skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...there's a lot of reasons...but let's shift focus from music/movies to something like photos. You can imagine how arduous it would be to maintain a database like that that even if possible from a technical standpoint, would not be an undue burden upon photo sellers/buyers. Plus, a one-stop centralized database of everyone who owns everything from "Casablanca" to "Debbie Does Dallas"? That's something that might give the database-fearing crowd some pause.
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This is parallel to a recent HN thread on copyright: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3303796

I think photographers (like musicians) face two problems: the amateurization of photography, and the lack of marginal cost of distribution.

Photographers need to figure out how to get paid. You can try to charge me the cost of production if you want, but I'm not going to pay it, esp. when there's a large and growing base of amateurs who will give me their work for free. This is why there is a culture of asking for a free license in exchange for exposure: because market dynamics have driven the price down that far. Someone who approaches you for free work isn't going to pay you what you want no matter what. You need to find the people who will pay you.

The freemium model is the only one that really makes sense to me. You give away your past work for free, as a marketing cost, and charge a service fee for those premium customers who have the budget. You charge for the actual production, not for the distribution.
Looks like a Chinese character when you inspect the text.
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I'm in a similar situation (quit high-paying job, following startup dream).

May I ask how you broke into dev/design consulting? I'll have to go that way too, and soon. But I'm still a bit mystified about where one finds consulting gigs... Places like ODesk/Elancer?
Given that any content ever must be recorded in said registry, and you must register (and probably pay a fee!) before ever publishing anything. Including forum posts.

Doubtful. Scary, but doubtful.
OH: "I, for one, welcome ads in the news feed. At least the ads will be more interesting than my friends' status updates."
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"Here is why blocking child porn is fairly trivial but blocking copyright infringement is impossible..."

Rep. Marino: "wakes up from daydream you nerds are smart, you can figure it out"
Thanks for mentioning RequestPolicy. Exactly what I was looking for.
Sorry guys! We weren't expecting this kind of load. I'm doing everything I can to redirect traffic to http://engine.theappifier.com
Unless the app auto-updates its content to be sure it is always in sync with the website, having native app speed and offline use grows increasingly less desirable the farther out you get from the date the app was created. For Wordpress sites one would expect new content daily. If Appifier pulls content and makes it all available offline that's great, until/unless the site being "appified" has new content. Will the app re-roll itself to incorporate that new content for offline and/or native access? If not then an appified site is useless the moment the app is generated.

I’m not questioning whether there is a market for this. I’m questioning the purpose and value to the user if it’s really nothing more than a snapshot of a dynamic site or just a site shortcut.
Here's a screen grab that was done:

http://www.klonix.org/jan2012/appifier.com-20120111-104926a-...
Just to clarify, individual IEEE membership is much less expensive. Full membership in the U.S. is $181/year and includes online access to all IEEE articles, dues for other parts of the world are even lower (for whatever reasons) [1]. For students it's $32/year.

[1] https://origin.www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/j...
Stop with the wide-eyed admiration of a someone (pg) who wishes nothing more than to take a portion of your win.

Grow up and recognize the wider world.
You're conflating encapsulation, OOP and open source.

Encapsulation can be done (and is a good idea) in any programming paradigm, OOP or not. For instance, in C you can use the static modifier to not expose a function to the outside world, or use a typedef to expose an opaque handle rather than exposing the struct definition in a public header file. In Haskell you can limit which functions and types are exposed by a module as well. These are just two examples: languages that provide no means of encapsulation whatsoever are few and far in between. BASIC comes to mind.

Likewise, a closed source component can expose internals in harmful ways and an open source component can over-encapsulate things to the point where it becomes useless for any use case except for a few select ones that the component author anticipated.

Of course it's helpful to be able to inspect the source but that doesn't really have a lot to do with encapsulation. (Although it does have to do with the concept of "psychological encapsulation" established in the article.)
I don't see what's wrong with his pricing model. He's basing his price on what it would cost someone, starting from nothing, to go out and create a picture like that.

It's actually a discount in that regard since most people would have to spend considerable time learning how to take that photo.

It's a perfectly good starting place for a price. And nowhere did he say that price wasn't negotiable.
Why in gods name would I want to pay to market to people who like my fb page? Those guys are super fans already, and I almost certainly have their email address. As much as I appreciate fbs intentions in making advertising unobtrusive, this holds no interest for me as a marketer. I want people who have not bought my app to see my ads; that's how I get paid.
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But "usb stick" is so semantically loose, no mention of data, storage, retention, persistency, memory.
Also non persistent, when nobody remembers what USB is, there will be another new lingo like holothumb (yeah cause it will project data holographically right onto your thumbnail so why not).

Too bad for memorycard though it was simple and generic enough. Can't we opensource it ~_~ ?
Right, the C language type system makes no attempt at describing that kind of constraint, yet it is still clearly defined within the language.

And it's not just the standard C library that defines it...this definition of string is also supported by the literal string data type.
But most real world probles arn't "impliment a bubble sort" pure CS problems 99% of the time you need domain knowedge to point out the the customer err you have used the wrong equaion for that design.
The shaft of the crane becomes the elevator shaft and they break off the top and move it with another crane.
You know, it is pretty easy to kill someone. That doesn't mean it's morally acceptable, let alone legal. It doesn't matter how easy it is to copy the photograph. It's still not morally acceptable or legal.

And yet, people still kill each other on a daily basis. At some point it may become practical to take precautions not to get killed, or to move into a line of work or a place where you're less likely to get killed.
> , an thus its usage in this way is both unenlightened and potentially prejudicial - but I could hardly put it into the same category as a racial slur, which is clearly intended to diminish or marginalize.

which was kind of my point.
That's a shame. I was hopeful that the Nexus would present an ethical option for smartphones.
You know he's right, don't you?

He's half right. Banks are also the problem.
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+1 "many of us want to know what people are willing to give up to chase their dreams."
True, but it also depends on what you are looking for. This seems like the right tool for the job.

He states, "The ideal company would be a small, rapidly growing startup with a team of super smart hackers."
I really don't understand the point of this on reddit. EVERYONE on reddit has been hearing about SOPA continually for the last month. You don't raise awareness of an issue by putting it in front of people who already know about it.
For those having trouble with the site, I ended up looking at Google's cached copy and then finding the walkthrough youtube video that you can watch here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/QkwDDB0I5_g?autoplay=1
Wonder how soon FB-specific ad blockers will be available as extensions for the major browsers?
Isn't their "higher efficiency" of waste disposal due to the fact they just dump it into the ocean rather than doing it properly?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_th...

The link also mentions the possibility that this is what pissed off Somalis and spurred the takeoff of piracy. (Not trying to justify it, please flame me for the right reason.)
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We make it easy to know what everyone is getting done. Tracking and accountability are two of the biggest problems we've seen with remote teams.

Often work with remote employees requires asynchronous communication because of time differences, making it difficult to sync up via Skype or Hipchat (two great tools).

With iDoneThis, we email everyone and ask what they did. They just reply and it goes into a central place. The next morning, everyone gets a digest with what they did.

It's been a big help for us sync up with our remote developers who are freelancing for us. We use it along with Skype, Campfire, Trello, and Google Groups.
Shocking to see yet another YC "start-up" hawking the essential nonsense which is HN.

Sell, sell, sell you have 14 minutes before the patina fades.
or they licensed technology from this hd manufacturer: http://www.cracktwo.com/2011/04/chinese-fake-hard-drive.html :-)
So yes, I made a choice to have a mobile phone, but what kind of choice did I make? I think this is sort of an interesting phenomenon. What happens is a choice is introduced; it starts as a very simple choice: the choice of whether or not to have a mobile phone, a simple piece of technology. But slowly things happen to expand the scope of that choice until eventually it's so big as to encompass not just whether you have a mobile phone or not but whether you want to be a part of society.

That is it right there.

The only answer is the same technology without the bad side of it.

Mobile phones that do not track you, that governments can not track.

A Facebook alternative like Diaspora, except much better and as popular as Facebook.

We are not going to quit mobile phones and social media, but we have to strip their bad side from them. That may involve non-profit mobile phone manufactures, open source social media, who knows exactly what. But I know that technologically it is possible, now we have implement it and use it.
Don't forget to ID every user on every access so you can see what permission they have. Without any regard to requiring your papers to traverse the Internet, I can't imagine how difficult that would be to scale. And if it goes wrong, the whole Internet goes down.
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nicely done! i wish i could do the same, must do the same ; )
It took 15 days for the final construction. Most of the building was prefabricated off site. Any ideas how long this stage took?
The most interesting bit to me in his total is that he didn't put in any cost for his time, which I'm guessing would ordinarily be the lion's share of a task like this.

I don't know if he was just trying to establish the 'overhead' costs, or that at a minimum, discounting his time, that's what it cost him, but I'd like to see that number be higher, if anything.

This, to me, is the same argument I made recently regarding musicians, in the creation of music, the finished work isn't zero-cost. Ignoring the recording studio costs, media costs, distribution costs, there are other costs like instruments, instrument lessons where applicable, etc.

Even if you believe that you should be able to reproduce an artist's work free of charge (which I admit I often am conflicted on,) you have no right to take the work that it cost them money to produce for free because you aren't depriving them of anything.
A little more context. Consider it a little prequel to the STRATFOR hack that was widely reported in the media recently.

Before the infamous STRATFOR hack, in early December, STRATFOR was hacked and information was stolen. At that time they started working with the FBI in an ongoing investigation.

The last part of the article are some taunts towards Anonymous. That last sentence isn't meant to be snarky, I'm a fan of STRATFOR.
Assuming this is one of the standard JSON plugins for wordpress, be cautious of what this may do to the main sites load. The default install can force calls to skip the total-caching plugin most sites use, as it wont use the cache on any request with parameters.
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Great site. Not that I think any less of this, but in the longer run it'd have to do a bit more than data-collection.

Also, it will need translations into local languages and a volunteer base to verify claims etc. when it grows to be popular. Any thoughts on those lines?
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A massive search index of the open Internet still gives me pause, but there it is!
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At what point is it okay to post you have started a new website / business on hacker news?

Here goes my karma.
Since we are doing shameless plugs here are my two (and yes I quit very high paying jobs ... 1.5~2 times more than @gozman ...):

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Nah, you just need it for content uploaders and copyright holders. No need to implement a global permissioning system.
Could not agree more. (Well in this case the problem is solvable unlike cryogenics or turning sand into fuel). Btw, the Feynman story you referred to is from "Surely, you're Joking, Mr. Feynman", interesting stories about Feynman's adventures: "One guy in a uniform came to me and told me that the army was glad that physicists were
advising the military because it had a lot of problems. One of the problems was that tanks use up
their fuel very quickly and thus can't go very far. So the question was how to refuel them as they're
going along. Now this guy had the idea that, since the physicists can get energy out of uranium,
could I work out a way in which we could use silicon dioxide--sand, dirt--as a fuel? If that were
possible, then all this tank would have to do would be to have a little scoop underneath, and as it
goes along, it would pick up the dirt and use it for fuel! He thought that was a great idea, and that
all I had to do was to work out the details. That was the kind of problem I thought we would be
talking about in the meeting the next day. "
If you can't find a job without a snazzy online resume, then you do not have saleable skills.

This undoubtedly seems harsh, but go do something useful and live your life.
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Its a great step forward.. long way to go! Hope it turns out to be something interesting.
It's a very competitive space (CPC are quite high) and because of our small plan fees google ads won't be a feasible option.
I've toured the video. This is a browser plugin, cloud service, and app. What is your profit model, if I may ask?
Not having to care about health & safety is certainly one factor in the speed of Chinese builders, I've seen some crazy stuff in the preperation for consumer events.
The cranes are designed to be easy to dismantle. For bigger cranes, they'll actually bring up a smaller crane which will be used to lower the parts of the bigger crane.

This has a few more details and links:

http://www.ehow.com/how-does_5787150_cranes-removed-sky-scra...
Why you are using JSON API instead of XMLRPC which is more popular and enabled by default for some providers such as wordpress.com?

Disclaimer: I am doing similar thing and will launch soon..
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Sites that hit the homepage on HN crash so often I dream of quitting my job to launch a startup whose sole service is to HN-proof your site </jest>
He'd be able to 'demand' whatever he wants. Charities "demand" donations all the time and get them, and there's no protectionist law they have to deal with.
From an (incredibly) brief skim of http://www.sony.co.uk/product/rec-memory-stick, it looks like they have a mark on "Memory Stick", but not necessarily "Memory Card".
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Tim it looks like you used our (Dress Rush) online pitch deck as inspiration... very cool.

http://investors.dressrush.com

Did you use the jQuery plugin we built too?

http://dressrush.com/blog/post/12506021124/dressrush-online-...

Good luck with the job hunt!
It's still not morally acceptable or legal.

It's illegal, yes. But the question whether copying published works is morally unacceptable to people is debatable.

Comparing sharing with killing or stealing is a common mistake.

Citing http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Theft

The idea that laws decide what is right or wrong is mistaken in general. Laws are, at their best, an attempt to achieve justice; to say that laws define justice or ethical conduct is turning things upside down.
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But surely the whole point of that glut of content is that you don't need his image, not that you should be able to take it without his permission?

As you say, there are thousands of sunset images, probably thousands under, say, a CC or free license. That means you can use them, not that you can declare his image is worthless and use it.

In terms of can copy therefore, should be allowed to copy, that just changes the potential nature of the contract that exists. With physical goods there was a barrier to copying, but there are plenty of situations in society where what governs our behaviour isn't what we can do, it's what we all (or a vast majority of us) have agreed to do because we believe that is in our mutual best interest.

The fact it's easy to copy things means the potential for change exists and the mechanisms whereby restrictions are enforced may change, but it doesn't mean that in the future can copy will automatically mean is permitted to copy by society.

Yes, you can't stop progress, but the direction of progress is still unclear.
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Why is it interesting to argue for open publishing, even if one can't necessarily win in one's lifetime? Because it compels the status quo to state its position over and over again, in clearer and clearer terms.

If you want to understand science as it is presently organized, read the above summary several times; it's good and it's accurate.

Scientists live in a tight community in which everyone shares with everyone else below the radar, via personal networks linked by patronage, mutual favors, and email. This is acceptable, for many within the community, because scientists don't seriously expect anyone who isn't currently a professional scientist to follow anything that they do, and they don't care, so long as the money rolls in.

Then they complain that the public can't seem to tell the difference between the scientific establishment and a priesthood. Inexplicable!

If nothing else, open publishing is an act of good-faith public relations. The entire point of science is that it has nothing to hide - you have to be able to trace all the interconnections - so when the scientific establishment is seen to be explicitly hiding stuff behind paywalls it sends a jarring message. And, while printed journals available for popular subscription were the gold standard of openness as recently as the 1980s, this is the twenty-first century and that won't cut it anymore.
One hour+ commute, enough time to prep and eat or go out and eat food, enough time at night to not go bed right after eating, not good for your health, squeeze in an hour of exercise per day, a tiny bit of social interaction with friends and/or family, equals less than 8 (some times even less than 7) hours of sleep. And over the long term for most people 6 hours a night results in sleep deprivation.

But some are lucky genetic mutants. I am not one of them.
Facebook is in no way as vital to public order as the transportation system. Further, there's no way the government can force a private corporation to do anything, short of nationalizing it (and good luck there).
I hope this is and the obvious interest of twitter and facebook to get in on this action represents a crack in the closing web.

And in some sense, it always seemed like that's what G+ was all about: a moat to make sure they'd keep get/access to all the information that was flowing into closed social networks. Being included in search results is a powerful incentive.

The next step has to be open APIs, though, right? I should be able to add social signals outside of G+ and other closed social networks.
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In addition, I suspect that's the price he would sell the rights to the photo for (if he would sell it at all), meaning that whomever paid that price would own the work outright.

I also suspect that he would be happy to license uses of that photo for substantially less (though I'm VERY curious as to what that cost is, actually) to magazines and other people wanting to use the work on a single-use basis.
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If you put a "Pay me a dollar just because you like my site" feature on your wordpress site you will probably not get many dollars. But since people are already comfortable paying small amounts of money via itunes and the app store it seems like a nice additional revenue channel, and probably leads to more site traffic, especially from the core fans.

As for the extra value to the user, no idea, maybe they can make it easier to submit comments? No ads maybe?
I wouldn't say that society views industrial quantities of fertilizer as dangerous, but the FBI keeps track of who's buying it.