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The default case, yes. Here we are arguing of what the correct way of doing things should be. It is widely accepted in programming contracts to transfer the copyright to the client and in photography contracts it is otherwise.

bradly's case, like darkarmani pointed out is a communication issue. His wife assumed that since she is paying for the shoot she would own the resultant work. The photographer probably though otherwise and had a contract to back this up. For a contract to be considered legal there must be a "meeting of the minds" and clearly it didn't happen here. I blame the photographer here, because they usually have their own contract templates that they know well. They should correct any asymmetric of information that may result. Having the client hire a lawyer to examine the photo contract would be more expensive than hiring a photographer in the first place.

TL;DR If photographers don't want lawyers fees cutting into their service fees, they should be upfront about what they are peddling.
Oh add the girl who was thrown out of school for blowing up a bottle, simmer for a few minutes with other anecdotes from HN, season with http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html and http://www.paulgraham.com/hs.html.
who can i throw my money at to get this
But they're the people who will be reading the vapid-to-us articles written by those who have no understanding of, or context for, gaming and will simply try to encapsulate what they see on that stage.

If Microsoft gave a 'core gamer only' conference as its reveal, the (e.g.) CNN article the next day would read very differently. And the mother with two children and a kinect would decide, in a paragraph or maybe two, that this next one is not really 'for' her.

And that may well be what core gamers want the message to be. But it is desperately not what Microsoft wants the message to be.
As others have pointed out, it's a good thing they didn't do that then.
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Message Receipt Notification is XEP-0184 and supported in most clients, though I don’t know how it works in MUCs.

XMPP also has a spec for server-side history storage, that allows for syncing to clients. I don’t know how well it is supported in reality, but understand that there are at least ejabberd modules for the server-side part and a plugin for Pidgin to view this stored history. Not perfect, yet.
I have precisely the opposite attitude. If I pay for a book, it better damn well be an ebook without DRM. I can't be asked to read paper books anymore, I'll just end up reading one of my ebooks instead.
Durango sounded better than freaking xbox one! Come on Microsoft!
Tooltips are up and running! Thanks for the suggestion!
Good job, I like it!
But please, responsiveness.
I'll let you say it. I believe I understand.

Strong emotions spark passionate writing, and passionate writing is entertaining. Being offended, angry, or insulted is an easy state to achieve.
Be careful when doing this. Some systems require an email address and employees will make one up to get to the next screen. If that address is valid (or not bounced), someone can get control of your account with something as simple as a password reset.
> what's the difference between me using AirBNB and me knowing a friend who let me stayed at his place for 6 days and I just happened to give him some money as a thank you gift?

Its the difference between an informal, non-contracted exchange of gifts between parties known to each other with an established relationship on the one hand, and a contractual, arms-length agreement between strangers through a third-party intermediary with arms-length contractual relationships with both parties on the other.

As a general rule, in most domains, the latter tends to be subject to greater regulation than the former, both because, as an arms-length agreement, there is greater need for protection from abuse and, as a contractual agreement, it necessarily invokes the threat of state action.
duck typed it?
Just stop. Every post is making you look worse.
That's not, like, a slam on his family or a dig about his person. That's just a linguistic observation

It is reasonable to expect that people with that family name might think otherwise. That's why it is usually considered very bad taste to comment on people's names, even when you don't mean it that way.
There's an alternative stream at GT: http://www.gametrailers.com/netstorage/xboxcountdown/live.ht...

The official one appears to have some bandwidth issues for me.
I agree that people should be talking more about this. As an older student who hangs out on IRC a lot, I see two phenomena:

- People get initiated into programmer culture pretty young, before they learn to stop being pretentious. They really like how meritocratic programmer culture is, but they get carried away with it the same way that people who say "gays should go to hell" or "the weak have no place in society" get carried away. And maybe some people never grow out of it because we've reached asshole critical mass and they find themselves surrounded by like-minded people; and because they're rewarded for technical merit even when they behave badly. The result is your typical Dickensian villainy.

- The meanest IRC channel that I know of, #C, is full of people who are honestly not very smart. Every time that I've patiently and kindly tried to teach someone - while the rest of the channel was busy being huge dicks to that person - I've regretted it because the person just wasn't able to absorb and synthesize information. I'd argue that you can't give a $5 dollars to every beggar, and some people should be firmly kept out of the community until they get better, so as to avoid harming the community in the long run. It's a tough situation, and handling it well is tough even for mature people. Being rude isn't an unreasonable tool if your goal is specifically to scare people away (and hopefully towards a more productive endeavor for them).

The point is that there are imperfect people on both sides of our social boundaries. But note that this is a very specific point, and rarely justifies the vitriol that comes out of people in #C.
> We _can_ however purchase separately a digital copy for an individual photo at $25 a piece

I'd be willing to bet that just about every professional photographer retouches each photograph in some way before printing or otherwise delivering them to the client.

Retouching takes time. If they gave away digital copies before retouching that work wouldn't be up to their standards and their reputation—and ability to gain new clients—could be harmed.
This looks great. Reminds me a lot of PHP's strtotime function.
Great job. I would include more commands. Like to change the page background color, the font, etc. You know, show off.
Show HN: HnReader for android with offline preloading
Hi Everyone,

I would like to share my little project with you.

The idea behind the project is simple: I spend around 2 hours each day riding on trains, trams and buses. I don't have WiFi there, so I cant browse my favorite site - HN. So I decided to make an app, that makes it easy to preload the articles and comments for offline reading. Before I leave the house, I open the app, press preload, and in about 3 minutes I have a fully functional offline HN clone (along with all the URLs content and comments).

You can get the source code, as well as a built APK here: https://github.com/bndr/HNreader

As this is my first Android project I would like to hear your thoughts on usability, code style, bugs etc.
As jgrahamc mentioned, you can choose to block incoming traffic with HN as the referrer (although this is not foolproof for a number of reasons); you do not have the right to download other people's content without restriction. Also, you do not have the right to have your discussion hosted on HN; if pg chose to, he would be well within his own rights to implement a feature like this.
3 wrongs don't make a right?
I agree the name is not that great – I know others might disagree – But I once told a friend of mine about DDG, to which he replied: "DuckDuckGo? I would never use a search engine named like that."

I know it's shallow to judge a product/service by its name, but for most people hearing the name for the first time counts as an initial encounter with the product/service, and since that can leave an impression, it matters a lot.
Server has to keep tabs on all clients, rather than being polled.
Thats the "old-school" way. to keep the "negatives" and charge for prints. They keep them on file forever. (I used to assist a wedding photographer).
Negotiate for digital copies of the images ahead of time, and for rights to the photos. That way the images are yours. Some photographers aren't going to like it but its the way the market is going.

Some labs wouldn't print photos that look "pro" but this is less of a problem now.
The issue I take with Dave Winer is that he seems to feel as though his accomplishments or contributions somehow elevate his words beyond criticism.

This is exactly why Dave Winer wrote this post.

The thing is, he probably has a point in criticizing the community. But he has a longstanding inability to respond to criticism properly, to the point where he just insults and name-calls people who disagree with him.

This is why he wants a twitter like "block" from HN. Because he'd rather block HN and the people who take issue with his ideas than actually have an argument.

[UPDATED: fixed poor wording]
The photographer still holds the copyright to those photos because they took them.

That's only by custom. Legally the photographer holds the copyright as soon as they take the photo, but they could just as easily assign full copyright to the person hiring them as a matter of course.

Most photos of people at weddings, family portraits, etc have little commercial value, except to the people who are in the photos. So you can see how this feels like double/triple/n-times charging, as it has suddenly become a monopoly backed by federal copyright law.
Why couldn't they stream it on YouTube? This one keeps buffering every 5 seconds.
Oh, how we will laugh at this article when this inert industry has been disrupted.
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Neat, but I was immediately disappointed when I typed "ls" and "df" and got "unknown command" for both. If it's going to look like a *nix shell, it ought to recognize the most common commands and give some interesting/clever output. There's a huge opportunity for creativity being missed.
Is it just me or were the number of buzzword adjectives in this event absolutely ridiculous?
no sir, that would be Duck Duck Goose

Non-technical people I tell the name to remember it more for the "controversy".
Damn right! You must have the 1st gen 360 like me....ahhh my little space heater that's louder than my crossfire gpus.
I didn't say Paul Graham's opinion didn't matter. I said that congruence between it and yours would not make yours more interesting.
It's trainer-wheels for people afraid of touching the stuff they're using.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-success-story-of-chobani-...

But maybe that is the exception that proves the rule. Or maybe you didn't mean dairy products.
That "1" or "l" or "L" for some reason drives me absolutely nuts. It looks so close to (one).

Anyways besides that it is awesome.
>> Trying to evaluate the 'value' of something without internalizing the challenge of providing that something doesn't work.

Few people ask a web developer "what kind of computer did you use to make that site?" whereas many photographers get asked "what kind of camera did you use to get that shot?" Many people assume the camera does most of the work involved with a great shot.

This is a problem, and frankly, I think the camera makers are contributing to this big time. I get annoyed every time I see a camera commercial on TV where at the end of the commercial, they brag that it was shot with the camera being featured in the ad (I think I've seen Canon and Nikon ads that do this). What isn't visible is all the extra overhead related to the shoot: a director, a writer, one or more camerapeople, expensive lighting and sound gear, assistants, editors, etc.
I've got two of these Lapdocks, I bought them for $50 back when they first started being liquidated. I currently use one as the display for a BeagleBone Black for some project I'm working on.

This setup isn't really anything new, people were running this sort of thing a year ago, and there are lots of variations of it including embedding TV-HDMI-stick systems (like the RK3188) directly into the case hinge of the lapdock so you have something more like a standard laptop.

In any case, I highly recommend picking up the lapdock if you can find one for a good price. I'm not sure I'd pay close to $100 for one, but for $50 they were a great deal. They make great displays for Linux ARM SoC projects. If you actually want an ARM based laptop for general purpose laptop stuff, the Samsung ARM Chromebook already mentioned in this thread is a better all-around solution for not much more money.
The thinly veiled condescension of professional photographers like this is why I eventually got out of the business.

It never upset me that the models didn't understand the business or that I had to explain what was going on. Of course they don't know what are common contract terms for photographers, they aren't doing the photographer's job and they've never done the photographer's job.

It's no different in software contracting. Of course my clients don't have a flipping clue what it takes to make software; that's the entire point of them hiring me.

And keeping exclusive copyright--while I know is completely common--is straight up ridiculous. Sure, if you're David LaChapelle, you probably will be making money off of the images themselves at some point, rather than just the session fee. Of course, if you're David LaChapelle, you're also not taking gigs from the subject of the pictures, you're getting hired by magazines who are also hiring the models for you, and the magazine will demand the copyright.

But the vast majority of your garden variety wedding photographers and "Glamor ShotZ!" photographers aren't going to do jack with the photos. Who the hell is going to want to buy photos of YOUR wedding other than YOU? At most, they're going to stick them in their portfolio and use them as advertising. The exclusive copyright of those images is so completely valueless that the only reason the photographer could possibly want them is to gouge the customer for prints. It's disingenuous rent-seeking.
Beautifully written.

The question of whether my contribution to the world and how meaningful it should be has been in my head for a long, long time. It's not an easy answer. Working on an IDE certainly isn't performing life-saving surgery on someone who's bleeding out, but it does serve its purpose in the world.

I used to criticize people working on social apps until I started training in the hospital here and noticed kids spending hours in their stretchers browsing Instagram and the like. Social apps likely help a huge number of patients get through their hospital stays. And while they're not contributing directly to a person's physiological stability, I don't think they are that less meaningful than the services being provided by the hospital. There's a patient here who listens to his iPod all day, and another who is constantly on Facebook, and another who is always watching movies on his iPad, and I'd bet a cool million that all those products and services contribute to their mental, and eventually physical health.

If your product/service is providing value, making lives easier, and you're satisfied providing it, I would try to ignore the "meaning" question, because your mind will always default to you being the Nobel piece prize winner who discovered the cure for cancer, or the doctor who just single-handedly resurrected a patient (and all the glory and status that comes with that). The point is you will always undervalue the contribution you're currently making while overvaluing the contributions you could be making. I'm not saying you shouldn't pursue stuff like cancer research, but before you do, objectively evaluate the contribution you're making.

Know there is much more to a meaningful life than health, like friends, families, hobbies, entertainment, work, etc. Helping facilitate any of that makes you a positive-contributor in my book.
I've been saying 'DDG it' around the house.
I've been reading hacker news for more than 6 years, without doing any successful projects of my own. That's depressing.
Oops. Thanks for the heads up on the DNS issue. Should be fixed now. I'll respond to your email shortly.
Picking a name
Yeah, I certainly don't think all hope is lost there is plenty of good stuff still showing up on HN which is why I still come here but, there is a somewhat noticeable trend towards the dramatic happening lately.
Thanks for this. I was having issues with the one OP linked to.
Really? So there are no large-scale implementations of push-notification systems? Is there some detail I'm missing here?
If you hire some people (or invite your employees) to hysterically cheer at every little announcement, at least make it a little less obvious.
The 1886 Berne Convention first established recognition of copyrights among sovereign nations, rather than merely bilaterally. Under the Berne Convention, copyrights for creative works do not have to be asserted or declared, as they are automatically in force at creation: an author need not "register" or "apply for" a copyright in countries adhering to the Berne Convention.[10] As soon as a work is "fixed", that is, written or recorded on some physical medium, its author is automatically entitled to all copyrights in the work, and to any derivative works unless and until the author explicitly disclaims them, or until the copyright expires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright
I think Bart Simpson said it best: "Boooring."

Clearly this event was not geared towards people who use consoles mainly for games.
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I want a gaming machine that has an entertainment system, not an entertainment system that has a gaming machine. I've only owned an xbox/xbox 360 the last two generations but it sounds like playstation is catering way more towards gamers this generation, so I might switch. It really erks me that the people who brought xbox here (gamers) are the last group of people xbox seems to care about.
I think people should at least wait for the keynote to finish before analyzing.
Absolutely. I should probably have clarified that.

I do think there's a disconnect between which pieces of data people think are public vs. what is actually public. My git commit email was one of them. That's what I'm trying to illustrate in my post.
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Very cool! I have something similar (http://TJBiddle.info) but your page has much more friendly feel to it - My design skills aren't very good :-) - And my JS is/was pretty horrendous, definitely need to re-write when I get some time.

Definitely throw in some more details about your work history and what not - Add more commands! Just having a LinkedIn button on the bottom isn't quite enough in my opinion.

Great job!
Hacking does not have to equal abusing. I could advocate for fair use of a service and still hack it.
Thanks for the link, I've updated the post :)
Thanks, I got a lot of value from that middlebrow dismissal.
Yes, indeed. That's an important clarification.
"read your heartrate" reminded me of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZcjs1Pjmk (video to MIT paper submitted to SIGGRAPH about emphasizing video features, blood flow among them)
Did they discuss how you get TV onto the XBOX? Are they offering a service to get TV via your internet connection? I didn't see a coax port on the back of it...Or is this just an extension of windows media center and you need a PC in the background to act as the tuner?
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I was pretty close to making my personal website a terminal, but instead opted for something much simpler: http://jordanscales.com

I tear it down and rewrite it about twice a year. Each iteration has been simpler and simpler. In time, it should just say my name in 60pt Helvetica.

Also, let us know how Flatiron School goes! Seems like a great opportunity.
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His email address should really be ted.billson@example.com.

Another 'fuck you money' project: a set of domains with an open SMTP server that does nothing but flip the headers around and re-send the message back to the sender.
It's effective on an individual level, but just telling people "call your congressperson" doesn't scale. Most people are too busy to individually monitor each bill, vet it on privacy, and decide whether or not a call is needed. So to really effect change you need an organized movement or interest group that can pool the voices and resources of all those people together into something so big it can't be ignored.

Currently the only group like that I know of on technology & privacy is the EFF, but so many corporate giants have an interest in eroding your privacy that you'd need to bulk up their funding base considerably to make them able to take those giants on directly. (Or go the other direction, people-power rather than money-power, and develop a base of activists who are willing to march for privacy.)
Very clear answer!

Apologies for being lazy and just thinking "ooh, buffer, like the other packages with the name buffer" without digging into the sources, and thanks for answering anyway :)
Yeah, and most people can't tell the difference between a pro and a GWC. Most people can't tell the difference between $7 and $50 wine, most people like Michael Bay movies, most people think vacationing at the Jersey Shore is the best thing.

The "valuable skills" of a true professional photographer are only valuable if there is demand for it.
They're not. http://d35lb3dl296zwu.cloudfront.net/uploads/photo/image/114...
IANAL but I believe if the tenant can show you accepted rent it counts as a month to month lease and standard eviction process applies [0]. I don't know what it takes to show that but in general nyc courts are pretty tenant friendly.

[0] http://www.housingnyc.com/html/resources/attygenguide.html#1...
I live in Europe too and it doesn't display two of the most popular airlines?
I recently stayed for a few days in an AirBnB room while my wife and I were in New York. A comparably nice hotel room in the same neighborhood would have run us a minimum of $350 a night; the AirBnB room was $110. While I certainly believe that some of the "benefit" of AirBnB comes from not paying for externalities, it stretches logic to believe that those externalities account for $240 a day for two people in one room.