skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A Finnish tabloid's photo of the Angry Birds dress was illegally published in several places and sparked a similar discussion in Finland: http://www.arcticstartup.com/2011/12/08/world-media-infringe...
I worked as part of a three person tech team. The three of us supported offices in several different counties doing everything from running cables to some programming. The chances to change things up every now and then and be part of such a tight team made it easily my favorite job.
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hey mark!

it was strange to me too at first, but we built it in response to the fact that we kept on getting asked about getting onto the "app store" by small business owners who were going digital and building Wordpress sites. Everyone wants an app nowadays - so we're filling a niche.

In the end, browsers are great but mobile safari doesn't yet let you have access to everything you can get in Cocoa. We want to open those features up to anyone with a Wordpress site.

Mike
I can fall asleep at pretty much any given hour of the day... unless it is the actual time in the evening at which I should go to bed. I had a terrible case of getting a "second wind" rush at night around midnight and even worse after 3 or 4 am.
Before I dropped ICT; a project in year 9 involved designing a database. It's usually taught in access, I did it in MySQL. I received low marks because of that.
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My first thought after hearing that was, "wow, we are doomed."
Go Montreal ! :)
Slight issue though - I created an app, says everything went well, downloaded the sandbox, but nothing appears under "My projects". Does it take time to update ? Also, "Push composer" and "Analytics" in my admin panel link to "#". Are these just placeholder links to let users know that the functionality is coming ? Good job on shipping the product !
Support for push notifications would be a huge plus as well.
If I'm a programmer, and I let my customers download my program for free and include a crack -- who's fault is it if someone doesn't pay up for the program? This is the internet. I had to download a copy the photograph just to view the image. It's stored in my cache right now. You have an unlicensed copy as well. Do I feel like a murdering thief? No, I don't.

If you run a bike-shop, don't leave the bikes out front without locks. They're going to get stolen. Don't bitch about society when they go missing. If you're putting art out on the internet, don't bitch when everyone has a copy. At least watermark that sucker.
One year in one image
One of the incident which is reported is:
"paid bribe to get away with drunk driving."
http://corruptiontrak.com/dev/reports/view/48

Honestly, i do not think any amount of technology or legislation would be able to fix corruption, unless it is sought at a different angle. Problem here does not exist with bureaucracy, but with the people.
Homeland Security have eye on Journalists
Did anyone else have the experience of reading this, starting out thinking "Moglen has gone over the edge" and ending in a defeatist "it's actually as bad as he says and there's no stopping it"?
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This is one of the greatest hypocrisies the European Union is committing.
The EU (Germany and France) are putting the Italian government under a lot of pressure to stabilize the economy but no one ever (including the new Italian PM) mentions the plague of criminal organizations running the show in Italy.

Even if Italy manages to get out of the current economical turmoil, there will always be half of the country (some say the whole country) literally in the hands of criminal organizations with huge power and virtually unlimited funds.

How can the new PM (Monti) dare to talk about "development" where the moment you open a shop or a business you will be forced to pay a "premium" to some thug. Banks in Italy have been historically very cautious about lending money to businesses and the result is that business-owners have to use the "other bank" to survive a bit longer. And again, nothing has been done to facilitate access to line of credits for businesses. The only thing that has increased is taxation (a business in Italy now pays over 50% in taxes).

If the cancer of Mafia is not eradicated once for all, Italy will never become a modern country.
Mike, not the OP but which features are you opening up? This question is not attacking you, i'm just genuinely curious. I'm in the WordPress business (http://thewp.co) and would love to offer this to my clients!
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You need to move this site to a host that can handle the load today. I'm getting timeouts and finally got the home page to load. I can't get any of the other pages to load either.
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I can't get the site to load.
Yes, a thousand times yes. "The principle applied in the U.S.S.R. is that of socialism: From each according to his ability, to each according to his work," said Joseph Stalin. Which is backwards.

What many people with only a superficial understanding of economics don't seem to grasp is that the "perfect competition" ecosystem that is described in Econ 101 - in which goods are priced at cost - is an EMERGENT property of free trade.

Key word is emergent. The cost of a good is not enough justification for judgment of what someone out to pay for that good. When that good, labor, and all inputs of that good, and inputs of those inputs are priced fairly and freely, then such pricing tends to emerge. But saying "I paid $XX for a plane ticket and this equipment to produce this good so I deserve to be paid $XX for it" is Begging The Question. The inventive camera maker, or the bankrupt airline that sold you the plane ticket below cost, could be make the same argument of you. And the cheated, suicidal Foxconn employee who made the camera components could make the same argument. And so on.

The point is you can't force the pricing you want. Allow people to trade freely, and order emerges.
Absolutely. A modern quad core $100 processor doing 10 requests per second has about 1 billion clock cycles per request. You can easily lose a factor of 100 by using an interpreted language, another factor of 10 by using a bloated framework, and another factor of 10 by using a DB optimized for disk instead of one optimized for RAM.

Due to network overhead (in performance, but more importantly in complexity when programming and sysadmining) and the speed and size of modern hardware, for the vast majority of sites it makes much more sense to run on 1 powerful box than on 20 small boxes. And even if you do need to scale to multiple boxes eventually (which >99.9% of websites won't have to), managing 10 boxes instead of 200 has advantages too.
Asking to license photos for free is also a valid and common way to acquire licenses. This particular author is annoyed by such requests, because he wants to license the right to copy the result of his work for a fee. Other authors are okay with this, and some even explicitly allow such use (see Creative Commons licenses).

This has everything to do with the law, because if not for copyright laws, he wouldn't be able to demand payments for copying of his published photos.
> Taking good photographs is as hard as it always was.

Untrue. With digital, you can take 1,000 photos and chances are one will be fantastic. You can brute force brilliance. That wasn't true before digital.

Photos are simply recording something that exists. It's not creating art as such (IMHO). So unlike painting / writing books / writing code, you could just sit a monkey there with a good camera, variety of lenses, filters, etc and have him take a fantastic photo sooner or later.

Don't get me wrong, I love taking photos, and try to make my photos better each time, try to learn what settings, composure etc will make the best photo etc. But at the same time, pretty soon you'll have cameras that take a billion photos all at the same time with every available setting, then allow you to navigate through and select the best.
Taking photos then just comes down to judging what makes a good photo, which most people can do (And can also be automated by surveying people or doing A/B testing etc).

> 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.

If you kill me, it affects me. If you copy a photo of mine, I haven't lost anything. It's a bad analogy.
How do you handle the random WP plugn?
Exceptions are not a crash-or-nothing proposition. The idea is that the caller should handle them at the earliest point in the call-stack that can do something reasonable about the problem.

Also, let me clarify that I don't believe that exceptions should be used as the only way to return values from a method in languages that support them. They are simply a tool with certain properties (among them, the ability to be more difficult to ignore, the topic at hand).
Thanks for the links, I will check them out.
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Matt Cutts: Sharing a search story
Dispatching Software
Scheduling and Dispatching software from FieldPower automates the service operations of businesses. FieldPower's Scheduling and Dispatching software feature ensures your customer rep has a bird's eye view of the most efficient available time-slots to provide service.
we've had this conversation before:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2420648
Ohhh really?
I'd say it was more inefficiency than freeloading.
Another example of the remarkable prescience of Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash.
this is awesome! and it's applicable to almost every country! good job!
Thank you for a clear explanation of the same problems I had with Moglen's position, and an equally clear explanation of the problem I have with Stallman's positions on what I feel is his limited view of "freedom."

I've read many people, particularly on HN, say they are glad such extremes exist as a counter-balance. I disagree. I think that they muddy the discourse by presenting yet more things to argue with. I would rather see people advocating for privacy and software freedoms while advocating stances that I also think are reasonable and defensible. The difficulty with that, though, is that people who hold such views tend not to be professional advocates.
Another one:
"The police arrived at a party I was having at my house after they got a complaint about the noise and we paid them off to not file a case and let us continue the party. "
Actually, how hard would it be, really? All you'd need to do is create a central registry of content-owners and licensed content-users, build Shazam-like content-detection, then force everybody to operate on that infrastructure.

Please don't do that, but how hard would it be?
Market the problem, not the solution
Our VPS is on fire - we didn't expect this kind of traffic. However our app is on heroku and running fine : http://engine.theappifier.com
There is so much research available on how to make your employees work better, more efficient, how to make them happier, healthier, more productive, how to provide a positive team environment etc but still the majority of companies treat employees more like machines and by the rules of lowest-level production-line workers building Ford T model parts back in the beginning of the 20th century...
Feature request: easily filter by geography. As much as I would like to go, Tokyo and Amsterdam are out of driving distance for me. I can search, but then I lose the HN specific part, so I have to do more complex searches.

Otherwise, great tool. I hope it catches because I'm sure there are things going on around me I'm clueless about and would like to be more clueful.
I wasn't stating an opinion. I was stating the facts.

As technology has progressed, it has meant that instead of very few producers and millions of consumers of 'content', now everyone produces content. That means the value of 'content' has drastically reduced to the point that it's almost worthless for some areas.

This is progress, and you can't stop it.

Of course art is valuable, as it has always been. But as stated elsewhere, there are a billion pictures of a sunset online... supply far outstrips demand.

And yes, as a programmer, you can either work to keep your source code secret, or you can provide software as a service, charge for support, or any number of other monetization options. But you can't really sell open source software without some reason for people to buy it.
Looked amazing, so I signed up but was disappointed so see that the code editor was a huge letdown. I know you're in Beta, but the whole site appearance was shattered. If you're at this early stage of concept, I wouldn't even have enabled signing up.

http://i.imgur.com/U0Jde.png

Windows XP, Chrome 16.0.912.63

Edit: After I've waited a few mins, it seems the site has finished loading and seems "normal". Well then.
If anyone is interested - it's built with CoffeeScript, Backbone.js, Ender and GNU Make.
Actually you fix a creaky floor with a screw, not a nail. It creaks because somebody used a nail in the first place. Just sayin.
This ties back to why opponents of copyright as such call it "imaginary property:" there is nothing about the copy that makes it any worse than the original. We can't recognize a copy because then it isn't a copy, in the information theory sense.

Meanwhile, in the physical world, a knock-off handbag can be easily identified as such by airport personnel. This is the world these pro-PIPA politicians live in. Child porn, online as offline, is inherent in the work. You don't need supplementary information to decide if something is child porn. Online, the difference between a copy and the original is in some people's minds, not anchored in reality.
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Richs Foodservice is a food manufacturer with a product line ranging from toppings (pizza, desert and beverage), desert bars, bread (panini and flat etc) seafood and appetizers. They also offer menu solutions for schools and restaurants. They are the company from whom delis, restaurants, colleges and k-12 schools would purchase food from.
Great post! thx.
FWIW, we do not convert to FLV anymore for Facebook video.
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Skype does all those too.
Paperclips? I'd use actual papers, make it look like they spilled on the floor and you are picking them up.
I license photos for publication. One of the best photos in terms of revenue is of a sunset. The cost of licensing is not very high, and varies on publication type & volume.

This photo alone has paid for the camera I took the photo with & the location costs several times over now. It may well surprise you, but there is a huge market for sunset pictures, as well as other even more mundane everyday items and scenes.
Ask HN:  Help me shame a SOPA co-sponsor
My Senator is Michael Bennet, D-CO, and is a co-sponsor of SOPA.

His website is here: http://bennet.senate.gov/contact/

If you could contact him and tell him what a HORRIBLE idea this legislation is, maybe if enough folks bombard his website, he'll reconsider his position.

He's taken over $500K of contributions from TV, entertainment, and media companies so it's clear he's trying to butter their bread.<p>But make it seem like he's going to be riling up the electorate, and MAYBE he'll reconsider.

We might not get Lamar Smith to back down, but he'll lose some momentum if a major co-sponsor WITHDRAWS. Please help!!!
I wrote a response explaining why, if you know x then you must know y, but then I realized you were talking about knowing y and learning x. Yes, I agree. I'm not sure which context (knowing the actual size of the memory chunk, which is easy, or knowing the used size of the memory chunk, which is not easy) Zed was talking about.
> "large teams are likely to operate in environments where large teams are required due to bureaucratic overburden"

Exactly. A four-person team may be far more efficient on-task, but requirements-gathering and politicking at a large company could swamp them for months. There do exist problems so large that simply defining them exceeds the capability of a four-person team.

Furthermore, a small team's ability to bring in a project for less money ignores that time is a business-critical aspect of development. In many cases it is worth far more to a company to get a solution out the door in 12 months at greater expense than to wait for a more cost-efficient team to finish in, say, 24.

Lastly, I take issue with the entire idea of efficiency being definable as cost-per-line-of-code. If we as a profession are going to dismiss SLOC as a useful measure of productivity, we certainly can't turn around and allow it to be the basis for an efficiency argument.
Do you need a beefier VPS? I can have it deployed fairly quickly. LMK (not looking for compensation for this).
> The fact the comments here seem to lack the professional empathy to jump from "How do you make money? Charge for your webapp!" To "How do you make money? Charge for your photos!" really shows how myopic the community can be.

I will point out that there is a reason HN advocates making money by developing web apps over creating binaries that are posted online for all to copy, with a shareware note attached. We have the exact same problem with copying. We just have learned to deal with the problem as best we can. Is there really nothing photographers can do on their own to mitigate the problem?
How many have you read over, say, the last year?
We use http://www.tandberg.com/ and I find it incredibly good. I recommend you to go see a real demo, because you can't grasp the real feel by just looking at some pictures. It's quite expensive, but in my opinion it's worth every dollar.
Passing random garbage to a random function is not the same as passing random input to a program.

Take for example one of the most common bugs in C (even more common than not null terminating strings I'll say) passing already freed memory, are you going to argue that a function has a bug because it'll randomly give root access to outsiders because someone took it out of context and passed a stray pointer to it.

Calling a function that expects to get a null terminated string buggy because you passed a pascal string and it crashes seems weird at least. I'll call it potentially dangerous when misused (like most of C code anyway), but not buggy, since it's behaved as designed.

C is an unsafe language and yes, you can validate a lot of things, but at the end of the day it's still a unsafe language, the solution in my opinion is to advocate the use of safer languages and only use C for when it's strictly necessary.
Hm. "Don't know something" is not a rigourous state at all. Associations are how we know something; older students have more of them.

Unless they limit themselves to reflex action or some such, it becomes impossible to separate previous learning of anything complex.

I think I give researchers plenty of credit. But they don't often have the time/resources to have many/any controls. When a remarkable correlation appears (like 'students stop learning about when they leave school') I call foul.
Via natural selection caused by the physical properties of the universe, specifically that objects in an area retain their complexity and uniformity of physics in space where a looping feedback cycle that works in one area will work in another. molecular machines and humans, we are a strange loop.
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As far as signups are concerned, of the 10,000+ visitors we received, 3,000+ clicked through to the site, and 1,000+ signed up.

I wrote a little here, http://blog.idonethis.com/post/15619811026/write-your-own-st..., about how the traffic we got did much better than a traditional press announcement.
Ask HN: best eCommerce Platform
Hey Guys I could really use your expert opinion on choosing the right eCommerce platform for this project:

The client sells products in multiple countries, and ships from different countries, the tool needs to be able to be multistore and handle multiple languages (at first 3 but eventually up to 10) with ease. Right now I'm considering Magento, OpenCart, and Oxid.

What can you recommend me (or warn me against)?

Thanks in advance!

*added:

key issues are performance and scalability also we'll have to customize a lot (Ivisually and featurewise)so a nice codebase would be great (i.e. OOP, MVC, great modularity )
Google is now a graphing calculator.
Nice demo video, although I am not sold on the idea people want or need to consume blogs natively on their phones. But, hey, hat tip for testing the idea in real time :)
Great anecdote...I'm ashamed I didn't fit it in even though I read it recently. It's from his memoir, "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman"

http://goo.gl/KjW6V
For me, as has been mentioned before, the problem is not necessarily with the browser, but with the extraordinarily long support that Microsoft has with previous versions. Instead of just hacking for IE6, I have to accommodate for all of the versions that have a acceptable usage rate.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the direction, but IE has caused a lot of pain for a number of years, and I anticipate for a number of years still to come. No amount of PR is going to fix that IMHO
Instead of being confused by the different colored bars, it caught my interest because I didn't see any legend explaining it.

After about 15 seconds of studying it, I deduced that what it must mean because of the blue text color of "beginner / expert" at top and grey text color of "rarely / everyday" at the bottom - although those color clues could be a bit more pronounced. The top and bottom placement of the labels also helped.

Some might think it lacking usability; but after figuring it out, others might think "smart".
How do they get the crane off the roof of the building when its finished?
That's a nice trick.

During meditation retreats, I often fell asleep during the first morning sessions. My teacher said that this was ok, but gave me comparable tip if I wanted to stay awake: meditate standing, when falling asleep, your body will always wake up in moments to stay balanced.
we use fogbugz + gtalk + jaconda (like campfire) for casual chat + teamspeak for voice chat (or skype occasionaly). teamspeak works great because everybody can be connected and you can speak at anytime using a push-to-talk button or create rooms for meetings.
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Congratulations! I am sure its a proud moment after taking the big step in life :).

A nice concept as well (btw, the hackernews effect is slowing down/timing out your site).

On a tangential note (maybe), are you also liking running the startup (a company)? I am sure developing the product would have been an awesome experience, but when it comes to manage and run the company it calls for something else. How are you liking that?
The easiest of which is simply to not aggressively share knowledge.

When you're stack ranked against your peers, I wonder if people ask themselves, "why should I help you, when all I'm doing is making it harder for myself to get a bonus next year"?. I don't indulge in such behaviour, but I've wondered if others have thought and acted upon it.
You have to put up a blog post on this...
Wow! 10,000 WHOLE people? I can barely imagine the utter joy!

Stop thinking about sucking up to people who are doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING AS YOU.
I can't even get on the site.
great idea! who do you think the target market is for this? developers that create corporate websites?