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You are correct, the old (AKA current) ToS said:

"Instagram does NOT claim ANY ownership rights in the text, files, images,
photos, video, sounds, musical works, works of authorship, applications, or
any other materials (collectively, "Content") that you post on or through the
Instagram Services"

But I'm not sure why you quoted that sentence and or why you failed to include the sentence after the one you quoted:

"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."

The above sentence seems to be the most relevant to the discussion started by the parent comment.
> Browsing the web on a retina display is rather jarring.

I would like to preface this by saying that I couldn't give a rat's ass about the rest of the arguments but in this case I just have to chime in since the quoted bit is just bullshit. The only difference between browsing the web on a retina display and browsing it on a normal screen is that, on a retina display, the font rendering is a million times better. That's it. But that is enough to make me not want to look at any other type of display again.

It is true that some applications do not have retina support (I'm looking at you, Firefox) but that support will come with time and all of the applications that I use on a daily basis look great.
I lack the self discipline to use credit card. Switching to debit forces me to live within my means, that alone has saved me a significant amount of money.
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Wait, so.... DRM in the cable?

I remember rolling my eyes a bit when people complained about the new connector, but man, this thing actually is starting to sound kind of evil...
" but it's sure less risky emotionally for some people. Like me."

Could you explain that a bit deeper?
A lot of the commentary here refers to Instagram as an omniscient "they" — as if Instagram is a group of people carefully coordinating terms of use edits. In the vast majority of websites, this isn't how it goes down. Here's the usual process that I've seen:

* Product (or Sales) will ask if they have the right to do something (now or in the future). No one is sure, and the issue is eventually bounced to Legal.

* Legal eventually tells them that the answer is no (or that it's unclear), and that the Terms will have to be edited to give 100% permission.

* Legal then goes ahead and proposes edits to the terms or privacy policy. Because they are lawyers, they focus on giving the website the absolute broadest possible permission. At no point is the Marketing or Communications team informed or consulted.

* Legal then coordinates with Product, and the changes are rolled out at the same time as (or shortly before) the product changes go live.

Then either users simply don't care, or they do and then this happens:

* Users spot the changes and freak out.

* The Marketing and Communications freak out as well, and hear about the changes (often for the first time).

* The Terms of Use are revised again, so that they more clearly communicate their original intent. Users either decide they still trust you, or they decide that the trust has been breached and look for alternatives.

I have seen this happen again and again. Very rarely is the website actively trying to screw their users. Much much more often, the real culprit is a lack of communication between the Legal and PR/Communications team.

It is absolutely critical that your General Counsel be on good terms with your head of PR (and that your head of PR/Comm is friendly with your head of Product). If that's the case, then these issues tend not to crop up. If not, then they tend to explode very publicly and violently on the entire company.

The #1 thing you can do to avoid these issues is to treat edits to the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use as a major communications effort, and make sure that all changes are vetted with an internal advocate for your users (ideally, your Comm team is led by such a person). Otherwise, you could be headed for a blowup very similar to this one.
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Anything other than #00ff00 on #000000 is apparently just not 1337 enough. It's more important than people actually being able to read the content on your site.
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No . Please no. I had to work with a design shop that sent website mocks using powerpoint decks. It was so much pain to implement that in html.

The horrifying thing was when on a call, they said - "take a look at slides 259 and 260, and you see the difference when I move between those slides???" I could see no such thing - and even if they had done it more obviously(like used a circle or something to point out what had changed) powerpoint is so nasty for showing flows. The forced animations, the transitions :(

It's a good idea in theory, but in practice powerpoint the software is for demos and presentations - not for mockups.
For me using tools is the only sacrament. It's tinkering and improving and learning from them that makes me human, besides keeping me from starving in a cave somewhere. Contempt for tools would have been an unimaginable luxury just a few generations ago, and I'm disturbed to see it steadily emerging here.
Yeah, I can see you're busy and the page did say "12 hours." All good here; even if not I'm sure you'll make me whole again.

Bit cross with myself for not writing down the order ID, but usually an auto-email comes straight after.
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I was reading some of the other comments here and wondering if anyone else thought the multimedia content upstaged the writing. This is the better than any kind of storytelling I've ever seen. Videos that auto play as you get to them. 3-D maps that rotate, zoom and plot a course as you scroll down. Path markers that draw on the map as the writer describes the scene. Hopefully more authors and artists will embrace this level of detail and integration of multimedia content with their stories.
Thinkpad fans are probably the only other group that likes a product line based on hardware. They may be smaller and/or less vocal group, but they're out there.
Ask HN: How to become Venture Capitalist without Capital?
Are there any career direction a software developer/ technophile can take to work as a VC ?
Are there such jobs available to someone who does not have business or investment background ?
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Amazon S3 has bit torrent support. Everybody would get reasonably fast downloads and your bandwidth bill should be fairly modest.
Well, it is certainly a more competently executed font than anything from H&FJ, because they don't have any screen-optimised web fonts available yet.

And while I respect your right to disagree, I do not appreciate your implications about the quality of my typographical work. I know that the price I pay for posting under a pseudonym is being unable to defend myself by showing actual work I've produced, but to those who know who I am and the kind of work I produce professionally in real life, right now you're probably looking a bit like I would if I started lecturing you about how it's bad practice to store the raw version of passwords so you should XOR everything with a randomly selected byte for security.
So the device will refuse to charge from a simple regulated supply?

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink.
It's called "User Testing" for a reason
Joining a list with different strings at given interval
Yes, it is amazing how quickly some Americans shift from a discussion on whether it is justified to recognise the rights of non Americans to whether it is justified to not murder them.
They do communicate their vision to developers. Remember how they were super committed to Silverlight?
Flickr has been around for years. Instagram was "cooler" because of those retro filters and stuff.

They're not so cool now, are they?
Tcl's syntax is completely specified in the man page: http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/TclCmd/Tcl.htm (well, nearly completely -- there are couple of minor details left out -- but the man page is complete enough to fully understand the syntax. More people should read it.)

Messy C? Most people who've worked on it seem to think it's rather clean. (Not the bytecode compiler though -- that is indeed a mess. But most of the implementation is solid, readable code.)
Hey look everyone, another keyboard commando has come to share his hypothetical heroism with us. We are honored.
I'm not that crazy of a dev and there were at least 4-5 things that straight up wouldn't build in homebrew or lacked scripts. Basic GNU tools shipping with Mac OS X are vastly out of date (and in some cases buggy) due to GPL issues. I finally gave up after an afternoon of fighting getting GDB signed to be able to debug my Golang app and wound up installing a VM, adding a new SSH key to Github, setting up my dev environment and debugging it in linux in less time.

I used OS X because I had a MBA. When classes were over I decided to see how much work Linux would be on it given that Mac hardware and linux don't always get along. Basically everything worked out of the box though, minus a powersave script I ran.
All values are relative. But by my lights, yeah, I paid a pretty high price for it.
Wow. I couldn't disagree more. The integration of the extra content to the context of the story really added another level for me.
> There isn't a feeling of focus from one end to the other

Like what? I hear this repeatedly but it's with a helping dose of handwaving and a lack of specifics. I guess I just don't see that. I use VLC, Gnome-terminal, Sublime Text, Pantheon-Files, Chrome, Firefox and that's basically it. They all act the same as I expect in any desktop environment and I've literally never had a meta-moment of worry or thought about something being "off".

Gimp is awkward on every platform, what does that have to do with Linux DEs?
I know doing exercise and eating healthy every single day is good but I can't follow that all the time because I am human. I skip when I am tired and stressed out. VCs are humans too and even though their "idealistic" stand is to only invest long-term we see them all the time investing in the short-term trends. If that wasn't true, this socio-loco-mobile trend would have died already.
Obviously that's completely different to what I wrote.

That said, there are hundreds of thousands of apps out there right now. Unless you think someone from each major foundry is checking every one of them to make sure they're not infringing, it is self-evident that there are very many companies so small that nobody will notice if they infringe the copyright on a font or two.

It happens all the time, when creating apps, in professional design work at studios, when creating content in-house, etc. Pretending otherwise is like pretending software doesn't get pirated by small businesses all the time, completely unrealistic. You might not have to be Google's scale to get noticed, but I expect the vast majority of people working professionally with fonts could use any extra ones they downloaded illegally with complete impunity. But every time they do, that's probably a failure of the market to generate some revenue for whoever created that font.
How to get people involved in politics?
I agree that Nate Silver's book is short on many subjects (such as politics) but the goal of his book is not to explain "Why did X happen" but simply to discuss the challenges of prediction within different domains. It's a book that helps people learn the art/science/challenges of prediction.

Saying that his book lacks detailed discussions of incentives (while true) misses the point of his book.
It should be noted that $1 million dollars was spent making this cookbook. They definitely had money to spare.
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It's called a feature. If you want your news quick and easy, read Google News headlines.
I think it's fair to call the US Constitution a contract between the 13 "States" which agreed to "Unite" by it.
COM is not even close to being dead. Credibility--
My approach is to always pay myself 10% first, then bills (mortgage, taxes, auto), then rest of budgeted items by priority.
I'm not saying you're wrong, in fact I'm quite sure you're right in how things often happen.

However, for a service like Instagram, the ToS are a critical part of the business. Any changes made to the terms should be known, understood, and agreed on by whoever sets the overall strategy for the product. The legal team helps them encode it, marketing and PR help them communicate it outwards, but the strategy should be coming from the top, and the responsibility should rest there.
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Very high level documentation is good. Things like, what are the steps to get the app to build, what tools do you need to install, frameworks, etc. What's the directory structure, so that a newcomer knows how to approach the project.

I'm a fan of self documenting code. Trying to document code is nice, but rarely possible to keep up to date. I do like to put short comments on a method if the name and class its in don't provide enough info. It's better to spend time writing code and tests than documentation.

You can't always convince people to do things they don't want to do. Some people don't care about putting more than the minimum of effort into work. Most people hate change. But if you just go ahead and create the pocket of excellence, people tend to notice why its good and if you get momentum then the rest will follow. Who are the influential people on your team who if they started using these good practices, the rest would follow? How do you think you should best convince them? For some people, find out what motivates them, and then see if you can explain to them how adopting these practices would benefit them.
* ActiveX, COM and COM+ are all still widely used.

* Courier Tablet was never even a product.

* DAO was useful for over a decade and you can still write programs that use it today if you want to. Plenty of people do.

* DDE still works, matter of fact - perusing the list of hot questions on StackOverflow I saw a question about it today.

* Encarta was a developer product?

* Expression/Suite still works and is now available for free! Blend being rolled into Visual Studio? Great!

* Frontpage still works and you can even still buy it new, here you go - http://www.discountmountainsoftware.com/mifrpa.html

* Linq to SQL still works, I just used it in a small project the other day.

* Visual FoxPro made a lot of money for a lot of people and programs built with it still run on Windows 8. I know a company that just paid $50K for a program written in Visual FoxPro. Yeah, I'm sure the original developers hate Microsoft.

* Many of the other products you mentioned were transformed into something else. So, what's the problem? Don't like change?
I haven't seen anyone image a whole record at once, but there are http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable units which image the track as it spirals by (without wear from contact).
They bet on it for a short while, but I was referencing the fact that they hopped ship and OS/2 continued under IBM for years. OS/2 Warp, continuing to run in ATM machines, the community wanting to continue OS/2, etc. It did eventually die, but it maintained a life well after MSFT decided to move on.

I still miss Galactic Civilizations. One of the better space strategy games.
Just in case world ends today?
Just in case world ends today, what would you like to say to people on HN. :)
Working harder, producing better content ... still, MANY folks still have Yahoo, AOL or MSN as their homepage :-(. And of course, Google wants to be the web's only affiliate [http://www.seobook.com/brand-vs-affiliate-vs-spam], but will give a pass to "brands" (read: brands + cash = not spam), while labeling small sites as internet spam. Its all looking pretty dire for the common (wo)man. Business as usual, i guess.
I don't think it's as much of a problem for IFTTT as they're currently the dominant player with in my opinion the best product. If they don't sell to the enterprise then Zapier will be able to strike in that market.
I didn't know S3 supported it , thank you! I'll try it out for the next release.
This needs to be on the SO page, far better.
I agree. This seems like a problem with a trivial solution. My bet is that they decided that they wouldn't make enough money on the project to make it really worth their time. Blaming apple may be justified since it is a stupid policy, but I'd just as well have a system that just has four USB ports that I can plug whatever I like into.
One could argue that the possibility of binding international treaties is a feature of the US Constitution, and that non-Americans not on American soil may hold some rights thereby.

The Geneva convention is often discussed in connection with US extraterritorial military operations.
>but it has many of the characteristics of one.

And what characteristics are those?
The Internet used to be a social experiment. Now it is just a subset of economics.
The constitution appears to have been intended to apply to the US Government, whatever its actions. It even includes a loophole for conducting a war: just actually declare war. These days that's unfashionable, of course.
An aside: GC2 is a fine successor. DRM-free, too. http://www.galciv2.com/
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I told the bank guy I thought their policy was absurd and that I trusted he'd do the right thing - and left it in his possession. I also sent another Facebook message to the woman letting her know where I'd left it and how they'd declined to call her. Out of my hands. Did what I could.
Chase quickpay works and works well. Enough people around me have Chase to make my life a little easier.
More succinct:

"Knock knock."
No... that's what I do in a traditional window manager.
They really are being a bunch of assholes. I won't buy anything else from Apple.
“Proper” use of a REST or hypermedia API generally requires you only ever initiate communications with the API from the root (https://my.api.example/ versus https://my.api.example/some/other/url). From there, every response from the API will then contains links to other resources, often with a relation to explain how each resource relates to the next. In this way, you never guess a URL - you are always given it.

Speaking from practical experience using an API like this: it can result in a lot of extra round trips to get to your final destination. The indirection is nice purity-wise, but in practice do you really want to make 3-4 times the round trips to the server for every API interaction? Especially when you might be on a mobile network? All for the sake of flexibility you may never need?

I'd say supporting the discoverability for learning, and consistency etc is nice. But in practice concerns like this (and the DHH example, and others already in comments here) will crop up and clients will start building their own direct URLs. So the idea that you'll be able to change the URL structure without affecting clients is a pipe dream.
Half of a good idea. The other half is the recipient, rather than Facebook, receiving the money that you pay to send the message. That's exactly what my company, Gramicon.com, is doing. If your attention is in high demand, we offer a way to filter messages from people who place a premium on your attention. If you want to get in touch with an inaccessible person, you can pay a premium to get to the top of their inbox.
Not a good assumption. The reports of huge increases in gun purchases suggests many are worried about future legislation.

People in your area may support it, but in other areas (like mine) they may be less apt to trade liberty for security.
"For example, imagine if you could build a workflow by dragging and dropping to connect your Salesforce.com implementation with your back-office provisioning applications, based on a conditional logic and then send out SMS confirmation to the client, make a SFDC case note and update a bunch of statuses... all without writing a single line of code."

That third paragraph sounds like an important thing, but also sounds like a hellhole I'd never want to work at :)
Lead by doing. Show what you're doing and why, and get others to support your vision. Then it may be easier to get others do tackle some of the challenges with you.
Also, how to become Venture Capitalist without ventures.
It is obviously more nuanced than you make it seem. Do you really think it would be constitutional for the government to target a specific religion or race with drone strikes as soon as any of the targeted group were to go on vacation in e.g. the Bahamas? I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusion with regard to the current drone strikes, but I think your rational/analysis is deeply flawed and there certainly isn't a complete trashing of the constitution as soon as a citizen leaves our borders.
seems like the site (of the game) is down from my end
Blend is effectively dead as well- the people responsible for the 'creative' side of the product were re-org'ed out this summer.

The core of Blend goes into VS, but the vision is going to be traditional WinForms design scenarios from now on out- that's what management is looking for.
It's built into Android. Take picture. Click Edit. Pick filter. Hit share button and you can choose Facebook/Twitter/Flickr/Google+/etc.
> it can result in a lot of extra round trips to get to your final destination.

You can usually get around this. Many people make their resources have too much hierarchy; there's nothing inherently unRESTful about having a flat one.

You should _not_ be having 3-4 round trips for every API interaction. Each request is an interaction. Hypermedia APIs expose a workflow, not a data model.
List shows us those impressive thing?
Not really. The 3 USBs along with the fat iPhone connector and Lightning connector would let them cover most phones currently on the market.
> I can not image how fully compliant REST api's would work in the real world.

Have you ever used GitHub's API?

$ curl https://api.github.com/
if it was from NK then why does the game use english?
They said the product was going to do lightning and they found out they couldn't actually do that. I think that would qualify as false advertising.
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