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In the US, given that they're not in a regulated industry (except to the extent they qualify as a site aimed at children), they really only need to comply with their own stated privacy policies. The question is: will they?
I wonder..
Could that have been their plan from the beginning?
I disagree. Unless you're talking about assembly it doesn't makes any sense, and even assembly, because a human created it, it envolved thinking and creativity. Therefore, it's totally liable to be copyrighted.
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I dare say you missed the point. Were you replying to the wrong thread?
Update: A TSA official responds in a statement that the “TSA has not tested the advanced imaging technology that is currently used at airports in mass transit environments and does not have plans to do so.”

This is false and I have photo evidence.

One year ago I noted that the TSA was doing naked scans (looked like mm wave) on everyone in the tunnel between the Chicago subway and the O'Hare airport, just outside the train platform in a non-sterile area and hundreds of yards away from any actual airport terminal (if you have ever gone to O'hare via the train, you will know once you get off the train it's about another quarter mile walk through a tunnel to get to the airport). I spoke to an agent that was there on site and he confirmed they were "doing tests." Told me they were not stopping anyone that day based on what they saw in the scans, but I would have guessed they would radio intelligence to the airport personnel if they saw anything suspicious.

Here's the photo[1] I took of the scanning station- there were two set up on either side in the tunnel such that you could not exit or enter the subway station without passing in front of it.

[1]http://twitpic.com/35njtt
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That was an interesting read, and something that I largely agree with.

Although I don't write much Scala, I love developing in JRuby (and Ruby in general) and Clojure, but in a lot of situations Plain Old Java (POJ) really makes the most sense. The issues are speed of experimental programming in alternative JVM languages vs. overhead to lack of tooling and deployment issues.

I think that the future "most used language of the JVM" will likely not be Java but I don't know what that language will be (and it has maybe not been created yet).
Its too bad they didn't actually put in much real functionality. Its really just a glorified slideshow.

But a compelling slideshow at that.
I'm not able to save documents right now. The POST to /documents returns a 502 Proxy Error (Error reading from remote server) after 2 minutes. Backend is down?
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What you said is incorrect. They do need to follow their privacy policies. It is a legal requirement.

Your comment confuses basic contract legal principles with privacy rules. This isn't a contract matter; it's a matter of public policy.

You can get started learning why here: http://business.ftc.gov/legal-resources/29/35
How to find if a ptc site is scam or legit?
I already addressed this issue on this post: Scam vs Trusted Ptc Sites , but not many people read it.
That’s why in the last few months a lot of people asked me if all kinds of ptc sites are scams or not, because they wanted to join these sites or to invest money in them…
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I want. Love the idea. Site is down so I can't tell if it works. But plus 1 for the idea alone.
When the kindle fire comes out and it's not available in Canada, it drives me crazy. When I had to wait years before Netflix was available in Canada I was really mad. When Apple launched iTunes music, the iPhone, TV shows and Movies in the US only I actually illegally obtained a US itunes account.

It sucks living in Canada. Most days. Not today.
Oh I agree; I didn't know if you knew of it, or if you simply meant it wasn't "there" enough yet for your use. I just wanted to make you aware of it in case you weren't. Cheers!
screens and resolutions are getting larger. unless it's for mobile screen, i don't see the need to get rid of it.
perhaps they based that on some UX statistics, but doesn't make much sense to me.
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learn to meditate. it's pretty much trying as hard as possible to think about nothing (including not thinking about not thinking about anything). despite the apparent paradox, it does seem to help.
Whatever trouble Facebook has with the FTC, it will face roughly 300 million times that trouble in Europe, where the rules are much more strict, and the data protection authorities have much greater power to act on behalf of the general public and individual interests.
Kick-starter? I'll pitch in just to see a decent (and open) white paper come out of it.
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Honestly one of the coolest things i've seen in a while. If they can get around the legality of it, im sure they'll be snatched up quickly.
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Site seems to be struggling under load.

I am excited about the concept - was thinking about this very idea while watching Coachella streaming live this year and then seeing all the cams people were uploading.
"If someone asks me for an honest opinion of them or their work, in private, I feel morally compelled to be as honest as I can with them."

I can vouch for that. Around a year ago I asked him for feedback on Cassandra and his response was both thoughtful and helpful. I appreciated that a lot. Thanks, Coda.
I spent a fair amount of my youth playing counterstrike and still have fond memories of it. I also learned to program roughly around the same time and found the later far more fulfilling in the long run. I learned skills in programming in those years that I still use today, but whenever I even touch a public counter strike (source) server these days I get hopelessly owned by a new generation.

I now see video games as pure downtime in the same way as watching a movie or something, I used to be very competitive and my scores in public servers and clan matches deeply mattered, despite all of this I really wish I had spent more of my CS time learning programming or taking up a completely different hobby (e.g real sport or music). I sometimes wonder where I would be now if I had spent that time doing something else.
The problem with video games is that you are spending your time perfecting something that is useful only in a very specific virtual world which can be radically changed or even destroyed at any time.
A very small minority of people may become "professional gamers" but for the most part it feels like almost completely wasted time in hindsight.

Will it make you money? No
Will it get you laid? No
Will it help you express yourself? No
Will it make you healthy and fit? No
Will it better mankind in some manner? No

I'm not hating on video games, just if you are going to spend that amount of time becoming awesome at something it does seem like a very poor choice.
Ask HN: List of Startup Internships Around the Bay
Hey HN,

I'm a junior in CSE. I spent last summer in the bay area interning for a large hardware & software company. I was hoping we could get a list together of startups in the bay who would be looking for interns this summer?

I'd like to at least look at the smaller companies in the valley, and I know a lot of other people who are interested as well. For those of us located outside of the bay area it's often hard to hear about startups who are offering internships around the bay area. Post them here.
They all clog pens. It just takes a few uses. Anyone who has ever worked a cash register can tell you that between customers you often have to scribble on some regular paper to unclog the pen.
and google lost focus.

not because is has too many products. heck no! but because it's wasting more time trying to be a ... for a lack of a new term let's use the old one: "portal"

name all companies that lost focus and became "portals" in the past. all of them wasted a lot of time on the top-$sitename-bar right before it reached the point of no return.
He wouldn't say that in public because it would be harmful to the Scala community, but everyone who read it is very glad for having read it.

But if everyone thinks this way, those innovations will have one view on the web (where there is an image to care for) and another one of engineering departments, where people get real... and that sucks.
Data mining is one thing.
Deceptive business practices and intentionally lying to your users is another.
If the testosterone hypothesis is true, then men who try t negotiate their salary also falsely perceive that they are risking their jobs, but they do it anyway. I find that hard to believe.
Please check out erinn's comment, which is as good as the original post if not better:

http://www.jwz.org/blog/2011/11/watch-a-vc-use-my-name-to-se...
Can we have a screenshot?
I wonder if they would have success by getting the product into community colleges and other two year schools (who might be particularly keen to save on Blackboard licenses). As students transferred out to larger four year colleges and were forced to deal with the mess that is Blackboard, they would probably be quick to talk up the (ostensibly) superior experience they had with Coursekit at their old school.
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Coda's public response: http://codahale.com/the-rest-of-the-story/

(mentions hacker news as a place for "nerd fights".)
Nail on head. Common politician tactic.

He's a hardcore objectivist libertarian. He most certainly doesn't care the least bit about student loan debts.

But this is kind of an ad hominem. He's also correct.
this is awesome. seriously. maybe you could package the technology in a way that lets other platforms use this without youtube. i am reminded of the original Color app.
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If there's demand for an API, one would expect competitors to arise; or at least, for someone to fill the niche left by an abandoned/bankrupted/acquired API... (unless it's a non-feasible business, e.g. giving too much away)

Then, the problem is the difficulty of integration: how hard it is to switch to another provider? In a mature industry, standards eventually arise that make switching easier, but not in the early days.
Courts ruling on fair use are supposed to take into account "the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole". Automated copyright detection schemes in YouTube may try to do some semblance of fair use by allowing snippets of copyrighted content under 30 seconds.
Very cool, just a slight niggle about the 'lightroom' colour scheme (dark area surrounding the video) which I see being poorly implemented time and time again: it doesn't really work when you have elements of bright white on the page, because they just end up looking even brighter next to the dark parts. The glaring white strips are distracting while watching the video, moreso than even an all white background.

TL;DR: lose the strips of white from the video viewing page.
First, I question the stats in the article. I have 4 Linux installs right now, all Ubuntu, yet I have done a lot of web searches for "Mint" out of curiosity. I skewed the stats in the article, sorry :-)

Second, I really like Gnome but Unity is just fine if you take the time to learn keyboard shortcuts to switch between apps, workspaces, and windows for a given app.

I just am wrapping up a long term project for a customer that basically required OS X for work. I have thought about switching to Linux and Ubuntu for my day to day work now, but I just ordered an iPad 2, and I would like easy data exchange with my shiny new little toy.
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I think you missed the "humor" tag on the posting.
Yeah, I'd absolutely agree that it's bad security practice to print sensitive information to a system-wide log. But the tone of the responses seem to suggest that people think this is something much more sinister.
I'm glad Google have programmers that know metrics that can look at the results of this. Usability mess.
I wonder how much work it would take to port to Mono, however.
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Jurisdiction. The useable rf spectrum is public and limited by physics, so we need regulation.

Private networks hooked to other private networks are not similar. The internet is not a thing.

They can go after parts they have power over, like .com, but the core concept of simply communicating...... O so easy.
He's not even a little wrong about HN.
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From all of these comments it becomes apparent why Arrington doesn't allow comments on his blog ;P
It is interesting to see how start-ups (twitter, forsquare and now yammer) adopting or dropping programming languages rains hailstorm on twitter, HN and blogosphere. As a serious PL designer, start-ups seem to be the prime market to target your language.
Where are you getting your tweet feed? My initial interest in data sift was because they let you get a feed from the firehose. Twitter doesn't seem to let you do this.

All I want is tweets relevant to a particular subject, and in the early days I don't want to be paying hundreds of dollars for it... I've got keywords and phrases I can use to find them, if I just had access to an API that would let me. (Maybe twitter offers this, I couldn't find it in the past.)
Seems like tin foil hats, jackets and pants are going to be in fashion
Facebook has repeatedly demonstrated that it has no qualms about infringing on privacy, so I would suggest that further changes to Facebook's Privacy Policy be made opt-in only.

Opt-outs should be a privilege that is lost when you repeatedly and intentionally violate federal law.
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Pompous. If you ever tried to use Yammer's "API" you wouldn't be asking this guy for an opinion on anything.
You would a good lawyer too.
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Sorry guys, probably should have sured up servers for HN load - my bad =\ On Caltrain, brb...
favicon is out now. thanks again for the suggestion
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shouldn't it print out the top? i read from the top down, anyone else?
I'm sorry I completely fail to understand how either of these remarks have any bearing on scalability?

How does the Perl6 project's ability (or lack of) to deliver a project to your undefined criteria for "usable version" have any bearing on the scalability of the ideas involved in either it or Perl5?

Second, in what way does a self-described popularity contest have bearing on the scalability of a language?

I would also love to hear how you would explain http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/paperinfo/tpci/Lisp.html which Alan Kay also talked about during that interview ... far more than the single quote he made about Perl. Note that according to the scale on both the Perl graph and the Lisp graph, Perl's lowest point is roughly equal to Lisp's highest point. The obvious explanation to me is that TIOBE score has almost nothing to do with Alan Kay's comments or opinions as expressed in that interview. So I don't understand what connection you're trying to imply exists here.

Perhaps you had your book on logical inference upside down?
I think this is awesome, especially for those "Hey, watch this cool thing I broke" kind of bugs. And for all of those bugs that live in Mr./Ms. CLOSED-CANNOT-REPRODUCE's component. :)

I still think clearly-written steps to reproduce win all because it's still so much faster for most Developers & QA folks to process and understand.

But for that phenomenal bug that you want to show off, BugCam would be killer.

(Disclaimer: In my eight years as a tester, I've added video to a bug exactly once: for a wickedly reproducible kernel panic that did the craziest colorful blinking ascii light show full of ☺s, ♦s, and ♣s. Man, that was lovely - wish I still had it around!)
Why are the needs of the "Scala community" to save face more important than the truth?
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Audits will prevent future action, but there's apparently no punishment for past actions. So, they got away with it.
Interesting you mention community colleges. We beta tested Classhive (similar product that no longer exists) at a large public university, a medium sized private college, and a medium sized community college.

When we spoke with teachers and students at all three, I believe our feedback from community colleges was much better due to the fact that they are under-served in this space.
Ask HN: Best technology related speakers?
Hi HN,

I am a member of a team within our student chapter of ACM, and we hold an annual conference in October. The conference is free to attend and we normally see around 600 attendees for around 16 or 17 speakers, a job fair for students, and a AI programming competition. This past year's speakers are listed here: http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2011/speakers.php

Anyways, I was wondering who, in your opinion, you guys consider to be some of the best speakers in the field, or even speakers you thought were surprisingly good after you saw their events. I want to start talking to people about attending, and I just wanted to get HN's opinion.

Thanks!
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At least Tornado supports concurrency so each process can handle multiple connections.
Part of the original complaint was the issues introduced by using a combination of Java and Scala rather than just one or the other (with Scala-only being impractical due to the need to use Java-based libraries).
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> The larger you are, the harder it gets to disobey their rulings.

Imagine Google replacing google.com with a clear statement denouncing a particular government action and naming names? Imagine Google de-indexing the government instead? They have so many more options available quite simply because they have such massive exposure.
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