skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the conclusion I'm generally coming to, with regard to creative works. I think this is reasonable, in the same vein as HN really advocates you form a startup in a space where there is a unique opportunity-- you won't be able to be self-sustaining with your own product unless there are people willing to pay for it. Perhaps this is why being bought is such a common and lauded occurrence. Your startup was a demonstration and valuation of your skills, before finding profitable work in a similar field.

Yet I wanted to draw attention to specifically the hypocrisy of our implicitly boxing things like magazine sales and advertisements together as having 'viable market' and photo licensing as somehow not. In regard to the original article, maybe the photographer is being unrealistic in trying to sell sunset photos per se, but he certainly has the right to not let others profit off of his work in any part (a la the GPL), in his case, at least without compensation.

And in the long run, pure digital copying will change a lot of how we perceive creative works, but also traditional areas like magazines, movies, textbooks, games, etc. We need to accept a world when all these items are free, and understand how they will become sustainable. Let's not assume because small photographers and artists are the easiest to duplicate that we can criticize their marketing strategies and leave these larger industries alone.
Well they must have missed a week.

Search for cars while you are opted-out of personal search. You will see the Google+ Ferrari page on the right. Is that really what people want to see? The normal Ferrari website isn't anywhere in the top 100 organic results, but yet Google's extensive user research team decided that is what people wanted to see on the right hand side. Or did they put that there because it benefits them.
Seattle startup Optify is also doing some interesting things with lead scoring. http://www.optify.net/b2b-marketing/lead-scoring/
I'm not seeing what's so amazing about this, sorry... Google is basically hijacking the conversation off of HN and then making that searchable by its members, so what's exciting about that?
Interesting. After years of paying through the nose for a Google search appliance that actually wasn't very good, my company decided to replace it with Solr, and it was a really fun project. We hired the Solr project's main committer to consult with us and in the process submitted patches for bugs that we ran into.

The whole thing cost less than one year of the GSA license fee, we can search all of our content (the GSA had a hard limit on the number of documents it would index), and the search results are way better.
I like Morton Numbers--they're a great example of the notion that dimensionality is an interpretation, and you can compress higher dimensions down to 1 while still retaining a 1-to-1 correspondence. However, good luck with modifying the bit twiddling algorithms shown here when you want to deal with Big Numbers that overflow C/C++'s built-in types. Here's a slow (I haven't measured how slow) Python version that's insensitive to how big the number is:

def tomorton(x,y):
x = bin(x)[2:]
lx = len(x)
y = bin(y)[2:]
ly = len(y)
L = max(lx, ly)
m = 0
for j in xrange(1, L+1):
# note: ith bit of x requires x[lx - i] since our bin numbers are big endian
xi = int(x[lx-j]) if j-1 < lx else 0
yi = int(y[ly-j]) if j-1 < ly else 0
m += 2**(2*j)*xi + 2**(2*j+1)*yi
return m/4
It did occur to me. When I said their "negotiating position is so bad that they use suicide to opt out," the choice I was talking about was between working at Foxconn and trying to find another job. I said "opt out" to mean inserting their own third option; suicide. I chose this language explicitly with the goal of showing that I realize that they have at least three options, because I expected you to argue this point with me otherwise. I'm sorry for my lack of clarity. It's something I'm working on.

Whether their plan to suicide is a bluff is relevant to our apparant disagreement. I think it is at least partly not a bluff, because Foxconn employees have a history of killing themselves. Given that their employees commit suicide based on their working conditions and perceived lack of alternative, I don't think you can rationally think it's good for them to be in this situation. I am not telling you that you should feel sympathy for them, although I certainly do. What I mean is that it is possible for a person to be in a business negotiation position that is bad in the same sense of the word "bad" that being raped is bad. The fact that they have multiple options and that the options involve money is not enough to absolve their malefactors. If I were forced to choose between paid to amputate my own body parts and starving to death for lack of money, and the person asking me to amputate my limbs could pay me without amputating my limbs at no cost to themselves, I would call that unethical. I would say so even if they were not themselves amputating my limbs, killing me, or actively restricting my other options.
Yes, they took user behavior into account and realized that it didn't matter because they have to get into the social space.

I think you have the causality wrong. They realized they had to get into the social space and integrate it into their product because of user data.

They are willing to make search worse in order to make G+ better.

I think the point of this announcement is that they make no such distinction. Search and Plus are the same product.

When I search for something in a search engine 95 times out of 100 I am searching for something new.

Thank you for your data point. I'm sure Google has many others. Not only that, but how much of that is because you haven't even thought of using search for information retrieval purposes yet? How often do you access your photos? How often do you access your friends' photos? What's your primary way to access them? What percentage of that access would be made better using search?

I am never looking for photos of myself. I mean please.

I bet you're the exception.
Photographers have a right to demand payment for their photos.

Nobody has a license to use a photographer's photos without her permission.

Photos are an incredibly cheap commodity (that span the gamut of relative price and quality, like everything else)

It is not unreasonable that photo consumers expect low to no cost photographs.

I think we're all mostly in agreement here.
The maps do not show subway stop locations. That is not good when you are a NYC real estate company.
Edintity - listed in the weeks most useful social media-part 1(TNW)
Back in the day I think the popular perception of programmers was kind of an extension of a secretary (it's just typing on toggle panels instead of a typewriter, right?) so there were lots of women stuck in secretarial positions who tried it out.
The right to give and the right to charge are inherently personal decisions that only the owner of the photo can make.

It's not that simple. There are two "rights" here: 1) the right to publish a photo, and 2) the ability to restrict other people's freedom to copy the photo.

The first one is simple -- you can choose to publish your photos, or you can choose to keep them for yourself and never publish.

The second one -- the ability to restrict other people's actions on further distribution -- is a personal decision only for a limited amount of time, and only in certain circumstances and for certain works. Even if your personal decision is not to let me publish photos shot by you in my "Silly photographs" magazine, I will be able to do so once you die + 70 years (according to my country laws). Why is this? Because every author's work belongs to public once author publishes it. The author is just given a temporary monopoly on it. This was intended to make authors produce more such works; for example, here's what US Constitution says:

[Congress shall have the power] to promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.
I'd really like to know that too.

It can't be too cheap to serve that many views reliably and quickly. OTOH, they are just NYC and they were already doing some things (like geocoding) themselves, while the google maps price included features they would never use (even implicitly, eg the cost of acquiring street data in other countries has to be figured into google's cost structure).
Microsoft probes mass suicide threat at China plant
I have googled NSTAR's gas leak hotline from my phone, while walking down Beacon street and reported a strong gas smell near an apartment building. You think I should have called a different number first?
It sounds like it was going to be around $200-300,000 a year after a discount was applied from the google sales staff. With the other numbers bandied about in the text it sounds like that represents a 50% discount based on their current and projected usage.
Not only on the iPhone, but on the Android (sic!) as well. Actually, it's more convenient to use Facebook website than to use Google+ website.

At least on the Honeycomb tablet, can't talk about the mobile phones.
I don't mind the downvotes, but I think my comment was misunderstood. Of course, whenever there is any type of gender-related article on HN, it gets pretty nasty pretty quickly. HN, for all the good things I can say about it, is firmly entrenched in the mindset that Martin is writing against.
I know one who does both. She is actually quite good but probably makes only a single digit percent of her income on stock. Mostly her portfolio serves as a starting point where clients say, "like this one only of my subject".
Understandable. I think it would be terribly difficult to find a method for managing all the variables that could go into B2C qualification. Solving the B2B question is more than enough for any one company. Cheers and good luck!
What Google’s New “Search Plus Your World” Means for Your Online Business
The stock photo industry is getting bigger, while profit-per-photo is plummeting. There are still a number of well-known photogs in this space, some of whom are doing remarkably well for themselves.

My impression of that industry is that it's all about process - to make a living doing it you need to have an extremely streamlined process and churn out a vast amount of work.
This report also pushes the intolerance hypothesis, as well as women being less dedicated, being fearful of text interfaces, and preferring more collectivist environments: http://web.archive.org/web/20091007234852/http://opensource..... (Please go read the report before criticizing me for citing it. It's written by a woman who is allegedly a feminist.)

That is a misleading characterization of the paper, which aims at establishing an analytical framework rather than offering itself as a 'report,' within an existing analytical framework. For example, rather than suggesting that women are 'fearful' of text interfaces, the author observes that their continuing popularity in the FLOSS community exacerbates past educational disparities: 'Instead of deducting from biological sex difference, the phenomenon suggests a lingering deficiency of women’s IT education and women-unfriendly products and tools.' The writer goes on to posit that many staples of geek culture (eg long coding pushes) act as exclusionary factors for women who may have to juggle coding with other tasks such as child-rearing, and that women's contributions in areas such as documentation or design are seriously undervalued.

Your summary of the paper is so far off base that I find myself wondering if you inadvertently linked to the wrong document.
I dug out my 29th printing copy for this :)

Dated: the "Hello world" on page 6 produces warnings when compiled "> gcc -ansi -o hello hello.c -Wall" c.f. http://c-faq.com/ansi/maindecl.html

Buggy but only to a pedant with infinite time: the word count on page 18 that uses a `double` which will run out of accuracy once you count more words than there are atoms in the universe. (	`double toot = 1000000000000000000; toot++;` what is the approximate value of toot?)

Buggy by omission: Section 5.5 (on page 104) doesn't really go into the hazards of C strings, and the text's implementation of strcpy when using strings from unfriendly places (public wifi, quicktime files) can turn the interesting kind of nasty if you hammer on it enough.

Unstylish: brace-less if statements in many examples; a two-line one on page 110, for example.

I worked as a contractor in a C shop for several months a few years back, and I kind of see what happens when you code K&R-style instead of extremely defensively and conservatively. For example, the strcpy on page 106 is cute, but is it going to be as maintainable as the naïve version the previous page, or the hypothetical (unless I just failed to find it) LCTHW known-length string copy function?
The Ascent of 10GigE
I have heard just "usb" from many people. "Do you have a usb I can borrow?" It's grating.
Just call 911. I assume you do not actually have the training to fully assess the situation, so let the professionals do it. For all you know there are people that need medical attention in that sort of situation.
With a pocket one, obviously!
With five people, you might be able to be more selective in hiring talent. With 30 people, unless you are Google, you will probably be less selective - half of all teams are below average.

On occasion a come to jesus talk might be appropriate with some types of employees, but once one starts threatening people with the loss of employment, bad things often follow - particularly in the US where such threats often mean loss of access to healthcare for the employee's family.

BTW, when the job is pushing the boulder forward, smart people recognize the sisyphean nature of the task and respond accordingly.
[reads all the comments about how no one wants ladies in their field anyway]

And people wonder why the ladies don't want to hang out with you kids all day. Could it be that ladies are smart enough to figure out when and where they are unwelcome? UNPOSSIBLE

signed,
a lady who is interested in programming
If I bought all that same equipment, and took a terrible photograph, then according to his argument my photograph would also be worth 6 grand.
Real-Life Examples Of How Google's "Search Plus" Pushes Google+ Over Relevancy
Study says every star has planets
Oh right. If you wait for one to come up, and then click the "X" in the corner of the preview pane, they won't come up again unless you specifically hover over the >> button for each result.

If you want something more permanent, I think this userscript http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/90394 or these AdBlock rules will block it, but I haven't tried them:

google.com##.vspi
google.com##.vspib
google.com###vspb

(remember to modify if you're using e.g. google.com.au)
I think what both authors in this back and forth are really saying is "this photograph is mine."

One says "this photograph is mine, no you may not use it too." The other says "this photograph is mine, yes you may also use it."

So good work, guys! Both pictures are very nice. I'm glad you can do with them what you want.
Would wikipedia to join the blackout if me and half a million others donate $10?

discussion for wikipedia blackout:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
Can you provide an example of the barriers of which you speak?

Here's a real-world example: A workplace where most of the (all-male) development team is using the same "bikini babe" screensaver. It's a small thing to a guy, something you may not even notice. It's a small thing to plenty of women, too. Some other women may see that as an implicit message that they aren't taken seriously as anything but a sex object.

Sure, it's a small thing, but small things add up.

I don't want to say that you are the problem or that you should hire unqualified people to correct an imbalance. All I want is for people to be honest with themselves that this world isn't a pure meritocracy and that you may be (as I am) the beneficiary of privilege based on sex or race or class. Is that really controversial?
Impress-gen generates an Impress.js presentation from Markdown
Spacebar to pagedown also breaks randomly, which is the primary way I scroll on a computer.
Still looks a sleasy way to make money. Don't make it feel like gambling and before you know it your broke.

Also They fly under regulation radar. Most casino's online/real life have to give back a fixed percentage in winnings. Just looks to me it's a hidden form of gambling and because it's a game they don't have to follow regulations...
But they mention that in the text. Sure it's not something that happens now, but since now they generate the maps, they can add them or anything else they want to add to the maps.
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This a great overview of the open source mapping options out there. I just posted some notes the other day on how MapBox pricing works for hosting custom map tiles: http://ds.io/A12Drf and a comparison of overage fees for MapBox premium accounts vs Google premier.
There's an easy way to ensure no one "steals" your photograph: don't release it as a series of bits on a huge relatively unrestricted global network of computers. You can't have it both ways: having your photograph "out there" where everyone can see it, and still claiming absolute control over every single occurrence of that sequence of bits on every single device it ever gets copied to.
Should you need a third party app installed for a good reading experience? I don't use Google+ and don't want the app on iOS, even if it was launched when I click a Google+ link (which, fwiw, you are correct: it currently does not).

(On the other hand, Tumblr looks great on mobile, and it doesn't need an app. Facebook, too, is at least readable on their mobile site.)
You apparently missed the overlarging bloat that google search has become in the past few years.
Some core developers, including me, as well as the vast majority of core contributors, are not employees of Automattic.

To reply to your PS: Something tells me that if WordPress.com uses GoDaddy, they have a bit of leverage there.
I made pagination suck less
It certainly seems to make pagination less of a pain, so +1
go mtl!
> I think the problem lies much more with you and your phone than it does with Google Plus as a writing platform.

The problem definitely lies with Google Plus as a web app. Whatever they're doing, it's just not a very good experience on a mobile device. Maybe on Android they redirect Google+ pages to their native app, but they don't even offer a way to do that for other platforms even if you have the native app installed (even a simple link on the page that opens it in the native app would be fine). It seems obvious that they're actively trying to promote their own platform over all other reading experiences, which is a radical departure from the ideals of the web that Google has historically cared about.
I call anything that hangs out of a computer from a port a dongle, but I suppose that's too generic.
Don't you think you should've posted this in a seperate link? It seems like you're trying to hang off Appifier's coattails...
I can't find this feature. I guess it's because I'm logged into a G+ account via Google Apps for Enterprise?

I find Google's rollouts for Google Apps customers a huge source of confusion. You'd think they'd get that under control by now.

Anyway, looks like a killer feature that will slowly become indispensable.
I haven't seen anything to indicate this is an exclusive deal.
Apple announces education event in New York City next Thursday, Jan. 19
Building A REST API in Rails 3 (in 6 minutes)
Google should display "Google is unavailable today because of SOPA [bla bla bla] If you still want to access google go to google.fr or any european google".
Roger and Mike's Hypernet Blog
What I Learned by Starting a Company
History is also littered with cautionary examples of [belief in] equality and malleability gone terribly wrong.

"Meaningful variations between groups" does not logically imply that concentration camps are good policy, just as a belief in equality does not imply that gulags are.

Supposing that Jews are only half as smart as Aryans, it doesn't imply that they should be killed. Similarly, if I'm twice as smart as my maid, it doesn't follow that I should murder her. In both cases, you need some intrinsic moral belief that killing is acceptable - and that's where the real problem lies.

Also, need I point out that you are employing the logical fallacy of "appeal to consequences"?
How do you test that something in C is a string?
I just launched http://peanutty.org - it's still very raw, but the point is to help people learn how to code. There might not be enough there, but I'd be happy to help you figure out how to code your own levels.
MySQL – Deletion History Part 1
MySQL stored procedure’s come in really handy at times. I like to let the database do the work for me sometimes.For example, in an e-commerce system you may need to calculate a tax. For our example today though, we will use the tables we made in my previous article on the XREF table. We are going to focus this tutorial on getting the appropriate tables in place to preform our history logging.
Has anyone seen this before on a website? It seems so simple, I find it hard to believe that this is the first implementation.
With a series of progressively smaller cranes until finally:

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2610/3699889213_30575a56d0_m.j...
Furthermore, the 15 days is itself a bit low---notice in the video that by the time the clock starts, the foundations are already done and some parts of the first floor are in; the work continues after the 360:00:00 clock stops; and the last layer of cladding (dark instead of light, which in the finished photos extends to the top) isn't finished past the sixth floor.
"Search Plus Your World" Isn't Very Good, Just Adds Clutter & Irrelevant Results
The dreaded comma splice
When you're doing 4 other courses, you don't generally have more than 30 hours a week to spend on a project.
Please report back because I'd love for some competition for the Gimp. The Gimp is great, but image editing editing software is an area that Linux is far too low on. And the $99 tag is low enough that I would be willing to pay for it.
Also, as a founder, what do I do about the non-compete agreement everyone has been asked to find. I'm not thrilled about it, especially as it requires no competition for 5 years, around the world.

I would never sign such a thing. I would take it as a huge red flag, too - successful startup founding teams shouldn't need any non-compete, let alone a highly restrictive one! If you can't even trust each other not to screw the business over at the first opportunity, you can't trust each other at all and should not be starting a business together!

Based on the bits of info gleaned from your post ("several" founders, possibly more than 3, only one coder, unclear what the others are bringing to the table, inexperienced entrepreneurs, unreasonable focus on paperwork instead of getting a business off the ground, general distrust reigns) it sounds like this thing is headed for disaster. This doesn't mean you shouldn't give it a go, but be aware that its chances may be very slim.

And, if you're the only programmer, and the only person with access to the code, you surely are in a great bargaining position. Don't sign anything you're not comfortable with - ideally don't sign anything unless it's clearly in your favour (even then, look for loopholes that could be exploited against you).

And, as others have advised, get some input from an experienced startup lawyer.
I think that most filtering for safesearch is powered by textual analysis and analyzing site links.
I would rather hold on to what's left of my privacy and simply search Hacker News directly.