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netaddicton Facebook Hits 2 Billion Users

  127.0.0.1 facebook.com
  127.0.0.1 www.facebook.com
  127.0.0.1 static.ak.fbcdn.net
  127.0.0.1 www.static.ak.fbcdn.net
  127.0.0.1 login.facebook.com
  127.0.0.1 www.login.facebook.com
  127.0.0.1 fbcdn.net
  127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.net
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  127.0.0.1 www.fbcdn.com
  127.0.0.1 static.ak.connect.facebook.com
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netaddicton Facebook is scaring me

You could use chrome's facebook disconnect extension https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ejpepffjfmamnambag...

netaddicton Another Google "abuse prevention gone wrong" horror story

This link was posted here yesterday. Matt Cutts' comment: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2795465

netaddicton Google [briefly] suspends Limor Fried's ("Ladyada") Google+ profile

The reason for suspension is probably the quotes in her name. A Google engineer on g+ posted that you should not have any special characters in your name to avoid getting suspended.

netaddicton Google’s Les Paul Doodle consumes record 5.3M hours, RescueTime estimates

Unless the small number is less than 1!

netaddicton Mark Zuckerberg is Person of the Year? Where's the "dislike" button?

That article is not about Afghanistan but Pakistan.

netaddicton Homeland Security seizes music blog domains

Another reason for developing distributed DNS system http://p2pdns.baywords.com/

netaddicton Gawker Media hacked

Their entire database was stolen. So you should change your password to be safe.

netaddicton Gawker Media hacked

Here is the list of Gawker passwords along with MySQL, FTP accounts http://pastebin.com/9rRmf6W5

Thousands of people still use "password" as their password.

netaddicton Why we switched from Google App Engine to EC2

App Engine has a billing plan if you want to use more resources than the free quota. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/billing.html It is a lot cheaper than AWS

netaddicton HN Stories Behind Paywalls

For avoiding NY Times wall, if you are using Chrome, you can just right click the link and "open in new incognito window".

netaddicton Liberate your Facebook contacts' email addresses.

It is working intermittently. Apparently this works with hotmail as well because Facebook has a tie up with Microsoft.

http://blog.acousticrenditions.com/2010/01/14/export-faceboo...

netaddicton Matt Cutts: $1,000 to the 2 best implementations of the recently-hacked Kinect

Most of Google's competitors (in search) are already trying to discover/emulate Google's algorithms. There is no need for a contest. Any one who is capable of doing that can build a great search engine instead and earn a lot more money.

But a person/team making it easy to write programs that use the Kinect on Linux may not be able to sell the software. So a contest makes sense.

netaddicton Gmail: Trap my contacts now (warning when exporting contacts to Facebook)

The check boxes aren't even visible in my chrome. http://imgur.com/qMpND

I don't know if this is a bug.

netaddicton Microsoft Slowly Euthanizes Xbox Indie Games

What are you talking about on YouTube? Most of the top Youtube partners (people who get paid by youtube for videos) are individuals and not corporations.

I don't know any YouTube decision that hurt YouTube channels by individuals in any way.

netaddicton Herding Firesheep in a NYC Starbucks: Do Users Care?

Not just on many machines. You can change your MAC address on any manchine using GNU macchanger http://www.alobbs.com/macchanger/

netaddicton Offer HN: Twitter API Help

The Twitter API docs (http://dev.twitter.com) has HTTP error codes for each Twitter API. There is Twitter Search API, Twitter REST API and Twitter Streaming API. So though the meaning of the error code might differ slightly generally it is the same. For example, 200 is always successful request and 404 is always resource not found.

Are you seriously checking for failwhale's image name in API response?

netaddicton Offer HN: Twitter API Help

Twitter API has rate limits. I think it is 360 req/hour per IP if you are not white-listed. So if you poll using server-side code you are likely to hit the rate-limit. You can cache results to avoid this.

netaddicton Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

Looks useful and impressive.

May be "Show details" should be "About Me". And instead of forcing "login\signup", a page allowing direct customization of the widget and embed code would be more impressive.

netaddicton My history of (mostly failed) side projects and startups

Why did Google blacklist all of your Tldscan sites? Was it just because your sites' content was updated automatically? Or was it because you did something wrong for SEO?

netaddicton Google URL shortener available to the public

Earlier they did not offer custom URL shortening. goo.gl was used by Google services like Reader, YouTube but it was not open to public.

netaddicton Google URL shortener available to the public

I wonder if Google has an API to get all stats or an API to get all short links pointing to a URL.

PS: That means there is still atleast one HNer using internet explorer.

netaddicton Am I getting too old for this (Google instant rant)?

Yes, Google stores this preference in Cookies (which is wierd). So if your browser clears cookies on exit, 'instant' is again enabled by default.

netaddicton Start ups, please don't force me to log in with Facebook

You can block *.facebook.com in adblock plus. Then you can allow ads on facebook.com.

So on facebook, you won't be blocking Facebook.com. But on other sites, facebook would be blocked.

netaddicton Dear Intel: Sue Me

Intel build a processor with X amount of L3 cache.

They sell it for $400 to initial buyers but "disable" 100 MB of L3 cache without telling them. Then after 6 months, just to make money of the initial buyers again of the same chip, offer this processor "upgrade" for $50. This is immoral and the initial buyers will feel cheated.

This case is not like software where programmers worked on something and then ask a price for upgrade. Intel had already made all investment and work before the purchase. Intel then already took a profit for selling the processor.

netaddicton [dead]

Does this have anything remotely related to Hacker News?

Except may be reddit is a ycombinator startup.

netaddicton Why Twitter's t.co is a game changer

You are right. bitly did tracking and analytics. But Twitter can have even more information by forcing all users to use t.co.

The point of the article is that Twitter can force every one to use t.co on its platform and thus provide better analytics, malware detection etc than its competitors.

It is a game changer for Twitter monetization; not so much for users or content creators.

netaddicton How I got feedback from 200 people for just $17

There should be ratings system in Mechanical Turk based on sincerity of answers. You should be able to pay more to get people with better ratings.

Another option is to get reviewed by thousands of people through Hackernews, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

netaddicton Phone Numbers Are Dead

That article title seems like link-bait.

The title declares "phone numbers are dead". The article says "my grandkids will never dial a phone number".

netaddicton [dead]

The official twitter of hacker news is http://twitter.com/hackernews. The hacker news Twitter automatically tweets out top stories. That guy must have assumed the 'Tumblr sucks' tweet to be a official Y Combinator tweet without even clicking on the link.