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"Civilization advances by extending the number of operations we can perform without thinking about them."

I don't think this implies our brains become more capable with more enhanced civilization. For example I can eat an apple without knowing how to plant and tend to apple trees because I live in a civilization where farmers and software developers can exchange services. I don't have a ritual that allows me to grow apples without thinking about it. The whole process of growing apples has been completely outsourced from my life.

So I doubt that creating lots of rituals will work out in the long run. Eventually they might overrun my schedule. And it takes energy to remember the rituals.
"when I used to commute to work, I would change lanes at exactly the same point every day."

Wouldn't it be easier to just take a train then? :-)
The short answer? They're people with connections.

It doesn't matter how smart you are: you don't work in a university lab at age 11 without someone pulling strings for you. (Unless they're counting stuff like gifted/talented summer camps as "work".)

You occasionally see high school kids in the lab in summer doing some sort of trivial research. The best cases are disadvantaged kids who have access to science advocacy programs. The worst cases are kids whose parents have influence and/or work at the university. It's one of the things that drives me nuts about dog-and-pony shows like the Intel science fair -- smart kids who don't have access via ambitious/overzealous parents don't have a chance.
I think it would be funny if they would switch engines as the game progresses. You start out as a blocky blob and finish with smooth photorealistic 3D.
Would personally love this feature. It's too expensive to pay hosting alone, just to play games once a week or so.
I think it's irresponsible to attempt something so dangerous when you have a company and a family depending on you.
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I mostly agree. It should be this way, in legal terms, as far as I'm concerned.

But I still question the ethic of these media companies that skim the internet, looking for 'free' content that they then go on and sell (either directly as a print media/with a paywall or indirectly though ads) to others.

Is it free for anyone to use it as a desktop background? Certainly so, in my world. But I am disgusted that this again highlights how user generated content is ripped off and sold. There's no law against it, but I still consider it shady.
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Is there a conflict of interest? Or is it just a case of hedging bets? I would imagine at some point the portfolio would reach a size that would make it difficult to avoid.
> "When someone comes to you and says I need a few hundred million dollars to make a movie about 10 foot tall blue people on another planet, that's not an easy decision to make. But if you do make that decision and it does turn out to be Avatar, then you'd like to be compensated."

This seems to imply that 20th Century Fox feels entitled to making the kind of profits that would support such exorbitant investments. I liked Avatar as much as the next guy, but the concept of making that much money off of something like music or film is a relatively recent phenomenon, dependent upon the combination of wide distribution with artificial scarcity. Even if Avatar couldn't be made without the kinds of conditions that allow for those kinds of profits, I'm pretty sure I'd trade it for all of the direct and indirect casualties of the recording and film industries; but really, I'm just thoroughly unconvinced that high quality work can't be motivated by more reasonable profits and other less tangible benefits.
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> Surely if you tweet an image you've taken you're putting it into the public domain?

Surely not. In fact, in some countries (e.g. France) this phrase does not even make sense legally (under french copyright law, it is not possible to put something in the public domain until the term is due).

You're putting it for public viewing, but the copyright remains yours, and it does not implicitly allow third parties to make money out of it without compensation.

> You WANT it to be distributed - isn't that the whole point?

That does not make it public domain. Nor does it need to.
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Mmmm... pretty sure Adam Smith was on the money when he talked about division of labour and increasing specialisation, in 1776.
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It does - indeed in French the second meaning, "is a part of" is used much more frequently than its English equivalent, and is clearly the sense of the word that Sarko was using.
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You WANT it to be distributed and concede the necessary rights to TwitPic, but that's very different from putting it out in the public domain. You still retain copyright, and normally the picture host shouldn't be able to sell it nor journalists to use it (this is precisely the reason there was such a kerfuffle about the TwitPic TOS recently).

I hate being self-promotional, but this issue is exactly the reason we created Picuous, which is a Vimeo/SoundCloud/Scribd for pictures: pictures can be embedded legally, carry automatic attribution, and can be tracked by the picture owner. Using the pictures in the player is free, using them in other contexts is pay-for.

We want to change this traditionnal diffusion/monetization/ownership Bermuda Triangle… People interested in this problem should check it out: http://picuous.com. All feedback is welcome on martin@picuous.com.
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That's not exactly true. American "copyright" is not quite the French "droit d'auteur", which, if I'm not mistaken, is what you're mentioning. And then, even the "droits d'auteur" are broken down in the patrimonial rights and the creation attribution—you can cede your patrimonial rights (rights to profit from the picture), but never the creation attribution: the picture will always be your creation.
I find it funny that you think that's a misinformed view of copyright. That's exactly what copyright exists for in the first place. Not to provide a sales monopoly, but to provide the artist the right to take a claim against someone else if they pass off that artist's work as their own. If it went back to that and shorter terms we might actually see some innovation....Oh wait, it basically has outside the corporate content industry.
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YouTube is definitely the most popularly used video sharing website on the internet, the ease of using it makes it all the more attractive to its users.
Online banking is easy. But then it's easy to forget how much money you waste on said auto-paid bills every year. Sometimes it's good to have to work for something to realize maybe it's not necessary after all. I cut my magazine subscriptions to half, twice, and still get a bit too many to read ;)
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>"These are just the sites [close to] the surface. There are many thousands of additional sites that the Nile has covered over with silt. This is just the beginning of this kind of work."

I am very curious as to what else they find through these excavations
This one http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menu/amazing.html
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There is a URL check, but it only finds exact matches, and only if the URL tested against is in memory. If it's old enough and hasn't been accessed recently, it's not found.

I thought this was in jacquesm's FAQ, but it appears not to be:

http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

You might suggest it to him, although he's very busy.
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Legal definitions of "public domain" aside, if you're putting something onto twitter you presumably want it to be shared. Isn't that the point of twitter? If you do retain the copyright, does this mean that people have to pay for retweeting?

This image only became famous but virtue of the fact that it went viral on twitter and the wider web. If she'd not tweeted it - and as someone with no press contacts - had attempted to sell it directly to media organisations I'm betting she wouldn't have had much success.

I think it's pretty hypocritical to try and leverage free services like twitter for self-promotion and personal brand-building then completely back-track on that ideology and claim some kind of restriction on a particular post cos it suddenly has been delivered to a wider audience and may suddenly have value.
There's a bit of an undertone in the article, stating that "if you don't let yourself get paid for photos you publish online then you must be doing something wrong". Or at least that's the feeling I get from it.

It's just a photo. The photos that the article refers to are not works of art. They were not meticulously planned, they were not taken by experienced professionals using expensive professional equipment. They're just photos made by people who happened to be in the right place at the right time. They then decided out of their own volition to share their photo online, an act that takes less than 1 minute of their time. If commercial organizations start (ab)using the photos then I think it's good to point that out, as they are making money off of it. Otherwise I'd say: happy sharing.

Personally, I don't take photos for money. Every photo I publish on my blog I consider to be in the public domain, and I'd be glad if people use it. If I enjoyed making it or if it didn't take me any effort to make it, then I'm happy to share it for free.
Hitting the paywall. Can someone paste it, please?
Another example:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567191
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True, but adjacent string constants is a totally insane use case that essentially doesn't ever happen. I think the poster was talking about the far more common case of concatenating string variables:

NSString *foo = @"Hello, " + userName + @"! (^_^)";
For becoming a billionaire? No, there were far too many variables involved that were not within his control.

Well, yes, I can agree nobody can completely know or control the future. One may become terminally ill, or the Earth may be hit by a meteor at any time. However, that was not the argument made by the author. It was that none of us knows what we're doing. He seems to suggest we have little control over the outcomes which we do see, saying things like Nobel Prize winners are "winging it", as if they have the same understanding as anyone else (in this case none) when it comes to their expertise. I find that highly disconcerting.

If we imagine a chess match, where we know the duration will be a few hours, and the fitness of the players will not be compromised for the game duration, we can understand the winning or losing outcome is entirely in the hands of the players. If we further imagine the best chess player in the world accepts this match, and both players fully intend to win, if the best player wins would you agree it is because he (or she) does know what he (or she) is doing?
Because 99% of people don't know better. If I was ever to make something, foob.ar I'd always buy foobar.com as well, and track the traffic to both.
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Going through Google's search engine worked for me. Input article's title into searchbox, click the ``News for ((the title))'' result, should give full content with a green ``ARTICLE FREE PASS'' header.
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If I read this correctly, Google lets you mark some of your profile information as public. And as a result of this, a member of the public was able to download it.

So, uh... what exactly is the story?

I think the key piece of advice for people not wanting their personal information to be downloadable from the internet is to not publish their personal information on the internet.
Risk and reward. Superuser/stackexchange is a much better example of it working well.
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So operating any web index in Europe is illegal?
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I wonder how they get permission to scour Egypt with a satellite camera. And even if permission was given, will Egyptian authorities allow control of the satellite and the images captured to remain with a university outside the country?

Anyone have a better idea how this process works?
Pavlina's usually pretty out there. It suprises me that he still gets as much attention as he does. There's one born every minute, I guess.
It's an interesting idea, would help more people than the one for pregnancy (not floride, the other one in tap water). But it's usable in nuclear reactors. Depends what it's put with, but I'd rather keep it for batteries (until we move onto batteries not using them).
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While I'm not really a potential customer I have tried it out and I like the interface, you've kept it clear and to the point. Two things in terms of feedback - the name socialtrade implies that there is some kind of social aspect of the app, I couldn't see any? I like the red slider / window for the time period at the bottom but it wasn't immediately obvious that was what it did. Perhaps some way of showing that the red slider is linked with the view the user sees would be useful (in design terms maybe some color coordination or make the main view look like an enlarged version of the slider).
Once they perfect AR (probably via contact lenses or light glasses) I think it will have a massive impact on our lifestyles.

Right now, if we have a problem, we can use the internet via cellphone to look up the issue and a solution. Imagine how much more convenient it would be to have that just built into your vision. Imagine virtual PC terminals, wherever you are. Imagine a massive virtual TV in your house... Anywhere in your house. Or on the bus. Or anywhere.

I watched an anime (Dennou Coil) that really made me see the possibilities of AR. Once we get to that point, I think there will be massive changes in our society.

TVs and PCs for instance. Right now, we think of them as a physical object that displays video, etc. But they don't -need- to be a physical object. (Well, the processor does, but it doesn't have to be where we can see it. Or even in our house.)

Your AR glasses would be your tv, phone, radio, internet connection, and more... And they will probably blend together so we don't think of them like that any more.
If we decided that art could only be produced by 'experienced professionals', using 'expensive professional equipment', and must be 'meticulously planned', the world would be a far less interesting place.
You are mistaken. Copyright is exactly about providing a temporary monopoly so creative people have a window to exploit their work commercially. The idea you are describing about credit/recognition is also recognised as a legal right in many places (typically called something like "author's right") but is different to and typically independent of copyright.
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I don't think you need permission to take pictures of a country from space.
> moving closer to work has similar effects on your free time without cutting in to your free money.

Depends on house prices. I remember a study about those prices around London, and they found a nice relation between duration of commute vs house price. (I did some calculations, and assuming a reasonable hourly wage and interest rate (to convert the house price into a rent): each minute was bought at less than what you'd get for working that minute.)
This is somewhat similar to what I had in mind, but would I be able to combine criteria?

Just as an example, what if I wanted to find the number of sites which were using MooTools and had a Twitter button on them, but not a Facebook like button.
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I'm not a huge fan of their music but found the video fun in a classic gaming reference way.

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So the "throw it at the wall and see what sticks" strategy is the new "standards" vogue? As I tried to say, isn't this what we got up in arms against Microsoft for? Its a minor improvement as people tend to at least write up the new "standards", but the problem with IE wasn't that their additions were unreplicable - it was that they were not replicated.

Also, your example is a false dichotomy. I can be concerned about the "standardisation" process usage I'm seeing without demanding a glacial and purely theoretic process.
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Thanks! I'll give it a try.

IMO the WebP project should focus more on this. It's a big thing, also on the web, to have a compact image format that supports partial transparency.

It blows away "simply using less bandwidth for photos" as an advantage, as it makes entirely new things possible.
It's an interesting question actually; I guess at some point, if there is sufficiently advanced AI (I should use the word 'information retrieval' to not instigate a tangential discussion on if AI is possible) in a search engine to identify and link personal information, does a search index constitute a 'database' per Directive 95/46/EC?

The author of the original article could write a paper on it :)
Curious if you can point out any examples of well-appreciated art that was not produced by 'experienced professionals', using 'expensive professional equipment', and must be 'meticulously planned'? I can't at the moment. Just curious what you might have in mind.

If we're talking about amateur stuff that gets thrown out at random, that's cool. But I'm not sure that putting well-appreciated art and random amateur art in the same category is a constructive argument. Like even all the really good Youtube artists who are hitting it big these days go bling bling on equipment and put a ton of effort into their work, and they're getting paid via Youtube ads to boot.
That changes nothing. Still copyright infringement. See above.
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>"I think the problem is that photo-sharing services don’t allow you to easily provide copyright information,” said Sullivan, who operates SearchEngineLand.com.

Flickr's done that for years. The problem is with the social networks where photo-sharing is an incidental function.

>He thinks photo sharing services could offer users simple options like, "Would you be interested in selling images?" -- and could even act as agents for consumers.

Flickr does that, too.
That's not what s/he is saying. He says the pictures are neither art (defined as “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power” by the New Oxford American dictionary) nor the work of a professional photographer (such a photo-journalist) that will use expensive equipment and maybe plan the photo (such as a fashion photographer).
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