skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The default should be keep their hands off my data

Then they couldn't receive your uploaded data. Or your email. Or your videos.

This is the overal terms for all Google products, it was exactly the same as before Drive (since their privacy policies got merged recently). Read the second to last sentence of paragraph 2:

> 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.

The global policy is the most broad, pretty common sense. Google will read your files so you can search them, but they aren't going to start selling your content.
How did you get to "So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff?" from what Dropbox put, I personally did not interrupt it that way at all...
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That's standard wording allowing them to provide the content to you on any device you access the services from over the internet (i.e. publicly).

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22a+w...
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Dropbox had the same issue in 2011. Their TOS was very similar to Google Drive's, for the same reasons - lawyers putting CYA language in.

http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=846
http://blog.dropbox.com/?p=867
That may be, but it's poison for host objects. In older IE and Opera builds, `"[object Object]"` comes up often, even for host methods.

This is because there is no defined standard for `toString` results of host objects.
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Personally, this is one of the biggest hurdle in making myself to learn/understand coding – how everything fits together.

HTML/CSS is easy enough, but I still don't understand how Ruby/Rails fit with HTML/CSS in web development/application. I read Rails is a framework coded in Ruby, and they're used for web development/apps – so I look at Ruby and that's where I get lost. Starting from the bottom (learning about arrays and what not, it's hard to stay focused when you don't know what exactly is the benefit and outcome of all this learning and how it fits in web development).

I came across a path, or tree skill, that recommends how one should approach web development:

HTML > CSS > JS/PHP > JQuery, then once you get that down, it's Ruby > Rails.

Hopefully when I look at Ruby/Rails, I won't feel so lost again.
It's important to actually see it in context. I may not agree with her whole overall worldview, but there are parts that are good, and reading her actual words in context shows she's not really a lunatic or savage.
I'm curious as to how people think Ycombinator would benefit from such a move. To me, it looks like a distraction at best and has a huge potential for the appearance of conflicts of interest.

I will speculate that crowd source funding is more likely to generate headlines for dissatisfied investors from the middle class than for successful ones. The economics of startup investing require a sufficient pool of capital to:

1. Have access to quality opportunities.
2. Sufficiently capitalize each opportunity.
3. Invest in a large number of opportunities so as to increase the odds of hitting a homerun.

Few people have that much money. And crowdsourcing will attract both people with little inhibition toward spending other people's money and investors without the knowledge or resources or inclination to conduct due diligence.

To put it another way, real investors have a track record already. They don't need crowdsourcing.
My apologies for being unclear. Pro-rata would apply primarily to angel groups that simply wanted to increase their attractiveness to entrepreneurs, by getting the ability to (very easily) multiply their financial firepower.

For VCs, I'm suggesting investing as an LP, and paying management and performance fees.

As it stands, the asset class is completely inaccessible to most retail investors. Even for HNWIs and institutions, it's difficult to build a reasonably diversified portfolio.

I feel as though with some work, the model could provide value to all participants.

- Startups get a broader range of individuals who care about their success

- Angel Groups effectively get more power.

- VCs get an LP whose whole business is structured around new venture investment, so sales and management would likely be simpler than with LPs that might be more fickle depending on who's running finance and treasury, and what else has happened to their endowment in the past twelve months.

- Retail investors and institutions get to buy a portion of the market that's currently inaccessible, which should provide a better overall allocation of funds.
Its the derivative works that I am worried about. But in context it may just be "thumbnails" or other things for searching content.
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I expect to be given lots of ads for encryption related offers soon.
Thanks, I'll add that to my list of data points. :)
Also workarounds are found and created over time for stuff that is broken or annoying.
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> So I give Dropbox full access to do things with my stuff?

Why'd you leave out the "things you ask us to do" bit?

"You give us permission to kick you in the balls" sounds bad in a contract if you leave out the "because you're signing up to become a mixed martial arts combatant" bit, too.
https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&#... (PUN intended on using Google to show you some of many complaints towards their policies...)
I think this image nicely compares the TOS for Dropbox, Google Drive and Microsoft's Sky Drive: https://twitter.com/#!/jmacdonald/status/195184740209401856/...
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I wish there was a way to pause it! Cool regardess
Had no idea about this—thanks.
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I did the same thing for my desktop.

Turns out the SSD was faulty but 12.04 is great!

Maybe only upgrade one thing at a time.
Exactly. The same FUD was being spread around a while back regarding google's terms as related to photo sharing on G+. Google needs these rights to provide certain features...
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This is not true for contact lenses

You are required to present a prescription and give the doctor's name to buy online

e.g. http://www.coastal.com/new-visitors.ep?ilid=lnav

Also, the requirement of a prescription to buy glasses varies from country to country.
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Plastic is one of the most valuable things that can be made out of oil, and one of the things we will still use oil for when its availability is limited, simply because the utility per barrel of oil is much larger for plastic than for fuel.

Thus we will likely commute shorter distances before we cut down on plastic, though we may use fewer disposable plastic products than before.
At the very end, Farnsworth buys from, not sells to, Bender. I think it's clear, but had to read it twice.
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Have you considered any cross-platform frameworks?
You can also torrent the CD and create a sources.list entry to use the CD as a source, which will let you upgrade most packages (though obviously only packages that are on the CD). You can even loopback-mount the ISO, so you don't need to actually burn it.
Why apologize? Noone's robbing anyone here. If it's legal, it's legal.
It's the derivative works part of the T&Cs for GDrive that makes it a little wonky, I don't want to give them full license to create any derivative work but I'm happy with them making changes for technical architecture.

But that's so selective and does miss the part where they say your content and copyright is all yours, so it justifies picking on Google for being supposedly creepy.
Yep. Thumbnails, PDFs, showing excerpts when you search for a document, etc. could all probably be argued to be "derivative works". It's a little crazy that our legal system makes you CYA this much, but it's often necessary.
It's definitely a signal, though I don't take to mean quite what you do...

It's only 'likely that they sweated the other details' if you assume infinite manpower and resources. In reality, all of the very finite resources that went into picking the right shade of beige for the background could have instead gone into improving the actual tools.

I don't think it's possible for an engineer to underestimate the importance of design and marketing for an engineering tool.

Have you seen nginx.org?
I'll probably get flamed for this, but I often fall into wishing there was xml ontologies + formatting rules. Skipping the HTML layer entirely. Be model-centric instead of html centric.

"model" presentation
------- ------------
<div class="order"> .order { .. }
<h1 class="agent">...</h1> .agent { .. }

here your model has turned into html, yet has to be
re-expressed as presentation rules. your model is
presentation. WAT.

=>
<order> order { render: box }
<agent> agent { font: ... }

I'm sure it's been done many times before but I've never read about why it failed.
Editing a shared Google Docs document is inherently creating derivative works. You and anyone editing with you are asking Google to change the original document via HTTP requests. Each edit is a derivative work of the original document you uploaded to Google Docs, so of course Google needs to be allowed to do this as part of its license to use your data.
Yea, I realize I could have done something more interesting with the data but I was really trying to keep it simple and focus on getting the code to work. That was my main goal, to learn how to pull something small like this off. Thanks for checking it out though.

As for your Show HN not making the front page, I am not sure what motivates HN to click through on a submission and then up vote it. Possibly, the time of submission has a lot to do with it. There is a definite advantage to have by timing things right, http://blog.kissmetrics.com/science-of-social-timing-1/
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Even that wouldn't pass the "true" test. You could implement the "pallet" using a texture lookup on the GPU of course, but could only apply it by rewriting all the pixels.
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The parse.awk script fails on Linux (no -j option to date). I didn't manage to decode what the date command does in the awk script, so I just used the python script instead.

It might be interesting to allow parsing for specific events rather than just when the kernel is logging vs. when it's not.
The exact same language is in the Google terms of service, so if you use Gmail, your emails are covered by the same language.

Clearly, this is lawyer boilerplate being taken out of context.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/terms/
https://www.google.com/search?q=bluetidepro%20bad%20policies
Are you suggesting that people should only apologize for things that are illegal?
You probably want to wait for Ivy Bridge ultrabooks anyway.
It's "developing new services" which essentially opens the door for Google to do anything they want.

Dropbox has to justify anything it does with your work in terms of providing a service to you. Google can justify doing things with your data solely for it's own benefit.
I just spent over an hour last night upgrading one of my laptops to 11.10 because 12.04 was still beta. I guess I should have just waited one more day.
Tell HN: No, Google Drive’s TOS does NOT grant them ownership of your files.
This keeps popping up on HN and refuses to die:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3888705

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3886783

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3894287

Although it was countered by those who actually bothered to read the TOS:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120424/17562518637/calm-down-internet-google-drives-terms-are-standard-countless-websites-including-gmail.shtml

http://www.theverge.com/2012/4/25/2973849/google-drive-terms-privacy-data-skydrive-dropbox-icloud

Also there is no such thing as the Google Drive TOS, there is the Google TOS and it’s not new, it's the same boilerplate stuff used everywhere.

FUD was inevitable seeing how many established competitors Google has in this area, but I suggest reading the text in question (in its entirety) from the source and making your own conclusions:

http://www.google.com/policies/terms/

Google Apps TOS:

http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/terms/standard_terms.html
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So it's not possible, in your opinion, for something to be both legal and unethical?
I was on the same path, and did some Ruby by way of Sinatra for a class I was taking, and now I'm in a course learning Node.js + Express and I'm totally happy.
You have just admitted to not even reading the first paragraph of the article, in which he explains his meaning of the word "apology."
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One point that is bothering me is this: how much of the existence of HFTs is an artifact of the rules of the exchange? In particular, the rule that the first bid gets priority in executing the trade. It strikes me that the entire existence of HFTs seems to be taking advantage of this failure of mechanism design.
I'm surprised that people here don't like RSS.

Actually I dislike RSS for purely technical reasons. As a protocol, it is a huge step back compared to the functionally somewhat comparable NNTP. All it gives you is a sliding window into the content provided by a publisher you have to poll in undefined intervals. If you poll too often, you cause unnecessary traffic. If you poll too seldom, you are going to miss content. With NNTP, there was not only a push protocol, you could also easily request all new stuff since your last check. And you had a comment system built in as well.

For sure the inventors of Web 2.0 could have done better.

[edit]I am still using it, though, as there is no available alternative. Unfortunately, there are no real incentives to make something better.[/edit]
I had severe difficulty getting Ubuntu to appear as a bootable partition when installed from a USB stick. Don't install from stick, install from a disc. Whatever it did with EFI didn't work right, there were partitions on my hard drive that Mac OS X wouldn't touch, it was a mess.

I had to repartition and reformat my HD and restore from Time Machine.
The article mentions having "no room for a weight set". Why not just get adjustable dumbbells like the ones Bowflex makes? They take up very little room and you can certainly figure out lifting routines that hit all the key muscle groups within your equipment/space constraints.
"if you use Gmail"

Yes, Gmail has the same issue. Google can use your data "to develop new services" for it's own benefit.
Perhaps this can be attributed to a greater amount of submissions with the word "how". As gravitronic mentioned, it would be interesting to see everything as percentages.
You get a nice surprise if you view source too. The demo uses a png to compress the javascript, more details on the author's blog http://www.bitsnbites.eu/?p=20#better_png
There are a few problems with using an encrypted volume for everything in your Dropbox/Google Drive (e.g. a TrueCrypt container). For instance, Dropbox's web-interface becomes useless; you can't see any of your files online, and can only access them by downloading the container to a machine with TrueCrypt, then decrypt the volume and retrieve the file you need. This is inconvenient and impossible in some situations.

I wish that there was cloud storage/syncing product that catered to paranoids like some of the people on HN. What if Dropbox allowed you use your own public/private key pair for encryption. They would no longer be able to see anything you own, or use de-duplication, but I'd be willing to pay for this added service. And a web and mobile interface would still be possible, Dropbox could even keep your (encrypted) private key in your Dropbox, and then ask you to enter your passphrase to decrypt it whenever you want to access files.
Really, the difference seems to be almost exclusively wording. Both licenses grant very broad powers to the service to redistribute (Google is guilty only of enumerating them more fully, where Dropbox simply claims "all the permissions we need"). Both providers include language that they will only do this in order "to provide the service", but neither enumerates exactly what that means.

Does anyone see anything specific that Dropbox can't do that Google can? That grant looks really broad to me, just ... friendlier.
How would you word it differently? They need to be able to use and create derivatives (thumbnails or cropping images is a "derivative", ditto for encoding a YouTube video).

This is the terms for every Google product. If it was changed for line by line detail for every product, it would change so frequently that users could never know what was in it or agree to it. Drive hooks in with a ton of Google services, its policy would likely be hundreds of pages long if it was not "intentionally vague".

Dropbox's terms are similar, except to sound like they were not written by a lawyer.

> "We may need your permission to do things you ask us to do with your stuff, for example, hosting your files, or sharing them at your direction"

Sounds like a license to use and create derivatives to me...
It's insane to suggest we don't teach kids street smarts

I never said anything of the sort.
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As I read this piece, it got me thinking that if the actual inputs into an article are known, as is the writing process, then it will force us to confront the biases in our news.

Either: (a) stories will be more objective, and provably so; (b) editors will need to consciously decide how the algorithms should slant (and this itself would be discoverable, if only by leaks); or (c) we'll learn that the underlying datasets were assembled in a way that is more critical of one side or another.
Thinking about it, NULL in SQL databases has been a big source of issues too.

NULL. Just say no :)
OS X uses FreeBSD date which has totally different cmdline options. I did actually write an awk script that works on Centos 6, I'll upload that shortly. (Edit: I think instead of -jf, you can use --date= on linux.)

The event suggestion is good. Really I just threw the script together last month and occasionally fixed it up when I showed it to friends, so maybe I'll take some time to add that and fix some other things about this (like a prettier graph ^) when I finish my last stretch of schoolwork in the next few weeks. But in the mean time feel free to add that if you want :)
Thanks for the feedback. I'll forward your wording suggestion on to the customer.
DID lol.
Legal and Ethical are two different things. Confounding both, in the eyes of people is Understanding.

It may be legal to something, but unethical. It may be ethical to do something, but illegal. There are many examples of both. The reason for this article is apparently to spread understanding amongst people who think it's unethical to do HFT, but may not understand what HFT does and how it works. By writing this article, he is hoping to convince - via understanding - people that HFT is also ethical.
The first sentence in the article:
"About the title
Many people were misled by it, and this wasn’t my intention. I was merely alluding to the book by Hardy, A Mathematician’s Apology, which spent time explaining and justifying his life as a mathematician. (Hardy, in turn, was alluding to the Apology of Socrates. It’s an apology in the classical sense (an intellectual justification), not an expression of remorse. My mistake - as a math geek, it’s easy for me to forget that most people have never heard of Hardy."

"Apology" doesn't necessarily imply remorse, just explication.
There was an extensive discussion on this point in the previous HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3855610

The short summary is no one can come up with something better than price-time priority for matching orders.
> Google can use your data "to develop new services" for it's own benefit.

Which sounds nasty, until you realize they potentially need such language to be able to do something as simple as implementing a better spam filter, or offline syncing for your e-mail.
Does it really matter?

I get google mail, with 6+ gigs of quota.

I can make free calls via google's email website.

I have a google phone number from GVoice. If my phone service is deactivated, I still get calls and texts and transcription. All I need then is to log in via a free wifi.

I have all my contacts saved from my phone, along with free recording and voicemail transcription.

I have a full history of what I've previously searched, along with what links I found.

I have a chat service hooked up to my email.

And now, I can back up critical files like my resume and documents on GDrive.

I also make 7.25/hr , with no benefits, nor any employee perks whatsoever. I am also a "part time employee" and in an at-will state. I had to take this job after unfortunate events. I like eating.

What google provides is something I COULD NOT pay for elsewise. If I pay with some datamining, so be it. I gladly accept that trade.

They'll only datamine a poor person. If my data (and lack of money) is good enough for Google, good on them. I would value what I'm getting at $50/month.
It's an apologia rather than an apology.
How else would you do it? At random? Why would that be better?
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Apple website down. Macbook Pro 2012 imminent?
I think they were more blind-sided by the rapid consumer adoption of gaming on mobile devices that were not dedicated-gaming devices.

The Wii showed no sign of slowing due a lack of HD. It seemed to slow simply because it was an unexpected and wholly unprecedented mainstream success whose sales were simply not sustainable. It was always going to taper off and it's possible some of Nintendo's loss is attributable to not curtailing manufacturing quickly enough and having too much inventory.

But the loss story seems to be primarily a mobile one. Nintendo took a PS3-like approach with the 3DS, approaching a newly competitive landscape by trying to bury the competition with advanced technology. And, much like Sony, advanced technology alone wasn't enough to pull in consumers at higher prices. Things are definitely looking up as they've gotten more quality software onto the platform and prices have dropped.

But were I a stockholder I would be nervous about their plan to cut the 3DS price below-cost. Customers are ever-more price conscious with hand-held software and expecting revenue from $30+ mobile titles to make up for a loss on hardware is perhaps not a wise strategy. One would hope their manufacturing advances and thus cost cuts are not far behind the promised price cuts.

Similarly, the Wii U finds itself in a very different competitive landscape. It may well make Nintendo a solid profit even if it never achieves the breakout success of the Wii. But it may not start strong out of the gate, if the launch software can't make a compelling case for the technology. It's first-year profits may not be enough to offset another bad year from the 3DS.
It's disingenuous to refer to unshipped silicon. If it's not available in vendor hardware it's hardly a "software problem."

You appear now to be saying "Chips exist, but vendors aren't building them into switches" which is a far cry from your original claim.
> Would you buy a car that had a modern engine but a chassis and interior from 1983?

Yes. I'd prefer it to one of a million cars that all look the same.
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Thanks for following up on this. Nothing irks me more than "Pt. 1" posts, never to hear from the OP again. As an undergraduate scheduled to be doing HFT systems development at a major bank this summer, I find these posts very useful!