skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
| I think general copyright is actually a thornier
| problem and this secrecy is unnecessary

1. When we talk about 'detecting copyright infringement' there is an implicit assumption that we're talking about the IP of major corporations. No one is going to bend over backwards to prevent copyright infringement of 'the small guy'[1].

2. Even if you detect that a video contains copyrighted material, there is no central registry for you to determine if the person (or entity) has permission to distribute/use that material. Even if there was such a registry, how do you link it to an online id on some random website?

3. There is no middle-ground for fair use. Fair Use is something that is usually only definitively determined after a court battle. If restrictions are too strict, then the only way for one to exercise their Fair Use rights is a court battle. This effectively means that Fair Use would be dead for all but some rich, motivated people (at least on large content networks, e.g. YouTube).

[1] Unless it wins brownie points with the public for getting a system in place to protect the 'big guys,' who are obviously the only ones that matter.
They do have a policy; a policy that keeps them away from legal trouble, a policy of non-involvement. What you are seeing is that policy at work.
Shrug, Apple does the same.
Same here, I signed up for their Node.js monitoring (saw the logo, then specifically ticked that's what I needed during sign-up), then discovered it's not actually available yet after the fact. Since then it's just been a barrage of emails, "Why haven't you set up your monitoring yet?!". Hmpf.
It's essentially the equivalent of quoting Karl Marx. They are both so blinded by adherence to a since-discredited world view that their positions are laughable at best and at worse provide excuses for destructive behavior. Those who quote either typically haven't bothered to branch out beyond a simplistic, falsifiable perspective. Such an approach supports the smug self-satisfaction of dogmatic certainty over actually being correct.

Or, more succinctly, "There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers
True.

And what if instead of disappearing, the company had simply tried (in good faith) and failed to deliver. The users would still be pissed off because they felt like they paid for something and the company didn't deliver.

The big problem I see with Kickstarter is that both users & companies see it like a pre-order service. Too often it's used this way and people end up pissed. In the eyes of the backers, they aren't paying to see something new created. They're pre-ordering a product they think would be cool.

If anything, kickstarter should enforce some sort of limits for perks to curb this sort of abuse.
Throughout modern history (certainly long before the internet) creative works that become the most popular are not necessarily that of the best quality. They're usually those that cater to the interests of the most people.

It happens to be that most people wish for regularly-updated pieces of entertainment that give them a particular emotional stimulus, regardless of their "quality". Aspects of human nature like these affect markets involving a macrocosm like the community of those that watch YouTube. Changing the pay model won't fix that. In the end, the number of people who want to view one's creative work determines how much the creator earns.

So really, rather than being a complaint about YouTube, this article is a general complaint about how things of "bad quality" are more popular than things of "good quality", which is a half-handed complaint about an aspect of human nature in the public macrocosm. This can't really be fixed unless one limits the audience in some way, and often it's a much more logical decision not to do that.
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Agreed. I can't imagine not checking the byline. It's even more valuable now than ever before because we can check the byline and Google the author if it's an unfamiliar name.
According to Aaron Greenspan in his recent lawsuit "a vast sum, if not the majority, of Dwolla’s transaction volume is the result of Bitcoin speculation."

So it should be interesting to see what impact this has on Dwolla's business.
You wouldn't have read the front page for the product before purchasing it?

It's not like this is tucked away in the Terms of Use behind complex legal language. It is stated quite plainly on the landing page beneath a large header reading "Why is it free?"
Nothing's set in stone until the public preview next month, but it's likely to be:

* A start button (not menu) on the desktop mode taskbar, having the same functionality as pressing the Windows key

* The option to boot into desktop mode instead of the start screen

* More tile sizes (1/4 small thumbnails, and 2x large) for the start screen

* 50/50 split view for Win8 Apps in addition to the ~25/75 option

* Internet Explorer 11

* A rollup of windows update patches to date

They'll probably also announce the 7.5-inch Surface tablets at the same time. They're getting 8.1 to OEMs so the next generation of Win8 tablets can ship with it.
When you say "one container per application/service", you mean I should use

- one container = one domain ?
with www.example.com, have one container for www.example1.com with all the services included (webserver_example1, database_example1,...) in one container ?
and so forth with www.example2.com, ...

- one container = one service ?
have a VM_DB for all the database with container1 = database_example1, container2 = database_example2, ...
have a VM_WebServer with container1 = webserver_example1, ... ?

which approach work the best if i keep adding more and more VM (with container inside this VM) ??
This is pretty ridiculous. Best of luck to you and I hope you get your store back after the publicity of this post!
When you install a package with `apt-get`, that package can potentially change your system in any way it pleases. Running `go get` will download and compile code, but there is no security risk until you run or use that code without checking it first.
I cropped this together using nothing but Google Sheets and Google Sites.

It is not a bad alternative if you are of busy type and only wish to take a quick glance or view of news as it is happening on the day/time when you are viewing. It's a sort of River of News.

It is not a suitable alternative if you wish to save your feeds or even do search (something Google Reader provided as its best feature).
Its really arrogant to think you know what "good" is, universally. No matter how much you argue for why something (media, art, music-ish stuff) is bad or good, it really doesn't change people's minds- when was the last time you were personally convinced that you didn't like something after enjoying it?
There is a simple solution to this problem. Don't allow project creators to offer the project as a reward! It should be ok for people to try and fail with projects on Kickstarter. By preventing creators from offering the product as a reward backers will understand better that it isn't a pre-order system. It's an "I need money for this idea. It might work or it might fail but if you want to help me try, give me money" system.
The project has reached a $196K funding while the initial goal was "only" $12K. Maybe Kickstarter should limit the amount of money to this initial goal, or at least to twice the amount of this goal.

If a project looks promising, more people are likely to pledge for it. But if Cryptrade thought $12K was enough to develop their project, that's probably all they actually needed. And $12K is both less tempting for Cryptrade to just disappear and less penalizing to everyone who pledged for the project.
I think the tricky situation here is one of positioning. Of course Kickstarter wants something as close to what a payments platform might get in terms of accountability for the transaction, but they're providing a curated marketplace for these projects. Closer to eBay or AirBnB... both of which have ended up with really similar challenges to tackle.

At the very least it seems like it shouldn't be that challenging for them to at least be prepared to aggressively deal with flat-out fraud.
I suppose Etsy had to do something for bad PR eventually.
It was forced in Europe and Canada by shifting liability for fraud on swipe transactions to the merchant. Chips are very effective at preventing point-of-sale fraud. Mastercard and Visa had not tried to push it in the US, but they are getting more active now. As of this year, their processors are required to support chip transactions. By 2015 they will start shifting liability for certain transactions to the merchant if a chip card isn't used.
Service packs typically don't contain new features, though, while this update is expected to.
Not contradicting your point, but such updates would likely tend not to be in great demand.

Recently encountered an interesting article on topic—Sorry, PC Industry: You’ve Apparently Managed to Perfect the PC (http://techland.time.com/2013/04/11/sorry-pc-industry-youve-...)
Ask HN: Static hosting for $1/m.
I'm thinking about it sometime,
i'll try to launch a service of static shared web hosting starting at 1$/m or 5$/y, it will support integration with:
google drive
skydrive
dropbox
box.com
github
bitbucket
amazon
and other dummy services like ftp,sftp,git.svn....

My question is, there is a market for that?
Thanks
I fully agree and I couldn't help but add this as the summary of the post (http://i.imgur.com/Wcw43l4.png) using tldr.io
I wish these folks all the best. Just one quick comment. My first question is what else have you built that I can see and play with? As with most things, show rather than tell.

Happy to interview your team on my podcast to get you some more exposure if you'd like.
Obviously, you and I live in different areas. Where I live, the traffic lights turn yellow even when the yellow light has not become solid.

Then, there's also the issue that many pedestrians are still in the process of crossing when the hand turns red.
The main difference being that in order to get Windows 8.1, you’ll probably need to register a Windows Store account (or whatever it’s called this month).
If it's unreasonable people shouldn't back projects. The creator is also taking risk investing time and usually their own money into the project. If it fails they lose that investment and the backers lose their investment. Kickstarter needs to make it more clear to backers the risk involved and that they aren't pre-ordering anything. They are giving someone money and hoping they can successfully create something with it.
There's a few well known youtubers in the comments to that article ... kind of interesting to see their responses :) But yeah, I kind of agree. Youtube is a new thing, it doesn't have to adhere to conventional notions of "quality".

This is oddly inverted, but I remember a few years ago I was working at EA Tiburon when EA did the whole exclusive NFL deal. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth over that, and people complaining about year after year releases of Madden, with few improvements ... but you know what? consumers buy it, and so the party continues. Same goes with youtube ... the content obviously provides value or entertainment for a large number of people. Don't fight it, just accept that it is what it is.
Since Kickstarter gets a 5% cut, they have no incentive to limit the amount of funding.
Does anybody know whether they are going to fix the INT_MIN / -1 bug in the kernel? This code below (compiled and linked with gdi32) crashes fully patched versions of Windows 7 and 8 (32 bit), I didn't try it with 64bit versions.

#include <windows.h>

#include <limits.h>

int main() {

HDC dc = CreateCompatibleDC (NULL);

SetLayout (dc, LAYOUT_RTL);

ScaleWindowExtEx (dc, INT_MIN, -1, 1, 1, NULL);

}
Maybe even only release 50% of the funds initially and hold the rest in escrow until a given set of circumstances are met. That way the users are exposed to less risk knowing they could get half of their funding back.

On the downside, if this keeps happening, users aren't going to back as many projects, and fewer projects will be successfully funded (which may or may not actually be a bad thing).
Huh. I don't remember seeing any other blog posts from anyone dissatisfied with Etsy previously — is this their first negative publicity?

It'll be interesting to see how they respond. I am reminded of the smashed antique Paypal violin story ( http://www.regretsy.com/2012/01/03/from-the-mailbag-27 ), where PayPal adopted the standard PR strategy of "saying nothing at all so that the story will go away."
Canadian Army, 34th Brigade, R de Mais. You?

If I'm not mistaken, I think Zed Shaw was an american soldier before becoming a programmer.
booh, can't stand this childish php rants anymore ...

ruby and python can also be shitty in the wild as php, please stop such foolish statements once and for all.
Weren't those guys building some sort of complicated forum software that sort of worked like SO?
In what way do you think diseases are stigmatized?
Are failed startup founders also stealing millions of VC money? KS is a risk-investment, not a preorder webshop.
European nations would not be able to afford universal healthcare and all the welfare if they had to pay for their security. US bases in Europe are great financial aid.

I never hear discussions about Iran or Russia being a possible threat in Europe. I do in the US. Which is funny because it really is much bigger problem for Europeans to have guys like Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at their door steps. Never happens. The US bases and military spending is taken for granted. They prefer to talk about universal healthcare and help for the poor instead. As security is non-issue with the US soldiers deployed to this continent.

The thing that really gets on my nerves is that some politicians even want the US bases to be moved out from Europe. They simply don't understand the world in which they are living. Talking distances Syria is closer to Greece than Greece to Germany. Nobody thinks about it that way though.

The US pays the military bills for the whole of Europe and this amounts to money that can and is spent on social services.
I think it's also a libertarian type of view that appeals to technocrats and nerds. The focus on logic, individualism and meritocracy is something that appeals to a lot of the more nerdy among us.

I personally find Ayn Rand too simplistic and from a literary point of view hardly readable but I think she's definitely an important part of American culture but I think at this point she's not as widely read as 20 or 30 years ago.
From the Kickstarter trailer: "If we don't get this game out by Halloween, something will claim our souls".
Which will then pivot into kickbitcoin.com
23 USD at DX and looks better too.
http://dx.com/p/aole-100mini-gsm-bar-phone-w-1-8-lcd-screen-...
Hopefully the project maintainer will keep a go1 branch in their repo that only contains 'released' versions of a consistent API.

And in cases where that's not obviously the case, my habit is just to fork the repo and "go get" my own fork. I can then update it as needed.

Not saying these are optimal solutions, but they are solutions. I do personally wish I could "go get" a specific commit or tag.
I was kind of wondering when this would happen. For a very small investment you could mockup a slick iPhone gadget, make 10x your initial request of $100k and then take the money and run. Aside from the morality of it, I don't think there are many legal obstacles to this, especially if you made it seem like you were making a "good faith" effort up until you disappeared with the cash.
After a few bad projects like this, Kickstarter now has the following disclaimer and new hardware guidelines

"Product simulations are prohibited. Projects cannot simulate events to demonstrate what a product might do in the future. Products can only be shown performing actions that they’re able to perform in their current state of development.
Product renderings are prohibited.

Product images must be photos of the prototype as it currently exists."

http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/kickstarter-is-not-a-store

Also see:
http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/09/18/kickstarter...
Do kickstarter do any identification process when new projects are created?
Health has nothing to do with luck, take it into your own hands (instead of other's hand) and you will see why. Stop giving up on yourself.
I don't get why it would be so horrible for someone to not hand-assemble something they sell on Etsy, can someone please explain? (Yes, I know it's against the point of the site, but is it really worth terminating a product? Why not just post a notice?)
Somebody should freeze the DHS.
i think it will be interesting to see how this works. I'm not 100 percent sure, but i think the store basically cannot update apps and functions outside its modern UI jail, right?
Until BC is accepted as a maintstream exchange, you need a way to liquidate so that you can actually spend.

I think this dampers the movement, sadly. :(
For example, isn't it true that the Church of Scientology has been successfully using copyright infringement to quench speech against it?
Try sending Etsy a link to your YouTube channel. I don't know if any of those videos feature the device in the dispute, but they demonstrate you're capable of making some pretty cool digital audio equipment.
Thanks for the feedback! Working on making Stripe Connect sign up easier for beta users.
Wow. Contrast this with the front-page HN post about kickstarter not doing anything about a project that over funded 20x and went silent for a year and a half https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5707827

The individual instances where policies fall down can be pretty nutty, but I honestly don't envy companies that have to solve this problem and figure out where to walk the line (at scale, no less).
Backlash in 3... 2... 1...
No, but I'd feel more secure if DHS was shut down.
I am reminded of "Worse Is Better" [1]:

The good news is that in 1995 we will have a good operating system and
programming language; the bad news is that they will be Unix and C++.

Javascript seems to exhibit much of Gabriel's "New Jersey approach".

[1] http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
Wow. Your site is beautiful, and tells me what the product is very quickly. Great job!
1. There is more transparency with your IRC bot.

2. Joining/forming another IRC channel is cheaper than creating a competitor to Skype.

3. MS looking at your messages implies that they have the ability to do so. If the conversation were entirely secure, only the other end of the conversation would be able to.

4. MS eavesdropping at all means that when law enforcement comes knocking, they can do so too. Law enforcement is not always your friend. More so in some countries than others.

5. The 'link bot' can be implemented in the client, rather than by a middle-man.

6. Such 'beneficial processing' could be opt-in at the client level. The message is encrypted between clients. Once a client has it, the message can be processed locally or sent off for processing. Sure this adds delay, but it's a trade-off for privacy.
I rather like this fact. It allows things like GMail, YouTube and the fantastic work I see on the NY Times.
They have a huge incentive to keep backers comfortable with using Kickstarter. Too many "scamstarter" projects and it's their brand which takes the hit.
I haven't needed a printed receipt in years, I use Xero so even paying in cash with Square and getting an emailed receipt is a bonus instead of having to remember those 30 seconds to take a photo of it on my phone and log the amount.
Researchers develop algorithm to protect networks from cyber attacks
Blue Ocean Strategy, which is interesting why you brought up Apple. Nintendo came out of nowhere with the Wii and the DS. Apple, similarly, is all about innovation.
It looks like they have posted an update on March 6, 2 months ago. Not very responsive but not as bad as the 3 years people think its been.
Twitter and Facebook still haven't answered this question...
Silicon Valley has peaked.

Idealistic, social-conscience-having nerds take note:

This is what happens when you let neoliberalism, Randroidism, and corporate psychopathy infect your tech community.

Technology is supposed to be used to create a Star Trek future. Not to spy on everyone as we make their jobs obsolete, drive up their rental costs, and put them on the street. Then demonstrate zero compassion for the victims that Silicon Valley has created.

You, sir, win the Indignation for May 14, 2013: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtCiP8B2xpc#t=7s

We really need to push these corporate/private-equity assholes out of our industry. We had a good thing for a while, but they came in and stole it. We have to take it back from those pieces of shit.

Having worked both in finance and in VC-funded "tech" I can only say that the people in finance are a lot better and much more ethical. It seems that technology management (at least in the VC-funded space, where the investors agree that only "their kind" is actually fit to manage) is an Argentina for people who get flushed out of banking because they're too unethical even for Wall Street.
I find that it gives you a feeling of wellbeing that you can't get elsewhere. I don't mean that you can't feel good if you aren't strong. I mean the feeling of wellbeing that you get from it is unique and I haven't found it elsewhere.
No, because there are enough services that allow for $0/m static hosting.
Isn't pretty much anyone that benches 400lbs an exception to the rule? I've known a couple people that could, but they pretty much live inside a gym.
I totally agree; it would also allow the creators a more realistic chance of fulfilling the original spec, whilst not getting overwhelmed by more features and possibilities. They could always allow creators to reopen the funding again, but I'm guessing most projects would follow more traditional methods at that point.
MS always does this. Windows XP had three or four major updates (service packs). Mac OS X is on v10.8 (i.e. they've updated version 10 8 times). Do you expect them to release it and never release another version of Windows?
I agree, more or less, because certainly there's a long history of people creating charities to fill in the gaps left by government. It's the way he's doing it, on Google+ and as the CEO of Google that I don't like. Maybe it's just because of the mixing of personal and work life or something. I don't know why, it just gives me a creepy feeling like I wouldn't want to get involved with the guy. Maybe I'm just jealous because I don't have my own fuck you money.
This is actually probably a result of Etsy's last round of bad PR, where one of the sellers they were promoting (Ecologica Malibu) was actually a reseller. Etsy has rampant problems with resellers.
Part 2 of this story: http://wtfbyrne.tumblr.com/post/50437619970/etsy-accused-me-...

Submitted at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5708307
BSA? One of the more prominent backers of SOPA? Are you kidding me? These are the same goons who send threatening letters about EULA violations on their members' (Apple and Microsoft being prominent) behalf. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black.
The author is Ryan Holiday, who makes a nice side living as a professional rage-click generator.

It's likely that his only purpose with this post is to piss off thousands of Jenna Marbles fans so that they will come post angry comments (and receive ad impressions).
We definitely want to cross the Channel, but can't say much about timelines as yet
Could have been to make it clear they were only counting Windows 8 apps not Windows 8 + Windows Phone 8 apps. Probably just trying to prevent the media spinning the numbers.