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I hope that LastPass realised that they would receive this negative publicity by handling this event so publicly, and that they went ahead and did it anyway. That would show great integrity. If something similar happens again and they sweep it under the carpet to avoid a repeat of this bad publicity, then they're the same as every other company.
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Very bizarre statement. If your super fancy technology that Chinese just aren't smart enough to come up with on their own (xenophobia much?) needs to scale you're going to be sending it to China for manufacturing anyway. The sooner we get rid of this cave man "us vs. them" mentality the better.
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I'm writing this in despair (as it usually happens when you are dealing with FB).
We just found out that Facebook banned our webpage, so users can't post or like links from our webpage. Facebook login also stopped working. We haven't received any message from FB explaining the situation.

All existing content that pointed to our webpage was removed (from our fanpage http://www.facebook.com/mojvideo and from user's profiles).

So ... does anyone here know what to do now? How to get our domain un-banned? I've already written to developers-help (a t) facebook.com so far I only received some useless automated response. I've also sent this report: http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=block_appeal I've sent this reports a couple of hours ago.

But I'm suspecting that this will take forever to resolve (if it will get resolved). Anyone from FB here that can help? At the very least we would like to know why we ware banned.

Anyone from FB here that could help or shed some light on this?
And they do - and the cameras and sign sheets didn't explain the mysterious key movement. So they're replacing the locks.
Exactly. I think this move is great... for the rest of the world.
That's just awesome. All we need now is some testing environments for Maxthon and we'll have a complete kit to ensure that websites are compatible with the crappiest browsers available. I'm still looking for a way to emulate Windows 3.1 on OS X. That, along with some 1.44 floppies and I'll be in dev hell.
I don't understand why this is bad. Don't you want China to innovate on their own?
Stating the obvious, but: these stats are only representative of sites using statcounter.

According to w3schools, chrome reached 20% in November 2010:
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Another showing less than 12%:
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w3counter showing 15.7%:
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Good luck. You might as well try negotiating an unblock with China.
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That's what we are afraid off. Something is very rotten at FB :\
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It isn't about invasion its about the IP theft and industrial/scientific espionage. The China threat is extremely real, especially in high tech areas. The Chinese version of "collaboration" is "you innovate, we report to Beijing." The Chinese intelligence services are the most active in the world -- they make the KGB look like girl scouts. There's a reason for it. Spend some time doing business in China and you'll understand.
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I had the opposite feeling. When I first went there 10 years ago no one had a GSM, the powergrid looked like Edison himself built it (without help), websites were of laughable quality, even mundane things like hotels had a primitive feel to them. Now, I can only dream of Europe having things like America's NetFlix, Internet industry, smart phone usage, creative restaurants, hotels, and much more.

There are still some things quite primitive in the U.S. Internet banking in the is ridiculously limited. The last time I saw a CRT monitor was on an American air line. Overall though, my feeling is that Europe prevailed in the past 10 years, but America evolved.
I think that the main argument of this post is ridiculous.

"You should use an iPad to tranquilize your kids instead of a TV"

If you click through to the blog that he created while in the restaurant, you'll notice that the kids weren't learning or drawing or playing games, they were actually just WATCHING MOVIES.

A more detailed (if quick) response here: http://isaacelias.posterous.com/every-child-in-america-needs...
Very cool. Am I the only one to like the original design better than the robot one?
If you're like me, and liked the style used in the book, I tracked down the blog post where he introduces it.

http://www.miek.nl/s/d7c7a15ac3/
>by equipping China with the skilled professionals it needs to produce the weapons of war to threaten the free world.

I don't get this constant fear we Americans always have that as soon as a country sees a chance they're going to invade us. Mainland USA hasn't been attacked in more than a century. The only place this irrational fear could possibly come from is assuming other countries will all behave as we do.
TY for the link. Another example of a great lecturer being able to make up for a dry subject matter.
San Francisco is a beautiful city that for some reason is not incredibly well-kept. I'm not sure if I feel that way because of the not-too-friendly homeless, or the overall look of being worn out in some parts like Market Street.

I'm from New York and frequently travel to China, both of which obviously have "old" spots. For some reason, "old" there for me evokes the feeling of appreciation for history, while the San Francisco "old" makes me sad.
It isn't that they aren't "smart" enough -- it's that there is no culture of innovation. The best and brightest are running tech startups -- they work for the military and police apparatus. Come to China, find some "innovations." The last Chinese invention of any significance was gunpowder. Have a look a Baidu, Maxthon and the warehouses full of copycat iPads. Look at their cars, military machinery -- most of their military equipment is Soviet retreads or reverse-engineered US stuff. The Chinese are dangerous because there is no end to their industrial and scientific aggression. When a US company wants to do business in China, they are forced to take Chinese "partners." The US side of the office does the work and the Chinese side simply copies and sends the information onward. There is no such thing as a trade secret for a foreign company in China.

The culture is entrepreneurial, but it isn't one of invention, it's one of doing something someone else has done and doing it cheaper and at a lower quality. Come to China -- you'll see. There are some good things in China, but they are the exception that proves the rule.
There's a lot I love about the US but it's true that many cities have poorly managed public transit systems.

I don't think I have ever grabbed a bus transfer and not felt disappointed either, regardless of how clean it was. Maybe you need to upgrade your lifestyle and buy yourself a nice set of wheels. That's how we roll in America ;)
Could it not just be explained in terms of dollar value (actual and projected) instead of harping about missed out talent.. Since most of the companies that take in H1-B applicants operate globally, their cost of recruiting employees locally could have gone down (due to depressed job market and low attrition rates) making local recruiting much easier. In simpler words thanks to the fed printing press, local workforce might be becoming more competitive :)
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Businesses and websites really need to quit putting their faith in FB. When their accounts get closed like Mojvideo's, it affects their brand viability in a negative way.

Getting banned by FB is the new getting banned by PayPal.
Where is the original post w/ comments?
The article says:

> The thinking here is that SaaS/PaaS companies require more infrastructure, better/higher quality infrastructure, more bandwidth, and more senior/seasoned engineers.
Israel doesn't have a habit of threatening US interests. Israel didn't attempt to shoot down our aircraft and hold our aircrews hostage. Israel isn't threatening Taiwan, propping up North Korean dictators or funneling weapons to Darfur. Israel is actually a partner in security as opposed to an opponent. Israel isn't manipulating currency or holding world financial markets hostage. I guess Israel bashing is fashionable. By the way, you have no evidence that Israel has stolen more IP than China -- that's just a nonsensical claim.
I do really like this post... It shows - with its Q&A structure - how the so called quality factors are now taking their revenge over "automatic" ones. Yes, links and old SEO factors are still important, but the Google seems to be seriously looking to the user experience in how to rank a site instead of another.
The intention is surely correct, the steps toward that direction can be "wrong" is some of their details... but no big change is without errors.
I suggest you also to check the extended "linkography" given by Richard Baxter to dig even more into this subject.
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Completely correct. The Chinese are fiercely protective. Just try to buy a Harley Davidson in Shanghai. Chinese are the most protectionist country in the G20 without a doubt.
Example of libraries using CC for exactly that end: Highcharts. It's under CC-BY-NC.
I agree. Most of our traffic comes from search engines and loyal users. But off course we used FB to promote our page too, we would be stupid not to.
I'm can't if you're saying that banks are secure or insecure. BTW, your name is Guillame Maury, and your birthday is 03/07/1982.

Anyway, I also live in China, and have had problems with banks being so secure that it becomes inconvenient. A few months ago I tried to get into my ING account, for which I'd lost the password. Although I managed to authenticate my identity over the phone, they could only send me a new password to my address in the UK. However, this is a house my family no longer lives in... so the whole affair involved contacting the new occupants to forward the new password letter on to someone I knew. I've also had problems with Natwest's online payment system giving me an "unknown failure" message. After calling up, I found that the system had flagged my transaction as suspicious due to my location as revealed by my IP address. When dealing with such issues, I often feel like I'm trying to steal my own identity.

Anyway, after looking at the options I decided to use PasswordCard to manage my passwords, which is a physical solution (www.passwordcard.org). It's a card of random numbers, symbols and letters that you can print out. You then take a sequence of such symbols to form each new password that you need. I decided not to use a standard password manager since it's not very portable between machines (I travel quite a bit, and also with the current rate of technology change it's likely that in a few years I'll be using a device and OS that doesn't exist yet).
Their economy is headed for a significant crisis in the next 5 years. They put on a pretty facade, but it's smoke and mirrors once you get past the empty concrete shells.
Here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2527746
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I don't know if it's possible, but perhaps you could do an IP switch.. maybe you can trick FB into allowing your site.
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Oops, I submitted hoping to find the original submission but it was killed apparently.
It's not about how many people you've got in your R&D labs, it's about which people you have in your R&D labs.
What are you afraid they're going to do? Suddenly they're as advanced as the US and then.... ? If they still can't innovate without us as some claim then nothing will change, their people will just be better off and they'll have gotten there a lot cheaper.

Personally I'd like to see the rest of the world catch up as soon as possible. I don't subscribe to the idea that for us to be happy people somewhere halfway around the world need to be miserable.
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I think I'm showing my Australian bias here.. The Palm website: http://www.palm.com/au/ shows thatPalm are "introducing" WebOS on the "new" Palm Pre.
I can't see HP turning that around any time soon.
Since we have some other pages on the same IP but on different domains, and those other pages ware not banned, I don't think this will solve our problem :\

But even if it did FB could just bann us again, I'm trying to find out why we ware banned so we can fix any possible problems.
> Summary
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> 1. Like the gold standard, a successful bitcoin would send our economy back into the dark ages.

Well, this is not actually an argument why bitcoin will fail, just a prediction what will happen if it succeeds :D

> 2. Even if it became popular, governments would squash it because of #1 and because they like being in power.

It is not proven that goverments are able to destroy bitcoin even if they will.

> 3. A single mathematical or other error in the cryptosystem would cause instant, unresolvable, worldwide hyperinflation. After hundreds of years of analysis, there are no known flaws in the current financial system that could lead to that. (Other than the known causes of hyperinflation of course, ie. total gross mismanagement of the entire country.)

Currently the bitcoin system is working and no errors have emerged. Of course no one in the world can be 100% sure that the bitcoin system will be functioning always, but currently it's working pretty well. I'm willing to take the risk of mathematical/programmatical error, and I bet that so are many others.

> 4. It's not even useful except as an online-only addition to normal currency, and my normal currency already works fine online.

OK, it is the writers personal preference to favour traditional fiat currency for some personal reasons. Many people don't agree.

Summary: the article is bullshit, don't bother reading. Maybe for entertainment reasons :)
> When was the last time Chomsky did any serious investigation that wasn't about how evil governments are?

Well, he is still working on generative syntactic theory in linguistics. In his 2005 paper "On phases" he (again...) overhauled his minimalist program. So, yes, he is actively working (or at least has been until recently), but perhaps not in a field you are interested in.
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If it was killed there was probably a reason for it.
"Israel didn't attempt to shoot down our aircraft and hold our aircrews hostage."

But they did attack US Navy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident

"Israel isn't threatening Taiwan"

But they do threaten and attacked their neighbours. By the same token, China is not threatening Syria.

"propping up North Korean dictators or funneling weapons to Darfur"

Israel is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world, and a lot of those weapons go to the hands of various dictators, e.g. in Africa.
Getting an item noticed on HN is now largely pot luck. It is correlated with quality, but it's also correlated with time of day, day of the week, number of current readers, and it's still got a huge component of luck. If you don't get four or five upvotes in the first 30 to 90 minutes, it sinks without trace.

In part this is because of the huge volume. In part the volume is because the focus is as wide as it always was, but the audience has increased enormously.

Many potential solutions have been discussed, but in general, no one has produced a convincing analysis accompanied by concrete solutions that will clearly work.

Currently it's a case of - live with it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2022547
You see that's why smart people study CS and ignorant people study jurnalism...
This article is making the assumption that there is absolutely nothing wrong with capitalism and the current economic system, when in fact the whole financial system is teetering on the brink of destruction. Many people far more qualified are saying that coming off the gold standard was actually a really bad idea.
I did a quick sum of the quarterly losses in that chart, and came to a total just shy of $8 billion
When I can't find a comment thread on HN I usually just submit the article again and it brings me back to the comment thread. I didn't know it had been killed, otherwise I wouldn't have done that...
I don't because I am not chinese and will not share in the wealth of such enterprising behaviour. You can never become a chinese citizen unless you are born there. Never.
How long has it been since your appeal?
Additionally, the predictions about people using a netbook as their only computer seem to have been mostly wrong. This is good for MS, as Windows' licensing fee was too large for a $300 computer. (MS helped this along by refusing to sell cheap Windows for netbooks that were actually capable.)
Great, comprehensively written piece. Nice to see so much info on high authority site ranking factors in one place. Especially like the section on thinly written, or filler, content. I believe in the long term, users ability to share, rate and comment on content (did you find this useful?) can greatly separate the wheat from the chaff. I wonder also how the Google +1 button will effect this.
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As much as I love bitcoins, I think the author is quite right. Which makes this a sad sad world we live in. As paradoxical as it may sound, bitcoins are against capitalism and against governments. And I think that's exactly why bitcoin has gained so much popularity.
Trying to circumvent their decision like this is going to make things worse with them, not better.

Try and work with them, not against them. If that fails, move on. You miht be overestimating the value of Facebook for additional traffic.
Couldn't disagree more. Neither Twitter nor Facebook, and least of all every dinky little site offering a homebrewed API are an even remotely adequate replacement for RSS.

Twitter and Facebook have NOT made anything easier for normal people, they just managed to get the mindshare to force people to deal with their inadequacies, whereas a million different sites offering RSS feeds somehow never turned into something everyone and their dog "had to" use to be cool.

I use RSS daily as my main news source, check Facebook maybe every other day and never could figure out the point of Twitter.
Couple of hours. I know, I know. But we all know how things are with this things. My boss recently got his account locked, and then he got un-locked 14 days later without any explanation (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2493877). So I'm just trying to speed things up.
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Nothing wrong about soliciting for feedback on HN, but some context like thisnis useful.
I submitted a piece from Physics Today to HN [1] a few days ago. The article describes how the scientific interaction between the US and China helped the Chinese nuclear program.

For the record, I do not think the benefits from such a wide ban is worth the price. IMHO banning Chinese visitors from NASA facilities is a terrible idea. Why make it so wide? I cannot help but think this decision is driven by some desire for "punishment", which is not logical at all.

1: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2518011
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For example, KITP in Beijing has some excellent Chinese astronomers. I am sure they can have collaborations with NASA scientists that would be mutually beneficial.

I realize this is not aerospace, but NASA is not just aerospace.
This current debacle shows that economists and hackers look at bitcoin from completely different perspectives.

The rant was based mostly on issues of economy disregarding the technical side completely. This response to the rant however disregards the economical side of the rant almost entirely. It's sad to see two groups of smart individuals talk completely past each other.
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Yes, the government could do that, but it's not guaranteed they will. My point is merely that regulation does not necessarily mean making something completely illegal.
I don't like how people get defensive around capitalism; "our ideas are not at odds with capitalism", ok, so what if they were? If an idea is at odds with capitalism, that doesn't necessarily make it a bad idea.

For instance, I think the idea of free software (RMS style) really is at odds with capitalism; but so what? This is not a good reason to agree or disagree with the idea.
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