skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, I deleted my blog a year ago but I used Tumblr from 2009 to 2016, around from age 14 (when I got my first laptop) to age 21.

My blog went through many stages: I went from having a quality blog to having an astronomy/science blog to having a surf/beach blog to having a film/tv-show blog to having a design/architecture/animation blog to having a literature/poetry/quotes blog to having a spirituality/art blog. The community on Tumblr was particularly wonderful since it always aligned with what your blog interests where. I had many friends over the years, i.e. a woman from New York who I met when she was in high school and I was in high school (we video chatted and talked for almost four years), a woman from Paris studying for a masters in translation in Scotland when I had my literature/poetry/quotes blog (I remember her recommending I read Pride and Prejudice and I saying I would only read Pride and Prejudice if she watched The Godfather), a man from London who was a father when I had a spirituality blog (we would philosophize about things).

Above all, while these days I try to use the internet less and I am not a part of many social media platforms, I remember those days fondly and some lates nights, I think I wish I still had my blog and my followers and the people who I was following. I do not think there is/or will ever be a better place for an internet community than Tumblr was for me.
> That is at least one country where they have learned to not piss off the people. In 1989 they rose up, caught and killed their corrupt dictator. All in the matter of days.

Sorry buddy but Ceausescu was not killed by the people. His trial was a disgrace, was rushed, staged and was brutal by any democratic standard. Ceausescu was killed by those that were already working under his direct command at that time (here's the main actor sitting next to Ceausescu which also became president a few weeks later: http://static3.evz.ro/image-original-605-388/cache/2016-10/c...).

The whole thing was merely a shift in power by cutting the head of the beast and re-growing a new one from the same body. During those days, all the "revolutionaries" that we saw on TV killing Ceausescu and torturing his children LIVE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNpca3Mh7as), formed a "mafia" group that would rule the country for the next decade; a period in which every industry was sold by these people.

> People came out to protest and within days decision was reversed.

That's more than a month of protests (18 Jan - 26 Feb). We eventually won but we left those protests knowing that this government will try to do its own ways sometimes later. What we are fighting here is the same party that was formed after the revolution in 1989.
What Uber is doing here should absolutely not be allowed. Whenever you go to a city where Uber is in it's first year of operations the prices are insanely low. This also happens when Uber launches a new product like Pool. This enables them to crowd out any competition and then raise prices once they've got control of the market.

I have a friend in SF who takes Uber to work every day. It's about 3.5 miles. I assumed he was dropping boatloads of money but he told me it's $2.50 each way! The IRS estimates vehicles costs alone at about $0.55 a mile and that's not including actual pay to the driver and Ubers cut. Offering a service at this price is not only unfair to for-profit competitors but messes with public transport as well. It's using VC money to crowd out the market.

Unlike with cloud services (the other example) it's much harder for competition to Uber to reappear once it's disappeared. There's a fixed supply of willing drivers and big network effects at play.
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It's a logical vertical integration, at the least.
They contacted support and were given the PR email address.
And having a home of your own makes a lot of difference.

A huge chunk of your monthly expenditure is now taken care of.
This isn't educational, it's a product intended on making money.
Portland, represent!

I notice a distinct lack of car companies on here.
Thanks for the clarification. My comment and question was for part of your comment: "Even our Port - which is world famous - It's always from UK owned vineyards." Reading it I thought the origin vineyard is stated, and this is how you know that it is always from UK owned vineyards. Perhaps I misinterpreted it.
A 2-year price study put Walmart and Amazon head-to-head
Sending correspondence certified mail, return receipt [1] is standard practice for creating a paper trail [2]. There is no such thing with email.

[1] https://www.wikihow.com/Send-Certified-Mail-(USA)

[2] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2017/09/09/identity-theft-credit-re...

Control-F "Do you like paper trails? I like paper trails. I particularly like paper trails where the United States Federal Government attests to the exact minute your firm learned the contents of this letter." (hat tip to patio11)
Flipkart monster-cruncher: how it gleans insights from a petabyte of data daily
I think if the amount of downvotes someone could cast in a given 24 hour period were limited to some smallish number, perhaps 5 or 10, then some people might save their downvotes for the comments that that really detract from the tone of the discussion.
I wonder what plan that was - wasn't there a "free" Internet thing planned that'd only allow access to Facebook? Time to start tunnelling data.
You need to try iRacing in VR. It covers about a third of the stuff on your list.

> no track surface bumpiness... none of them even manages to really reflect the track width.

iRacing laser-scans real-world tracks. You feel the bumps through your force feedback wheel and/or motion rig if available.

> having to actually move your head to check the mirrors

You absolutely have to crane your neck 1:1 in VR. Super immersive in flight sims particularly.

> having to choose a different line in the wet and dry, dirt on the surface

Even simpler sims model this kind of thing, and especially all of the market leaders. iRacing models rubber build-up during the course of the race, track temperature, water evaporation, etc.

> This is what keeps you focused.

Obviously there's no fear of death in a simulator; but the drivers in these virtual races take this stuff seriously. This isn't Forza.

> is just algorithm, once you learn the algorithm, there's no surprise anymore.

I'm not sure if you've played any modern sims, but they're incredibly sophisticated. iRacing is used by Nascar, etc. teams. DCS A-10 is an offshoot of a military simulator for pilot training.

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Oh and forgot to add... the F1 game featured in the article is trash as far as driving physics go. It's a 'game', not a 'sim'.
Jee, here I thought the World Service (the only BBC I can get) was targeted at me :S

Radio liberty was forbidden from transmitting in the US by Congress.
You're almost certainly correct on your guess.

That said, the top brass at the agency/Netflix/etc should be ensuring processes are in place to require obtaining/verifying licences for the images used.

If some idiot designer grabs images from Google Image Search, and fails to inform anyone, it's still management's fault for not verifying those things.
I think he meant "make the lawyer a quick buck".
IANAL. Fair use doesn't have a strict definition and depends on a bunch of factors that would be considered in a court:

* the purpose and character of your use

* the nature of the copyrighted work

* the amount and substantiality of the portion taken, and

* the effect of the use upon the potential market.

(https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/)

You certainly can include copyrighted content in commercial art, for example if it's a single second of a video, the main subject of discussion (such as in a review), a small portion of a complete work (like a quote), and more. Non-commercial use could still affect the potential market for an original (such as by outselling it or defacing it). So a lot of it depends on how much you're using, how you're transforming it, and how it affects the original.
Downvoting in general is a pretty poor tool. What exactly would be lost if you could not downvote? Upvote or flag it if it's blatantly wrong; better yet, respond with the correct info.

The main problem with down and up voting is that it's "apparent" which results in people just doing it to further support an already up/downvoted item. This results in not actually attempting to understand, imo.
So I guess we didn't run out of money per jerf's scenario, then.
I don't buy lottery tickets as it is. Many people in marginal financial positions do, and lots of tickets at that. Now suppose that ticket prices went up by a factor of 10 and purses down by a factor of ten, and odds lengthened some. Why would anyone in a marginal financial situation not then reduce their total number of tickets bought?! Of course they would!

Now to answer your question, consider say, a prospective engineering student. They could go to school and come out with $150k or more in debt. But if their post-tax income potential goes down (especially initially), thus their ability to pay off that debt goes down, thus making it more crushing than it already would be, why on Earth would they even consider bothering to go to school then?! Of course a lot of potential students would find something else to do! It's utterly obvious. Painfully obvious. So right there you'll have a decrease in the number of people pursuing certain careers -- hard work being avoided.

Even beyond the economic effect on students, there is just a basic personal calculus as well. You might choose to live with a lower income and more free time to enjoy as you wish (if with fewer luxuries than you might like) than work harder and harder for less and less reward. You only have so many prime years for enjoying the one life you have. Everything is a trade-off. You might work harder now if it means you'll be better able to enjoy some free time later, but if working harder will make little difference to your ability to enjoy free time in the future, why work harder?

And beyond that, we know what low incentives did to would-be hard workers' desire to work hard in the U.S.S.R. and such places. Spoilers: they certainly didn't work harder when they didn't have guns to their heads incentivizing them.

By the way, the same sorts who say that increasing income taxes (or otherwise putting a ceiling on incomes) wouldn't have an effect on how hard people work... also tend to argue that higher tobacco taxes will reduce tobacco use. We all know about the prodigious powers of doublethink in some quarters, but don't think for a minute that everyone accepts doublethink, let alone masters it. And sure, you yourself didn't just make that argument, but I bet you do when it comes to topics where that argument is convenient. I, on the other hand, accept that punitive/confiscatory taxes only serve to reduce the amount of activity being taxed regardless of whether it is an activity I appreciate. If you ever find yourself making that argument, please recognize it and choose consistency.
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“Creative” in copyright law means that it results from an act of creation, which taking a photo - no matter how “neutral” - is.
What makes any of these things great, compared to 'great' ones made elsewhere? Also I would sort the list alphabetically by the product rather than the manufacturer, because that's what you're going to be using the list for
Fawkes is a well respected media-watch type site in the UK. They're humorous, but respected - think The Register but for media.
Interesting idea. I'd love to be able to twist the dials of the algorithm for what I see... But I can't imagine FB would. That would defeat post-boosting.
I'd be curious to hear from the people on HN:

In your opinion, is there a valid moral/ethical argument for buying products "Made in the USA" that doesn't fall apart when expanded to include other countries?
> The author feeling misrepresented on a successful product display... Hopefully the two parties can agree on a credit placement

Translated into human-speak: "Netflix used the author's photo without his permission. Netflix might pay him in the future."
The list is nice, but I don't see myself using it without a better UI. Maybe a browser plugin that highlights relevant results in Amazon/Google Shopping searches.
Could ordering posts by "most recent" first by default be a part of the solution?
Great research and writing. The inevitable conclusion is that Amazon and uber are either doomed or are doing to jack up pricing some day.
As someone living in another country: Not really.
No they aren't. Half of my university classes weren't following anything I could review in advance, and a number of them tested on things that only appeared in lecture.

I had a single class where the professor handed us a sheet of paper with all the reading and assignments in advance. It was wonderful.
I'm holding out hope for an Ubuntu 18.04 Unity Remix. Unity 7 just handles so many things expertly when you compare it side by side with Gnome.
I get the sense that Meetup has been sharply declining for years now and this was an opportunistic pickup by WeWork.
With Apple's New Ad, Animoji Karaoke Is Officially a Thing
Amazon War Story #1: Jeff Bezos (2011)
For young people just starting out in life, medical expenses are their lowest.

Always always consider the young.

Europe's fertility rates are a disaster (and post-2008 American fertility rates too were disastrous). In particular they are a disaster because so much of their economies depend on the tax base growing, which means that productivity growth has to be even higher than it would have to have been with a higher fertility rate. The causes of this surely include making the burdens unbearable on the young who might want to start families. Beating up the young because they have good health, is an unspeakable insanity.
The first thing a lawyer will ask a photographer is, "Did you register your copyright?" No lawyer is going to take a case if you don't register your copyright as there is no money to be won.
> Thus the implication seems quite clear - rise up and murder a leader if you want to be heard (then and now).

(OP here). The other implication is use the rules of the system first. Yeah the system is rigged, there are lobbyists and special interests, and propaganda at work. But that is preferable to violence in the streets.

> rise up and murder a leader if you want to be heard (then and now).

The point about the violence is that large protests as an effective tool to make the government listen or do anything are not effective in US, but are effective in Romania, for example, and the reason is that there is a collective memory of relatively recent past of what had happened there.

Another point is that the threat of violence has to be implied or imminent. There might be another way to create that belief than killing a leader.
> big network effects at play

What is Uber's network effect? Most people I know will use whatever app gives them the cheapest ride / will drive for multiple companies.

There might even be an opportunity for a $1 app that tells you which service you should use at any given time/location.
Every day I drive through the counties that handed Trump his victory. Trust me the decline is real.

Must be nice to worry about the messenger. I’ll worry about the toxins DuPont dumped in the local water or the lead leeching from my tap.

But hey, I can afford to boil pasta with bottled water, so who cares?
... he says in response to an article about how WaPo went out of their way to not report damaging false allegations about Roy Moore.

They’re not “going after” anyone. They vet their sources and report what can be verified. If you’re still not getting that after reading this article, then I don’t know what to say to you. Maybe try to diversify your media consumption a little bit. I suspect your news sources may mostly skew far to one side of the political spectrum.

Politico is good for center left reporting, and The Hill is good for center right reporting. Reuters and the Associated Press are a little bland in their presentation, but are fiercely centrist. If you want something that may piss you off but will be written by people who generally do solid analysis with a leftward slant, I suggest Talking Points Memo.

Consuming opinions that differ from your own can give a helpful dose of perspective. I read articles from a number of pretty conservative publications on a regular basis. Sometimes they say things that are interesting, and sometimes they just make me angry. Either way, it’s good to know what everyone else is saying about the events of the day.
> the real problem ...<snip>... cars that cannot follow each other closely in the turns

Can anybody speak to what the issue is preventing cars from following each other closely in the turns? Loosing "clean air" and aerodynamic downforce is my completely uneducated in F1 guess.
See "who owns the sky?" which is a book about a similar topic.

https://www.amazon.com/Who-Owns-Sky-Common-Capitalism/dp/155...
The key is that it's somebody else's problem, not yours.
Yep the URL and various metadata show the article without the 'if' added.
I haven't followed Meetup in much detail, but it seems like they lost their way.

"Meetup" has become a common noun in many circles tech-related and beyond...i.e., most people know about meetup.com and what it does.

But despite this ubiquity, what happened?

I stopped going to meetups a while ago because most just didn't seem worthwhile. A lot of people I know did the same. If this trend persisted across the service, did the company do anything about it?

I dunno. My perception of their failure is anecdotal...maybe they're doing better than it seems to me.

I just find this outcome sad, especially given how rare ventures like this are--ones that bridge the gap between offline and online.
Out of curiosity, did you just install Ubuntu 17.10, removed Ubuntu-gnome and then manually installed plain Gnome on top? Any special steps to make it work (like booting to a secondary wm while you uninstall and reinstall gnome)?

I'm still on 14.04 with vanilla Gnome (with my own extensions, etc), so I'm happy to see Canonical moving out of the desktop business, and retiring Unity for good. I just wish they offered a vanilla Gnome, instead of this heavily customized Unity-looking one.
It appears he did get reached out to by netflix

"I thank everyone for their attention, time and support. It has been very overwhelming, and has broken a number of records in regards to page-views at my personal blog. Special thanks to PetaPixel who agreed to republish the article in its entirety this morning.

As of 12:30pm (UTC+11) while I was away from the desk, I received a reply from Netflix. The reply reads as follows:"

You can read the rest on his blog: http://goughlui.com/2017/11/22/netflix-uses-my-vhs-cassette-...
Thanks for the reply! It was a very interesting read for sure. The polar->rectangular conversions can be done with an $15 Casio FX-115ES from Walmart pretty easily although RPN is much nicer than scrolling around a bunch when the equations get long. He might already know that, or find it interesting. I've never heard of an Oliveti vacuum tube machine, but will look it up. The IBM 360 machine he mentioned is probably not that different to what we do today (I bet the software has only changed in minor placed). The biggest difference is it's moved to Nix or Windows and off the mainframe and we can simulate massive scale problems in seconds. Of course that means we steadily increase the scope of the problem until you get a process that takes 24 hours ;). I'm impressed with anyone who can use a slide-rule for anything more complex than multiplication. Props to your dad btw. I love my job and it's fascinating to see how past engineers managed to essentially do the same things with tools that seem archaic today. I guess this is similar to modern day software engineers on HN getting really excited bout the Xerox Alto Smalltalk machine & the Symbolics Lisp Machines. The past is neat.
I can't speak to the performance of the sims but what you're describing is a little bit contrary to the reality on the ground. I suspect some of that is down to the difficulty in simulating how heavy traffic interacts with aero on a crowded racetrack, but I just have no idea. I try to avoid going on and on about aero and "the F1 cars these days" since people have been complaining about it for almost two decades now (that I can remember).

Some Hamilton quotes about the problems passing this time at Abu Dhabi:
https://wtf1.com/post/lewis-hamilton-doesnt-think-yas-marina...

A very brief teaser for some potential changes to the track:
https://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2017/11/26/tilke-considering-sma...
> Whoever told you that is lying to you.

No. The key word in the statement is "qualified". The marketplace is flooded with unqualified candidates with 4 year degrees.

Capability in the tech industry can't be taught in 4 years. It's a life-long passion. And those people are extremely rare.

This is why you keep seeing preventable security breaches in giant corporations. They can't find competent employees.
Doesn't Bayesian approach work only on very simple spaces behaving linearly, i.e. having some nice stable fixed points they can converge to? I am surprised anyone is still using it for more advanced tasks...
>> Governance is the most vital problem in the space. Other fundamental problems like scalability are arguably best approached by using governance to set the right incentives for people to solve them.

>>Yet little research has gone into governance and it feels poorly understood.
The New Road Warriors: Chipmakers and Others Flood the Market
Also, I'd like to know if it's possible to change your behavior while still feeling like "yourself". And not feeling fake. I do not like the statement of "faking it till you make it". It makes it sound like you're betraying yourself, and therefore betraying other people because you are not yourself anymore.
Which specific nazis did Milo fraternise with? The Daily Stormer hates him, and he's married to a black man.

Or are you using 'fraternises' as 'contacted'? Milo is a journalist, they contact people. The Guardian also contacts nazis. It doesn't mean they are nazis.
Yes, when the working conditions in other countries are worse to the point of cruelty. The justification is not nationalism, but rather directing consumption toward production that is labor-friendly. So not so much "Made in the USA" as much as "made by workers who feel good about their current situation".

But then one could ask whether certain parts of Europe enjoy the same moral prerogative wrt the US?
Yeah, a trivial engineering problem, what could possibly go wrong?.

I wonder which are those other cost-effective ways to improve access to care you refer to...
The saying "Fake it 'till you make it" really comes to mind here.

The kid is hoping he can lie and scheme his way to success.

Sorry bud but that doesn't work with startups, maybe if you were already an executive at a multinational corporation where you have little accountability and any blame can fall onto the company, but if you lie as a startup founder your reputation and that of all your future ventures will be ruined.
Nobody had the resources to search here?

http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/vhs-tapes?excludenudity=tr...
On a similar note, should a lowly customer service rep trained to respond to cancellation requests and login troubles be expected to address intellectual property rights?
It's literally just an affiliate link.
I will check it out, although I am not too nostalgic about "made in USA" products these days. In my anecdotal experience, it tends to have evolved into cheaply made garbage like anywhere else, or it's obscenely expensive. Sometimes both.

I will say that I'm shocked by how many bicycle manufacturers there are in Portland. I know we have a pretty active bike culture, but still, wow!