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The tradeoff sounds scaring:
- Extremely accurate Privacy Policies nobody read;
- Simplified Privacy Policies everybody read, but missing something.

Facebook has probably reasons for not including too much detail on that page, but Facebook also uses users' data like nobody else. For the average website this problem is much simpler, even for the average SaaS startup which is not a social network (or a simple one like Quora). Probably that kind of website can really have a privacy policy covering every personal data use within a simplified popup, without missing relevant information.

The Facebook's popup surely has issues, but I still love it since it's something people read, and it helps people take better choices. This is what, to me, is really important of Privacy Policies.
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Putting stuff in the fridge doesn't kill the bacteria, it just slows its rate of reproduction down. Pasteurization doesn't kill all the bacteria either, it just greatly reduces the presence of microorganisms in food.

I don't think marketing a high quality cheese is going to be impossible in America, (well, maybe not Casu marzu, but I don't give a crap how good that is, I'm not eating it) you'd need to educate your customers and take steps in terms of packaging or co-products to help them use the product best.
I may totally be missing something but 1080px should be the height. So if you're showing it at a movie resolution you're either at something like 2592x1080 which is actually better then 1080p (but kind of unlikely - very few monitors would support a screen res that high) or you're running at something like 1920x800 which is less then 1080.

Its still pretty slick, not sure what SOC you're using but for that kind of media playback it seems to be something in line with what we're seeing in a bunch of our Connected TVs
It is interesting to note that the Michelin Guide itself orignated as a complementary marketing tool -- Michelin makes tires, and wanted people to use their cars more. So they compiled a list of places people might want to go, and added the reviews to make them even more attractive.
After reading that I can see why he hates parents.

Not because the parents are right but above all never talk negatively about the teacher to the child and because I say so it is true shows an entitlement issue on the part of the teacher (bordering on the nacisistic).

Respect is earned and if someone is completely unable to get respect when he has to actually answer for what he has done he doesn't dserve the respect in the first place.

I have had amazing teachers I have had teachers who were bad and techers who were inbetween. All of them have been wrong on occasion (no surprise, they are human after all) but the only ones I ever lost respect for were does who didn't admit it (or those who blamed their students).

Kids are smarter than you think.
I think he's saying that it'd be nice to have a web interface for getting/putting one or two files on machines that can't have the client installed. Dropbox has this.
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That seems a little skeezy to me

Since when has it been wrong to promote your product by taking a loss?
The CrunchPad, 'Angle-gate', all of his squabbling with Calancanis, fighting with Josh Topolsky. He is a diva and doesn't deserve the attention he gets.
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Looking at what I can get in supermarkets here in Italy, and seeing what's available when I visit back home in the states, I think there are huge opportunities in this space. I intend to investigate if we ever move back to the US.
AFAICT they are a registered charity with the goal of promoting computer science education, so I suspect large profit margins matter less than if they were a business.
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Yes. Pretty much anyone can contribute. Your patches just have to go trough an approval process. It is complex and takes time, but of course it is possible.
You know who should run TechCrunch - if he's at all willing to take the job? Saul Hansell.

Former technology editor and reporter for the New York Times, left a couple of years ago to join AOL's seed.com (so he's already in-house) - in general, an old-school newspaper guy who's absolutely committed to high ethical standards. I could not say enough nice things about him. Hell, I might actually read TechCrunch again.
Ulukaya: We’ve said no to almost everybody you can think of. We’re having fun. I’m going to be here a long, long time. I’m not somebody who is going to build something for a few years, sell it and then go off and just have fun. That’s not why I did this.

Wow, such a refreshing view. Especially considering the recent sellouts of natural/organic brands to major CPG companies.
No in fact I am not, and have said multiple times I am not in favour of perpetual copyright.

Perpetual copyright on copyrights as they are today would cause a great amount of work to be lost due to the owners greed and stupidity.

As per my suggestion on licencing a work could become free-use much sooner than the copyright period expires. Anything with no units shipped would mean its a free license.

As I've said elsewhere, and originally, I'm in favour of 20 years and extensions for derivative works, and perhaps then only on the right to produce derivatives and on no other rights like reproduction.
I presume that the de-duplication saves them enough bandwidth and storage to allow a much lower price point (as well as the free plans)

A secure system can't do either of those things, as far as I know. Assuming the data is encrypted per-user, on their local devices, you can't easily compress it (because the files are now very high entropy), and you can't scan for preexisting files, because you'd be giving an attacker an oracle about which files (or rather, which file hashes) exist already. Even then, you could probably use some traffic analysis to deduce something about the data.

Having data securely stored also removes some of the dropbox unique(ish?) features, like being able to share content with people via the web.

The pretty much diametrical opposite of dropbox is tarsnap. Everything else sits somewhere in the middle.
My mother is a teacher, and she has several anecdotes about teachers falling into traps like this. My favorite:

Teacher, to parent: "(You need to listen to me.) Who do you think knows your child better? Me, or you!?"
Congratulations. I always love seeing folks go about doing something, particularly something which solves an actual problem for people.

There's always another thing to do, but I think you'll find that even in a non-technical niche you get non-trivial ROI out of grabbing one of the looks-a-wee-bit-more-professional $15 templates on e.g. ThemeForest or what have you. One of your core challenges at the beginning is convincing folks who need to be published that you are trustworthy enough to give a credit card to even though you're on the big, scary Internet which is full of viruses and scam artists and other things preying on poor defenseless folks such as themselves. Design can help you do this.
This really needs to take into account modifier keys (in particular, shift).
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This kind of question is much better asked on a proper Q&A site like programmers.stackexchange.com, not a news site like HN.
> E is for Engineer

> "I wish children could understand how much fun I have."

> I am an engineer. Most people are scientifically and mathematically illiterate. Consequently, most people cannot fathom how much pleasure and delight I derive from my work. Of course I am also lucky to have a great job with great coworkers. But the pleasure of analyzing, say, the overall efficiency of a combined heat and power facility is hard to describe.

> Well, this is partially true. My wife actually gets irritated that I never mind going to work. She does not feel exactly the same about her job.

> I also wish children could understand how much fun I have. Because we need more engineers in this country for sure if we hope to remain globally competitive.
I like this move strategically.

Zagat has recently made moves to expand their ratings from food / travel into new verticals - eg rating doctors.

Have to assume that Google foresees expanding the Zagat ratings quickly to all things local.

The Zagat "brand" resonates huge as a trusted consumer brand and having that rating attached to listings (exclusively) makes Google's search results more meaningful than competitors (the perception anyways).

Smart.

Reference - http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellpoint-taps-zagat...
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Congrats with your project David! I see a lot of potential in that market as it is possible that traditional publishers will eventually fade away in the "kindle era". Have fun with your business!
I think it's because the content creators have not been completely OK with Google using their content (see News, Books, etc). Google's mission is to organize the world's information and to do that you need access to it.
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It’s been a while I’ve had a conversation in the comment section of a website. In fact I don’t even remember the last time it happened.
Any thoughts on first-party analytics vs. third-party?

I have my own data collection framework for iOS apps, which I hesitate to give up, but I lack in exploration and visualization tools. The easy way out is to use someone elses, but then I lose control over what gets collected.
Doesn't strike me as an apples-apples comparison. Some data is not free. The web is decentralized and anyone can request a URL and maybe get a response. Not all data sources are like this. ITA doesn't own the airline data -- it receives feeds of it from the airlines. That data costs a lot of money. I would also imagine that Zagat reviews cost money to create and aggregate.

Let's think about it. Instead of buying Zagat, Google could propose a distributed protocol (or microformat/schema for HTML) to publish a review and then they could just wait for it to catch on and then crawl that. But that is not going to help users today. Plus they've already scraped reviews from other sites and that just caused those sites (Yelp) to become very upset that their reviews are being shown on Google place pages (despite the fact they could always robot-out Places specifically).

Encouraging high-quality content on the web is not out of vogue at Google -- this would be silly because the #1 reason people still use Google is to find content on the web. However, it's not surprising to me that given the option to improve Google local quality today they would make an acquisition like this. If you were in Marrisa Mayer's position, what decision would you make?
Wow, thanks for that amazingly educational response. I had no idea I was such an idiot.

First, according to the Wikipedia entry on derivative work, "[...]The Mona Lisa With a Moustache. Often used by law professors to illustrate legal concept of derivative work." seems to suggest that producing a derivative work is indeed trivial. Copyright doesn't care if anyone would actually want to consume the work.

Also, why is it that protecting derivative works would automatically mean that the original needs protection as well? While you're preparing the 21st edition of your annual comic series, I make one that is a derivative of your first edition (now out of copyright). Sure, it's inconvenient for you, but I can't pretend to be "the real thing" as your trademark is certainly still covered. The fan-fiction universe seems to suggest such a "parallel" universe can exist without anyone mistaking one for the other.
Okay. High bar, no emotion. Got it. What metrics should we use then?

Emotion's out, so that leaves word count, spelling & grammar, font choice, or distance in miles the author lives from the center of Palo Alto. I dunno. I'm open to other suggestions.

I think it's getting a little out of hand. There this entre-automaton thing happening that bums me out. I get that HN is here to scratch a specific itch. But that itch is (fundamentally) the desire to create value. New value. FOR PEOPLE.

You know, people out there. (looks out window, rubs eyes).

They make decisions based on emotion all the time (and so do I). So if the monotony of impending 9/11 anniversary stories has you really troubled, maybe you can at least look at it as some sort of anthropological study. Customer research?

Seriously, I do find it at least a little bit ironic that you're afraid that something this important to that many people is going to distract you from.. you know, building things to sell to them.
I grew up in a small town with an "above average" public school: nice buildings, all classes were ~20 students or less, etc.

Yet my experience has led me to believe that K-12 didn't matter.

I learned to read at home, so they didn't give me that. I was constantly stifled; from my perspective as a child, I saw that my own interests were almost systematically kept out of reach (as an adult, I can see far further as to why and how this situation came to be - but at the time, all I could do is to see their chains and rebel). I was routinely in trouble from sixth grade on up. Remember those end-of-year class trips you went on? They never let me go because I was such trouble! I graduated high school with a D average.

The one thing they did do is to set back my educational development by about three or four years. Once I was finally free, I had time to grow unhampered. I discovered that learning was actually the opposite of prison, and that it had everything to do with the things I was interested in. I studied all kinds of things independently, and when I was ready, I took a couple of calculus courses at a community college to prove that I was serious. On that basis, I was able to gain acceptance at a well-respected university, where I majored in molecular biology and graduated with distinction.

If proponents of public education really cared about what was best for me, they would have left me alone. My experience shows that a K-12 education wasn't necessary to prepare me for college, or for life.

Edit: I'm not saying that no child benefits from their K-12 education - it is clear that some do. But why must it be involuntary? What justifies the laws that compelled my parents to send me to a place they knew (at some level) was hurting me?
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Thankfully, curl can't be tricked in such a manner.

I'd have a more substantial comment, I hope, if the site was loading.
Only Yelp can say, but I think that Google's acquisition strategy seems to pretty clear: "If we can't buy you, we are going to buy one of your competitors." The questions you'll need to ask yourself when Google comes knocking are:

1. How much do I respect my competitors?
2. If Google does get them, will they do better or worse?

It's not a matter of hoping Google will go away. Once they've signaled intent to be a part of your business, you can be sure they will, one way or another.
I think loss leaders are fine. The skeezy part, to my mind, is a company representing themselves as an educational foundation.

However, liz_upton claims that they really aren't part of Broadcom, despite the logo on the board. If they're really just a bunch of volunteers supporting Linux in education, they have my support 100%.
I can't get the ISO to boot via VirtualBox (on OS X if it matters). Did anyone else try this? It stops at:

[Multiboot-kludge, loadaddr=0x100000, text-and-data=0x51280, bss=0x0, entry=0x100044]
"E is for Engineer
I wish children could understand how much fun I have.
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My wife actually gets irritated that I never mind going to work. She does not feel exactly the same about her job."

I'm in the same boat. Programming is so much fun that I do it all the time. My girlfriend hates it.

"T is for Telecommuter. Working from home means I never leave the office."

Story of my life...
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Google’s problem, at this point, is that a lot of the “others” being “passively” indexed are spammers trying to game its algorithms. Google would be foolish not to leverage its money and its brand recognition to find ways to work around this problem with curated data. A link from a page with a trusted author is worth a hundred or more links from pages that are just randomly found by a crawler.

(Disclaimer: I work for Nokia, which competes with Google on geographic search.)
Last time I checked Chobani had enough sugar in them, they come with mixed-in fruit. I much prefer Fage total, I call it "real" as in full-fat yougurt, lowest carb/sugar of any other competing products, very high in protein too.
So, Mr. Upton, what are your plans regarding making the SoC datasheet available for real hackers?

(Not that I have any hope that Broadcom would change its ways...)
Keep digging that moat, Google.

What exactly do you mean by this? Is this purchase somehow cutting Google off from people? Making Google somehow less accessible?
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usually videos from actual film are a lower (or higher) aspect ratio that the resolution of the monitor. in the 1080p case most often you get less than the full height since it was recorded that way.

p.s. their platform support decoding full 1080p, that demo just included less height.
I'm not sure about this case, but that's not always been true everywhere, historically. In the UK, at least, when books were extended to life + 70 that was retroactive for books originally published there. It was not retroactive in the USA, however (and more sensibly, I would say - whatever your views on term extension).

This has affected me and my business in the past - see http://blog.th.ingsmadeoutofotherthin.gs/eucalyptus-availabl... (halfway down, "A Note on Copyright" has an explanation of this oddity).
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> Zagat employs people to actively review restaurants. That's fine for people who have the same taste as Zagat, but it's only one filter and arguably not very scalable.

It's not like there's one person per city, Zagat uses input from tons of people. It's also consistent, you don't have to wonder if the glowing review was written by the owner like you do on Yelp. Zagat gets people to pay for access to their reviews, that in itself should tell you something. Even better, Google will surely make them free, likely with some innovative tie-ins with Maps and Places.
By mobile phone SoC dividend, that's the VideoCore discrete signal processor, right?

From what I can gather Pi has a BCM2763 (as a DSP co-processor to the an ARM, or standalone?) or BCM2835 (combining a DSP and ARM on one chip) ... wikipedia is a bit hazy. (edit: it's the BCM2835 DSP + ARM on a chip, according to the rasberrypi FAQ).

It's got hardware that's dedicated to doing things it's 700MHz ARM chip simply can't, like watching YouTube in fullscreen (obligatory http://xkcd.com/619/). It should be able to do anything a high-end mobile phone can do (except take calls), which is what most people want.

It might be a good deal cooler with a $2 wifi chip (though that might make it harder to manufacture), or a $10 wifi USB adaptor, but I guess you have to draw the line somewhere.
College isn't that expensive if you don't go to the big-name schools.

Further, being uneducated is a nice way to assure you'll have a hard job life.

At least being educated gives you some ability to get ahead.
Hotpot merged directly into placepages -- I see my reviews and reviews from my friends on local pages (it's a really nice experience). I think to get a full picture of a restaurant you might care about:

1) reviews from your friends (hotpot)

2) reviews from food critics (zagat)

3) reviews from the general public (yelp)

So it makes sense to me that hotpot will continue to live where it is (and most likely get turned into a +1 sort of thing so that it can also work with G+)
Why is this is on the front page? Any barely competent iOS programmer could write this in an afternoon.
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thanks for clearing that up for us. hate it when people speculate wildly.
Have you ever had something stolen? If you have not, I can understand the absurdity of your post. Imagine having something that you use for over seven hours a day and is your livelihood suddenly stolen. It only doesn't only affect you emotionally, but financially. I couldn't imagine my code suddenly vanishing.
I think you're right, but I doubt any discussion of 9/11 will meet your "do submit" criteria. The incident has been analyzed so much for the past decade that there won't be anything new to say until it starts to pass into history many decades from now.
It's definitely pretty thin-skinned for the teacher to get upset over that.

The reason that the teacher sees that repeatedly is that its an effective technique. It establishes a level of trust between the child and parent--the parent is willing to hear out the kid. And it immediately puts the kid in a tough position unless s/he fesses up to the misdeed. Getting buy-in from the child about the legitimacy of what's happening is very useful when trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Of course, implicitly by asking for the kid's word that this happened the parent is opening up the possibility that the teacher is lying. But it's necessary, and even if the kid rejected it I'm sure most parents would almost certainly still believe the teacher's narrative. It's just a pro-forma verbal tactic to get appropriate buy-in from the child. I'm not surprised that a teacher would superficially feel a bit miffed by that, but they should understand and (however grudgingly) accept the reasons its helpful.
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I think you read a lot into my simple desire to keep HN focussed on its core topics (technology and start ups) while the tide of 9/11 stories arrives.

1. I disagree with the contention that the anniversary is as important to as many people as you imply. It is important and should be commemorated with quiet, personal reflection IMHO and not a media onslaught.

2. Even if I am wrong about 1 it doesn't mean that HN is the place for its commemoration.
I don't think this purchase is the primary 'Yelp-killer'. Yelp's product just isn't good enough, the iOS app for Google Places vs Yelp is a great example. Places gives me search and a set of location categories (like restaurants and gas stations) on its home screen, Yelp offers 'nearby' and a bunch of social features.
That's a reasonable explanation-- I'll take you at your word here. Thanks for your efforts to push Linux in education.

Would you consider open sourcing your design, so the rest of the community could build on your efforts?
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Have you tried Linkedin? It might be a good avenue to test.
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Perfect, we will do that. Under 2 minutes is alright then?
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Why would I want a login page that lets anyone login to any account without a password?
So Mozilla is jwz's name for the Netscape code that they open sourced. Does anybody know if there is a continual code-base going back through Firefox to Mozilla to Netscape to Mosaic? In which case, they could claim, they invented it all.
One thing I really like as a developer is that I have the ability to work part-time and from home if I choose to. If I ever have children, I'll definitely do this so I can home school my kid. Public education is efficient at what it does, but not optimal compared to an alternative world that allows all children to have a specially tailored and flexible curriculum.
They're not speaking as a teacher, but as a person with integrity, someone who endeavors to tell only the truth, especially in a situation as grave as the discipline of a child under their watch.