skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If there was not a massive demand for this then the service would not exist. Also, if a lot of people were not doing it then they would not have rolled out software at ISP level to combat such a service.

So I would say yes, a lot of people are using a VPN to bypass the firewall
Ask HN: Is this the first time Google has run ads in Chrome Browser?
Today I started noticing this when I opened up a new Tab in Google Chrome:

http://i.imgur.com/LotyD.png

There is an ad for their Chrome Notebooks. I don't mind the Chrome Notebook, and I certainly don't mind Google placing ads in their services like Gmail, Search and so on.

However I find it a little different when they place ads within the context of application specific pages.

They built the browser, I got it for free. I understand that. However I find this very unnerving, distasteful, and down-right cheap.

Is this common and I've only just noticed it?

(Seeing it on Chrome 5.0.874.120 and 5.0.874.121 on OSX, but not 17.0.945.0 canary and 17.0.946.0 canary)
well for facebook..... Think about how they benefit small businesses.

Now pretty much every small business I know has a facebook page. Most of the one's I'm thinking of didn't have a webpage. Now they can reach their audience with give aways and draws.

More thank half of my wife's wall is company page postings. Before facebook, we'd never heard form these companies after we bought something from them because they lacked the technical sophistication or didn't think it was worth their time. Facebook small business pages have been a real boon to small businesses from my perspective.

As for cell phones, it's true that I don't visit new sites due to having a cell phone, but I do visit sites much more often now that I've got a cell phone with internet.

Now if I"ve got 10 free minutes I can check my espn fantasy hockey stats or read hacker news.
BSD Vs. GPL
removing books 'robs a child of a variety'. I think not.

By definition, it does. The issue seems to be whether or not that variety matters. Trouble is, that leads to a discussion about parenting instead of tech :/
agreed. ooh.. a recommendation engine backed by semantic cloud-based peer to peer infrastructure... for all we know, it could just be aggregating data from twitter and seeing whether the word "good" or bad appeared more often to decide whether to aggregate it.
Thanks. You are correct. At least I didn't use it's wrong. :-)
The new Samsungs are much better than the original devices. Still not perfect, but fully functional.
Additionally, my most persuasive evidence is not my header graphic, it's just an extremely specific example. My most persuasive evidence is that every single aspect of his app is a direct copy of mine.
100x "better" in what sense? Traffic? If so, I suspect suitors would line up.

While Dixon's reputation is a great asset, I wouldn't say it's a multiple-orders-of-magnitude difference.
I, for one, will certainly consider switching to pypy when they have a stable, usable implementation of numpy :)
As you said, F11 is universal for toggling on off, but it's not a good solution when there may be multiple elements on a page which might fight for fullscreen requests. For instance, if I have 4 videos on a page, and F11 is pressed, which video goes full screen? In the context of web browsing, where the user is choosing which elements to launch full screen, the ESC button really should be standardized.
People are following the money and innovating in places where it's possible to build a business with limited capital in a short time. In other words, the consumer internet -- which is exactly where Thiel has made his money, and made investments.

Unlike the average entrepreneur however, Thiel has the ability to change that, by funding more startups like SpaceX and RoboteX, and fewer like Zynga and Spotify.
>So if we can make it through the next 20-25 years, the people in power will protect technology for us, not fear it.

No, they won't. They will be the same corporate sellouts as they are today because we keep thinking like this. That mentality needs to die.

We cannot rely on those in power to "protect technology for us" - or anything else, for that matter. We have to do it ourselves. The situation won't magically fix itself just because we sheepishly wait for two or three decades.

People have to realize that most, if not all authority is naturally opposed to progress. Authority depends on the status quo, and will try everything in its power to preserve that. The internet is probably the largest threat to authority in the history of mankind. The recoil against it therefore was not only predictable, but inevitable.

The internet as it is today is the largest functioning system of anarchy that has ever existed - and on a planetary scale, no less. That's scary to some people, if not utterly terrifying. But it's the way forward. Authority trying to preserve itself by all means possible is nothing new. It's to be expected, and must likewise be resisted with every available countermeasure - atterete dominatum.
Debunking common energy efficiency myths
Reddit in NYTimes - Strangers on the Web Exchanging Presents
I disagree, but I'm not going to dis anybody for being too generous, too trusting, or too fair, and I appreciate your attempt to smooth the waters.
UK says air passengers may not opt out of body scans
Sorry, but how is this barbaric if the person undergoing the 'treatment' wants to undergo it? There are a lot of men who want to be women, I'd imagine there are some homosexuals who wish they were straight (and vice versa).

If we had the capability to alter sexual orientation, and the person wanted to, what's so wrong with that?
How Occupy Wall Street was affected by Internet culture
We don't have a Stanford or an MIT here. There's no feeder for the kind of thinking and culture you need to create a Silicon Valley.

No, but NYC is arguably the (or at least a) world capital for art, theater, and fashion. As technology becomes easier to manipulate without requiring an EE or CS degree (witness the rise of low-barrier tools such as Rails or Arduino) I expect to see more tech start-ups that are driven by artists and designers who use slick, sophisticated, commodity technology.
Android really is the new Windows Mobile. Completely open application model, easily hackable, able to run on a wide variety of devices (and therefore occasionally seen and sold on devices that are sub-par)[1], poor support given by some vendors, forcing those of us who wish for more to resort to the homebrew community for support.

The biggest accomplishment Apple made with the iPhone is forcing carriers and "manufacturers" (Apple) to conform to a standard. Of all the things Android has over the iPhone, I wish the quality control could be included in that. Microsoft has show us that you can have a quality-controlled phone made by several different manufacturers with different features and still allow for a limited amount of freedom in the Marketplace (with their $9 jailbreak app). WP7 is the middle OS between iOS and Android. Now I'd like to see a middle OS between WP7 and Android. I want Android with quality and standards.

[1](http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/reviews/2010/11/worst-gadget-...)
a) they're still endangered.
b) we don't need the oil.
they have to call it a lab to pump up the valuation and attract investors.

Would you rather invest in a single iPhone app, a company that makes iPhone apps, or a lab?
Even without CM7 or Touchwiz, you can still already create shortcuts on your home screens to specific pages in the Android Settings application. When you long press on the home screen, select Shortcut from the Add list, and then Settings, and it will give you a nice long list of every screen in the Settings app to choose from.

My personal favorite is a link to the Battery Use screen, which allows me to quickly see what apps may have drained my battery the most.
Flickr was a bonafide cultural phenomenon before Yahoo let it die on the vine. That doesn't happen with crappy engineering. Less-than-optimal engineering, yes. That's the tradeoff between getting a product out the door and never delivering.

Netscape's code was pretty crappy too.
So if we can make it through the next 20-25 years, the people in power will protect technology for us, not fear it.

Remind me how well this has worked out for the War on Drugs.
Thought it was worth highlighting this quote re the public consultation:

"Feedback from the consultation released on Monday showed there were just 12 refusals out of more than one million scans."

If this "consultation" was the limited trial across the UK including Heathrow Terminal 3, then I was randomly selected on 2 occasions and told that under absolutely no circumstances could I refuse the scan and board my flight. If I refused, I'd be escorted from the airport immediately.
I just called my bank, to double check, and now 6 character passwords, letters and numbers are allowed, a truly massive improvement!

What i dont understand is now all bank cards in Canada have a smartcard embedded, why cant they just hand out $5 card readers and use that for ebanking, every major browser and OS supports this stuff right out of the box.
I simply went to http://www.dafont.com/ and searched until I found a font I liked, thats all that happened here.
-4 is the lowest score a comment can achieve. Downvotes past -4 won't reduce the post's score, but they will keep draining karma from the user. I don't think there's actually a limit on that.
Right? We can still have hope, I suppose.
This violates Google's own Software Principles:
http://www.google.com/about/corporate/company/software_princ...

"""

Upfront disclosure

When an application is installed or enabled, it should inform you of its principal and significant functions. And if the application makes money by showing you advertising, it should clearly and conspicuously explain this. This information should be presented in a way that a typical user will see and understand – not buried in small print that requires you to scroll. For example, if the application is paid for by serving pop-up ads or sending your personal data to a third party, that should be made clear to you.

"""
"I think Thiel is frustrated that innovation in this country has shifted from science and technology to mobile phones and banner ads. "

Mobile phones and banner ads? Try collateralized debt obligations, CDO-squared, and other financial chicanery.
What about the first full face transplant ever? (http://health.yahoo.net/news/s/nm/us_usa_transplant_face)
I think that's an overly reductive assessment to say 'mobile phones and banner ads.' Mobile computers are extremely sophisticated communication tools and platforms—stuff that used to be science fiction—the social, cultural, scientific benefits of which are immeasurable.
The Kinect Effect (Or Why APIs Matter)
Are you sure? I appeared to lose a lot more than 11 per post on this thread - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3248916.
It may be a sign you're not working on the right things. Seriously consider why you don't want to do the work.

It may also be that you're overwhelmed. You can use LazyMeter to focus on one day at a time, and measure your productivity to see if the problem is laziness or signing up for too much. http://www.lazymeter.com
Online Marketing Program: 2.3 Off-Page Optimization Advanced
Also DICE is based there (Battlefield)
Pretty obvious though necessary statement it seems. None of the 'i' products have ever been about technology and Steve Jobs was never a innovator. It's all about design and consumer behavior, starting with iTunes and ending with iTunes.
You're right, that isn't fair to Opera. I honestly just forgot about them when I was writing the postscript. Thanks for the reminder.
Animated CSS3 buttons
Smartphones affordable enough for the third world, and pervasive wireless internet access will almost definitely have a larger impact on the world than space travel ever will.
“Our youth now love luxury. They have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for their elders and love chatter in place of exercise; they no longer rise when elders enter the room; they contradict their parents, chatter before company; gobble up their food and tyrannize their teachers.”
Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft
Well maybe you're right. Since the author openly offered his contact information, maybe the best way to resolve the situation is to discuss the matter with him directly and privately. I wish you both success.
Could someone experienced breakdown what a transaction like this looks like for everyone involved? I'm super curious. I've never been acquired, so I really have no insight into the process other than what I've read.

Here's the facts as I see them: Crunchbase says Hunch started in September of 2007 and had 23 employees on LinkedIn when they exited. (TechCrunch calls it a 20-person team, so I'm presuming that's all the employees.) They've gotten $19.2m in funding, let's just say $20m. TechCrunch claims the sale was "around" $80m.

So what does the breakdown look like? Who gets what? What are the likely investor terms?

My totally naive guess would be that the investors got at least a 1x liquidation preference, maybe more. I mean, did Hunch have any revenue? So there was at most $40m to go around to the people at the company. Of course, most of that probably went to the founders. Would maybe 20% of that have gone to the 20-ish employees? So naively pretending that each of the 20-ish employees got 1% for four years, did they each end up with an extra $100k/year? What's the likely distribution of shares among employees?

What are the transaction costs (lawyers, taxes, etc.) for this sort of acquisition? How long will the employees have to be at eBay to get their earn-out, and will that earn-out be in addition to their common stock in Hunch? Will they end up being paid less to work for eBay during their earn-out than if they were on the open market?

Of course, their are many other reasons to do a deal like this (passion for improving eBay's recommendations, for example), but let's ignore that for now.
The scariest part of the history is that people had no idea they were buying dead whales.

Just like today even in food its optional to have a list of ingredients... So it seems we haven't improved much in this regard.
It also works in Safari 5, surprisingly enough, with ESC to exit fullscreen mode.
On the other hand, think about it. With a SCUBA tank, you are taking many breaths under high pressure. With a single free-dive, you only take one breath. With many free-dives, you take many breaths. Is it surprising that repeated deep free-dives cause DCS?
Unfortunately that Perl code is not a good representative of how one should write Perl in 2011.
I'm part of the academic research community that focuses on mobile. My personal opinion is that both the iPhone and the iPad pushed the barrier of what was thought to be possible.

In the case of the iPhone, it redefined browsing on small form factor devices. Yes ... pinch to zoom was published before. But the specific implementation into the web browser was pretty unique. The state of the art device prior to the iPhone was the Nokia 770 tablet. Compare that to an iPhone.

W.r.t the iPad, when Jobs claimed it would last 8 hours (I think he said you could play movies the entire way on a long distance flight), I didn't believe it. Nor could other researchers I talked to. Apple's custom silicon for media playback didn't factor into people's imagination.
>What are companies like Google doing to ensure that the Internet is not run by Hollywood?

I'm really sorry to break it to you, but Google will not give half a damn about the internet being run by Hollywood as long as they can still mine data and serve ads. "Don't be evil", they say, but that does by no means equal "fight evil". Google isn't some saintly figurehead of internet freedom, they are a corporation like every other, just with better PR.
Commenting in the Deep
If he's getting 1000s of unique visitors per day, then I can understand his desire to cry fowl, if he's getting more like 10 per day, then he has nothing to complain about. There really is no larger issue here, only someone yelling "First!".
How do you know all of this if you haven't tried it? I think you'll find Cilk a lot more polished and refined then you might at first realize. Having language level support for fine-grained parallelism together with a provably efficient scheduler is a huge win.

But you'll have to be more specific with your complaints. What kind of parallel programs are you trying to design? What similar infrastructures have you worked with?
Thanks for that! Haven't come across this book, so will definitely check it out.

Did your mentor have any recommendations on the actual infrastructure setup as well? (e.g., servers, networks, data center locations)
I'm using version 15.0.874.121 on Windows (the "up to date" version as of two minutes ago), it doesn't show anything.

So to add insult to injury, is it possible that this ad is somehow contextual or targeted?
How Sass Can Shape The Future of CSS
That's fine, what prompted my post: Talented developer writes me to join company because he likes the opportunity we are going after, but assumed we were ruby. I share our tech stack, and he passes because he is "only looking for Ruby"... and I have so many counterpoints as to why that is a suboptimal career strategy.
How effective is this tactic?

i don't know how i would feel if someone stand up to speak against some law i sympathize (eg reduction of political benefits) and waste days reading cookbooks just to fuck everything up.
You can do really nasty things to samples with it as well.
brilliant idea, thanks :)
Thanks for this point.

The reason that so many intelligent and driven entrepreneurs are innovating on "less difficult" technologies is precisely because this low-hanging fruit offers a very high impact leverage right now. More people take the plunge because it costs less to start a company. Consequently, more people are working on more niche problems. This is a good thing.

I'd be more concerned with improving the technical abilities of the people entering the entrepreneurial pipeline than about where they are applying themselves. Getting more technical immigrants into the USA would be a decent first step.
Hmm... I might be off by a year or two, but I think it's pretty #%!*^&% amazing that you can have a powerful computer that is a link to the world in your pocket. That was the deepest science fiction 20-30 years ago. Maybe it's due to cheap flash memory, or maybe flash memory itself. No matter, it's pretty amazing.

Yeah, it would be quite nice to have alternative energy sources that were inexpensive. It would also nice to have cures for all "popular" diseases. But, compared to mucking with computers, those things cost serious money and require serious hardware. Oh, and can't be solved by "release early and release often".
The WP7 API surface area is very much locked down. For example, in v1 we did not provide any access to the address book (other than a chooser). There is no way to do cross app IPC. There was no background processing. No sockets. Etc...

As I went around the world "selling" the WP7 story to developers I got very good at saying "I'm sorry, but in this version of the platform the app you want to build is not possible."

I found that once this sunk in, developers were actually really glad we were so clear and unambiguous. They weren't necessarily happy, but it felt good (to me) knowing we'd been principled and consistent.

I personally believe this is the only way to build a modern client platform. Start with very tight controls and open it up only when

* There is a well understood use case.
* You have the time/resources to do it right.

I do not mean to be overly pejorative about what Google has done with Android (because, in the large it's truly awesome), but I firmly believe that when it comes to building platforms once the cat is out of the bag it can't be stuffed back in. I'm specifically referring to BOTH the tightness of the sandbox and fragmentation BTW.
But reading names of the commons that also oppose it, i would have no problem
I'm confused by at least the tone of your question, because this is exactly what companies like Google are doing to ensure that the Internet is not run by Hollywood. They testified against SOPA in Congress, and Matt Cutts' article includes a bar graph showing how much they spent lobbying.
a firewall can handle both those things without NAT
If you're big into the direction of CSS and want to hear more about how Sass is influencing the spec for CSS3 as well as CSS4, you should check this article out as well as the comments coming in.
So that nobody wastes their time. The wikipedia link is to a submarine that made the deepest dive with humans aboard.

I think most people understood "the deepest dive" to mean unaided / freedive.
> Greening said the development of new scanner software meant images captured by scanning machines would not be copied, saved, transmitted or viewed by human operators in the future.

So, this is what's puzzling me. How does this work? Does the magic scanner black box just give a thumbs up or down? If it gives me a thumbs down, what happens next? Am I searched? Disallowed from boarding? Placed on a list?
Another reason why I think you'd have 3 plans is so people can compare.

If you offer 3 products, 2 that are similar and 1 that is different, most people will discard the dissimilar item and compare the remaining 2, making a decision based on those two.

Example: Buying a blender. You need a blender to make awesome drinks at your next party. You don't know anything about blenders, so how to choose?
1) 5 speed blender, $35
2) 7 speed blender, $45
3) 7 speed stainless steel blender, $95

If you're price sensitive, you would probably discard the $95 blender as it's too expensive. Then you're comparing 5 speeds for $35 vs $45 for 7 speeds. Maybe there's some other small distinctions, like the finish on the $45 blender which would make it seem better. You go with the $45 blender because it's the obvious better of the two, and you know nothing of blenders. A store may have some incentive to prioritize the selling of #2, since it makes them more profit, which is why they've shown you these 3 particular blenders.

However, there's a segment of customers who will buy the most expensive item because it somehow fits for them. In this case, it might be the stainless steel which matches their other appliances. They put a premium on that feature and are willing to pay for it, and you can use Patrick's "consumer surplus" rule for that.
Omitting support for something that's technically possible is a dumb approach to fighting this (actually it's exactly equivalent to ignoring the problem). Instead the focus should be on making it less economical for protocol developers to violate layering and embed layer 3 addresses at layer 5, which is the reason "every protocol" needs special casing in the first place.

Accomplishing that could happen in various ways, e.g. promoting SCTP (which allows establishing new channels over the same initial connection), or introduction of an abstract naming service that would preserve layering (I'd be very surprised if something like this didn't already exist).
As a non American, this confuses me. If I've understood it correctly, a filibuster is a way to suspend the normal democratic process when you don't like the way a vote is likely to turn out. I just can't find a way to think of that as a good thing. Am I missing something? Why do people like filibusters?
Ever? That's an incredibly strong statement. Ever is a very long time. Do you think smartphones will be more important than space travel in 300 years? What will the word "smartphone" mean then?
How many iconic, break-out products are ever "technological breakthroughs"? Behind virtually every iconic product is a string of lesser known antecedents with the same fundamentals but imperfect packaging, pricing, or timing.

Reminds me of one of the themes in the book "Blue Ocean Strategy": the importance of value innovation, where the stress is on both low cost and differentiation.