skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, of course you're granting them a license to your files. Otherwise you could sue them for copying your files to their server.
Do you agree that a ten year old shouldn't be allowed to walk into a shop and buy a packet of cigarettes and a bottle of vodka?

When I was 10, I regularly bought beer and cigarettes in the shop near our house. I also bought bread, eggs, milk, etc. I was buying these things for my parents. I don't think there's anything wrong with that, except for the fact that I occasionally bought sweets for myself with the change. Unsurprisingly, as a 10 year old, I was more interested in strawberry chewing gum and red licorice than beer and cigarettes (which I had tried and found to be revolting).

When I was 10, my older brother turned 16. My father started including him when he ordered wine with dinner and he had the occasional beer with his friends. I have never seen any evidence of my brother abusing alcohol.

On the other hand, I saw plenty of alcohol abuse when we moved to Ireland. The strictness of the law here leads to the same problems associated with any other illegal drug abuse. Users (in this case, minors) consume it in secret and often in uncontrolled and dangerous ways. I'd much prefer to have a 16 year old kid being kicked out of a bar for being too drunk than drinking a litre of whiskey in a field, passing out and dying of exposure.

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I am not on Facebook but I think it is "good for the world" if Google+ becomes succesful. I agreed with the poster that likened Facebook to dirty jeans. I don't know where that analogy came from but it resonates with me.
However, I am undecided if Google+ is something for me. What I fear (hopefully unfounded) is that Google suddenly introduces a "feature" where it shows your friends what you have searched for. I _think_ (not sure) that something similar to that occurred on Youtube, where suddenly friends could find my Youtube account and see what videos I had seen.
They accumulated enough, this was just the one that got me to do it.
For these purposes i did use Dropbox i need a service i can trust.
Isn't the new Nintendo tablet doing something like this?

Also, why wasn't the piece of paper on the table showing up, only the books?
TL;DR - this is no different from almost every other site that many of us already participate in that includes an aspect of uploading/sharing content and in no way does this imply ownwership.
It is standard because there is no other choice if you want to provide services of this nature. Blame the law, not the service providers.
Given how copyright law works, you need to grant Dropbox (and any similar services) those rights, otherwise they can't provide their service with your files.

worldwide

= For the whole internet

non-exclusive

= You can still license your stuff to others

royalty-free

= Dropbox doesn't have to pay you for this license

sublicenseable

= The license you grant Dropbox can be transferred to other companies, in the event of a company merger or similar

rights to use

= Doesn't mean anything

copy

= So they can copy your files between their internal servers

distribute

= So that they can distribute your public files to other users

prepare derivative works of

= So they can create thumbnails, extracts, previews etc

perform

= Doesn't mean anything

or publicly display

= List your public files to others
it's missing percentages
AnyAsq is a great great site. I love the idea, the minimal design (though it's creepily similar to Reddit), and it's easily monitizable. I would do this full-time if I were you.
The answer is the article URL.
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Exactly...that is the same thought I had initially when viewing the data...when viewed on a per capita basis it becomes something else...not that I doubt the US is not the worst.
Hm I guess it's a hard one to disrupt and if you're at it you might as well disrupt email/online communications I guess. Well my tech blog is fairly new (http://blog.thegodfounder.com) and I don't get these kind of pitches.

The people I pitched to up until recently are not relevant in the tech scene. I guess you could always try @mikebutcher, @zee, @hermioneway etc. and point them here. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't mind having a solution to the point raised by you.
Interestingly enough, the example from the post doesn't work anymore:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=_maxint

Gives "Showing results for MAXINT. Search instead for _MAXINT." Clicking on the second link still searches for MAXINT. You have to use +_MAXINT as the search query for the search to work (and it's not even case-sensitive).

Maybe Google treats underscores the same way as hyphens now that it's mainstream and the majority of people don't really care about the semantic distinction between the two? The post is 6 years old after all.
My question is about using BitTorrent for distributed computing. Do any of the @home projects use BitTorrent?

Underlying this is a desire for ad hoc computation, where the calculations to be performed don't have to be decided in advance. (Presumably this is also what Carmack means by "computation of opportunity".) You can't do this if you have to collect the data first. But if you know where the data already is, you can send the computations to it. It seems like the BitTorrent protocol would help here.
You are missing the point.

Those companies do have similar terms in their agreements! Any service that accepts user content should. It's in everyone's benefit to make it clear that you own your content, but you're giving the service a license to copy it, display it, etc.

AT&T: "while you retain any and all of your lawfully owned rights in such Content, you grant AT&T a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display..."

Facebook: "you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook"
While the intention is noble, the illusion of scarcity and exclusivity around G+ that this creates among teens should actually benefit G+ when its finally open to them.

Kids to want to be acknowledged as grown-ups. It frustrates them a lot when someone says they can't have or do something because they're too young. This should increase the desirability factor of G+.

So G+, by using a roll-out strategy that is demographically reversed to Facebook's path (".edu" limitation et al), may still see the same crazed adoption in the teen segment.
What Dropbox TOS could have been

1. We, Dropbox, copy your files in order to enable sharing and retrieving said files. Those copies of files we use still carry the sharing permissions you enable and your copyrights fully intact.
"given that Dropbox is a tool for sharing files"

For now.
disappointing bit of CYA, after they failed to notify ALL of their customers that authentication had been temporarily, accidentally disabled for a few hours.
also, current poll data suggests that 37% of start-ups are founded by someone under 20.
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I agree, it is a bit extreme. However, they did say it was a 'ballpark'.
World Bank Is Opening Its Treasure Chest of Data
CS works for me. Just get the bundle for TextMate.
like this? http://kodapp.com/
If IE 10 is "as good as Chrome" then Google will have achieved their claimed objective for developing Chrome.
This is what I want awk to do very often (from python). Anyone know how to do that ?

>>> 'foo + bar + baz + buz'.partition('+')
('foo ', '+', ' bar + baz + buz')

I think cut does it but I often forget about it.

$ echo 'foo + bar + baz + buz' | cut -d + -f 2-
bar + baz + buz
Simplified version:
People who hate are basically ignorant and jealous.
These ignorant and jealous people end up blaming successful people for their own life problems.
People tend to hate things like: Religion: thus Moses and Jesus. Communism, thus Marx. Capitalism, thus Ayn Rand/Levi's Jeans/Hollywood/Wall Street/Web(Google/Facebook)/Diamonds. Physics (or nuclear physics), thus Einstein, Feynman. Modern psychology, thus Freud

And so, because people hate some of these movements, and the people who founded or excel at them, these ignorant haters associate an innocent ethnicity and religion who just happen to be related to these laters.

Its great to be Jewish. :) We have great heros.
Still, Halderman warned that too much litigation could cause companies to become excessively security-conscious. Software developers always face a trade-off between security and other priorities like cost and time to market. Forcing companies to devote too much effort to security can be as harmful as devoting too little.

While I suppose there is always some risk of obscure, exotic vulnerabilities that take substantial creativity to find, the breaches that have been making the news lately have not been of this kind; they've all involved "kindergarten security" as Bruce Schneier put it. Securing applications against these kinds of exploits is not difficult!
Ya it looks like the "augmented reality" part was faked. The angle of the video never quite matched up with where he was holding it either. In any case it's still a nice proof of concept.
If my assumption of dropbox's intent is correct, I prefer facebook's approach to this problem. Instead of wording terms exclusively in their favor they could have extended an olive branch...

"For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License"). This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

(from https://www.facebook.com/terms.php)

facebook's license to share the picture of your cat terminates after you delete it from your profile. Had dropbox used similar strategy while drafting their terms, this would not be news...

(Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and do not pretend to be one on TV.)
There have been articles, on Google's Analytics-Support page(s), that have recommended otherwise or have made not that underscores are just the same. Some of those old links no longer work -- answer (id) expired, but the following still has language in support of underscores: http://www.google.com/support/googleanalytics/bin/answer.py?...
I used to have the same workflow. Checkout http://spootnik.net to sync OmniFocus with your Basecamp accounts. Then you can just work in OmniFocus for the most part.

I've since moved everything into http://getflow.com. If you're mainly using the task lists in Basecamp, have a look at them.
IMO, the right way to express this would have been "to the extent required for us to provide the Services that you use".

Dropbox definitely does not understand the confidentiality requirements that (some of) their customers have. By reserving themselves so much leeway, Dropbox is driving away business users who need assurances of confidentiality.

IAAL, and I can't use Dropbox today because I can't trust them with my clients' data.

(This post is informational only, not intended as legal advice or to create an attorney-client relationship.)
Could it be worded in such a way that makes the rights granted to Dropbox only usable for making Dropbox functional?
That's classic. Any references will be appreciated.
Facebook certainly doesn't allow you to download all the logs about you that they collect. The amount of logs they collect about you are huge, and those are the true valuable data (rather than the pictures you've uploaded).
I'd think that's pretty unlikely. Since the Buzz fiasco, Google is legally bound by an agreement with the federal government to take privacy more seriously. See http://jurist.org/paperchase/2011/03/ftc-settles-with-google...
I could be wrong, but I imagine he's referring to the module concept. Not CommonJS itself. (Or perhaps referring to skulpt.org, but I doubt that.)
Wikileaks & Datacell to sue Visa / MasterCard for 'financial blockade'
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I'm curious what could happen if they did not include this clause? Who would sue who and for what?
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Interesting, I've found Chrome to be slightly faster than Safari on my MacBook, but also much more prone to stalls and complete catatonia than Safari.
Actually, I think you're missing the point.

1. People seem to want to use Dropbox to store sensitive, private data. Most sensible people don't trust AT&T, Facebook, Microsoft, etc. for this purpose anymore because of their past gaffes.

2. Dropbox makes numerous "marketing" statements all over their site purporting to be safe for confidential, private information.

3. The licenses that companies need in their TOS can be scoped appropriately to what's strictly necessary for them to provide you the service you signed up for. Companies that reserve rights in their users' stuff beyond what's necessary do so for a reason – and it's not likely to be in the user's interest.
Could you? Would you win? Has anyone ever sued? Successfully?
Some are making it even cheaper to live in NYC with a Startup Co-Living space

http://www.indiegogo.com/scls
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"...to the extent we think it necessary for the Service."
Twitter uses something like that http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/07/murder-fast-datacente...
Facebook might not stop innovating, but the pace of innovation will be slower. Competition fosters innovation. This is really simple business.
Rename file names in bulk with Bulk Rename Utility.
both already are

My local public-use airport (Outagamie County Regional Airport) is owned by the county.

DFW is owned by the cities of Dallas and Forth Worth.

JKF is owned by the City of New York.

What airports are owned by private interests?

The rest of the points you make I did not see in the article - but I merely skimmed, having read things like that before.
Flagged for the FUD title chosen by the submitter.
Possibly. Due to the fact that we are dealing with spoken language, even if it is legalese, there will always be some degree of ambiguity and room for interpretation. Here, that ambiguity lies in the phrase "we think is necessary."

Therefore there will always be a tiny chance left for one party to get bitten in the ass down the line. The company has to decide if its them or you that is exposed to that slight risk.

Good luck finding a company that picks them rather than you.

Rereading, I realise that I haven't been entirely clear. I hope you get the idea. IANAL.
There are two factors that matter:

1. When the license ends.

2. What uses are permitted while the license is in effect. This is the part that is currently way too broad. It should be limited to what's necessary to carry out the user's instructions. In other words, Dropbox should only be able to use your content in your own interest, not in theirs or any third party's.

(This post is informational only, not intended to be legal advice or to create an attorney-client relationship.)
This argument is too weak to sell. In the same realm, you should remove from the zip file photos that contains the user's friend(s).
vi is not a trivial piece of software to port.

Besides, I think you could just use a browser SSH client to accomplish what you mentioned.
= List your public files to others

But it doesn't say public files. They ask for that privilege for all files and then leave it to vaguely worded clarification in the privacy policy.
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It's a toolbar at the top of GMail, Calendar, Docs. It's as subtle at it can get. You call that forcing?
'Death of 4th Amendment' Judge Blames GPS, Cellphones, Users
That's why the sentence ends … to the extent we think it necessary for the Service.
But more importantly: Did someone try to use Prolog to mend it?
I never said Facebook would stop innovating but it wouldn't be as fast. Facebook is stepping up it's game.

Same can be said with Apple. IPhone would keep improving with or without Android. But I feel like Apple is being more agressive about it with Android around.
I am a bit confused about the pricing model. Why did you decide to charge per creation rather than per month? Who is the expected audience? Again, great tool.
This is just the difference between legal reasoning and material rationalism. There are plenty of legal situations that find a car is not a "motor vehicle" in the eyes of the law that make perfect sense. "Radio communication" has a very specific legal meaning that this judge does not feel wifi met in this case.
Here's the launch video for String SDK. Looks pretty impressive, much smoother than many other implementations I've seen

http://www.poweredbystring.com/official-launch

Great demo video about 1:30 in to the launch video.
Most people who've chosen either career retire without falling into paranoia. As for others demanding continued output, I'm not seeing that at all. For example, my employer is offering people over 50 early retirement incentives.
Is it a small detail? I look at it as the fine print. They most likely consulted with an attorney and decided that it should be worded like that to cover whatever they have in mind. Attorneys are very deliberate.

They don't have to plan something "sinister", but boundaries are pushed slowly. This sounds to me like a first step, and disregard for privacy.
I think you just described PHP's old magic quotes feature, which automatically escaped all user input to, among other things, block SQL injection. It's universally reviled as one of PHP's worst design decisions and is no longer part of the default feature set.
I found the Nintendi E3 Wii U Demo.

It gets interesting around the 2:40 mark (the whole thing is pretty impressive)...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DowHrWluHxg
I think it's an interesting experiment to explore CSS3 stuff. Some experiments end up impractical, but they're still good to know about.

That said, for anyone wondering why they're not practical...

Spritesheet image - 9kb [http://imgur.com/Mcr9N](png)
CSS needed to write the positions - ~1-3kb

Pure CSS - 60kb
this sentence about sums up the whole thing:

"Pseudo-elements provide many possibilities to developers interested in writing semantic HTML."
My father-in-law retired at 75. He was writing firmware for chip stepper systems. He still reads Science and some chemical engineering stuff.

I met a guy on his 60th birthday who was considering starting another start-up.

I'm fifty. I did some back-to-back 100 hour weeks last year, and definitely felt it a lot more than I did when I was 30. But I work smarter and I know more tricks. My .emacs file is full of hardfought wisdom (mostly knowing what to throw out, frankly).

I think I have some good years left :-)
But just for copying files. Facebook does the same to deploy their 1GB compiled binary. What I'm asking about is: instead of only copying data, why can't we apply arbitrary functions to it? After all, the hard part is not applying the functions, it's schlepping the data - and that's the part BitTorrent solves.
How is this live? I thought Assange is under house arrest of some kind...
CommonJS modules are modelled on python's I think.
Google App Engine does have one.

But it makes no sense for an IDE to have an App store. If they want to make an app store they need to get an angle for consumers not for developers.
A pretty good technical analysis of this decision is found here: http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2011/07/judge_ware_goog....

Professor Eric Goldman adds his comments to the end of the linked piece, including the following:

"I continue to insist that the ECPA is one of the worst-drafted statutes of all time. . . . [N]o one knows what the statute really means . . . The class action plaintiffs have gone crazy with the statute, and due to its drafting deficiencies, the plaintiffs claims are rarely clearly wrong on the surface. The result has been a huge tax on innovation with no commensurate social benefits; only the private benefits of a few privacy class action lawyers getting fat and happy while feasting on Silicon Valley companies."

The statute was passed in 1986 and is badly out of date. Judge Ware, who is a very good judge, is left to struggle with trying to determine what Congress intended when it enacted the statute 25 years ago as its text might apply to technologies that did not exist at the time. This is a difficult task at best and is not likely to lead to consistent results among the courts. Congress therefore needs to act to fix this and to set the right policy choices based on the technology we have today.
This made me read more...

See page 20, line 10 and read onwards, the Judge clearly understands the difference.

And further to that the Judge specifically calls out the underlying basis behind your objection and saying it's misplaced. (page 21, line 8)

On another note, I had no idea but this would seem that the Judge is saying that if you are caught running wireshark with your network card on promiscuous setting in a public wifi you are wire tapping. It's fine to connect to the network, just not listen to other people's packets.

Which seemed totally outrageous when I first realized it, then totally made sense the more I thought about it. After all, phone cables are publicly accessible, it's fine to use them for your phone calls, moment you hook up a physical wiretap to the publicly accessible telephone lines, boom, you're wiretapping.
One would have to believe this is one of the items standing between Facebook and IPO.
I'd also recommend subscribing to a dedicated mail service. There are dozens of variables that affect your mail delivery. You should read the postmark blog (http://blog.postmarkapp.com/) for a peek into those.
this dude is clearly underestimating rockmelt
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Drop box is making a copy of your files every time they back up one of their servers. That might be a copyright violation without your explicit permission. This license fixes that problem.
Yes, that's correct. Importing is similar to require(), although there's no explicit exporting.
I'd be interested to hear the same poll for 'first successful startup, for your definition of successful' as well.
I've gone through 2 startups, but of which were unsuccessful (lack of funding / too far ahead of the market).
Hoping this third time is the charm (and I'm now also 2 age brackets up).
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I wonder what the massively parallel CPU vendors like the Opteron 6xxx series or Sparc T-series would have to say about this.

Also, overall power usage isn't given much consideration, just response time.
Most of our audience is just people who play with it because its fun and tweet/email it to friends. This is how we hope to get publicity. Our secondary audience is web developers who need just a little bit of animation for a site and don't want to lose weeks becoming proficient in Flash/ToonBoom and paying for all the pricey authoring tools. We hope the second category can expense the premium cost for their projects to clients and won't mind paying a reasonable per-project price.

However, we're certainly open to other pricing models... We just figure since the "iPhone App" era people are more comfortable paying one-time fees instead of signing up to a renewing prescription.
This makes me feel old. At 23, that isn't good.
I believe that in augmented reality programs you need a target. The piece of paper is that target. It allows for the AR program to know where to place the video and also how to rotate the camera as he is walking around to the side.