skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are you at least moderately aware of the average costs and profit margins for that kind of photography? u$d 160 a month is sort of on the cheap side for the kind of images in that landing page, specially if you are thinking about the katana one. And of the stock photo services, Getty is by far the one that treats the photographers with most respect and compensates them very competitively.
Whether it's geopolitics, technology, or social changes, it is next to impossible to predict further than 10-20 years down the road with any kind of accuracy.

Could people living at the height of the space race realistically predict the collapse of American space exploration? Could they see coming the subsequent rise of private space ventures?
if they also sell to people that think those flyers are amazing then is it really a problem for them?
A QR code would have been a better choice to embed than the URL. Who wants (or able to) type correctly 10 digits?
You realize that Getty Images used to have much uglier watermarks, right?

Example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/58607934/stuff/getty.jpeg

So in other words, option b and option c has always been on the table. However, we're in an era where images are becoming much easier to share on other platforms. All someone has to do to share a picture these days is to pin it or post it on Tumblr. All that metadata gets stripped when people do that. At least with this, people know where to find it.

Considering the changes in sharing images, why wouldn't Getty want to take advantage of this? That way, if people are going to share them anyway, at least it isn't a total loss to them — and hey, people might even be more likely to share them because it doesn't have a supremely ugly watermark.

Media outlets pay $100 — each — for many of these photos. This a big business for Getty, so they need to protect it. Now, Getty could do things to make it easier for smaller entities — say, bloggers — to take advantage of this. This feels like a good, if imperfect, compromise.

Now you might be willing to use GIMP to modify a photo, but most people won't. It's why Adobe can charge $600 for Photoshop. Too expensive? You're not their target market.

This isn't to say there's not a better way, but it just feels like we're wringing our hands over what seems to be a good-faith effort to improve something which previously hindered the experience.
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Really good question.
I have I asked this question to myself a lot of times when I actually buy things or when I'm looking for a service I could use.

From my experience I can definitely say that I never bought something because it looked good. But when I had two alternatives and one looked better than the other I catched myself tending to the better looking service which was not always the best service provider. A company which has what I need and has also a great design / UX gets a big plus point.

But what I also learned is that a good structured site with intuitive navigation is really good makes really solid impression. By intuitive I mean guessing where you could find informations you are looking for. For example documentation of the API they are providing.
I've not bought items from retails with poor image online and offline. I'm very cautious around eCommerce sites that look horrid. I trust the better (looking) ones more.

In the 'real world', if I have to pick between Company A and Company B and assuming I've never been there before and both have the same levels of services/products at similar prices ... I'll check them out online. Who-ever seems more reputable wins my business. Part of that is their look/design/ect. The other part is online reviews.
Yes - that has been the problem that's prevented the adoption of sequences of 10 numbers in the telephone system </sarcasm>
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Dropbox might not charge you for your bandwidth, but your server host will. Using something like this results in twice the bandwidth for every page served. You will be using your servers bandwidth to transfer the file from Dropbox to your server, and then from your server to the client.
butthurt much?
There are other cheaper alternatives example: Bigstockphoto = $1 - $8 per image/use (if you use credits)

However Getty does have some really nice images!
I think a simple rule is to get the other person to do all the talking by asking them questions. Because most people tend to naturally talk about themselves you may have to force yourself in the opposite direction. If you're fairly conscious about keeping the other person talking, then you're less likely to go off on a boring rant about yourself.
"... there's no way to make an image file hold a clickable link."

A QR-code is very close, though...
This. Python's eggs and repos are a far cry from proper software repositories, such as ones available through apt. Tools like pip do not keep track of what eggs are installed, which ones depend on others, etc. It is up to you to keep a requirements file. If you have more than one project that need to share an environment, now you have to find a way to merge two requirements files. If you ever drop a dependency on a package, it's up to you to manually uninstall it and its dependencies.

Don't get me wrong, pip is great for what it does. It just is not anywhere near what we should find acceptable because of the things it does not do.
However when we are talking about a reality in which there are multiple independent and competing launch entities, the idea of "the earth" as a single entity capable of deciding not to service colonists makes much less sense.
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The spatial resolution of a scatterplot represents empirical reality. Each point corresponds to a single observation, with no probability distribution implied or imposed.

tl;dr; I'm a Bayesian, you are a Frequentist (at least with regards to plotting).
Let's take the case of my soon to be car purchase. I'm picking a certain car company because of the cars looks. Since it's at a level where pretty much price, performance and features are equal throughout other companies ... I'm going with this one because to me it looks significantly better.
I did and I don't get it.
You think the "brand image" of a bingo card generator is going to make a difference in the long run? I challenge this because "brand image" is one of those indirect value propositions designers tend to tack on to every pitch.
Except that Apple contributes back to both, so while Apple may have "outpaced" the originals, the originals also benefitted from that.
Keep in mind that they're really big, and their clients are huge companies with deep pockets.

There're a lot of cheaper alternatives with a very direct pricing. See for instance: http://photodune.net/
What evidence would it take to convince naysayers that patents are generally a force for good?
Getty isn't after anyone that thinks 160 is expensive. They're after companies/individuals that understand 160 is much cheaper than paying 1+ professional for n hours to "maybe" get a usable shot.

Having said that, the profusion of really really good modestly priced pro-am cameras has spawned an ugly race-to-the-bottom on stock photography. You can get ( often quite good ) stock photos for next to nothing from the low cost stock photography sites.

To put it in HN parlance, Getty's model has been thoroughly 'disrupted'.
Just as a remark to your point c: A watermark (visible or invisible) provides neither proof of ownership nor does it help crawling the web searching for the watermarked artifact.

Anyone can add a watermark to an image, regardless if they are the owner, creator, copyright holder or whatever.

Anyone can even add a getty watermark to an image. This is called a copy attack and it's the reason why the watermark is not very useful for identification by a crawler. A getty watermarked image could be a real getty image or any image someone inserted a getty watermark. In other words you could sort of DoS the getty crawler very easily.

Digimarc had an interesting research paper on their website about this topic but unfortunately it had been removed. In 2011 I wrote an email to Digimarc customer support asking if their newest watermarks are still vulnerable to a copy attack and the answer was: "There are hundreds of applications and specific use cases
for digital watermarking as I'm sure you found in your research. Some of our
published papers describe theories and some describe applications and solutions that
are available for license today as end-user products. "

EDIT: Found the Digimarc paper http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#....
In some circumstances, but within the context of Getty pictures, how often is it going to be easier or quicker to scan a QR code than to type "gty.im" and eight digits?
Alright, we got our Santorum fix for the month. Thanks, Reddit.
Telephone numbers are always use grouping (432-23-43), which makes copying easier. People still have problems with software license codes, although those are grouped too.
I feel like Flask is node.js of python web frameworks. I guess some people just like shiny/new/popular things.
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Seems like a limited dns hack, most probably these so called anonymous guys have gained access to the local Dns servers and are redirecting facebook.com to their own IP which displays the message.
Not a big deal actually. try pathping/tracerting them and then do a reverse ip to find out from where they are running their server/site.
Oh okay, didn't realize you meant it as "another limit to the reasoning". Makes sense. (Although if they know exactly how many acquisitions they plan, they can just sell at the all-time high price now, keeping the money for the acquisitions, instead of selling somewhat lower so that they can use stock with confidence built into it later. But, if they don't know this, and you would expect they wouldn't, then the latter strategy would have more merit). So, I agree with you if you meant this is another limit to wanting to sell as high as possible in the IPO, decline or no decline thereafter.
Are you actually serious? Not to insult you or anything, but how is a protest supposed to be effective if its not noticed?

France does major demonstrations all the time, blocking access to streets and buildings... in USA, the police would shoot them and treat them as criminals. Just trying to make the point that people SHOULD create trouble when they are not happy.

France is way more free than America so thats why I brought it up.
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I think the default should be the method that displays the most information. Why hide information if you don't have to? In the case of one dimensional data, a dotplot shows the reader everything. Using a boxplot reduces information content, mean-plus-errorbars reduces this further. The mean plus errorbars imposes a probability distribution, which may be wrong, it doesn't reveal a hidden truth.

The same holds in two dimensions. Show me all the data, and include a regression line or a spline to highlight a trend. Only start hiding information when the scatterplot becomes misleading. That is, when overplotting prevents me from accurately assessing the actual distribution of the points.

Jumping immediately to a density plot also restricts me to your interpretation. The original data is lost. With a scatterplot, the raw data can be recovered from the plot, so i can do my own analysis should i be interested. This is common in meta-analyses that extract data from multiple published papers. If those original papers had used density plots instead of scatterplots, reanalysis will require direct access to the underlying data. Once the original author dies, or loses the data, all further use of the data is lost.
My understanding was that Apple's big code dump back to WebKit/KHTML was not useful for the KDE project. Apple is following the OSS spirit in a technical sense but is not succeeding in actually working with community contributions in a meaningful way. Feel free to refute me, I have no evidence, but this was my understanding.
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Although I've been working with django daily for about the past six months, I used bottle for a small stand-alone 'desktop-like' application.

I needed an easy, quick way to take roll call of a large group of people. We have a laptop with a projector but no internet access where the meeting occurs, so it had to be able to live on a Windows machine without network access. Bottle allowed me to pull together something in about five hours that uses sqlite for local storage of all of the participants names and whether they are present/absent and any notes. Previously, I was doing this on an inherited excel spreadsheet and it was very difficult for anyone else to read their name or any information. Now, it's a very simple HTML page with very large font that can be read from the back of the room.

So, thank you bottle! I was able to develop on Linux and fairly painlessly deploy it to the Windows laptop, and it worked the first time. (That was scary... Rarely happens to me.)
I've probably remembered something wrong here, nevertheless the centres of all adjacent hexagons are of equal distance to the centre of the central hexagon. In contrast, a square sharing one vertex (diagonally adjacent) with the central square is farther than the square sharing one edge.
One can only hope that some Big Media cos will look at this and say: "Wait a minute... So, if we make our content easily accessible, people won't pirate it much. Maybe we can compete with free, after all!"
Other ways to handle this include transparency, smaller points, and jittered data.

I used to like the concept of density plots, but more and more I feel that they can be misleading. Plot your actual data if you can; use summarizing models as a fallback and a second step.
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(Addressing all parents of this comment) Don't tell people to google it, just paste it in first and avoid all the distracting chatter so we can go read other threads.
The thing people don't seem to get about buying a carrier is that you can't just add "Wireless Carrier" to your inventory, dual-wield it, and collect the stats boost.

Carriers are capital-intensive, operations-intensive, customer service-intensive businesses. You have to run them effectively, as a carrier, at huge expense, or they degrade.

Apple has no competence in running wireless carriers. Tens of billions of dollars will buy a lot of competence, but not instantaneously. Given the stakes, I imagine "operating a wireless carrier" is not one of those things you want to learn how to do as you go.

I'm also amused by the sentiment on HN (and the Internet at large) that 2012 wireless carriers are really just a cartel organized to collude on providing bad customer service and exorbitant rate structures. As if no carrier figured out that executing better service and value would improve their competitive position; no, the only reason wireless carriers suck is that they choose to suck!
Look at all these people debating this topic. In the time it took me to read the 20 comments, 9 more were added. Wow. That's user engagement! Now look at the design...
Painting myself into a corner.
Reminds me of the umbrella murder of Georgi Markov[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov#Murder
It depends on what business you are in. If yours is primarily a B2B - design may or may not be that important. If you can solve a pain point - it doesn't matter what the solution looks like. You can see the result of that in any SMB software product - they look horrible.

However if you are trying to do a B2C people have wildly different expectations. They've seen better online products. Consumer internet products these days set a pretty high bar in design and user experience and if you don't have that, it will be difficult to get them to use your product.
100% agree with this statement, though my followup question to that is: do we have to stick with mediocrity? Or can/should better design/quality outpace and outperform the current drivel?
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The other problem with owning a carrier is that they'd lose their reputation for perfect performance. If someone's iPhone isn't working, >90% of the time they'll blame it on AT&T/Verizon/T-Mobile/etc. If Apple owned a carrier, the network problems would be on them.
Is it wrong that I use web.py? Should I feel dirty and start using bottle instead? :P
That's only if you use a scaling factor of 9 instead of 4.

edit: Wikipedia tells me hexagonal tiling is conjectured to be the tiling with the smallest perimeter per cell, and is the densest way to arrange circles on a plane. So that's a big plus when binning.
Interesting article you linked to and something to consider certainly. That being said, I somewhat disagree with you about the histograms being misleading. His color scheme looks to be based much the same as thermal imaging. Which I find is quite clear about what are the 'hot' zones (or in this case high point density) and the 'cold' zones (or low point density).
What went wrong with Orkut?
I take issue with your 'ugly-rate-to-the-bottom' unless you can explain to me how that is any different from anything else capitalism has made cheap enough for the masses to buy?
I would like to violate the privacy of the people I know and care about
I don't know what this has to do with bayes vs frequentist. I am not arguing that the data do not have a probabilty distribution. I am arguing that it is better to show all the data when possible, rather than an eye-catching but lossy summary.
That was embarrasing. Should be fixed now: https://github.com/uggedal/going/commit/15a83397076ffbebe585...
A QR code? What did you have in mind for interaction?

As far as I know you'd need at least two devices (the one whose screen is displaying the image with the QR code, and the one you're using to snap a photo of it). And then you'd probably want send the decoded URL back to the original device to load in the original browser.

Edit: Maybe you were thinking about the analog world, but watermarked images tend to show up in the digital space (in mockups especially).
I dunno, engineers driving Ferraris around or something?

Oh no, they will be called 'patent trolls' then.
But what if you don't have much interest in the other party? Most people are not interesting to me.
I thought it was a product code.
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If visiting a URL involves taking my phone out of pocket, finding the QR app, taking a picture, emailing myself the URL, checking email on my desktop, and then clicking the link, I guarantee you that's not going to happen.
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That's pretty questionable, really. Suppose ten percent of car commuters were offered telecommuting 80% of the time. House size ( which is an input in to air conditioning energy use ) is dropping.
Related link to an article written before the Studio's default, detailing what happens to the IP:

http://www.joystiq.com/2012/05/16/rhode-island-owns-38-studi...
They chose an interesting location for the Print Screen and Page Up/Down keys. I don't see Pause/Break or Scroll Lock anywhere, or an option to use part of the keyboard as a numpad. The Fn key remains in its oft-complained-about location. They even freed up a bunch of space on the keyboard bezel that could have been used to make most or all of the "Fn" key icons dedicated buttons, but chose not to. Tactile feeling aside, I'm inclined to think that this is a step backward rather than a step forward.
Sounds nice, but what dashboard? I think you mean Tumblr but it's really unclear, I don't use Tumblr and it took me a couple of minutes to understand your phrasing.
Even if they are it doesn't matter. People aren't going to brush off the general badness of software patents by saying to themselves "But it's okay, patents are a good thing in the long run."

That's called denial, and it isn't just a river in Egypt.
If you have to block the street for me to notice your course, you suck at communication or your course must be completely retarded.

Either way it is a good filter for me to not give a shit and/or support the other party.
Headline: Don't use Scatterplots

Postscript: Some people seem to be interpreting me as making a stronger claim than I intend. There are obviously a few cases when a scatterplot truly is the right tool.

Inflammatory, overstated headlines are a rhetorical device that we're apparently stuck with for a long time to come. They're like television advertisements used to be: only curmudgeons[1] complain about them anymore because people assume the content wouldn't exist without them.

[1] Hello.
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See http://futuretimeline.net/21stcentury/2019.htm#copyright . I have no doubt that when 2019 rolls around, if Disney et al. (I mention Disney specifically instead of the RIAA or anyone else because Disney seems to be the one really at the forefront of the copyright extension issue every time it comes up) are still around in any significant form (hopefully they'll have been thoroughly disrupted years before then, but you can't really predict the future, etc. etc.), they'll be pushing for another extension to copyright terms. However, there's no guarantee that said push would make it through Congress, especially given recent victories over legislation such as SOPA/PIPA and efforts to disrupt the industry. The website presents its predictions in light of current laws and trends, since anything else would end up being too complicated from all the possible "what-if" alternate timelines.
The watermark is designed to be visible. You should know it's there without having to check for it. Additional meta data in exif data could be useful. Maybe they even have it, but since it involves more tools than looking at the image in my browser, I don't know if it's there or not.
Wen plotting dense, largely unconstrained data (i.e. not on a 0-100 scale), I've found a hybrid scatter/density plot to be nice. Basically, for each point you do a kernel density estimation, then color the points according to that. For the sparse data, the scatter plot seems just as useful, but at the dense parts, you seamlessly switch to color as the useful metric. Something like this: http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/8577-sca...
[2] Andrew Chen's blog: http://andrewchenblog.com/
Hmm this doesn't seem that usefull. Groveshark, last.fm and spotify all have data on their users so they are able to make informed guesses as to what songs their users might like.

As far as I can see, that site simply suggest the same song to everybody?

If so, how does that differ from listening to radio?
Just downvoted you because I visited the site, only say the short text (I dont use Flash nor do I browse with JS enabled) and it looked like spam so I downvoted. Sorry. Your post here was not too verbose so it mislead me.
Please help me understand: What is so special about a visible watermark which is gone anyway when I buy the image? Was it before that bad? Clueless.