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Taking a photo of an everyday household item is, in the eyes of the copyright law, an original work of art. It does not matter if they have used it without a license intentionally or not, they just did. What’s dumb is that this is not a poor non-profit we are talking about, this is a big company that makes money depending on the copyright law. If these cases are taken lightly, next time they will do it again – why bother when the chance of getting caught is pretty small and in the worst case you can always sacrifice some pawn?
What are "those values"?
Its funny how you think economics will suddenly go out the window as companies race to see who can screw the consumer more. Red tape obsessed telecoms will only spur new competition in the age of 5G where we are no longer beholden to the precious utility lines. If they do what you say, watch how many AdHoc networks popup.
Oh thanks - I did edit it, leaving it even more confusing.

I think censoring ideas will lead to groups moving to echo chambers where whatever issue they have, is magnified into something far more absurd than the original issue probably is. And that inevitably leads to violence.

It's better for society to allow open debate, even if its uncomfortable, than to just ban users or groups, make ad-hominem attacks, and hope it goes away.
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iirc he said negative things regarding AMZN within the GOOG platform rant G+ post, so your "misread" is sort of half correct.
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Interesting, we run a lot of tech related meetups, and finding a space is rarely an issue because its an important promotion tool for tech hiring. Whats difficult is finding speakers.
Ok, maybe it hurts competitors, but how in the world does it mess with public transportation?

Public transportation can't handle the load across the country. If everyone starts using VC subsidized services, that FIXES the public transportation under capacity problem.

Public transportation loses money. So if people find something better or cheaper, then all the better!
I am very happy. Uber has saved me from buying a car for 2-3 years now. Honestly this is the best time for consumers.
Every technology since the dawn of man has been used as a force multiplier: fire, sharp sticks, domesticated horses, thick clothing, language, the wheel, boats, the printing press, carrier pigeons, computers...
HN readers are the epicenter of the power necessary to make this reverse course. If you only knew the concentration of collective power on this forum!

The question is how to focus it how to organize it?

We see the poison of zuckbook. It's beyond time to kill it.
Now, if you stand by, your endorsing the subjigation of all the lesser informed people who you care about that use zuckbook.
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It’s not an “old”, it’s “the” definition for this expression. One thing is to make mistakes in genuine good faith and appreciate when something new comes across one’s way. Another is to brush away anything that points to one’s mistakes. It’s called arrogance.

Oh and BTW, understanding that “1, 2, 3rd world” are not a success scale enshrining the winner position to one’s own moral system does help a lot in not coming through as an arrogant fool.
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The way I (and others in my group) used Meetup was this:

1. Schedule a meetup to meet players ( soccer, in my case) and organize a game at the local ground.

2. Repeat Step 1 for 3-4 months

3. We now have enough regulars and switched over to Whatsapp. Easier to coordinate, schedule games, manage rosters and because Whatsapp is so ubiquitous, you don't need to download/track one more app/website.

4. Exit Meetup.

It was similar for other activities too - board games, AI/ML groups and so on.

Meetup was always going to struggle with a viable business model this way. Groups of people once formed into groups will drift away to more familiar, informal ways of staying in touch.
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Talking to a rich corporation’s GC without any idea about how to turn your claim into leverage is like asking a mob consigliere to pay the cleaning bill after one of their guys murdered someone in your pizza shop. At best they’re going to ignore you or tell you to piss off. At worst they’re going to try to intimidate you into silence. Either way, “just email their lawyers” is likely a fruitless endeavor without your own to push the right buttons.
dupe, discussion of the blog post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108
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> Uber can’t be worth $69B unless the values of all the shares (including the common) add up to $69B

This deal is effectively a one-time secondary market for existing investors to sell their stock. If I'm an early employee who has been wearing golden handcuffs for the last eight years, I'd probably accept a lower purchase price than "what they're worth" for the sake of that liquidity. That doesn't reflect upon Uber, or Uber's value. What you're saying might be true if this were a perfect market, but there's externalities in that market (like liquidity) which you're not considering.

> valuation = number of shares times last preferred price, but that’s a convenient fiction.

Fiction as it may be, it's the best instrument the public has to work out the value of a private company. Investors have access to internal numbers, apply due diligence (we assume, since it's their money), and give their best guess as to future returns. That doesn't mean we shouldn't scrutinise the valuation investors accept during a round, but let's not pretend it's not a good marker.

> $48B (or whatever it may be) is a spectacular success by any measure

I doubt existing investors would see it that way, if $21B were wiped off the valuation as reported.

> I’m not sure what you’re so defensive about

My apologies if that's the way it came across. I stand by the criticism I made of the article.
> I'm not sure I see the point in using Meetup at all anymore.

Just like any social platform, I think the advantage of using Meetup is that you'll get to a different audience than Facebook. In my case I've found the audience for Meetup to be smaller (i.e. far fewer RSVPs) but much more engaged, perhaps as a byproduct of the sheer volume of things on Facebook making it harder for yours to stand out. The breakdown of where attendees come from is roughly 30/50/20 Meetup/FB/Email, and the incremental time for me to post in all these places is very small.

The pricing is, as you say, odd, and I too have run into the frustration of expanding a single group to a neighboring city without wanting to drastically increase costs.
Loved that game. Dark souls is the spiritual successor to me.
At what point does it become speculation? Perhaps someone with more knowledge can shed some light on what exactly people are buying when they buy a bitcoin.
who are you trying to allude to? these traits apply to almost every traditional patriarchal culture on the planet, they're the historical norms for huge swathes of humanity.
The book is wonderful as well.
You've got a point there. Searching for something is hard, and basically boils down to using a couple of keywords, but not too many, and then just patiently going through all the results. It would be nice to be able to search by location, for example, or "what meetups are happening in the next 2-5 hours?"

Unless I'm missing something, this is not easy at the moment.
Your analogy -

I'm allowed to copy John Carter (2012) dvds and do what I like with them because it made a loss of $125m and the only people who saw it were the director's family, next door neighbour and pet dog.

The bigger the design firm, the more aware they should be of copyright law and their legal obligations.

The fact they used the photo shows it had value, otherwise they would have taken a custom photo themselves. There are plenty of stock photos of VHS tapes, the fact they used google is a massive error on their part.

This is their daily job and the image will be reproduced millions of times. This is not simply someone who borrows a photo for their personal blog.
Dunno about other places but they are huge in India. Almost everybody I know buys from Amazon and has a prime subscription.
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If you still use facebook on a daily basis, you are in part responsible for what is happening to the free web. Sorry. I said it. I'm getting bummed at the frequency I hear the excuse, "But I don't have a choice, network effects..blah blah blah." Doing the right thing isn't fucking easy. So stop the excuses.
That's what private lessons are for.

If you really want something similar, record your lessons (with a phone or whatever) and listen to them as you wish - maybe transcribe them. It's tedious but worth it.
It has value simply because people believe it has value
If I can't get filthy rich, why would I even risk building a business if I can just stay home all day and play video games?

Is the US even making a net profit?
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Hi HN, I work for a rather large SaaS business and I'll be moving to Brussels in February.

Anyone from the region able to give me some pro tips?

Ie: How's the tech scene? What suburb should I live in? Things to do in and around Brussels, etc
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I can't respond to your other question, but the particular value we were discussing was this:

> For instance, by the standard of the general wellbeing of African Americans, it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture is superior to American culture of the 1850s.

Shouldn't really be controversial, but America is going through a regression right now so who knows..
> Windows 8 might have been a step back but 10 is a job damn well done imo.

Yes, and my MiiX does a nice job of flipping in and out of tablet mode when I attach and detach the keyboard.
Seems to me personal finance should be something you start learning from a young age by watching and learning from your parents and other people you interact with. If schools need to teach this because of failing parents, starting in elementary school would not be too early.
Sorry, I have to ask: are you actually saying that the tiny niche problem of Hollywood sexual harassment (which is, remember, a miniscule community in the grand scale of things), sexual harassment at one software company, and a scandal about video game review industry ethics is remotely at the same level as stoning people to death for being raped on a regular basis?

Executing people for being gay? Oh well, at least the Saudis aren't setting up kickstarter scams.

You can criticise consumerism and sexism and racism all you like, don't let me stop you, but don't for a minute think it's reasonable to suggest that that means that all cultures are equivalently good or bad.
Ideal for learning yes but very time consuming. Do you feel it's worth it in that way?
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I'd like to see Meetup offer 1x1 'events', that is, a sub-section of the platform to meet a person who is into the same idea/subject. Otherwise it's lost potential to have everything ride on whenever an organizer happens to schedule a meetup.
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A billion dollar company that constantly bugs their non-US customers across the globe on copyright infringement issues, committed copyright infringement because did not have as much as a process in place to get original or paid-for art for an original production they're spending millions of dollars for.

As you said, big fucking deal, uh-huh?

Either get rid of copyright law, or hold billion dollar companies to the same standard as customers. I'll take one or the other.
Yeah, I wonder if that's on purpose. Discovery seems such an easy and obvious thing to optimize (A/B testing). Like the lack of spell correction in the AppStore. Must be some reason. Maybe they're hoping for serendipitous discoveries. Ie, if they make it too easy to find what you're looking for you might not find something you're not.
I think the analogy breaks down a bit when you consider that, if the company didn't anticipate that the other businesses (the self driving cars business, for example) wouldn't eventually turn a profit, they would be shut down. You make it sound like search finances all these other endeavors which will lose money forever.
Your point needs to be applied to your first option. Brainstorming is a method, meetings should not be defined by their method but by their goal (and preferably with a known method to reach that goal).
Reminds me of the recent recommendation to not use metal barbecue brushes as the bristles can get on the food and lodge in one's throat, leading to debilitating disease and death.
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I thought current versions of FileVault encrypt the entire OS and the login screen is just a fancy boot partition?
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Are no points points too? Doing nothing has to be my largest indicator.
>Surely no one culture is universally "better" than another. Pick some metric(s), some cultures will be better, some worse.

Firstly, one culture being better than another does not mean that it is better in every way. I'd rather be punched in the stomach than kicked in the balls, but clearly my stomach is still better off in the latter scenario, even if I'm worse off overall.

Secondly, I'd really love to hear on what 'metrics' you think Arabian culture is better than say, German culture. Today's German culture, too, and today's Arabian culture. Too often people will say stuff like 'Nazis and 1400s scientific progress in the middle east'.
Did you read the article? Verbatim copying is exactly what is less effective than having to translate to your own words.

The best way to understand something is to have to explain it. Writing your own summarized notes is a light version of that.
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I'm interning with a GPU driver development team next summer but have no experience with Graphics programming or Shaders. I have some experience with university level OS course and a past internship where I worked on linux but not much else.

Can you recommend some resources on GPU from the point of view of an operating system/driver programmer? I tried some of the AMD and Nvidia architecture sheets but were not basic enough for me to grasp and moreover they were oriented towards extracting performance from the respective architectures.
From a HPC perspective, I think the current crop is interesting mostly [1] for tire kicking, software porting etc. Real production deployments will start to happen once SVE is available.

[1] Though they could be interesting for applications that are memory BW bound and don't vectorize that well.
A century ago, and the rest were people resisting search/arrest warrants. That's generally an incredibly poor idea.

Right wing protesters/militias regularly parade around with clearly visible guns. Now, perhaps there is a double standard w.r.t. how police deal with them, as opposed to left-wing protesters... But perhaps there isn't.
Makes total sense. I run marketing for a WeWork competitor and hosting events is our #1 acquisition strategy.
Even cheap SD cards have been running on ARM for a while https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3554
I feel most of these 'cultural prognosis' are generally just old racial prejudices being justified to fit whatever one sees.

You can see how the author extricates Japan from his 'analysis', but not so for other Asian nations; in fact much of this can be said to be true of China and India (amongst others), but many here and elsewhere will somehow extricate China, but not India for obvious fiscal reasons. This trend is striking if you're old enough to have followed the reporting on a topic for many years.

Yet, little of the culture and the way of doing things have 'changed' in a significant way.

It's kind of like ML, you have some terribly useless set of features, and you use it to fit some dataset. The thing with ML is that you know this is stupid, and you have a test set to tell you it's stupid.

Not so, sadly, with our 'intellectuals'.
he's referring to an existing set of conventions and criticizing them. he isn't constructing them.
In the UK, you have a very high baseline level of education for your kids and excellent health care.

My family has 2 cancer survivors in it. We can't get health care without some collective bargaining.

Unlike a lot of folks here, I've actually done a startup from scratch. I used COBRA to cover the spread until we could set up a company plan. It was a major expense, and I was lucky we had access to a lot more capital than is typical for a company with 0 folks.

I had a ton of fortunate scenarios that lined up to make it so for a brief 2 year period I could imagine trying an early stage startup. Most people won't have those.
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>Ocaml-style ad-hoc structural sums

Ocaml also has ad-hoc products (objects and tuples).
Stumbled across this while looking for similar cases: https://www.wired.com/2009/06/revealed-britains-wwii-poison-...
> for which their isn't yet technology to discover

Without a doubt there will be a ton of DNA based issues. Right now we know just a tiny number of them, and usually only when the issue is a single change.

At some point we'll have the computing power to detect issues caused by two mutations at once, then 3, and so on.

We would need massive quantities of data: Full genome analysis, and a full medical description in a computer readable format.

So expect a DNA drive at some point in your future: Hopefully anonymized, and even more hopefully optional. (Anonymized is pretty likely - but optional, well, that one we'll see - I suspect at some point you will be required to submit data in order to receive health insurance, so technically optional, but not practically.)

2: Chemically induced issues. (What chemical specifically I obviously can not say.) I suspect we more or less know all the single-chemical issues. But issues caused by chemicals that act synergistically are much less likely to be known.

3: Various parasites and other types of mutualism (Commensalism, Amensalism).
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The fundamental aspect of the truth system is that the person remains flexible as to the way to achieve their goal, but not necessarily the goal itself.

The methods of the "honor" points system never changes in response to any empirical feedback. The "honor" points are the way and the end in themselves. They are not subject to backpropagation in the "honor" points system. They were burned into ROM and the "honor" automotaun faithfully executes the program until it dies. The "honor" system does not evolve. The truth system does not know what it will be in several decades, but it will seek truth and incorporate feedback. It is fundamentally incomplete and will remain so. The "honor" points system is complete -- forever.
I do not recommend learning the Windows API. There are convenient crossplatform alternatives to it for this use-case.
Most confederate soldiers volunteered, and most had no benefit from slaves as property, though half had some household connection to slave owners.

Obviously since The Atlantic was founded by abolitionists it might tend to favour one side, but I feel pretty confident in the righteousness of their cause. :) -
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/08/small-t...

Protecting their homes is different from fighting for slavery in what way - I am having trouble understanding what protecting their homes means in this case. It seems like an after the war mytho to fit Shermans march to the sea burning everything as the army went or the Union army seizing Lee's homestead for what became roughly Arlington National Cemetary (and for which Lee's son was later compensated).
The article is much more mischievous than that.

The reasoning here is that 'honor system' is something that can't be extricated from these societies; that it is somehow a cultural (which is an epithet for racial) invariant. It's a pity that such BS-ery forms the basis for many areas of studies, and proliferates in the editorial pages of major newspapers.
Here is why - even if I risk more downvotes or getting flagged down:

If someone flags your comment on HN, you can only post about 4 comments per day and news submit feature is "practically" disabled - HN displays a "slow down, don't submit so fast" Error message which of course makes little sense. Also your comments will start with a lower/negative value behind the scene, you will find your posts on the bottom even if it says 1 votes, and other comments with negative value may be above yours.

There is a lot of monitoring by companies contracted obviously by $$ going on, to shape PR and public opinion. Be it employees, fanboys, or paid PR drones, it doesn't matter, they are quite toxic to the community at large I would say. I would wish more moderation in regard, and the removal of the downvote- and flag-functionality for everyone (but moderators).
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Great read. Reminded me that somehow Google+ is still around. Google usually kills off poor performing apps.
I would guess that this is a driver issue, the developers have their priorities mostly straight and would not ship a desktop where this was the expected behavior.
I like that for a change, a new brick-and-mortar company buys an older web company, instead of the other way around. It drives home the point that being an internet business isn't special anymore. We're all just businesses, and all notable businesses are on the internet.
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There is an update, Netflix have replied and said they're investigating. The original post is on goughlui.com, the PetaPixel link is a reblog and hasn't yet been updated: http://goughlui.com/2017/11/22/netflix-uses-my-vhs-cassette-...

The Netflix reply (pasting here so the website isn't crushed by HN clicks):

Dr. Lui,

First, my sincerest apologies that no one has gotten back to you until now.

Your blog post was brought to my attention so I wanted to reach out and let you know that we’re currently looking into this matter with the creative agency that worked on the product design for the tapes.

Will update you as I know more. Feel free to reach out in the meantime.

Best,
Marlee

Also worth pointing out that the image in question is also being used on dozens of other websites (including BuzzFeed). You can find them by using a reverse Google Image search, and noting the specific camera tripod reflection:

https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&tbm=isch&tbs=simg:CAQSmQE...:
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Except the photo that was copied was not created in order to make a living. That is sorta kinda the point.
What i dont understand is how can people become so greedy. They would have made a ton of money if they just let the internet be free for all, a world that is truly connected,but no,not for these guys. Its ok though, because these actions will not go unnoticed nor will it last very long. Looks like the show will soon begin.
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