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Your arguments are reasonable, and I'm all for more relevant search results, but I would like to add a few points:

Hacked/stolen: anything I wouldn't want in the hands of criminals goes through ssl. If they've broken that, Google tracking me is the least of my worries.

It's most likely that the information would be hacked or stolen at the point it's aggregated and stored by Google or its designated service provider, not out of the actual data stream. Intrusions have happened at Google in the past, either through Chinese hackers or rogue employees.

Sold: I'm comfortable with advertisers being able to target me. If they've narrowed down their target market by videos viewed on motherless, I'd be damned curious to see the ads.

Advertisers are far from the only ones who might buy your data. Health insurance companies, credit reporting agencies, employers, and private investigators are a few I can think of on the spot. Your search and browsing history would be very valuable to all of them. Did you search for symptoms of a disease before applying for health insurance? Rejected! Do you tend to play online games that turn real money into in-game items? Increased credit risk! Did you do an image search for seedy Japanese artwork ten years ago? You can bet that'll come up in the custody hearing.

Subpoenaed/NSL'd: were I to engage in any activities that would give me trouble in the event of LE attention, I'd be doing it through TOR from a coffeeshop, on a throwaway netbook running Truecrypt with the juicy stuff in a hidden volume. That's not to suggest that only criminals need fear the security/justice apparatus, but if I were doing anything that could draw unwanted attention I'd take precautions.

There's still the remote possibility of things that are currently legal being made illegal later on, and past search and ad behavior being used to target investigations of said once-legal activity. Target already knows you're pregnant before your family does. Who knows what kind of possibly precrime-predictive patterns will be found by present and future datamining algorithms that span multiple humanity-wide datasets?
That's like saying that the 'T' letter key on the keyboard behaves unpredictably and should be removed just because any program could map it to any other character or action.
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Facebook now requires your phone number in order to register. Have a way to use fake phone too?
I'm most confused about Google's decision to remove the links from the logos. This is a convention engrained in the interwebs and I can't come up with a single reason why they would change it. Sure maybe inexperienced users wouldn't know the functionality exists, but when has that ever been a reason to remove a feature?

I think there was a HN discussion about this recently, but I missed it. Anybody know why they made this decision?
Euro testing cycles are more generous, MPG figures are quoted in Imperial gallons

I have never seen a MPG notation anywhere in Europe (possibly in the UK, but certainly nowhere else).

Car efficiency is quoted by liters / 100 km just about everywhere around here.

Or am I missing something?
In those cases you don't have a big display or a dock either; you just use your phone and that's fine. What I'm questioning is the value of a dock+display to access your phone versus a "cloud" device that can be accessed from anywhere (including your phone).
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I don't want to be put in a glasshouse where google introduce bias on its own agenda on search results. The claim that it is for my best is also a claim made by all the spammers. Google is also subordinate to US interests and this is another problem for people like me who live out of the US.

Without saying so, google is building its own great wall of china, but worse, around each individual using google search. I'm using DuckDuckGo for now.

I understand that SEO are corrupting search result pertinence and google is trying to do something about it. But there is no guarantee that it's new strategy will make things better.
> First up is the 'new tab' chicklet in the Chrome tab bar. Somewhere around Chrome 16 the '+' disappeared from it, leaving a little ghost of a button that, to my mind, wouldn't be recognized for what it was by a user who hadn't already formed their mental model on earlier versions of Chrome.

I'd noticed this and it was very irritating! I assumed it was a bug and for whatever reason the image was missing, not that they had intentionally removed it. That's nonsensical to me, without the + being there it indicates... nothing. His point is exactly right.
I left my MacBook on but the lid closed and went on a weeks holiday (not sure how much charge the battery had) when I come back it was dead and now will not take a charge.

As its £90 for a new one, I just leave it plugged into the wall now.

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Your setup sounds like something I could want for myself. I have a truecrypt "virtual disk" that I would like to unmount on suspend and mount on resume. Can you elaborate on the details of your encryption setup?
This is my own personal assumption, but I think it is to push focus towards the navigation bar and encourage users to look around. If you instinctively click the logo and nothing happens you start looking around and will discover the other things listed (such as the google+ button).
> The missing + on Chrome made me think I had a screwy update.

I thought the same. Now that I know it was intentional, it actually kind of bothers me. Seems like something is missing. Fortunately, shortcuts mean I almost never have to look up there :)
An amusing way to spy on your friends is to create a google account, and then log into it from their computer. Until they log out of your account, you will be able to view their web history.

Aside from this, I have avoided this Google feature.
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This is a great hardware startup. Sell rack boxes that can be installed by an electrician next to the power in/telephone in and get rid of those under featured consumer routers.

Hmmmmmm.... I'll sell you one for £500 a year, replaced regularly and managed?
Looks cool, but the link to the API reference is missing. I'd like to see some code examples and how you write non-java workflows.
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Can you elaborate? I was wondering the same thing as yogsototh.
I didn't see it linked from the blog post, so here's the official SWF page: http://aws.amazon.com/swf/
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Some features are not sexy, nor cool.
When somebody's life is horribly dismembered as a result of Google's insane privacy policy (new or old), please let me know. I'll start thinking about privacy and necessary safety measures at that point.

Until then, please stop whining about privacy, because frankly, I just don't see how any of this really matters. My life has yet to be negatively impacted by Google and I don't foresee it happening in the near future.
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I (symmetrically) encrypt my private key and store it in all sorts of places. (I'd rather not lose it)

Off Topic: I was so distracted by the apostrophe in "Do's" I spent 5 minutes researching it. Conclusion: I think it's ok.
Why? Are you against male happiness?
>However, controlling the release of pre-alpha software that doesn't work very well on existing hardware seems like a very good idea to me.

I disagree. Releasing as early and as often as possible, not matter the state of the project, is a fundamental basic of open source development.

I somewhat trust Canonical to uphold the ideals of Free Software, even though I am severely disappointed in their products lately (the only thing they've done/announced recently that I thought is a really good idea was the HUD). I don't hold this against them for this reason, but I don't think it's a very good decision, either.
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and to the other commenters point, we allow you to write custom server side code as well - accessible via a REST API that you can extend with your code
Thanks for the tip! Just bought a domain using almost your email verbatim for 10% of what I was willing to pay :)
> The way to the future is to convince people that new technology is better for them. If the message instead is "you need to give up things you like for the greater good," people will oppose you at every move, and rightly so;

While I agree in principle, ...

> do you really want to live in a world where computer screens are just barely bright enough to see, where buildings are sweltering on hot days, freezing on cold days, showers are cold, and the speed limit is never higher than 55mph?

Alternative is unfortunately having no computers, no air conditioning and no cars at all. Current energy consumption is too high to sustain even if we go all electric and switch to nuclear + renewables[1]. We need to think about energy efficiency at least a little bit more than we do now.

[1] - this book works out all the numbers: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/withouthotair/
> "The fact that men send the vast majority of the messages is the inevitable result of a positive feedback loop stemming from men being slightly more aggressive in the dating arena."

I think it's more complex than this.

It's a convergence of many problems really. The first, and greatest problem with online dating is:

1 - Words are a really fucking shitty communications medium. Few people are good writers, and even fewer people are good writers when limited to the span of a few paragraphs. Body language and personality are far more self-expressive, but we have no good ways to pushing this information across the internet. Because of this, there is a tremendous reduction in range of communication. All the profiles start to read the same, because we've essentially topped out how expressively a regular person can get with 3 paragraphs to describe themselves.

In other words, when you've crunched down people's self-expression to really short paragraphs and a bunch of multiple choice answers, personality disappears. And its place, the only sane metric one profile from another is physical attractiveness. Which leads to the next big problem...

2 - There are no salient indicators of competition online, quite unlike the real world. How many of us here go after statuesque model-types, exclusively? Bueller? But we do it online, because without the ability to appreciate someone's personality, looks are the only measuring stick you've got left. In the real world this is balanced out the fact that competition is extremely visible, especially in an environment like a club or a bar.

You see a girl being hit on by an endless stream of guys. Do you line up and join the fray? Or maybe you find something else?

Online these signals do not exist, which means all men will simply line up to hit on the hottest subset of the population without knowing just how long this sausagefest-line is, and the complement of this is that anyone who isn't in, say, the upper quartile of physical attractiveness, will get crickets (or the spamalot shotgunner-types).

tl;dr, the problem is twofold: poor communication medium means that personality and unique traits are impossible to express well over the dating network, leading to physical attractiveness becoming the only major factor in almost all decisions, and everyone (guys and girls) become way pickier than they would be IRL. Lack of visible competition drives traffic to only most attractive portion of population, where in real life visible competition will drive a considerable amount of "traffic" back towards average lookers.
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh! Use multiple public keys. For each accessing device generate a separate private key and upload your new public keys. I don't know anywhere you can't have multiple public keys.

PS Do's should be Dos, but it's quite hard to read.
Purely speculation, but it seems like the only reason they'd do this is to free up the space for a future use case? While it will probably annoy/stump a few people for a second or two, ultimately people will just learn not to click on the logo.

At that point, the Google logo could become... err... well they tried to turn it into an all-google-properties dropdown previously, so who knows, maybe they'll try again later?
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Talents need a Facebook account to identify on VoiceBunny -- and there are no other options.

How many blog posts explaining why this is wrong do we need before this crazyness stops?
A voice of reason. This article was terrible.
exactly, and that's why i will use neither
Maybe because pushing 1080p @ 60fps, while running a dual Android/Ubuntu stack while connected to a 3G or WiFi network might be a burden on the battery.
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For HN readers who have launched (or are about to launch) web apps: how did you get the first set of users to start using the service?

Not everyone manages to get into techcrunch or win one of those startup competitions, which is often the way to 'seed' your first 1k users...

Would you pay, on a success basis, for a service to deliver you your application's first x users? Say, $1 per new registered user? If not, why not?
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Straight from the dump scripts:

--complete-insert --hex-blob --skip-add-drop-table --single-transaction --order-by-primary --skip-dump-date
--force # so mysqldump does not bail out on invalid view
--no-create-info # do not emit CREATE TABLE, because its AUTO_INCREMENT changes often, and would create unnecessary differences

where the `order-by-primary' is probably the most important, and `skip-dump-date' sure helps.

Also, I make a big deal out of spreading every large table into a set of smaller dumps, each with fixed number of rows, sorted by record ID. For various reasons, most of our tables are usually appended-to, and changes (UPDATE, DELETE) are less common. Thanks to this, changes are usually confined to the last file of a set (with newes records), and other files stay mostly unchanged -- and so they pack the best.

--where="_rowid >= $FROM AND < $TO"

I try to keep individual files down to about 8...16MB, 32MB max, so git's repack (upon pull/push/automatic gc) doesn't take too much of time nor RAM.
Sorry, my bad. I'm French and mixed-up spellings (ingenieurs in French). I can't edit the comment. It is good to point it out so that people don't make the same mistake.
The MGS series is a good example of a game series that scales difficulty well; the enemies are stronger AND work together better as a team, will hunt you better, etc.
Automotive PR departments have been engineering around culture for decades - why do you think you associate "luxury" with Bentley and especially Lexus?
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To be fair, I haven't seen a load of claims about how this is "insane" or "horrible" within the context of this article. It just provides a useful instruction as to how those that wish to opt-out, may do so.

It's fine that you don't see how this matters but it does matter to some and having the choice and understanding how to exercise that choice is essential.
Perhaps the most straightforward fix would be to simply refrain from drawing any current at all from the vehicle's main battery while parked. The alarm and any other standby processes should run from a 12-volt motorcycle battery or something, which is recharged during driving, and can be jumped like any other car battery if allowed to go dead.

That wouldn't fix the Li-ion self-discharge problem completely, but it could provide as much as a few months' worth of margin.

In any case it's batshit insane to leave early adopters stuck with a $40,000 bill for your lack of engineering foresight. That was the real surprise in the article.
you know, we have a ton of TED speakers coming to BIL this year...
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That is a different problem as the fox cannot enter the water body. Here both the tamer and the lion can go anywhere in the cage.
As much as I loathe anything cloud related, I feel the need to mention that Ubuntu has their own cloud service called Ubuntu One, which can sync files[1]. So the possibility is there.

If they are successful with Ubuntu Android, it might mean more people switching to Ubuntu on their desktop, too, which would be a win in the long term.

[1] This is a Nautilus plugin as far as I remember, so it works on any computer where you can install it.
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I feel very uncertain about this.

Consider this finding:
"I think I just accidentally discovered a Quora Credit goldmine: www.quora.com/DeathByPuns I went from about 500 to over 1800 in less than two days. Now I can actually afford to ask people to answer questions; it's pretty cool."

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I understand that the goal is to keep the signal-to-noise ratio high, and discourage low quality questions.

However, it also will encourage users who contribute low-quality but easily-upvoted content, which creates a feedback loop encouraging the Quora-hive mindset.
I wonder how they'd stop a helicopter from landing in his yard. Even if the place is locked down with police/surveillance, what are they going to do when they see that helicopter - shoot the damn thing down? If this guy wants to flee, he'll make it happen one way or another.
Now poor kids will buy fake virtual glasses to look cool running around.
Apologies. I wasn't referring to this article in particular, but the hype in general over Google's changing privacy policies.
Off the top of my head, Bioshock: at lower difficulties, I found it easy to run through the game guns blazing; at higher difficulties you need to use your skills and the environment to your advantage. When 3 head shots are unviable or a drag, have you tried setting the enemies up the bomb?

Another example is Dungeon Defenders, where strategies differ dramatically (as in almost 100%) in the later stages of the game -- which in this case just means same levels, stronger enemies. Baldur's Gate (2, particularly) also was much deeper when it was difficult, forcing you to think more tactically to win fights. The list goes on and on.
I for one am glad that Google at least provides this option. I'm sure if Facebook, Zynga, or many of the current startup psoter-boys would not, given the same opportunity.
You're right, sorry (too late to edit)
I've got 44k searches I would like to export but their RSS feed only goes back a month for me.
Could you change from having a fixed maximum number of rooms before overflow, to perhaps a minimum width for each room?
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The + would have been removed from the Chrome UI because it reduces Google's claim to the "+" mark in their Google+ branding. Google wants people to think "Google+" when they see a button with a + on it (not "create new tab").
When I go to https://google.com/history while logged into my google mail account, I get redirected to https://www.google.com/

The redirected Google home page clearly shows me as logged in. Am I doing it wrong?
Your private key isn't that valuable. It's not like, say, a GPG key which you've had widely signed (there's no SSH "web of trust"). Such a key can be useful as it ages (though there are trade-offs in security -- risk of it being compromised also rises with time). You also don't lose access to previously encrypted data by losing an old SSH key, as you would with a GPG key.

So long as you can get new public keys loaded onto the systems you need to access, you're just fine generating a new keypair.
IOMega used to make a NAS with support for foldershare (the dropbox predecessor that was sold to Microsoft). That was 6 years ago - before it's time I'd guess.
I had the same thing, the non-SSL version, http://google.com/history seemed to work correctly though.
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What about using a ramdisk? Of course, it wont be as optimized since the software thinks it's writing to disk, but..

Also, some SMTP servers are probably pretty easy to modify. I use qpsmtpd[1], which is probably quite easy to modify.
Then, all you need is a IMPAD that can read from memory..

I would like to have my mail in something like Redis. It would give easy access from different languages etc..

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qpsmtpd
Doesn't Amazon ban you for selling non-existent books? Because otherwise it has occurred to me that next time I look into buying a book, I could pretend to sell it for a really low price and wait for a bot to underbid me, so that I can buy it off the bot for very little money.
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The male/female ratio on major dating sites is much closer to 50/50 than the message ratio would have you believe. The fact that men send the vast majority of the messages is the inevitable result of a positive feedback loop stemming from men being slightly more aggressive in the dating arena

I think it goes much deeper than that. Think evolutionary psychology and mating dynamics.
Seems a bit too good to be true, but that could just be my inner pessimist talking.

Really cool to see that Pulse and LARK were once a part of this program as well.

Look forward to applying and I wish everyone else the best of luck!
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When you hear the death knell of my life-sucking talk, that iPhone of yours is right there enticing you to throw a few more chunky chickens across your tiny screens. Sometimes I wish I could actually kill people with my crappy talks, but it is not to be.
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Great idea, get apps out of the ghetto!