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by pemulis 14y ago
> I don't promote or demote filesharing per se: it's just the cutting edge where the future trends will show years before they land elsewhere and that's what it makes it so interesting. One interesting thing I've noticed that the peop
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by pemulis 14y ago
I thought it was fine storytelling, for what it was. I don't think I would want the whole front page full of stories like this, but I found it oddly refreshing to read a story on Hacker News that wasn't trying to teach or promote anything.
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by pemulis 14y ago
Lyft, Sidecar, Ridejoy, Tickengo, Reward Ride, Avego, Carpooling.com, RelayRides, and a bunch of other ones.
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by pemulis 14y ago
That depends on what he used the e-mail address for. If it was strictly for romantic liaisons, it's no big deal. But if he used it for any other purpose (talking with his lawyer, chatting with senators, etc.), it would be a hell of a platfo
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by pemulis 14y ago
All good points. I want to make note of two other cases that seem relevant, both related to Youtube. In 2010, a judge in the US threw out Viacom's lawsuit against Youtube/Google, ruling that they were protected by the Digital Millenium Copy
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by pemulis 14y ago
That's a great point about the Harry Potter Lexicon case. One thing that's interesting about that ruling is how narrow it was, and the implication that if the Lexicon contained more extensive commentary it would be legal. Here's a question[
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by pemulis 14y ago
One of the biggest questions will be how transformative annotations are, and whether that will give adequate protection if users upload large chunks of copyrighted text. Google's use of thumbnails in image search wound up being covered by
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by pemulis 14y ago
Not to mention (potentially!) becoming the place to go to talk about articles on the Internet. This all depends on the direction they take their technology.
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by pemulis 14y ago
I doubt they could go so far as hosting full books, but they're going to find out exactly where the line is.
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by pemulis 14y ago
I don't know about that. A universal annotation platform that reached its full potential could basically eat the entire Internet. You can see hints of that in the founders' public interviews, when they say they want all of Business Insider'
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by pemulis 14y ago
Let me start by saying that I like Rap Genius and use it pretty frequently. They've done a great job creating an annotation system for rap lyrics, and I think that it could scale well to other genres of music and certain kinds of poetry. Th
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by pemulis 14y ago
AppData says 460,000 active monthly users[1]. The original VentureBeat article quoted AppData at 440,000, which is where the ~400,000 number is coming from. Edit: In reply to the grandparent, because of the huge amount of money Color raised
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by pemulis 14y ago
That's not the purpose of the anecdote. He was contrasting some of the negatives of his old lifestyle with the advantages of his new one. It's not an attempt to sum up himself as a person, let alone impress an employer.
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by pemulis 14y ago
So we have someone who didn't play his guitar because it was in another room. And someone who spent 3 hours per day watching a sitcom on netflix. And you wonder why he is living in a van? Watching Netflix for a few hours in a row and havi
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by pemulis 14y ago
There are incredible online annotations for novels by Thomas Pynchon[1] and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest[2], which are what I thought of first when they talked about expanding into annotating literature. The monetization potential i
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by pemulis 14y ago
The problem is that disruption generally means automation, and there's no good way to automate the developer recruitment process. To really be good, recruiters need to have enough of a technical background to understand what they're looking
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by pemulis 14y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA and Portland, OR - Remote OK iOS Developer - Full-Time Giftr is a fast-moving, funded, pre-launch startup building a social wishlist for kids. The founder is a Silicon Valley veteran and former Apple engineer who
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by pemulis 14y ago
What do you mean? The "terrifying background" seemed pretty clear to me -- a federal organized crime task force believed that he was involved in seven murders as a drug enforcer in Miami before becoming a contractor for the CIA.
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by pemulis 14y ago
If you explained why you found Snow Crash mediocre, this could be an interesting post. As it is, though, it essentially has no content. If you had posted it on Twitter or Facebook, it would be a little bit better, since your friends could
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by pemulis 14y ago
The words have a specific technical meaning in this case, so it's important to use them correctly. A robbery and a simple theft are treated very differently under the law. Prescriptive grammar is the only way to go when you're dealing with
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by pemulis 14y ago
This happened to Kant. In Critique of Pure Reason, he presents Euclidean geometry as a set of incontestable, fundamental truths that human beings understand intuitively, and uses that as a launching point to argue for the existence of an id
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by pemulis 14y ago
Make them exclusive. Only let a handful of people wear them, so that they become a social status symbol. Make them so rare that people share photos of them "in the wild" like they were pictures of celebrities. The early announcement and slo
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by pemulis 14y ago
Saying that people who disagree with you politically must be mentally ill is ignorant and obnoxious. You follow it up by saying "there's no point in clarifying it" because there's no way you could possibly defend your opinion. If you assume
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by pemulis 14y ago
Ah, good point, I forgot about that. As a general rule, though, Card's novels aren't very quotable, and when they are, the quote is closely tied to the plot. If you didn't know how it related to Ender's development as a tactician and thinke
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by pemulis 14y ago
I think that you're partly right, and it ties in with one of the points in pg's essay about addictive technology[1], that societies eventually develop antibodies to addictive new things. The problem (also noted in the essay, which grows mor
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by pemulis 14y ago
I'm preparing my first book for publication with them later this year, I doubt I will make much but I have a day job I've been working with an author-run e-publishing group for the past few months, and this is an attitude I see a lot. I u
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by pemulis 14y ago
A good thing to keep in mind when reading the Sprawl trilogy is that the writing style and sense details are more important than the plot, which is basically a series of Macguffins. Orson Scott Card's stories are the opposite: Plot drives e
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by pemulis 14y ago
How do you become head tech news guy at the New York Times when you think Facebook is an operating system and that the company could "easily scoop up" RIM?
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by pemulis 14y ago
There are people who enjoy smoking and playing Zynga games, though. Positive benefit is relative. Just because you don't like cigarettes or Farmville doesn't mean that no one does. The argument that Blizzard doesn't care how much time you p
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by pemulis 14y ago
I sleep in the top bunk with my backpack between my body and the wall, which would make it really difficult to steal anything without waking me up. I don't totally trust the lockers, since every lock small enough to fit them is trivial to p

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