skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read this: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/2012/01/21/megaupload/
Checked a few games for which I know what the keywords are.

I would not say it is completely of the mark, for all games it guessed 1-2 keywords correctly (out of 10-15 it suggested). Long way to go.
They dont need to. they would almost certainly like to.

Every day people spent time and money on things that the market doesn't want to pay for.

That is their lookout.
Did some more looking into it.

Turns out that before the Stored Communications Act, the existing law gave people essentially zero right to privacy with respect to electronic communications that were stored by a third party. The pre-existing law was basically just the 4th amendment, and traditionally you relinquish your 4th amendment protections for any documents that you give away.

What the SCA did was to create some hurdles that had to be jumped over to acquire this data. They're not quite as strong as the requirements one needs to get to obtain a search warrant or anything like that, but they're a heck of a lot stronger than what existed beforehand.

So the SCA did not, in fact, allow authorities to "seek data like this without a search warrant." Much the opposite, really.
That and you will need a copy machine that actually copies bills. Some machines use software to block it.

(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURion_constellation)
This is more of the Industry pushing general purpose computing devices toward single use, media purchase and consumption devices.
I'm saying that I'm not stealing your car, I'm driving a car, and to introduce "stealing" and "your" involves implicit social contract and collective enforcement. I'm trying to imply that libertarianism is a sort of socialism that has a particular set of values that it finds important to preserve by force. It just simply defines a violation of those values as an initiation of force in order to claim that it is only taking a hard line on freedom of association, expression, and contract.

Virtually every modern society claims to support freedom of association, expression, and contract, until it violates the public order, when it transforms into a initiation of force by terrorists. It all depends on how you define the public order.

edit: to directly answer your question, I'm a guy who you've never met who breaks your car window, gets into your car, and drives away. If you happen to run into me later, I make no attempt to physically prevent you from getting in your car and driving away, although I have fixed the window and changed the locks.
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This is also handy for hardware companies. It seems like almost every embedded processor comes standard with a GCC-based toolchain, so they're forced to compete on things more interesting than having good compiler support.
They almost certainly will not unfreeze the funds if your bank account can't cover the amount. All credit cards allow the customer to chargeback. If you're no longer solvent, the merchant bank eats that loss. So, they do whatever they can to prevent that.
Something a lot of people forget is that for Microsoft, a research project may culminate in something that's a minor feature to be turned on or off -- a checkbox in a menu buried in a control panel "turn on Chinese Handwriting recognition" or some such, wheras we might think that these things could be entire startups!

Take a look at http://research.microsoft.com/apps/dp/pr/projects.aspx#p=1&#... to see how many of the projects, if successful, will probably just end up as a library with a few API calls, or a series of specifications for hardware manufacturers to go after.
In economics a cost or benefit that is difficult to charge for is known as an externality. The pleasant smell of food might be a positive externality; second hand smoke a negative.

Ronald Coase (who also produced The Nature of the Firm) did the seminal work here. It turns out that in cases where it is difficult to assign property rights government intervention is often the best way to address externalities.

Readers of the essay may benefit from a footnote mentioning these basic economic principles.
YouRad.io - A social media player for music and video discovery (FB connect)
kristianc was like, "It's not necessarily the most elegant use of language, but it's not a pause or a tick.", but that's not, like, the only use of "like" in American vernacular. It's also used to pause, or to, like, distance yourself from what you're saying.
Looks like it was your time to move on, Posterous!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1455593

If I worked at Tumblr, I'd put the blog post in my link in a glass frame.
You know how they call the founder of Paypal the "Paypal Mafia"? It makes me wonder if that wasn't just an endearing term, but somewhat hinted at the culture of shady business practices that is still prevalent in the organization.

I had Paypal instate a 21-day holding period on all money coming into my account for a while, making buying/selling of things (I sell X, and I buy Y as an upgrade) nearly impossible. I'd never had any refund problems on my account- ever. Emailing support got canned responses about how this is for my safety, and partially because I don't do regular business that they can pattern out on my account.

Then about 8 months later, they removed it. No reason why I was suddenly more safe than before. I've had the account over 10 years. Zero problems. Yet, they seemed to think there was a problem for a while.
Amazing. And it totally makes sense. Congrats on using clever thinking to improve a very important metric for your business :)
What if Joe Blow watches Avatar and then comes to the realization that he's wasted 2 hours of his life?

How shall that be recovered?
Out of all the issues bootstrapped startups face, I really don't think "other startups may be acqui-hired and poison our well." should be a concern. The vast majority of startups that fail do so because they poison their own well
How SurveyGizmo simplified its pricing and gained users
This one was inspired by the other post... It's mentioned in the footer.
A good idea is worthless if nobody ever thinks it, and it's value to society increases as it is shared with more people. This is completely opposite from the economics of scarce goods: once a good idea has been discovered, the macroeconomic optimum strategy is to eliminate as much as possible barriers to spreading that idea, so that everyone can benefit. Hoarding information may let you increase the price, but it doesn't increase or protect the value. "price=value" isn't a definition; it is only true for scarce goods in a competitive market. Would the Pythagorean Theorem be more valuable if you had to pay a fee to use it?

And no, we're not just talking about entertainment here. It's impossible to objectively separate entertainment content from more "important" ideas like Uncle Tom's Cabin or even geostationary orbits (popularized by a sci-fi author). It's also impossible to fully separate copyrights and patents, since they have the same legal foundation and purpose.
Unfortunately, its impossible to get the email of a real singular person at Account Review to interact with, let alone get them on the phone, or even fly there to meet them in person. Sounds absurd, but if I had to buy a $200 plane ticket to get $20K unfrozen, I'd do it.

Instead, they just stonewall you, keep the fees, hold your money and provide no way for you to make things right.
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> Back in the 1980’s when graphical user interfaces were new and shiny, Bill internalized many of the lessons that made those original GUIs work.

Out of curiosity, is this factually correct?
Brilliant integration, Waxman!
Making a compelling argument to a receptive audience. Versus: attempting to convert an unreceptive audience. Or: merely saying something that everyone in the audience already believes (which would be preaching to the choir).

Given the volume of discussion that often comes about due to pg's essays and the fact that it is rarely entirely agreement I think those essays hold a good deal of value even if they are not aimed at a universal audience.
Minor interjection: the word you both want is "tic".
And the best part is it's so much easier to get a fake ID.
> But obviously the goal should be how to structure the economy so we can enjoy music and musicians can live comfortably.

No, thats ugly socialism. We dont want to structure laws and economy so a certain kind of jobs becomes profitable which otherwise wouldnt. If they are necessary and wanted, they will be supported by their customers, if they are not wanted, who cares then. Let the free market decide.
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Should it be recovered? If you buy a product that you wish you didn't buy, wouldn't you normally return it? I see no reason for businesses to get money by basically tricking their customers into buying something they later find out it's not what they expected.
ACK! Didn't mean to downvote; and now the joke I was going to make won't make sense..

Either way:
"Your grandmother has been a terrible person all those years for sending you money in your birthday card >:V"
You have to examine what it means to deprive one of property though; certainly, depriving one of their property's commercial value is a deprivation. Certainly if I seize your house and rent it back to you, such that you're paying the same for rent as you would for your mortgage, but you lose any equity in your house or the ability to sell it to someone else or pass it on to your children, I've meaningfully deprived you of property. Likewise, if you write a book, the value of that book to you is at least partially commercial, not merely in your ability to possess a copy of it.
But you can snap a photo with your phone, right?
On my own server. Static file + nginx crosses fingers.
> most anarchists are socialists or communists

How would this work? How would they enforce a 'no-ownership' or 'communal-ownership' principle without a state to prevent people from claiming and defending private property?
I'm assuming you are talking about things like sharing amongst friends, but I can't find any evidence that is actually covered by fair use.

purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. --Wikipedia, "Fair use"

Certainly you won't get sued for sharing your Metallica record with your friend Bobby, but I don't believe that is related of fair use.
A very easy way to expand your perspective beyond the ken of the average NPR intellectual is to read old (pre-1923) books. You know that feeling the medieval scholastics got when they realized they could actually read Virgil, Cicero, Homer, etc, in the original? Pretty much spoiled them on Church Latin.

That's not to say there aren't good or interesting writers in the present era. The range of discourse is much narrower, however. You won't find a lot of present-day perspectives that did not exist before 1923, but you will find an enormous quantity of pre-1923 perspectives which are completely alien to you - and in many cases quite distasteful. Also, the price is right!

As for Pinker, though, _The Blank Slate_ is pretty good...
It felt more like 3 hours.
Why would the remainders be lacking funding or customers?

The startups that stick around will have access to more of both all things being equal (ie assuming the same economy).

Posterous is apparently about to create a lot of orphans. Those are customers now available for a lot of other remaining startups etc. If you're a bootstrapped startup in the Posterous space, you should be licking your chops, Christmas is coming early.
Posterous isn't really micro-blogging. It's regular blogging. Macro-blogging.
Dude, it cost only $39.99. Just buy the freaking book.
Huh, you're correct. I had this memory of having funded someone via Paypal, even could visualize the Paypal email confirmation, and I go and look, and it is indeed an Amazon Payments confirmation instead. Weird lapse of memory; sorry for the noise!
He implied it was hard, not easy.
Wait, why do you say that? Is there an assumption that startups don't have a workable business model?
If I make a chair, and I claim it as mine, where's the force?
Your site is on the brink of going down, guys. Not there yet, but I get the occasional server error.

Might want to make sure it stays up. :)
Pay for a domain name or web development with PayPal and the person flat out scams you and PayPal will do nothing about it. Nor punish the person who stole your money. They'll just quote you the section of their terms that says virtual goods are not covered and close your case.

Unfortunately they are a necessary evil until somebody disrupts them.
Looks great! If I can begin asking for feature requests, I never noticed how many of my bookmarks lacked appropriate tags :) Would it be possible to add or edit the tags of the bookmarks in future versions?
The same way a defective 3d printed vehicle would be returned, proof of destroying what you made for a full refund. In the case of avatar... You can't unsee the movie, maybe an equivalent dose of pain to counteract the plesure? Maybe if you can prove you only derived a few units of pleasure from it, you are compensated the delta between how much was claimed and how much was delivered.

A startup where you sell movies for prices according to how much the watcher enjoyed it might be a billion dollar idea.
>(almost every other division is hemorrhaging money or barely breaking even)

This is incorrect.

You can see the latest earnings results here. The division results are at the bottom.
http://www.microsoft.com/investor/EarningsAndFinancials/Earn...

The only division losing money is the Online Services Division. Windows and Windows Live is not even the largest in terms Revenue or Profit, it is dwarfed by Microsoft Business Division.
Believe it or not, you can talk for hours and say absolutely nothing without any disfluencies at all. I don't want to derail this thread into a political argument so I won't mention any specific examples, but I'm sure you can think of some yourself.
Do you think this should be limited to passports, or extended to citizenship as well?
Your average 2 year old is awake for anything from 10-14 hours, so even you let your kid play with the iPad 2 hours a day (which I'm sure most people will agree is a lot), that still leaves 8-12 hours a day for Not iPad. I can't speak for all 2 year olds, but my 2 year old needs some down time after 8 hours of running around and general playing.

Further there is a lot more to the iPad than simply "video games". For example, my daughter loves looking at pictures. Both of herself and her friends, but also of her grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles, people whom she only sees a few times year and so the photos are the main way she has to remember them between visits. And even the "video games" are genuinely educational, teaching things like shape matching, colours, the names of animals and so on.

Then there is the "selfish" aspect. After 3 hours running around the playground followed by an hour of playing the build-a-tower-of-blocks-and-knock-them-down game I want a few minutes to enjoy the luxuries of life, like going to the bathroom by myself or drinking a cup of coffee without someone trying to spill it, and the iPad is a good way to distract her for those precious minutes.
Early adopters are always jumping to the next thing anyway. What are the chances you will still want to use a given web service 5 years down the line? All in all I think this concern is more than outweighed by the fact that startups offer tighter and more inspired new products than established players. What are you gonna do, just not use any products?
> Slave owners of yore relied on paid guards and bounty hunters to keep their slaves.

I think an Anarchist would call this a kind of de-facto government. It certainly had a monopoly on the use of force.
One alternative would be for these startups to scrimp and struggle for a long time on Ramen Profitability, maintaining their services while they sought to expand, find a business model, open up new veins while continuing the old, perhaps providing a graceful upgrade into the new portfolio.

I'm with the GP poster -while I probably would do the same thing in an acquihire situation, it does start to (somewhat) poison the well over time for newer startups.

While I love Path to bits - I have zero clue what their business model will be, and wonder what will happen to all my carefully journaled "moments" if Path gets acquhired sometime in the future. Somebody needs to come up with a good Diaspora like solution for personal journaling where _i_ control the data, and store it on something that is likely to be persistent (S3 is the only thing that I can think of that has a greater than 90% chance of being around in 10+ years. Dropbox, if they have good public offering, will likely be the second candidate)

I'd pay money for that - $10 for a Dropbox/S3 storage social network akin to what we get with Path today.
There are benefits to expunging any good will you have in a community, reaping what short term profit is available then going into liquidation.

Maybe yahoo is pursing this goal.... with their schizophrenic product line (they once had two competing photo sharing sites under their banner and three social networks), I can imagine that they are worth more as separate parts than as a single undirected company.

Or... they can organize themselves as a traditional conglomerate.
Home printing may not have killed books, but ebooks have made a significant cut in normal book purchases.

And you can get more books than you will ever have the time for of project Gutenberg (and some of them can be read on your kindle).
what do you have against freebsd??!
I think the model here is playing with your friends, so anti-griefing and administration is not so important - but it does limit how useful the service is, sure. It's certainly not a great service for starting a huge server where you play with strangers or people you hardly know. I thimk the whole payment model isn't the best for a huge server, but I think it's great for getting together with friends. The execution is also awesome. It's incredibly simple, while most other services are opaque amd confusing to set up (for what I assume is most of Minecraft's target demographic).

It's basically a service that is not for everyone but very attractive for some. I assume they are working to make those service attractive for more people, but it's a good fundament.
Seems crooked for wikipedia to have such strict "notability" criteria as a non-profit while having a founder in control with a major conflict of interest: he owns a for-profit without said criteria...
That's what I've heard, but I just couldn't see putting the hours into it to find fun days or weeks later...when I could just play something else that was fun now.
It's too bad no one has released a virtual machine with all the configuration steps already done and the system up and running so people can easily try it out.
One little thing I should point out about the UI design is that there is a fine balance & trade off between visual effects and performance. Often times, it is also quite subjective.

Take Vista and Windows 7 for example, you see the aero Window edge is roundish (especially top two corners). Now take look at Windows 8, as it is pretty edge, not round at all. Do you know why? It is really because Windows team used at least 5 rectangles, all stacked together to form that roundness for Vista & 7. That means it is more GPU cycle time to draw these duplicated rectangles to give such pretty illusion. With Windows 8, I do welcome the edge/sharp corners, feel more clean and snappy.
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It seems like the guy writing the book should try Kickstarter instead.
Copyrights and patents -- in US law at least -- derive from the same sentence in the Constitution:

To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by
securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the
exclusive Right to their respective Writings and
Discoveries.

"Authors" and "Writings" became copyrights, and "Inventors" and "Discoveries" became patents. They are indeed two different things, but the theory and purpose behind each of them are the same.

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The trouble with trying to attack this problem from the Fair Use angle is that it's... well... backwards. We shouldn't begin with super-strict copyright law and pick away at the edges with rules like Fair Use. Instead we should begin with almost no copyright law, and then add what few protections are needed.

Remember: The point is simply to promote progress. Anything behind that is excessive.
Hahaha. Startups don't do 301s. If you have any questions regarding what will happen to your links, consult http://tr.im/.

Self-host anything you consider important enough to warrant a 301 down the road.
S3 is the only thing that I can think of that has a greater
than 90% chance of being around in 10+ years.

How about rsync.net? Or just FTP it to any of a thousand cheap webhosts?
I'd add Ari Paparo's diagnosis of blink.com's failure, which he attributed to not making things simple and instantly useful enough: http://www.aripaparo.com/archive/001456.html
great. the stock search crashes my chrome every time.
> I started to question just how “beautiful” my analogy really was.

So did I... so did I.

I think it is rude to come out of the corner with such an analogy, it is as if you are trying to say he is stupid and you have to use wordplays to get him to understand.

Keep talking business, remember that it is business.
The patent on a fraud-free electronic payment technology has come and gone. The banking industry relies on the existence of fraud, because it decommoditizes money into an identity-based instrument - akin to ISPs wanting to provide bundled "differentiated services" instead of moving opaque bits. Information commoditization causes frictionless competition, which makes for a race to the bottom and much less profit.
Taxes are often levied on residence and behavior, rather than citizenship.
many socialist anarchists see the answer as the self-governance of communities small enough to manage some kind of general council

The irony is that as best I gather, the founding fathers were shooting for much the same! (Federalism)

(Of course that was states rather than small towns or something, but states were far less populous then- and Rhode Island is still pretty small!)
While I'm hardly anti-government, I'm not too confident about its fairness. Who would take care of doing all the work of calculating that? And what happens if an author can't be reached - who takes that money?

Here in Portugal we have two supposedly non-profit associations (one for authors, other for performers) who are legally responsible for receiving the fees whenever a e.g. TV channel replays an old episode and then distributing them to the members, and they seem extremely corrupt.

Personally, I think we don't need any of that. People pay anyway, including the so-called "pirates", and they'd pay more if it weren't for stupid restrictions, like Netflix and Spotify not being available in many countries.
The data is two years old, but it looks like you're at the start of your traditional March/April/May writing tear: http://andrewacove.posterous.com/wip-pg-essays