skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The current rights granted to editorial usage is part of the fair use doctrine of photography. And note that editorial usage does not shield the defendant from real material loss civil suits - it simply shields the use of the imagery by default, and does not excuse the broadcaster/photographer from damages they cause.

I simply do not see anything to fix about this. The right to editorial usage is preserved, but if people go around causing material harm, they can, and probably will, get sued.

All without getting draconian about anything...

> "But it doesn't become a stock photo, and he can't then turn around and sell that photo to Geico who uses it to sell flood insurance."

This is already the state of the law. The use rights granted to editorial use are just that - editorial use. In legal precedent this has included not only traditional journalistic sources, but also artistic and benign, non-commercial use.

One thing that has been explicitly determined by previous cases is that commercial usage (stock photography included) is not considered fair editorial usage, and you'd better damn well have a model release if you want to use an image in that context.

tl;dr: Everything works as you yourself seem to expect. So where exactly is the outrage and call to reform coming from?
Show HN: AI tool reads privacy policies, tells you which sites sell your info.
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They have a lot of users to email, maybe it's coming? I still haven't anything either.
Is there any popular language, video/audio codec or CPU instruction set that isn't compiled to Javascript these days?
I've been a member @ HN for quite a while, but I usually just tend to focus in on security and privacy topics. One of my good friends is visiting, and we wanted to work on something challenging together. Both of us find privacy policies overly confusing and annoying, so we decided to tackle the problem. We built a tool that that crawls for privacy policies and uses guided machine learning to analyze them. We would love any feedback you have.
In my experience, finance scumbags and startup scumbags are different breeds. Finance scumbags are greedy but honest. They believe themselves entitled to own $20 million apartments and will do whatever it takes to get them, but they don't pretend to be anything other than what they are. Startup/tech scumbags (because they're more accountable; Zynga's behavior would be unremarkable coming from Goldman) tend to be a bit better at disguising their intentions. They also tend to care more about power, social access and kingmaking, whereas finance scumbags are purely about money. In my opinion, that makes finance scumbags more respectable (or, I should say, less repulsive).

That said, I like technology a lot better. There are always going to be scumbags when there's money, but the difference (IME) is that: (1) there are more normal (non-scumbag) people in tech, probably 85% vs. 70%, (2) the normal people in tech are more interesting and creative, whereas decent people in finance tend to be boring, 9-to-5 types, and (3) technology has a small but sizable number of people who are decent and have entered the upper ranks, whereas there's a glass ceiling that non-scumbags experience in finance (unless they start their own trading firms).

I didn't move from finance to technology with the illusion that I'd never have to deal with another asshat. I moved because in technology, it's much more likely that I can succeed (a) in a creative way, and (b) without becoming a scumbag myself.
I'd find it reassuring in times like this if company's could post details of how securely they hash and salt user passwords. It'd be good to know...
I am not a lawyer, but I am a photographer who has deeply studied this issue for my own protection. This is, and continues, to be a hot-button topic amongst photographers, so I would consider myself to be more informed than most people need to be.

So no, this is not a professional legal opinion, but it's one based on solid information about the laws of the United States.

If Boyle is to be sued, it won't be over anything related to use of likeness. More likely it will come from a defamation or libel angle - but that's entirely separate to the issue of privacy in public spaces.
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Steam forums have that same message on their front page.
This is so stupid it jusst hilarious.

So Zynga takes away shares from some people they considered top talent. It lets situation to became public. Then after all that moves it hopes to attract more top talent.

I cannot help myself laughing.

This really made my day. ;)
Actually its an intranet application that may end up only being installed in one location. There is also a chance that the AP could adopt it (if they are smart) to replace their old-fashioned ENPS (electronic news production) system but I don't know if that has any likelihood.
Just yesterday I received a notification from Facebook that my account had been accessed from a suspicious location and was locked as a security precaution. I had no idea how this could have happened, but I did have the same email address + password for Steam and Facebook. Hardly proof, but certainly a plausible theory.
Because a lot of people use the same password everywhere. I really really really wish they wouldn't.
A lot of users tend to use same password for various accounts. So, if the hacker gets one password, it means he can gain access to other accounts owned by the user.
Thanks for the link. MozDev looks pretty good...I'll look into it some more. (or you could submit a pull request! :))
no email, but the forum page shows the message: http://forums.steampowered.com
If by poor taste you mean incredibly insensitive, mean, and asinine, then yeah.
I believe the Cloud 9 IDE uses basically the same engine (Ace) as Etherpad.
>On the flip-side, just because a doctor is sued for malpractice doesn't mean he's guilty of malpractice.

And there you have a fundamental problem of major parts of today's society: for many crimes (especially grave things like rape or child abuse), accusation is equivalent to guilt, irrespective of the facts.
Yes, that's very true. It's going to take a while to convince schools to change all these entrenched behaviors and policies.

But, as you're getting at, it's also obvious that technology should be -- and will be -- an integral part of the classroom in the future. So we're hoping that, by making it as easy as possible to get on board, and by making the tech usable both inside and outside the classroom, we'll help teachers and classrooms move towards this future.
Thank you for saying this, it needed to be said.

Lets all remember, PG is in business to make money. He does that by selling the upside and lifestyle as much as possible.
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See that's the thing: I read that as "I'm saying that Product X is being infringed and I swear that I am authorised to act on behalf of the owner of Product X".

It is not saying that "I swear, under penalty of perjury, that that the product I claim is being infringed actually is being infringed".

That's a pretty important difference I think.
Right now there really isn't an 'obvious' choice for mobile development. jQuery Mobile doesn't cut it (and needs the mother library, which is really not developed for mobile). It seems you need to roll your own solutions.

What i would really like to see is a library that does more or less the same thing that jQuery ('desktop') does for mobile: provide cross-browser library functions that you need all the time, and automatically picks the best option on that platform (such as CSS3 transforms for animations).
On the contrary, most voters will carry a cell phone which is capable of taking pictures. So your corruption scenario is as applicable to the real world as it is to Internet voting.
They are competing services. You can really only watch one TV show at a time, so HBO is necessarily in competition with every other thing you could be watching right now.

Heck, HBO is also in competition with Call of Duty, Carcassonne, and Canondale, to varying extents.
Thanks Thomas! I love your designs (and http://www.weekendhacker.net too :)
Were you responding to the "Internet voting" thread?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3221370

As for your question, I don't see a way to enact a plan to weed out "uninformed" voters.

It'd be nice if all votes were cast on a rational basis, but current impediments to voting seem to tilt the system in favor of highly-opinionated, partisan voters over more laid-back voters. While some partisan voters may have arrived at their convictions through reason and analysis, many more are of the "angry voter" mentality.

A voting system such as Australia's, which encourages everyone to vote, seems in principle less susceptible to hacking by special-interests. It is inevitable and sometimes good that highly-opinionated minorities gain outsize political weight relative to a passive majority, but we do not need the election system to make it too easy to do so.

In effect, maximizing voter participation should align government more closely to the actual will of the governed. (It's worth noting that a statistically random sample would work just as well, with the additional benefit of encouraging gravitas in the selected voters, but explaining statstics to the general public may be a challenge in itself.)

Also, while you may be right, I wouldn't jump too quickly to the conclusion that the best way to solve a problem with an important issue (governance) is to make it unimportant. Certainly one may try to reduce the government's power, but that is orthogonal to the issue of making sure elections are well run.
Is there any good reason to use this css property? I can't rightly think of a single one.
"if it's good enough for twitter, it's good enough for me" - some dude.
I find this mildly ironic that url is being hosted on AWS.
It has been mostly good enough for most people, but not anymore. And that's a consequence of technological progress that we are not going to change. The sooner people realize this, the sooner they can start fighting for real privacy.
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We've been piloting with teachers, so we're starting by marketing to teachers directly. The goal is to have a product that's both useful at the free level and affordable at the premium level, given teachers' budgets.

We've started talking to schools, too, but I think it will be some time before we really target the marketing there.
How would a picture of a ballot prove that it was your ballot, that the picture hadn't been doctored, and that the ballot hadn't been doctored?
I think a large part of it is simply the belief that people with well-connected parents will succeed no matter what, and for a poor farmer to get to the top (competing with 1.3 billion peers) they need to be both incredibly lucky and talented and hard working. I don't think they think it's impossible to do fairly well, no matter who you are - if only because the government wants them to think that. People tend not to riot if they believe they have other options.

Most Chinese tend to be fairly pro-risk, but only after they have a degree. Cushy government jobs, or white-collar jobs in big corporations are preferred, but a reasonable number of Chinese want to start businesses. You don't have to meet that many old ladies selling wonton soup making twice the average wage of a university graduate to know the value of starting a business.
Agreed on all points. I'd also recommend checking out the the Mitwohnzentrale, which was IIRC located near KuDamm. Mitwohnzentrale ("Live-Share Center") derives in spirit from the Mitfahrzentrale ("Ride-Share Center"), and it is basically a semi-formalized arrangement for subletting apartments. When I dropped by during a visit to Berlin years ago, I saw a listing for a nice apartment near KuDamm that rivaled my apartment in [mid-sized Midwest US city] in terms of rent. AirBNB inherits much from the Mitwohnzentrale. http://www.mitwohnzentrale.de/
It's interesting you're mentioning reddit. In my personal use, G+ actually started competing with with reddit.

G+'s what's hot section resembles pretty much the image subreddit at this point content-wise, but the browsing experience is better since most content is displayed inline and I can easily navigate it with j/k.

Now they just have to figure out how you can get hot content for certain categories. Of course it's missing the anonymity of the reddit community, so the content will probably never be on par.
And there goes HL2:Ep3 for another year.
http://keepass.info/ - It is easy to have unique, complex passwords for each and every service. And with Dropbox (or kin) you can sync to iPhone, Android, Mac, Linux or Windows. Plus plugins for browsers to make easier.
Restricting voting to only "informed" voters would eventually lead to aristocracy and elitism.
Ok, so if I don't do this I should be fine. I think the guy should have qualified his statement.

Thanks.
Definitely. A little brevity goes a long way, especially for a company that is built largely around having a personality and people having something to say.
Confirmed by Gabe here: http://au.pc.ign.com/articles/121/1212201p1.html

All passwords are salted and hashed (hope they are using bcrypt), and all CC's are encrypted.

EDIT: updated comment to clarify what I meant with the bcrypt
Thanks!

If she or other teachers have any questions, they're welcome to email me: m [at] classpager.com.
> what makes you think Zurich would be better?

Zurich is just a personal preference because I studied and lived a long time in Switzerland. If you drew a cultural and demographic vector from Berlin through Munich to Zurich, you'd have a pretty good picture of what Zurich is like. If that sounds like a mixed bag, that's because it is. ;-) Even richer, even better working, but also even stuffier. I love it there but that's because many of my friends are there.

What is true, though, is that Switzerland has a better business culture and regulatory/tax environment. People work quite hard, they are very rational and pragmatic in business matters, and the universities there are, unlike the German ones, truly world class. I'd also wager, although I've not (yet?) tried myself, that it will be easier to raise capital from Swiss investors than from Munich-based ones (and Berlin, as someone already mentioned, doesn't really have serious capital floating around).

It's all a wash though, I'm sure that these generalities have marginal impact on whatever you or I do or decide. At the end of the day, sitting in Munich, you're a productive 4h train ride away from Zurich and a 6h train ride from Berlin.
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bool CompanySellsPrivateData(string privacy_policy) {
return true;
}
My first time, it was part of the job (acquihire) offer, as the company was 70 miles away. I did 2 days a week in the office though. On my 2nd time working at home now. After 2 years at my current company, I wanted to move to Boulder, and asked to work remotely. They said yes.
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960gs is just a grid system.

Bootstrap has a similar grid, but it also has nice styles for everything else.

Bootstrap is not targeted at someone with design skills or someone with access to someone with design skills. It's for programmers like me who don't have artistic ability who are trying to launch minimum viable products that still need to look professional.

I had originally started by trying to customize templates from themeforest, so my sites would look professional except for the parts I had to customize. This isn't good enough.

Bootstrap enables me to build professional looking websites from the ground up (Admittedly, my sites probably look very similar to many other bootstrap sites, but hopefully, they'll work on theming next).
That sounds quite optimistic. How do you "define exactly [...] where, and when" you can have privacy when you don't know where and when a camera or microphone might be aimed at you?

Anthony Bourdain's photo, referenced in the article, was presumably taken by a friend or family member only to be leaked a decade later.

And these days, using readily available tools such as telephoto lenses or unidirectional microphones, strangers can take part in your life from a distance of hundreds of feet. So, do you "define" privacy by making sure there never is a hill in line of sight?

When people start live-tweeting events recorded by their private satellite at some point in the future, do you make sure you can't see the sky so that the sky can't see you?

That's not the kind of privacy I'm looking forward to, and it's certainly not a boon.

EDIT: You are certainly correct that this will force us to define what privacy is -- or, more likely, to dismiss the concept altogether. Either way, it looks like we'll have to embrace this fundamental change, I can see little point in trying to fight against it.
> the argument "if you vote for a third party, you throw your vote away" to be demolished

i don't understand. your vote is basically thrown away regardless of who you vote for. the statistical likelihood that your vote has any impact except in the tightest of races is miniscule.

do people really believe that their vote is "not thrown away" only if they vote for the winning candidate?
Just to clarify, you have from Friday 11/11 until Monday 11/14 to submit an app (3 days). It doesn't have to use LinkedIn data or APIs, anything that helps veterans is fair game. The judging will be on Nov 29th where celebrity tech judges will give away MacBook airs, iPads, etc.

Happy to help with any pointers to veterans data or hack ideas.
What is this I don't even...
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Well, since Steam only stores the salted PW hashes, it doesn't seem like that would allow them to compromise your facebook account.
Placebo search button? Based on effect it doesn't seem to do anything, and visually it looks like it "sticks" and doesn't ever get "pressed" when you click on it.

also, it can't handle "gradient" at all.
Spine Mobile strives to give a native experience with web technologies (CoffeeScript, CommonJS, MVC & Spine). It's worth checking out if you're looking into jQuery Mobile: http://spinejs.com/mobile

(disclaimer - I'm the author)
It's been confirmed on Steam forums. The letter said the messages will go out via Steam IM.
You can go so much farther with this. How about letting me paste in any TOS and have it analyzed for important bits or things out of the ordinary? I'd love having my own personal robot lawyer to read over all the stuff I sign or agree to!
I know, and I totally agree. I honestly have no qualms with what you say. One point I wanted to make was just that inevitably there will be people who read this as something that endorses the idea that they personally need a native app even though that's just not anywhere in there. It's not your fault, its just something I notice. Tons of people come to me and say "I read this article about x and now I want x too" regardless of whether it makes sense or not.
No. In the US if you take a picture of me in a public setting, you own that photo and all rights that go with it. Unless you do something so distasteful and unwarranted that I can claim material harm, I have no recourse against what you choose to do with that picture. See, for example, the paparazzi.

My expectation is that if someone takes a photo of me, I maintain some level of control over that photo. That is NOT the current situation.
I think it's the dissonant claims that the employees in question are "non-performers" but those same employees would be deserving of their jobs if they were to relinquish their stock options. If they were truly "non-performers", Zynga should probably let them go. Since they don't want to do that, it seems that Zynga really just wants to claw back some money.
RIAA's statements usually make me sick to my stomach. So are we really going to kill the best of the Internet, and ultimately the Internet itself to "save" the music and movie industries? I think if those industries died tomorrow, we'd still have artists singing songs and movies. Perhaps they won't be as "high-quality" (read: expensive to make) but we'll still have new ideas, new art.
An annotated history of some character codes
Whatever encryption for CCs, I think its going to have to be reversible or there wont be any point of storing them.
Wait, how do you change your Steam password?
On a more serious note, I have two real questions:

1. So, having crawled a boatload of privacy policies, what fraction of them say that they'll sell your data?

2. Are you worried that the lawyers will find your tool and tweak their policies to beat it?
I've been on two several week long trips to Germany and Austria this year and I've absolutely loved it. Unfortunately, my boss isn't willing to transfer me over to Europe. If anyone is hiring, I'm looking pretty much anywhere in Germany, Austria, or Czech. Email in profile. I'm an engineer, but not software (mechanical). Experience working as Linux sysadmin and enjoy Python. Willing to work (relatively) cheap for the right experience.
Prolly an acqui-hire? I vaguely remember they had a friend sorting product for Facebook that was dead in the water once FB itself pushed features that were exactly like it.

Grats to the exit though.

Edit: Ah, more info here http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/10/google-acquires-katango-the...
I didnt, it's usually my assumption that codes are all claimed by the time I actually see them, so I tend to walk the list backwards to save time entering previously used codes.
As an aside: HealthGrades, a health care ratings site, seems to think a certain Dr. Robert T. Tenny, MD from Kansas is clean as a whistle: http://www.healthgrades.com/physician/dr-robert-tenny-xt5b4/...
What you SHOULD do is set up two-factor authentication for your Google account. It's annoying, but not nearly as annoying as having a keylogger in a hotel lobby computer steal your password.
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I just opened up the Steam app and it displayed that message from Gabe.
This article only has a few of the biggest names. The real tech scene is somewhat larger: http://www.seattle20.com/startups.aspx

And Fremont is one more unmentioned tech neighborhood: Tableau Software, Ubermind, and Groundspeak wave hi from nextdoor to Impinj, Adobe, Google, and others...
There's a quantcast alumnus building a mobile analytics company there -- http://www.sewichi.com . It looks fascinating, and if any of you are looking for a cool young startup, it's probably worth a look. The founder, David, is a stand up guy who really understands the analytics space.
If it is standard then why the author was surprised by the compression ratio?
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:( Very sad.. but I suppose it was just a matter of time. At least the CC and passwords were protected correctly.
The title seems to be very misleading. There is a big difference between losing a user database (all user info gone, no backups, can't log in, etc) and database information being compromised (information leaked, fraudulent activity, etc).
It was hardly an uncrackable password :)

I hadn't really used either account in years, so I never got around to enhancing my passwords.
"While we only know of a few forum accounts that have been compromised, all forum users will be required to change their passwords the next time they login."

I am assuming here that this means certain passwords were cracked at that point - does this mean that the nonce/salt in their password storage was discovered? And how long until they have a cracked user/password file?
Unless they keep the keys somewhere unrelated?
Thanks, and yes indeed, that's what we are hoping to get towards. We started out with a few other categories & classifiers (i.e. does the site claim intellectual property over what you post ) but wanted to start with "does this site sell my data." We can train it on TOSs and categorize there.
I was sad to look at the samples and see for loops. That's not the functional way. Instead you use recursive methods with accumulators. Nevertheless, glad to learn of this project.