skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really don't like that "fake news" became this term that means "news I disagree with". What it was describing at the time it was coming into popular usage, it mostly described "news" sites that in many cases used scripts to generate their content, and for the most part preyed upon far right sentiments. So yeah, we shouldn't censor "fake news" on the premise that it is something we disagree with, but rather whether it is easily verified as false(as many of these were).
Did they arrange it so that you didn't see that post (why would they?), or did you just miss seeing it, or is it just ranked poorly by their algorithm?

Seems like there's a lot of possible explanations, it doesn't seem obvious to me that it's Facebook's fault/
The sim expo (http://www.nuerburgring.de/en/events-tickets/automobile/blan...) has been at the Nürburgring about a couple of moths ago. Does anyone know anything similar happening in Germany / Belgium / Netherlands in the near future?
Look harder, it does. There are only cons (pair) and atoms.
When will Codex Seraphinianus be broken?
> Created 19 November 2001, Last Update 30 August 2011

Looks like this was created right after 9/11. It's understandable why he wrote this.

> It's considered bad form in many circles to criticize another culture's values. In addition, the social science literature contains a number of rationalizations for the "honor" mentality. One is that every value system makes sense to the people that hold it. Another is that every value system exists for a reason. Well, of course. The problem is that you can make these assertions about any value system whatsoever. Rape and genocide and embezzlement also exist for a reason, and make sense to people who think a certain way. That doesn't tell us whether the values are morally acceptable or even whether they are beneficial to those who adhere to them...So I regard it as trivially obvious that the "honor" mentality exists for a reason and makes perfect sense to the people that adhere to it. I don't doubt it for a moment. I merely claim that these values debilitate the societies that hold them.

Something this author believes that most people (in our coastal bubbles) don't: that some cultures are better than others. It's astonishing how controversial this position is even 16 years later; however, I think when this article was written it was even more politically incorrect to say than it is now.
David Mermin has written a very good introduction specifically targeted towards computer scientists and mathematicians looking to learn and contribute to this field. His book "Quantum Computer Science" is really great, and I highly recommend reading it if you're interested in learning more. Basic linear algebra is pretty much all that's required, although familiarity with mathematical notation definitely helps.

A good place to start might be this paper by Mermin, which defines classical computing bits (Cbits) in a specific mathematical framework and then expands that definition to define Qbits and their states: https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0207118.pdf
That’s also my experience. I do a lot of Thai boxing and I need to control my weight to maintain my weight class. I switched from a balanced diet to a keto diet hoping for change but at the end both averaged the same. The only difference was that with the balanced diet I had to eat twice as much food to actually feel full and work out without being dizzy. Now I am walking down the path of strict calorie intake control, trying to better understand my metabolism tipping point. Working out more has no effect if it does not come with some form of caloric restriction.
The Ralph Peters article he cites can be found online at http://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/Articles/98spr...
I would describe the "honor" system as like treating the world like a big MMORPG where the only goal in life is to accumulate "honor" points. The whole point of life is to grind away everyday to gain more honor points. Someone insults you = lose honor points. Revenge on the insulter = gain honor points. Wife cheats on you = lose honor points. Revenge on wife = gain honor points. Someone cheats you out of 10 cents = lose honor points, etc. The points are an end in themselves. The whole purpose of life is to get them and he who dies with the most points wins. The truth is unimportant. The benefit to society as a whole is unimportant. More money means you can humiliate people and have people kiss ass which means more honor points!
Having run Meetups for the last ~4 years or so, with my current one being a nice size (~100/month attend), I can tell you the absolute biggest challenge for myself and for others is getting a good affordable/free space to run the events. As WeWork has so much prime real estate, I can easily see the Meetups being a natural feeder to get more people exposed to their spaces, and also to create community events for those that rent. Seems like a nice opportunity for synergy here. Hope it goes well. Two great NYC companies!
I think you are right. Certain types of images you can't even copyright as they do not meet the standard as a work of copyrightable material.
It's interesting that Amazon is losing money in North America.

Not even losing money, just lower profits than last year. But apparently it's now evil for companies to invest for the long term rather than boosting their quarterly numbers.
What if it's that simple?
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“General counsel” is the title given to a company’s chief in-house legal officer, so it would indeed be contacting the company itself (and the person at the company most likely to be able to properly handle the situation, at that).

That said, finding somebody a little farther down the chain in the legal department might yield a faster initial result at most big companies; this type of infringement is comparatively small potatoes for the GC.
It's certainly a work in progress, and so far I've given less attention to the better known alleged perps. I don't even have Brett Ratner on there yet.

I've also thought about rating or categorizing the allegations in a more systematic way, but it would be difficult to do well. Any sort of rating system seems like it could be easy to mess up. Point taken about Weinstein or Cosby being at the same level as, say, Ben Affleck. Perhaps grouping them by ranges of accusers would work (eg, "1," "2-5", "6-10", "10+").

One possible feature could be whether someone was convicted of an offense. That should be pretty straightforward and wouldn't involve any editorializing.
Off topic, the web site is truly content-centered and looks clean and clear with no unnecessary information. Font size for each level is very good, too. For me, that's how good design should look like.
Buying common stock and a different price from preferred is not a discount. Come on, this is just annoying at this point.
If "American Equity" were such a good idea, then World Equity would be just as good or better an idea. All humanity contributes to the gestalt of civilization and so all should benefit.
This hipster fad doesn't scale and won't live long. A couple of containers made corrosion resistant, partially buried are fine for climate-controlled storage and make good sheds. Maybe two floors.

I'd rather use most of a derelict 747, after hazmat elimination, as a building if we're going to get "creative," because containers are passé.
Weird, these don't strike me as particularly flattering:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/amazon-workers-i...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/stores-hope-deals-ex...
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No. It's similar to that "if you're a cop you have to tell me" thing. Basically meaningless.
Reminds me of this anecdote about Salvador Dali:

> In the 1940s [Salvador Dali] was commissioned by Max Factor to create a brand name and a bottle for their latest perfume. Dali accepted the commission but refused to follow any of the procedures most designs would consider useful in achieving a successful result. He refused to meet his client. He showed no interest in developing an understanding of the product itself, its target audience, where it was to be sold or how it was to be marketed. ... Four weeks later, the world's press descended up the Astoria Hotel on Fifth Avenue, flashbulbs at the ready.

> Dali arrived nearly an hour late, visibly bereft of any object resembling a perfume bottle. As he strode towards the lectern, journalists fired questions while flashbulbs were discharged all around him. Just before he reached the lectern, Dali conjured a handkerchief from his pocket and bent over to pick up a still-glowing expended flashbulb. He pressed the bulb gently against the lectern to flatten its tip and paused to allow it to cool. Once the bulb was cold enough to handle, Dali held it aloft and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Max Factor's Electrique!"

Source: https://books.google.com/books?id=PJYk8PFtZf8C&pg=PT86
Coops pay out a patronage dividend to members. Coop accounting is a wierd and special beast, and I won't claim any expertise. Typically a member pays something to belong, that is how ag coops raise some of their capital, for instance.

In the REI case, the dividend amounts to a discount on purchases for members. Others pay the full freight. Same goes for ag coops, but the stakes are much larger and the accounting more complicated.

There is no reason other businesses can't be structured as coops, but trying to find someone who understands the structure probably requires visiting a land grant university in fly-over land and looking up the business school.
Don't mean to come across as nit-picky, here. I work for a media company (not Netflix):

Just to keep things going straight — that's usually an art director's role on such a project. Senior management likely wants nothing to do with tasks like ensuring copyrights and IP issues are paid out. The art directors are usually the ones who know better. Senior-level managers may know, but they may also pay other people to know better.
Yikes, really saddened to hear this far-reaching conspiracy claptrap on HN.
This is interesting. At the risk of being lambasted for this view, I've often felt that this is the issue with a lot of places within the United States.

For instance, I've always considered personal interactions in the South to be largely dictated by honor. I do not think it is coincidental that the poorest and least-educated areas of the country are the same area.

I think a similar problem is at play in inner-city violence. I live in Chicago, and murders seem to be almost entirely honor-related at this point.

While I do think that honor-based societies are indicative of a lack of pragmatism, I think that they make sense in a certain light as well. Honor is something that has no (outright) monetary cost, and so you can have honor when you have nothing else. If you have nothing but your honor, and don't defend your honor when someone besmirches it, you will be left with nothing at all. This alone makes it fairly easy to see why people will kill to maintain their honor.
I don't mind them experimenting with new ways of doing things at all, I just really don't understand why this needs to be done in a way that prevents people from doing things the way they've done it before if they decide they don't like the way you're doing things.

Same reason it happened with Firefox: trying to attract more users. The broader you want your user base to be, the less customizable you have to be. Regular users can't handle heavy customization: it's too complicated and they freeze up.

Power users interested in extreme customization of their environment will always be a tiny niche. Add to that the Anna Karenina Principle [0] and it makes even less sense to try to compete for such users.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle
That Netflix could have shot themselves. But they didn’t. It was easier (cheaper) to use someone else’s work for free.
These people are acting in concert to deny some other citizens what should be a basic right: the right of free speech. There are things that shouldn't be possible to be enabled by popular vote: for example it shouldn't be possible to take the life of a law abiding citizen based on how many people antipathize him. Or to silence one for that matter.

I think that voting rings should in fact be legitimate (because they show that a piece of content is popular within a certain group of people, which is exactly the purpose of upvoting functionality), while reporting rings that obstruct some individuals liberties should be actively banned.
Fair enough. I guess it shouldn't be a big deal, but still a little weird to leave that in to me.
Yeah, Vettel and Ferrari threw away the championship starting in Singapore, but really cemented their downfall with a last minute mechanical failure on the grid.. stuff that doesn't (and probably shouldn't) happen in sim racing, that represent the culmination of decades of engineering philosophy, hundreds of millions of dollars spent, hundreds of thousands of man-hours.. what were we comparing F1 to again? video games?
If the VHS tape looks generic, it's because the photographer did a good job. Lens choice, tripod, angle, lighting, post processing, publishing hi-res version. That is work.

I've done plenty of "generic" photo shoots that I've needed to re-shoot because something such as minor reflection or details are wrong.
A year ago, I wrote an article advocating that tech companies do this, (pardon the clickbait headline):

A year ago I typed 'Suicide' into periscope and hit stream https://neuroamer.com/2016/08/08/a-year-ago-i-typed-suicide-...
KDE 4 to 5 was very smooth, though I waited ~3 months for reports from others before I jumped. :)

It feels like KDE 5 was focused primarily on polish rather than new features. (I honestly can't think of a feature in KDE 5 that wasn't in KDE 4.)

My only complaint I have for KDE 5 is that the system tray applets can occasionally disappear after multiple sleep/awake cycles on my laptop without rebooting, but right-clicking on the tray, disabling an applet, then reenabling it causes anything missing to reappear, which is probably the most minor thing someone can have for a desktop environment!

Oh, and people confuse my KDE laptop for a Windows laptop because it looks a lot like Windows Vista by default.
Not an expert, but I believe most of the benefits will come from quantum annealing, which is capable of escaping local minima in optimization problems.
Can you give me an example program that, when fed as input, would cause this if-statement to evaluate to false?
Also, regarding "armchair vigilantism" - I am really trying to be careful to only use reputable publications as sources, and to not be judgmental about who I include. Some of the accusations are quite shaky, but if they were made publicly and/or covered by mainstream media, I included them. I'm trying not to bring my own person judgment into it because it's not about that.
This design is probably a product of the page being written in 2001. Back then, the web was (text) content-centered because browsers couldn't do much other than text and layout. I might even be old enough to say those were "the good ol' days" :)
He writes

> Now I have a residental permit

The prerequisite for that, according to [0], is "The Limited Stay Visa, or VITAS1, is a single-entry visa that foreigners may obtain for the purpose of investment, research, work and etc".

[0] https://flagtheory.com/residency-in-indonesia/#Residence_Per...
Edit: "Express POOL is a new kind of shared ride that begins and ends at convenient Express spots. Update your app today to start riding for as low as $2.”

It's not Uber Pool it's some new product I hadn't heard of before he mentioned it. Shared ride with a fixed pickup point.

I see the same pricing you see when I use Uber/Lyft.
The day before yesterday I use my personal Github account and it was absolutely okay then. what happens now? :(
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what's the best way to build Twitter followers? Any idea?
Uncredited is not even tiny recognition. He received zero recognition and zero dollars for using his photo on a big time product. He should be paid, end of story.
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- Extreme importance of personal status and sensitivity to insult

- Acceptance of personal revenge including retaliatory killing

- Obsessive male dominance

- Paranoia over female sexual infidelity

- Primacy of family rights over individual rights

And who do these values remind you of? It is especially funnysad to read this 16 year old American writing today.
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> I use sloppy focus follow mouse and mouse raise only on titlebar click so I can use windowed applications in actual nontrivial ways.

That's sounds interesting. Where did you learn about this? It sounds like an unusual usage of the UI.
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USPS employees, in my experience, tend to be low-energy, lazy and inconsistent. I pay for a PO Box and they can't be bothered to leave packages in a self-service lock box and the key in my box, that is available, more than 15% of the time. Instead they waste time filling out a package available for pickup card, leave that and waste an hour or more of my time with another trip.

I'm tempted to go back to UPS Store, but they also don't do self-service packages. Amazon Lockers could work for small packages, but they're always full... and don't work for eBay, AliBaba, etc. Another issue is that PO Boxes are treated as second-class citizens because some carriers, many items and many sellers refuse to deliver to anything but a physical address.

The ideal carrier and drop-off/pickup point integration would do self-service sending and receiving of nearly any reasonably-sized package and amount of letters with a real street address, open 24x7. And if necessary or for a small fee, bring it to you wherever you were: basically, like a carrier/post-office with an integrated courier capability.
There are a lot of works on the relative impact of honor or shame cultures. I was first exposed to that concept by some of the works of Roland Muller (http://www.rmuller.com/). The thesis that is favored by Christian theology is that Jesus taught forgiveness as the word of God rather than retribution (eye for an eye) which has been the prevailing response, and in so doing changed cultures that had been stagnant for hundreds if not thousands of years into something that could approach enlightenment.

While I cannot say with any sort of authority if one culture is better than another, I can say that my exposure to "honor" cultures in the South and South Central LA did not seem to help the adherents be better people or move forward in their lives. It had the opposite effect of compelling them into behaviors that were self destructive in order to satisfy their person concept of honor.
Then, to discuss Libertopia; should not a libertarian view present-day corporations as an extension of government and their violence, to be demolished and replaced with libertarian organizations? The first order of business would then be to stop recognizing present-day corporations as legal persons that can sue in courts for justice.

Because in the present day people have a freedom to associate, and organizations that are not legally recognized (and hence not legally protected) are possible.
IANAL, but I'm a hobbyist photographer.

It wasn't clear from the article if the the images were registered with the US Copyright office.

If they were, great. Based on timing, he can sue for statutory damages plus attorney fees.

If not, he's pretty much out of luck. He can't sue in the US for copyright infringement (even though he does own the copyright)[0]. He can sue in Australia, but I have no idea if that is going to be worth the time and effort.

More over he's defaming Netflix (IANAL). It seems very plausible that those are his images, and Netflix used them without authorization. What's not clear, is if Netflix actually stole his images. The images could have been provided by a creative agency who used the works without permission (likely) or Netflix or the creative agency could have purchased a license for use from someone who was not actually authorized to sell a usage license.

GettyImages has been accused of stealing images, then selling licenses for use.[1]

0: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/411
1: https://petapixel.com/2016/08/04/getty-images-sued-accused-m...
I gave a chance to GNOME 3 times in last couple of years with Fedora 24, 25 and 26 and it was equally bad everytime. Memory Leaks reduced it to a crawling mess in a few hours of uptime, the desktop would freeze up permanently while doing even most basic task like switching windows or bringing up their Expose-thing, mouse will start jittering and lagging anytime icons/textures were being loaded, extensions and themes broke again and again. Who would have though putting a Javascript interpreter in the critical pipeline of (what was supposed to be) a reponsive animation-guided GUI would be a bad idea?

Gave KDE a shot and beside all the bloat ans slowness, the damn thing kept crashing on my lock screen. Seriously?

I have switched to Sway now which itself is far from perfect (GTK3 apps keep breaking now and again, visible tooltips in XWayland windows prevent workspace switching) but at least it doesn't hang up my machine every couple of hours or prevent me from unlocking it.

How the hell did we got here? What exactly are the priorities of people working on this stuff? Here's hoping that XFCE gets ported to Wayland soon enough.
I've never worked at a company large enough to have in-house counsel, so I figured that it was a title given to the entire legal department.

I work in marketing, and it drives me nuts when people say "well we didn't know about this because people didn't contact us in the correct manner." If there is a way to contact you, assume that someone will use it to contact you about literally anything.

People assume the structure of their organization is obvious because they are familiar with it. Someone trying to contact the organization should not have to divine the nature of the beast like a bunch of blind men trying to determine the nature of an elephant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_men_and_an_elephant
The keyword is "trying." When they intentionally disable functionality they are throwing away the userbase that depends on that functionality for the hope of getting a bigger userbase in return.

But there's no need to be that myopic. Like I said, I don't mind if they add these features and make that the default way of doing things. I don't mind if they bury the "less broad" functionality deep in some hidden configuration that I have to get at. Just keep it around for those users, give them QA articles on how to re-enable their way of doing things, and then you can have both.

There have been countless counter-examples to this "priciple", by the way: The Digg to Reddit migration being the foremost in my mind, but also the Windows Mobile to Windows Phone migration and the last Firefox redesign (that was eventually mostly rolled back or made optional again after hemorrhaging users).
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>Even if Unity was somehow worse, I still would have had more respect for them if they had stuck with their original decision. Now they basically look like they have no idea what they're doing and when anyone asks, they'll give bullshit answers they won't stand by in a year or two. All their arguments are just PR speak for "whatever I want right now."

On the other hand, it's been six years. That's quite a run (in contrast, gnome 2 switched to gnome 3 only after about 4 years), and considering that Ubuntu as a company is explicitly pivoting to focus on the GUI-less target (pretty much the idea of GNU on the Desktop taking over the world is quite dead, and if Ubuntu goes public, they'll want to focus on what makes money), it's quite expected.

The question is if a community fork will emerge.
Previous discussion, different article.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15488492