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We all know very well that social context is the next revolution in web search

I honestly would like to see some actual argument supporting this beyond "search was revolutionary, social was revolutionary, therefore social search will be revolutionary". At least a couple of examples where the social context adds value would go a long way.

I just hope Google has some data internally which suggests that these changes improve result quality and not doing this merely to catch up with the latest buzzwords.
While I don't agree with the justification of the cost based on required tools to create the image. I do believe that the main value from the photograph is the user's creativity and passion for using the tools to capture the photograph.
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"I think you underestimate the potential interest in open science (and by extension, open data)."

Probably. Like I said, my impression is based on personal observations only. That said, I don't really have objective reasons (of the cuff) to believe otherwise, nor do I have data (or even an idea of how one would measure it correctly). For example, I don't know anyone except from undergrads who don't know how to use their libraries who have ever been unable to get a certain paper.

Likewise, how hard is it really for a small company or individuals to get access? They can do exactly what everybody else can do - shoot the author an email asking for the paper. I've never had anybody not send it to me, once I got a hold of their current contact details, which with the web nowadays is very easy. How many people really do independent real research, completely disconnected from anybody involved with universities? They may exist but they're such corner cases that they certainly don't have the critical mass to make 'open access' a real issue.

My point is: while 'open access' is a theoretically nice idea, the practical realities are that it's just not a real problem for the vast majority of people. It's a philosophical objection to certain practices at best. Which is not enough to instill enough urgency in those whose support is needed to change things.
Any ideas/opinions why XMPP's mult-user chat (MUC) is still not widely used?
That is why it is better to get a website way before development begins and get interested people to provide their email id to be notified of your launch. This will provide you an early indication of whether to continue or quit.
Have your own file exchange service
A few months ago I discovered this software gem on StackOverflow (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034038/simple-file-upload-download-manager-for-distributing-files):

http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/dl/

It allows to run your own file exchange server and create automatically-expiring downloads (and uploads). It's perfect for emails and quick file exchange. I didn't put an url because yesterday I was moved by reading the following post in the mailing list:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.dl-ticket-service.general/150

It's rare to see this kind of attitude, and would like to know what HN'ers would suggest to the author to improve this software. The answer on SO mentioning "dl" is also underrated (despite being a much better fit), contributing to the problem.
Not to forget George Costanza on Seinfeld who slept IN his desk and even asked a cabinet maker to create a hidden room in there.
Permanent.
Except that Moglen is effectively saying that it would be good if every day was a sunny day. He's taking the absolutist position that social networks are always bad and anyone who uses them is a part of the problem.
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Programmers are far too literal minded to succeed in politics, as the comments here prove. ;-)
No, the purpose of a coordinated worldwide blackout is to make it clear that this is a transnational problem. It is not 'my specific problem'. US outsiders need to make clear that they are watching you & will not tolerate this kind of shit in their home-countries.
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Also:

"Imagine one library with all the world's research and data, open, categorized, expandable, for everyone to use."

OK, I'm imagining it. Now what? Are you suggesting every Joe off the street can now write a groundbreaking paper that advances our understanding of string theory? Of course not. (Most) everybody today whose success in advancing the state of the art depends on having access to libraries already has access to one.

This is what I mean by 'philosophical idea' in my post above: yes theoretically it would be nice if everybody had access to the complete body of all research ever done. In practice, however, it wouldn't make more than a tiny shred of difference.
Assuming you're studying computer science at university, then programming is also not a requirement because it's simply not necessary to know before you start the degree.
I have no idea why I keep using Vim. These past few days I've been trying to switch to Eclipse for coding, as it has all the bells and whistles, but as soon as I need to open another file in the editor, I find myself switching to the command line and opening it in Vim, wondering why the hell I did that with Eclipse open.

I think it just comes down to speed, in the end. I can switch to Vim and open the file in the time it takes Eclipse to go from ctrl+T to the "find file" dialog. Code completion, refactoring, autoimports, etc are great, but I manage fine without them.

I'll continue the experiment and see.
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If you really go ahead and try to recreate that photo ... you must first invent the universe. And that's going to cost a lot !
I think this could mean either a threat or buy out opportunity for Greplin.
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You could argue about the value and market price.

In the same way that a liquid betting market, the price is a reasonable estimate for probability, in a any liquid market, the price is a reasonable estimate of value.
The photographer, John Mueller, is absolutely amazing and deserves to be paid for the art he produces. See his work here: http://www.johnbmueller.com

Regarding the value of the photo, I highly doubt he believes a single photo is worth $6,612. He is merely trying to explain that he should be paid for his work, and he has. Arguing that it is expensive to take photos wouldn't have gotten your attention. This got your attention. He won.

Edit: I have absolutely no affiliation with Mueller nor have I heard of him prior to this article, but was bothered by the negative and deliberately ignorant comments posted here. Very unlike Hacker News...
i can't see the logic in your reasoning here.

just because legalisation would improve the situation doesn't mean that people who continue to buy drugs illegaly are not also responsible for the problems in mexico.

a problem can have multiple causes, and multiple solutions. but that does not mean that you can choose one solution as the "correct" one and discard all the others.

the typical american who buys drugs cannot change the law, but they can stop buying drugs and that would reduce the problems. so if they choose not to do so then they have some moral responsibility for the violence in mexico. that is not removed because there are other possible solutions.
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I actually agree with Ed here. You should worry about things in your control rather than thinking about things beyond your control. I understand that interviews aren't fair etc. but I still believe keeping it simple is the best way to success.

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This happened in my homecountry Belgium & in response depiraatbaai.be was created. I was just arguing in the SOPA thread that even if you're not from the US SOPA/PIPA still affects you. It's time to start fighting back people! I'm doing it in my own silly way: http://fr.anc.is/freedom.txt
Even now, could you imagine researchers at say Stanford and Berkeley devising research collaboration methods that assume that either organization's management/governance will interfere with or act maliciously against that collaboration effort?

Yes, I could.

I'm not saying that a technological approach to this problem is best. (I prefer a political response.)

But I believe that current knowledge of computer security is sufficiently advanced that a more secure internet could be invented.
Maybe not a national blockage; but Ziggo and XS4All have a large marketshare. If this order is extended to UPC (another provider) you could almost call it a nationwide blockage.
Didn't really register or try yet, just read your post + looked at the home page and here are some quick thoughts/ideas:

1. Since you already have the tech in place, why not get some traction/users and then see how it goes

2. You did mention that you all don't have time to take this forward - why not explore the possibility of taking another partner on board? Looks like all/what you really need at this point is a marketing push, so why not look for a marketing-type partner who can spend some time taking it forward?
I would always take the side of a photographer who has his/her photos misused/abused, but this is just illogical reasoning. If a grocery store has a loaf of bread stolen, it is not worth the value of the entire business.
I wonder what the licence is. Would be good to have it ported to other platforms.
According to tweakers.net:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=en&tl=el&js...

The ISPs have 10 days to make it so and they can appeal to a higher court.
At of course, the majority of a CS degree does not involve programming
Why does Facebook not need to produce particularly high-quality software?
Clicky links:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2034038/simple-file-uploa...

http://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/dl/

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.dl-ticket-service.gen...
weird argument. Being a photographer myself, I understand they need to be properly rewarded for their creativity, effort and more importantly time.. but this is not the way to put your point. On similar lines, any thing you are buying day to day will cost you a fortune..be it a Coffee or a candy.
Discussion of fixed costs, variable costs, sunk costs, marginal costs, and opportunity costs and lots of other accounting and economics pricing models avoided.

But you should make sure your CFO can explain and your marketing department has a deep understanding.

And consider taking some accounting and micro-econ courses when you have the chance.

ESPECIALLY if you are the technical founder....
It isn't currently a requirement, but I assume that this is largely because there isn't a significant supply of potential students who know the fundamentals at the moment.

Increase the supply, and some courses/universities have the option of making it a requirement.
Alright, this is moving quickly into troll territory. One final reply:

The premise of the article we are discussing was this:

"My editor wanted a quote from a privacy advocate, so I immediately thought of Eben “Spying for Free” Moglen, a militant digital privacy advocate, founder of the uber-secure personal server FreedomBox, and the inspiration for the decentralized social network Diaspora."

Eben Moglen was asked for his statement as a privacy advocate. There is nothing to be said about facebook in terms of being a privacy advocate. Except for maybe "sure wish they'd try some!". And that's the end of your argument right there.

Eben Moglen argues that facebook is bad because of the gross privacy violations it institutionalized. His argument is perfectly sound and coherent and doesn't need any forced "balancing" to be valid. He is not omitting any facts to make his argument.

You are welcome to argue against it, but you have instead chosen to act as though his argument is moot because he didn't make yours. That's not how arguments work.

Your 'Rick Santorum' point boggles the mind. Rick Santorum is not attacking a straw man, he is stating his honest, if misguided, beliefs. You could now attack a point completely unrelated or only superficially related to his rants about gay marriage and that would be a straw man. You could also, however, argue for or against his points with your own argument.
Have a look at a recent paper from the Scottish Computing Advanced Higher exam:

http://www.sqa.org.uk/pastpapers/papers/papers/2011/AH_Compu...

Looks pretty good to me - it has everything from Prolog down to assembly in it.
He makes a good point but his calculations are based on material goods only. The years of education and experience are surely far more valuable.
Define "liquid market".
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> I think the best preparation for any interview is to
> simply get good at what you do

Isn't that exactly the problem? How often are you asked to do the stuff you do best in the interview?
Coding algorithms on the whiteboard is not what I do best.
I'd be much more interested in doing it the other way around. Or perhaps only an approach like LFE can be useful given Erlang idiosyncrasies.
What's wrong with OpenID? We just implemented it on our new site and it works just great.

I suspect that many start=up sites just fail to notice it or feel they want more information about a user than they are guaranteed by the OpenID process. We request a new user's email address but can manage just fine without it - we also provide a user profile page where users can opt to add more details about themselves to "fill in the blanks".
This is extremely interesting. What prove that it is yours if you are taking photos of state-owned lands? Do you have the right to sell photos for money for things (lands/nature/sky) that you don't own?
'effectively' being the key word here. You are estimating this to be his position, but it is not.

See: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1349229 "Diaspora team takes on Eben Moglen as informal advisor"
A good fraction of the freelance work I have done has required looking up papers (eg the current implementation for https://github.com/jamii/texsearch is based on a bioinformatics paper).

It's fine when you only want a single specific paper but when I'm often looking for a solution to a problem I don't know the name of which means scanning through a couple of hundred papers an hour to see which ones are relevant.
Dr. Moglen: Well you called me, you know what the problem is. People lost their homes. People lose their money. People lose their freedom. (??? -ed.)

Could someone elaborate upon these? I am not aware of these incidents. (In particular, the first two.)
> My point is: while ... theoretically nice idea, the practical realities are ... not a real problem for the vast majority of people. ... philosophical objection ... best. Which is not enough to instill enough urgency in those whose support is needed to change things.

What you basically say is : "It is the way it is because that is how things are. period"

Do you agree with the complaint? Or do you think it's useless and the complainer should do somethign else instead? Or do you say things are good the way you are? I do generally not understand the point of comments which seem to say "It is like this and now shut up", which you do not say explicitely, but phrasings like , "philosophical objection at best" indicate that you think of this as whining at worst.

I care about easy access to scientific studies for non-PhD's.
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The stack is only contiguous in the virtual address space. The physical address space is a different beast. The operating system allocates a big chunk of virtual address space for the stack but doesn't allocate the physical memory to fill that. When an app wants to read or write from the unallocated part of the stack, a page fault interrupt is generated and the operating system allocates physical memory frames and assigns them to the virtual memory addresses of the stack. When the thread/process is interrupted for servicing, the operating system checks the value of the stack pointer register (rsp in x86_64) and frees the physical memory corresponding to the virtual addresses above that in the stack.

So having a large stack will only consume virtual address space which we have plenty of (2^48 bytes in most x86_64's) but will not consume physical memory, which is a more limited resource.
sorry to rankle you. I'm not meaning to. More playing out a thought experiment.

So this hypothetical (socialist) banana farm, in order not to disadvantage anyone, would have to be owned by the local community (and ultimately the nation), given private ownership wouldn't exist. People aren't focused on money, or profit, they are focused on bananas, because they enjoy contributing to society.

> If I invent a banana picker that saves ten million dollars am I entitled to ten million dollars.

You are phrasing the question from a capitalist centric point of view. If you invent a banana picker, that is super efficient (and in a capitalist workforce would allow you to cut costs but firing your ten million dollar workforce) then you could just let your workers work less, given there is no profit, and you are already servicing the needs of your community with bananas. So perhaps the workers can think of improvements to other parts of the process, like shipping, or perhaps you just want to give them more time to their family.

It's actually very difficult to think about, given we have an innate capitalist view of things.

Hypotheticals aside, Is it really a controversial point to say that "profit" and "free markets" (while providing an efficient way to price things) motivates a whole lot of behaviours not in the "public good". Should we not explore other alternatives?
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Right. So there's a difference between cost, price, and value.
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Repetition is generally hated in the "DRY" techie world. After all, why repeat yourself when you can re-use. But the brain doesn't quite work that way. The message gets stronger when repeated. Of course, that can mean your internal annoyed sceptic begins to resist it (as with commericals), but at least that's a response, more than simply ignoring it.
I don't see anyone here arguing he should not be paid for his work, that would be a preposterous position to take and I am not sure where you are reading this. The problem I have with his math logic is that it could actually hurt genuine arguments against copyright infringement from pro photographers. A better argument would be to disregard this bizarro math entirely and instead justify the photo's worth from his undeniable skill, talent and artistic merit. He could say the photo is worth $20,000 instead of using illogical reasoning.
Hard to explain, hard to imagine, hard to understand. Your center for visual perception is not active during non Rem. But most of your thoughts are related to imagery, mostly like 90%. So most of your memories are images, but if you don't create memories, your consciousness won't have a memory. Imagine a computer with no RAM just a register working on variables. If you now think you could still imagine you probably think in non REM it's all "dark". It's not. It's nothing. Because as your center for the perception and computing of images is inactive, you don't even know sight exists. It's like a neglect, when someone loses a part of his brain and can't see people on one side although he has full sight. The question is not if you can dream, because you do that all the time and the whole time when you sleep. But does the preception in non REM exceed your expectations or even noise and therefor become a memory.

To make it short, you surely are dreaming everytime in non REM but can't remember nor understand.

You can develop an understanding but it takes years and is pretty useless if you are not a lucid dreamer who wants to improve his understanding of his own brain.
Performance at A-Level mathematics is a better predictor of CS success than performance at A-Level Computing (which does involve programming), hence it's unlikely that universities will make it a requirement.
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The problem is with the simple word free.

Well it depends on the way the photo is used. If i just save it as my wallpaper (I'd copy it from my browser cache, etc), it is free for me. Complaining about this makes no sense, or overlaying it with a transparent image..

But, if i, having done nothing in its creation, try to make some money from it (like putting it on a magazine), then the actual creator needs to get some value from what I gain. It will be the ethical thing to do. In this case John Mueller, will should morally have the right to accept or deny my request to reshare/use it.
Anyone who's studied Maths/Physics/Engineering will have had some programming experience, so I'm guessing most Maths teachers will. Whether they want to teach it is another question though.
These are certainly options - and what's more, I think we have the ideas and ability to really take this somewhere. What we have absolutely none of - at the moment - is time.

We certainly aren't throwing in the towel, but being that we have a valuable asset that will take our competitors a shit-load of time and mental energy to replicate, we think it's worth exploring if we can just sell them that...
This is true. Additionally, however, at my university I was told by the department admissions head that it isn't a requirement because it limits your set of applicants. The university is interested in people who haven't had the exposure to programming, but are keen and interested. A fair amount of my friends in first year weren't very well versed in programming, but found discrete mathematics very enjoyable.

Let's not forget that programming ability isn't the end goal of a computer science degree.