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by akozak 16y ago
At Creative Commons we use Lucene/Nutch for our educational search prototype DiscoverEd: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/DiscoverEd It was easy enough to add in our special sauce like a triple-store for consuming and displaying semantic d
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by akozak 16y ago
I can see though how someone would think that finding a technical co-founder through sheer charisma is an easier route than learning to code. But usually that's probably mostly ego.
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This definitely throws a wrench in the argument that high bandwidth user = illegal file sharing, baby punching terrorist. I'd be surprised if Netflix didn't have some arrangement with the major ISPs. On the other hand, if Netflix is doing j
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by akozak 16y ago
These change requests are (mostly) from one particular perspective, so it ignores some other problems from the worker's perspective; namely, that the market hasn't quite settled on reasonable rates for work, and that a worker has insufficie
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by akozak 16y ago
You can't control everything. Stop worrying about things you can't change and start enjoying life.
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No, I meant for all of those reasons, not any one. I'm sure there would be a wide variety of reasons a business wouldn't want to publish data. You're right to draw them out into separate worries.
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I feel like that's basically what I said.
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The main challenge would be to convince business owners to publish data about their stock to the web. The rest should be easy.
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CC blogged about the CBC issue here: http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/23766
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Clearly fleitz is assuming he'll be a passenger.
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by akozak 16y ago
While I'm sympathetic to this worry about crowdsourcing (which Jonathan Zittrain has been writing and speaking about for years), I'm still optimistic that the architecture of ecosystems like Mechanical Turk can protect people from exploitat
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by akozak 16y ago
Is the perception that we will be nefariously ingesting your private data? Or that FB auth is just a trend? Or just a mistaken assumption that all users actually have a Facebook account?
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I don't know that they envisioned everyone running their own server instance. It's more likely that it would exist somewhere in between everyone running their own and a centralized service.
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by akozak 16y ago
A couple years ago I connected the NIA Neural Impulse Actuator to Max/MSP as a software synth control mechanism, but I was heavily limited by the proprietary software converting sensor data into keystrokes. This project is really great beca
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by akozak 16y ago
It's interesting that he saw that has a violation of the commons. I don't know the details, but it seems like a feature rather than a bug that businesses can be built around open-sourced code.
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Like I've mentioned before, Google and browser support are hardly the limit of how annotations would be useful. Having a scalable standard for metadata would create a platform for all types of services. To me, what's exciting isn't what it
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by akozak 16y ago
Well, I'm not one to jump to the infringement conclusion without thinking through the fair use question. Was what he did morally questionable? I think so. But I'm not yet sure I'd say illegal (but IANAL).
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On the one hand I think he should respect the CC BY-SA license and attribute the source of the passages, but at the same time I wouldn't want to contribute to copyright over-protectionism by arguing that he's violating copyright law in not
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by akozak 16y ago
There are interesting ties to game theory here. You might see it as a variant of the Prisoner's Dilemma ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoners_dilemma ). On the other hand, you might argue that it's simply a coordination problem ( http://
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I strongly disagree that it's boring and doesn't do anyone any favors. There are all sorts of domain-specific metadata that could serve as a platform for other services. For example, Creative Commons licenses parse RDFa in referring documen
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If it's true that computation is just an extension of two "traditional" legs of science, then it follows that the steps taken in computation as part of scientific research ought to be as public as the steps taken in theory and traditional e