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The solution is to log out. For those of you who like being signed into Gmail put "accounts.youtube.com" in your adblock filters. That will prevent Google from automatically signing you in to Youtube and other services.
Lamar Smith Likely Plans to Use Scare Tactics to Force Through His Legislation
awesome! Ruby for the Web... Like anything new huh?

Fix your site first!
You Call That Evil?
Could you elaborate why the law precludes it?
> Nothing happens on an Apple device without Cupertino’s knowledge, and as a result Apple can perfectly tailor its devices for it users (and ratchet up record-breaking quarterly earnings in the process).

Are Apple's devices "perfectly tailored for it[s] users"? I don't see any of that tailoring when I use them.

The reason why Apple ratchets up record-breaking earnings is that they build things people want; they build incredibly good devices.

Google is playing with fire; the thing it has that people want is not G+ or Reader or even Gmail: it is search. If they break search, they will die.
Introduction to High Performance Computing
This meme of "The Internet People are Organized and Powerful" is nuts and wrong.

There would have been just as much hubbub had Wikipedia decided to run a national television advert during Modern Family asking people to call Congress.

This was a lot of things, and it was certainly successful. But it wasn't because people are well organized or that there was some serious campaign management going on. There wasn't. And truth be told, efforts like this have almost a half-life to them.

Think about Howard Dean's incredible run in 2004. Where are those activists now? Or Obama's 2008 list? Where is that now?

People are fickle on the Internet and they get tired of causes quickly. And there's no "universal consensus" amongst "people on the Internet"

Long story short, should Google try and somehow protest its own interests on Privacy, I suspect that you wouldn't see nearly as much universal consensus around that as you did around SOPA. It's hard to write legislation that lopsided or dumb, and even harder to generate the kind of public panic behind it more than once.
I think the whole idea of a search engine is to give you relevant results. Google already does this and you can view your current ad profile here http://www.google.com/settings/ads/ I think it makes sense to combine all of their products, though taking input from my e-mails seems a bit shady.
It doesn't suck to be Apple right now
Thanks for your hard work. Not everyone knows how to mess with gdb and ruby C api, and even when you do, it's a bit unpleasant.

As far as active dev work goes, IMO this is the kind of software which should implement the bare minimum correctly, and then shouldn't be touched again unless something breaks it(1.9.3 or any other subsequent api changes).
When a conservative starts talking about how taxes should be lower, hang on to your credit card. Cause he's not going to cut spending, he's just going to run up debt.
Nothing spikes pageviews like Google bashing.
I would love to see some statistics on the % of people who use Rosetta Stone, etc. and actually achieve their goal. It's hard.

The general population loves the idea of speaking another language. That's why they buy the tapes. But in reality is so incredibly hard.

But Rosetta Stone will happily sell you on the idea that "You too can start speaking French in 2 months because our methods make it super easy!" All they have to do is sell you on the dream to bank their cash.

In reality, it doesn't work because it's hard. And people, in general, don't do hard things.
You're missing the point--when the switchover occurs the ads accompanying regular google search will pull upon a profile which includes your GMail/Google Docs accounts as well.
Lobby The U.S. Government, With Crowdfunding Site We The Lobby
EMC hikes drive prices, blames Thai flood tragedy
Assuming this article's suppositions are correct (that Google must become more social to continue growing), Google is showing a lot of cojones. Most businesses won't cannibalize their core cash-cow, even when they know the future is limited (see Kodak with digital cameras and every hard disk manufacturer :). There is no question it is a gamble; but if the other option is an eventual sunset (and I wouldn't be surprised if Larry thought of it that way), it is better to make the bet while you are on top than when you are scratching for survival.
Some excellent points. The solution seems all too easy to be real.
Collecting money to transmit to a third party is money transmission and requires a license in 46 states + Washington, D.C.

http://www.plainsite.org/issues/index.html?id=1
Are you minding your ABCs? Always Build Content to share your story
Why the onPaste event is a mess
Apparently when Apple has a unified ecosystem, the purpose is to "perfectly tailor its devices to its users" but if Google does it, it's "maniacal" and "tyrannical"?

The state of tech blogging is so, so poor.
Currently they are doing nothing. So I stand corrected. Faster than 0mph.
And of course, the kicker: Google’s ad networks — AdSense, AdWords, DoubleClick — will have full access to all of your search and surf habits from every Google web service.

They already did. Hell, we've had this discussion eight years ago [1] when they announced Gmail, which mines your email for demographic data to show you ads. Nothing has meaningfully changed in that respect.

[1]: https://www.privacyrights.org/ar/GmailLetter.htm
"and i don't get your backpedalling. your comment starts with "it's called marketing" and then you're piling on."

I'm not "backpeddling." I'm clarifying in response to your misreading of my post. You and I are actually in total agreement as regards the quality, and emphasis on quality, of Apple's products. It just so happens that I didn't bring up product quality in my original post, because it wasn't the point I was responding to in the grandparent comment.

"no consumer "bonds" with a company because of marketing. that's pure drivel. consumers bond with value. if they feel they are treated nice, that they get value for their money."

Here I disagree. I think you're creating a false dichotomy between value and messaging. If "value" is all that matters to a consumer, then a lot of companies would be more successful than they are today.

Apple, for instance, has been making great products for more than 30 years. But it hasn't been wildly successful for all of those 30 years. If you're telling me that Apple's marketing turnaround circa the late 90s had nothing to do with its success, you're way off the mark. Product has always played a huge role in Apple's success, but so has its marketing. Steve Jobs himself has said as much in countless interviews, in his biography, and elsewhere. Apple's product design and Apple's marketing have been crucial to Apple's success, but to subtract marketing from that equation is silly. (Full disclosure: I am a former Apple employee who worked in both product and in marketing).

Finally, I don't understand the need for your hostility here. I'm a "nerd," I'm "nerdy," it's "people like me" who make the world a terrible place, etc., etc., etc. Can we lay off the personal attacks and converse like civil adults? If you took the time to read what I'm saying more carefully, you'd see that you and I are in a lot more agreement than disagreement.

Let's have fun with these discussions. I suspect we're all fairly nerdy, to be honest. I know I am. I probably wouldn't be coming to a site called "Hacker News" if I weren't!
I can agree with you that in the overall scheme of things tech may be more important than sports. But I disagree when you say that it accomplishes nothing useful or productive.

As you said yourself it provides entertainment. Different forms of entertainment can inspire you while you work. Or entertainment can help you relax by taking your mind off of work. This is what sports do for some people. Others instead might watch a movie or listen to music. Inspiration, motivation and relaxation are very useful in the workflow process.
"The human body, consisting of about 100 trillion cells, carries about ten times as many microorganisms in the intestines."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut_flora

Since evolution shaped us this way I suggest these bacteria are important. I'm not surprised that there are negative side effects if antibiotics happen to kill some of the species.
This looks very interesting. I've always been disappointed that Canvas totally eclipsed SVG in browsers- SVG elements are in the DOM, so it makes things like click actions a lot easier. It looks like processing.js goes some way to help with the pain of using Canvas.
Money and free Cheetos are great, but they come last

I disagree with this conventional wisdom and think it stems from wishful thinking on the part of hiring companies. With all things equal money becomes a secondary concern, but few developer are going to take significantly less for a position. Conversely if a company where to place an ad stating that they are paying 120% of the best market rate available, they would have quality developers lined up around the block. If money where the last concern then every developer would be working on their own problems, because they would find them far more interesting than what most companies have to offer. When I see this kind of advice, I cannot help but suspect the rest of the advice. More honest advice would be don't be cheap more than any other hire (with maybe the exception of sales) a good developer can earn his keep 10 fold, as such expect to compensate them well.

The other issue I see is there is no mention of finding remote developers. For the last few years I have assembled several all remote teams with members in Louisiana, Florida, NY, the valley, Australia and so on. With all the SaaS and Skype there is little need for a development team to be collocated. Finding talent is much easier when you are drawing on a global pool of talent. When we hire, we never hire based on compensation and always hire based on the best talent we can find wherever they are, unless their rate is astronomical we pay above market rate if they request it.
It may not be my soulmate, but some companies do change the world (or at least try), and others don't.

Have you ever seen a 4-year old try an iPad? Such experience was just not thinkable 10 years ago.

A company had to try to build it and make it happen. A lot more companies didn't bother and just produced more gray boxes (think Dell). Therefore I am entitled to feel a stronger sense of satisfaction with Apple than with Dell.

(*) to their credit, Dell did play a significant part in bringing computing to the masses
Story of A Guy Who Quit His Job To Play Online Poker
Metadata Crisis at Netflix
We've added a NSFW filter (based on whether a reddit post title has the word NSFW in it). Should cut down a lot of those.
A company with almost $100 billion in the bank should not be crushing small publishers by demanding 30%

Why shouldn't they? Publishers aren't printing books. Apple does the distribution (electronically) and the payments. This leaves publishers to add what value? Marketing? Editing?

or suing all other phone manufacturers for some stupid UI element.

Stupid to you but it's the little details that make a good design a great one. Apple had their UX employees designing the buttons, getting the scroll velocity right, giving the right amount of bounce to a page change. Those engineers got compensated for their work, now Apple wants to be compensated for its work.
"The bottom line is this: Not every talented programmer in the world is from a city with “Silicon” in its nickname. But many of those programmers would love to live in one."

This makes tons of sense. Apart from Forrst and GitHub (and Dribble), good old fashioned 1st or 2nd degree connections can be gold in non-coastal centers for tech and design talent. My co-founder is located in Pittsburgh and has begun to see lots of interest from other founders who want to key into the scene there (CMU, etc) and he is very happy to help, because well, it's cool to help startups, but also it's a forcing function for him to engage with top talent in his own backyard.

I'm willing to bet if most of us went into our contacts we would find a "hub" like my co-founder in cities like Pittsburgh, Austin, places in upstate NY, etc, who would be keen to help out.

PS: Do people find the job board at Dribbble useful?
(320. * 256)/(1024 * 768) = 0.104 = 10.4%
Why I No Longer Read Physical Books
Firstly, once lobbying efforts begin we do intend to post video updates as often as possible.

We don't feel that lobbying is inherently evil - it is just unbalanced and mis-guided. We wish to cast an example of how lobbying can be positive, as well as provide an argument for it's need to be regulated and more closely watched.

The general constituency of a democracy should not have to pool money just to be heard by it's government, but the current lack of regulations over gov't lobbying have forced the hand of the people.
Data from Google's enterprise products are not included in your ad profile. I can't imagine they will change that, or they will see a mass exodus from their platform. Just because something shows up in your (March 1st) search results doesn't mean it was used in generating the ad next to it.
I love Github but if they sell to Google, it will be goodbye.
Warn people about not safe for work items that you are posting on here
Businesses in cities with stadiums will be devastated to learn the soaring revenues on game day are imaginary. Athens (the one here in GA) will collapse once the illusion is uncovered. We also have the start of a thriving production industry, so they'll be hurt too. And I was looking forward to the next season of The Walking Dead...
Just because you've logged out of a site doesn't necessarily mean the cookies have been deleted. Google can still track you just as effectively until you've cleared your cookies. In fact, if they store IP address and useragent information, they could continue tracking you even afterwards.

Now, I don't know that they do that, but they certainly have the technical means to do so.
It's also including Google+ pages in suggested search, and seems to prioritize those pages in organic search too.

I don't have an opinion of if it's evil, but I think it is more than just the sidebar.
How do you explain some of the highest income disparity in the last century with the lowest crime rates, well, pretty much ever?
It just occurred to me a main reason they chose "Don't be evil" as their slogan. The foundation of the company is a slippery slope that will forever motivate it to get more personal information and to do more with it -- generally meaning profiting from that personal information in ways people don't know about. Also, they will forever be asked or demanded that information from governments and other companies who want to do the same.

Many (most?) professions would never need to remind themselves not to "be evil." Restaurants don't have to say "Don't be evil." Yes, they have the motivation to skimp on quality or ingredients, but nothing like Google's temptation. The company's foundation is so laden with temptation to "be evil" it had to try to build defences to it in its core.

The problem with that situation is that the motivation never goes away, but the effort to resist it can fade.
"Well spent"?

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/4436
When Microsoft was dominant, it was eviscerated for the "embrace, extend, extinguish" approach to protecting its monopoly.

Apple shows every indication of being a much worse monopolist than Microsoft ever was. Apple seeks to control the whole stack and eliminate competition at every layer - from controlling the apps that can be installed, to restricting expansion and peripherals, to controlling the tools used to develop for the platform. They are also quite adept at "capturing the consumer surplus" using tiered pricing, etc., to maximize their profit.

The overreaching terms in developer agreements, very aggressive (and overreaching) patent lawsuits, and restrictive shrink-wrap licensing are all efforts to protect and extend their control.

TL;DR: Apple is not your friend.
To a point, but PACs are focused on a candidate or a specific cause. We The Lobby allows for multiple causes, and will not be defined as an organization by any one cause.
The fact that you've identified an additional social problem doesn't mean that the original social problem that I declared exists, doesn't exist.

The only thing I addressed was the claim that massive salary disparity isn't a problem. It is a social problem.
> The difference is the rather important fact that sports teams, unlike most technology companies, accomplish absolutely nothing useful or productive other than to provide entertainment.

I am not a sports guy or fan by any means but that is a very harsh judgment. Look at all the industries directly and indirectly connected to those sports teams, players and events and add to that all the news stations and news papers etc. and they all provide jobs and eventually pro-sports might even contribute to new medical treatments and therapies. And in the worst case, huge sports events like the superbowl or olympics usually bring tourism and infrastructure projects to wherever they are being held.

On top of that, "watching the game", especially in the stadium, actually does serve social and therapeutic means and needs - do not underestimate how much of an outlet it can be for some people.

By and large, any sort of entertainment is big, big, big business and in our IT world, what is facebook but entertainment? And most technology companies nowadays are mostly providing means to get access to some sort of entertainment.

On the same account, you could question art, music and fiction literature.

So, do not look down on "entertainment" because as they say, "all work and no play...."
The fact that companies (some of which you're probably a happy customer of) spend millions of dollars on sports advertising and sponsorships is evidence that they find value in them
New EU Legal Privacy Framework: We're Not Kidding
DuckDuckGo was really ahead of the curve with the privacy angle eh?

Now if they just had their own crawlers - I keep saying they need to merge with Gigablast (Matt Wells) which was the most promising startup a decade ago and looked like the old google pre-adsense, but never took off (built his own crawlers way before "the cloud" existed).
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It's quite straightforward to dump the entire header in a web log or database, and I'm sure some sites do.

They might have put the envelope in the recycling, but they never have it emptied and someone just told them it contains a £20 note.
I believe that the solutions will be found in a change in our value system. Things that we really appreciate, things that are uniquely human, will be valued more. See thisismadebyhand.com
Obviously solving big problems and being "not average" will be important, but I believe that many people will be able to find niches doing things that add value to life in ways that a machine can't.
This is where the interpretation of the statement comes into play. It's certainly commonplace throughout the wireless carrier industry to send the mobile number to "trusted sites" within the carrier network (such as a ringtone/download portal), or over a pre-arranged VPN tunnel.

And when I say "commonplace", I'm referring to multiple carriers around the world, including North America.

However, the level of trust that a site qualifies for may necessitate a more nuanced or out-of-band approach similar to what you've experienced, where a 3rd party partner may receive the scrambled identifier and request the mobile number mapping for billing purposes.

There are lots of ways to skin a cat. My only point here is that there are multiple carriers around the world that routinely use this method of sending the mobile number in plaintext to sites they trust, typically over communication channels that they trust (i.e. over network gear they either own or have secured). I've seen this from both sides (working at and with carriers).

But there are a heck of a lot more 3rd party partner sites that do not usually receive full mobile numbers in the clear, so from that perspective, there is a point to be said about this not being "industry practice". Semantics.
I'm not convinced that that's the source of identification people feel with Apple. There are certainly other organizations that make a bigger and more overt "difference" than Apple, no?
The similarity is that a sports fan buys a t-shirt and vicariously "wins" with "his" team / an $company fan buys a $product and vicariously "wins" with "his" $company.

There are lots of examples of $company:$product pairings, e.g. Apple/iDevice, Google/Android, Microsoft/Windows.

Also, before you cast the "provide entertainment" stone, you should look around you at how people are using tech company products. I would venture to guess that, outside of the workplace (and inside the workplace when workers can get away with it), entertainment is the #1 use of computer-based devices. Apps in the App Store, game consoles, computer games, YouTube, emailing LoLcats, browser-based games (Farmville - 100% wasted time) etc.
So, this was all true before the privacy policy change. Google isn't asking for new rights, they just condensed 70 documents into one.
I checked it with http://dns.comcast.net/dig-tool.php and it looks like every Comcast DNS server gives a valid response. Is there another caching DNS server between you and 75.75.75.75?
$85-100k seems to be about entry level for software engineers with a BS in CS from a good school at established companies in this area. My impression is that the Google/Facebook talent war has significantly increased this over the past few years.
Show HN: UI Design made easy with UI Blueprints
I think that would remain a restaurant luxury, mostly like it is now. Lower rank locals will be forced to make cuts in personnel.
Cinnamon Gnome-Shell Fork Releases Version 1.2
In the future, people will need more than a degree. They will need a few. That's what our children will have to deal with. There's nothing ridiculous about this. More and more and people are getting access to education.
We've been looking at the best ways to deal with finances, and we are thinking of adopting Kickstarter's model. This way we wouldn't hold the money itself - we would direct all transactions to the bank account of the partnered lobbying / advocacy firm of a cause.
corporate bullshit.
Great points. I totally agree that there's value in opening the black box. I hope that I got across the point that I actually would love to see more people touch programming, even if they aren't going to become professional programmers.

The thing I'm objecting to is the false hope--that not everyone has, by the way--that we can dramatically increase the # of actual professional programmers by making things easier.
Surly this is hugely open to abuse. I could curl requests at a O2 partners site to purchase a ringtone and pass along any O2 number I like, setting the aforementioned headers. Unless the partner site does some sort of extra verification (I have seen no mention of this anywhere), then the O2 number I use will run up a massive bill... Have I missed something?
320x256 is 10% of 1024x768 in terms of raw pixels, not considering bit depth. But bit depth and raw pixels shouldn't matter here, the GPU takes care of mucking about with those and the GPU in the iPad is amazingly fast for its power consumption.

I think the point is that the iPad is sluggish and it shouldn't be. 30 years ago people knew how to make something fast reacting with way less hardware behind it, somehow we've lost that and added complexity that doesn't really seem visible to the user.
Biographer Michael Scammell discusses his craft
Article requires a little bit sensationalism.

Would people bite if they knew that Bansi had a master degree, amazing internships, smart, and has made incredible accomplishments?

Translation: she's probably top 1%. Not the norm/average.