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Finally.


This is a monumental milestone in innovation. Honored to be part of a society where Vine on Android makes the HN front page.


This is our generation's moon shot.


Elon Musk only wishes he were a part of this


But would he pay his workers in Bitcoins?


I think he would pay them with Zynga shares.


Don't feed the trolls, this isn't Reddit.


The photos look amazing. May I ask what the license is on these photos?


Thanks. Everything is free for commercial and personal use.


Would you mind throwing that up on the top of the page?

EDIT: Rather, making explicit that they are royalty-free images for both non-commercial and commercial use.


Yup! Working on it now. Thanks for the comment.


As others have said here, you should consider hosting these with great keywords with a Creative Commons license on Flickr, and/or contribute them to a few free stock photo sites, and link back to your new site consistently featuring new work. You'll get found more easily at the places most people are searching, and start to make a name for yourself through bringing them back here.

At the same time, you should look into your technique if you'd like these to be usable for commercial print work.

These likely cannot be used in print work as is; the photo quality is borderline. They likely wouldn't be chosen by art directors to use large (eg., background images) or on today's retina screens, for the same reason. If someone is reviewing the work, too many clients' eyes will jump to the problems.

You may want to consider a better lens that doesn't exhibit the strong purple color fringing. You also need to reduce (or change methods of) the post processing that's causing severe fringing between the various subjects in the pictures, ringing on the out of focus elements, etc. These look and feel a lot like high end camera phone pics run through too much filter.

In considering composition, watch out for elements like the errant finger on the left hand writing. Any element that's too unusual draws excess attention, detracting from stock photo value, unless of course that element is the featured element.

Check out the quality standards guidelines at iStockPhotos:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

For example, they would have likely rejected these for chromatic aberration and maybe for over filtering:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...

Finally, as noted in other comments, generally company logos are not acceptable in stock photography:

http://www.istockphoto.com/help/sell-stock/training-manuals/...


So does that mean it's real or not?


It's not.


That means it's not real.


Cool service. However, it's generally bad practice to reveal your API keys.


Thanks! Just fixed.


Careful. All you've done is revise it. I could post a link or two that easily reveals it in your git repository revision history (6sus.. and 794e..).

Instead, I'll post this link: https://help.github.com/articles/remove-sensitive-data


(useful link, but it's probably easier just to expire it on CrunchBase and generate a new one, if they didn't already do that)


Please note that the keys will not be truly deleted, because they are still in the GIT history


Whoops! Should've mentioned that. :-D


I love Meteor and its ever-growing community! I went to a Meteor Show and Tell fairly recently and one of the core devs and I live coded a feature onto one of my meteor projects (http://mypast.es).


I love it! May I ask how these are generated?


I wouldn't really call it a "generator"; it uses a static list: https://github.com/ngerakines/commitment/blob/master/commit_...


The gist was just removed.



Despite how odd it is that they chose to specifically fine Path, I'm rather stunned to see the U.S. government even somewhat reacting to the startup culture.


I'm rather stunned to see the U.S. government even somewhat reacting to the startup culture.

Huh? Path is a company, they broke the law, and were investigated and fined as a result. How is that "stunning"? It happens all the time.

It's got almost nothing to do with "startup culture", it is just a business that didn't play by the rules.


> company, they broke the law, and were investigated and fined as a result. How is that "stunning"?

I believe the answer is somewhere in the question.


Agree. When was first discussed here everyone was up-in-arms. Why is it now bad that the government is holding path accountable?


Path gained quite a bit of attention when this happened: https://www.google.com/search?q=path+upload+contacts

And the FTC policing COPPA isn't really new either: https://www.google.com/search?q=coppa+violation+cases


That's awesome! Make sure to keep an eye on [PennApps](http://2013f.pennapps.com) that's happening September 6th.


not even @2q4 anymore...


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