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Don't think it's unreasonable. They crawled it and made it available in an easy to digest form. You can't take their copy and start distributing it infinitely while paying them for one-time read. Write your crawler, and crawl the web on your own if you want... and give it away!

Somebody should put up a second, uninteresting, benign bust just to see what happens to it vs Snowden's.

It is, now. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/technology/china-appears-t...

It's a bit disappointing that G10code[1] https identity verification fails. May be it makes sense given that he's short on $$$$.

[1] https://g10code.com/

Can you please link to the remote execution bug?

I'm getting sick of the general attitude here. A majority of people seem to think that it's OK to copy user posting data from CL, because they are a monopoly. IE is cited as an example of a monopoly, thus anything is OK to take it down.

That attitude is horribly wrong. Agreed, CL is a monopoly. Agreed, they are holding back innovation. But, you don't disrupt a business (and build yours) by copying their data, especially illegally. Although, the legality of issue at hand is up in the air right now, the general attitude is a bit appalling.

What's required is a way for users to post their listings simultaneously at other properties. The content of the postings belongs to the user and they should be free to re-post it anywhere.

The ToS may not mention exclusivity, but the source of data (for Padmapper) is Craigslist. Thus, the clause of "unauthorized copying" applies.

Sure, will do that.

The look and feel of the ad is publisher's responsibility. Can't blame Google for that. Rest, Google gets the blame. Before I get down to that, however, I would be suspicious of the veracity of a publisher who tries to blend the ad and the content so closely.

If it weren't for vim, I would have definitely considered switching. I know you can map keys and all, but, it just doesn't make sense going through all the hassle.

Are there any bi-layouters out there?

This doesn't help much if you are using Google APIs in your Android application. There are no x86 builds available for Google APIs AFAIK.

Now that I'm getting a better feel of what BankSimple is about, I don't think it's that revolutionary an idea. I'm not even sure I will use it. Most of what they showed, and more can be accomplished using Mint. And, Mint offers more choice by being an aggregator.

He forgot to factor the risk into the equation here. Investors have risk. If the company goes down they lose $500K. How much do you lose $50K?

1% may or may not be less. We definitely need deeper analysis here.

I built a shared-TTY, that works using your browser! http://snotty.slowpoison.net

Click on the Help page for instructions.

Actually, verification of hosts is not THAT tough and Airbnb already has a solution - "Airbnb verified" photos of the listing. Airbnb offers (in big cities at least) to send a photographer to your address and have him take pictures and upload to your listing page. This verifies to a reasonably decent degree that the person listing the property is the owner too.

Apple did announce the APIs for iPhone accessories a year or so back with iOS 3.0. Scope and traction of Google's and Apple's specifications/APIs might vary.

Did Google promise to send you one? Or did you fill out a questionnaire in the hopes of them sending you one?

If HP really wants developers behind it, they should consider giving away these devices to the developers. Even a $500 phone is a cheap investment with high returns, when made on a developer who's going to invest time (and money), is going to learn mostly by herself, and release an app in the market, even if in the hopes of making money for herself.

With Android already doing well, I don't see a developer risking her time as well as money on Palm, when it's uncertain how much success she'll achieve.

I see a lot of criticisms here but it was apparent in the presentation today that Google is targeting this mainly towards business, organizations and schools. Their selling point is elimination (or significant reduction) of the maintenance and support that the IT infrastructure requires.

Chromebook will sport offline versions of Google Docs, GMail and GCal.

Can't I accomplish the same thing using Kickstarter?

IIRC, in "Founders at Work", I think it was Vinod Khosla, who suggested to Excite (@Home) founders to have an unequal split based on a set of criteria, or it'll get ugly later (I'm paraphrasing). And I think it makes sense. Dividing everything equally amongst founders may make sense in the simplistic cases, but more often than not, people of varying capacities/skills come together to form a startup. It's better to not ignore those inequalities and design a split that address that upfront.

On Ubuntu, the package name is ack-grep. So use: sudo -i aptitude install ack-grep

Don't go for ack, which is some Kanji character converter.

It helps that they come after the red (pill).

Has anybody tested that the banner renders find in IE6 ;-)?

The suggestion about putting "mdump" in .bash_logout, to automatically save all your bookmarks on exiting shell, is really useful.

This is probably based on the usage data the Chrome uploads to Google. People are perhaps not directly using the URL bar that much.

Although one can't blame Google for it, what's really sad is the loss taken by people who had booked flights and hotels in anticipation. Google definitely needs to come up with a better system to address all the nuances. A tech conference need not be like a rock concert.

Google I/O 2011 completely sold-out in 55 mins! Tech conferences are like rock concerts now?

Where are you hosted? Development environment? And other similar details?