skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't get it - what facts and details can someone supply to make the argument that this speech is very important to the public and to history?

What about mentioning how often the speech is cited, how common place phrases from it are, etc.?
Did that come with the online banking site, or is $5M just for that one page?
Well it's no surprise that different jobs are better for different times in a persons life. I don't work at Google, but I'm still at a point in my life where I want to be average surrounded by smart people (I've been the smart person surrounded by average or worse and it stinks). Doing this will help me grow faster and get farther with the time I have. When I reach the point where I need a slower paced job maybe I'll look to DoD or teaching.
I'm highly skeptical of this iteration idea. I've been through this two times and it's taken me two years each time to fully prove out the idea.

Any examples of good businesses that have been proven out in a short period of time?
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He's not getting paid, so I doubt he worries too much about that:

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Finances/Balance_Sheet_201...
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I'm glad I went to college when paper books were still prevalent. Some material was Web-based and that was always the hardest to read and comprehend. I just can't stare at an illuminated screen for that long (e-ink does help with this) and I find I engage with the material much more when I can rapidly flip to it.

That latter point is an odd one for me, but I "know" a book by its thickness. I recall where stuff is by roughly how far into the book it was. No e-reader has been able to replicate that.

iPads also have that whole reflective surface thing that annoys me. But presumably Apple could offer something else in the future that would work better for people like me.
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I'd say thats money well spent by Amazon to get all the up and coming companies onto their cloud.
In a past life, I've vandalized Wikipedia. I did it because it was funny to me and the people around me at the time.

(To be fair, it was John C Dvorak's page. But the point is, I didn't do it for money.)
essentially because that is not the "true price" that the publisher wants. The strategy of low cost editions was only meant to curb the flagrant piracy that was common in the earlier decades. With the explosion of engineering/technical schools in India, these publishers no longer wanted to forgo a market that they had previously thought was minuscule.
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This thread got me thinking: how many levels deep do we need to go in HN comment thread replies until we break the layout?

Next time some arrogant prick name drops his Alma Mater, just tell him you don't think people are qualified to work in technology unless they dropped out of Reed College.
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>get the data model benefits of a NoSQL database [1] without sacrificing the mature Postgres internals.

They already have that:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.1/static/hstore.html
In case anyone else wonders what GEB stands for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del,_Escher,_Bach
Because Google employees generally have latitude to do whatever they want with their Internet connection at work. Even bad OSM edits.

If we start blaming whoever an IP resolves to for vandalism, you're going to find that pretty much every major corporation has vandalized Wikipedia. (When I worked at BAC, our proxy was perma-banned for vandalism.) Not to mention the ISPs; Comcast is a notorious Wikipedia vandal (by this logic).
And intolerant as well. Let the guy live like this, if he wants, and write about it. Why are HNers feeling so attacked by that?

He's not claiming that everyone else is doing it wrong, is he? Even though I like owning stuff and wouldn't give it up easily, I find his idea of minimization intruiging.
Great post swombat! A great followup post would be one on identifying and testing micro-niches.
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I would email abuse@google.com. This is typically how all Internet abuse is handled.

If you want to be particularly thorough, look up the name in abuse.net:

http://abuse.net/lookup.phtml?domain=google.com
Thanks, and I'd love to hear more as you mentioned.

For example "money coming in" could be:

* $100/month (ok, we're getting something)

* Or $2,000/month (still not enough to live off, or whatever is less than your living expenses)

* Or $5,000/month (ok, I could live off this)

* Or $10,000/month (from my perspective would be a comfortable income).

I guess one part is one would have to look at the acceleration of the growth. If it's $800/month after 2 year's work it doesn't sound like you're really on to "the one".
Which is the correct idiomatic way. The article's author is wrong in enclosing foo in quotes.
I would be really interested to see what programming stack what all the Y Combinator companies use.
Is the data collection methodology described somewhere? I'm questioning the accuracy given an error on our data (GoDaddy is not our registrar, namecheap is).

It's also a bit suspect that namecheap is not listed as anyone's registrar after so many fled GoDaddy for namecheap a few weeks back.
I've been working on an online reservation CMS for more than 2 years now and this seems quite a good result.
Maybe I would have done some things differently, such as location selection: the drop down is really long, the could have used an autosuggest. But everybody likes different things so I can only assume their usability tests suggested otherwise.

The price is not really something we can judge: it could be either fair or too much.
Who knows, this may be a very flexible framework they'll use for the next X years (good) or a hard to maintain website which will cost them even more to keep alive.

We can't really judge.

I wish I had 18 Millions to develop mine.
Or maybe not, I'm happy with scarce resources, so little goes wasted.
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Likes Android for its openness to dev, better software. iPhone is still better UX.
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It would be interesting to see what technical measures are being taken to counter the legal measures. Everytime the industries that use copyright try to stop big name pirate sites/apps, there is a new revolution that gets around it.
Reading material on the FDA in general:

"There is no open marketplace for medical technology in the developed world, however. Instead, we see a very different set of incentives dominating the state of research and development. Regulatory bodies like the FDA have every incentive to stop the release of new medicine: the government employees involved suffer far more from bad press for an approved medical technology than they do from the largely unexamined consequences of heavy regulation. These consequences go far beyond the obvious and announced disapproval of specific medical technologies: the far greater cost lies in all the research, innovation and development that was never undertaken because regulatory burdens ensure there would be no profit for the developer. Personal gain for the regulator is thus to destroy the gains of people they will never meet, the exact opposite of what occurs in an open marketplace."

http://www.fdareview.org

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/11/an-unusually-clea...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2011/12/when-you-make-med...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2010/03/the-roadblock-tha...

http://www.fightaging.org/archives/2008/05/envisaging-a-worl...

https://www.opencures.org/content/open-cures-speed-clinical-...
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Today, you can visualize the whole world by just moving your fingers on the keyboard and see the amazing results on your computer screen. You may also feel that the computer has become your kid’s best friend, as it can be used for entertainment and knowledge purposes.
And what if it is a social idea whereby monetization comes only with traction? IE: Dropbox, etc, and a initial invest of time, say at least 6 months is needed to the product ready, what should I do in a case like this?
FWIW, draftmix.com was a product of Blue Frog Gaming, Inc. We are a YC funded company. We don't run draftmix anymore, but we are still very much alive. Our main products do still use Softlayer, but we've got some stuff on Amazon too.
Except that the cost is near zero if you approach it right. It also means supporting many mobile browsers that usually break js and providing a better experience on slower connections (3g, edge, whatever).
Hey mate, I'm not asking you for a legally binding decision, I'm just asking your opinion on the matter.

I suppose I'll have to assume you don't think that it does, since you're evading the question.
"then bought back for change"

Maybe back in the 90's, but nowadays, there is no reason for anyone to sell a book back to a bookstore for 25% of cover value so the bookstore can resell for 75%. You can sell it yourself on half.com or other services and get the 75% yourself.
I've been at Google two years, in the Cambridge office. I work pretty long hours, but part of that is because work is my hobby. I'd be working on the ext4 file system whether Google paid me or not. It's something that I'm passionate about it. Heck, even if I won a lottery and had a $20 million dollar windfall, I'd probably still be working there, because it's incredibly fun working with lots of smart people, and I'm at a place where I can definitely and directly see how my work is making a difference.

So people who talk about it as being a velvet cage have gotten it all wrong. It's a cage, if you want to call it a cage, that I've chosen of my own free will; it's how I've wanted to spend my time even before I joined Google. Google has simply removed obstacles from allowing me to work on my passion as much as I like; in general, I think it's fair to say that Google wants to find people who are smart and passionate at what they do; those for whom their work is a joy, and not just something they do so they can put bread on the table.

As far as promotions are concerned, the criteria at least for software engineers is pretty simple: it's a matter of demonstrating that you are already working at your new level, in terms of technical expertise, scope of your work, and impact to the company. As far as I'm concerned, that's the way it should be at any company where good engineers would want to hang their hat.
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I'm kind of curious how successful swombat is, and if he followed the strategies he's recommending to others.

What I see a lot is that a lot of startup people give startup advice in order to draw more attention to themselves and to their products/consulting gigs. When I see that swombat has two businesses and time on the side to do consulting, then that's a pretty big red flag.
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I'd not advice this for people that loves their comfort zone nor those who have a hard time unlearning things.

For the rest, it might be their hope.

If you can be hyperproductive you can do it. But you can't be that productive if the technology you use doesn't help you to achieve that by design.

In my case I've validated the product's idea with a prototype in ~15 days, then started to develop the product. Now, it's in full commercial operations since last august.

Here I've wrote a little about the technology I've chosen:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3467308
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So? It's a pack of ~90 sites + the main one, content management systems that will probably be used by hundreds, photography.. the cost is not surprising at all.

They could do a better job of graceful degradation for javascript disabled without much effort, but I wouldn't blame them - everyone here seems to support the opposing mindset too.
I wonder how their growth is within established sites, vs. adding new sites.
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IANAL However, as I understand unless it's clearly a case of fraud the law treats such things as a loan, because you where not offered stock or a cut of profits ect. If he incorporated, you might at best be able to recover your money from whatever the company's assets are, but you really have minimal recourse that's worth the time investment at this point.
Dedup isn't quite the same as sparse files. If the filesystem is unaware of dedup, then it still has to allocate its own structures corresponding to the dedup'ed space, seeking to the next hole or next allocated block won't work (not that many applications are smart about holes or that MS didn't already suck in that area), etc. Dedup - even in its most absolutely simple form of just detecting zero blocks - does at least avoid the fatal problem of allocating actual disk space uselessly, but sparse files are still basically a filesystem problem and need to be treated as such.
Anyone else check the source and notice they're importing jQuery twice?
Textbooks should be a lot cheaper considering that most of the information in them is freely available. Authors should be paid fairly for collecting and making sense of the information, but it's ridiculous how much they cost.

And this shouldn't be an issue: http://imgur.com/FchrB
Just about anybody in recorded history could have created the phonograph. It's a dead simple concept, even the Mesopotamians probably could have managed it, all you need is a needle (probably could be bone), something to scratch lines into with it (wax for instance, maybe the clay they used for tablets), and some sort of diaphragm (leather should work nicely). Just imagine, we could have voice recordings of Alexander the Great, or Gautama Buddha.... that would be fucking wild.

Nobody did it until Edison in the late 19th century. Why? Because the idea of doing something is in most cases more elusive than the ability to do so.
Congratulations on sticking to it! As I watch other entrepreneurs, it is obvious that if there is one thing they do differently than other people is that they keep pushing on.
Apple could revolutionize e-books in the same way it did mobile apps
> It strikes me that the FDA is powerless

Because of stuff like this:

http://www.cptech.org/ip/health/politics/revolvingdoor.html
why would you expect anything else? Not sure what the solution is but there is definitely a problem. It is not just the FDA. Most regulatory agencies have this problem in our country.
Nice concept. I am a developer, Let me know If you are interested.
Cheap e-ink devices will probably have their place, but tablets are quickly becoming more capable and cheaper. As they get under $300 and handle almost all of a student's computing needs, it will be hard to justify the savings of a vastly less capable e-ink device (at least in countries that can afford a $300 per student purchase).

Multimedia adds very little to your average Kindle book, but videos and interactive content add huge value to a textbook. Once you add the fact that a student can accomplish coursework and quickly make schools paperless, I think it's a huge value add.
Sounds very handy, looks unfinished. How far aka functional is it?
My biggest schlep is being involved in too many meaningless activities and meaningless interactions. Things that don't really contribute to my long-term goals, or purpose. Of course, we all have obligations, but it seems like my daily life is 99% filled with meaningless activities.
EFF is powerless, it needs the big tech companies to be it's muscle
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The site is awesome. The UX is spot on! I think people have seen the price tag and expected something unimaginable. Not quite sure why they chose to use an Adobe application for the cms side of things.
Tell that to the corporate IT people who manage thousands of workstations and support internal intranets that were designed around those older browsers.
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full bookmarking functionality (ie instapaper) built for craigslist - basic viewing of bookmarked items - parser for monster.com partially written as well
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I'm a dev too - gigli.st is built on node.js - hit me up on giglistapp @ gmail as i can't find a contact for u on HN
I had a 1440 SAT, and I still got into MIT. And while I did have straight A's at MIT, I also minored in student activities; I was Treasurer of the computer club, Refreshments and Sunday night director of LSC (which showed 2nd run movies on campus and used the profits to subsidize paying to bring famous lecturers to speak at MIT), Treasurer of the New England Lutheran Student Movement (even though I am an Episcopalian; I just happened to wander into the business meeting at a joint retreat); oh, and I was producer of an operetta with the MIT Gilbert and Sullivan Players. This omits some student activities where I wasn't an officer, such as Alpha Phi Omega, and the Technology Hackers Association, and the MIT Science Fiction Society, but you get the idea.

So tell me, what bucket do I fall into? :-)
>we've refunded anyone who asked for it

If you don't mind me asking, how many refunds have been requested?
It might give an insight into what people expect from Kickstarter
Nobody's disputing that it's important to the public and to history. The point of contention is whether that implies that it should be un-copyrightable. I'm with brudgers--nothing in this article gives any justification for that proposition.
What is the worst thing you hate about medical school?
The author's unsupported argument is that the importance of the speech should trump copyright protection.

Then again, for the author, it appears that the CBS news story is also of that level of importance.
"squatter" - although the term is commonly used in the way you used it (and always has been) the usage is an invention of the 90's media. Squatting actually involves occupying property of someone else that you don't have right to in any way (and you don't have permission) that isn't being used. The person who takes a chance and buys a name pays for it and at the time it wasn't in use by anyone else. The practice of using the derogatory word "squatting" to describe legitimate buying of a domain name with the hopes of reselling is something that should end.
(Slightly off-topic)

I said this on twitter, but just realized that I never said it here ( > 140 chars this time):

Daniel, your blog is great! It has quickly moved on to my "must read" list. I don't know how you do it every day, between your own thoughts and the curation of so many others' great content, too.

I may not understand everything and it may not all apply to me, but believe me, enough of it does. Fellow Hacker Newsers should definitely bookmark you.

I also have a hard time understanding how someone could have such a high quality daily blog and get much else done. I struggle to post once or twice a month.

Keep it up. Your efforts have not gone unnoticed and are really appreciated.
Thanks for your comments. I'll comment on joining the legal profession at the entry level and on public interest law.

How legal hiring works at big law schools is this: you go through your first year and get your grades. At the beginning of your second year, you interview with big firms. You hopefully get an offer to work at one summer of your second year. You do well that summer and hopefully get an offer.

This is the primary hiring pipeline for all big firms. A much smaller pipeline is lateraling over from another big firm after you've worked there a few years, but still, you need get through this pipeline at some firm.

If you miss this window, you're basically finished in terms of prospects at a big firm. A couple of people manage to pick up a job their third year but its pretty hard (I tried but failed).

It's a really weird system I know. But yeah, there's no way for me to go to a big firm and say "I'll work for free if you give me a shot."

I could do that with much smaller firms but then instead of 160k market salary + high-level, interesting legal work being the end game its more like 40k and much less interesting work.

As to public interest orgs like EFF, if I work at some place like that, then between the federal government program and my school's program I can get some assistance and, after 10 years, get my debt forgiven. I'm looking into this seriously and this is my "backup" plan. 10 years is a long haul for something I'm not too excited about (see post) and at a very low salary, though.
Example of private torrent trackers:

Private torrent trackers work with the user having a unique string and the torrent client's announce to the tracker includes that string. If the tracker knows the string, it will a) give the torrent client information about the swarm so the user can download and b) monitor the user's traffic and update the site's account accordingly. If the tracker does not know the string it will reject the user and not tell him about the swarm.

In "meatspace" with non-nerds you would probably supply the user with a preconfigured torrent client which has the ID hardcoded in it (eg give the user an URL to download the client from). Add some nice social gibberish about how nice it would be to share with others for some days/weeks, celebrate each megabyte the user uploads and hope for the best.
What is "ID" here? Rustling up a convincing looking piece of identification is about as hard as finding a CD key these days.
If he intended the speech to be in the public domain, he would have put it in the public domain... either during his life, or via his will. That fact that he didn't says more about his intentions than any of our after-the-fact speculation.
"I hereby dedicate this to the public domain" would probably have sufficed.
Is it just me or is the text at the bottom of each picture (with the location, temp, etc) unreadable in at least half the locations? The white on white is a bad idea.

This must be a "marketing" driven site where "good ideas" trump usability. I'm sure they got an award or three for this cutting edge design.
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It's like how War pushed advances in rocket technology. The more they attack file sharing sites/tech, the better it's going to get.
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Your question was a non sequitur, quoting a piece of the constitution (which applies to all works made in the US equally) and then asking my opinion about one specific speech. I would say that, now that the speech is made, it would be good to have it in the public domain. But if we put all the speeches in the public domain, professional speechwriters would find it much harder to make a living. So in general, I wouldn't recommend that kind of behavior.

To answer your question, I don't think MLK's speech was either science nor a "useful art" so it wouldn't have an effect either way.
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That would cost a lot though. With torrents you have the chance to save some bucks (at least on bandwidth costs, the deployment/coding might be much more expensive).
Google doesn't validate either and they spent a lot more than $18M.
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So a competent version of this site would cost how much?
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There are plenty of academics who don't like the traditional publishing racket. Some of them are bound to have tenure.
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