skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

How can the author tell Stranger Things producers didn't take a photo of any of billions of same-looking VHS tapes?

I understand the verification that the author took the images they claim they did. I can't tell how that proves that the images strange things used are the same as the ones from the author's screenshot.

Wouldn't every straight-on cropped photo of a VHS tape look the same?

Edit: looks like I didn’t read/observe carefully enough. There are details that are too much the same.
Alot of the same arguments I heard from old people 20 years ago. I agree with the foreign policy critques, especially regarding the middle east, but we had similar issues with Vietnam 50 years ago and even larger ones with the Civil War and still bounced back.

China has alot going for it economically, and that's a good thing overall, but it has its own issues to reckon with. Also, it's actually harder for its neighbors to deal with China, and vice versa, because of distance and shared borders. The U.S. may come across as a noisy policeman at times, but that's less of a worry that a pushy neighbor that keeps trying to move the fence line.
Currently ending year one of my new startup which is being built on top of rails. It continues to be a remarkably great platform upon which to build a real sustainable business.

Thank you to all the contributors who have contributed so far to this release and to all those who will test it prior to GA.
That. Was. Awesome.
It can't increase rent. Rent are capped by what tenants can pay, they are specifically set to "as much as the tenants can afford" because everyone needs a roof. Taxing the landlord doesn't give more moneys to the tenant.

However, what could happen is that the rental income after tax is lower and not enough anymore to cover the mortgage or the maintenance costs, then the property has to be sold.
I still use the Mac Pro (similar specs as mentioned - no trashcan) as a workstation today. Nothing too heavy, but it works for the basics. Crazy that a desktop from over 7 years ago can still upgrade to the same RAM as today's best 'pro' MacBook (16gig)
Check closer, even the position of the teeth is the same. If it is so easy, Netflix should have photographed one instead of stealing an image.
>Netflix (allegedly) Stole My Photos for Stranger Things

That's his personal problem, not ours.
If it's that generic, they could have taken the photo themselves.
If you read the article, you'll see that he identifies specific details about the VHS tape (location of dirt, plastic defects, etc.) that would uniquely identify his particular photos.
Did you read the post? The answer to your questions are well detailed within.
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I guess that depends on how much you trust a government news source when that government is headed by a guy that murders journalists that disagree with him.
> Rigged debates, lying about sexual assault, and selective editing doesn't sound like Project Veritas to you?

No, not at all. Are you really unable to tell the difference between these two organizations tactics? If so... like, I don’t even know what to say about that, beyond I’ll have to remember not to trust your opinion on anything.
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Well it’s at least visually comparable to the more standard units of measurement : the VW bug and football fields.
It is hard for managers to organize developers and to uphold for good practices. That is why I created a service so people would not feel guilty, just hire us and we take care of things for you. :)
>Why the value?

Expected future earnings.

> Opaque inputs

For the public. The guys investing will hardly do this without additional information.

>who is looking at them as solid

Softbank for one. And why would this investment make them shady.
What about the top and sides though? They look significantly different.
I'm not going to try to refute what you've said since you've clearly demonstrated a lack of understanding of unit testing (your "book" isn't correct) and mocking and a lack of willingness to be convinced. Going point-by-point would just be restating things I've said above. I'll just say that to declare something as popular and influential as those two concepts "worse than useless" without bothering to understand them is, well, ballsy.

Incidentally, here's two C++ mocking frameworks found from Google, in case you're more open minded than I'm giving you credit for:

https://github.com/google/googletest/tree/master/googlemock (part of https://github.com/google/googletest)

https://github.com/eranpeer/FakeIt
I think the difference is scale. There are some exceptions but most Kickstarter pledges are less than $200. ICO exposure can be much higher.
As I've suggested here: http://www.pdfernhout.net/basic-income-from-a-millionaires-p...
"For example, imagine a basic income for everyone was supported by a 6% tax on all wealth that is based on monopoly scarcity. So, this would be an annual tax on real estate equity, bank accounts, cash and gold hoards, copyrights and patents, and so on -- basically anything that requires the government to defend it as a monopoly against someone else taking it in a way that leaves you with less. Anything undeclared would not be subject to legal process for recovery if stolen. It would seem only fair in a sense to support the government with a percentage of what you have, in proportion to the amount you have. (One might also propose a progressive tax on that, like higher rates on large total amounts, but let's just assume it is a flat tax.) Essentially, this could be seen as a protective tax on wealth. If millionaires don't declare wealth, the wealth can be taken by anyone, even by the government. :-) If wealth is declared, it is defensible in a criminal suit, and further, maybe the government might even insure it against theft (maybe even other things like fire or accident or war or natural disaster). Recovery of stolen property would then be a function of the government as a revenue source, after it had reimbursed the person who lost it."
I had the exact same reaction to this article. Either they've poorly reported on the project, or the project investigator is hoping to make what would be a quantum leap in the state of the art. I am extremely skeptical that this will provide any kind of actionable disaster relief language materials at any time in the next 5 or even 10 years.

It's fine and worthy to do this kind of research as basic research, but to market it (and fund it?) as some kind of "developing countries/disaster relief" project seems borderline deceptive.
> Just because WaPo caught them this time doesn't mean they're wrong, or WaPo is wrong. The past few years have given me a deep distrust of all media.

So just because they made a story up, and lied to reporters in order to spread a lie, that’s not wrong? Jeez, what do you think is wrong? Can you even tell anymore?
Agreed, investment house does involve some hassle =)

I was posting mostly to counter the argument that buying investment house is risky.
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I’m convinced they’re the same. There’s an identical spec of dusk under the left window. Also the reflections on the transparent plastic are the same.
There's metadata, too.
> The ones in 1989 were violent all over Eastern Europe with the exception of Czech Republic.

This is BLATANTLY false, please get your facts straight! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolutions_of_1989
> Especially in flat non crowded area where you can have line-of-sight and less noise.

I had about a decade of wireless ISP in a neighborhood. It was ok, but speeds suffered as the number of users increased. BTW, this city of 30,000 doesn't have cable and it didn't really get started until 1999. Cable companies didn't want to build it out.

Now I'm in the middle of nowhere and there isn't a WISP to be found. Houses are to far apart and there are too many trees. Noise? I don't have any of that, but line of sight doesn't exist.

I think getting a workable mesh going anywhere would be tough, there is always something.
Subproject 58. Groovy.
I'm not sure what you're getting at here.. these are quite obviously the same images. Down to the reflection of the camera on its tripod. Generic as they are, you can't just google search for an image and steal it from a website to produce a product you then sell millions of times over.
Or abandon the attempt at lecturing what's already in the book, and spend most of the time on Q&A (i.e. interaction, the stuff that actually benefits from having the teacher in the room). Bonus points: more people come to class having read the material, and people who already read it and don't have questions don't bother coming.

The few I've had that did this were amazingly useful - alternate derivations for people stuck on the book's approach, side explorations on things hinted at but not covered normally, etc. Many would get the homework out and puzzle through it in class too, and come up with Qs part way through. I wish we had this in other classes with a couple days between Qs and As, where you'd be left wondering what you actually understood if you weren't totally confident.

If your class is essentially a book-reading-but-verbal, maybe it shouldn't be a lecture / doesn't need the book? Some people learn better verbally, so a reading is definitely valuable, but not for all.
The metadata is just proof that he owns the original images. Not that Netflix stole the images.
You’re dreaming if you think it will get more aggressive. Most economists are extremely concerned about hyperinflation, or at least 1970’s level double digit inflation as a result of QE. The “economists” I was talking about was not people employed by the fed. Go read any economic open related to QE.
Yeah, I get the API part (i'm with kraken) but not the strategy part. I know how program, but not how build an strategy. Where I can learn this?
Seems there's no real attack vector; it's just a matter of waiting and doing small tests to see if Apple are completely blind yet, then doing some big thing.
Exactly and to elaborate, it means that the only secret a user needs to remember is a short PIN for OS-level authentication. The TPM's protection against modified boot and OS components make a brute force very difficult. Further, Windows will actually feed that PIN to the TPM for purposes of OS-level authentication, which leverages the TPM's enforcement of rate limits and lockouts in addition to OS-level implementations of those protections.

A nice improvement would be to use a PIN entered at boot for purposes of drive decryption and then automatically pass it through to the OS-level login.
No, it's ours (1) because a company violating copyrights for pictures may as well violate them for source code or something else.

(1): unless you have never created anything. Then it is not your problem.
There are other countries?
Universal Basic Income is not a new idea, no matter what new phrases one uses to promote it. At root, to be honest, it's based on this ideal: "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." (Karl Marx)

If we are open about it, this fight is about an ideal of equality. Altman's fundamental motive is egalitarianism (oppose inequality, promote fairness, undermine white privilege, etc.). He should be sincere and explicit about it.

He's not the first, and he won't be the last. It will never work. People are profoundly, inherently unequal. Individuals are different, by nature, by nurture, and by will. Whether it is in terms of beauty, productive ability, height and weight, intellectual prowess, athletic performance, sexual preferences, leadership, fecundity, musical achievement, what have you -- we humans can be and can do so much in so many different ways, and will always be profoundly individual, different, unequal (unless we are oppressed into conformity by statism, or other forms of collectivism).

Behind the tired ability-needs line lies the notion that since somehow the problem of production has been solved, all we should care about is consumption via the distribution of wealth. This is Marxist nonsense, no matter how much capital (machines and robots) is involved.
I fully support the author, but bouncing around Netflix customer service/PR and writing a blog post trying to shame them isn't really achieving anything here. Stuff like this happens all the time. Just get a lawyer to draft them a real letter and make a quick buck.
My favorite Apple computer was my G4 Quicksilver where the side folded out.

My first Apple was a //e in 1983, my last apple was a Mac Mini in 2007.
Eru - did you notice the sarcasm ? We I got what i was looking for - many down votes! Anyway you do seem to have some objective thinking going on with your views on Georgism - I checked some of your posts. Keep it up!
Nobody mentions the amount of diversity present in America when compared to other homegeneous cultures like China. You will lose if you bet against diversity!
FileVault does not require a password input at EFI. It decrypts user data in memory after user login
Don't worry, the analysis is flat wrong. I'm betting there was a C extension in play in their hashing library.
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A superintelligence can't circumvent mathematical proof, so your scenarios are not exhaustive and safeguards are not intrinsically useless.

> but the issue here is that the author argues that there is no such thing as a general intelligence. It's all situational

An intelligence that can adapt to changing situations seems pretty general to me.
WTF are you talking about? You think people had 2 machines to run Office and Internet? I don't know if this is a joke or just a delusion.
There is dirt on the tapes and scratches. I think its awfully silly since its just a vhs tape in a top down photo. But...since Netflix is bags o money, I'd make myself care.... who wouldn't harpoon a treasure chest? The worlds most profitable shot of a crappy tape :-)
A Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Barack Obama, bombed 7 different countries during his 8 year tenure, and executed thousands through drone strikes in cold blood. His predecessor invaded a country under false pretenses and murdered nearly a million people there during his tenure. And we narrowly escaped electing the person responsible for destabilizing Libya (where there are _slave markets_ operating today). She also laughed about it like a total psycho.

So yeah, “people like this” do exist, and they end up in positions of power with depressing regularity.
is "off the record" even legally binding?
No that's not true. Facts for instance are usuallly not copyrightable, regardless of how much effort goes into gathering them.

Photographs of artworks that are in the public domain often aren't copyrightable for instance, if they are exact reproductions.

How much effort goes into pressing the button is completely irrelevant to copyright law, creating an uncopyrightable photograph is likely a great deal more strenuous than a copyrightable one.
Seems to have a weird bridge it has to serialize things and send them across to get them to the native side... ala React Native. I say weird, because go should be native by itself, thus no need for this hoop-jumping.
I think this would fall into the category of ‘fair use’.

The OP had a very generic high quality photo of a VHS tape. There was nothing particularly artistic about it.

Netflix provided new value, by substantially modifying the image for a new purpose.

I know everyone gets worked up about big evil corporations vs the little guy, but I don’t think there is much substance here.
I believe gp meant, "if the bulk of a tree's mass comes from dirt, why isn't the dirt around the tree used up as the tree gains mass?"
It is not a quick buck. I had some photos stolen before and commercially used in a magazine -- while I had a website, and had a side job as a photographer, and I was selling licenses to my pictures! It is a lot of hassle. I hated to deal with that.

Imagine your github repository being copied, and the content being used in the next version of say the Google Pixel, with no attribution and no respect for your copyrights.

Unless you enjoy suing people and making enemies, it is not fun. Unless you have a lawyer on a retainer, it is not a quick buck.

Also, this is just when you "catch" the violators. How many times did I have my pictures used commercially without attribution? I don't know. It may be why I left this line of business.
I don't feel like you're hearing my point:

It's not about you. It's about the people around you. But you're right: I'm not willing to let you (bleep) up the educational experience for the people around you, because (in my class), everyone around you has also forked over $60,000 per year to be there.

But it's also about context: 15-112 is not a "dump facts at you" class, which the courses you're describing sound much more like. 112 is an intro to programming course, where half of what happens is in-class demonstration of how to solve problems with programming. Most of the real learning in the class happens in recitation and by students doing a lot of programming with a lot of TA support.

It's also a first-year student course. You're welcome to make a prediction about how many of those 17 and 18-year-old students are actually using their bright distracting shiny to take notes vs. having blingy bleepies popping up on facebook. (Answer: handwav-ily about half, where a lot of students attempt to "multitask" between distractions and note-taking.) I'm pretty happy with a blanket ban, because it improves the net educational outcomes in my classes. shrug (I still allow laptops in my grad classes. I may revisit it, but I figure in general that with experience comes some greater degree of self-control. That's a hunch, not a data-driven conclusion.)

The thread later on about the flipped classroom is the one to really look at for resolving this issue -- it's entirely possible that we should get rid of many of the conventional lectures and replace class-time with structured-activity time (which would involve laptops). The problem, however, is that in most flipped approaches, you have to get the students to watch -- often solo -- a video of the lecture material, and/or solo read it. The number who actually do so is somewhat low, even at a top school. The jury's still a little out, but the potential is high.
ipvanish is good if anyone else is wondering
But its a hugely silly thing to care about. I really dont see anyone being actually sentimental about a top down generic shot of a plain black tape. We would all lawyer up though, and fake caring, because money. Without acting like a victim, its harder to milk the cash cow.

Now, should we care about this mans "plight?" Not if we have any sense - it's about money...we would have to be naive as an ignoramus to think hes actually hurt about his black tape picture.

And most of us..at least when polled..believe that copyright is defunct. So naturally, most people are happy when their creations gain visibility. They have to flip the switch on their brain to feign angst and victimhood so they can lawsuit up and get that money. We all would. But lets not kid ourselves if its about anything but the money. Because most of us are pretty copyleft, especially about things we created and thought no one would ever appreciate.
It's the same guy — the presenter in the video, Ruben Meerman, is one of the authors of the paper .
The Millionaire Next Door is advertised as a personal finance book, but I found it useful for many other areas of life.

The central point of the book is that most millionaires live ordinary middle class lifestyles. They saved a ton of money because they don't buy expensive things.

That taught me a few things. First, you have no idea what anyone else's situation is, financial or otherwise.

Just because someone has a big house doesn't mean they're rich. They might be or they might not be. They might have a large income to buy that house, or they may have taken out huge amounts of debt to finance it. You just don't know.

The book also has great tips for careers, family, and marriage. I think it's well worth a read.
I actually watched the video in the article and thought it was really exciting. I prefer it to the real thing because the drivers can take more risks, leading to more exciting passes.
Depends on what you mean by "raise".

Could I come up with $2000? Yes, if I needed to.

Could I persuade others to give me $2000 for some purpose (investment, ransom, bail)? I don't know.
the internet is smoking your brain.
The best 'physical' model of computation is probably the reversible 3D mesh (R3M) model: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0957-4484/9/3/005/....
Who is "we"? Why does the rest of "the western world" (does that include Korea?) have competitive markets of higher speeds and lower prices than we do? Perhaps because they wisely use structural remedies rather than simply trusting incumbent monopolies to keep their promises?

You have read Kushnick. He has whole chapters that are little more than quotes from PUC testimony, RBOC press releases, annual shareholder reports, etc. The quid was most definitely pro the quo. Now who is "disingenuous"?

The stated objective of the 1996 Act was to foster competition. We had about five years during which the first hints of actual competition started to appear, which have steadily disappeared since then. Much of the investment you laud was misinvestment: witness the perennially low returns to building out long-distance fiber throughout the 2000s. Witness the steady consumption of investor-financed firms by the Daughters Bell. In what other industry would it be judged a success that lots of people spent lots of money, but they were eventually driven out of business by the monopoly anyway?
Good question. Posting on Twitter it surely is not. I enjoy going out and meeting friends. Either for sports and tech meeetups.
Syria is a huge mess, but the U.S. isn't the one paying most of the costs there (for good or ill). It's closer to the proxy wars great powers fight all of the time while the U.S. was and is on the front lines for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Most of the U.S. response has been to ISIS in Iraq, which is winding down but can be seen more as more fallout from the Iraq war than anything else.
So your wealth tax is more like 0.4% then?
Wake up neo...
Why don't they deserve flak for being crap? I hate it when big corps can just bully their way.

Lawyers charge arms and legs; my impression of the article is that the author was not in a position where getting a lawyer was just a "just" undertaking.
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How hard would it be to utilize Neanderthal for your example in the article?
The new eager execution in TensorFlow is supposed to integrate well with Python debugging and immediate run-time errors. Is it possible to get better debugging information from Clojure?
The Apple ][ game "The Prisoner" had many deceptive moments like this -- I think at one point it rearranged the I/J/K/M directional keys. It even simulated a BASIC crash to get you to type in your secret 3 digit code, which the game had warned you not to reveal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner_(video_game)
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I'd like to point out that you're referencing hand picked, extreme examples of a community. There's a massive bias. You have no way of knowing what Tumblr is like based on these examples.
OP should totally throw Netflix to the wolves, he should send a cease and desist letter to every store stocking these, and the service providers of every website advertising these.

Netflix enforces it's copyrights through the legal system - regardless of how humorous - and fail to comply with it themselves? Complete hypocrites, I still wonder how corporations get so much leeway in this country. Honestly, IP infringement like this from a company like Netflix should involve a 10x penalty; the onus should be on them - as people who regularly use the IP systems for profit - to get it right.