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Dan Boneh's crypto course is starting in 5 days on Coursera. Syllabus is not same as the OP's course but is very good and useful nonetheless.

https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto

First the people need to be made aware about how serious this is and why their privacy matters. Then, people will have to get on the streets for demonstrations and overwhelm their representatives with emails and phone calls asking to do something about it. Similar to how SOPA/PIPA protests were carried out.

``He has had "a very comfortable life" that included a salary of roughly $200,000, a girlfriend with whom he shared a home in Hawaii, a stable career, and a family he loves. "I'm willing to sacrifice all of that because I can't in good conscience allow the US government to destroy privacy, internet freedom and basic liberties for people around the world with this massive surveillance machine they're secretly building."``

Shame on us if we don't act and let this man's sacrifice go to waste.

At the least, I'm going to take my data away from Dropbox and switch to a self hosted alternative. And also change email and chat providers (currently gmail and gtalk).

Though not the same ones but here are the lectures from University of New South Wales - http://academicearth.org/courses/cs2-data-structures-and-alg...;

Ah, the old `if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear` fallacy. I'll leave you with this - http://falkvinge.net/2012/07/19/debunking-the-dangerous-noth...;

You just see some pretty statistics but you don't know (and possibly can't) what happens behind the scenes.

Launch infographic - http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/31/Press_Releases/Am...

More - http://www.amazon.in/b/ref=footer_press?ie=UTF8&node=159...

Aaron's words on the same topic - http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews

Here you go - http://pastebin.com/MARe4Ca5

From the paper - "Recommend that Congress and the administration impose a tariff on all Chinese-origin imports, designed to raise 150% of all U.S. losses from Chinese IP theft in the previous year, as estimated by the secretary of commerce."

So... they want their people to pay for the crimes of others?

Either complete silence or trance without any vocals.

That is true. Good content triumphs in the long run. But still, other people with crappy content and links can rank above you and take away the traffic that you deserved.

And it will also cut down on the amount of link and content spam generated (under the hood of SEO) making things better for everyone. But this is what happens with open systems. Some people start gaming the system, others suffer as a result of it and then everyone starts doing it.

EDIT: After reading other posts in this thread, I can certainly say that I have always shared your anger towards SEO. Web is an open resource for everyone to communicate and share knowledge on. I hate when some people just come in and start abusing it for their own gain at the cost of others. Down here someone is discussing about linkwheels and link pyramids. While spamming away this shit, they don't realize that they are making this open space dirty. While they make profits from their clients and their clients make some short term profit, someone else has to do the cleanup part and waste time behind this. Its like running around in a library and filling in the shelves with junk content and advertisement. It overshadows and make it difficult to find the real content.

You might want to optimize those images (startup logos). Many of them are like 175 KB each.

I do not mean to flame or anything but why is ARS's article upvoted to front page when we already have one [1] on the same topic with 250+ comments? It doesn't even provide any additional information. I have seen a similar trend with a lot of topics.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5701630

I'm so very happy about this. But I'm still wondering why they decided to launch a masters course as opposed to bachelor? And I hope they provide an option for people without bachelor degree take this course (perhaps with entrance test of some kind?).

Whoa. Didn't really expect Google to respond to this and that too so quickly!

I guess the situation is a lot similar to YC's rejections (see http://ycombinator.com/whynot.html).

I recently got into programming and wanted to apply for HS but living for 3 months in NYC isn't affordable for me. I'll be applying for next year's summer batch. Till then I'll arrange money and build up my knowledge.

This might inspire you (got it from HS's twitter) - http://netrabaha.tumblr.com/post/46341372342/try-try-again-a...

They do provide financial aid but it is only for females. :(

Great platform. I already got someone to guide me. :)

Is there any difference between the normal messages and the "Request Meeting" feature?

Another good article towards the same sentiment - http://prog21.dadgum.com/87.html

There even exists automated tools for these tasks such as 'The Best Spinner' (google it for more info) which will take in a chunk of text and spits out spun content. It mostly uses a database of synonyms to achieve this. Oh and also, if you care about quality, there is a manual mode where you put in your text and manually choose the suggested synonyms for words/phrases. The developer was clever enough to store what synonyms the users were manually choosing and now with that data, most of the automatically generated output would seem legible. Also, there are tools to scrape and spam these spun comments onto various blogging and forum platforms (google for 'scrapebox' and 'xrumer').

I feel so genuinely happy for her seeing that the community is helping her out. I also wanted to apply for Hacker School but it was way expensive so I dropped the idea altogether. But now I think I am going to put in effort into saving/earning the money to get there and apply for the next batch.

Thanks for mentioning. Looking at the domain, at first I thought it was codeschool.com which also offers video courses (which are also very good) and was going to skip over this.

Very clever use of the menubar to show timer progress. Blends in nicely without any distraction.

Even though I know its a joke, a part of me still raged inside.

    And can we put an & and a $ somewhere in Python?  I think these feel very cool to use, and are easily one of >the best things I miss from more advanced languages like C and PHP.  
    Let's be honest, doesn't this:
    
        $item->method();
    
    Look a lot more professional than:
    
        item.method()

Professional Javascript for Web Developers is really an excellent book. Also, I would like to mention a blog post [1] by Richard Bowell which was front-paged here recently who also recommends the same book.

I'm currently learning JavaScript and the thing that sucks is reading about IE incompatibility/workarounds on almost every other page of the book. Any advice on how should I handle it? Is it really necessary to keep in mind all those quirks or can I skip through those material right now and learn what works on most browsers?

[1] http://javascriptissexy.com/how-to-learn-javascript-properly...

Persona's about page says that you can use multiple email addresses with a single account.

"Within Persona, your identity is your email address. You can use as many email addresses as you want, but you still only need one password.". - https://login.persona.org/about