skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is a little silly in that it pretends walled gardens don't already exist. To many people, the web is just Facebook and Yahoo Mail.
http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_18195662

For the meantime, they found the budget to not cut any of the CalTrain service. I don't live in the Bay Area, but come over to San Jose fairly regularly. The CT is brilliant in my opinion for transit from SFO to SJ and saves hiring a car - long live CT!
I definitely agree with nhangen. Also, I would add the process of payment. I believe Amazon Payments isn't the best way to earn payments. PayPal would work better for most people, since a lot of people use PayPal, and this would attract more people to Create their own projects.

But the most crucial thing is the approval process, they are hand approved and take days or a week to get them approved or denied, it's very slow, and very demanding since Kickstarter is getting more users attracted.
Interesting thought about reclaiming the word from where I sit. As a trained chef (baker), the verb "retard" is commonly used for its meaning of slowing something down. This is usually with bread making, especially sourdoughs. Yeast development can be retarded using colder environments to enable better flavor and texture. Honestly, I have a loaf of bread retarding in the refrigerator now, and I'll bake it in the morning.

Since I work often with bakers and baking companies (marketing), the word is used often and I've never once heard someone make a crack involving the word's derogatory usage. Yet, I know the word is not one considered acceptable to use to describe a person or one's actions. But how the word is used in my world obscured its obvious position as something ready to be reclaimed.
So shouldn't TED release the talk so we can all have the opportunity to come to the same conclusion?
So yes, this will screw up web stats. A new JS API won't help with anything server side, and there's going to be a significant lag before every web app in the world is updated. Think about preloading anything that keeps track of read/unread status as well (e-mail, forum threads, etc).
They're releasing the source. From the third paragraph of the second page:

"Other Web browsers could also employ Instant Pages, because Google has released the necessary code for all to use. "We are opening up the code because we want other browsers to implement it—it is good for the users and for the Web," said Singhal."

Even if this weren't the case, as drivebyacct2 said, this doesn't do anything to make us dependent on them, especially when compared to gmail or google docs.
The user experience for OpenID is NOT just as seamless as Facebook Connect, and to claim as such is absurd.
I learned the above by speaking with employees at a private for-profit school, but when I went looking for supporting evidence I found I've been somewhat misinformed. The private school loan default rates are much worse than public schools:

http://www.quickanded.com/2010/09/repayment-rates-vs-cdrs.ht...
...and possibly include a commitment so that you can take credit for it after it's fixed? :)
Does this mean analytics providers are scrambling to implement this API before the Chrome build goes stable?
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Remember, this makes it vitally important that your "delete" links in web apps aren't actually links, but forms. Load up a data grid and boom! All you resources are gone.
Think of it from their point of view. They want to be known for brilliant talks, not crap ones. If it really was an awful talk, it devalues their brand to publish it.
I'd be scared of it automatically downloading inappropriate or even worse illegal stuff from the search results. Try explaining to the boss you did not visit that nsfw site but it merely turned up in your search results.
Seems like this would completely destroy any chance of using web server visit history for legal prosecution, since even visiting a site that links to another site could cause you to appear in the second site's logs. Perhaps this is a good thing.
If, as is hinted, they restrict this to SERPs that carry one canonical result, such as 'facebook login' or -cough- 'html5 spec', it could be a great thing. If after some interval you do the same search and again click the top result, Chrome might even start redirecting you there straight from the omnibox. But if they apply this technique too broadly it's going to be a big drain on server resources and sites would probably start using visibilityState* to lazy load their stuff.

* Thanks for that link, abarth
If I'm reading the design doc correctly it's only going to be triggered by <link rel="prerender"/> so it's not by default going to affect anyone.
So scripts execute too. Hm, that is a bit surprising. Well, I trust Chrome so much that I don't block scripts and I go to any site that pops up as a google search without any hesitation so I suppose I don't mind.
I sure hope that we have enough advances in 4 years to make todays browsers obsolete...
My thoughts as well, but who uses for web server visit history for legal prosecution these days? What is that proof of or evidence used for?
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Is there an html version?
Wouldn't this be a crazy bandwidth hog? If I typed in multiple search terms, and didn't load any of my results, it would have automatically downloaded everything for no reason.
During the 2008 election I saw several filters available - Firefox plugins, special news searches, etc - that would hide links and stories from sites on the other side of the political spectrum. That's as clear cut example of a filter bubble that I can think of.

As I write this, I realize that I live in my own online filter bubble. I visit the same sites on a regular basis and don't venture out much except when following links from sites like HN. It is a filter, but it's self imposed. Instead of wasting a lot of time online, I gravitate toward communities that do the filtering for me. It may be a bubble, but the alternative would lead to wasting even more time online.
Yeah but TED talks are _heavily_ edited from how they appear live on stage. TED puts an insane amount of effort into making the talks appear fluid and this is subconsciously I think partly why TED has been successful (everyone seems inhumanely perfect and articulate). If a TED talk bombs, it can be tricky to edit it into a coherent whole - I can imagine this is doubly hard with a comedian because timing is so important.

Source: I bombed a TED talk at TED 2011 in long beach. But I'm only 22 so hopefully I'll have a chance to do it again right in the future :)
Reminds me of the article from earlier this week "Hacking the system: How to land meetings with anyone you want". [1]

Similar idea but much more polite by not outright saying "I'm going to keep emailing you until you tell me to stop." Keeping a spreadsheet with follow-up dates and number of attempts is a great idea, I'm going to start doing that.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/16/hacking-the-system-how-to-...
For me, the most interesting paragraph was at the very end:

Not many, if any, of the people I know from back then
made it big in tech. The ones that stayed in security
disappeared, working for people I’m too scared to ask
about.

I've heard things like this often enough from people reputable enough that it could be true. What I never hear, though, is how often. If you're really good enough to steal a hundred million credit card numbers from Sony, break into Lawrence Livermore, or build a ten-million-node botnet... what are your chances? And how many people a year pull it off?

[disclaimer: I'm just a curious infosponge, not a cracker. I probably couldn't do stuff like this if I wanted to.]
In theory, why can't some student who wants to work in that professor's lab just request the books that the professor checked out (or are likely to check out)?

Seems like hacking the hack.
A friend of mine recommended this:

http://gadgetfactory.net/logicsniffer/index.php?n=LogicSniff...

It's less "producty" but seems functional
>Or, more specifically, without NCSA Mosaic, which really jumpstarted the WWW.

It also harmed HTML too. For example, originally HTML was not based on SGML. But Dan Connolly decided it should be based on SGML in 1992. Sadly for them, Mosaic was released next year, which was also not fully compliant with SGML.
I currently disable DNS prefetching and "using web services to improve my browsing experience". This is yet another feature that will go on my black list.

First and foremost, I think they are solving a problem nobody has, potentially for "my Chrome is faster than your Firefox" points. I do not mind waiting an extra 300ms for having a modicum of control over what my browser does. I don't know about others, but page loading is not usually something I even notice anymore.

Secondly, fully rendering sites I never visit, including script execution, seems like a seriously bad idea. This turns a mildly annoying while slightly beneficial feature (loading resources in the background) into a monster, especially when combined with abominations like ro.me on autoplay.

Thirdly, I could imagine scenarios in which my Google searches would be leaking this way to sites that have no business seeing my traffic.

I realize that what they are currently talking about is opt-in, but can only hope that in time this feature won't be picked up by the other browsers and become the silent default for everyone.
We have a pretty good idea of what would have happened without the us government developing the Internet: 1) compuserve, genie, aol, prodigy, et al. and 2) SMS messaging.
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> Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism

I don't think he's implying that at all. At the end, Sutton just notes that there were few minorities. He never explicitly makes the connection that the kids were actively discriminated against because of their race.
You probably can't figure out which books he has on his shelf, especially if he realizes this approach and consciously conceals them and suppresses the information.
"On November 26, 2008, officials released 700 pages of documents related to the Anthony investigation, which included evidence of Google searches of the terms "neck breaking," "how to make chloroform," and "death" on Casey Anthony's home computer."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Caylee_Anthony

It doesn't seem too out of left field that investigators would use your browser history as well.
Interesting story, I personally think that their age was the major reason for being left out. Both ideas weren't worse than some of the stuff I've seen out there being lunched and getting funded. At least they picked things that were directly related to their personal interest.

I wish someone had pointed them to AppInventor for Android. I think App Inventor is directly targeted to young people like them. While I was in high school their was an organization that would help kids start a little business like this and get it off the ground. Most successful ideas like selling tshirt. It would be interesting to see it applied to ideas like these kids had.
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These are the people who have unique skills and different. We could not understand them because they are different from us
There are few minorities at pretty much every startup event, if you discount east Asians that is.
The itunes app has only 117 videos? Or are you mentioning some other method? While the http://metated.petarmaric.com/ link mentions a total of 936 downloads
Web owners need to pay for bandwidth of unvisited visitors(strange words LOL) and I am sure there will be lots of them.
I checked out some esoteric books and every now and then would look through the previous due dates and wonder how much in common I may have with some of these locals I'll never know about. It's easy to meet likeminded folks on the web and yet with locals who've checked out physical books, there is that identity disconnect--in some cases for good reasons(I don't want everyone to know about every book I've been checking out).
Agreed, a download is most useful to me. I'd rather play with the data.
This is really bad news for website owners... We'll see increased (sometimes by order of magnitude) number of page views and bandwidth usage, without increase in the number of real visitors.

Same thing happened with DNS when Google enabled DNS pre-fetching in Chrome.
One successful strategy I've seen is establishing a following first (stakoverflow, 37sugnals). It wasn't clear from your post if you are offering anything unique. that would be helpful to understand. One way to start out is to offer to operat a company's careers page. String a few together an you might hav a service.
I have created more than 10 to help a friend on Farmville :)
plus my personal one.
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Hah. I took this class with Guy in like 1995. It was in NeSL which appears to be replaced with much more modern stuff.

FYI, Guy wrote the original parallel FFT for the Thinking Machines Connection Machine, IIRC.
I dunno what's strange about it: "yes but needs improvement at a/b/c" is a pretty common result.

I'd seen the game before but had passed on it. I liked the developer's attitude and openness and so I just bought it.
Go with the best programmer and don't worry about the language. Seriously. First of all, it doesn't really matter. Second, you left off two better choices: python and .net. Finally, if this is the kind of thing you are worrying about, you are not qualified to make the decision.
How did he colorize his git in the terminal? Mine just looks awful in monochrome.
I could care little about privacy concern, but I would rather wait a couple of seconds than waste bandwidth downloading pages that I would most likely never look at. Also from web developer point of view, I would like to see how any given site loads under standard use case anyway.
Strange, I just happened upon this for the first time 3 days ago seemingly at random.
In Google's own words they only preload the top result if they are confident it is what you are looking for. If they pull it off there will be negligible amount of unused preloaded pages.
This looks like a great course. Guy is responsible for some really good work in parallel algorithms and I still find "Prefix Sums and Their Applications" worth going back to despite it being a 21-year-old paper in a fast-changing field.

If you don't know what a prefix sum is, and you want to do anything parallel - whether that's bit parallelism tricks on a "SIMD within a register" tricks in a x86 register, all the way up to programming parallel algorithms on a 64K-thread GPGPU - you should read this paper.

Prefix sum is the smart person's map-reduce (ok, I'm sort of trolling with that one, map-reduce is great).
yes, you might end up like 37signals http://www.betanews.com/article/Google-Web-Accelerator-Draws... or get yourself featured in theDailyWTF http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/The_Spider_of_Doom.aspx
well - to play devil's advocate, it's clever but if a student hoarded books, he'd have the book thrown at him/her and academic standards should apply to all equally.
Hasn't Firefox supported this for years? https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Link_prefetching_FAQ
Emailing the webmaster is a good way to begin. Try security@domain and hope someone checks the catchall inbox. Learn about best practices for responsible disclosure if you want to escalate.
Google is only preloading the top result when it is confident the top result is what you are looking for. If Google does a good enough job then only a small % of preloads will go unviewed.
Have you considered leaving something in books you check out? "Hi! I live nearby and also am interested in X! You should email me at ..."

Not sure how well your library checks things that you return (I know someone at Stanford who got an email from the library because she forgot to remove a couple sticky notes from a book), but it might be worth a try.
The searches themselves, already provided by Google, combined with actually continuing to some of the results, also logged by Google, are already incriminating enough. The only thing you could claim is that ISP traffic logs couldn't and wouldn't make a difference between you and Chrome loading pages, but that didn't even come into play in the case you quote.
My friends love TED Talks and I thought I share the spreadsheet on Facebook. I was surprised that Facebook
considers the link spammy and would not let me.
Joe Hewitt (early firefox) and crew are amazing for making a kick ass open source web browser that was the first to gain significant mind share in the browser battle. However Chrome has been so much better in many ways and evolving so quickly to cover its deficiencies that Firefox seems like old news. If you haven't at least tried Chrome you are behind the curve here.
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Check out how stackexchange handles the experience and then we'll see who's absurd nub.
Chrome also does not allow me to bookmark it in any way.
1 and it's fake. I'm not sure what you'll get out of this poll. Most people will create an account simply because some site requires it and then completely forget about it.
My wife found a piece of bacon in a library book recently, so I'm inclined to think that in general they don't check books often. Just stick a note in there.
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Hey brandoncordell,

you could populate your site from listings from indeed and simplyhired. They have APIs for you to do that, so you don't have to scrape them. Plus you actually earn money when people apply for a job.
Also, you can check out jobboarders.com it's a community of people hosting job boards, you'll find plenty of advice about starting a job board. Good luck :-)
Google wants to DDOS eHow and ExpertExchange?
This is just pure bullshit. While I'm all for drug decriminalization, I'm always stunned by the dumb half-truths its proponents come up with as justification.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myristicin

> It should also be added that when consuming raw nutmeg, only 5-15% of the mass consumed is an essential oil fraction, of which only roughly 4% is myristicin,[9] indicating the amount present overall in the nut is from 0.2-0.6%.

http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/ntp/htdocs/Chem_Background/ExSumPdf...

> Symptoms usually appear three to six hours after ingestion of 1-3 whole nutmegs or 5-15 gm of the grated spice.

Abnormally large quantities of a substance may be poisonous? Surprise! There is no WAY anywhere even close to that amount gets in anything we give to children. It takes my family several years to get through a single nutmeg. Myristicin is also part of anise, dill, carrot, fennel and black pepper.
If you're developing Facebook apps or using Facebook authentication, you pretty much have to have two or more Facebook accounts. The problem is that having more than one account is against Facebook's terms of service, and they don't provide a developer sandbox.
One group wants Facebook to control identity, another OpenID, another Twitter, and another wants the federal government to impose identity requirements.

They all have in common that individuals no longer have control over their own identity. Instead they must cede power over their lives to others who pull the strings.

There is no need for identity providers. The entire concept is totalitarian, offensive and horrific.
Shouldn't the top result inherently represent what Google thinks is what I want? Or is there some secondary "confidence" component to the presumed efficacy of a top result?
That was my impression of BA as well. A city with the potential for so much wealth, and clearly a history of wealth and trade, that has been entirely squandered. It's a fantastic city to visit, but I'd hate to live there.
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I wrote a script to do that for you. [1] (and am having my server download the first fifty listed in the xml file).
I'd like to point out that there's a little bit under a thousand talks, so I highly recommend you only download a few videos at a time. (each video is about 40 mebibytes. [2] Roughly 40 gigs of video.)

[1] http://pastebin.com/RXzTpbGt

[2] Average obtained by downloading 50 videos, and averaging those.

Edit: fixed bug in script.
It seems to be all hype because they're 11 years old. The little girls website is proof of that.
I’ve always found OpenID’s lack of similarity to email adresses immensely stupid. Email adresses is infrastructure that isn’t going away any time soon, and your grandma might have had a chance of actually using OpenID if she didn’t have to type something long and completely unfamiliar that last time I checked necessarily begins with http://.
Shouldn't everyone's answer be 1 since more than that is in violation of FB's TOS :)
This is a great question, and not a hypothetical one. In fact, there are places in the world that have essentially no IP protection. As always, it's hard to say what the "results" are, since these places didn't switch from a IP to non-IP environment, but it can be interesting to compare.

The first example is China[1]. Chinese consumers have been raised in an environment where everything can and will be pirated over and over. "Chinese consumers 'won’t pay a penny' for recorded music," claims the article. Yet, artists are still producing a steady stream of music. The article is, sadly, short on details about how musicians and music distributors actually make money. Perhaps it's via advertisement? In another article that I can't for the life of me find, it seems that the only Chinese musicians that make any money at all have massive star power and can command high ticket prices. So, the Chinese music market has turned in to a publicity machine to sell celebrity and the resulting high ticket prices.

The second example is "Nollywood", or the massive Nigerian film industry[2]. In this case, the film studios have about a week before pirates manage to distribute new films. The only way they can make nmoney is to produce, well, a new film each week. I posit that the films would be of higher quality if there was less piracy.

So, I think it's fair to say that there can be such a thing as too little IP protection.

1: http://www.economist.com/node/17627557

2: http://www.economist.com/node/17723124
I bet many people's first reaction to this story is something along the lines of "Look what we're losing if print dies!" or "This is why print will never die!"

But, think about Kindle's bookmarks. You can see highlights and notes from everyone who has ever read the book. That's insane! That's Lettvin's hack, scaled to the max. The problem is obviously filtering all that data, but look how much larger the pool gets: now the professor doesn't just have the pool from MIT to choose from, he might have the whole world to choose from.

What an awesome time we live in.
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Thanks! I think the complainer will be silenced.
One that I only log into about once a month when I want to look at someone else's page from a search result. I feel a bit guilty about not keeping in contact with my friends more often, but Facebook just looks like such a dreadful time sink.
1 real, 1 fake for testing, 2 kids under 13 = 4