skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"hmm..so who gives the big cartels the rights to their music? that's right...the artists. If the artists are getting scraps and you are illegally copying their stuff and as a result, they lose contracts, it's hurting them in the process."

More artists go with indie studios every year, and for the most part these studios have learned to use copying to their advantage instead of fighting it.

There's never been any definitive research that shows artists lose money from copying, even the big studio artists. The math isn't simple--even if you grant that fewer albums are purchased due to copying, a wider fan base could lead to higher concert and merchandise sales. Of course, this may also mean that copying can increase album sales if it boosts popularity enough through network effect. One copier who likes an album may tell 10 of his friends, 2 of whom buy the album; that is profit directly attributable to copying.

"With no IP laws, most big companies would either create very expensive software (so anyone that buys it would not be willing to share it) or they would all go to service based apps (this is already starting to happen)."

If this is really how it would play out, I don't see the problem. If copying bits makes shrink wrapped software untenable (which I question), then so be it. Business models change all the time. It's not the end of the world.

"The grateful dead has had a following for many decades. What about new artists that want to make a living?"

The Grateful Dead started small like any band. One of the factors that led to their explosive growth was letting people freely distribute recordings of their live shows.

"After 10 years of popularized piracy (I know it's been available for much longer than this, but Napster mainstreamed it), the youth of today feels entitled to free things on the Internet and are becoming less and less likely to pay for digital media."

I see it more as people feeling entitled to communicate and share with each other freely, which is a good thing. I hope the trend continues.

"I no longer make applications, only services. So the direct result of piracy is that people that normally would have to pay a one-time fee for my software now have to pay me every month."

So? You adapted to the circumstances and are still providing the world value and getting paid for it. What's the problem?
Use I2P. Just connect your IRC client to a certain port on localhost and you'll be rerouted to the I2P IRC server. If some government seized the I2P IRC server, nobody would still have any idea of who you are.
While I think the AT stance amounts to arrogance more than anything, enforcing compliance with robots.txt with law is absurd and unjust. To the best of my knowledge it's not a part of the HTTP standards or codified in any law.
Sounds like risking the consequences of blackhat SEO with little advantage; give one version to a typical search crawler, the other version to non-official crawler. The search engine assumes it's a bait-and-switch and automatically blacklists the website.
You can already do this in lync

http://lync.microsoft.com/en-us/Product/Workloads/Pages/conf...
Seems a bit premature. You still can't..

* listen to Pandora outside the US

* or Amazon Cloud Player outside the US

* or Spotify outside Europe

* buy music from Apple's iTunes Music Store US catalog in Japan
Nice work. These implementations are generally country specific as they are dependent on country-specific databases. Your one seems to have the potential to be worldwide, although you've hard coded it to US for the proof-of-concept.

A very common frustration for non-US people is when the address form has "State" as a required field, even though you have selected another country. This would take that away.
No, it is about not being willing to waste bandwidth and server capacity on unworthy projects (no person will ever search for my site through baidu but it still being indexed).

Google and archive.org is one thing, I will be happy to support them.
Comments on ads
I would really like to comment and share my thoughts instantly on ads that play before youtube.com or vevo.com videos. There are some very interesting ads out there that deserve feedback.

This would make online advertisements engaging and help boost the already growing web advertisement sector. Hope you developers out there working for big tech giants can implement this and make your employers proud. I think it would be a great idea if disqus looked into it. What do you guys think?
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You're right it doesn't say anything about the future. But my point was simply that he drew conclusions from numbers that shouldn't mean anything yet.
Not entirely sure if this was what you were getting at, but I've always found advice against 50/50 equity to likely be the product of a cognitive error. People see companies with 50/50 equity splits failing due to founder disputes and extrapolate that to mean that 50/50 equity split is sub-optimal. This does not necessarily follow - it could very well be the case that it is the cause of disputes but that it is still often the best option. Sort of like how there's a lot of problems with democracy but the prevailing wisdom is that it's still the best form of government out there (same with capitalism).

Not saying that it necessarily is the best way to do things (though I'm partial to it), just that I have not seen convincing arguments against it - that it doesn't work sometimes does not cut it, it has to work less well than an alternative.
I wonder if honeypots that auto-block rogue crawlers have occurred to these yoyos.
I agree with this. You can buy in or bow out, but the game isn't going away.
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Always all those lands are more worthy which lie in the path of rapidly developing areas. The very first step is to buy undeveloped piece of land which prices will rapidly increase as it lies in the path of urban growth in nearby future in any form of ready property. The basic purpose of land investment is to identify these hotspots in advance and wait for the right time so that its real value is initialized.
And I can't see it because the page does not load.
In other words: Google is getting older.
>You just did it again: the "home runs" are not necessarily the most profitable authors. Those authors that need development very often turn out to be the most profitable in the end. They're also far more common than the "home runs," meaning that by losing the "home runs," the publishers are only losing a small fraction of profitable authors.

That's fine, because what I'm saying is that the home runs will get to market fast and cheap so they're a very big competitive threat. Add to that a bunch of small niche authors that also have incredibly small cost structures and the decade long lead-time bets the publishers are now making are much riskier.

>The growing diversity will impact the volume of mid-list authors far more than chart-toppers. I see no sign that the human propensity for mass trends is diminishing, and those mass trends (and the mega-influential opinion-shapers who drive them) are what carry the top-selling authors to the top and keep them there.

I agree with this completely. I didn't mean to say that chart-toppers will cease to exist. What will happen though is that some of them will be self-published and more importantly the mid-list will probably be taken over by self-publishers. So as a publisher your portfolio now has a higher percentage of decade-long bets and they have to pan out for you to stay in business.

>However, a great author who has to pay middle-men (because they helped him become great, amongst other reasons) will still be able to charge a high enough price to make orders of magnitude more than lesser authors who self-publish.

So we do agree that prices will be pushed down? Cause for a publishing house that's monumental, their margins are pretty low as it is. Can we at least agree that self-publishing is a long-term threat for publishing houses? You don't think it will wipe them out, I think that at least the existing ones will get replaced by new firms that understand the new dynamics better.
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Which company would you rather end up buying Skype?
I hope the IP is actually included this time.
It's funny to see the mainstream press completely fail in doing any reporting on Anon. Half of the time, it's just too chaotic, by the time you think you understand how it works and report on it it completely went the other way around.

The other half of the time, they just tell you nonsense, either because they don't know themselves or they want to fool you.

It's like herding cats. But it does give amusing reads.
Evidence for the Dunning-Kruger effect is based on statistics. It doesn't imply that anyone, or even most of those, that claims awesomeness are either stupid or insufficiently humble. Of course you should check someones claims. But if Brendan Eich tells you he is awesome at javascript --and he should--, then he is simply telling you the truth, but there are hundreds of others in the world that could validly make the same claim and simply be right.
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The details are a bit murky at the moment but if Google is going to launch a music service that does not offer any method of purchasing or subscribing to music it will probably alienate a lot of users. Music sales may be down but they're not nonexistent. Lots of people don't pirate music for whatever reason. The whole experience will have to be pretty seamless in the way it scans and updates any music you bought from other services. For Google that's problem because you're probably buying that music from Amazon or Apple. Why not just use their cloud music services instead? It makes things a bit too complex. Amazon is in a better position but it'd be kind of shocking if the labels don't retaliate against them. It seems to me both Google and Amazon are forcing the labels back into Apple's camp here.
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While you're right about loyalty, quality matters too. Skype is infinitely better than Google Voice when it comes to video calls (very little lag, if at all!) - plus, users can video conference for free, which is not an option with Google Voice (as of now). My point is, Skype is the best product in the market in its domain, no question.

I do agree than Microsoft is massively overpaying for Skype, however.
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I feel similarly about vim. Not my cup of tea (I'm an emacs nut), but the dedicated can churn through text like a banshee's screech through courage.

That said, I don't really work on projects or write code that necessitates being a human m4.
I don't feel like any of those things are problems. If it really isn't possible to make a profit making blockbuster movies without invasive liberty-destroying laws, then so be it. There are lots of potentially great things that just aren't profitable to produce in practice. Why are movies so special? That said, there would still be huge demand without IP--I think people could figure something out.
At minimum it would kill Google's ability to compete. Every tiny move they made would be under a microscope.
I fail to understand why this is of interest. The number doesn't tell you anything. If only 600M people were alive to today, the number would be a factor of 10 smaller. So what? You can't distill any meaning from the number. It doesn't predict anything, doesn't spell out opportunities, doesn't explain anything. It's a synthetic numerical fact, as constructed and unrelated to anything Real as the fact that the length of my thumb is exactly 1.5% of the height of the Eiffel tower.
The Sophie ad is something different, less an interesting experiment in breaking an internal rule than a simple push for a product (the Chrome browser) that Google wants more users to sample.

Except I don't understand how the ad has anything to do with Chrome. It seems more like an ad for Gmail, or maybe just email itself. You don't need chrome to do all that crap.
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Hi, I'm looking to get into video analysis for filtering certain content. However, my background is primarily in web development.

I would really appreciate if someone could point me in the right direction. I.E. Some canonical texts, resources, or sites.
I've read various stuff to this extent, but the most interesting treatment was in the documentary called "Crips and Bloods: Made in America" that examines the origins of those two gangs.

A big part of it was how the LAPD would only enforce laws in certain neighborhoods. The gangs were literally trained by the police that if they commit crimes on one side of a particular street, the laws will be enforced, but if they commit crimes on the ghetto side of the street, they will not be.
I wouldn't say partnerships can't work out -- they obviously do, often enough -- but I would say that they can fail no matter how much you believe yours won't, so it's a really good idea to have a backup plan just in case, no matter how long you've known your friend for or what you've been through together.

I got my eyes opened on this last year. I was part of a pretty tight-knit group of friends. Some of us decided to get together and apply to YC. It's a good thing that didn't go very far, because a few months later, one of our group got in pretty serious trouble with the law. I took the view that he was a good person that didn't deserve to have a bad decision follow him around the rest of his life; my girlfriend and I attended his court dates and argued for his parole, and when he was released, we moved him to our area and helped him get back on his feet.

Our previously close-knit group of friends, it turns out, were really unhappy about that. They quit talking to us altogether, even though, as climbing partners, we've been responsible for each-others' lives on several occasions, and have generally been there for each-other through good times and bad.

Never saw that coming. Suddenly partnerships looked a lot less wise afterward.
There's no indication that that list is in direct order of importance at Quora. To assume so is a little rude, at best.
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AT does many, many illegal things. They copy and redistribute content without permission of the owner-- indeed, that is the entire point of the Archive Team.
Because it is the correct measure for the question at hand. In a steady state population, life expectancy at birth times the rate of births gives you the number of people alive, and equally number of people alive divided by average length of life gives you the number (or rather, rate) of individuals born, which is what you need if you want to know how many individuals have ever been born. The maths gets a bit mor complicated with a dynamic population size, but the principle is the same. The median would be completely useless for this.
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Archiveteam member here. Robots.txt is useful for a site to avoid having search-engine spiders to blindly wander down an infinite hallway.

Archiveteam projects are different because we run closely-monitored, highly targeted crawls. If a site has an infinite hallway in it, we'll notice that and exclude it while taking steps to replicate enough of it to retain its valuable attributes. We also do our best to avoid retrieving content more times than necessary. If you operate a database, we try to get enough pages to replicate a good portion of the underlying data.
"the concept is bigger than just money, including getting access to Skype’s 663 million registered users."

This would indicate that Skype has more registered users than Facebook. Colour me surprised. Although I wonder how large the overlap already is between Skype users and MS Windows users, especially with the recent Skype Mac Client stuff.
I would interpret their answer as being annoyed with you -- not as ashamed!
Is Yahoo! Slurp still active? I thought they turned it off when they switched to using Bing search results on Yahoo!
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We typically use wget running on consumer machines. This isn't like the spider farm of a typical search engine, with hundreds of machines consuming gigabytes/second of bandwidth. AT hits are specific and targeted.
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That is not what zbowling has been describing.
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For what I understood, the protocols are open, but you can't join in the network without a private key signed by Apple :). It seems to use fairly standard protocols though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FaceTime#Standards
Awesome, great work.
Excellent. How much are you paying ycombinator for your account?

If the answer is "nothing", then I guess you've just told me that all your comments are useless, and I should ignore them.
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Pedro Teixeira's nodetuts[1] have been very helpful, things are explained in a very natural way. If the book is as good, this might get my moneys.

[1] - http://nodetuts.com/
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Hey, if Intel wanted to, they could buy an ARM license, and build ARM processors using this process. Instruction set architecture and chip process technology are largely orthogonal.
The irony is that this comment is by itself flammable-material :)
Is this an example of something that helps the economy (since your premise above was that advertising is very important for the economy)? It certainly doesn't help productivity for every family to have a large house to take care of, and most of the spending to outfit and run that house is ultimately a waste.

A much better use would be, say, farming.
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Wasn't part of the problem for eBay that they did not actually own the core p2p technology that Skype used and instead licensed it from the former owners? Has Microsoft purchased that as well or are they just going to write their own? In which case quality will change...
Point of order: A bunch of us[1] maintain the wiki. Jason just does the big, visible things, and is thus big and visible.

http://ascii.textfiles.com/ is his personal blog, and is as profanity-ridden as you would expect.

1: http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=IRC_Channel
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In what way do you measure success? Hotmail and Windows Live Messenger for two services have a huge amount of users.
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It took me 2 hours to figure that you meant the Northern Ireland conflict in that first sentence; it's that far away from my consciousness. NI is another country, and most people in the Republic don't pay much attention to it.
How I did it:

1. quit my corporate software engineering job (it was slowly killing my soul)

2. went surfing in maui for 2 weeks then bali for a month. when there was no waves, there were parties on Kuta beach

3. opened an English bookstore in Southeast Asia(highly risky considering I knew nothing about the local market or government censorship) Everyone I knew thought I was crazy. But I DIDNT care! For the first time in my life I was doing something meaningful, to me and to society.

4. met tons of babes (locals, other asian babes, europeans, americans) by going out every single night for 1 year straight (averaging 4 5 clubs per nite). Plus did tons of traveling around asia, south america and north america. Trust me you are forced to socialize when EVERYONE at the hostel was happy go lucky young backpackers. And the bookstore also attracted lots of girls (which was NOT the reason why I opened the store :)

5. Now I m back in Silicon Valley and guess what it is still the same (nice guys toiling away in front of their laptops while life, and hot babes, are passing them by) And I smile to myself. It is me who has changed!
Yes. Instead of using the free app Skype, I should instead pay $20/month for a virtual server just so that I can have an always-on screen session with an IRC client running in it. Makes total sense.
Link a 1 pixel image and stick it in the bottle left hand corner? While someone could click on it, it is extremely unlikely.

IIRC, technically you can have a 0 pixel image in some formats (gif) though I imagine some browsers won't like that.
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Am I the only one thinking this is all just smoke and mirrors?
Skype stopped free video conferences after the end of the beta phase. You now need a subscription to have video calls with multiple people.
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Others here seem to be taking a different lesson from this than I got out of listening to the video: it isn't so much having a cofounder is good or bad as it is that founder vesting is incredibly important if life and or other craziness happens.
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its nice to see a company take initiative/responsibility for making things right, rather than just pointing fingers.
Using a 1 pixel transparent GIF works - also worth putting in a warning for screen readers not to follow the link.

FWIW I've been using robots.txt honeypots on two sites for the past few years to deter scrapers. Approx 1,600 IP addresses have been banned. Most of these are for data centers.
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