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Grma boc - brón orm, tá mé ghiotaín beag déanach leis an freagra ;) If you check out the source you'll see it's pretty straightforward, I'm leveraging a project called abair.ie from Dublin University to do the TTS back an forth and yeah then just firing it on to chatgpt. Works surprisingly ok.
Fantastic!
For rails people who are unaware there is already a lib that has copied this approach.
Please keep docker swarm going guys, it's a great product.
Docker cloud is no loss (with apologies to those who are using it in production) and will hopefully free up your people to work on other important stuff.
Otherwise if we can continue to use the compose configuration api and the docker deploy/service api with k8s under the hood then I guess that's a reasonable compromise.
J-drilla
The Generating JSON from SQL episode is cool but i'd really like to see an advanced follow up. For instance I've written a query to serialise a collection of records that have many relationships embedded, that conforms to the jsonapi 1.0 standard. Works great but very messy with deeply nested subqueries - hard to read, hard to reuse or alter. I'd really like to see an episode demonstrating a more composable way to craft a complex query like the aforementioned.
Hear, hear.
While Greece have lost this battle, he has shone a light into the murky workings of European politics that I believe will be invaluable and inspiring to future reformers, not to mention the citizens of the EU member states.
Very interesting, I'll check you guys out!
Everyone is a potential rights holder
In my case I would be happy to supply whatever legal evidence is required to satisfy youtube that I own the full rights to all the music I've written.
Perhaps your point is that even running checks like that require manpower that google/youtube simply aren't willing to commit to.
In that case what about a simple transparency type report? Assuming all videos are analyzed by content id, couldn't youtube publish or maintain an archive of songs used in video that would be searchable by any interested party.
I'm not sure honestly.
This happened about a year ago and since I'm not dependent on music for my livelihood, disappointed as I was with the outcome, I just moved on and forgot about it.
I can't exactly recall the correspondence with the advertising company but they assured me that they would immediately cease issuing compliance notices on my behalf.
Beyond that I never again tried to engage youtube / content-id myself to see what's what.
I know there is a mechanism for those affected by the takedown notices to challenge them, which I guess in my case they should win, but the easier thing is just get another piece of CC music for the video.
Sucks for me but easy solution for the video-maker.
Also please make content id available to all rights holders.
I made the mistake of signing up with an advertising company with content id access, simply because i was curious as to who was using my CC licensed music (non-commercial) in their videos.
At first it all worked very well and the ad company compiled a list of videos using my songs some with millions of views which was very gratifying regardless of the (in some cases) liberal interpretation of the content licensing.
Over the next few weeks however most of the video makers took down my music in response to the correspondence they were receiving from youtube viz. complying with compulsory advertising.
I tried to contact some of the video makers via their channels and eventually succeeded in one case. The person in question forwarded me some of the content id compliance literature and to be fair it was very heavy handed. In their position I would likely have reacted as they did.
As my music continued to be removed / taken-down I attempted successfully to extricate myself from the ad platform but the damage had been done and to my knowledge none of the content-creators who complied with the take-down notices are using my music now.
Afterwards I attempted to sign up for content id myself and also contacted youtube's customer service but received no response in either case.
Content id could be of huge benefit to music producers, like myself, if (a) it was available (!) and (b) it had more nuanced controls. I would be happy to pay an annual subs, for example, to identify my music on youtube so I could contact and possibly negotiate with a video-maker over the rights to use my music in a commercial setting.
Forced advertising, which lets be honest is a pretty abhorrent concept anyway, simply does not work, at least in my experience.
'tis a round hurley
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Fullstack JS/Ruby dev seeking work to keep wolf from door. No job too small. seocahill.com for examples / info. Thanks.
mo cheol thu a phc!
Yep my servers were restored successfully, good job Digital Ocean.
The right answer - won't stop another 500 HN music industry threads alas.
Did you look at Stripe Apps?
I was thinking escrow for my startup originally but stripe apps offer a different approach - i.e. cash goes straight from tenant to customer with fees (including a handling fee paid to you) deducted directly from the tenant.
It's a nice alternative to a straight-up escrow setup.
EU referendum coming up!
Thanks, just looking at that link now I'll get on it. We did have a licensing issue before with a video blogger who asked my permission to use one of our songs as his theme. Youtube were fairly sticky about it, that's why I was surprised something like this slipped through.
I did contact the uploader nothing back from them yet.
I'm a massive advocate of CC and I'm old school in that I believe the number one consideration for an artist is to be heard (as opposed to being paid) but being open and with so many platforms holding your work it's hard to keep track of things.
I wonder is there a way to use a Shazam like system to index audio usages on the web? Then scale could come into play and perhaps help to get cc artists paid on a fair and rational basis.
Just on youtube's copy checking, I got a FB message from a friend who stumbled on a vid that uses one of my songs, it has 280k + views and advertises a motorcycle shop. No mention of the song or my band. Normally we license stuff through jamendo pro (all our music is cc). Anyone know how youtube polices this kind of thing? It's obviously a commercial usage but we got ne'er a penny nor even an attribution.
You can joke around with this stuff but if your passion is the arts and real creativity (without profit motive) it's sickening.
In Ireland when senior fat cat state servants are threatened with any kind of reprimand the media and unions are mobilized for operation 'blue collar' shield. Police, nurses and teachers are wheeled out to protect the cabal at the top. It always works.
So Newscorp, Hollywood and the Label's are protecting the creative people now, the little guy? As brazen as you would expect from the axis of (creative) evil.
Well done lads! Just on their customer service - really great. I'm a novice developer hacking together my first webapp and the people I dealt with at stripe were excellent, very patient and helpful. Best of luck with it.
Irish startup. Paypal don't even offer payments pro here even though their euro hq is in North Dublin.
For my MVP I did the following: I was reading HN, similar thread to this and one of the Stripe boys was giving his tuppence ha'penny - having read his contribution I emailed him for a beta invite (I have a US SSN and bank account). I was able to get payments running with active merchant in a very short time despite the fact I'm very inexperienced. No dealing with the disaster zone that is the Irish banking system, no paypal worries. For someone hacking together an MVP (me) it was a massive hurdle overcome with relative ease. Sadly I think Stripe require the ssn (it is/was possible to open a us bank account without), perhaps one of their reps could confirm this?
Agree with the UK poster it isn't easy doing startup stuff in this part of the old world, it certainly pays to have one foot in the States if you can manage it.