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AWESOME!

Lots of free lunches: the dregs left over after the salespeople have their noon meetings.

This infographic is like watching a politician spin their selfish agenda into a "think of the children!" plea. Pretty funny actually.

I don't understand why the TC diaspora gets so much attention. Have they earned the spotlight for reasons other than just being inflammatory?

Something like Ars Technica, which is way meatier than the hyperbole and cheerleading that the PandoLemonCrunch school of venture journalism is capable of.

Wouldn't happen. Abandoning user choice and configurability seems to be in vogue with designers these days. We're just slouching our way toward our future as passive appliance users.

(I totally agree - either turn it into a keyboard shortcut, or a reserved 16x16px spyglass icon in the upper right hand corner of the menu bar...)

Murdoch just knows that post-Season 8 Simpsons isn't worth streaming. ;)

Not if the status quo is terrible.

I wouldn't mind moving the articles whose discussions have completely gone to seed into a separate subforum.

My favorite forums are ones that don't allow the discussion of politics or religion. The same is true for real-life discussions with acquaintances that you don't thoroughly know yet. There is nothing to be gained from a discussion when everybody's emotions are fully inflamed.

This is SOP for negotiation. Candidates do this shit too, trying to claim some sort of inflated salary boost for every thing they give up from their previous employer. It's a game and the lesser negotiator loses out.

> willing to take advantage of someone who wasn't skilled at the whole negotiating thing.

What? That is the ENTIRE POINT of negotiation. It's a game. The more skilled player wins, and it's true for job offers, house buying, car buying, street markets, everything.

Don't hate the player, hate the game. :)

If the Chrome plugin works fine, can't HN just expose a toggle in the user preferences for injecting that same Javascript code? A bit of a hack, yes, but it'd probably do for the time being.

What are the advantages in using a remote service for this vs. hosting them yourself? I'm somewhat averse to taking out additional dependencies on other services if no compelling reason exists.

Then I can't see 80% of the "Show HN" stuff that enters the newsfeed!

I count three ads above the fold. I believe the results below those top ads are still search results, just presented in different modalities.

New phone activations, maybe? Android phones work a lot better when they're paired with Google account - you might not use GMail, but you might like the backup and calendar sync features.

Their instant preview feature tells you exactly that. The paragraph containing your search terms is marked by a red rectangle.

RTFA: "Google’s Larry Page has announced that Google+ now has 90 million users globally, doubling the number from three months ago. Page also said that G+ has a 60% ‘daily engagement’ rate. This came as a part of Google’s Q4 and fiscal year 2011 financial reports."

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I can see there being a market. My mom buys all her crap if and only if it says "Mac compatible" on the box. I remind her that it's all the same hardware standards these days, but the persecution complex that was ingrained in her from the bad old 1990s--countless ADB input devices, a IIsi with its own flavor of NuBus, and then later a couple awful Performas with funky PDS slots--she's just used to assuming that hardware just won't work unless it's specifically blessed as Apple compatible.

Is FB going to do something similar? If not, why not? I imagine the tag-team of Google and FB would do wonders for educating the entire public on this crucial issue.

I'm taking the opportunity to spam my friends and family with this news. "Check out the Google logo today! Wonder why it's a big black bar?" It's jarring and it piques people's curiosity. I think it'll do good things for educating the public.

He's just early to the SOPA protest party.

I beg to differ. That distinction goes to http://www.stevesgotit.com/ , which gets bonus points for being so earnest.

Please, no more infographics...

I agree. HN often seems to fall prey to these linkbaity articles about trendy subjects. As users, we do a poor job of filtering for quality before we click the upvote button.

Somewhat related gripe: does anybody like the admin UI in Tumblr? It seems like important settings are scattered all over the place. I don't understand why the site view and admin views are two discrete locations, either. Has the core service received much love since David Karp's first cut?

DIY blogging software made from scratch, in 12 hours, with node.JS and Mongo. Anything else would be too mainstream for HN.

Wow! This is sweet, but I wish Google had an even shorter URL for it.

It raises an approval screen on the phone. It says

By proceeding, you give another computer access to the following accounts: * blah@gmail.com

STOP! Only proceed if you arrived at this page by scanning a login barcode at google.co. Otherwise, do not proceed!

(start with GMail) (start with iGoogle)