skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How much of the internet runs on it?

How many of the sites on the internet are open source though? A quick glance through the top 100 according to Alexa gives me 2 or 3 (wordpress and wikipedia, and really wordpress is more about the content, which is not open source, generally speaking.)
I checked out Columnist and it looks pretty awesome! I was trying to look at the Github project page but it doesn't look like it's posted yet.

Looking forward to seeing how this progresses!
Wow, I sure screwed up communicating because you have my point exactly backwards.

1. I think it's bad and I'm not 'fine with it'.

BUT

2. I think it's not an 'image of a rapist' because context can't change an image.
In some ways I can imagine they could be strengths, or at least beneficial in some situations. For example being chaotic and non-conforming sometimes you learn something you would otherwise miss out on. Most of the other things I mentioned only work against me, such as lack of discipline, not finishing stuff I started, or lack of focus and not being systematic enough and getting hugely frustrated about forgetting where I left something.

I guess like always, truth is somewhere in the middle.
"it has recently been netting around $250,000 a day from the game — that’s after Apple takes its 30 percent cut."

$7.5 million a month at the very beginning of their hockey stick growth, and they are willing to sell for $200 million? Deal of the century for Zynga...

They should have leveraged this into a massive funding round and started making acquisitions, growing etc. Nobody is ever going to compete with Zynga if people cash out to them the first chance they get every time.
China Surpasses U.S. iOS and Android Activations
Hungry for change - Free inspiring film to transform your health
Code creators can charge for their creations, though. They don't have to, but they can. And some significant portion of open contributors are paid for their contributions, if indirectly, by working as employees of organizations that contribute to or allow employees to work on those open source projects.

If nobody could get paid for writing code, there would be less of it. No question.
There was a House episode where a prisoner had a low-quality tattoo containing too much iron (or something). The prisoner went into the MRI and the experience was excruciating.

Not sure if there's any grain of truth to that or not. It was Hollywood.
There are two types of consumers.

There are two types of commentators-

-People who naively bisect a hugely complex, graduated marketplace

-People who understand it's far more involved than that.

Seriously, though, I think it's a bit perverse to see all of the proud boasting about the spend of iOS owners -- it often amounts to less than $100 per user, where $2.99 is considered an expensive app. Is this really the future that developers were hoping for? Dancing for pennies, hoping to be that incredibly rare break-out viral hit?
There was little scarcity before. The production costs of CDs and LPs were much lower than what they were priced in the shops.
The Debian and the PostgreSQL planets are consistently good:

http://planet.debian.org/
http://planet.postgresql.org/
Certainly people are certainly attracted to iOS dev because it produces money, but iOS users do not have to pay for apps. It is easy to get apps without paying for them, but Apple has made it very easy to pay for them. I doubt that the absence of copyright would significantly change the proportion of iOS users who use apps without paying for them.
OMGPOP are sellouts. Buyouts like this kill me. I hate seeing good companies get gobbled up by others...
ICANN to make it easier to censor domains across the globe
This is great.

I've been looking for an artist to commission a piece of art that I have sketched out on paper and in my head for a while. I just didn't know who to ask. Found an artist on there who might just be the perfect fit, based on his portfolio. So this solves a real need, at least for me.

I hope it works out, for EveryArt and for my art.
In fact it is so.

There's already a paying customer who receives meal: local distributors who the content is licensed to.
They get exclusive rights to the content (meal).

Now, internet services receive smells: non-exclusive rights which are valid in some countries and not others, like cheese with holes.

Now there's this huge problem where I can't go to 99% of internet services and pay for music because they don't want my money because I live in a wrong country.
This is what we'd call "smell", and while I would pay for "meal" (ability to use any music service in the world according to its pricing and model), I'm only offered "smell" (the suggestion to go elsewhere and figure a way to actually pay for stuff).

And this smell, I won't buy.
He said "there’d be less of it", not "there'd be none of it".
Except it's not.

vi is installed everywhere.
Out of interest: are you in the software industry? How much of your work is open source?
Ask HN: fraud/delinquincy in marketplace startups
Generally, how do market place startups ensure that people get paid and that the goods are delivered as promised? I understand for Ebay/Amazon with lots of resources they can hire the engineers/customer service to deal with fraud.

However, for smaller start ups, how do they generally deal with this problem?
The funny thing about these is that they don't really make you constantly aware of where north is. To answer that question you would have to concentrate on the vibration. What acutally happens is way cooler: You become subconsciously aware of the structure of the space surrounding you. This is something that everyone has to a leser extent i.e. you could point at the direction of various objects around you and tell me roughly how far away they are even without looking.
When you have been wearing the belt for a few weeks you are able to do this even for objects that are not in you immediate vicinity. You get an actual feeling for the location of all kinds of things. Imagine having an accurate intuition for the location of your home town or the next highway exit! Another example: you could visit a city where you have never been before, wander around the streets without caring for where you go and then immediately find the shortest route back to where you started. And it would be about as hard for you as finding the way to the door of the room you're in right now.
Well now, isn't that something I should have checked.
Capitalist.Carter@gmail.com
Because they needed that code in the kernel.

Now, there would always be people who want to have that music recorded, so it would still flow.
> Linux is how old? How much of the internet runs on it? Done.

The argument is that there would be less computer code, not no computer code. Saying that one specific project would still exist is not a counterexample.
Pretty disappointed that I was downvoted, given that it was a genuine question. No need to be cryptic or condescending.

I'm asking because this is shop that makes a lot of iOS apps with a hope that one hits. They don't have a singular product that they sell. So what is Zynga buying?
Why mobile devs are running to 'Retinafy' their iOS apps
How do you figure it's only the beginning of a hocky stick growth? Draw Something might just start lose steam in a couple months, the game market is very hit-oriented and a lot of these games don't stay on the top of the chart for very long.

The game industry graveyard is littered with 1 hit wonders that never managed to repeat their success after a single massive home run.
Put those into the tie category.
The difference is that nobody stops you from making "Open-Source" films and music, and many people do.

The masses however seem to prefer commercial films, music and software.
Another issue I had is this: In the scene when they're in the hotel, they lose gravity after the van drives off the bridge. Then they go further to the winter place and gravity has been restored despite the fact they're floating around in the hotel.
Site on the internet is something like a live performance.

You can't have copies of it because of its transient nature.
Sometimes you do have a bootleg but your mileage may vary still.
A cowardly decision? Do you have any idea how stressful it is running a team of 30 employees and tens of millions of dollars in financing and not having a clear path to turn it into a successful company? OMGPOP made great video games for 5 years and none of them stuck. They deserve recognition for sticking to their vision and eventually finding one that is a hit, I can totally imagine why the team wants to sell and not have to worry about the next hit.

It took OMGPOP over 5 years of concentrated efforts to succeed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_on_Omgpop

Stop being so unbelievably rude.
> If a company has an IPO, there are no "employee retention payments", so it's better than that :)

The reverse split of common before preferred share conversions for IPO are often a big screw to the employees. Many are also unaware of it, as they don't dig through the S-1. (Atheros was the largest one I saw in this camp.)
We've been using Streak at Entelo and we're very happy. The "social integration" provided by most CRM systems is lacking and when you combine Streak and Rapportive inside of GMail/Google Apps, it's really quite powerful.

The CRM landscape feels like it's undergoing a change somewhat similar to what happened a decade ago when cloud-based providers like Salesforce disrupted incumbents like Siebel. Salesforce, while a very powerful product/company in many ways, is not immune to disruption and it's great to see folks like Streak, Nimble, 37Sigs/Highrise attempting to compete with them.
Another single founder success for YC. Obviously the entire team deserves credit. Kudos to all.
Would you have a problem with it if Steam started serving games without paying the developers? Also, when he talks about the cost of producing music, he isn't referring to the cost of setting up a microphone, which is miniscule. What he's talking about is the fact that it might take an artist over a month to create a two-and-a-half-minute song.
Because the problem solved by the Apple TV involves a branch in the process.

1) User is using their mobile device (happily) to locate content that may come from a wide variety of sources

2) User locates content that they'd like to share on a larger screen

3) User "hands off" (this is the branch) the playback of the content to the Apple TV

Many complex interactions might have occurred in steps 1 and 2. These interactions, typically, don't translate well to television screens. Based on adoption rates, no one wants to use a keyboard in their living room, and the content users want is already accessible on their mobile device. App developers welcome the opportunity to not develop for yet another device/platform.

So, you have two choices:

A) Let the mobile device do the heavy lifting and stream only "dumb" video to the Apple TV...

or

B) Devise some schema for handing off the entire session necessary for the Apple TV to connect (and authenticate, authorize, etc) to the media source.

Option B is full of pitfalls and difficult problems. Many are already solved, but they're just not there yet, IMO. I think we'll get there eventually though. As more and more services use the "Sign in using X" (where X is Facebook, Twitter, Github, etc) model, more and more users will become accustomed to federated login solutions. That is, ultimately, what would be required to hand off the direct connection to the media source.
And the smug "sum it up" blog posts start to appear like flies after a corpse.
I mean the code. The argument was “there would be less code if you didn't have the right to own code”, and I'm saying that although the internet runs on open source software, the vast majority of popular internet sites run closed-source software.
I meant more noisy.
let me guess. you're a web developer threatened by the explosion of apps on mobile devices?
Tell that to the GCC folks, GIMP developers, Blender developers, Tremulous developers, Firefox developers, Mono developers, Rails developers, Python developers...

(we all know GTK is a labor of love, 'cause you couldn't expect people to pay for it.)
This will increase Android's lead over iOS. Samsung's lead is over 3x bigger than Apple's in China, and it keeps growing. Apple only has about 7% market share there.
True enough, but usually a talent acquisition means a failed product, which implies that the total stick length is pretty short anyway.
Why does YCombinator deserve equity (value) from successes of the YC program, these are internet companies, aren't msot of the company's benefits intangible "smells" much like music?

Wait. Let me guess... because they invested, so they deserve to profit right?

So somebody please explain to me why the media industries are different. If anybody thinks music is free please go price out studio time before replying.
I don't know that anyone was claiming there was something wrong with him, but a new £10 note will be issued in the near future as part of series F that will feature someone else.
Isn't this essentially the Star Trek economy? These people work to improve themselves and their surroundings.
Perfect! Let us know if we can be of any help along the way.
Rails is just an API
"Turing's homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952, when homosexual acts were still illegal in the United Kingdom. He accepted treatment with female hormones (chemical castration) as an alternative to prison. He died in 1954, just over two weeks before his 42nd birthday, from cyanide poisoning. An inquest determined it was suicide"

"On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for the way in which Turing was treated after the war."

Putting him on the money would further the apology.
http://inbound.org/ is HN for marketing and is awesome.
I understand picking up and moving all too well, but citizenship is a Long Term kind of deal.
Your original comment was the sort of partisan garbage that HN does not need (leave it to the Engadget comments), and I gave you the benefit of the doubt. Now, however, your stripes are a little too obvious.
Firefox switching to HTTPS Google search by default
plenty of room for growth.
> I'm dying to know the cash/stock split on this one. It will send signals about what a company like OMGPOP thinks of the social gaming space going forward.

It also signals whether znga thinks its stock is overvalued or undervalued.
The Bank of England already has him on their list of candidates.

http://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/Documents/about/ban...
And it's an argument, but it's not necessarily true.

Consider the costs of production and distribution.

Production. Frank McCourt's memoirs were the end result of a life of telling stories socially and on stage. People who heard him tell the stories would say "you should write a book". Today his listeners wold have videoed his performances with a camera phone, posted them on YouTube, and he would be a viral star before he knew it.

Distribution. Suppose I have a head mounted camera that simply records everything I see — it's part of version 5 of the android glasses google is working on. Then along comes a third party and releases an app that simply recognizes anything I look at that's a printed page and captures it. If I read a book, I have an digital image of its pages and an OCRed text for indexing.

The cooking smells analogy is actually more accurate than the writer realizes, because all this technology makes production easier too.
We (my wife and I) read your reply and completely agree with your point! We have both experienced this ourselves.
Smells are covered by copyright, it's a $20 billion dollar industry. http://bit.ly/GKyiOa
Who ever said they have the right to profit from it? There was a century or two there where they had the ability to profit from it. Now? Looks like we might be done with that. Kinda sad, but these things happen.
So many great companies and so many early exits. Great for the VC's and angels - bad for the founders and early employees. And the users. Imagine if Heroku, reddit and others had stayed independent.

Facebook got this part right. Reject buyout offers and use them to raise capital at ever increasing obscene valuations - and build your product exactly as you want.
"Their crime is thinking..."

Can somebody help me to issue a DMCA notice?
This would be great. I'd want an exact clone of reddit's AMAs but without the off-topic memes and rude jokes in the comments.
Customer Profit Analytics in the "Big Data" Era
Music is like air in the sense that it will always be created, it is as natural as speech for humans, stories and song are to people as oxygen creation is to a plant, the amount of funding may effect the quality (subjective) and quantity (unlikely), but that is the entire point of funding new distribution channels that pay artists directly (which this author equates with "Not respecting the funding of Creation").

Coming from Nashville/Austin I can assure you, the reason people are interested in distribution channels is because that IS the music industry.

All this copyright hubbub is just a natural protectionist attempt to keep the high cost/barrier of entry for musicians (not just to distribution but profitability) by established entities like clearchannel, et al. You can't convince a new musician to sign a predatory contract when they have reached profitability through an easier distribution channel.

From an artists perspective: Talent isn't going away, at first the internet made the talent acquisition process easier and faster for studios, but Talent now has easier options for sustainable profitability through these new distribution channels. Studios have come to simply hate how much harder contract negotiations become when the artist they are targeting is already "making enough".

There is a lot more nonsense in this article regarding "Lines of Computer Code", "Forced Open Source" and the like, along with absurdist FUD like "What would happen if creators couldn’t charge for their creations?", give me a break.
Er, the number of views we get on places like Youtube and 4chan and YTMND seem to present a convincing counterargument.
I'm not sure what the point in this petition is: surely responsibility for the design and circulation of currency lies solely with the Bank of England and not HM Treasury?
OP said that there would be less of it, not that it would be nonexistent.

Linux is probably an exception, and not the rule, and it is such an exception that large companies are willing to subsidize it. I've been looking for some good sound editing software, and the only solution I could find that was good at altering tempo without creating weird artifacts was closed-source and proprietary. I've also rarely played any open-source games that were as good as the closed-source ones.

The point is, if someone does something that creates value, they should get compensated somehow. Asking musicians to produce music for nothing more than the sheer joy of it is exploiting them, and impolite, besides. If someone gives you value, you ought to give value back. I don't agree that the RIAA's way of getting back that value is correct, but that doesn't mean that copyright is a bad idea.
Do you think you're countering InclinedPlane's point? Because you haven't. You've explained the how to InclinedPlane's what, but that hardly constitutes a disproof.
tl;dr The smell analogy stinks.
Easy access to spectacular concept art through EveryArt would be a big win for smaller game developers. Great concept art really helps bridge the gap from "pretty cool" to "amazing" and amplifies the inspiration driving the game concept.

Having worked on the early production stage of Blizzard's next MMO, concept art definitely seems like the most fun part of the design process, for both the artists and those who commission them. With concept art work, you can find mind-bogglingly talented people who, when you give them ideas and let them roam free, will do these face-meltingly awesome concepts that inspire you so much you just want to make huge posters of them and jump inside.

People just get so excited hiring amazing artists and seeing what they can do with few limits in place. That's what EveryArt will really have going for it.

BTW, is there's anyone who has taken on commission markets for musical groups? Been wondering for a while: http://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-service-that-allows-people-a...
CGI Experts Say Flying Bird Man is Fake
Reading the article now (15 minutes later), the objections seem to be addressed in the next sentence. Was the essay edited after publication because of InclinedPlane's comment? If so, I wish writers wouldn't make "phantom edits" that add or remove substantial content, as it makes it difficult to engage with their writing.
On top on an infrastructue of open source software.
Are we forgetting the difference between free as in freedom and free as in $0? Isn't that what open source is all about.

I would never make the argument that musicians shouldn't get payed and payed well for their work, but for the copyright holders to dictate how, where, and under what circumstances I listen to music that I've payed is the problem with copyright law.

I should have to pay for music. I shouldn't have to pay for the same song four different ways so I can listen to it in my car, on my Ipod, computer, and home stereo.

The problem is the distribution companies. When artists wise up and realize they don't need record labels or movie studios anymore, we'll all be paying for DRM free content - and the artists will get rich.

This is why we have lobbyists for these big companies trying to avoid extinction.
Naming an example (Linux) doesn't contradict "there's be less of it".
$400 dollars for a full day of recording (http://www.inthejarstudios.com/rates.htm).

I have to pay for my own woodworking tools and computers, but I don't expect people to subsidize me in my hobby. And if I decided to go pro--which in the case of computers I have--I would make sure I only make things the market wants, and not take on shitty contracts signing away future sale equity until some vaguely defined point in the future.
…maybe designers and people whose job is to sling HTML or javascript don't need to have "Flow"… Maybe the jobs for these people are light enough that there is no context switching cost…

Typical HN narcissism: it must be trivial if it's not what I'm doing.
"We therefore call upon the Treasury to request the Bank of England to consider depicting Alan Turing when Series F £10 banknotes are designed."
I don't want Turing put on a note as "an apology". There are thousands (millions?) of people who have been mistreated by unjust laws in British history, of which Turing's case is sadly not the worst example. Turing's accomplishments in Computer Science and the help he gave the Allies in WWII are cause enough.
It may seem that way, but you need only learn one command per day.

Start with `i` for insert mode and `<ESC>` to return to normal mode. and `:x` to save and quit.

From there, when you want to know what a command does, go to normal mode and type `:help command` Do this once per day. Maybe twice if you feel adventurous. Use `:helpgrep` if you need to find something specific and don't know where to begin.

You will feel like you've been missing out.
I highly recommend this for those using google apps and looking for a light-weight CRM to handle inbound email leads. I looked at Salesforce and shuddered at the complexity when I just wanted a way to make sure I followed up with inbound email inquiries in a methodical fashion.

It's a big upgrade from my previous homemade gmail tagging system / boomerang hack. Also, the reusable text snippets are a huge time saver.

There are a few improvements that could be made, but overall I think the product was executed beautifully.

Nice job guys.
My guess is that distribution is virtually free, productions is inexpensive, marketing can be very expensive.