skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Verge had a great summary (as posted above) so I won't go into the actual 'law'. I don't even think the issue is really about what they can or cannot do in the license - Instagram is entitled to write whatever they want in the license agreement, and the original TOS was drafted in a very lawyerly way to basically allow them to do almost anything (advertising-wise) they wanted with your photos anyway.

The real interesting part is that users are willing to make a lot of noise about these license agreements without reading them. I think there's a lot of pent up FUD about license agreements because there are so many of them out there that nobody ever reads any of them, and there's a big appetite out there for somebody, anybody, to clarify these terms for them.

The consumer group-think goes kind of like: "What can Facebook do with my data? I don't know, but I'm sure their lawyers put something in the license agreement that I'm never going to read or understand. Oh, this blog says it's really bad, time to complain loudly!"

I think the result is that there really needs to be an effort on the part of these online service providers to clarify their terms and make human-readable summaries of users' rights/licenses so that everyone understands where they stand contractually.
NSFW: Forwarding to an adult site for me.
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Use this link instead: http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

The original link points to some draft version with lots of placeholder text throughout.
It is very professional - from the guy that made it point of view! ;)
Hmm, this would presumably allow people, mischievous people, bad people, to broadcast from the same "lab" in parody.

Of course I'm not suggesting that someone should DO IT, DO IT RIGHT NOW you understand. ;)
I thought this was supposed to be a moment of silence. Hacker News posting is not silence, despite requiring no audible speech.
Next thing you know there'll be an authentic steampunk version.
Stabuniq malware found on servers at U.S. financial institutions
Doxygen users will be glad to know that Clang now can syntax check your Doxygen comments.
It wasn't "gun violence", it was "disturbed individual violence perpetrated with a gun". A gun didn't suddenly become sentient and start mowing people down.
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Nice, I love being redirected to a porn site while working in a kiddie app company, very appropriate.
And now this site is redirecting to porn sites.
You're right that it's not a 1:1 analogy, as for example the National Geographic photos probably brought enough traffic by themselves to be useful for Instagram, if they could figure out how to benefit from traffic alone. But for most people Randall is spot-on, Instagram holds their photos and gets... ?

However the way Instagram went about these TOS changes, and their initial response are both comical examples of how not to handle stuff like this. I honestly think most understand the idea that Instagram can't host their photos forever without some way of making money from that, but the solution for Instagram can't be to expand the TOS to encompass every conceivable act and then try out solutions while saying "Oh, we pinky promise we won't do that vile thing".

Figure out the plan (or plans) first, then make the TOS fit the plan. And communicate with everyone involved during the process instead of presenting a fait accompli.
Hm, I am Not Happy about a feature of the new protocol. It's unfortunate that -- although I can hear the gears of politics turning in the document -- the details of the argument that spawned it are not laid out there for me to read.

In this day and age, using X.509 for something like this is ... pretty bad. The bitcoin community elsewhere has standardized on PGP, and with very good reason; X.509 is a well-known clusterfuck.

I understand wanting to include an X.509 option anyway, if the point is not to improve usability by the bitcoin community, but rather by people who aren't already in it. But I do not think the lack of a PGP option is excusable, and I do not wish to see the protocol succeed in its current form for that reason. (I can't imagine a significant fraction of the bitcoin community will want it to succeed in this form either.)
Spot. On.
Except Chad wants us to store our crap in his garage. Hmm.
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This looks like a great guide. One piece of advice I was given early on was to start with a minimal distribution like Gentoo. While not as essential for day-to-day use, knowing about how the various lower-level components interact has gotten me out of a lot of otherwise catastrophic situations across several operating systems - FreeBSD especially and occasionally on OSX. Thanks for writing this guide, it is sure to give a sturdy foundation in *nix usage to the ambitious beginner who follows it.
>Moreover, were we to publish the entirety of our holdings we, or any other company for that matter, could find ourselves mired down in a series of tactical declaratory judgments and reexaminations.

Yeah, obviously they don't want to be involved in a bunch of frivolous lawsuits....
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That's the same kind of argument that people use to say you should only buy "American" cars, or read the labels of where your clothes or smartphones were made. It doesn't work.
I'd agree generally except that posting an inherently political call to action on the site essentially makes it the natural forum to discuss it.

And, the tech community (specifically, Ron Conway) are probably the strongest promoters of this particular program right now, which is interesting given that the tech community has rarely been politically influential. At most it has been able to address things like crypto, CDA, and SOPA/PIPA; minimally effective so far at patents and immigration.
Get rid of the background that randomly changes color.
Get rid of the moving screenshots. Anything that's randomly moving is distracting viewers from your message.

Change the headline to explain what it does.

Change the subhead to elaborate on it's benefits.

Tell me what the features are, instead of an adjective, which really doesn't explain anything.

Overall, it needs way more copy to explain exactly what the app does and why people should buy it.

On the signup page do you really need a username? You could use the email as username. Also password confirmation might not be essential. Change call to action to something like "Sign up now ->" instead of "Send activation".
The whole idea of instagram was "instant postcards". The idea that they would help you do make these. Not that they would go creep out shots of your family and sell them for a profit to 3rd parties without consent. Or sell your data to be analyzed and fed into behaviroual profiling for junk mail. If they want to charge for postcards, then nobody would complain in this way.

Instagram is (now) just a clever form of social engineering...not a product.
I think you are reading Chad's Garage as a direct analogy to Instagram, which I don't think was the intention. I think it's an over-the-top exaggeration of Instagram. The joke is about the user who expresses outrage over the free service doing something against the users' interests, but isn't even quite willing to stop using it.
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If you want a standards-compliant 'fast charge', you need to short the data lines to the device. If you merely cut the data lines, I don't know what the device will do. Probably it will draw 100mA, which is the permissible draw for a USB device that hasn't connected to the host yet, and then it will repeatedly try and fail to connect.
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This. I switched from github to bitbucket in all of about 10 minutes a weekend ago for my private repos. $7/month more in my pocket.

I did find it interesting that when I canceled with Github they killed my "paid account" status right away, rather than let me have the rest of the month.
this looked like a spectacular idea for a moment, until I saw that Gramicon credits are pretty much only good for delivering onto a charity or shopping with "retailers", I'm assuming that small number of charities/retailers who've made a deal with Gramicon, and Gramicon keeps a hefty portion of the money that's actually gone into the system.

I'd prefer cash without a middleman, so please use http://gittip.com/ instead, which allows knowledge/content creators to become more financially independent overall (giving us more time to answer your questions).
I don't know who your target advertisor or target advertisee is

But, if I were an advertiser, I'd worry that people willing to spend time looking at ad messages for money don't have a lot of disposable income... and thus they are exactly the type of people I don't care about advertising to.
A great opportunity for an entrepreneur to take these emails and direct them to the spam folder.
You're missing the point. Whether a garage owner is "sensible" or not, or whether he is a friend or a professional, the fact is that he is still the owner, not you.

That's actually a deeper truth of cloud computing in general, something that mainstream people (like Louis C.K. did recently) seem to actually grasp better than us geeks... probably because many of us have a vested interested in the public trusting us with (and being absolutely irresponsible with) their personal data, so we'd rather ignore some inconvenient truths.
I don't think that joke works outside of Bavaria. :P

Besides, I had the latin meaning of the word in mind, not the southern German one.
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You're right -- as an Android user, I was thinking about the USB 3.0 charging standard (and the pre-standard behavior which led to it), which Android devices generally follow.

If you have an iDevice, you have more work to do.
Relevant: http://www.lhup.edu/~DSIMANEK/cargocul.htm
And for a bit more info on the infrastructure spoken of above.

http://psc.wi.gov/thelibrary/publications/electric/electric1...

edit: Also, very nice post and find, Thanks!!
It's an old story about Tom Skype.
I have known Skype has two different versions for China and other countries for years.

Why do you so emphasize Microsoft in the title? Because it's Microsoft?
"As a think tank focused on intelligent design, the Discovery Institute presumably has no need for physical laboratories—its research is mostly imagination-based."

This sentence turned me off tremendously. I understand that the writer doesn't believe in intelligent design, but that's quite a jab at something that these people are dedicating much of their working lives to. I know that (we) Christians are often accused of being closed-minded and myopic, which is something that I am truly saddened about in modern Christianity, but it's not becoming of either side!

Disclaimer: Bible-believing Christian, but still a rational thinker ;)
Many thanks. I also like the 2006 picture mentioned at the end of that article - pics at http://www.ciclops.org/view.php?id=2230&js=1 . According to comments there, it seems that one won the BadAstronomy blog best pic of 2006 choice.

Quote: "Interior to the G ring and above the brighter main rings is the pale blue dot of Earth. Cassini views its point of origin from over a billion kilometers (and close to a billion miles) away in the icy depths of the outer solar system."

(Saturn is "icy depths of the outer solar system"? Well, I'll never! That's the Oort cloud. This is merely the better neighborhood, with the fancy planets ...)
This is coming in the next version of EcmaScript. See Rest Parameters: http://wiki.ecmascript.org/doku.php?id=harmony:rest_paramete...

If you're adventurous or just OK with the idea of using transpilers/precompilers (which you would be if you like CoffeeScript), you can use rest parameters with Traceur [1] or TypeScript [2].

[1] http://code.google.com/p/traceur-compiler/
[2] http://www.typescriptlang.org/
Just this week I was looking for a better solution that would back up my RDS database to S3. I'm currently using mysqldump, but the RDS instance size has grown extremely large and so, it has become unwieldly. Hopefully this will help with that.
Another Silent Circle team member here (there are actually quite a few of us on HN).

How would you envision a prepaid model working? We intentionally don't track usage for 'in the circle' calling (if you're calling out on the PSTN we have to track usage, since we have a real per-minute cost, and need to make sure our bill matches what we think our users are using).

The amount and sort of data we would need to collect and store about our users would be increased if we offered a prepaid option. We could mitigate this a bit by reducing the resolution of that data (i.e. you have a prepaid bucket of 'days' rather than 'minutes'), which would be better, but it would still involve us knowing more about your usage patterns than we do currently... (and the more we know, the more we can be asked to provide to a law enforcement agency). Even with the logging implications, a prepaid option might be a net 'win' for some users, or it might not be...
I guess now I'll never know...
You would want to do something clever with the data lines. If you are making the 'USB condom' for yourself, just short the data lines at the device end to enable fast charging (and be careful never to plug it into a computer.)

If you're making it as a product, the thing to do is this: Have the 'USB condom' try to enumerate as a device, and request the maximum power draw possible, then offer the same to the chained USB device. If the 'USB condom' detects shorted data lines (meaning a fast charger), then short the downstream data lines to the device.

You could probably sell these for a decent price, once this story gets out. :-)
Netbooks may not be equipped with the latest and greatest 3D, but a lot of indie games are essentially 2D, just using the 3D for compositing. There's no reason those wouldn't work.
Beware of this vulnerability [1]. Otherwise looks cool.

[1] http://motyar.info/simple/admin/?action=showSaved&file=....
While ORM level validations are nice to have, they are in no way substitutes for database level constraints. Just relying on ORM level validations is like saying "hey I'm doing error checking in my javascript code and therefore checking for errors on the server side is redundant and unnecessary". It's not, DB level "redundant checking" is worth it. All it takes is for one guy to "just quickly try something" in the db by trying to manipulate it directly without the ORM layer to have your db end up in an inconsistent state. ORMs have their own conventions on how they handle validations which maynot be completely obvious to a new developer on your team who is not familiar with it, whereas everyone understands how db level constraints operate. I'd rather put a few lines of extra code at the db level to make sure the data is safe than risk having the db end up in an inconsistent state, you are not only doing this for the customer but also for yourself. You don't want to be the developer who has to go in and figure out why certain queries are not returning the correct results after your db is in an inconsistent state.
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Just for the record, my point wasn't about people born in India. I was pointing out that, in my experience hiring employees and contractors, many remote developers (especially in India) masquerade as US citizens who want to work remotely (and the truth is revealed only when I offer to fly them to NYC for a meeting)
First, the Constitution doesn't really say that, at least not with the gloss you're giving it. Second, you're confused about who holds the right and what the right protects. The fact that Congress has the right to declare war does not mean you have the right not to be bombed on a presidential whim. The right protects the separation of powers within the U.S. government, not the lives of foreigners. It's Congress who holds the right as against the President, not foreigners.
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I think the theory is supposed to be that you don't enable adb unless you know what you're doing.

(As far as I can recall, adb works fine with the screen locked. The fact that I don't know for sure suggests that I do not, in fact, know what I am doing...)
That's the point. Even services that charge you still might pull this kind of stuff.
I've been running my own for a while on an old version of Twitter-Image-Host that is now pretty hacked-up. The API endpoint is critical so things like Tweetbot and other social media apps (that are decent) can post back quickly.
Let's all find that headline writer and beat him senseless. That will send a message.
Hi guys, this is Sylvain from Apptamin.com (wrote the post).

Don't hesitate to share your opinion either here or in the post comments about what you like and dislike (and explain why) in the app analytics tools we took a look at. It might help other app developers make the right choice!

Thanks,
Sylvain
Do you believe that creationism or Intelligent design should be given equal time in public education?
They are? Cool, I've not heard of this one. Any references?
>As a company that's supposed to be beholden first and foremost to its users, that's the least they could do.

They are legally required to be beholden to their shareholders, not their customers. Most of the time that overlaps, but the times where it doesn't (e.g. expanding into Chinese market = good for shareholders; the monitoring required to do that = bad for customers), the shareholders win.
"The New EC2 High Storage Instance Family"

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/12/the-new-ec2-high-storage-...

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The High Storage Eight Extra Large (hs1.8xlarge) instances are a great fit for applications that require high storage depth and high sequential I/O performance. Each instance includes 117 GiB of RAM, 16 virtual cores (providing 35 ECU of compute performance), and 48 TB of instance storage across 24 hard disk drives capable of delivering up to 2.4 GB per second of I/O performance.

This instance family is designed for data-intensive applications that require high storage density and high sequential I/O -- data warehousing, log processing, and seismic analysis (to name a few). We know that these applications can generate or consume tremendous amounts of data and that you want to be able to run them on EC2.
The storage on this instance family is local, and has a lifetime equal to that of the instance. You should think of these instances as building blocks that you can use to build a complete storage system. You should build a degree of redundancy into your storage architecture (e.g. RAID 1, 5, or 6) and you should use a fault-tolerant file system like HDFS or Gluster. Of course, you should also back up your data to Amazon S3 for increased durability.
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Yes, that's correct. I have the ZCC55 Neurofuzzy. Cooking with "1" cup of rice (roughly for one person), I put in vegetables and eggs at roughly the 13 minute warning, when it knows how long it will take to finish. I have logged in a spreadsheet about 15 meals, where I weigh the eggs and veggies, note how cooked they are etc, but it's not quite presentable.

Basic recipe: 2 uncracked large eggs (130g), cut asparagus (130g). Both washed and placed in with minimal steam loss at 13m. Remove immediately at finish (move eggs directly to cold water, or they will scald you as you try to open them).

Eggs are cheap! You can afford to experiment with them like this. Open the first ones onto an empty plate; cook a little more in the skillet if you undercook. 2 Jumbos are just about at the limit of the 13m warning. I aim for liquid yellow and 85% "solid" white. Hard-boiled eggs aren't as fun. Scrape your meal out of the cooker, turn it off, and LEAVE THE LID OPEN. It dries out the remnants so they just slide off the teflon.
Xkcd 404
Would be interesting if someone started a "Moment of Screaming" campaign. Imagine if for one minute everybody was just repeatedly yelling stuff like "STOP THE VIOLENCE!"
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Yes, this one is legally questionable, because at least arguably the Constitution protects U.S. Citizens not on U.S. soil. That doesn't necessarily mean what Obama did was illegal.

The 5th amendment says: "...except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger..."

You might be able to fly a drone through the "or public danger" loophole.

Also, the 5th amendment calls for "due process" but that doesn't mean a trial. Due process is a fluid concept that depends on the circumstances. Al Awalki might have been entitled to due process, but what process is "due" in a situation where someone leaves the county to take up arms against it? It's not obvious he didn't get all the process he was due.
If you're a system administrator, it's highly likely that solving this problem is probably as difficult as the original task you had to do.
Looks nice. Any plans on adding password protection? For me it's a must have for any note taking app.
Thanks for the post. I've been researching this but hadn't heard of count.ly. I really like the idea of self-hosting.
Wow. This should come with a warning that you are likely to spend the next hour and a half engrossed and saddened by this story.
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It might not be appropriate for you, but a good way to handle MySQL backups is to maintain a mirror. This has the added benefit of being available as a fail-over and as a secondary instance where you can run reports or test long-running queries on current data without the risk of taking prod down.
Agreed, it's a great project and I applaud you for undertaking it and pushing it so far. Takes a tremendous amount of work and self-motivation to do something like this.

I read the linked post top to bottom twice and I don't see Zed anywhere giving blanket permission to use his title. He is responding to people who ask him if they can port LPtHW to another language, by saying "here's how to write your own so you don't have to port mine".

You should change the name unless you have contacted Zed directly for permission, IMO.
Even the NRA is (unsurprisingly) a supporter of 'gun violence prevention'. This moment of silence isn't advocating any specific solution, I don't see the controversy. I think almost every reasonable person can agree with "let's stop gun violence".
this is actually spot on
So does there actually exist a (somewhere hidden) XKCD comic #404? Or has this just been intentionally left out?
"easy to access and repair" in this context might involve ckimbing out of a helicopter onto live half million volt lines in a space age chainmail suit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tzga6qAaBA&feature=yout...
In D.C. vs. Heller, all nine Supreme Court Justices agreed "there's a Second Amendment right to own a gun" (the so-called individual right, vs. the "collective right" that had been claimed for decades), they just split on if this meant anything (D.C.'s ban on new gun registrations was total, and they effectively banned the use of any grandfathered guns for self-defense).

It is now settled law, there's very little to have a "national discussion" or "conversation" about, especially since we all agree on minor details like: murder is wrong and is properly illegal, felons and the severely mentally ill have no right to own guns (although due to privacy issues it's very hard to do anything about the latter, and too many states like Pennsylvania refuse to report this to the feds), people should treat guns with respect, etc.
A pretty obvious PR stunt. Kind of cool as a hobby project but this isn't any kind of technical advance.
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It doesn't, but that's not the punchline. The punchline is the reaction. People are almost enraged enough to boycott instagram over this.