GFW is getting more advanced. It doesn't simply block you by ports anymore, but by your accessing patterns.

It almost happened to my coworker last year about the same time and it's also in the central area of Seattle. When he was walking along a street, there were two cars driving by. a guy in one of the car took out a gun, and shot at the other car. It's like 10 feet away from my friend. he's so scared, and he's lucky didn't get shot.

Second it. The subtitles on the right side is very good, but having a traditional overlay will make it perfect.

they asked for an email as id, and a password.

No, they also asked for my email password, so they could harvest my address book. It was optional, but optional phishing is still phishing. Maybe they've stopped doing that now, but they were doing it a year ago.

recently, I have the idea to move all the ui stuffs to a chrome extension. on the web side, it provides pure data only, like json.

I think the two free online courses provided by Stanford last year is really good for beginners.

I found the Stanford course almost assumed too much of a stats background to make it easily accessible. Starting with the math foundations is sound, but scary for people who don't dream in LaTeX :)

also, an HN'er posted his notes on Andrew Ng's class on ML...I learnt more from this than from the videos, as the videos take much too long.

link: http://holehouse.org/mlclass/

It's also one of the courses complete with materials in the new iTunes U app.

Thanks for the head's up... been meaning to watch it as a refresher.

as a new us immigrant who is originally from mainland china and lives in the us for 1.5 years, I have a totally different opinion with this article. the advice I always give my friends who still live in china is 'leave china as soon as possible, for yourself and your family'. Saying cctv gave fair news just make me laugh. and food was great? he didn't know the extracted oil from drain or dead animal? the freedom you have in china is to download pirated softwares/videos and make your free speech when facing the wall. well, those were just my complaints, but what I didn't agree with this guy was he didn't see the big picture. china is now facing a dead end, and I don't see a way to turn around. the big conflict between gov and citizens, the huge gap between rich and poor, the aging population....

I hope China finds its way out of these problems with minimal duress.