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"Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.

When you upload or otherwise submit content to our Services, you give Google (and those we work with) a worldwide license to use, host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works (such as those resulting from translations, adaptations or other changes we make so that your content works better with our Services), communicate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute such content. The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones. This license continues even if you stop using our Services (for example, for a business listing you have added to Google Maps). Some Services may offer you ways to access and remove content that has been provided to that Service. Also, in some of our Services, there are terms or settings that narrow the scope of our use of the content submitted in those Services. Make sure you have the necessary rights to grant us this license for any content that you submit to our Services.

You can find more information about how Google uses and stores content in the privacy policy or additional terms for particular Services. If you submit feedback or suggestions about our Services, we may use your feedback or suggestions without obligation to you."
Yup. This is EXACTLY what I knew Google would try to pull. There is no way I'm switching from Dropbox to one of the shadiest online companies out there.
There are straightforward how-tos on every aspect of medicine easily available for everyone, and no need to turn to survivalist guides, either. How do you think doctors learn this stuff? The exact same medical textbooks we use are sold freely to everyone who wants them, and there's a youtube video for practically every medical technique. I learned to suture from a textbook and an online vid, practiced on a piece of foam and some pig skin, and managed a perfectly serviceable if not quite cosmetically perfect suture on my first attempt on a living patient.
I'd say that used to be true for me but the pyramid guys have raised the bar when it comes to docs in the last few years - they're simply fantastic!
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One way a food journal helps is by stopping you from eating bad things (because you consider the food before you eat it). I wouldn't want to remove all of the friction here (for weight-loss anyway). Help in getting it right and avoiding bad choices would be great, though.
I unfortunately can't find a reference (but I'm hoping someone else can!), but my understanding is that group conflict is often greater between those who have similar ideologies than between those of very different ideologies. For example, Emacs vs. Vi rather than Emacs/Vi vs. Visual Studio or Lisp vs. Scheme rather than Lisp/Scheme vs. everything else.
True, but I've always found that despite my insistance that we never release on a Friday, it always seems to end up happening.
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I can't say with any certainty about how much you could automate the job of a featured journalist or editorialist for a big journalistic institution like the Economist or maybe the Times, but I'd say at the current quality network and cable news reports are going...automating the "what's up right now" news is probably already doable. That's not necessarily saying a lot about the algorithm, though.
You cropped your screenshot a little unfairly -- the very next line is clearly relevant to the discussion: "The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones."
That's what I think is clearly a sham in her work: her unacknowledged Nietzschean influence is quite strong, and like him, she does not deduce principles from reality, but from metaphysical first principles that are arrived at through an obscure armchair-philosophizing process, certainly not an inductive, scientific one.

That there is really no nuance or context in her novels (or other work) follows fairly directly: these are idealized, metaphysical types, and an empirical or inductive methodology is nowhere in sight. She occasionally claims something about induction, but does not actually follow any such methodology, certainly not in any rigorous fashion.
I don't think those are contradictory. In order for Google to synchronize your data to various devices and provide it to its API's for you to access it in its applications, it needs permission (a license) from you. Asking for that license every time you try to access each photo in an image manipulation program would be excessively cumbersome.

In addition, this policy is directly related to "submitting content". I do not interpret that to include storing files on a storage service or sending email through a hosted email source. Submitting content needs to be defined, but it is not the same as copying a file into a storage bin. After putting an image into your Google drive, you might then submit it to Picasa, or you may even have an automated process of submitting all files in your Google drive to Picasa, but the submission of that content has to be considered a different act than just storing data on a hosted storage drive.
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This site smells like a SEO scam. Look in the "related sites" sidebar: lots of links to common search keywords like "treating neuropathy in feet" and "facebook login help", in a small, light gray text.
The problem is that it's not clear the license to "use, create derivatives, etc" is solely for the purpose of providing you access to your data worldwide. Using, say, your vacation photos in an advertisement seems within the scope of the TOS. Google could be clearer if they chose to be. I believe it is intentionally vague.
I do agree that Dropbox's wording is much friendlier, but I attribute most of the difference to Google having big plans (e.g., searching and sharing) and being careful that their terms will permit them. I suspect a big part of this is Google's intention to analyze your data to make it indexed/searchable (e.g., their 'search for Mt. Everest and get back your pictures of it' features).
Distribution Upgrade does hide the "Terminal" view by default. Which is kinda bad as at some point there are questions asked inside the terminal (stop services) which are thereby hidden and the installers just looks like it hangs.
Where is the category for companies that bootstrap from 0 into 7 or 8 figures of revenue without funding? Is that also the 'unfunded club'? You open with a paragraph about the problem, then your own categories perpetuate the problem.

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I know this is an appeal to authority and past success if no guarantee of future success... but the Django homepage was designed by Wilson Miner (http://wilsonminer.com/) who also originally designed the Apple homepage among other things.
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I am currently running it on my Toshiba NB 305 net book. I've been pleased with the performance overall, but on the few occasions where I needed more power, I switched desktop environments to lxde and performance was boosted.
No, I wasn't trying to point out anything about Ruby's creators. The preference bit was a PS I could actually skip... but it's there.

I do however think that high popularity in one specific circle (rails developers) results in pretty pages about the language itself. The split was actually very clear not that long ago even in ruby itself. A couple of months ago docs for ruby core were on a really ugly and not very usable page with 3 small scrolling boxes on the top and documentation view below. It's gone now fortunately. (old version of rdoc generator theme - still visible on http://stdlib.rubyonrails.org/libdoc/rdoc/rdoc/index.html)
This is great for the region (Grand Rapids/Western Michigan). I just wonder if the supporting infrastructure/resources for a tech hub are there.
Twitter was designed for a process of acquiring information, results (the information itself) are irrelevant. RSS was designed for results, the process of acquiring them is irrelevant.
In other words - in Twitter what matters is When and How, not What. In RSS it is the opposite - What matters, not When or How.
RSS will be just like now for years. Twitter will be indefinitely more popular all that time until any moment in the future more trendy network will emerge all every one will leave the ship in months. And probably no one will compete with RSS. It is like a Unix tool - no point in touching it, if it works.
^ - Does it on the first level, when navigating the maze. Using latest version of Chrome and OS X.
Maybe because there are more real programmers in the Python community :)

Joking aside design is a visual representation of quality. For newcomers a better design might be all is needed to attract them. I guess then you can also argue why many In Ruby world are rather shallow :p
Looks like a fun app, but the description makes my head hurt:

"This is a paradigm shift in fitness apps utilizing the best features in mobile technology moving one step closer to wearable computing to determine the physical conditioning level of athletes who want to test their mettle to see if they have what it takes physically to just get their foot in the door as a potential candidate to become a Navy SEAL, EOD, Diver, Special Warfare Combatant Crewmember, or AIR Rescue Swimmer? SEALReady guides you through a simulated physical screening test and lets you know how you stack up. It’s an intense mini triathlon without the bike but throws in a 500 yard swim using only a side, combat swimmer, or breast stroke, a minimum number of calisthenics, but you want more to score, and a timed GPS run."

Something like this might be clearer - it outlines what the app is actually for in the first couple of lines, and misses out all the empty buzzwords (paradigm shift? really?):

"Do you have what it takes to become a potential Navy SEAL, EOD, Diver, Special Warfare Combatant Crewmember, or AIR Rescue Swimmer? Check your physical conditioning level and test your mettle with SEALReady. SEALReady guides you through a simulated physical screening test - a 500 yard swim, calisthenics, and a timed run - and lets you know how you stack up."

A good copywriter could probably get that even snappier.

Oh, also, having your customer review be made from the same account name as your HN account doesn't make it look very convincing ;)
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Rules are that you have to have a Michigan, LLC to receive it and do a presentation 60-90 days later. Sounds like anyone can do it, just have to buy the plane ticket there to present. No obligation to be at their location or have a "office" in Michigan.
Considering that he wasn't getting restful sleep, wouldn't it be best to give him the CPAP and tell him to change his lifestyle?

If I was in his situation and the doc told me that he would not give me a CPAP and that I needed to eat better I'd tell him where he could shove it...
Consider that signals mean different things to different people.

These Python sites are targeted at Python programmers. What do Python programmers want? They want clean, neat and obvious. Above all they cannot abide unnecessary clutter.

The Ruby screenshots listed have the following 'visual impact' features. They may make them more attractive, but don't help with usability and potentially get take up space that could be used for information:

Elements introduced purely for decoration.
Oversized logos
Pictures of people
Designer fonts

By contrast, the Python pages are all information dense and organised with hierarchies of headers.

This is a pretty rough analysis, but perhaps it explains the difference in approach?
am i understanding the contract correctly that they want 3% for a $5000 investment?
What do people gain by writing ill informed, flame bait artictles?

http://docs.python.org/

Official python docs are a class of its own - browse online, higher in google results, download static files, offline searching, well organized, curated content with a lot of example code etc etc.

http://ruby-doc.org/

Ruby docs don't even come close. I have been told ruby docs are mostly a volunteer effort and one man operation, and I mean no offence to whoever is the maintainer, but it isn't comparable to python's.

I haven't tried interactive python tutorial, but the official python tutorial is the best tutorial I have read.

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/index.html

I program comfortably in a number of langauges, and have read a lot of code and documentation. If I have to choose top language tutorials among c, c++, java, perl, python, erlang, lua, javascript, c#, it will be a tie between python's and "Learning Perl".

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/

Django's documentation is one click away from the landing page, and the link is located where it is expected to be. Are you seriously telling me you had a problem finding the docs or the download button(so called usability problem)?

FWIW, I find rails guide better than django docs, but that doesn't make the django docs unusable or bad.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/

http://ringce.com/hyde Jekyll's counterpart is hyde. A simple google search for "python jekyll" would have told you that.

Comparing Google App Engine to Heroku or DHH's landing page Adrian's, and concluding Python is ugly is ridiculous. To be honest, I find the whole article ridiculous.

I have nothing against design and people making pretty shit. I just take exception to lame claims about a language's usability based on how pretty the landing page looks. And in the case of python docs and django tutorials, it doesn't even look bad, and is perfectly usable.
UI #2 works for me: one big list of things I probably want to read. If your feed reader looks like "one big mess", maybe you should unsubscribe from some of the noisier feeds before reaching for machine learning.

Alternatively, use folders. Have a "quiet" folder with all the slow feeds you follow closely, and a "noisy" folder for all the feeds you just skim.
Very cool. I had no idea Fitbit had an API.
Your plan is to make a common library that all browser vendors will use and you will control?

How are you going to compete with existing browser rendering engines written with massive engineering resources and years of optimizations and convince browser vendors to replace them with your stuff and let go of control over the development?
> successful movie (Bee Movie)

This is debatable. The way I remember it, it was a clunker.
Yes most took the pain of skinning the application to get the look and feel they wanted. The pain was soothed with iOS5's UIAppearance in a big way though. UIAppearance makes it easy because you can set the look of a component throughout the entire application. For example I only have to skin the UINavigationBar once, and the UITabBar once. Then all navBars and tabBars I use have the same look and feel.
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And Ruby is actually (slightly) older than Javascript (96/97). Funny how things look when you've been seeing JS for a decade and a half and Ruby is this new shiny thing (but it actually isn't). Same with Python.
We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example [..]. This includes [..]. It also includes [..]. You give us the permissions we need to do those things solely to provide the Services.

So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff? Seriously? IANAL, but doesn't that include more than what Google says?

Also note that Google has this line (you know, just above the paragraph that was quoted in the article): Some of our Services allow you to submit content. You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
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Besides being incredibly slick, this looks very useful! I definitely will try this out with the tests we are writing for our iPhone app.
Complete FUD. Best article I've read on this is from The Verge. Google would be unable to create backups or thumbnails for example without these rights.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...
YC, good VCs, etc, aren't capital constrained, and do a ton of work to get their dealflow. So wishing that you could invest pro-rata alongside them with no fees is like wishing that ice cream were free :)
I mean the latter, but I'm talking about just the silicon, not the complete product produced by (say) a switch vendor, which perhaps explains the difference.
This rhetoric is getting really old.

If you want to store things that you would consider sensitive, dropbox, google drive, amazon, imgur, facebook, or whatever else are not the place to do it, and you shouldn't be expecting any different.

I store comics, pictures from my iPhone, and a few bits of music that I like on my dropbox. if I use gDrive, it will be the same thing.

This should be obvious.
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Starting Strength is such a great book. Simple no nonsense. The diagrams are extremely helpful. I never knew you could fill that many pages on performing a proper squat.
Fission power is good enough to avoid any decline. We just need to start building more of it...
Coming from an open-source developer perspective, it's frustrating that people who don't have a working knowledge of copyright still feel free to speak as if they are knowledgeable about copyright on sites like HN. Copyright is second-nature to anyone who has to deal with open-source licenses, CLAs, and so on on a day to day basis -- so let me try to explain:

Everything you do is by default copyright by you in the US. When you make a copy of your own work and give it to somebody the recipient of that copy needs a license from you to describe how they are allowed to use it. If the person you give it to does not receive a license from you, then they are violating your copyright and you can sue them. This means that the second you upload a work of your own to Google, if they do not have a license to that data then they are violating your copyright -- even though you chose to upload it to them.

When you conclude that Google intended to say "By default all your data belongs to us" you are showing that you really don't understand the difference between owning a copyright and having a license. Please, stop speaking with authority about copyright issues if you do not understand them because it does not do the HN community a service.

You still own the copyright on your work and you have given Google a license to use it. That license is broad because Google (and in this case Google Docs/Drive) has a broad set of features that allow you to do lots of things with your data. When you use a feature like sharing a Google Doc with somebody, you are not doing those things -- you are asking Google to do those things with your data via HTTP requests. Google has to be a allowed to do those things legally and the license implements that. For example, Google Docs/Drive has that 'Anyone with the Link' ACL that allows anyone on the Internet to view or edit your document so of course Google needs a "worldwide license to host, store, reproduce, modify, create derivative works...". You or anyone else editing a document in Google Docs is creating derivative works of that original document you uploaded.

Please, understand that "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content" means just what it says. And "you give Google [...] a worldwide license [...]" is not at all contradictory with that. I've only talked about US law at this point but remember that Google has to deal with copyright in every country. A broad license like this is just a fact of offering the features Google does worldwide.
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I think that's only one factor. The major shift in gaming that's hit them has been consumers transitioning from purchasing £20-£40 shrink wrapped games to £0.69-£1.99 downloads with further revenue from in-app purchases.

I've not "yet" seen the signs that they are adjusting to this model on their next console. The one area they may be able to focus on that's not taken care of at the moment is the party/family type games that made the Wii so successful.

Nintendo is a very old company that has altered it's business many times, so there's not reason to believe they won't change themselves again.
On the other hand, this post from The Verge explains what is actually going on: http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms...

The important quote: "Looking at some of Google's competitors, it's clear that they need the exact same permissions — they just use slightly more artful language to communicate them."

All of these services need similar permissions, as do most web services: it's just an artifact of how our copyright law works. Google does a bad job of expressing that reality as nicely as others (like Dropbox), but with almost equivalent permissions, I'd put them pretty far down on the list of companies not to trust.
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I'm surprised that people here don't like RSS. While I do agree it's too complicated for the mainstream, for people who know what RSS is, I always though that it was clearly better than Twitter/Facebook. You have a lot more control with RSS feeds. I have over 100 feeds, there's some feeds where I truly care about the content and will always what to know when there's new content. There are other feeds where I might check them out in detail if I'm bored, but most likely I'll just skim through them. With twitter this kind of prioritization is simply not possible, there is only chronological order, and it's very likely that I would miss some of the stuff I care about.
The bottom line is that you should expect whatever you store using Google Drive to be mined- This is what the company does, and it leaves the option wide open in its terms. If your expectations are in line with that eventuality, then use the service. If not, don't.
Exercise definitely. I've found that many of my best ideas come to me while exercising. I don't listen to music or anything so it is the most (sometimes only) distraction free time of my day.

I've also found that, by bike commuting, I can integrate exercise into my day in a way that doesn't really take much additional time.
Looks like Google accidentally started two memes this month: #whitespace and #selectivelyquoteprivacypolicy
Sounds a little tin-foil hat to me. Care you justify your hyperbole?
The rights you grant in this license are for the limited purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.

That doesn't seem intentionally vague to me. I suppose a restriction on using vacation photos in their ads would be nice... But is that really what people are concerned about? That doesn't seem very likely or threatening.