skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a real world example that highlights the need for different functions to take different forms. Its really only rude if you take it as a personal attack and not a basic use example.
Kickstarter is US-only for project creators, so it's not really an option for most people.
No. Most business software by itself is not providing value. You could not clone any web business (or any business for that matter) with the click of a button because the business is a lot more than software.
It's interesting how a lot of libertarian theorists also happen to have all these racist historical and social theories.
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This is ridiculous hyperbole and takes my point too literally. Copyright law is there because we want creative work to be possible to sell on the free market. Patents are there because we want inventors to be able to have incentives to invent. As flawed as they are, they are not "socialism."

As a society we get to decide, as pg says, what property is. This is a roundabout way of saying we get to decide what endeavors can be profitable, by attributing property-dust to their creations and protecting them by force of law. I think most people would agree it's in everyone's interest if we can structure the economy and laws so people who create things such as music have the opportunity to make a profit.
you cannot "capture" (get) the money until you are pretty much just about to (within 24-48 hours) ship the product.

I'm not sure what the general worldwide fact is for all kinds of payment processing. But it is general practice (not federal law, as I thought before editing this) in the United States that a seller can't actually get money from a transaction paid by a credit card unless the item ordered has actually entered the shipment process.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/credit/cre28.shtm

That's the way Amazon has always billed me, and I think it's the reason that Amazon sends me partial shipments even when I didn't ask for separate shipments when I order several items at once.
My high school AP English teacher deducted a full 1% from presentation assignments for every "um" and "like" (except where the use of "like" was contextually appropriate).

Nobody got higher than a D on the first presentation. Nobody got lower than a B after that.
I believe windows phone market place and android allow you to do some sort of trial but I don't think you can do that in apple app store. I'm not 100% sure about this so please correct me if I am wrong.
I'm arguing that there is one profession: information distribution, and multiple ways to do it. Some of them involve creating your own content, some do not.

I am also not arguing against all instances of government created markets, by the way. Just saying that failure to be able to make a living in a way that people used to does not by definition necessitate being saved by the government.
oAuth has a lot of your data too

Wait, what? oAuth is just a protocol.

make it into a legit passport service and sell it [to] (..) Microsoft.

Interestingly, it's Microsoft itself who tried to give people online passports: https://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/1999/10-11passp...
No. It is ALSO a problem that they are freezing accounts. They shouldn't be doing that. It's not really Paypal's job to pretend to be policing fraud in this way.

They have no business arbitrarily freezing accounts for months. None. It doesn't matter how much or how little customer support they have. That's wrong.
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We recently added a popular tab to Socialcam and we were not sure what it should look like. We wanted to get something working and in front of users quickly, and then be able to make changes and test the results. So we used a web view. To integrate with the rest of the app, we added a delegate method to handle location changes. This method detects Socialcam URLs, and dispatches messages to do whatever the URL indicates. Our popular view is an experiment. Once we decide on a final design, we'll probably implement it in Objective-C for speed. But then again... It's working pretty well already!
Unfortunately the Constitution eventually meets the road: Copyrights and Patents -- in US law -- derive from Acts of Congress.

If you think there's any chance of repealing that stuff and going back to Jefferson's quaint musings on the topic I think you're misguided. There's simply no way to frame an argument on the nature of "property." Nobody understands it and Congress ain't budging anyway.

But Fair Use is inherently flexible, arguable and relatable by the guy who uploads NASCAR highlights he doesn't own to YouTube.

Read up on the DMCA's Fair Use exemptions and the EFF's numerous victories. And think about it in the context of current culture. You're never going to mobilize nascarfan83 to read up on law, but you can probably get him to sign a petition that clips under 20 seconds are okay on YouTube.
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Yes because the internet will defend you, protect your natural resources, provide you with health care, provide you with unemployment insurance, negotiate treaties to your benefit, inspect your food, regulate your drugs, educate your children and pave your roads.

The reason it's so hard to move between countries is standard exploitation. People would exploit the resources(be them natural or otherwise) and move on to the next place if there was nothing stopping them. Maybe you wouldn't. Or maybe you wouldn't notice yourself doing it. But people would. Tourism is really only good for local economies if you leave after a few weeks. Otherwise you're putting to large a burden on the place you're visiting and the payoff of having you come and leave money is no longer there.

People should be able to move to other countries if they want but it should be a serious and large decision. And realistically, you should care about your local government. It's not like democracy doesn't need you just because you have cute ideas about global citizenship.
As for Regretsy's continual lack of ability to get CS from PayPal, as someone who has often spent egregious amounts of time talking to PayPal, I honestly think Regretsy is doing something wrong.

Customer service != fraud department. Google, Netflix & Paypal seem to have similar methods of dealing with "suspicious accounts". Those methods usually involve something along the lines of shutting the account down and then rebuffing attempts to communicate with the people who made the decision. Customer service evaporates once you've been ostracized by their security systems.
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It's endemic to the web. Just look at GeoCities. Or, maybe you entrusted all your medical records to Google Health?

The web is built for innovation, not longevity.
This probably isn't new to 2.0.2 but I just noticed "What up girl, this is Section C." in the Tabs section.
Serious answer: "a good idea" is something you can describe in a paragraph, or a few pages. A book is something that takes months or years to write, and may well be something read for pleasure, and thus does not have many positive externalities as per your comment above. IP is something you've got to be specific about: software patents are different from biotech patents which are different from copyrights on various things, which are all different from trademarks (which no one seems to complain about all that much).

Snarky answer, which I feel somewhat guilty about including, but I liked it too much to erase it: if you can't spot the difference between an idea and a book, perhaps exposure to more of both would be beneficial to you.

No hard feelings, I guess I owe you a beer.
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How long does it take for the bookmarks to upload? been taking a while now...
Well, I don't want to come off as libertarian, but presumably you could buy insurance against this in an environment where there's a bunch of people who need such a service.

There's more such arguments, like suggestions that you need a nation to subsidize your health care or protect you from every day crime, but all of those are reasonably privatize-able as well.
You are correct. There are a lot of kid apps with iAP that offer great value such as additional levels etc. I purchased some my self. It's the smurfberry kind of iAP that I don't like.
How things change. Less than six years ago, Yahoo was in talks to buy Facebook for $1B.

http://mashable.com/2006/09/21/facebook-to-sell-to-yahoo-for...
Right, and then tries to conflate the two.
Great work guys! not something I would have originally seen myself using, but having now tested it out I can see this replacing my bookmarks bar! Search could do with improving but I'm sure you'll sort that ;) any chance of viewing bookmarks that are the union or intersection of two tags/folders? I think that is something that would change how I organised my bookmarks, but would be useful to me personally (and I'd bet a whole bunch of other users).
I find it bizarre that the author would admonish against multiple rules on a single line due to version control, yet would recommend making colons line up for vendor prefixes. Sure, it's probably not often that a new vendor prefix would come along (or one would accidentally initially be forgotten), but adding a new (longer) prefix would require introducing a diff to the other lines even though they haven't truly been changed.
How is an insurance company going to stop an extradition? Unless it manages to claim sovereign status over some land where you can live and have your business, you're still at the mercy of your generous host country. And if that happens, I think they call it a country.
This is ridiculous - your view of unionism is way off reality. Some points just on the first paragraph:

> with unions, they can't work unless they join the union

Er. No. This is a 'closed shop' (compulsory unionism), illegal in most of the Western World, and not advocated by the great majority of unions either.

> limiting freedom of employees to work where the want and do what they want with they money

Errr. Unions don't stop employees from changing jobs or spending their money how they want. I don't understand where you get this from at all.

> limiting the freedom on employers to hire (or cease to hire) anybody they want on conditions that are freely negotiated between them

Part of the freedom to negotiate conditions is the freedom (non-compulsory) to allow a union to negotiate on your behalf. Although this doesn't always work out well for either party, I don't see how you can say that allowing a worker to appoint a union in this way is reducing anyone's freedom.
As a startup employee, I'm curious to know how much do employees stand to gain from such talent acquisitions?
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Robber barons of Silicon Valley?
What is this 'protecting effort'? What does it even mean? You seem to be advancing this as grounds for justifying copyright, but to do that it must have some meaning independent from copyright. Otherwise it is going in circles.

The substantial question here is more basic: are plenty of things being produced, and do we have easy access to them?

We want to pay people to do work (to some significant extent). Copyright is a troublesome and inefficient way to do that now. So we should start doing it in other ways -- see what the market produces, adapt some already existing, invent some new ones.

If people are paid sufficiently to produce, or just if plenty of stuff is produced by whatever ways, what (else) is/isn't/needs to be 'protected'? (We can perhaps have laws for proper attribution, but that is not really a matter of copyright.) Do we want to 'protect' information from being copied? No, of course not: on the contrary, we want it to be spread and used and adapted.

This idea of 'protecting effort' is gone along with copyright. It only means something if we believe in copyright -- if we do not, it disappears.
This is so smart! A lot of tech is awesome but lets never forget that its humans with actual psychologies using the technology. These users face social pressures to be upstanding and responsible like we all do in real life - being online is not an excuse for bad behavior - this is a great example of the merger b/w virtual and real lives.

Seems like LinkedIn pioneered this, HN also does this to a great degree, but now Grouper is taking it to the next level as it holds you responsible for your online actions offline.

The wheels are turning in my head about ways to leverage people's desire to manage their personal brand into a mutually beneficial situation for all parties involved. Good job Waxman! You might have stumbled upon something profound here.
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I guess it's too late to apply.
Looks cool - would love to hear more, I have a product that may be a good fit for this (www.fitbolt.com) - shoot me an email at evan@fitbolt.com if you are interested!
My take on the list would be to merge LISP with the other functional languages (even though I realize LISP in not a pure functional language, but then neither is Erlang, OCaml, ML, or Scala), and add a list of prototype-based language, like JavaScript, ActionScript, and Io. However, I do recognize LISP's significant cultural impact on hacker culture, so I'm torn about not requiring it.

Cool list, though. Will probably inspire me to go back and try to further my understanding of Haskell, which hands down has had the most disproportionate effect on my understanding of programming.
Half-OT: Note that words such as "like" and "um" are typically not referred to as stop words in (computational) linguistics. They are called filled pauses, or sometimes floor holders, depending on their function. Liz Shriberg's thesis was - as far as I know - the first extensive treatment of speech disfluencies in the field of computational linguistics.

The term "stop words" is, however, used in information retrieval. Here, it refers to words that appear very frequently in (almost) all documents in a corpus; so frequently in fact that they are taken not to carry any/much information content at all. Examples would be "the", "it", "and" etc. For many tasks in IR, stop words are removed from the document representation because they mostly introduce noise.
For example, Microsoft’s standard model of Spanish will have a default “S” (ess) sound, but the training process replaces it with your “S” sound. This is done for every individual sound (phoneme)

I don't think it can work as a phoneme for phoneme replacement; there must be a different heuristic at work.

Different languages have different phonemes and one of the most telling things of a non-expert non-native speaker is that they don't get the sounds right.

Eg "E" is pronounced differently in English, German and Czech. Japanese speakers don't differentiate between "L" and "R". Spanish "C" is in some contexts different to "C"s in other languages. Etc.

Obviously you can't pronounce a sound that you don't even know exists.

I would love to hear more examples.
You can't justify this using theoretical Bayesian statistical theory in any easy way that I see. However, one can view the problem as max log(P(W|A)) + lambda * log(P(W)) and here log(P(W)) is a smoothness or regularization term and log(P(W|A)) can be seen as relating to the expected loss of the function (e.g. use Markov's inequality). Regularization has plenty of theoretical justification in machine learning for improving performance on unseen data (that is reasonably similar to the training data).

This is very much a discriminative tactic in disguise.
True, this certainly could be just a bad policy on Paypal's part. However, if there is even a remote possibility that Paypal could be held liable for fraud using their services then I can sympathize with "shut them all down" approach. After all, like garbage mashers, some things should not be trifled with.
URLs uniquely identify bookmarks, if two chromes have a bookmark with the same URL but different titles/tags, stashmarks will show whichever was synced first.
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That's neat, I wonder if it's in scope to handle favicon badges. (You're welcome to steal from my library for that http://faviconist.com/favicon-library).

Think it would be neat if something like that was part of Bootstrap as it would help to make handling of these consistent across the web, given Bootstrap's popularity. And it is UI-related.
Interesting to see someone else's perspective. I felt the opposite, the designers won out to the detriment of the UX in several parts of the redesign.

The buttons, for example, seem completely arbitrarily placed and inconsistent. Check out the difference between compose or replying to an email. Or creating a calendar entry or the full page editing calendar screen (and the two are the 'opposite' way round, it's totally fubar). It seems to be according to some sort of an attempt at 'page balance' that got abandoned in more complex elements to my admittedly untrained eye.

A red button seems to be intended to be the primary action on a page but again each part of the system is totally erratic on whether this convention is followed or not. Add a calendar event? No. Edit a calendar event? Yes. Reply to an email? No. Compose a new email? Yes.

Why do three little dots appear next to the check boxes when you hover over an email? How does that help at all? It just seems to distract my eye and doesn't actually help me distinguish whether I'm about to check the right email at all, the usual reason for hover styles. It's just pointlessly pretty that's turned into distracting.

The more I use it, the more confused I am exactly how the hell it got signed off. Bizarre.
> I'm arguing that there is one profession: information distribution

To me that is confusing, because in my mind distribution is a different act than creation of information goods.

Movie theaters, dvd's, netflix.... those are distribution, and I don't care too much if new ones arise and old ones go away. But I enjoy a movie once in a while, and would be sad to live in a world where it is no longer possible to do anything but the cheapest of indy efforts.
You tried "MM/DD/YYYY hh:mm:ss"? Uh, maybe add " PDT" or whatever is appropriate for your timezone.

(It's been a couple of years since I booted my LispM, but I used to know how to do this :-)
Thank you so much! We'll email you soon.
Every other payment processor does the same thing, dude. Especially when you go out of your way and violate the T&C (which as a practicing business, you have no excuse not to read and understand). If they say "You can't do X Y and Z" , where X is say, "Take payments for something that is greater than 20 days from shipping", and then you go ahead and do it anyways..

Welp. It's your own fault. Read the paperwork next time.

The freezes would be reduced to an inconvenience instead of an all-hands emergency if they didn't go out of their way to avoid talking to you. I cannot fathom what kind of boneheaded moron decided that an automatic system flagging your account means you are now persona-non-grata.
Insurance Company A has mercenary company B and diplomat C on retainer in case of conflict with foreign nations.

Really, we pay taxes, and taxes cover things like the aforementioned ambassadorial services. It is arguably doable that we could pay some other organization to do the same thing.
Yes, the "third party doctrine." Really stupid stuff, especially in an age where we do almost everything over networks provided by third parties with services provided by other third parties, but our expectation is that the data we are transmitting should be as private as if we were storing documents in our home.

There is hope that some of this will be reversed, much like the supreme court ruled that phone conversations were private even though they were over third party connections, and how the SCA provides protections for things like email and (some) sever logs.

In the meantime, the government will continue to try to stretch what it is allowed under the third party doctrine without significant check.

Ars Technica had some good coverage last week of the Obama administration successfully arguing that law enforcement can request cell tower connections (giving a rough tracking of a phone's location) without a warrant:

The Obama administration laid out its position in a legal brief last month, arguing that customers have "no privacy interest" in [cell-site location records] held by a network provider. Under a legal principle known as the "third-party doctrine," information voluntarily disclosed to a third party ceases to enjoy Fourth Amendment protection. The government contends that this rule applies to cell phone location data collected by a network provider.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/obama-admin-...
I was concerned about that as well. I just rewrote the observer to store data with the tab instead of in the cache indefinitely.
Perhaps the issue here is that these companies have become too dominate in their markets. Google Adsense, eBay, Amazon, PayPal: they essentially control their niches and there is very little competition to keep them honest.
What should they be doing about it? How do they determine whether you were scammed, or you're now scamming the domain/development seller to get whatever you bought for free? As any merchant doing any volume will tell you, the latter is the more common case! A scamming seller will get enough disputes that they'll lose the account fairly quickly, but there's a couple billion buyers out there for whom risking a PayPal account to get free product/service is no big deal.

It's not really something a payment service SHOULD be deciding. That's the job of small claims court.
> marginal cost of production equal to zero

I think it would be more correct to write "reproduction" or "distribution", because it costs a lot to produce a movie or a book or a big, complex piece of software.
http://startupboy.com/2005/11/29/securitize-citizenship
But you made the effort to sign up for a HN account purely to post this comment? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xqo

Fair play you might not want to log in but the whole point in this service (I believe) is that it's synced across all of your Chrome instances, hence the need to sign in.

Alternative question (assuming their gonna start charging because otherwise they're operating a going-out-of-business model), would you pay for this if they were to make it a lightweight plug in that doesn't require signing in and doesn't sync across your various Chrome instances?
Until Steve Yegge's using the platform, it doesn't qualify for the term "macro-blogging".
Let this be a lesson: not all your problems can be solved by code. Sometimes you need to take a step back and think about the root cause of the problem. Often times (as well as in Grouper's example), the solution is to reconstruct your model so that your incentives and/or consequences are clearer to your users.
Given their motto, shouldn't this particular clause be required rather than banned.
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1. Where I'm from, I regularly pay a bill for my water/sewer usage, thus tap water is certainly worth more than $0.00. The funds collected are used to fund the operation of the water utility, not taxes.

2. I'm sorry, but I don't understand how copyright is an outgrowth of taxes. One is a mechanism to generate funds for the government, the other is a means to protect intellectual property. Could you clarify your point?
Hadoop was developed by Doug Cutting while he was working at Yahoo. I think it skews the reality of the situation to focus solely on the public facing pieces of Yahoo (as a home page, as an email service), which kicked the bucket a long time ago. On that front Yahoo has been irrelevant for > 6 years, but their advertising business and their software engineering R&D department continued on after that.