skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not new. It seems that their new TOS explicitly lays out that your photos may be used in advertising, possibly due to a new law somewhere requiring specific notification and release, but my understanding is that you'd already given them this right based on this clause:

By displaying or publishing ("posting") any Content on or through the Instagram Services, you hereby grant to Instagram a non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels, except Content not shared publicly ("private") will not be distributed outside the Instagram Services.

Yes, that's in the old TOS, and it's pretty much boilerplate for any site with user-generated content. That language certainly seems to me like it would cover uses in advertising or even Instagram reselling your images as a "stock photo" site. This kind of clause is required so that users can't attempt to entrap the service provider by uploading content and then claiming that Instagram didn't have a license to utilize it and therefore had violated copyright, and also probably as a fallback policy in case a cranky user spotted their image in a stream or feed or video or something (or, alternately, that the server is hacked and db is leaked, and thousands of claims of "unauthorized use" come flooding in).

IANAL but pretty much this is a non-story. They've simply decided to specifically inform you that a license to " non-exclusive, fully paid and royalty-free, worldwide, limited license to use, modify, delete from, add to, publicly perform, publicly display, reproduce and translate such Content, including without limitation distributing part or all of the Site in any media formats through any media channels" includes use in advertisement, as one would reasonably believe it does.
Show HN: Objective-C in the Cloud: Local Test Environment
Let us move away from these services, into a more distributed model:

http://statspotting.com/2012/12/instagrams-policy-changes-is...
You're right, it's not very common for an insurance to cover intentional acts. Assume for a second it was possible and assume that most people who buy firearms are not criminals at the time of the purchase and assume this insurance is mandatory like your car liability insurance then maybe high premium for people at risk will deter some of them from buying a firearm and possibly from committing a crime. It also has the benefit of protecting the victims and their families but that's not my main point. The reason I find this idea very interesting is because of its built-in incentive to detect people at risk and deter them from buying a weapon and maybe committing a crime.
Why Video Games Don't Correlate to Gun Violence - National - The Atlantic Wire
In the Perl/Moose world, class variables (attributes) are regarded as a broken concept: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=690482

ref: stvn == "Stevan Little" who is the creator of Moose (https://metacpan.org/module/Moose) & and it's MOP underpinnings (https://metacpan.org/module/Class::MOP)
C++ reference
Guild unionism (which is still a union, just with a different name) is an evolved strategy for managing the risks that exist in certain areas of human activity.

If you give someone advice on medicine, law, accounting or engineering and your advice is wrong -- the consequences can be dire. Very dire. Even trivial mistakes can spiral out of control.

Even though guild unionism imposes enormous cost and drag on society at large, it sufficiently damps the risk that the cost is probably worth it.

But for enormous swathes of software development, doing a hilariously bad job doesn't lead to loss of life, limb, liberty or livelihood under any circumstances. The risks are substantially lower.

But the cost of guild unionism would be the same.
it will be great if we can pick some templates like bootstrap and start coding right away from the application.
Sony Xperia ion to launch June 24th for $99.99 from AT&T
You may be reading your own bias into it.
It came across as pretty nuetral toned to me.

I am certainly not read up on many rulings though, so maybe this was unusual wording?
You are correct. I don't "beat" it into them - I spent literally years doing 1:1 with people and providing learning material, defining tasks and milestones and days in the lab.

I want people to react to this because I think the issue requires some consideration. We're losing and compartmentalising knowledge to the point that people have no idea what they're really doing any more.

There is no one true path of engineering enlightenment but there is some magic when someone actually really understands what they're doing.
Anyone else completely see this coming at this exact point in time when first hearing the acquisition announcement?
Regarding Instagram’s New TOS
Yes, your wife or your mother in law if you miss and she's still alive but what I think is more interesting is the built in incentive for the insurance to identify people at risk and charge them with such a high premium that it would deter some of them from buying a firearm and maybe eventually from a committing a deadly crime.
What a wonderfully missed opportunity. Had they decided to share profits from content with authors they could attract more professional photographers to their service. I can't imagine any pro author will publish beautiful photos on Instagram now, and I suspect the service will just be flooded with amateur photos. And who is going to pay them for that?
You glibly ignore the previous paragraph that references the section which establishes the rights for Instagram/Facebook to do whatever it likes with the Content.

And since when is "intent" ever part of US law (especially with regards to IP)...
I think from the development effort a more sensible approach is to build the whole thing in Python, then profile your application and find the performance bottlenecks. Then get your hands a little dirty with the Python C API. This way you can gain good performance without wasting too much time.

http://docs.python.org/3/extending/extending.html

http://docs.python.org/3/c-api/index.html
Judging by the ratio of upvotes to downvotes, I think there is a divided opinion which needs discussing. I'm open to both sides of the argument.
Perl is 25 years old today
Io (http://iolanguage.org/) shares the same differential inheritance has NewtonScript:

Polygon := Object clone do( sides := 10 )
Triangle := Polygon clone

Triangle sides println # => 10
Triangle sides := 3
Triangle sides println # => 3
Polygon sides println # => 10
What incentive does Apple have to make the web browser on their iOS devices better?
Ask HN: Where is the Microsoft Surface?
I live in Germany. Im fairly interested in notebooks, tablets etc. So I regularely go to local computer stores to play with new products. I also buy a lot of them.

I wonder: Where is the Surface? I havent seen it yet. Is it not launched in Germany or Europe?

Or am I one of the last people on the planet checking out Products in stores and everybody is so used to ordering online now that MS doesnt even bother to put it into stores?
This woman is insane and belongs in a mental institution, not her kids. This article articulates exactly what I think

http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2012/12/17/i_am_adam_la...
Is this more than just (OSX-only)

open 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random'

? I haven't installed it yet, but the above should get you a random Wikipedia page.
> Enterprise IT wants something similar to the iPad, for even cheaper.

Nexus?
Thank you Paul for sharing!
no_more_death i share your beliefs and i think you answer to yourself. Christianity does not encourage coercion at all, after all as you mention only states the consequences of actions that people might take.
Don't Compare Your Son to Adam Lanza
> MS and Intel then start a marketing blitz in those IT departments, hey, enterprise, we love and understand you. Cool, IT guys fall for it.

Serious question here; is it that much different in the US? At 'big whatever' I have been in the EU (besides, strangely enough(?), France), the 'IT guys' don't like Windows/MS and would not choose it if it was up to them. I see Ubuntu, BYOD Mac OS X, iOS for management and force-fed Windows (with a lot of complaining).

People working mostly on Excel (or other Office components) would pick Windows, but those are not 'the IT guys'?
I don't think you are correct. The old TOS did not allow them to resell your pics. Also note they are saying your private pics will now be fair game as well.

You are correct that the old TOS seems pretty standard, but these changes are not trivial.
Excitement is pretty natural if you look at it rationally. It's when killing humans isn't exciting, or worse yet when it's routine or boring, that you really have to worry.
I'm mostly surprised they allow so much power to phone reps. In my way-too-many years of using Amazon I've had to call them precisely once, about trying to get an SSD replaced that had died just outside of warranty (yes, they did replace it). I've placed at least 150 orders with them in the last three years alone, probably closer to 200, and have had to perform a handful of returns; all but that one were done online, very easily, and that special case existed only because I was outside the standard return window.

As the article points out, their web-based security seems pretty darn solid. Nearly any account change requires reauthenticating with your password, and only recently did they start to roll out support for a more persistent auth for viewing what most people would consider non-critical info (order history, etc). With the exception of a phone-based password reset - which should not cause a problem like the one described here - they could require even a web-based PIN (behind the login-wall, of course) for chat and phone support; live chat could skip this if the user already has a fresh auth.

I hope for everyone's sake that Amazon is able to prevent this kind of problem without harming their fantastic customer support. There's a reason I've averaged an order every 5.3 days this year (I can stop any time I want to, but thank you for your concern!)
it would be nice some way to identify which box is used by who, like every user has a color and when i'm dragging a box the border of that box has my color. Nice job anyway, get ready to be crashed by the traffic!
As a 4sq user in the UK, the data is obviously better in the bigger cities, but the vast majority of restaurants/shops/entertainment places in the smaller towns is present, maybe with just less tips/ratings.
I think it's fair to say that private accounts are probably not covered, but it would be nice for Instagram to make it clear one way or another.
Have you tried Scala? It might let you write in a functional style and then not have to translate it to something else. Please don't interpret this as a troll; I'm genuinely curious what the pros/cons of these approaches are.
Not sure I agree with this. I think the social connections on Instagram are much weaker then on Facebook (hence my comparison). The moment Instagram appears not to be in fashion anymore people can leave without giving up much.

Granted, I'm not an Instagram user so I could be entirely wrong but the network effects of Instagram don't seem to be strong enough to push their users around too much.
This is basically like assigning a copyright to all your creative work for free to FB/Instagram to use for Marketing Purposes. Seems Non-trivia, if it is true.

TL;DR==Bait and Switch. Oldest game it town.
The ~$700 blocks are in the middle of the grid and those can be reached after a 5 scroll in the page. And unfortunately they won't be positively affected by grid flip. The best bargain is the cheapest ones IMO, i may give 20 bucks which will stay there until you reach 250.000.
Yep, make that an opt-in feature, add some light ads, and you have a full business model.

I believe they may have just wanted to spare themselves the headache of a money system and of people who would reupload other people's pictures or copyrighted works for their own profit.
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I agree the article is definitely full of great original content. I think the title was made to drive link traffic, and given the subject of the title I voiced my objection to that.
I'll just leave this here - http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2003/11/19/facemash-creato...
Again, it just doesn't happen often enough that we need new laws.
I think that's not very copyediting either.
Then the game runs in slow motion. There's not much you can do on a slow system.

Or if you mean that you may be forced to draw at (for instance) 55fps, then the solution is to precalculate the next physics frame and linearly interpolate between the previous and next frame when drawing.
Actually Eve is pretty close, you're right. It owes a huge debt to the original Elite. I've never actually played Eve but I believe the combat is based much more on tactics and strategy rather than skill and reaction time. Nothing wrong with that but it's quite a different experience.
I know a Windows password recovery tool called SmartKey Windows Password Recovery.
It is great.
From http://www.recoverlostpassword.com
What will you do in Christmas?
I don't think Paul was postulating the existence of multiple (competing?) gods; Marcionism isn't especially relevant to his discussion.
Trust is earned. Zuck hasn't earned it yet. Not in the eyes of Wall Street.

Look what Bezos had to go through to get where he is today: http://i.imgur.com/2ie9t.png
Agreed with aptwebapps. The old TOU, as you correctly say, is pretty standard. Twitter's is similar, and any company with decent lawyers is going to protect themselves with similar wording.

The new TOU, however, heads in a different direction. The phrase "limited license" is gone. It's been replaced with the phrase "transferable, sub-licensable" license. Also new is "a business or other entity may pay us to display your... photos... in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you."

Transferable is a very important word. So is sub-licensable. Those were NOT in the old terms of use.
> Fortran/C/C++ is mature real code worthy of attention

Just be prepared for Drew Houston, Paul Graham et al. to come after you whipping their lashes.. (tongue in cheek)
This article might be correct for the columbine massacre, but I don't think killing 20th kids has anything to do with a revenge for being bullied.
I'm yet to see a Surface in PC World/Currys in the UK yet. What's going on?
Never seen the nexus 4; it's too huge and heavy for my tastes anyway (the iphone 5 is already pushing it)...

Can't speak to the feel, but I do like the aluminum of the iphone 5 a lot.
I have to chuckle when you, of all people, call me naive. I can only think your opinion of Americans is formed solely by watching television, as you have no idea what you're talking about.

Well, I don't expect someone to understand when he lives in a country full of drug traffickers and communists. Probably gun control is the right thing for you.
Just as laws have the effect of protecting the rich from the poor. I will explain the rationale behind that argument if anyone asks.
Exactly why I deleted my account, and are many others. Hopefully that will get their attention. If not, so long! =)
The issue with a distributed social network is that it doesn't scale well, and there's no amount of tricky coding that can change that.

Imagine I have a thousand friends on a distributed Facebook-clone. I post a photo, and that instantly gets pushed to anywhere up to one thousand different servers. Every server has to store a copy and index it. If that was a 1MB image, I just pushed a solid gigabyte of data out. Pushing an album of 50 photos pushes that to 50GB, or 5% of my dedicated servers allocated bandwidth for one users photo album.

There's no way an individual or group is going to be able to host their own servers. The whole system just dissolves down to a single large provider serving the vast majority of people, and we're back to Facebook again.

It's a great idea when you sketch it out on paper, but it becomes impractical very rapidly.
Yes, C# and the entire .NET ecosystem isn't as popular as Rails

That's a very bold statement. The .NET ecosystem is massive. In fact, I would go so far as to say that the PHP ecosystem is even much larger than the Rails ecosystem.
Not strictly a board game (nor German-style), but I'll just mention the card game Set too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_(game)). It's quick to play, both adult and children can play together, and you can play against each other or work together to find the sets. We've brought it to a ski trip with two other families, and it was a hit.

Maybe it is well known, but I hadn't heard of it until I read about it here on HN (Peter Norvig had simulated the odds of not finding a set, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1303797). Having played for a while, I ran my own simulations. The results differed a bit from Peter Norvig's. I wrote it up here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/09/30/set-probabilities-revisite...
Android is yet another different platform. No real upsides, not really enterprisey and not really secure (at least that's the perception).

availabilty in enterprise is key - can I equip a global workforce with exactly the same hardware? local hardware support? Apple and MS can. Nexus not.
His target demographic is on Instagram and not on G+, I'd guess.
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Yes, sure, it is confusing for the user. But that is the whole point. Microsoft trying to use the Windows brand to get into the mobile market. This is the only advantage they can possibly have over Android and iOS
It's a distribution channel - one where all the cool kids currently hang out. He could also be on G+ and Facebook and Twitter and Quora and Reddit and MySpace...and...and...

The technology of each is basically irrelevant if there is an attractive audience, as all of us participating on this site clearly demonstrates.
Ironically, it seems that Google maps actually counts Caltrain (infrequent U.S.-style commuter rail) as "transit"... ><

Maybe they just roll a pair of dice...?
Introducing EBS Snapshot Copy Across AWS Regions
I don't get the "document based" label - in my opinion it's misnomer. It's anything BUT "document based" when you are working on a photoshop document and behind its window you see your finder, your desktop icons, your desktop background, your browser and so on. How is it that a "document based" UI philosophy?
This is exactly why TOS should show a diff or revision history. Failing that, there really ought to be an external website documenting changes.
But wouldn't it mean the user who uploaded the photo is liable, not Instagram? -- I asked off of the Pinterest TOS drama earlier this year: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3660323
This Standford page is a helpful online resource, for many topics in history of phil. eg

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/wittgenstein/
how many successful co-founders

If you want to get into metrics, it'd help to define what you would consider successful. I'd think you'd do a disservice by conducting such a study.
What would you have them do when your Pro a account expires?
OTOH, they work for Facebook... ><
I think all the people that used to be responsible for platform strategy have been fired already. That's part of the problem.

They also botched their enterprise mobile business with the WP7 and now WP8 launch. All my friends working in pretty conservative industries such as oil and banking used to have WM6 or BlackBerry, now they use Android or iOS.

Unless Microsoft pulls out a magic trick, I think they've already lost their dominance. The cat is out of the bag now that all major enterprises allow iOS and Android devices.
Ask HN: Would you use a prediction market mobile app
I want to develop a mobile app for prediction markets, which allows users to predict outcome of events, e.g. Will Life of Pi win "Best movie" Academy award.

Before developing I want to know if there is enough demand for such an application. Would you use such an app if it is available in the market right now.

There is a popular prediction market sit e called InTrade, which is recently banned in US because it allows users to predict using real money
The sad truth is that even when you pay, the service will still monetize your profile and data.
Instagram is commonly used to upload pictures for linking on Twitter, which is a considerably wider social network than Google+. I expect that'll change pretty rapidly pretty soon.
What's the alternative? A cool and useful product that makes revenues how? How do you propose that Instagram actually make money?

Not attacking. Just wanted to hear more specific thoughts.
Seems to be easier to just give your neighbour the cash instead of sending it through a website.
Because the fact one model is working for the HN community doesn't mean that other models don't work but you made a very definite and sweeping statement.

We use specs because our customers tend to be somewhat staid and want certainty and predictability. By keeping chunks of functionality relatively compact (say 3 person months typically, then developed over a period of maybe 6 weeks) writing an accurate and useful spec is absolutely doable.

Doing that we'll usually be 95% (or more) right and any adjustments can be made in a small release a couple of weeks later.

The approach has elements of agile and iteration in it (small releases, the UAT and fix process is basically a short agile sprint) but specs are absolutely a working part of it. Could we do it another way if our clients would accept it? Sure? But do the specs work in the current process? Yes they do.
Enterprise IT as in systems for end users (you can call it Commercial IT). The IT guys themselves will not use Win 8 Pro / Surface of course. Just the business users. But Enterprise IT departments make the purchasing decisions.

It all depends on scale. Once you have 50k employees worldwide, Ubuntu does not cut it. OS X might, but no one has tried so far. MS Office is the killer here, if you can't run it, you're dead. That's why MS was caught so surprised when the iPad took off, against all logic.
The phrase "limited license" is gone. It's been replaced with the phrase "transferable, sub-licensable" license.

-- Material Adverse Change. For the consumer.
Gadget guru takes to the waves while others surf
SEP is helpful in many matters philosophy-related: I find that the articles are usually a very sound combination of historical as well as problem-oriented perspectives with references to contemporary / recent research. The SEP is generally well-regarded in academic circles, AFAIK.
At least when I was a teenager, I didn't have a credit card number of my own and it would have been a PITA to negotiate my parents to let me use theirs every time I wanted something that cost just a couple of dollars (some shareware at that time I guess). So it was easier for me just to find a keygen/crack for those apps. Might something like this be in play with these jailbreaking kids?
How can they afford to just give away TVs?
That's because HotSpot is written in C++, whereas the Java libraries are written in, well, Java.
I used to using visual studio and thought it was good. But after using emacs, I donot think it is good any more. and the libraries/APIs seems not well designed too now.
Here is a pretty nice example how to use Numba and some expectations about the speedup you may get:
https://www.wakari.io/nb/travis/numba
Flickr, deviantART model - Freemium
Battle other players for souls - awesome playcanvas (webgl) 3d game demo
Worth the cost of asking for more information for the replacement of expensive items? It just takes a few more seconds to each rep and is surely shorter than all the new orders being placed for scammers.