skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i know that revostock also has stock footage and templates.

audiojungle is good for background music. A tad pricy, but not too bad considering the quality. (tim mcmorris in particular has an incredible list of upbeat tracks that work well for corporate presentations, app demos, etc. )

http://www.revostock.com/

http://audiojungle.net

http://audiojungle.net/user/timmcmorris/portfolio

One other quick tip if you are just starting out in this. Put your script together first. Have the voice over work completed until you are happy, then tweak the video templates to match the voice over work.

If you try it in reverse order it will end in frustration and a much lower quality product.
And I suppose charging for a concert makes them a filthy businessman as well. Should I get to choose whether or not I must pay to see them play live?
Alright guys.. i'll admit, i dont get the joke. can any one explain? What's happening on that site and why do i see xml? (yes, i am still learning new stuff, like everyone else)
And it just started, so it's not too late to join in.
Please indicate whether you take some kind of ADHD medication as I think this greatly impacts sleep schedules.
I agree with you. The problem is staying on a 24-hour cycle with biphasic sleep; I simply cannot do it. 4 hours of sleep gets me about 12 hours of productivity before I am tired again. This puts me on a 32 hour cycle, which is largely incompatible with real life.
That's great, but where can I go to get Cassandra as a service?

And since we're talking about data I care about, it has to be from a company that I can be confident will be around in a year's time, and not the victim of another acquhire shutdown.

I'm sure there are many people like me who are willing to forego a product that may be technically more sophisticated or even straight-out superior if I don't have to worry about provisioning servers & doing sysadmin work.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/NOTE-SOAP-20000508/
http://www.infoq.com/articles/rest-soap-when-to-use-each
I have vivid nightmares if I do this. (Not that this is a bad thing. It's nice to wake up and realize that you did not, in fact, just run over 30 people with your car and engage in a high-speed police chase.)
Can you explain your use case a bit more? I'm having a hard time imagining something that does ~430M DB writes/day but can't easily afford to pay $120 for those writes.
What would the business model be in this case?
WSJ comes out for SOPA
I was getting around 4 hours sleep per night until I made a change and stopped taking my laptop to bed! Instead I make sure I leave it out of my bedroom and read a book to wind down for 30-45 mins before sleeping. This has drastically improved my sleeping patterns.

As much as I thought spending an hour or 2 reading online before sleep would be ok, it'd send me into a cycle and I simply didn't sleep at all.
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http://www.smbc-comics.com/ is also completely blacked out.
I wish they had followed through strongly on this. There's a hard-to-miss link that lets you opt-out of having your photos censored, and if you're visiting a blacked-out photo flickr gives the anti-PIPA spiel and presents a button to "show it anyway." If they were trying to demonstrate what SOPA/PIPA would make the internet like, shouldn't they just bite the bullet and make these photo black-outs permanent for a day? The idea is great but its implementation is pretty weak, it won't actually get people worked up.
In addition, it has no performance on all the devices that don't support ActionScript at all (iDevices and most Android devices) or where it is abandonware (a few Androids).
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Interesting, though I wish he had cited sources for his data. Also be sure to note that the vertical axis is a log scale, and that a more complete version of the chart is at the very bottom of the post.

I'd be interested to see the historical sales figures on the server side as well, given the oft-cited dominance of Linux in server environments.
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Now, if only they improved the language next...
Unfortunately, this site has gone dark for the day due to the SOPA protest. Will have to check this out once it comes back up.
Oh, i see, so it is some kind of communication protocol. But i am surprised i never heard of it even thought i have been writing/learning code for a few years now.
Seems to me the upward trending platforms are all qualitatively different from the crashed ones in that they're not crystallized the way those earlier, more console-type ones were. So this visualization doesn't seem particularly illuminating to me.
Ah - that is a fair point, transparency of the "unit". The "box usage" formula was reverse-engineered and shown to be fairly simple:
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-06-25-dissecting-simple...

This is a big step forward in transparency, although I would suggest that SimpleDB's pricing shouldn't have been obscured in the first place.
Wait, having the LAW work for only lobbied interest isn't an abuse of pOWER?!
Of course it does. It's a Murdoch paper, and Murdoch is a fascist. All Murdoch's outlets operate as a kind of Pravda for American neo-fascism.

(I am not using the term fascism hyperbolically. Murdoch is, I think, properly classifiable as an authoritarian collectivist -- a fascist.)
Oh, so now Adobe cares about performance.
But the point, I believe, is that the concept of breaching the GPL is nonsensical if you do not respect the GPL or the copyright law on which it rests. Whether if you share something against its creator's will, or if you refuse to share something against its creator's will, in both cases you are ignoring the creator's wishes and violating copyright law.
I think its interesting how mixed the response is. I'm rather indifferent on timeline, but I've talked to designer/UI/UX people who both love it and hate it, for various reasons. Apparently different people like different things.
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The strictness in generating valid json is exactly why i like it so much. I've worked with too many SOAP services with nodes and attributes thrown lazily around the document simply because xml is so unstructured. I do agree however that json could use a few more built-in data types to handle more complex use cases.
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I haven't heard of this before. But I'll be checking it out. Thanks for the info.
That's why I think that the no-copyright movement is unfortunatelly partly an anti-intellectual, populist, 'anti-civilisational', (ok, maybe anti elitist too) movement

When combined with a pro-capitalism platform, you might be right. If writers need copyright to be able to eat and pay rent, then you are right.

But anti-copyright, combined with an anti-property ("anarchist") platform isn't necessarily anti-civilisation, or anti-intellectual. Other structures, like syndicates, architecture, designed artifacts, and other forms of culture, can provide "civilisation".

In such a society, writers (and everyone else) would be born with the right to a fair share of the living space and food around them. They would be expected to contribute a fair share. As they got better at writing, people might start to agree that their time was better spent writing than in the fields, and would petition their work syndicate to post them as a writer.

(Of course, this is anarchism, so they could just go write the books anyway, they would just lose social standing if people felt they weren't contributing their fair share.)

You might say that creators wouldn't create if there wasn't a carrot of Wealth dangling out in front of them somewhere.

We can debate that point. I'm interested to hear your thoughts. But in my experience the great creators of culture who I know well do it despite the monetary consequences, not because of them. They write themselves into poverty... orchestrate music into the middle class... paint on a teacher's salary.

And yeah, some of them become insanely wealthy. But I don't think the majority of them do it for the wealth. If they do, that would be very stupid, no matter what system you're in.

Give everyone the basic necessities in fair trade for contributing to the syndicates that make their food, housing, and health possible, and I think you'd see an explosion in creativity, not the opposite.
The new timeline is why I quit FaceBook in December.

It creates a badly jumbled view of the information I was really hoping to see -- what's going on with me and my friends? I can handle a straight chronological list very easily.

This is an interesting answer to the question 'why didn't they stick with the simplest approach?'
The problem I have with Timeline is the awful way that it organizes posts. The two column format is awkward and it makes it hard to search or even casually read posts as you scroll down, because your eyes are darting between the two columns rather than one. The grouping is pretty crap, too.
…most media will start to look a lot more like youtube and less like hollywood.

The difference between youtube and Hollywood is such a chasm only because of IP laws. Hollywood is a superstar market. It's filled with aspiring artists waiting tables because the barrier to entry has been artificially inflated.

Hollywood hates innovation. Transformers 3 could be funded in a myriad of ways that have never been attempted. But because they'd rather lock down IP laws, the entire economy suffers.

A world without IP protection is not a world in which there is no money to be made; It's a world in which new business models need to be innovated.
Jeff, if I read you correctly, you think turning on brain system 1 and brain system 2 to insert advertising constitutes a grey or dark pattern [1]?

[1] http://wiki.darkpatterns.org/Home
It's a marketing strategy commonly known in the industry as "windowing." The purpose of windowing a movie is primarily to avoid two-way cannibalization: of box office receipts by DVD purchases, and vice versa.

In this way, studios have been able to monetize the same customer base twice for the same product -- once at the theaters, and once on home video. Say what you will about the morality of the business practice, but there's nothing inherently illegal or unethical about it. Almost all consumer products companies rely on similar strategies for marketing their goods.

As a consumer, I have the freedom to choose not to buy into the scheme. If I'm interested in seeing a movie, I can choose to watch it in theaters and be done with it. I can choose to watch it on Netflix and be done with it. I can choose to buy it on Blu-ray if I absolutely love it, and plan on rewatching it a million times in high-def. I can do any or all of those things.

As an entertainment industry professional, I do grow tired of the windowing system. It's a relic of an increasingly distant era -- one in which instant distribution across multiple channels was not possible, and in which real scarcity existed (and artificial scarcity did not need to be maintained to preserve the illusion of such). That said, I do understand the business rationale behind it.

Ultimately, the free market will determine the fate of the windowing system. And if recent years have given us any indication, it's that cannibalization is happening. The window system is on shaky ground. People are avoiding theaters as ticket prices rise at higher-than-inflation rates, and as home video setups become increasingly capable of providing a cinema-quality experience for less and less money. (And then there's piracy, which is a different issue altogether, but which hasn't actually put much of a dent in the studios' bottom lines to date. IMO, the jury is still out, but the threat is massively overblown).

As for why there's a six-month gap in between the theatrical closure and the home video release, that's almost entirely to create artificial scarcity and reignite interest in the product. With today's technology, there is absolutely no reason why a studio couldn't release a film on home video (or digitally) the day after the movie leaves theaters. (Or even on the same day it hits theaters).

Finally: we should note that theaters and studios are two entirely different entities, and legally, they cannot be owned in the US by the same parent companies. So theater owners have a strong vested interested in the windowing system. It is their lifeblood right now. Studios love double-dipping the same customers, but they could still survive without windowing.
It would also be interesting to see figures for the number of machines in use by OS, instead of just sales by year. People replace their phones much more frequently than they do their PCs, but that doesn't mean they don't want their PCs or think that they can replace them with Android/iOS devices...
How Internet looked like during SOPA Protest
Actually alot of your really large codebases are internal facing projects. Like airline management systems or hotel inventory and allotment systems. They are generally found where there are deep technical problems and usually require complex workflows to manage. Complex workflows are where you will see a lot of JavaScript utilized. In the consumer web space, generally we try to simply interfaces and reduce the complex nature of tasks. In the corporate world, generally the user will be skilled in the complexities of a UI designed for power users. It is the reason that in some organizations the console or green screen apps still exist. For certain tasks once trained, keyboard based navigation console systems are optimal and save organizations 100's of millions of dollars.
50 apps in 50 weeks.
While that may be true, I was thinking it was more due to their obligation to their shareholders.
If it is their New Coke, then what you mean is they can roll it back to something exactly the same, and then have conspiracy nuts repeat nonsense claims that it is different now. New Coke was not a way to distract people while they changed the recipe of classic, classic didn't change.
Hence the next sentence:

"Since then, we've heard legitimate concerns about the impact the bill could have on access to the Internet and about a potentially unreasonable expansion of the federal government's power to impact the Internet. Congress should listen and avoid rushing through a bill that could have many unintended consequences."
I have a four month old baby. I'm lucky if I get five hours.
Facebook official page against SOPA/PIPA
It is worth noting that every change Facebook has ever made has been deemed awful by a significant number of people. I'm not certain Facebook, or anyone for that matter, could make an update that satisfies everyone.
SOAP is a specification for exposing remote procedure calls via a web service. The client executes a SOAP request by making an HTTP Post request against a URL with an XML request body that specifies what remote procedure to call and what parameters to pass into it. The service, in turn, sends an HTTP response with an XML body that contains the return value from the procedure call.

SOAP services also usually include a WSDL, which is alternately said to stand for Web Service Definition List, Web Service Definition Language, or Web Service Description Language and is meant to define the methods and parameters available to the client.

Because the whole system is so complicated, cumbersome and over-engineered, the normal way to create a WSDL is to do it automatically using tooling. Unfortunately, different frameworks generate different and often mutually incompatible and non-interoperable WSDLs. So, for example, a .NET SOAP client might not be able to consume a WSDL generated by a Java framework.

The S in SOAP originally stood for "Simple", but the protocol is anything but.
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- Do you sleep continuously, or are you on a polyphasic sleep schedule?

I tried a polyphasic sleep schedule. And failed.

- How does your sleep schedule affect your work and the rest of your life?

Not that I can tell.

- Does the work you do affect your sleep?

No.
Thanks for sharing this experience. It reminds that many of us far too often overestimate our abilities to ‘read’ our bodies. Being aware of a problem when it affects the brain is the trickiest part. Good that you've noticed it in time.
It clearly seems one party in the USA is advocating for regulatory cleansing. As you stated, lack of regulations and corruption are often found in the same place, one can see WHY regulation is needed, now more than ever, as this world becomes more complex, populated, polluted, and markets game-able.
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http://careers.sh

My weekend project - I put together a small, straightforward site for browsing developer job sites.

Any feedback would be appreciated; I'm trying to keep this short and simple. The last thing I want to do is end up turning this into yet-another-aggregator.
> If I write something, I control what is done with it.

You're a good writer, both in the technical and moral sense; and I respect your experience, ability, and goals. However, there is no creation ex nihilo. I can't remember who said this, so I use it without attribution: would the world of music be richer today if, in 1900, one could copyright a bassline?
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Of course not, that requires their physical presence and physical distribution. Very different.
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Oh, irony..
Part of me hopes that your vision becomes reality and all financially backed art falls apart.. just so you, ThomPete, can live in a world that shitty and know that this is what you wanted. Enjoy your cat videos.
I'm guessing Mike Butcher isn't French, and isn't familiar with French laws. Europe isn't entirely innocent with respect to the web either. The mocking is entirely unwarranted.

This line in particular shows how naive, or immature, Butcher is: "We can start developing an internet outside of North America. Yay!"

And Butcher is dreaming if he thinks everyone will move to Europe if SOPA/PIPA does what he says (or hopes?) it will do. Businesses won't move where internet access is a human right. They'll move to where it's cheapest to do business, and Europe is not even close to being cheapest.
When Amazon notes "SSD," from a client's perspective, it is only marketing. The storage media matter when you are managing your own hardware. The storage media do not matter in SaaS. For example, the storage media could be floppys and you would get satisfactory performance if there was a memory cache. Similarly you could get poor performance with SSD media if the networking layer(s) were slow. Similarly if the storage media were fault-likely CD's that wouldn't matter either, to us, because of the data replication performed in "the service." What matters in this case is the reported and actual latency.
Can't be certain, but I know that from a subjective perspective my brain feels the same way browsing timeline as it does when I'm doing math or reasoning intently. The experience of cognitive strain is present in both cases.

One example in the book is that even hard to read fonts can cause cognitive strain and make you judge the content of the text differently. I see that as being largely analogous.
What do you think about, for example, Creative Commons attribution licenses? Is it just for creators of informational works to allow the public to redistribute them only if they receive attribution for their work? Or is making any demands whatsoever with respect to redistribution not a right that the creator should have?
From ads to creative to copy to product: be ACTIONABLE and be DIFFERENT.
So the hen should control what the cow does with any bread the hen chooses to give the cow?
Same 4-6 hrs sleep pattern here, and recently I too have suddenly started to forget simple things like how words I use every day are spelled.

Yet I can't seem to be able to consistently force myself to be in bed early enough.
Congressman Lee Terry is removing his name from SOPA today
Completely disagree. Although traditional web forms are fine, I've worked in a staffer's office and I know that faxes are always reviewed. Receiving a large number of faxes is more likely to indicate a groundswell of opposition than a web form.

It's free and provides tangible/tactile evidence of opposition. I'm faxing my reps now.
Allow me to clarify--thank you for your feedback.

The rights we're talking about here are not able to be compared to physical property rights because there is no mutual exclusion of access.

If somebody steals my physical property, I can't use it, therefore they've harmed me and limited my actions. For knowledge, IP, etc. they cannot limit my access or permission, so I do not need to be put up guards.

My core argument, I guess, is this: There is no reason to have copyright because it is effectively unenforcable and because it has no real-world grounding. Moreover, it props up an economic model that fails in exposure to modern distribution methods.
I meant to respond sooner. I think you are correct that Fair Use originally developed through case law, (owing to the First Amendment). It was later codified. The First Amendment is part of the Constitution, and take precedence over the Articles, thus Fair Use is necessary to reconcile copyright with the First Amendment (Which is part of the Constitution).
Downloading a CD might land you in jail and will saddle you with serious punitive damages, but stealing hundreds of thousands of voice mails while working at a newspaper is apparently OK!
An Updated Analysis: Why SOPA & PIPA Are A Bad Idea, Dangerous & Unnecessary
I remember when one of the pro-SOPA speakers countered an argument against the feasibility of this legislation with "Google's got the technology."
http://boardgamegeek.com/

Various webcomics:

http://www.polyinpictures.com/

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php

http://dresdencodak.com/

http://basicinstructions.net/
Very interesting. I know what I'll be doing with my afternoon.

I lacked this language, but yes I think that's a fair reading of my position.

There's a broader argument that facebook really is providing a valuable service to us by making us aware of products and services that really will make our lives better. I'm unmoved by that claim, as I suspect most of us are.
Forget SOPA, Hollywood Already Had a Field Day with the Justice System
Perhaps they're running out of ways to innovate and worthwhile things to do? Facebook, in its core is a very simple product. Most of the work I imagine is in making sure the servers don't crash. Sure everyone and their mom uses it, and it sounds sexy to work there, but actual work you do? Doesn't sound that complicated, cutting-edge or innovative. It's not like they're doing genetic engineering, or self driving cars.
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Well, some people use stuff like these http://mashable.com/2010/12/01/improve-hacker-news-ui/ or these http://talkfast.org/2010/07/23/a-cure-for-hacker-news-overlo...
Where to move post SOPA?
Assuming that SOPA goes through with no/minimal changes, what would be the best country to move to in order to continue working in internet startups?
I have to disagree. Going through a photo gallery is far more emotional and personal than browsing a two column grid.
Probably Thursday.
The real question is, are you OK with your "friends" going through your profile and doing the same thing?
Buy an iPhone.

Joking. But the Timeline view in the iOS app places all items in a single column.

That said, Facebook has basically become a place where I sync my tweets and other services like Instagram so that people that I know who don't use Twitter yet can see them.
Do you even know how much great great great music gets created without ever making a single dime.
Someone writes music and sells it to someone who wants to play it.

Or maybe someone wants to make a film, so she hires a music writer for the score.