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Idea: A free crowdfunding site for Creative Commons projects
Summary:
* Crowdfunding for GPL/Creative Commons projects in arts, creative content, software
* Free service, non-profit entity
* Technical help needed

Sparked by the copyright discussion on thread http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303796 I thought we should properly experiment in crowdfunding of open source and free projects, especially for arts but all creative projects (including software) aimed at creating freely distributable results while the creator still gets paid.

Crowdfunding is big, but IPR ambiguity hovers over the model in many cases. Sites like Kickstarter also take a cut (as is their right, of course) from the donations and pledges.

I want to create a crowdfunding site that is 100% free for project creators and pledgers. By listing a project on the site, you will also agree that everything produced in that project will be released under GPL or suitable Creative Commons license level. Let's discuss a model and license that makes sense.

I need help in creating this service. I am happy to cover hosting, any design needs & legal help as required, though in the spirit of the project maybe we can enlist help for those areas as well. I have a long experience in product management and product marketing from corporations and startups alike.

The service itself should be non-profit, and only accept donations (and maybe sponsors - discuss?) to cover costs.

Also discuss if you think the idea is stupid / redundant / against your political views.
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While scaling web sites is fascinating, for most people it is also unnecessary. The vast majority of web sites runs just fine on 1 computer. For example, hacker news runs not just on one computer, but actually on 1 core. So with a single 8 core box with ~100GB ram you can get quite far and save yourself a big hassle.
>> the idea that all the most innovative people only exist in the United States (or even that people in the US are on average more innovative than others) is ridiculous, and stating it is just blind nationalism...

You couldn't be more wrong.

First, no one ever said "all" the dynamic people were in the US. The implied point was that the majority of them are. I believe that to be true for some very obvious, logical reasons.

The U.S. benefits from some unintended social and genetic engineering because of a few factors...

1. The U.S. has no ethnic culture (since Europeans supplanted the native population and then opened the doors to the rest of the world rather than embracing an "only European" ideal). So innovative people could more easily immigrate here provided there were advantages to doing so (which there were as I'll outline below). I'm not saying that couldn't happen elsewhere but a Frenchman who lives in England is still considered a Frenchman. A Frenchman who lives in America is considered an American and that inclusion makes people more likely to come here.

2. From our founding to the early 1900s the U.S. was far and away ahead of the world in recognizing and rewarding entrepreneurship. We didn't have an entrenched royalty or class system and democracy made sure laws benefited the populace in general rather than a ruling elite. This drew entrepreneurs to the U.S. and their descendants are likely still here (and in many cases inherited that dynamism either by nature or nurture)

3. From WWII to around the mid-1980s the U.S. was far and away wealthier than the rest of the world because WWII caused decades of damage to the European and Asian economies. Remember with the exception of a handful of planes attacking the West Coast there was no fighting done in the U.S. whatsoever. That means no reconstruction needed while the rest of the world was devastated. So again entrepreneurs (who are drawn to where the wealth is) came to the U.S.

4. The U.S. has a culture built around the idea that you can come here with nothing and become rich. That influences a lot of our laws and customs. For example, there's a reason why our tax rates are lower than a large portion of the world. So even today, when the advantages to starting a company in the U.S. are smaller than they've ever been, the U.S. tends to draw entrepreneurs to it.

So in the end it isn't nationalism it's just common sense.
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But Foxconn wouldn't have to pay all the fees and middle men involved with getting products from China to here. So they could afford to pay more because their product would need nothing more than a truck.
Maintaining two code bases is difficult than maintaining one, isn't it?
Its more complex than you give credit for..

And it snot just a USA trend..Europe faces this as well..

Basically, industries went horizontal rather than continue vertical integration. Horizontal promotes outsourcing whereas vertical does not.

Look at SpaceX as an example of vertical integration delivering lower costs satellite payload flights than NASA contractors with USA workers. Note you could replace USA with Europe, India, Russia, etc.

But we are facing a business culture fallacy and change setup. Its not gov policy as that will always be somewhat broken. Its business culture that needs to change and we as startup people have the power to change it.

When is the last time any YCombinator company submitted a startup idea whereas it was vertically integrated rather than horizontal?
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> Of course, I don't hear a lot of negatives about Switzerland.

Take a look at the tax rates.
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I just defined the problem I didn't put forth a solution. But your indignation shows exactly why the problem is so significant.

Having said that I'm not saying it isn't the way to save America either. The problem right now is while Chinese adults are making low wages they're managing to put away enough money to send their kids to University. Which in turn is causing Universities to spring up in China. If those graduates stay in China they'll innovate there and almost inevitably steal some of the high level work done by Americans (such as technology design and engineering). Then we start to lose those jobs and the wealth starts flowing into Asia.

So the question is: Isn't it better for the U.S. to have the Mexican adult pay for his child to go to a U.S. University and innovate here?
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It's probably to prevent link scrapers from putting further load on the already poorly performing site! If they allow people to freely use the data, there's a good chance that a lot of sites mushroom to provide railways data
I have largely varying results in FF9.

The idea is interesting but, considering that the performance of the client (-box) can affect the results, it doesn't feel very viable.

What about DNS cache probing? Is it possible? I guess it will suffer from similar results but at smaller scale.
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I'm from Sweden and I don't find much to object to there.

In Europe there are no global companies based on web technology, no Google, no Facebook, no Amazon. Previous tech booms have left little to show for it, I guess ARM is the shining example.

Some old companies have been pretty nimble and have been ccompetitive in new technology, like Ericsson and Nokia. But the landscape is utterly different from the US, and it is not for the better, there seem to be a glass ceiling for startups.

As long as Europe is so pathetic in tech, we don't deserve better than to read self-congratulatory stuff like that. Maybe it will even spur some competitive instinct...
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"The U.S. still leads in designing things but almost everything we design is manufactured elsewhere"

Not in terms of value. Depending on which estimate you believe, the U.S. is either slightly behind China in manufacturing (19.4% of world output compared to 19.8%) or slightly ahead.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/002fd8f0-4d96-11e0-85e4-00144...

http://shopfloor.org/2011/03/u-s-manufacturing-remains-world...
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Also even if the CEO isn't stupid and makes an effort to get accurate information, the middle managers might just give him inaccurate information putting politics ahead of company loyalty. Do not underestimate the magnitude of this problem.

BTW, one thing corporations can greatly improve with modern technology is the ability of the floor-level positions to talk with the CEO and share information as to what is actually going on.
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For their load balances, why aren't they assigning elastic ip. Then they would have to wait for DNS just reassign the ip...
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Exactly. Its a matter of spending a few hours per browser to perfect it. For all we know, someone may already have perfected it and could be using this in the wild.
The old script works better form me. Less false positives and rather stable results.
It's interesting how many startups are based here yet Gowalla got the huge press whenever Austin was mentioned. I wonder why this is - is it because of the Foursquare competition initially? Because they launched at SXSW and were a local company?
Not to sound entitled already, but why are they so slow? They're computers and robots already, I'm wondering why they move to where they need to go and pause for a second like that.
Good write up, reasonable explanation of where they went wrong.
I think that perhaps the world is a much bigger place than you believe (and maybe this is endemic to the general nationalistic line of thinking that I'm objecting against).

The US has 4.4% of the world's population. How you expect that even with the 'social and genetic engineering' you describe the US could still have the majority, I don't know.

I'm not saying that there aren't a lot of innovative people in the US - just that there are greatly innovative people all over the world, and perhaps it's time people start to acknowledge that...
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There's so much wrong with this 'common sense' that I don't know where to begin.

Sorry, but this is just nationalist dogma with little basis in reality of the last 60 years.

Funniest bit is implying that entrepreneurship is heridatry!
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Whatever. The point is that while content producers would not sell 100% of the stuff that gets pirated, nor would they have sold 0%.
Very simple summary of the technique:

To test if a user has recently visited Facebook, see how long it takes for the Facebook logo to load when called from your own page. If it's relatively fast, you can assume the image has been cached by the user's browser ... meaning the user has recently visited Facebook. If it's relatively slow, you can assume no cached version of the logo is available, so the user probably hasn't visited Facebook recently.

Results are fuzzy because "relatively fast" and "relatively slow" are not precise.
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The problem with this paradigm is that we would still have our centuries old near 100% employment model, where society works by having almost everyone working. In the world we are rapidly approaching, we won't need unskilled labor anymore and that renders a huge class of unemployed people who are not interested in pursuing higher education without income.
I think its worth being aware that you are talking about Chinese adults working for low wages and _pulling_ _themselves_ _and_ _their_ _families_ _out_ _of_ _extreme_ _poverty_. And that is a good thing.
Keep dreaming. Raw materials are scarce, so everything else will be do.

The "way out of this in America" is that we all become slightly poorer, the Chinese all get a lot richer, and manufacturing starts coming back to the US.
Same for me. When I was in the equivalent of high school, I had to write essays in Art, English, History, Geography, Latin, Biology, and Physics.

History, in particular, explicitly emphasised structured arguments and critical analysis of sources. I think we wrote short essays, in class, at least 3 times a week. We had a fantastic teacher and I remember it being good fun...felt like decoding puzzles.

Another example I can remember was in English. We spent several weeks reading, discussing, and writing about Brighton Rock in a very structured way. We were then given a creative assignment with 3 options; one was to write a screenplay, which I did. So at 14/15 I absolutely loved writing my first (and only) screenplay.

Maybe I was lucky, but I enjoyed writing essays at school.
I totally agree with hosting your own content or least aggregating it in a place you own/control after the fact.

Here's the thing: one's personal web space will likely never be a dashboard or natural hub for thier audience. Posting direct to social nets like G+ ensures more visibility and interaction than what the majority of people will get back on their blog. I think it has less to do with technical considerations and more to do with "where the action is at."
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The claim is that the US has more innovative business leaders, not that innovation is something intrinsic to US-born people.

As I said: "If innovative people attract each other, you'd certainly expect some places to have a greater than average number." I'm implying that the US could have a disproportionate number of innovative business leaders because the innovative people in India or Greece leave and come to the US.
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> This could be a source of water for future astronauts.

That's optimistic.

(http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2011/10/why-not-space/)

> Approximately how far have humans traveled from the surface of the Earth [. . .] since 1980 or so

> a) 600 km (low Earth orbit, 0.1 times the Earth radius)

> b) 6,000 km (about the radius of the Earth)

> c) 36,000 km (geosynchronous orbit; about 6 Earth radii)

> d) 385,000 km (about the distance to the Moon; 60 Earth radii)

As ascii diagram:

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The answer is a few pixels off e.
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There are two parts to these attitudes, and the largest problem is that people in the USA often conflate them. One part is satisfaction (and yes, pride) in real invention, innovation and achievement. I have no issue with this part. People in the USA have done much to warrant some pride. This shouldn't take anything away from people in other nations who have their own achievements.

The second part is the idea of American exceptionalism: that the USA is great because it's the USA. This is nauseating, indeed. It's also obviously harmful, since now "greatness" is a birthright rather than an achievement.
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some others i went to were detected, but..
which is the point exactly, most people won't need to work, they will have the means of production inside their homes.
I definitely agree that software desire requires analytical thinking. (It certainly put a halt in my thoughts about a mass-appeal software builder: if they don't "get" [or want to get, or whatever] Excel, they don't have a chance for much else.)

I do think, though, that not being able to make projects of large-ish size isn't necessarily important for a wide variety of use cases. Most of the best apps I know of do only a very small thing—but do it very well. I think HyperCard allow people to do small things exactly the way they wanted. Which maybe wasn't very well, but was good enough for their needs and better than the alternatives.

As I mentioned in my other comment [1], I wonder if the parallel is somewhat like the UNIX command line. You probably aren't going to write a MySQL competitor in bash. But there are a whole class of small custom tools that you will write.

To perhaps restate my original point (and this is where perhaps we agree), the abstractions of HyperCard eventually didn't (couldn't?) adapt. Perhaps, as you said, because of cards. As someone else commented, also partially because of the codebase, but also, I think, because things like color and networking and a greater number of standard UI widgets all had to be added.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3294915
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But the whole purpose of having a government at all is to prevent people from murdering, defrauding, kidnapping (all of which involve force initiated against another).

Some might say that if someone buys an expensive life insurance policy, the probability that they will be murdered by the next of kin goes up. Or that if you buy a nice car, the probability that it will be stolen goes up. But that doesn't mean that anyone should be prevented from buying a nice car or a life insurance policy.

Issues of rights and justice need to be handled on an objective basis, and that requires an impartial arbiter to protect the rights of its citizen masters. That ideal arbiter and protector of rights (to life, liberty, and property) is the ideal government. Given the existence of even an imperfect government such as our own, the right solution to kidnapping is twofold: first, encourage the government do its job, which is to provide the conditions necessary to live your life without worrying about others initiating force against you; second, live your life as you see fit, without violating the rights of any other (because to do so would go deeply against your long-term self-interest - in the long run, lying/stealing/cheating/kidnapping etc. are all forms of cutting your own throat).
Thanks, stupid mistake (I'm not from the US of course)
Brilliant. I'm excited about attempting to use the data to produce an Indian timetable site on top of the frontend I've built for Irish rail and bus; http://getthere.ie/
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That holds true for all open data, right? I still find others (like NY MTA: http://mta.info/developers/) providing open data (in GTFS).
Agreed about the load part though.
How is that a dream? Post-scarcity has already hit the digital world, the material world isn't far off - the only limitation currently is in computer vision software.

The real problem isn't china, it's automation. The only solution other than increased welfare (which the current political system won't allow), is to make everyone self-sufficient through robots in the home.

Materials aren't scarce, if they were, the centralized production system would feel it too.
Excellent & highly useful database. Its always helpful to get such type of data in public domain. This way independent developers can build useful apps for community.

+1 for efforts.
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Nice optimism there champ.
I opened twitter. And now it thinks I visited youtube for some reason :-/

This is on Firefox 8.0 on Fedora Linux. Maybe the OS has a lot to do with the success rate?

Edit: I just read through the technique now and there's no way it could depend on the OS. Anyway, this is way too inaccurate to be of any practical use.
I really want to get a DX, but the page switch time scare me. It would be hard to browse code, etc. How does this work for technical books?

(Also, I'd be fired if I sent internal pdf documents off for conversion... :-)
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If I attempted to improve your visualization by adding Mars to the monitor, Mars would actually end up in the school across the street from my house. The Voyager I space probe, the farthest extent of Man's collective attempt to reach out and touch something, is about a mile and a half from my house. And Proxima Centauri, the closest star, is either a) in the vicinity of Hawaii if my "monitor" curves with the surface of the earth or b) somewhere in the outer crust if it doesn't.

Space. It's really effing big.
I think he's counting in Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia as distinct, largely self-governing regions.
One of the model photos shows the driver listening to an iphone/walkman in the car with headphones on whilst driving. And she's holding it in her hand. Somehow I don't think that's a typical use case.