skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I actually disagree strongly with this analysis, and I want to detail some stuff here.

Tumblr was something that artists and fandoms took pride in putting time into. The grassroots were always the holder of the users despite everything mentioned here, even in 2010 and earlier. XKit tried its best to cater to the fans, but it felt as if it was being fought every step of the way by Tumblr itself. They had the power users that drove it, they will for some time still too, but again and again, they ignored the needs of their users, and the terribly broken comment system barely got a marginal fix just recently (past year?), which is still broken on individual blogs often. Blogs often got deleted for unknown reasons without warning and tons of users lost years of content and conglomeration of information.

I don't see Tumblr being in the same category as any of those you listed really except for maybe Instagram, where more professional artists are thriving. The culture was always the glue of Tumblr, and none of those services have it.

The CMS posting style was fine. The customization was great, and while retro, suited the community. There are tons of great text posts and educational content that was immensely helpful towards LGBT youth, sexual discovery, getting real history lessons to supplement the broken US high school history classes, art, music, fandoms, and so much more. Lots of it is still there even today. But it's a fringe community with very little marketing or ad value and a community that hates corporations more than any other group I can think of. There was never a path to monetization. I'm just sad to see it be killed through neglect of its true potential and actively pushing away users it felt like. I think its creator took a few wrong steps but in the end, realized there wasn't anything he could do with it and is hence moving on.
Why and How I Built a Compact, Top-Notch, Deep Learning Rig at Home for $1800
He’s an Australian. That doesn’t give him much leeway. Rather ironically, Netflix has prevented VPNs due to copyright infringement. It’s hyopcritical of them not to deal with those in other geographic areas than the U.S.
This needs a [2014] tag.

This is important because what the article actually says is that Wikimedia supports zero rating Wikimedia content. The author of the article believes that any zero rating is against net neutrality.

That is not universally agreed upon. In particular, the FCC in its 2015 Open Internet Order did not ban zero rating.

This is important because the 2015 Open Internet Order is the current net neutrality law in the US, which the Republicans are trying very hard to repeal. That has been massively in the tech news, especially recently since the FCC has now scheduled a vote on their repeal plan.

That means that anyone reading the headline but not reading the article is going to think that it is saying Wikimedia does not support the current net neutrality law. Maybe they do, maybe they don't...but you cannot infer anything about that from their support of some zero rating.
>I'm proud of my country. I think it's cool to buy products that support it's continued prosperity.

Its! (No apostrophe)

:)
Jeff Bezos on 60 Minutes (1999)
Good to know what to avoid.

Since America and Britain stopped importing people, I'm doing my part to stop them exporting products. I have a soft boycott on products made by those countries' companies. No more McDonalds, Starbucks, Coca-Cola, chocolate digestives, etc.

It's a soft boycott, because if someone else buys it for me or suggests it then I don't mind. "I'd like a non-alcoholic drink." "Coke?" "Fine." But I don't choose those products for myself. I try to support local companies instead.

I extended the boycott to include Australia after the 457 visa got cancelled, and New Zealand due to the tightening of quotas on the Skilled Migrant Category.

Despite this, I've still been on holiday to some of those countries, and even plan to move there if I'm one of the lucky ones who can actually get a visa.

I just think it's unfair to impose Western products on other nations, using globalisation for profit, without accepting the social consequence of increased immigration.
That would certainly be interesting to see. Anecdotally I keep running into pay walls for them and the New York Times. However the times has a very high price and their recent soft profile of a Nazi has put a really sour taste in my mouth about the idea of supporting them even if their price was more reasonable.

This is a great story and it definitely pushed me over the edge. I’m not sure I would have ended up subscribing in the next month or two if it wasn’t for this.
This reminds me of an old Russian joke.

3 business owners are in a communist jail. That ask each other what they are in for.

Person 1: "I set my prices lower than my competitors, and got sent to jail for price dumping!"

Person 2 "I set my prices higher than my competitors and got sent to jail for price gouging!"

Person 3 "I set my prices to be the same as my competitors and got set to jail for price fixing!"

It has been almost 20 years since Amazon got started. When are those mythical monopoly price increases coming?

I bet that in another 20 years people are going to be saying the same argument about price dumping or whatever.
I love it. I'm back on vanilla Ubuntu.
What does pride even mean if you choose only to think of the things of which you approve? You have pride for something that does not exist. It only makes sense to accept the totality of your nation, including all the ugly aspects.

I mean I love this land, and my neighbors, but the government I’m almost completely ambivalent about. This is hardly a recipe for patriotism.
If the sf gate article is correct, Fidelity had a $84 million investment in SpaceX. This was part of a $1.0 billion round with Google that SpaceX says was just under 10%.[1] Looks like Google owns about 9% of SpaceX (I can't find this spelled out directly anywhere just goggling around).

If SpaceX is valued at about $20 billion, Google owns 9%, and Google's market cap is $720 billion, buying Google gets you 0.25% of that investment into SpaceX. Almost nothing, but better than Fidelity's exposure.

[1]http://www.spacex.com/news/2015/01/20/financing-round
Apple is most likely a business associate by definition.
On Being (Mostly) Analog
The article is clearly written by someone who has a vested interest in the incumbents who are now up against Uber and Amazon.

Uber burns cash like pretty much any funded startup but there's nothing in the article suggesting their unit economics are flawed. Is the author really suggesting that competition law should force companies like Uber to set their price higher than the competition?

It's called disruption for a reason.
I use Ubuntu daily, so I ended up stepping onto this land mine. Overall, I don't think Gnome is completely unusable, but some little things made me jump back to Unity (which can be chosen when logging in).
I don't really understand the WeWork valuation of $20 billion. I guess they buy all their properties so they greatly profit from the rising property prizes in capitals around their world.

I work a lot in coworking spaces and they usually don't seem like a cash cow for the owners. Now WeWork seems to target the B2B and luxury segment of coworking with prices 1,5x-3x of the competitors'. Interesting strategy.

So is the coworking just a vehicle for the appreciating property prices? Or are they much more popular than I thought? Or am I missing something else?
This was a good article featured a while back on HN:

http://www.photomemorabilia.co.uk/Ilford/Flash_History.html

Discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15137945
Ok, so who operates localbitcoins? How do we know they’re not just funneling us to a set of local agents that have really high prices?

The replacement of “centralized trust” is not “trust anyone”. But I’m still not convinced any decentralized trust systems available today can deal with the governance problem: Who gets to make the rules, and why them?

We’ve just replaced the relatively-transparent Federal Reserve with a group of shady mining company CEOs controlling core whose main cash flow is likely laundering drug money (we don’t know for sure though because they don’t ask questions). I don’t think that’s an improvement for transparency.
Well, I'm not talking about the people on the street. It was too short and too quick. At a longer trial the whole truth could have emerged and that was something they tried to avoid.

> People in large supported the capture and execution, no?

Yeah they did, with the information they had at that time - mainly the nation television which was also seized and controlled by this mafia that is still in power today.

You cannot kill people because it's a popular demand. I don't regret those days at all, I'm just saying - the general population was fouled into believing all sorts of crazy stuff that weren't true.

In short no, the people didn't ask for Ceausescu to be killed. It just "happened". After a longer trial he would have been killed probably...who knows.

> there was also not much protesting and rioting following it

There wasn't, the "terrorists" threat lasted even after they were executed. We were afraid to go on the streets during this time. People had other things to worry about.

No protests were made regarding the killings of the Ceausescu's but, in 1990, people started a new riot against the new "faces" that were trying to put themselves in power. It was called the mineriada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June_1990_Mineriad

This is what happened to those who tried to protest against the new government at that time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xNiGSE0ybQ

There's a big article (the only interview given by his son Nicu) in which he explains how everything took place and how the population were led to believe there's terrorists killing people: https://www.historia.ro/sectiune/general/articol/singurul-in...
Of course Facebook couldn’t sell that data. It’s medical information and thus illegal (IANAL).

But no matter. I’m sure there’s no rule against the company taking out ads advertising open positions to people who don’t have those issues.

Tada. Nothing illegal happened, but discrimination still did.
I see what you are saying, but at the end of the day we are talking about trying to categorize literally billions of domains * 65,535 ports per address. Are you really concerned that Comcast is going to come out with tiered services depending on which IPs you want to ssh to? That seems a long way down the slippery slope to me.
It does provide a source, if you click on the anchor for the cost, which seems to be the basis for the whole article given that the summary sounds so similar: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/184573/thrive/

I'm sure that number conveniently omits continuing costs, and provides no standard for what effective means.
I wasted 5 minutes to figure what did they want to say, and I still don't know.

P/S: why down vote? seriously
I imagine with some tweaking they'll make it something the F1 guys can have fun with on the current hardware.

I have to admit that most of the time, I enjoy the chaotic tracks the most. Monaco is a classic for a reason, and there is something inspiring about the fact that a track as fundamentally insane as Baku can come about in these modern times.
Is there proof though? Id assume so, Im not sure psychologists follow a Hippocratic oath if they did this seems like it would cross a bit of a line, no?
Right on the cover, at the bottom. It’s not just the Netflix logo, it’s the ST name and branding copied from Netflix. I’m not saying they had a right to take it, but neither did he have the right to publish this image in the first place.
I rolled my eyes at nearly every part of your awful awful pitch. Very off-putting and snake oil salesman-y.

Take the feedback for what it's worth.
We are talking about a Facebook AI program reading your posts and deciding if you are suicidal or not. I'm not even sure how you would clinically validate that and if it would require FDA clearance, but if you are forming a mental health opinion on a stream of data and contacting the government about it that is probably something that may need to be protected.
This is a great argument against NN. Why shouldn't Wikipedia be allowed to give itself away for free? Why shouldn't users benefit from the magnanimity of developing telcos? Yes, Wikipedia Zero may be, as the article states, a band aid on the bullet wound of socioeconomic inequality- but if the alternative is to allow the wound to bleed unabated, is this not the lesser of two evils?
Any philosophers here? I was just wondering if anyone wants to discuss what copyright law should be, rather than what it is.

On the one hand, if I had taken some photographs of VHS tapes and then found that a multibillion-dollar company had used them, without telling me, I would feel violated. And I would want some money --- if for no other reason than, hey, Netflix can spare it.

On the other hand, it seems overblown, especially considering:

1. The image shows up on many sites, having already been ripped off many times, according to another comment here. So it would have been hard for Netflix to know it was some photographer's treasure.

2. The images are plain shots of different sides of a VHS tape. Netflix could easily have done it themselves, and I'm sure at this point they wish that they did. Now if they did, then Netflix would have wasted a few hours, Gough Lui would be no richer, and the box would have looked the same.

3. I'm convinced more and more that nothing is totally original. Take Gough Liu's photographs. He could not have done them if Fuji hadn't manufactured the tapes. Did he get Fuji's permission to use their product's likeness? https://vimeo.com/139094998

There is a feeling that copyright is an absolute, natural right. But it is said that it didn't exist anywhere until 1710. And it wasn't because we thought people deserved it, like we think they deserve the right to life or due process. It was completely pragmatic, a supposedly artifical law, "to promote the progress of science and useful arts." In today's digital age, it seems more profitable for society to use each other's works freely --- at least as far as it goes in "the progress of science and the useful arts." We get way more out of building on past inventions and source code than restricting it to a few people or companies.

Now if you think it would be more beneficial "to the progress of science and the useful arts" to preserve copyright, please argue your point, along with how strict you think copyright should be, how long it should last, etc. Also, if you think copyright should exist for some other reason besides mere practicality in advancing science and the useful arts, please argue that. Again clarify whether you think copyright strictness and duration is fine as it is or should be implemented differently.
i knew the diagrams reminded me something but was too lazy to check, thanks
The question is whether the Chinese would be better off without, or would it make them unable to sustain themselves?

All nations went through horrible things to reach the high standard of living we take for granted today.
I felt the same way, been along for the ride since Ubuntu 10.04. I just switched to 17.10 a couple weeks ago and I'd say it's my favorite Linux desktop I've ever used.
Nearly half a million people have been naturalized in the US so far in 2017, so I'm not sure how that equates to stopping immigration.
Ask HN: Why are we still using years of experience to measure work aptitude?
There are things about years of experience that may guess something about a worker's aptitude with certain skill sets, but it's just that, a guess, not a sure-fire guarantee.

Not every programmer with some years of experience is better than a recent grad at doing certain things. A new grad from a top school can fire on all cylinders with some training. Having more years of experience does not confirm that a person requires less or no training, however.

Yet we state in job requirements "5 years experience with ____" with a sweeping generalization for everyone that has worked with ____ 5 years. People are held to different standards based on number of years of work rather than their accomplishments. That's some flawed reasoning. There is no standard consensus to measure some aptitude for any given length of experience. Experience is only a measure of time quantity. But quality and accomplishments are what matter.

So why are many companies grouping applicants by years of experience, and not by quality?

The only forward answer that I have gotten was "because it's easy, and a measure (but not THE measure)". I don't find this answer satisfactory. It almost defends a lack of investing more time or effort to find better ways to filter applicants for desired aptitude.
Thank you for this post. In hipster terms think of it as localism. Recently, I’ve been trying to buy all my eggs from local Maryland farmers instead of ones in Virginia. I don’t care if I’m being provincial, it feels good to support the people near me.
I don't understand, how is missing your friend's post related to enabling repression?
Sure, and if I insisted on working exactly 40 hours I probably would not have gotten the raises or opportunities I got. But I am personally nowhere close to the amount of income we're talking about here, let alone wealth, and I've sort of maxed out my ability to be productive. Do we think that at the margin that a wealth tax would kick in - which is specifically not most people - the number of hours worked is relevant?
Show HN: Airport Locations from Around the World
I would enjoy seeing a Cavium based system that I was allowed to actually run my own code on to see what was what. Over the years, in various roles, I've listened to them trying to sell me servers but they have never actually had hardware that they could just let me run code on.
You do understand that only a very small minority would have done that, right? This kind of behavior is irrelevant in the decline of tumblr.
I think it's just fundamentally a hard product. Most people aren't motivated enough to organize events with enough regularity and quality for a community to form. In my experience most Meetup groups are pretty dead.

That leaves the people who have something to gain - "new in town" groups run by real estate agents, tech meetup groups run by recruiters, etc etc. These communities tend not to develop a long-term following because most people can smell the opportunism from a mile away.

The best Meetups tended to be run by professionals - non-profits, museums, etc, who have something to gain but tended to be aligned with the interests of the participants. Those are sadly few and fr between.

I liked Meetup for a lot of uses, but you really did have to sift through a lot of cruft. I think their problem isn't really any execution failure, and reflects simply the level of difficulty of community-building.
https://web.archive.org/web/20171122195050/https:/www.gofund...

"I'm moving to New York! I've accepted a job to work in the conservative media movement to combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM. I'll be using my skills as a researcher and fact-checker to help our movement."

She was fully aware that her job was to lie and deceive the Washington Post, yet she claimed she aspired to "combat the lies and deceipt of the liberal MSM".

She claimed to have "skills as a researcher and fact-checker", yet she was blindsided and busted by skilled liberal MSM researchers and fact-checkers.

She should learn how to use a spell-checker, too.

I don't feel bad at all for that mendacious hypocrite.
What was his idea?
I make a distinction between my government and my country, I'm proud of my country but somewhere between indifferent and hostile to my government.
The key words here being "when you enable online searching." The Amazon affiliate integration has been off by default since Ubuntu 16.04.
I upgraded from 17.04 to 17.10. The widget in my Gnome Terminal window that shows me how many columns and rows the terminal has (if I change them) disappeared. I posted this to the Ubuntu forums, they said Wayland kills this feature, but if I fall back to Gnome over Xorg it would work. Which it does. I hope they don't deprecate Xorg because I'm sure there are a lot of things like this which work in X but don't work yet automagically with Wayland.
Is there any doubt that U.S. GDP has outstripped European countries?
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'As far as we know' is an English-language idiom that expresses a degree of uncertainty.
Warming is accelerating
whoops. I also missed a word in the title. Can't seem to edit once submitted.
Forgot to add (since I can't edit my other comment): Working in space exploration, to be a contributor to it in some way. For now I'm expecting to go approach it as a web developer, and then maybe expand into other programming domains once I have established some presence in space-related work.
You don't need a different image for different manufacturers' platforms. One Linux image works across vendors. The standardisation effort started some years ago resulting in SBSA/SBBR, which allows a common image to be used.
I agree lectures are a waste of time. I'm imagining conferences when I think of this.

While I enjoy seeing a good presentation live I've mostly realized I can just watch the recording later. Of course I want to meet others between presentations/lectures but the lectures themselves can be more easily consumed on youtube at 2x speed and more easily skipped if the first 5-10mins make it relatively clear it's unlikely to be a good lecture/presentation.

A meeting on the other hand, actually discussing things, at least in my situations the notebook is required as reference for things in the discussions. If it's really just a lecture held in a meeting room (no discussion) then it seems like a waste of time.

The original article seems to be about lectures at school. Wasn't Khan Academy kind of founded on the principle that lectures are bad schooling? IIRC the suggestion was that lecture material should be something watched at home and classroom time should be for getting help with the material.
This has been my experience. I've been working on a large Rails project that started on Rails 4 beta in ~2014. Since then it's been incredibly stable and the upgrade paths have been quite simple from 4.0 to 4.1, then 4.2 and now we're on 5.0 with a few minor updates left before moving to 5.1.

Everything would have worked fine if we didn't keep things up to date, but just about everything in the software world needs to be continuously updated due to security updates/patches, etc.
"Typing "Netflix General Counsel" into Google gives you the address of Dave Hyman as the first link." Fairly sure thats incorrect. I found no mention of their corporate address on a *netflix.com domain, just a bunch of head quarters aggregators.
I strongly disagree. There’s my people and there’s your people, and we can all be responsible for taking care of the people in our own communities. Because it’s impossible to actually care about people a world away in the same way you care about your neighbors, we’ve developed into a society that’s just given up on caring. We buy the cheapest crap we can find from countries that don’t have labor and environmental laws because we don’t care about anyone.
It's an example of manipulation. Facebook removed an important item from my "news feed."