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This shouldn't effect the outcome though. The National party in New Zealand (the government at the time) used a 3rd party agency to source music for their 2011 TV campaign.

It turned out that the music sounded exactly like Eminem's "Lose Yourself" and he successfully sued them http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objecti...

So while it's fair to say that Netflix probably had no idea it doesn't change the fact that they're using images that were stolen.
Also (as feikname points out in another comment) because if you're relying on your NAT for security, your security boundary becomes your network, not your machine. If you read post-mortems of security breaches, it's really common for the initial intrusion to be a printer, or webcam, or an intern's/secretary's/nonprivileged user's device, which then pivots using the internal network to gain more access.
If Netflix did their own creative work, the author would not be compensated. But they appropriated his work instead, without paying or even asking. That’s not ok. Especially for a company who relies on copyrights to secure their own profits.
Must be about ten years since I was last in Bali, but I distinctly remember paying both an entrance and exit visa when visiting.

Only Bali downside, the beachy parts can get overrun with Australians acting the way Americans do in Tijuana.
That kind of software construction discipline is unnecessary for projects of this size.
> Everyone was so sure that some crappy PC costing a few hundred less was somehow so much better than these “expensive Macs” at the time, never understanding that the PCs were breaking all the time and the Macs basically never did.

Eh, I'm the proud owner of a crappy PC costing many times less than a G5, and it's been chugging along with since 2007 just fine. Some of the parts have been periodically upgraded where appropriate, so calling it the same PC is perhaps a bit of a Ship of Theseus dilemma, but there are certainly components in there which haven't changed at all (e.g. 3x 320GB Seagate drives, which are still going and I'm too lazy to chuck out).

Being able to build and upgrade it piecemeal has allowed me to go for good specials, and I've generally been buying at the price / performance sweet spot at every turn. It shouldn't be underestimated how much of a saving that gives. I probably still haven't spent nearly the price of a G5 on it, and I have a PC which is basically on the VR-capable performance line.

Bu basically, just don't buy the cheapest components and you should be fine.
The article was originally written 16 years ago and last updated 6 years ago. How much of the improvement in the last 30 years has been over that time? How much of the improvement in the last 30 years has filtered its way into the popular perception of Africa? Or into how Africa looks from a statistical perspective? I am not surprised that the article gives a picture of Africa that is 20-30 years out of date.
I believe it. As a film fan, this is why I really dislike Netflix—they seem a repeat offender at ripping off other artists. A few of their shows like Stranger Things (Alien, Poltergeist, Akira, Goonies) and especially Godless (Rio Bravo; Magnificent Seven; Good, Bad, and the Ugly) go beyond homage and into outright copying and stealing ideas. I understand tropes and references, but I think Netflix has shown a pattern of basically just making imitation products of other successful products. I can watch nearly anything on HBO, but can hardly find anything half worth watching on Netflix and it’s nearly all derivative of something else more interesting.
Imagine this; you leave your home and say good morning to your neighbor smiling and sharing positive energy every morning.

But you're right; a person might smile at you when he is actually carry negative feelings. For example, my landlord is a greedy guy and he sometimes wants to rip me off and he also smiles :)
The Uber is also safer, cleaner, and more reliable.
I actually like Unity (especially Unity of Ubuntu 12 and 14 LTS). And Ubuntu Mate with its Gnome 2 inspired shell sounds great.

But plain Gnome 3 took the wrong direction, it's too tablet OS alike, a unfortunate regression compared Gnome 2 in usability. Unfortunately KDE also took the wrong direction, after the great KDE3, with KDE4 the started from scratch again, what a big mistake. Basically Gnome and KDE wasted years with rewriting, that turned out worse, and can be blamed that Linux desktop is still at less than 5%.

So let's hope Ubuntu 18 LTS transform Gnome 3 to look subjectly less ugly (more traditional) and at least add back the removed toolbars and menubars to the Gnome Texteditor, filemanager, etc.

Who came up with the single toolbar button in Gnome 3 Texteditor with only a paste functionality and thought it is a good idea? Bring back the Gnome2 Texteditor as featured in Ubuntu Mate.

I want the tab-support in Terminal app back. Why was it removed in Gnome3?
Chrome and Firefox did the correct thing by burying the advanced settings in chrome:flags and about:config respectively.

Gnome and Unity actually removed features -- that's what this complaint is about.
When you are learning something new, you will make mistakes. Some mistakes can be cheap, but others can be really expensive. If you do not know what I am talking about Google for "advanced beginner" and "Dreyfus curve of skill acquisition".

I get several job offers per year from my professional network, because I have been doing some things in the past where mistakes were bound to happen. Due to my expertise I am more likely to finish certain projects within time/budget/scope than others.

While it might be a long stretch, compare it to road cycling: who might have the best chances to finish a century (100 mile ride) within a reasonable time:

- someone who has read a lot about road cycling

- someone who has finished several centuries successfully

Practical knowledge tends to be way deeper than theoretical knowledge, and usually gives you the ability to judge whether the theory applies in a certain situation, or it does not.

You can not become a master chef by looking at TV shows, you need to walk the walk...
Of course. The image in question is the 3rd that comes up on Google Image Search for "vhs tape" (and the first good one).

To people who argue that the person at the agency should have used a microstock agency, the problem is, the image you get from a microstock agency (without an account) almost always has a big watermark on it, so it can't be used to make an acceptable mockup.

To get an image from a microstock agency without a watermark you need an account, and the junior designer tasked with doing the mockup probably doesn't have one, and she didn't have time either to go ask for one.

Bad process? Certainly. But big corporations don't necessarily have good process. They have people sitting around in offices, subcontracting everything to consulting companies who in turn try to have the work done by unpaid interns if possible. Okay, that may be a caricature -- but truer than it sounds.
Indonesians smile when in uncomfortable/awkward situations (among other times). It's a different type of smile to a happy smile, but foreigners might miss the subtleties.

Also, don't assume it's all slow Islander life; Indo gets pretty hectic depending where you are (Bali included); it's got a massive population on a pretty small amount of inhabitable land
From a general point of view: using a credit card responsibly will improve your credit rating.

A debit card won’t.

I had to explain this to a school friend recently as he has never owned a credit card and avoids loans - preferring to save first, then spend.

When it came time to get a mortgage he couldn’t get good rates - or a large enough loan - as his credit history was so lacking.

He was infuriated but I pointed out to him that it makes sense from a lenders point of view: they gave no record of him being able to manage debt responsibly.

So that’s one reason to use a credit card, though likely not any reason Frank would suggest (he’s going with their better protection and coverage)
Except historically migration to the US was driven by free land. And more recently by opportunities for wealth. These might be results of the non-thar culture, but they are confounded by natural resources and people are not clearly expressing a preference for the culture so much as a few correlated material benefits.
Is that why so many higher up people with many years experience get called out for sexual misconduct? I think your argument is not correct...
Just a side-note, there is a lot of active volcanic activity throughout Indonesia. Currently pretty much all flights in and out of Bali are cancelled due to Mt Agung being on the brink of eruption. It's not one of those things you'd need to worry about every day of course, but it could inconvenience you if you had to travel and got caught out by it.
> I can't do anything about bats pooping in my bathroom

That may be a dealbreaker for me.
I think you're misinterpreting the context here. This is a followup to a post where he did say some unflattering things about Amazon. It was intended as an internal communication, but he accidentally made it public. So this post is damage control. "Sorry guys, I don't do that sort of thing on purpose, here's a flattering story to even things out."
There ought to be a #TooOld similar to #TooSoon
It's also possible that Facebook was told to remove this content by the Romanian government. Their policy is to comply.
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> A tender is not a "round"

"Round" is a colloquialism. It just means a financing. (Private equity "rounds", for instance, regularly contain dividend recap and other non-company benefiting components.) This financing was structured specifically to make its nature ambiguous. Debating what to call it is, by design, tedious.
Props for describing the problem as an optimization problem.

To add to that: Companies are not always looking to hire the best person for the job, but someone that can solve the problems they are facing. Since problems tend to repeat themselves, someone with experience has likely encountered and solved many of the problems they are hired to deal with.

This is not saying that having experience in a field means you will be able to solve a problem better than a inexperienced person, it just means they've likely encountered it before (or a variation) and managed to solve it. Business in general are risk averse, and therefore will opt for a guaranteed solution even if its not optimal.
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> That is work.

The US does not have a "sweat of the brow" law. It's irrelevant how much work it took. All that matters is if there is creativity, vs simply mechanical reproduction.
I see. I misread it as him posting unflattering things about Google.
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Given the long GC immigration line for China and India. I am sure someone has taken this step to immigrate to Canada. Care to share how the decision fared out based on the following criteria?

- work culture
- salary
- cost of living
- insurance and medical expenses
- happiness :)
As far as finding spaces, I've found that local bars/restaurants/coffee shops are usually quite happy to host events during off-times like Monday through Wednesday nights. I always ask nicely, thank them in the event description, during the event, and in an email after, and try to go out of my way to make things easier for them (checking in with estimated attendees a few days before, helping put chairs back in order afterward, etc.) It's nice because these places are inherently social so people feel more comfortable talking, you don't have to worry about food/drink, and it brings attention to community-minded businesses.
People often move not for cultural reasons, but because of resources. An example would be Nepalese migrant workers moving to Saudi Arabia - they aren't doing that for the culture.
> But we need something that can be evaluated quickly, and experience is an easy proxy since it at least indicates that a person has been around a thing for a while and wasn't so bad at it that they got fired for incompetence.

This fits workplaces that make CRUD apps. But if you're ambitious you really don't want to filter out the un-cynical young people that might have lost patience with a poor employer in a short time. Even at the cost of having to skim through the text of 50 applications and picking out the interesting sounding ones.
I generally interpret “X years experience” as a rough indicator of what responsibilities are expected of a potential hire. If a role is looking for 2 years experience or less, I’d probably expect to be an individual contributor. Approx 5 years and level of responsibility grows, etc etc. This isn’t true of every role, and I agree with OP that taken alone years experience is an insufficient decision point for bringing on a candidate (IMO no single axis is a sufficient decision point for a yes, but some single axes are decision points for a no, like inappropriate behavior during an interview). However, as a heuristic for both a hiring team to optimize the greatest number of qualified candidates applying and for qualified candidates deciding whether they want to apply, it’s a useful indicator.
All those scales are valued differently by different cultures.

If I show a conservative American gun crime statistics that we agree on and we agree that are caused by American gun culture, I cannot tell them that American gun culture is inferior, because I just get back "Thats the price of freedom!"

Life expectancy, "It's not the years in your life but the life in your years!"

GDP is the most hilarious one, because it's not even per-capita. Assuming that its a high median per capita GDP: "That's materialistic! We're much happier than those greedy capitalists"
Thank-you for that link. I will be updating the DB in the coming month and China is one of the countries to have updated entries.
Expecting a generalist software engineer to know data mining and machine learning (well) is about equivalent to expecting your primary doctor to be able to do cardiology and heart surgery.
I'm not sure why the author lumps together so many of the attributes he does, and when he does acknowledge exceptions, rather than learn from them and understand why they exist, he simply waves his hands an says Japan wasn't honor-bound enough or not in the right way or whatever else.

His examples are cherry-picked and similar examples exist in the countries he holds up as exemplars. Saudi Arabia viewed cleaning as women's work, sure, just like nearly every country in Europe 100 years ago. Again, sexism is inexplicably considered to be part of this horoscope-level cultural complex of traits, as is apparently poor people excessively taking possessions from deceased relatives.

He blazes by picking one bad thing that happened in a given culture, offering no further analysis other than to gawk at how much better our culture is, then moves on to an entirely different society where he happens to know one bad thing about them and repeats the process.

The article appears to me to be little more than a post-hoc justification of the author's prejudices, with a few glib references and citations which give a glib appearance of being well-researched and substantive.
It sounds like your threat model doesn’t interactive hardware adversaries. Mine does, so worry about how they might capture my long pass phrase is a big concern.

Well, to whom do I tell my long passphrase? Right: my computer. Every morning. Is it running the same software as last night, no keyloggers, etc?

That’s what the TPM is for.
You can keep the lights open during the night then :)
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no matter how talented you may be, you still have to learn to walk before you can run.

depends on the job but it should be obvious that an inexperienced developer can slow a project down if the skill levels are too great between a team of programmers as they will have a hard time communicating certain things. there will be many hours a day spent explaining little things that they usually fail to see. this might be fine for big companies but a real handicap for new budding startups.

programming is not just math and logic, its also about seeing and properly identifying the situations, to know what type of tools to use, which 3rd party libraries are needed, and knowing when to take shortcuts and not to, which are all difficult choices if you dont have any real world experience.

but on the contrary, i have also worked with some college grads or even high school dropouts that seem to have as much experience as some seniors. and these are the hidden gems most companies wish to find during hiring process.

its a difficult nut to crack when you are reviewing a hundred or so applicants and it comes down to seeing who they are on paper. which means most of the focus is seeing who have the most accolades, ahievements, github stars, etc.
So you agree that there is no difference for the author.
"relatively-transparent Federal Reserve" - thats crap. All bitcoin are open to see and track and all the code is open source and you can start mining if you want to, albeit at a loss. The federal reserve is the opposite of transparent.
I don't understand author's position. Vendetta is obviously bad. Genocide and religiois fanaticism is incompatible with western sosiety. This is obvious too.

Other than that, well, sometimes it is perfectly rational to act agressively or overreact to show your seriousness or be impolite in response to some sort of behavior. It depends.
> It's tautological to say that as by definition 1850s white Americans culture is extremely distasteful to a modern HN commenter

Which definition would that be?
Yes, I can definitely agree that there is far more that Facebook can do in investing enough manual effort into shutting down outliers in egregious abuse.
Im the person who drew the etchmarkings you see on every vhs cassette today. Also I was responsible for placing the vhs trademark logo on it. No just kidding. Im not of course. But in my opinion these claims are a little absurd. Taking a photo of an everyday household item is, in my opinion, not some original work of art they intentionally stole. Some graphic intern used them off the web instead of shutterstock. Big deal. These posts make it soind like netflix had a secret executive meeting where they decided to rip off a poor photographer which, i think, did not happen. Some graphic intern will get sacked most probably.
I really like Ubuntu 17.10 sans Ubuntu. I'm running the default gnome-session. Its fast and Wayland has made Gnome feel really ... fluid? It doesn't _feel_ like a Linux machine anymore. Compositing _feels_ better than a Windows or OSX machine.

Highly recommended.
There are no exit visas anymore and depending on where you are from, you may also need no visas for short visits.
Is KDE back to KDE3 functionality? If so I will give it another try. But KDE4.x was sooo bad, it was a complete rewrite and every single decision was ill-advised. In retrospective it almost looks like someone had great fun running both KDE and Gnome to the ground and keep users away from Linux desktop. I mean KDE3 and Gnome2 were good, almost perfect. KDE was more Windows alike and had ton of settings to adjust things. Gnome 2 was more MacOS alike and more opinionated with little settings. When KDE4 tanked, I switched to Gnome 2. When Gnome 3 tanked I switched to Ubuntu with Unity. Now Ubuntu 17 tanked with its shitty Gnome 3 where Terminal app has no tab-support and Gnome Texteditor is a weird zombie that lost most of the Gnome3 Texteditor functionality and toolbars. I hope Ubuntu 18 LTS comes with some reasonable improvements to Gnome 3, or I will look elsewhere.
How much are these images really worth, it looks to me like they took <1h of time and I doubt it’s reasonable to ask for more than $50 as a non professional photographer.

Maybe you could argue that because they were stolen there is some higher prize? This really isn’t the same thing as stealing a Netflix series that supports the livelihoods of many hundreds of people. In fact I’d argue that because no attempt was being made to make a living out of these photos therefore no actual losses were incurred.
Softbank's acquisition at this rate would own most valuable startups making it a valuable company than a bank in the coming 10 years or so.
My question was sincere, and seems like it should have a clear answer.
No. You are seeking out earlier uses of the phrase to support your warped world view, which you accepted from those who co-opted the term. This is very recent history:

https://gizmodo.com/facebooks-fight-against-fake-news-was-un...
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also, if you dont like te way bitcoin is being run then just fork it, bitcoin cash did just that because groups couldnt agree on if they wanted small blocks or large blocks.
> Maybe you could argue that because they were stolen there is some higher prize?

That is generally the standard in lawsuits, yes.
Yes, I'm thinking of the moral question rather than the legal one. Other commenters seem upset that Dr. Lui didn't get his credit, but it seems to me the next level of credit is equally interesting.

(I'm getting off topic, but the fact that the art of photography almost always involves copying a real world object always spins my mind in circles. How much of the credit for a great photo of the Eiffel Tower goes to the photographer, and how much is due to Eiffel? How about a photograph of the statue of David? How about a photograph of the Mona Lisa? How about a photograph of a photograph?)
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Yes. I need some sort of smart fridge and shelves that know what is still there.
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If it's good enough to handle secret information, it's good enough for my official mail to corporations.

http://www.wrc.noaa.gov/wrso/security_guide/mailing.htm
Kde3 was the best environment ever.
I expect a generalist doctor to have a good understanding of those things though she might not be in practice at specific surgical techniques. A primary care physician who doesn’t know those things is a specialist in primary care who will have difficult helping patients make decisions about more specialized care.

Similarly a generalist software engineer should know what things are realistic and possible with data mining and machine learning. Just like they should know what is possible and realistic in cpu design or network protocols. They might not know all the latest tricks but they will be able to design and advise on systems which depend on these capabilities.
"I have done X" is more valuable than "I'm absolutely sure I can do X".
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> exploiting Benchmark’s desire for an exit

Does that imply that they'll be buying Benchmark's stock, rather than employees'?

> SoftBank is getting extremely cheap debt at the moment

That sounds like some interesting background to the deal, please expand if you have more detail!
Wasting time in a court for trivial things like this is of course up to the party who has been “harmed”.
We'll perhaps there are some HN commenters that have those values, but I hope not!

But 1850's American culture is distasteful to me and also to sullyj3 as they say:

"it's manifestly obvious that modern American culture is superior to American culture of the 1850s"
A blog post is not a Show HN. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.