all of us overall.
Thing is, the profit margin is still there or even greater for Wal-Mart than 'Bobs Local Hardware Store'. Wal-Mart items are generally poor quality (cheaper) and they are notorious for bullying manufacturers and distributors for meeting a target price. They often win in these cases, which keeps their prices lower. But make no mistake, some of the cheaper items are not the same items you would get from even another big box retailer, let alone the mom and pops that used to be in business.
Right well maybe you only use Facebook and would prefer unlimited Facebook instead of 200MB of yahoo or 50MB of popups. Since these are internet packages for 5 euros a month, how much cake do you expect to eat for free? You act like simply because someone has packaged internet "channels" they old model is completely gone. These are BARGAIN Plans which means beggars cant be choosers.
Unlikely.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/4r683b/repudia...

https://archive.org/details/commercialismjou00holtuoft
Is the availability of fair use limited when the creator explicitly states that the product is only available for licensed uses?
The world's most toxic value system (2001)
You may not value local goods/services. Plenty of other people do. And just because good can be shipped globally or be cheaper, or even better doesn't man you have to buy them.

I would suspect you live in a larger city. I know most people view goods this way after recently moving to a rural location I see a big shift in attitude to local goods vs imported. This may not be the view of the majority but it doesn't make this list of no use. On that logic we could say Hacker News forums are useless as most people use Facebook and we better get used to it...
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> our regard for human rights

I'm fine with the general idea of "being proud" if that's what you are into, but don't include human rights in that list when you have more than 2 millions of people in jail as we speak.
The digital equivalent of a postal money order would be nice to have.
>How was it condescending?

The 2nd sentence. "Seriously, ...?"

Specifically, re: 2), the way that was pointed out was condescending, as is your implication that contacting support - which is one of the few publicly visible contact points - is "clearly" "unorthodox".
But that one comes from the researchers themselves:

>The weakening of a strong communal ideology surrounding food production and storage increased the potential for dominant families to emerge, either through consistently greater success, or through force or unequal conditions of exchange. This in turn created the preconditions of specialisation and social inequality upon which urban life was founded in Mesopotamia.

(and that conjecture was based on lentils found by archaeologists)
The idea is interesting but I don't think he proved his premise.
If people are licensing a proprietary work as open source, they are in trouble, not you. What if Netflix actually bought/licensed the image from a third-party that stole from the original author?
We—the American government. The rest of the world doesn’t have higher speeds and lower prices than we do. We’re in the top 10 in Akamai’s ranking of highest average connection speed, beating all the big economically diverse European countries (Germany, France, UK, Spain, Italy). We’re very close to Sweden in terms of % of connections above 15 Mbps in the same Akamai ranking. Our broadband—which is deregulated—compares a hell of a lot better to those countries’ than say our government-run transit.

We’re also pretty comparable in price, at least in many places. In the nation’s capital, gigabit fiber is about $80/month, roughly what it costs in London and cheaper than what it costs in Stockholm. Apparently Amsterdam doesn’t have FTTH except in small pockets: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amsterdam/comments/6pv96m/gigabit_i.... The recommended ISP there, for people who can get it, is about the same for 500/500 as gigabit in DC. Where European countries tend to do better is price points for lower service tiers. In London Virgin offers 50/3 for $43/month. If I couldn’t get 50/50 for $40 via fiber, my closest option would be $75 for 75/10 with TV and HBO. These are not categorical differences.

Broadband deployment is largely managed at the local level, so it varies from city to city. Cities that make it cheap and easy to build (Austin, DC, Houston, Atlanta), have options pretty comparable to London, Munich, Paris, etc. Cities that put up roadblocks to development suffer for it.
The things you've listed are inconsistently respected in this country. I love it since it's mine and it's home but there's no need to be inaccurate about the state of this place.
It's important to realize the global macro environment is pushing up prices of everything: houses, stocks, just, all of it.

I'll admit I'm surprised by Bitcoin, I actively avoided it thinking it would crash long before now. But I wouldn't treat the past five years as anything remotely "normal". We're in one of the longest bull markets the US has ever seen and there are a lot of macro forces that will eventually end it, e.g. boomer retirement, student loan debt overhang, pension obligations. I was just reading some of Dalio's daily observations on some of this, they're quite good.
Yes it is reasonable. Graphic designers typically use stock materials so that they know the licenses are taken care of. Many companies have a "nothing but stock" policy to ensure this exact issue never occurs, and they pay Getty et al literally millions of dollars a year for licenses.

And if you're a CTO, yes it is in fact your responsibility to verify that you have the legal right to use code in your codebase.
Great? Really? The country that flys predator drones, runs the School of the Americas, orchestrated the Bay of Pigs, sold guns to the Contras to fund a war in Iran, funnels tons of guns and buys tons of drugs out of South and Central America, driving people to flee their homes?

I'm not proud of this country. This isn't even a democracy. It's an oligarchy. Only the opinions of the top 10% of income earners even remotely match policy decisions. This isn't new now, it's been this way for longer than I've been alive and longer than my parents have been alive.

Whether it's the Rockefeller funded WWF kicking tribes of their lands in Africa to preserve "wilderness areas" or phone companies outsourcing building phones to China so their countries turn into polluted wastelands instead of ours, the high income countries of the world are only "great" because they exploit everyone else.
As an Australian I like American bicycles, the only negative is that I have to own imperial sized tools. I wonder if traditions like that noticeably hurt the export market?
It'd be nice if we could help them update this list - I'd love a US made source for white goods (small appliances), and more clothing options - I'd love to get to the point that 95% of what I buy in dollars is made in a NAFTA country (ideally the US, but I'll take what I can get ;-) )
Yup, and while I did not go through every item in the list, it looks like it's mostly all fashion related - bags and clothes.
This is gnome in a nutshell, complicating things needlessly
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I just want to say that the music in the video is _horrible_. I cannot believe they went with it. It sounds like a scammy kickstarter page!
Oh I'm positive this happens all the time. The GPL specifically is pretty restrictive and there are frequently cases where GPL licensed software has made it into nonfree distributions. There are several lawsuits by the Software Freedom Law Center regarding GPL licensed software that's been improperly distributed. After FSF vs. Cisco, legal departments have wizened up a little about this kind of thing, but I'm confident there is still a massive amount of infringement.
Not to be a dick, but the above cited sources and you made assertions without anything pointing to anything to back them up. What reason do any of us have to put any stock in what you've written?
I wrote a smug detailed answer about this, but replacing it with a summary. The only ethical choice to to buy as little as possible, with an eye towards how long it will last. make whatever you can yourself. buy or scavenge used whenever possible.

try to minimize your participation in the culture of waste. thats got to be worth something.

doesn't really support the narrative of supporting local industry or the idea of eternal market growth.
> Is it really reasonable to expect everybody to go on an archaelogical dig to track down stock photos through hundreds of copies to trace the original from some Australian blog?

Google Image Search is not a stock photo library. There are plenty of stock images of VHS tapes available for licensing; just google "VHS stock photo." Whoever made those images probably worked for a design company with standing accounts; they were just too lazy to use them.

> If I use a snippet of "open source" code, am I morally/legally obligated to also scour the internet, trace its geneology through hundreds of Stack Overflow answers/random Github repos that it's already in, just to make sure the person licensing it as open source didn't, himself, steal it from somewhere else?

Irrelevant, because the designer didn't have a good-faith belief that they were licensing the image correctly. They just pulled it off a GIS and didn't bother.

But since you bring up open source, do you think you're morally/legally obligated to abide by the terms of the relevant open source license when you use open source code? Or do you think you can just do whatever you want with it, because obeying the law is hard?
True. But I'm also wondering: at the size and scale of Netflix, don't they stick with more above-board agencies with better controls for this kind of thing? I doubt they'd be happy with "Hey, guy-in-his-pajamas who freelances with his photoshop skills, do you pinky swear that you own the rights to all the IP in your deliverable? Because we fully expect to recover our full liability from you if you don't!"
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshold_of_originality

I don't think this image meets that test - there is absolutely no originality here. No special angles, lighting, design. Nothing.

It's just a plain straight on, photo of a common item.
Something like 1-5% of the news.ycombinator front page is customer service escalations.

I don't think it's totally crazy to write a blog post & publicize it on social media as an alternative to the traditional executive-email-carpet-bomb. It's not necessarily the best strategy but it's certainly not the worst.
more like, having a beautiful ui experience with a full shell, and sending the heavy lifting to a machine made specifically for that
That sounds awesome. The only thing I could think of while reading it was how impossible it would be to convince a secondhand buyer of all that though. Resale value not worth the upfront investment. However if I planned to own that house until I died (or longer) might be worth it.
> They've thrown out all established codes of ethics

They may have nudged on one particular code of ethics.

Alarmism does not help your credibility.
I read an interrsting theory that explains all things in the universe as simply circumstantial symmetry which exist at different places in pure chaos/randomness.

For a given period of time, you can find symmetry in subsets of chaos, and thus it can appear predictable or deterministic from that perspective. But the truth might be that we're just specifically looking for it.
I actually like Meetup.

In my home town, I've been able to meet a lot of people in tech (including Civic Tech), government, and data science that I wouldn't have met as easily otherwise since I mostly work from home. Most of the AI/Machine Learning meetups here are 100% full with long waiting lists. And I ended up having a relationship with someone I met at one of the meetups.
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I love the idea of this. Good analytics and data presentation are tough to come by in many situations, even when the necessary info is in principle accessible. This clever open source tool meets this need.
A potential value here is that you now support micro-transactions or can pay for an ad free experience.. but then I don't know why you don't just use bitcoin for this. Or maybe you can exchange to bitcoin.
And does it not seem likely that the output of this model would be used as a signal to influence the newsfeed algorithm? It's like a feedback machine showing already depressed people pictures of happy families, making them even more depressed, yet more hooked, eventually leading to you-know-what.
I think it's more than that actually. I don't live in the US, but I'd be interested in buying good made in the US if the US continues to provide a good working environment for its workers.

If the same item, of the same quality, is made in the US and China I might prefer to buy the US item if I felt the US workers were treated better overall.
The thing to keep in mind is that if the Bitcoin bubble bursts, then Bitcoin will go down for sure. However, the altcoins will probably recover for a year or two after the crash. The most drastic thing that would happen is that all the altcoins would be valued against something other than BTC, and the market would adjust accordingly.

At the time of this writing, I have investments in BTC, LTC, XMR (Monero), ARK, and RDD (ReddCoin). While BTC does represent around half of my total crypto investment, I wouldn't be completely screwed since one of the alts would probably take its place. I could see either Monero or one of the Bitcoin forks taking over in that scenario.

So, answering the question, I'd still invest in crypto. But I wouldn't invest in Bitcoin directly anymore.
My wife and I call this the "faith in experts" argument. We named it because we often find ourselves on opposite sides of it. She believes in experts, I'm more skeptical.

The main thing I've realized is that returns to pure capital just aren't that high. For a typically-sized retirement account (few hundred K), you're much better off going hard on your career if you're in a field where that's rewarded (law, finance, tech, med, etc.)

The one saving grace of your idea is that you'll have made all the mistakes by the time you have real money to manage, so you won't make silly dumb beginner mistakes like buying high and selling low. That's my post hoc justification, anyway ;)
also got what is worth, modern version of Mac office are really good
Your API Is Missing Swagger
Assuming it’s a Core i5/i7 with the same tower case as the new Mac Pro, Apple should call it “Mac Tower”. The Xeon-based tower would then be “Mac Tower Pro”.
Agree 100%. Happened to me too when I went to the ER for a panic attack.

I reported the doctor and he told me to later go fuck myself.

What a world. I got baker acted for going to the ER for a panic attack because of my anxiety.
During weight loss, the body wastes minerals and water as well! (not through the air)
It’s safest to never consider NAT and security in the same thought, for a few reasons. Two come to mind right away: IPv6 is pushing us toward less NAT, and laptops go other places and interact with other networks than your own.
Most large business transactions (eg cargo shipments from one country to another) involve intermediary banks and letters of credit (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_of_credit). Both parties usually don’t need overlapping business hours to move goods or money around.

Boeing’s case might be unique, any idea why?
> as someone trying to figure out how to pay for a new $100/month insulin prescription

Last weekend, another internet stranger recommended prescriptionhope.com, which charges $50/mo/script. [0]

> Why are these framed as independent factors? For many people the lack of financial stability is a primary source of depression and anxiety.

Not only that:

- poverty "can change your genes and increase your chances of depression" [1]

- relieving poverty (by $73/mo) "significantly improves mental health" [2]

- "anxiety disorders in poor moms likely to result from poverty, not mental illness" [3]

Of course, not everyone agrees. Some researchers found that improving mental health led to improved financial situations (and not the other way around.) [4] Regardless of which has a larger causal effect on the other, studies continue to show the two are certainly linked, and not independent factors.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/ROYXD

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/depression-anxiet...

[2] blog/news writeup: https://www.madinamerica.com/2015/11/relieving-poverty-signi...

abstract: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10597-015-9950-9

[3] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/07/120720083312.h...

[4] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2011/10/poverty-a...
Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I don't regard a photo of an object as having much value. These photos could have taken by literally anybody. Think of it as somebody using a piece of code you have posted online in their huge enterprisey app. I don't see the problem with that, or what makes a photo of an object worth any special treatment.
I recently built an app that embeds an invisible watermark in photos, specifically for cases like this. I call it an "InvisiMark". It works surprisingly well (and was quite a pain in the butt to implement).

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/zing/id1265492686?ls=1&mt=12
I think the list is quite biased. It seems to be mostly consumer goods. Entertainingly the only "computer" item is a wooden computer case:

https://www.blackboxcase.com/

There is a bunch of stuff made in the US that clearly isn't on this list, precision/industrial machinery etc.
Do you think you're allowed to walk off with someone's lawn furniture, because they're not home and as far as you know they don't want it anymore?
...was proven to be completely innocent of the actions they were accused of.
Without sounding like an asshole, either be part of the solution, or kindly find some place more suitable for your world outlook - if you have solutions for some of these problems, I'd be glad to hear them. In the mean time, I'm going to be proud of what my country has accomplished, even if I often don't like my government very much, our history is unique, our culture rich and varied, so while yes, everything in that first paragraph you said is true, I'm still proud to be an American overall.