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Ask HN: Legality of using M Turk to filter content
Hi!

Perhaps I should ask a lawyer this, but I'm sure someone on HN must have already faced this issue and figured it out. Here it is:

Suppose I'm running a social network site and users are allowed to upload photos. The site needs to filter for adult content, but we lack the resources to do so ourselves. This seems like a perfect application for M. Turk. Now, are there any potential legal issues for this (since the photos presented to the M. Turk-ers are user uploaded photos.)

Thanks!
Most documented case of reincarnation ever?
"Dominant" is an arguable point - Apple's actual market share, especially here in Europe, is not huge - actually it's fairly small, although of course they only have one phone, whereas companies like Nokia have a large range. Obviously, the iPhone has made a huge impact though - it's clear to everyone that they're leaders. We'll see where things go.
I'm kinda curious how Apple would respond if someone did come up with a custom bootloader and OS that worked on the iPhone...

Ah well. There's always Android.
Don't they have social welfare in the Sims 3?
yes and it was working fine!
It's called Solidarity.
I don't think the project is public. I think it was highly dependent on internal infrastructure.
Just wait until the Chrysler and GM reincarnations reach federal court.
> people are confused because the sign up page looks like a log in page because it is so short. You can not log in to Tomorrow Market with any password.

That was the case. The title suggested if I login with my HN credentials I'll benefit "inifinite private beta spots". I login with my HN username and fake password which worked.

Then I was alerting HN users do not use their real credentials. And got my karma downvoted :D
I'm simply declaring an inflection point, a local maximum, around representative democracy.

What are the two forms on either side of the local maximum? If I understand you correctly, you're saying both of them are worse than representative democracy.

As a libertarian, I'd love to see more forms of government tried.

As a libertarian, wouldn't you have to require the unanimous consent of the governed to find a representative democracy acceptable?
I used to have an OO spreadsheet for that, but that quickly became cumbersome to use. Then i switched to a new application called wxbanker. It's quite limited in functionality for now, but that's how i like my application. Easy to use, easy to extend.
Based on the stories I've read online it does sound like Apple isn't handling their iPhone app store well.

Those stories are the worst experiences and are not representative of the majority of iPhone development. The Apple app store is handled worlds better than any other phone. No other platform is even usable to the extent that you see people complain about it.
It doesn't reflect the value of a wordpress plugin, since the value of an item is the most the market will pay for it before going for an alternative.

The only thing this price means is that it is difficult to make money by giving away stuff for free.
I am not sure why you think its not true or nonsensical by any means.

It's a very simple point: there is a difference in the rights you have over hardware and software just as there is a difference in the rights you have over a book and the contents of the book. Pretending that the rules of one should apply to the other is nonsensical.

The reason this distinction is important is that many people claim that Apple is impinging upon their rights with the restrictions built into the OS, but they don't actually have any rights over the OS and ownership of the hardware does not grant them any. By analogy, owning a book does not grant you any rights over the copyrighted contents. People readily understand the latter, but seem to violently reject the former.

All they should do is void warranty if someone tempers with the OS.

That is all they do. Why would you think otherwise?
I really can't understand why so many people are angry about the app store. No other company has managed to put together a market for phone software of comparable size and ease of development. Nokia, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Android, Palm, they are all trying but failing to create a user experience within striking distance of the iPhone app store.

So how can you complain?? If it weren't for Apple it would be orders of magnitude harder to make money on phone software.
You're right in that technology hasn't done much to fuel the uprising itself, but with mainstream media outlets utterly failing to do their job, blogs and Twitter have proven to be pretty useful for disseminating information and making the world aware of what's happening.
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SO much fucking bullshit. The 1st amendment says that CONGRESS shall make no law limiting freedom of speech. Facebook isn't the congress, it's a private company; one which apparently thinks the revenue from a few neanderthal racists outweighs that which might be lost from people who take offense. Facebook can do what they want, just as PG can wipe my account for swearing on HN if he sees fit. They own their site, which now includes playing host to a bunch of Nazis, most of whom would be happy to see Mark Zuckerberg die because of his surname.

I fucking hate September. GTFO my lawn.
The iPhone is a terrible platform for the vast, vast majority of developers.

No. You want a terrible platform, you try writing software for the Nokia platform. Or heck, try any other phone platform besides the iPhone. It's not a coincidence more apps are sold for the iPhone than for any other platform.

Apple has provided the best user experience and has the most users who are willing to buy apps. They are doing you a great service by allowing third party apps and promoting apps that hit their "best of" lists for free. Just because the experience isn't perfect doesn't mean Apple is "fucking over iPhone devs".
Slightly related to HN: I liked the book "How to change your life in 7 steps" by John Bird. He is the founder of "The Big Issue", a newspaper the homeless sell in Britain. It is rather short, but talks about the issues of working with homeless people.

One snippet I found interesting is that many would invent fake drama stories about why they ended up being homeless ("my wife and children died"), to cover up their own failure.

http://www.amazon.com/CHANGE-YOUR-STEPS-QUICK-READS/dp/00919...
Creepy:

> "Notice: work areas subject to search"

http://www.techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/img_408...
When I was very young, I told my parents and sister quite detailed stories about living in California on a ranch (I was born in South Carolina and didn't visit CA until I was in high school, and had never seen or visited a ranch). My "recollections" were reportedly uncannily specific and realistic. My sister was convinced it was only explainable by reincarnation.

Nonetheless, I don't believe in reincarnation.
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Previously, in a comment on my blog, he mentioned that Bingo Card Creator has a higher conversion rate by "more than an order of magnitude" from him, which would imply his donation rate was at the time below .2%

He prefers to be circumspect with regards to exactly how much money he makes. As I respect his privacy, I will not elaborate further on my earlier comment that he does quite well with donations.
Just a thought-- you should tell more about yourself and provide links to places where people can vet you a bit. Right now, this is akin to a personals ad saying, "Looking for a wife. I've had a great relationship in the past. Please send me pictures and some detail about your last 4 or 5 relationships."

Sounds like an interesting project-- g'luck with it and with the co-founder hunt!
To be totally honest, I had to look up what tethering meant today as I had no idea what the term meant.

Disclaimer: The closest I own to a smart phone is one of these email/phone/web devices they sell in Japan that has a pita interface to use.
Does the T400 actually match IBM's claims though? My understanding is that the new sealed battery MB & MBP models achieve the number quoted by Apple, which is generally a rarity in notebook battery claims.
I've always thought that the only difference between microsoft and apple on the point of view of behavior when keeping a monopoly is that apple hadn't been successful enough to actually be as aggressive as microsoft
that office space has zero personality
I honestly cannot imagine a worse place to work.
Open space equals no privacy and no place to sit and consider difficult problems. I get a very childish, highschoolish sense from that video.

Also, where are the old people? I can assure you people over 30 have a good amount of experience and knowledge they can contribute to a business like that. It's through old people who say "Oh yes, this problem is exactly the same as they used to have in shipping goods on old trains, look in this book for the optimal answer, Brunel figured it out in 1840"
that you can short circuit the learning process and gain an edge.

Or in simpler words, you gain perspective. The very thing that all the dotcoms are shouting about.
I'd love an electric with 100 mile range, provided recharging after partial discharge didn't compromise battery life. That would suit me just fine. Once economy of scale starts working with the battery tech, this will work out better economically for a large fraction of consumers.

Even better, EVs with 100 mile range and an optional petro fuel or propane generator module to turn it into a series hybrid on long trips. I only need the long-range capability of an internal combustion engine occasionally. Why do I want to pay for the overhead of hauling such equipment around when I'm just commuting or running to the store? Essentially, that's what many of us do with our internal combustion cars. We drive a heavier, noisier, over-capable long range vehicle that's less appropriate for the short neighborhood trip, just so we have the long range capability available, even though we use it only occasionally.
I thought perhaps it would work with the iPhone but that does not seem to be the case. Looks pretty neat and simple. As others have said similar to userfly.com.
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Pidgin has a plugin that supports it, Adium has it built-in, and Meebo and Digsby officially support it.
I do it. My base expenses are less than $500 / month in the Philippines.

10,000 furnished apartment.
~5,000 food
~2,500 visa
~1,300 internet
~1,200 electricity

Total: 20,000 / 47.5 = $421

I'm probably forgetting some things. There are misc expenses which would bring me up to the $500.

That's not to say I actually live here for that though. Those are my actual expenses and I can get by with just those but I choose to have a little more fun. Beer is really cheap here but it adds up if you go out a lot. A 1/4 lb McD's meal is 135 pesos, so your expenses go up if you eat out a lot.

You can nearly cut that rent fee in half if you go for an unfurnished apartment but you have to pay more initially to put in your own furnishing.

You won't be traveling on a budget that low but you have to leave the country once every 16 months (I think) for a visa run if you are on a tourist visa.

Another big one is taxes. So if you are running your own business then you have to make $500 / month after taxes.

I would say that $750 is a pretty decent figure for a single person not living high on the hog. As the article mentions, for $4,000 / month you can live like a king.

Anything I'm forgetting?

ETA: This is for Dumaguete in the Philippines. Cebu is more expensive and Manila is more expensive than Cebu.

ETA2: I didn't add local travel expenses because if you stay in Dumaguete for a decent amount of time you might as well buy a motorcycle for around PHP 40,000. Gas is cheap because you don't use much. Dumaguete has banned taxis so your only option is a trike which typically costs a total of PHP 60 to go downtown and back.
And get paid western wages. If you live in thailand you get paid thailand wages, and thailand connections for the most part, which are locally adjusted for the cost of living downwards.
Arrington is wrong, because he's said something along the lines of, "Hey I support free speech but Holocaust denial is so bad that I make an exception." Be consistent, Mike. Free speech isn't just for the stuff you like. If you're against free speech, just say so.

Facebook is wrong if they think this is a First Amendment issue. It's not. They are well within their rights to remove any comments that deny the Holocaust. However, it seems inconsistent for them to call pictures of breastfeeding mothers "offensive" and remove them if they're going to allow Holocaust denial on their site.
I got 99% "yes" even though I'm almost certain that my idea is not viable in its current form. None of the questions even touched on the hairy issues. This is probably not the kind of question that's suitable for hunch.

I did another quiz asking where I should go on vacation. That lead to an interesting result. I should go to Tokyo. Next time I'm going to ask whether my startup idea can succeed in Tokyo. If it says no, but it could work in Shanghai, I think I'm hooked ;-)
Once there was this project which increased Google's ad revenues by 1.5%....
Appjet shut down, you know. So there isn't even a good web app that lets you do what appjet used to let you do!
If MS would have enforce such a strict policy on Windows, imagine how many stability and security issues would have been solved in an instance.

But this is just a pipe dream, there is no way MS would be let to get away with such practices, on the other hand Apple are well with in their right to do so.
The only thing I object to is the lack of privacy. In a cube, I am not distracted by outside motion. At those desks, it would be near impossible to get in the zone in a room that huge.
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Someone in the TC comments suggests that it's a joke. Perhaps it's to remind people of a search initiative?
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For those of you who have young children or planning to have children, here is a suggestion: investigate just how many cellphones we carry around these days, and compare that to how many were around 25-30 years ago.
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I'm not sure yet, but this appears more exciting than google wave.
What if somebody removed your software, but kept on using the software you patched?
Exactly - I almost don't care about battery life because they all break down quickly anyway. If Apple managed to solve THAT problem, they are on to something, though. While atm I count on there being power sockets mostly everywhere, being freed from that might open up new use cases.
/You won't be traveling on a budget that low but you have to leave the country once every 16 months (I think) for a visa run if you are on a tourist visa./

I have a different experience: I am from Finland. Tourist visa when entering the Philippines is valid for only 3 weeks, after which it can be extended for 1 month, and after that for 2 months. The 2 month extension costs 4700 PHP.

Might be different for other nationalities but Finns usually get quite good deals on visas.
There are some elements of standard of living which are measurable, such as services, infrastructure and other things. But some elements are can't be measured and are up to the preferences of the individual. I can still be happy in the Philippines with an otherwise lower standard of living. If you get the opportunity to live abroad, do it.
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I hope so! I thought that at first, but figured since the desks were so pristine -- it may be for serious.

Are the letters on the columns in that photograph used to navigate the office like a parking lot?
It's almost certainly not illegal so long as your TOS is worded right. The only time I could think of it being illegal is if your TOS promised never to provide the pictures to anyone besides their friends. But that's unreasonable anyway because you need some kind of admins.

Now, it's still tricky, because if the solution allows anyone to go to a link you post on m-turk and see users' content, users will get very mad. So you need a secure interface that only lets them see the specific pictures. But it could still get problematic.

Better might be attempting to hire a person or a few people for very cheap (possibly overseas). The would work some real amount of time for you, and they'd have to sign all kinds of things saying they won't do anything with the content. Then no one could get mad because theyr'e an employee, not anyone with an m-turk account.
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That is, hands down, the best demo I have ever seen on HN. I just showed it to my Japanese coworkers and I didn't even need to tell them what it was doing.
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telcos and healthcare are two heavily regulated industries with artificially high barriers to entry in the US. thus the providers jack costs WAY up because they can. We're too dumb to put up a fuss. the average person's response? we need more regulation. yeah, make it impossible for startups to compete in the industry, that'll drive prices down.
capital gains aren't taxed @ 25%.
> If you add it up over 10-15 years the opportunity cost of living in the US is over $1M for most people.

And you get the opportunity of living in the U.S. I certainly think this is worth >$1M over a lifetime.

I like living in the U.S. I like having a car, and the associated freedom to take a day trip anywhere in the Bay Area. I like living in a suburban neighborhood where's there's trees and greenery, and yet stores, restaurants, and other conveniences are all nearby. I like being able to work on exactly the same stuff I do for fun and yet get paid for it. I like that I'm surrounded by some of the best & brightest immigrants from around the world in my job. I like my "horrible western diet", which basically consists of being able to eat whatever variety of food I feel like. I can have Mexican for lunch, fresh fish for dinner, Belgian waffles for breakfast the next day, Indian food for lunch, and Chinese for dinner. Is there any other country where you'll get similar variety?

Whenever I've visited other countries (notably China, but also Germany/Austria/New Zealand), I've always felt that they were nice places to travel, but I certainly would not want to live there. Well, except New Zealand. I could imagine retiring there, but I'd hate to waste my 20s and 30s there.

Happiness is knowing what you want, going for it, and having the courage to say "Nope, I don't think so" when people tell you you ought to want something else.
really interesting stuff. you should consider writing up your experience. I'm going to show my friends your post.
Possibly, but that's because Optus has a pretty sucky network for everyone. I understand (from reading whirlpool) that their new 3G network is not iPhone compatible as it's 900MHz
Same with U.S. residents. But the cost of the visa seems to be different every time I get one. I just budget around $40 - $50 / month for it. You can extend for 16 months I believe, but you can actually extend through Manila for up to 24 months. Again, not totally sure about that as I haven't been here long enough to worry about it (going on my 7th month) but that is what I have been told. Also, things change all the time.
It's in their FAQ.
This is a huge developement IMHO. If executed correctly, this has the potential to change how we look at the web. This is something that can be the starting point of web 3.0.

I have an opinion that instead of some crappy and diffiult to use address like unite://mymac.chrismills.operaunite.com/ they should register a TLD (I guess it is possible. Isn't it?) like .OP
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I think, (as always) someone else will come along and do it better than Opera does and opera will be forgotten again. Sad, but true.

Anyway I love the Opera for these innovations. They are the pioneers in many cool things in the web. Kudos guys!
The hunch of the guy who speculated on his blog what Opera might unveil was right. Great!
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There are reasons we don't run web servers on our laptops. Putting the server inside the browser instance just makes these reasons more acute.

(Hey guys, I found this awesome site earlier today -- it has 16 hours of downtime a day, but scheduled irregularly, and any given session might be terminated at any time if the owner gets kicked out of the coffee shop where he is getting Wifi or quits out of Opera while playing WoW. Aside from that, yeah, awesome site.)

And they want to write web applications on this? Oh, THAT is going to be fun.
New Zealand is right out for me....giant $%^&ing spiders.

I've considered eastern europe, argentina, spain (cheapest european country supposedly) and singapore.
True, but the iPhone is new whereas other phone oss' have been around for years. It takes time and manpower to code for these, and you have to start somewhere.
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