skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That seems unlikely. It is kinda hard to know what people have put in your cigarets. It is easy to know what they show you on a screen.
They should make it go dark in Washington only, these companies are good in targeted 'advertisement' anyway.
I wonder how the government would react on a blackout targeted only at them
This is a really interesting case about how we need to confront the issue of rights when something is made public. It seems a little ludicrous to suggest that something like the Eiffel tower lights display is copyright, when it is obviously put on for the public purpose of having millions of people see it.

On the other hand, it seems ludicrous to demand that because someone puts a picture on their web page, it is now public in the same way, and that the creator should not be able to control the market for it.

I do think it is worth thinking about the idea that there is a threshold of publicness after which point a work ought to become subject to mandatory licensing. The intuition is that if a work is kept sufficiently private, it is not involved in a substitutable market for similar items. If it is made sufficiently public, then it is competing in a market for other substitutable creative goods of the same sort. Another intuition is that there's a threshold of publicness after which it becomes fair to assume that the rightsholder is interested in wide distribution more than controlling use, or that after a certain threshold of publicness, a creative product has been introduced into the public sphere as a cultural artifact that others ought to be able to use freely.

Right now all we have is a binary move from rightsholder-retains-complete-rights to public domain, which has led to the craziness of current copyright law. If we had some intermediate stages of publicness and the rights split between creator and public, perhaps we could come up with something more sensible.
That's how copyright used to work, but they got rid of that after the Berne convention. Also, Google has some very fancy tech; it's not something just anybody could make work. And even they don't have it working all that great.

And then there's the matter of who has to bear the cost of creating and placing the filters, sites outside our jurisdiction that don't bother with those expensive filters, etc. You end up hobbling the US tech industry for no reason, putting everyone at a competitive disadvantage.
Photographers don't sell copies of the photograph to the general public. I don't think most photographers are actively trying to fight, say, you printing out the photo and hanging it up on your wall.

The original blog post was about licensing works - major magazines and publications wanting to use the photo. This is entirely enforceable - these magazines and publications are headed by companies that one can actually discover and sue.

The "right to charge" is alive and well, in the same way the GPL is enforceable.
Then again, maybe it's you.
Initially, I would be attending a regional extension of a well-respected accredited university.

Regarding the anxiety, even after I had my UC under control, anxiety and worry were still a huge problem in my life. I think this was because, even when I was in elementary school, I would worry and have panic attacks just thinking about the possibility of having a flare-up. I really can't underscore enough how this way of thinking dominated my life up until a couple years ago. Realistically, I believe that the toll this disease took on me was more damaging psychologically than physically because of the limits I placed on myself out of fear.
> "All of the professional fotogs I know are paid not for photos the have taken, but for photos people would like them to take"

You don't know any stock photogs?
Yes it's ironic that the Eiffel Tower has copyrighted it's nighttime light display.

I don't think that any physical 3D object (ie: buildings) should be copyrightable, even statues or art displays. The fact that the Eiffel Tower, Sears Tower, and Empire State Building are iconic (and beautiful works of art themselves even) should not be enough to grant copyright.
Back button worked for me. What browser are you using?
No need to compete for No 1 in the US, Apple has left plenty of room for a No 2 competitor to be dominant in pretty much all other markets outside of a select few. As long as Samsung sticks to hardware and works well with google's android os, they should be sitting pretty for quite awhile.
SOPA & PIPA Would Make DNSSEC Useless
I love the idea. I can't play now cause I'm at work but I will ASAP.
If properly commented, why would that make you sad?

I think this story is relevant: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&s...

Think of all of the time software wastes in people's lives by being bloated and inefficient.

In Java, for example, the default HashMap implementation [0] uses a while loop to compute the capacity of the array it will use as storage. Using the next highest power of two algorithm in the page listed is faster than this loop. Imagine if every JVM was microseconds faster every time a HashMap was allocated or resized. On one server, computer, or phone it's meaningless. On hundreds of millions of phones phones, PCs, and servers that adds up to meaningful amounts of time and energy.

[0] http://www.docjar.com/html/api/java/util/HashMap.java.html
Why shouldn’t the first photographer have a “sense of entitlement”? He’s entitled! He has the right to set prices for his work, and the rest of us have the right to pay, negotiate a better price, or walk away from the deal.

But going up to someone and saying “you should give this away” is not negotiating for a better price; it’s practically an insult. It’s like walking into a car dealership, seeing that the sticker price is $10,000, and telling the salespeople that they really should let it go for $3,000.

Also note the difference between “I want to give my work away” and “you ought to give your work away”.
Google’s new social search: How far can you trust it?
Does the iPhone not open Google Plus posts in the Google Plus app? Or do you not have it installed? The reason your experience is awful is because Google doesn't care to make the G+ mobile web experience perfect since their app is the way to go.

On Android, when I click one of these links it opens the app and the reading experience is very pleasant. Maybe I've just been spoiled, but I find the experience to be pretty good.

Edit: Also, I think it's kind of silly that you wish people would stop publicly posting on Google Plus due to your phone experience being subpar. I think the problem lies much more with you and your phone than it does with Google Plus as a writing platform.
I can corroborate this. I had a newer 3,000 RMB per month apartment in Beijing. So many things we take for granted (hot water anywhere other than the shower, plumbing being inside the wall instead of running along the baseboard, carpeting or tile in the hallway) just aren't there.

When you're in China, you'll see rows of constructions cranes --there's an incredible building boom. I don't know the details of the construction labour market, but I can only imagine that there's a real skilled labour crunch. (There's lots of workers, but not so many skilled ones.) So the building will go up quickly, but it won't compare to a western building.

That said, the buildings aren't all that bad compared to recent history. In the 2008 earthquake, the more modern buildings survived much better--it was the 60's cultural-revolution-era buildings that were death-traps.
I do not think college will help you. Put the effort into teaching yourself C/C++, PHP, and Python. You can get the books you would have to read while in school anyway.

Then, build a resume of products you have developed. If you have been able to make some cool ones on the side, go with those. If you have an idea for a bigger one, but do not have the time, then maybe live off those 2-3 years of savings for half a year and work on the project full-time. You will learn a ton working on the project, you might make a viable business, and you will add to your resume for getting a job.

Best of luck
Some financial services have already moved to the cloud, NASDAQ uses Amazon S3 for at least one product (NASDAQ Market Replay) and have done since 2008.

When it comes to banking the picture is a bit different. I know at least one small provider of banking middle office solutions, Five Degrees (www.fivedegrees.nl), is working on using the Azure service for some services.

Interesting times. As an IT developer in the financial industry, I try to follow this closely.
> You're certainly making a valid point; however, as far as how important this is, the experience of a lot of people out there points in the other direction.

That's because I'm talking about C++ and you've somehow decided to talk about something unrelated. Python and Java programmers still care about all resources that aren't object lifetimes.
Just use the damn macro, evil or not. I'm pretty sure they're not evil. [1]

[1] http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/inline.html#fqa-9.5
Look at it this way. Either they do a blackout and (probably) save their entire company, or don't and lose everything.

While I'm not a businessman, I'd rather take the chance of making everyone use Bing/DuckDuckGo/Yahoo/Whatever for a day rather than risk losing my entire companies main product(s).
I don't think the secrecy of the manufacturing formula was a big factor in the tobacco judgements. Everyone knew cigarettes had tobacco, flavorings, and preservatives, and delivered a bunch of nicotine/tar/smoke to the lungs.

You can see what's on the screen in Farmville, but do the players understand the effects of periodicity and random reinforcement on the dopaminergic motivational system? The power of well-crafted images and sounds or emotionally manipulative language? Viral loops?

We in the industry know these things; for a layperson it's as obscure as the chemistry of physical addiction.
USPS memo highlights privacy violations
14nm in two years? Whoa. That's going to be huge for the server market.

Imagine 24 cores per chip with the same power draw as they have today for six cores.
Why drinking blocks up your nose and makes you snore
Beware if you add yourself to this list, your phone will go crazy with google+ notifications while it processes all the people following you
Ok, cool, I should have looked it up, but the sentence in the article was "Except for Qualcomm, which makes its own ARM-compatible cores, every other ARM chip on the market uses reference CPU cores", which I didn't think was true (and I don't think 'compatible' is the right word for Qualcomm, probably 'extended' ?).

Also, he talks about this future 22nm process from intel for 2013, as though the other fabs are going to sit at 28nm forever (even though Intel is also currently at 28nm).

It just seems like a poorly written article, or someone who copied a little too much from Intel's PR.
> "Because when you don't, it will spread, people will enjoy it, your reputation will go up, and you will end up making money from it either way."

This is actually precisely the point the original blog post was arguing against. Do you know how many times professional creatives hear that argument?

"You should do this for free, because it'll offer exposure and reputation."

Except, 99% of the time, the people saying this are unable any real exposure, or the level of exposure they control is considerably less than your position in the industry. It's such a landslide that the whole argument - while theoretically valid - just becomes a farce upon itself. Can you imagine a small-town paper asking to use Anni Leibovitz's work because it'll give her "exposure"?

If Vogue UK called me today and wanted me to work for them for free I'd jump on a plane this afternoon. Hell, if a local, well-known fashion boutique wanted free work, I'd jump too. But, for most professional photogs, the people approaching them for free work are not handing out a fair deal, and the "exposure" argument is bogus.

Not to mention, all of the pro photogs I know do hand out considerable amounts of work for free. They do already build their own exposure and reputation, so unless you are extraordinarily influential, why would they offer free work to you?
And don't forget that if you want to keep the circle to sort later, but don't want it in your main stream, you can dial down the weight of posts from it (or remove them completely) on the circle's stream.
>It's kind of a tragedy of the commons...

Kind of, but not really. By talented individuals charging less-nothing for some of their photos (likely already taken photos) instead of consuming and annihilating the shared resource of "money available to be spent on photography" they just move that around. This "don't give your photo away, or charge lower prices" argument is the same as all of the other NO!SPEC, anti-open-source/public domain/CC arguments, in that it's a bad argument.

Free and open source software is pretty well understood. For example, by having all of these quality web browsers for free, it allows a larger market for more companies to make more money selling their wares and services online. I believe the original argument against free browsers was something like, "free web browsers will cost jobs and lower the quality of the browser."

Whenever I read the articles or come across an individual that trashes students and amateurs for giving their work away I think a few things.

- Does this person really not understand that by Timmy the undergrad giving the bake sale a good, but not astounding, photo of a cupcake that it frees them, the professional, up to take photos of tiger sharks?

- Is this person actually just incapable of competing on quality or subject matter with amateurs and therefor unable to differentiate themselves?
Annoying hideaway thing = site preview I believe, that pops out when you hover over the right edge of the search result. I find it incredibly annoying.
This is completely broken in firefox. The slides all load on one page and nothing else happens. It works in chrome though.
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Employee Evaluations – Don’t Forget the Data
Using google to fill in gaps in your knowledge is not "replacing common sense"--doing so is USING common sense. Lets remove the straw man who visits the hospital and calls 911 for all possible emergencies from the argument. Learning that a numb right arm is a heart attack symptom changes the picture, and for better or worse, google is the main spicket for knowledge these days.

Fault is irrelevant once the dependence is there. If you're at google, flipping a switch, just like our dependence on power, could cost lives, and if you care about human life, you have to think about it before you do it regardless of whether would say it is your "fault."

I am about as anti-sopa as they come, so I'd personally like to see a gigantic message, and see them name names and explain what services won't exist if this passes.
Completely off-topic, but in all areas I'm aware of you are breaking the law if you ride your bike while intoxicated.
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The Fallacy of Long-Term Economic Growth (The Faustian Bargain)
Is it possible to make a living as a stock photographer these days? I’m curious how people manage that.
I wonder if social gaming will kill casinos and slot machines? If so, I might think it's a little less evil.
The author seems to say that has a detection rate of 60%.
Android 2.3.6 Update a few weeks ago

While there have been incremental updates to the major Android releases and my post may have not reflected them, the point I was getting at is that we are on Android 4, Honeycomb (Android 3) has been out for a while and the only effort to move that tablet over to it is via the home-brew market. Honeycomb is the first OS designed for tablets and yet the original 7 has not seen it. There are no technical limitations to the 7 that would preclude it from receiving the much needed Honeycomb update, but it has not seen it. Nor do I believe that it will see it. Further, there was just a big media blow up about the fact that the existing Samsung phone that is very similar to the Google sanctioned phone in specs, will not receive the Ice Cream Sandwich update. I am sorry but for me personally the 7 just now getting updated to 2.3.6 is a little to late. I bough one, and learned my lesson, If I had known that the end of life would have been in the 2.x branch of Android, I would have made a different purchasing decision. I expect my devices to become obsolete due to hardware limitations, with the device no longer being able to support the current OS and not by arbitrary limitations placed on it by a vendor. It's Samsung's prerogative if they want to handle their affairs in such a manner, but for me personal that is not the kind of vendor I want for my equipment. I like Android and have been contemplating a switch from my iPhone, but until I can find a vendor that will supply recent OS advancements, until my hardware is obsolete, I am forced to stick with Apple who has done a pretty good job of it. My 3GS still runs the most current OS sans Siri, which is due to hardware limitations.
There's nothing exclusive about the Moto deal; I'm not sure what you're saying there.

IMO Atom is radically different from Intel's previous designs — radically worse, that is. But it sure is cheap.
Who's to say he hasn't already paid his dues?

I'm saying it's not about paying dues. I'm saying dues-paying is exactly the wrong attitude. I'm not writing for free out of some sense of obligation to the field. I'm doing it because that's the only way I can think of to build enough credibility to be able to charge for my productive capacity in the future.

...and he's now at the phase where he's monetizing his skill set by selling good photos.

My argument is that selling copies is not a great way to monetize that skill-set that he's built. It might work for a few people, but I think market dynamics are such that that's not going to be viable for many people for very long.

If some website asks you to write full-time but they can't pay you anything other than exposure, are you going to take it?

That's not the analogous situation. A closer one is: if a website asks to use a copy of one of my posts, paying only in exposure, would I take it? The answer is yes, I already do that. I could ask them to pay me for work I've already done, but it's a hard thing to ask, when people can get the same thing for free elsewhere.

He has a picture, apparently companies _want_ this picture

Yes. They want it for free, despite their large ad and marketing budgets. Money is always an issue. What makes you say "it shouldn't be an issue"?

He can't work for free, and since he took it and owns the rights to it he should be able to tell those companies to piss off. If there is a demand for his photo to be used then he should get paid.

You're right that he should be able to tell people to piss off if he wants to. He can try to charge a billion dollars per photo if he wants. I'm not saying he shouldn't, I don't think anyone is. I'm saying it's not going to work. I'm saying it's not a viable strategy for photographers at large for the foreseeable future. You're crazy if you think the companies that are asking for the photo for free are going to read this blog post and realize the error of their ways.
It would be interesting to see if this effects the success of the site. Despite its failing people are really comfortable with google maps.
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I think Google must have something to filter out any kind of mostly exposed-skin in static images in order to do its safesearch filter, no?

As for telling which is child porn and which isn't...given the ways that people usually distribute this material (not through public webpages), it's doubtful that Google really ahs to do that much proactive monitoring of it to keep it out of the usual Google-pointed-to places
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> Our diversity may not be statistically identical to the general US population...

I think you've got an American bias there. :-)

I'm joking.
You can turn off notifications when people add you to circles here: https://www.google.com/settings/plus
Also: This sentiment that women should be interested in programming jobs, but aren't because they've been damaged by the patriarchy in some way, and now it's up to (predominantly) men to fix this for them - strikes me as a bit sexist.

We could potentially take the Avatar/Dances With Wolves approach. A really awesome superstar male programmer could start dressing in drag and lead female programmers to victory. Or at least 50% representation.
Googling "Where to call in a gas leak" is almost certainly not common sense.

Similarly, the time spent looking up how to do CPR would be better spent calling emergency services so that they head out as soon as possible. Emergency dispatchers can talk you through CPR while you wait for them to arrive.

You see, the thing about CPR is that it's not really meant to revive somebody. It's meant to keep oxygen in their brain until something can actually be done. Delaying the call for help so that you can learn all of this on Google is the worst thing that you could do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slacktivism
I went to a Purdue extension campus, worked out great and was extremely affordable.
If we put on our blinders and ignore the larger issue, asking an artist for free stuff is rather condescending. As Mueller says, why should magazines, advertisers, websites or corporations expect or ask for free work? (Let's not pretend it's anything other than this) If the artist didn't already put it on a Creative Commens license or similar (or has indicated that he is willing to give non-commercial licenses to people who ask), then flat out asking artists for free stuff to further your own company is tantamount to asking for a free lunch.

In this narrow sense, Tristan's "giving things away for free makes me and people all over the world happy" post is not an argument against that either. It's just a feel-good argument for using a CC-type license in the first place, which was never the issue.
>>> from __future__ import braces
File "<stdin>", line 1
SyntaxError: not a chance
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Protip: hovering over the link will display the full URL in the status bar. You should really spend more than a few milliseconds before deciding to get excited about something.

The Public Suffix List (publicsuffix.org) might be useful for this, although I doubt plus.google.com is listed in there (no same-origin security considerations). It's still the only systematic approach I know of that even remotely addresses the problem you're describing.