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Remind HN: Instagram's new Terms of Service take effect tomorrow, Jan 16
The new terms differ from the original terms in that Instagram don't assume ownership of your photos; they still involve merging Instagram's infrastructure with Facebook, though. In their own words:

"- Nothing has changed about your photos’ ownership or who can see them.

- Our updated privacy policy helps Instagram function more easily as part of Facebook by being able to share info between the two groups. This means we can do things like fight spam more effectively, detect system and reliability problems more quickly, and build better features for everyone by understanding how Instagram is used.

- Our updated terms of service help protect you, and prevent spam and abuse as we grow.

This is just a small preview. Our new Privacy Policy and Terms of Service will be effective on January 16, 2013."

One alternative is to create an RSS feed based on what Webstagram provides: http://web.stagram.com/n/nasagoddard/.

The Instagram blog post: http://blog.instagram.com/post/38143346554/privacy-and-terms-of-service-changes-on-instagram.
The tax rate could easily be based on the average of the salaries of the (adult) individuals of the household. If you have one person making 100k supporting one person, why not pay the same rate as two people making 200k to support two people. Instead, those two people currently pay the same rate as one person making 200k to support one person (more, technically, since it also moves them above the limits where they lose many writeoffs).
Or...

...give the potential developer a box of Lego. If s/he does a Quagmire-esque "giggidy!", hire them.
This doesn't actually help since your friends control a lot of your privacy. Remember when Mark's sister's photo ended up on Twitter? She had her privacy set to friend's only... It also doesn't prevent friends from tagging you in photos or signing you in places.
I thought this was a discussion about "In the Wake of Aaron Swartz's Death, Let's Fix Draconian Computer Crime Law"? I would certainly agree that to do that we should be appealing to the legislators rather than the prosecutors, but I'm not sure what all that has to do with what we were most recently discussing.
We are living in a post-civilized society, insofar as civilization implies city-rooted social order. We live in the era of continent-scaled nation-states.
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The states can find other things to cut than middle class benefits.
Yep but they share one feature: shitty idea.
We are paying taxes on all our assets annually.
I think people give too much credit to human stuff. Really, all this Aaron thing kicks the hell out of me. I REALLY believe that if that boy knew about all the blesses that GOD have for us, he would never have take his own life. But american people (i´m Brazilian) specially the rich people are going too far away from God and His lessons. That´s why they are living a crap life and Aaron is a prove of that. Less money, less intelligence and less success. More love, more God in your heart. That´s ALL you really need at the end.
I think what lmm is pointing out is that perhaps your "cultural interviews" might illegally shut out certain groups of people. For example, has the company ever hired a hacker over the age of 50?

The question is hypothetical, but lmm's comment is valid. A lot of companies use 'cultural fit' as a cover for discrimination. Plausible deniability isn't hard to find, but it's still an unfortunate practice.
No. But it is easily findable online.
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Even at good schools with non-religious teachers, students are undoubtedly taught lots of information that's false. Teachers are of merely average intelligence and often just don't know that what they're teaching is false.

Which is fine because if the subject matter actually matters, there will be ample chances to relearn it later. Having teachers teach stuff that is wrong is only a big problem if you think teachers need to be infallible. But the fact that teachers can be wrong seems to me one of the more important true things kids learn in school.
You can't control your friends' privacy settings. If they tag you in something and have their own privacy settings wide open, anyone will be able to see it.
Doesn't feel like residents of California are getting a value for the % of tax that we pay overall. If you are self-employed and make say 150K you are going to be paying around 35% fed + 6% SS employee + 6% SS employer side + 9% Califonia. total = 55%. ( Granted the taxes are applied on a graduated basis so the effective tax rate would be less.) In Europe, they pay on the order of 50% with free healthcare and a great transportation system. In the bay area, we get charged higher insurance rates based on the zip code with live and we get to drive on 101.
Note that the static web serving is working normal, it's the back-end functions that seem to be affected.

It's good practise generally to make your web app statically served and be fault tolerant to the back-end not being available, this is certainly required if you want to implement an offline mode.
"The revised franchise tax applies to partnerships (general, limited and limited liability), corporations, LLCs, business trusts, professional associations, business associations, joint ventures, incorporated political committees and other legal entities."

So if you aren't one of those then no, you would not pay franchise tax, but most small businesses do.
Link:

http://web.stagram.com/n/nasagoddard/

http://blog.instagram.com/post/38143346554/privacy-and-terms...
> Would people just message any stranger?

If they want to, doesn't it cost $1 now? Maybe that's the whole idea...
Yeah that was a little bit of an exaggeration but I kind of see her point. Personalization in search engines is mostly at the cohort level, not at the individual. To use your example of a local search, the results are the same for the few thousand people who live in that zip code. More broadly, search engine results are not personalized as much as they are sensitive to location, gender, broad preferences, etc. Facebook results, on the other hand, really involve you as a person on a very fine level - your friends, etc.
Ah, the distinction of smallness and privacy outside of the group didn't originally catch my eye. Thanks for clearing it up. :)
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Maybe it's a side effect of plea bargaining. Prosecutors have to push for the highest sentence imaginable to get a strong negotiating position. This is a bigger problem than Carmen Ortiz.

Incidentally, this also affects the idea that they should have gone easy on Swartz because of his history of depression and suicidal ideation, because then that becomes a tool for negotiating leverage as well.

But when the root cause is the systemic effect of plea bargaining on the justice system as a whole, it becomes difficult to find good solutions, and obvious that whatever the solution is, it will be very hard to implement. But our outrage compels us to demand something to be done right now, so let's just designate a scapegoat.
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But to make the cancellation retroactive for 5 years makes it seem to be a money grab to me. Why not just cancel for now and in the future?
True - but you can't sign up for a checking Aaccount only. They require you have a brokerage account through Schwab as well.
He wasn't going to get 30 years. See the other top HN post right now about he could have plea-bargained for 6 months.
I'd like a bank account that allowed more than a 4 digit pin, and locked out the credit card side of my "debit card"
Its not, but it is manipulative to have an unbalanced relationship where he thinks he can eventually have a chance.

Personally, I don't want a woman that says yes to everyone. But, I don't want one that harasses every new person they meet.
there is always Path
videolan.org has a pretty confusing name. I bet if it was vlcplayer.com it would get better downloads.
I think most novelists write with the intent to be read after they have some years of experience. It's the next, natural step. Whether that reader is at a publishing house or not is a little hard to know, especially in Kafka's case.

From what I've read and studied at university, Kafka wrote for his friends a lot. He shared his writings with them and they had a laugh. His pieces were known (by his friends) as dark comedies. Whereas in Western Europe and North America, they are read as existential pieces.

Kafka doubted many times that his novels and stories would ever be published because of their 'immoral' content. So, I'm interested in any further info you have that might suggest otherwise.
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They create some of the most used open source scientific computing software, and still manage to make money (also, a great place to work in, lots of really smart people)

Sounds like an outlier that proves his rule. How many more companies make far more money each with proprietary products in that domain? Mathematica, Maple, Matlab, SPSS, ...
Agree. There are a large class of Facebook applications that are really UIs slapped on top of graph search queries. I guess this would get really interesting in a practical sense once Facebook opens up an API for these queries.
Here's one. "What is polymorphism?" Things go downhill after that. I know I'm going to be listening to a long lecture.
Did anything ever come from the book he was talking about writing?

He was 19 when he wrote that blog post.
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Unfortunately this will come no where near close to the President's eyeballs. It will be reviewed and responded to by some low level staff group who has been tasked to wade thru all of the petitions (and nonsense like the Death Star) which get 25k votes.
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Yes, I think that is what he was getting at.
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I think this whole petition is a mistaken diversion. This issue is bigger than Ms. Ortiz. The fact is that she was only doing her job in the way that the Congress and the Administration very much expected her to do. Take this up with those who gave her the weapons: the laws she was using and the common procedures she was using. Take it up with those who very much wanted those weapons ready and used to silence an activist.
Kalamazoo is very nice too. The downtown is beautiful and the people there are very civic-minded: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Promise
I don't think it was intended to be persuasive, but I don't believe it was meant as a targeted insult either.
Culture and rules both effect behavior. By firing Ortiz, we're changing the culture. Hopefully that will help us change the rules.
In addition to the no ATM fee awesomeness, I want to add that my experiences with Schwab's customer service have always been great.

There was an issue with the web form when I was signing up for the account, and I wrote it off thinking I'd do it later. The next day they had someone leave me a voicemail with his direct number, and he finished the registration when I called him back. Nice.

And from issues with international money transfers to stolen cards to airline screw ups, I've always been able to get a real person on the line, and they've always been very helpful.

Never thought that I'd be this happy with a bank.
USAA has the same policy, too. They refund your ATM fees paid to /other/ banks, up to $15 a month.
Thanks for your interest in GoBank. We’re sorry, but we’re unable to complete your membership request right now.

Thank you for IP blocking me from visiting your home page, because as everyone knows US residents never travel. I also think it's a little bit presumptuous and certainly not very RESTful to assume that navigating to gobank.com is equivalent to a "membership request", especially for a supposed bank.
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The even claim that a guy can or even threaten to blacklist a girl within his social networks is ludicrous.
Isn't this just meetup.com but with the bonus of more "personalised" content tailored to your facebook profile?

I'm trying to work out if this is a good idea or not. Do privacy settings still apply when you join a group?
This product doesn't make sense at all.

I can just query useless data from my peer group or the friends of friends group. Data which I already know and not care about.

But I cannot ask the really interesting questions about all Facebook users:

"Show me all female singles nearby with at least 30 profile photos each"

"Show me all female singles nearby which love to chat and respond messages within 2 hours on average."

"Show all females within one mile and poke them all automatically"

This thing is as it is half-baked: the name, the product, just everything -- far away from being "huge".

BTW, those kind of looking-for-female-singles-in-my-city-queries were very easy in FB's early days for quite a long time. Then, I poked them all in my city and got a conversion (poke2reply) of about 1:15.
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I took this course a year ago, and really enjoyed it. I never took a data base course at university, but I've been using some SQL over the years. Getting the theoretical grounding was quite useful, and also seeing all the ways queries can be composed. And, professor Widom has a good sense of humor.

I still can't get over that all these courses (Coursera, Udacity, EdX etc) are available for free. Just amazing!

I've written about my impression of the course in more detail here: http://henrikwarne.com/2011/12/18/introduction-to-databases-...
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Well, does the study use tax-paid resources or not? It may not seem workable that no private results should result from research receiving tax-money in any way, but it is fair.
Good point; we can change it to make it clear you have to be a US resident to open an account but allow registration from other IPs.
Also, because I was curious if this deprecation policy was included cancellation of the entire service, yes it does:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---

7.2 Deprecation Policy.

Google will announce if we intend to discontinue or make backwards incompatible changes to this API or Service. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate that Service without these changes until the later of: (i) one year after the announcement or (ii) April 20, 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

- required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or

- doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

This Deprecation Policy doesn't apply to versions, features, and functionality labeled as "experimental."

--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So you have until 2015, or a year from the current date if that's less than a year away. I'd say that's a very reasonable amount of warning.
> They offer a mostly crapware-free experience.

You must've forgotten Path fiasco, with its quiet uploading of user's full address book to company's servers, which turned out to be - SUR-PRI-SE - a "standard industry practice". Wall garden sanctuary my ass. Same rotten ethics, except far less visible.
It's works intermittently for our backend for Azumio apps. Mostly unusable at this point.
FWIW, my Schwab account has no overdraft fees, though of course I have to pay interest on any money I use from the overdraft account.

I'm having trouble accessing the GoBank site at the moment (might be my computer), but I can't see why I would prefer it to my Schwab account.

No monthly fees
International and domestic ATM fee rebates
ATM card has no foreign transaction fee
Mobile app for deposits
Overdraft account (no overdraft fee)
Let's see... new search: "Find [single] [females] with [poor self-esteem]". Jackpot!
And we communicate through words, most of the time.

Typography is pretty important there. It certainly isn't the only skill that's necessary, but it's a great place to start and is often key to layout, especially in designs informed by the grid.
(For those who'd have to look it up: this refers to AirBnb.)
A life changing book in a similar vein is "Amusing Ourselves to Death" by Neil Postman: http://tinyurl.com/a26wscp . I found out about it via Alan Kay's excellent reading list ( http://tinyurl.com/c6fjhj )
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To be explicitly precise, the attorney in this case was doing her job. No more, no less. To rise to the level of abuse of power would require that she pursue a case that she could not win, or to withhold information needed for a proper defense, Etc.

I don't defend her actions, but neither do I presume to know her intentions. I do not imagine her cackling with glee at this outcome. Vilifying her, as an individual doing her job, is not warranted. That leaves the organization which gave her that job and ordered her to do it.

It is by that reasoning that I do believe it is about the "Justice Department" and not a particular prosecuting attorney within the department.
What sucks about ATM fees is when you get a ten-car pile-up. It's happened to me once or twice. Something big clears and then ten more little things clear and you get ten fees. My bank was pretty nice and reduced it to two fees last time it happened.
you don't even understand what I wrote. Try opening an issue of the new yorker or something. you can't understand a single opening paragraph - so the problem's with them, right? right?
Agreed. Ironic that Chomsky still teaches at MIT
I kindof get the feeling facebook conveys an autistic interpretation of human social interactions.
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This is an important point, something that wasn't completely apparent from patio's screenshot. Babylon is a client of InstallMonetizer. Of course, if they were involved in creating that installer, then I'd say they are partially responsible.
This looks like an analysis going the wrong way. Klout probably uses retweet counts as a signal in their score so it's not surprising to see Klout score being positively correlated with retweet counts at all. It does show that "Klout does work" but in a very simplistic way.
Well, Facebook can tell how often you interact with certain people. They can determine certain things about the content of those interactions. They can detect how similar your friend graph is to another person's. They know that your grandma is your grandma (if you have told them, of course), and they know, for example, that most people don't want to hang out with their grandma.

I haven't given you pseudocode for an actual algorithm, but I can imagine that Facebook could combine all of these metrics into an index that can tell them roughly how likely you are to want to hang out with certain people.
IP detection is crap, too. I'm in California and while my IP sometimes gets detected as being from a few towns over, it's certainly still in the United States - but I'm blocked.
That's completely misleading. The capital gains tax paid by some Californians may be going from 24.3% to 37.1% but only 3% of that has anything to do with California. This is important because changes that affect other states as well do not affect the relative desirability of CA vs. other states.
The Facebook default sharing (just some timr ago, or still) is that share to your friends of friends. Or at least you could see the images of friends of friends.
Fair enough: nobody can accuse you of not being responsive :)
It could maybe work if they do it like Netflix: build a profile of you based on what you have rated highly, and put you in a pool with similar people (friends or otherwise), thus providing more accurate recommendations.

But I think Facebook overhypes how much people care about their friend's preferences, at least for most things. We generally don't pick friends based on how closely their shopping/eating/whatever habits match ours.
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This is going to be one monster of a search engine.
Same problem. I'm in Hungary but that doesn't make me Hungarian, and my business is based in Indiana. If you want to appeal to this crowd you'd better be prepared to think a little harder about internationality.
Our main product is a desktop application built on top of the Firefox web browser. It is triple licensed GPL/LGPL/MPL. We make money by selling add-ons and a plus version, all of which is also sold under an OSS license (modified BSD). Similar to what Red Hat does, we modified the BSD to prohibit the use of our trade name (International registered wordmark) in any secondary distros of our OSS. In the end, all you have is a brand. Protecting that, protects the revenue stream.
right, we're in NYC and I can't access it either
Hashtags work for that quite successfully (in Twitter and Diaspora). I'm not sure how well will these graphs work in comparison, but it's better than nothing for Facebook.
wolfram doesn't need to be open source.
you want/need and open source version of wolfram.
Why do Fedora releases have such bad names? Although Spherial Cow is at least better than Beefy Miracle.
Sorry but mimicking meetup.com is not a big thing. Very few people like to meet up with strangers regardless of similarities in hobbies/activities. This will cater to a niche crowd and that will be it. This is a great feature on Facebook but let's temper the excitement about its importance.
This is great! I love that it's meant to run on a smartphone.

However, I don't find it great that I can't use this service because I'm not an american. Oh well, same as all the other cool new financial disruptions :(

But I really came here to ask a question: Do any banks outside the US charge overdraft fees? I have never heard of this here in Slovenia, nor from any of my friends in the rest of Europe, and I think there'd be a revolt of some sort if they tried to institute those[1]. Sure, there's interest on negative balance, but no overdraft fees.

[1] For instance, a class action suit has recently assured that banks cannot charge ATM fees when using another bank's ATM within Slovenia. Something about cartels and so on. They even had to refund everyone's money for the previous few years.
Thank you for IP blocking me from visiting your home page, because as everyone knows US residents never travel.

Not to mention that non-US residents (e.g. reporters, bloggers, the curious) might be interested in taking a look at a service even if it's unavailable to them.

Seems quite bizarre to say "NO!" quite so forcefully and get rid of all that potential chatter.
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I'm pretty sure a 4-digit PIN is baked into the standard, but you're right about policy settings like that. I'd like that, too.
I use Octave daily (in the last hour, will return to it when I finish my soup), but have never seen anything that matched Mathematica's symbolic/pure math functionality.

Will check out Sage, haven't used Maxima since 2004. Thanks!

Edit: Sage looks nifty, Maxima looks unchanged, at least at screenshot-level.