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facebook鈥檚 piracy problem
| a radical idea: maybe our model of intellectual property is wrong, or outdated. when ip was tied to a physical object, it made some sense to restrict and explicitly license each reproducer.now we have incredible machines that can reproduce intellectual property almost infinitely, distribute it anywhere on earth, and find it almost anywhere on earth. wow! maybe we should embrace that innovation, and find a model that encourages the spread, use and re-use of ip, for the betterment of society. yes, motivating creators is a problem, but there are many possible solutions.another radical thought: the notion of ip created from whole cloth obviously was always a fallacy; we all "stand on the shoulders of giants", "good artists borrow, great artists steal", etc. now that our ip machines make finding, copying, and distributing ip so easy, we can expect even more of that wonderful, creative larceny. as ip creators are benefitting from these amazing ip finding/copying/distributing systems and so much of their own product is stolen, perhaps they have less claim on the profits from those things they put their names on.a third: many creative people are motivated to do great things withhout payment. remember, all those foss creators, from rms to linus torvalds to tim berners-lee to every little foss project on github. remember also van gogh and millions of other starving artists you have and haven't heard of (quick, name a poet who cashed in on their life's work). perhaps financial renumeration, while fair, isn't entirely necessary (and perhaps we'd have less crap with less of it). | this is super interesting - it seems like facebook's more likely to get away with it too because the people being ripped off are smaller independent youtube channels.it seems like youtube's main incentive to build out copyright infringement tools was all of the record labels that had songs being uploaded and re-uploaded on the platform.i can see youtube getting really aggressive in fighting fb on this legally, because they need to defend their own content providers before they move to facebook (or start uploading to both facebook/youtube). |
facebook鈥檚 piracy problem
| this is super interesting - it seems like facebook's more likely to get away with it too because the people being ripped off are smaller independent youtube channels.it seems like youtube's main incentive to build out copyright infringement tools was all of the record labels that had songs being uploaded and re-uploaded on the platform.i can see youtube getting really aggressive in fighting fb on this legally, because they need to defend their own content providers before they move to facebook (or start uploading to both facebook/youtube). | ironically, at the end of the tattoo video that was pirated, destin sandlin, the host, is seen wearing [a shirt](<link> that is a blatant rip off of an randall munroe's (xkcd) [shirt](<link> |
facebook鈥檚 piracy problem
| ironically, at the end of the tattoo video that was pirated, destin sandlin, the host, is seen wearing [a shirt](<link> that is a blatant rip off of an randall munroe's (xkcd) [shirt](<link> | i have a friend/acquaintance who had a similar experience on youtube itself. he had created a large number of instructional videos on his youtube channel, and from them he was deriving a significant passive income (admittedly from the overbearing amount of ads he enabled). one day he received a takedown notice suggesting that his videos were illicit copies. his investigations led him to believe that another youtube user had downloaded all of his videos, re-uploaded them under a different account (with even more, similarly-ripped videos) and then used the youtube machinery to have the originals flagged. this did, indeed, appear to be the case when i checked out the other channel - there was a block of videos in this other user's history that all clearly originated on my friend's channel, even with the original author identifying himself in the voiceover.he was unable to get youtube to reinstate the original videos nor block the illicit new copies. after several months of shouting at the wall that is youtube administration, he gave up and transferred his energy to creating numerous ad-laden blogs saturated also with amazon affiliate links and embedded affiliate stores. on the one hand, it is possible that his original channel looked more like the channel of a spammer than the one that stole his videos (from my recollection of the old channel, not entirely implausible). on the other, it is possible that youtube itself doesn't care much for its content creators outside of the few super-rich/popular/powerful users with enough influence to get their attention. |
facebook鈥檚 piracy problem
| i have a friend/acquaintance who had a similar experience on youtube itself. he had created a large number of instructional videos on his youtube channel, and from them he was deriving a significant passive income (admittedly from the overbearing amount of ads he enabled). one day he received a takedown notice suggesting that his videos were illicit copies. his investigations led him to believe that another youtube user had downloaded all of his videos, re-uploaded them under a different account (with even more, similarly-ripped videos) and then used the youtube machinery to have the originals flagged. this did, indeed, appear to be the case when i checked out the other channel - there was a block of videos in this other user's history that all clearly originated on my friend's channel, even with the original author identifying himself in the voiceover.he was unable to get youtube to reinstate the original videos nor block the illicit new copies. after several months of shouting at the wall that is youtube administration, he gave up and transferred his energy to creating numerous ad-laden blogs saturated also with amazon affiliate links and embedded affiliate stores. on the one hand, it is possible that his original channel looked more like the channel of a spammer than the one that stole his videos (from my recollection of the old channel, not entirely implausible). on the other, it is possible that youtube itself doesn't care much for its content creators outside of the few super-rich/popular/powerful users with enough influence to get their attention. | this should be a fairly open and shut piracy case for the video maker. zoo is a british magazine with a real company behind it. facebook is a us-based company and is redistributing the video (and likely making money from the adverts). the video maker is based in the us. he can start with filing a case against fb (seems he has a us lawyer lined up already), and once he collects from that, he pays a uk lawyer to follow up against zoo's parent. |
go gc: solving the latency problem in go 1.5
| was the presentation more in-depth that this summary? i'd love to read or hear more about the changes. | erlang's per-process (erlang process, not unix process) gc is pretty good from this point of view. i'm surprised they didn't mention it as something to think about. |
go gc: solving the latency problem in go 1.5
| erlang's per-process (erlang process, not unix process) gc is pretty good from this point of view. i'm surprised they didn't mention it as something to think about. | interesting. i think the gc pauses are go's biggest problem.looks like they are tackling this head on with positive results. |
go gc: solving the latency problem in go 1.5
| interesting. i think the gc pauses are go's biggest problem.looks like they are tackling this head on with positive results. | > ...there has been a virtuous cycle between software and hardware development. cpu hardware improves, which enables faster software to be written, which in turn...this is the exact opposite of the experience i've had with (most) software. a new cpu with a higher clock speed makes existing software faster, but most new software written for the new cpu will burn all of the extra cpu cycles on more layers of abstraction or poorly written code until it runs at the same speed that old code ran on the old cpu. i'm impressed that hardware designers and compiler authors can do their jobs well enough to make this sort of bloated software (e.g. multiple gigabytes for a word processor or image editor) succeed in spite of itself.there are of course cpu advancements that make a huge performance difference when used properly (e.g. sse, multiple cores in consumer machines) and some applications will use them to great effect, but these seem to be few and far between. |
go gc: solving the latency problem in go 1.5
| > ...there has been a virtuous cycle between software and hardware development. cpu hardware improves, which enables faster software to be written, which in turn...this is the exact opposite of the experience i've had with (most) software. a new cpu with a higher clock speed makes existing software faster, but most new software written for the new cpu will burn all of the extra cpu cycles on more layers of abstraction or poorly written code until it runs at the same speed that old code ran on the old cpu. i'm impressed that hardware designers and compiler authors can do their jobs well enough to make this sort of bloated software (e.g. multiple gigabytes for a word processor or image editor) succeed in spite of itself.there are of course cpu advancements that make a huge performance difference when used properly (e.g. sse, multiple cores in consumer machines) and some applications will use them to great effect, but these seem to be few and far between. | better images of the plots:<link> |
understanding neural networks through deep visualization
| ok now i want to "hear" one of these trippy neural network things using a speech/language recognition neural network! or perhaps if there's a music based one? i'd love to hear a computer's auditory hallucinations!!! | i love the fact this is using caffe by berkeley. good stuff indeed. |
understanding neural networks through deep visualization
| i love the fact this is using caffe by berkeley. good stuff indeed. | so if it were possible to read a single neuron in the brain, and optimize input through its' signal would it be similarly possible to extract what triggers that neuron from such a setup? |
understanding neural networks through deep visualization
| so if it were possible to read a single neuron in the brain, and optimize input through its' signal would it be similarly possible to extract what triggers that neuron from such a setup? | a nice video tour of this "deep vizualisation toolbox":
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understanding neural networks through deep visualization
| a nice video tour of this "deep vizualisation toolbox":
<link>;feature=youtu.be | wonder what happens if you use a regularization constraints in fourier space, optimizing the 2dft of the image, with restraint increasing with frequency... |
why does gmail hate my domain?
| i send a lot of emails each month (email newsletter business - yes, legit!) and ran into an separate but topically related and amusing problem recently.my newsletters are aimed at developers, and one issue went out and was considered by gmail to be a 'phishing' attempt. i couldn't figure it out. several issues later, another one was picked up the same way and i figured it out.. in both issues, one of the items was linking to domains that looked a bit like this "www.0x10abcdef.com" (this is not the actual domain) - basically a domain that looked like a hexadecimal number. i ran numerous tests and gmail always considered mails with links to domains like this to be phishing attempts.i reported this as a bug (since nothing was wrong or reported with the domains in question, it was basically gmail's filter being in error) but no idea if it was ever resolved. | i hit a similar problems when sending automated internal emails to a google groups address at my company. the problem was fixed by adding the following footer: "to unsubscribe, email <my-email-address>." |
why does gmail hate my domain?
| i hit a similar problems when sending automated internal emails to a google groups address at my company. the problem was fixed by adding the following footer: "to unsubscribe, email <my-email-address>." | that's all a bit presumptive and inflammatory for what amounts to pure speculation on the part of the author.google stands to lose a lot more from a potential pr disaster for burning former customers who move away from hosting than they do from trying to convert a tiny portion of users to a free mail hosting service. |
why does gmail hate my domain?
| that's all a bit presumptive and inflammatory for what amounts to pure speculation on the part of the author.google stands to lose a lot more from a potential pr disaster for burning former customers who move away from hosting than they do from trying to convert a tiny portion of users to a free mail hosting service. | if the domain is bitbin.de and the mail server is hosted on the same server, it's probably hetzner being scorched-earth for deliverability, just like any other major hosting provider will be. email from aws, rackspace, heroku etc. get a drastically higher starting spam score because people fire up servers there to spam.running the email through something like amazon ses or mandrill would probably be helpful. both have generous free tiers. |
why does gmail hate my domain?
| if the domain is bitbin.de and the mail server is hosted on the same server, it's probably hetzner being scorched-earth for deliverability, just like any other major hosting provider will be. email from aws, rackspace, heroku etc. get a drastically higher starting spam score because people fire up servers there to spam.running the email through something like amazon ses or mandrill would probably be helpful. both have generous free tiers. | i'm very curious about that as well as i am thinking of moving my personal domains away from gmail and it would really suck to start landing in spam simply on the basis of not being with a major mail provider.i hope this story gets traction and someone on the gmail team finds it and comments. |