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I dont use FB, but I do use Linkedin - however - the comparison that Linkedin's 70 million users to FBs 600+MM users as seemingly a potential threat/issue to Linkedin doesnt account for the quality of the userbase.

Linkedin's usefulness does not require me to waste hours a day on the site - but it works perfectly to keep track of those who I want to keep track of.

I am sure that BranchOut will have a lot of users - but I don't think they will carry the same weight in the industries I follow as linkedin.
At an internship two summers ago, I found the last few hours on Fridays took forever, so I started covering the clock the corner of my screen with a post-it note with a smiley face on it. It helped quite a bit. :-)
Have you stopped to ask who they are protecting them from?
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Apple invited Gruber as press to the iPhone 4 Antennagate conference last year. He was also invited to the opening of the Philly Apple Store. Apple isn't the only one reaching out to Gruber — Google sent him a Nexus S for review as well (which I don't think he ever got around to writing).
This is why we can't have nice, secret, no-oversight, extrajudicial things.
It strikes me that a somewhat-comparable public outcry occurred late last year concerning enhanced TSA patdowns, but, we all know how that turned out.
Seriously. To give a president a prize when he continued almost every horrid policy of the worst president in history was a joke.

Wikileaks is a valuable needed service.
What I wonder is if Verizon will continue with their massive Android advertising, without it Android's U.S. numbers might slow down. It is very interesting that Motorola's best new Android phone, the Atrix, is an ATT exclusive.

Fun times!
Could it perhaps have been supplied by Verizon instead? They'd be the ones with the most to gain right now in terms of PR - get all the bloggers to talk about how much better the network is since the hardware itself is a non-story (which is exactly what the ones I've read have said so far).

UPDATE: The footnote in Gruber's article actually says "supplied by Apple" so... guess not. :)
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They should have it up eventually I guess.

This is interesting though, all 17 were democrats despite that for months, President Obama asked them to repeal the provision. Senator Debbie Stabenow is the one that finally made the proposed amendment to axe it.
Sorry, but "hardware failure" is a fault, and when you can't deal with it, you're not tolerant. And with larger clusters, you see hardware faults on a regular basis. So saying we're ok in the nominal mode is not fault tolerance.
Google uses click data in their ranking algorithm. It's a fact. Pick a low volume, low competition niche, have 30+ of your friends search for the keyword and page through the results until you find a result (same for everyone), have everyone click through and not bounce. You will improve that site's rankings.

Chrome tracks clicks and traffic. Google Toolbar tracks clicks and traffic. The difference in the situation is that the majority of people use IE to search on Google, not the Google toolbar/Chrome to search on Bing. Bing has more data to work from than Google does in regards to this exact type of click tracking.
They probably will. AT&T seemed to spend a lot of time and effort promoting other non-iPhones. The people who want iPhones are probably already sold on them. Apple is also advertising it, too. The networks likely still feel a need to reach out to the people who don't care about the hardware itself and just want the services they offer, so they can use the other phones for that purpose.
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There is a difference between giving your child the freedom to follow their own will and ignoring them. I'm guessing that the latter leads to coco-puffs, drugs & booze.
Verizon advertises the Droid, not Android. And the Droid brand belongs to Verizon.

The fact that "Android" and "Droid" are becoming synonymous for many people is very, very good for Verizon.
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How to Get Rich is a great book. It's a fun read and is not at all scammy in the way it's title might imply.

And I just noticed that Felix Dennis has a new book out. 88 THE NARROW ROAD. To quote from that:
"Tunnel vision helps. Being a bit of a sh*t helps. A thick skin helps. Stamina is crucial, as is the capacity to work so hard that your best friends mock you, your lovers despair and your rivals and acquaintances watch furtively from the sidelines, half in awe and half in contempt.

Self-confidence helps, but can be simulated or acquired along the way. Tenacity is an absolute requirement. Luck helps, but only if you do not waste time seeking it,"
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I'm very happy, and I hope that a lesson has been learned and that people will not only be more vigilant about caps, but also realize that Canada is far behind when it comes to broadband (speed, prices, competition, etc).
More time doesn't mean harder.
I would put some way to comment on stories (Facebook comments?).
I only have one third-party icon in my menu bar (Dropbox) and it can’t be dragged out of the menu bar. I don’t know whether that’s the case for all third-party icons.

It is. Apple has their own private API for their "menu extras" and actually loads them into the windowserver itself. It's a major PITA to support one of these things, so only a very small number of third party apps choose to do it.

The alternative public API is basically just a tiny window for each item sitting in the menubar. There's no technical reason why Apple couldn't implement the same kind of command-drag behaviour, but thus far they haven't.
Clickable:

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Or so claims The Daily Mail, a rag seemingly so ready to fabricate stories they need to be taken to court before they'll apologize: http://nosleeptilbrooklands.blogspot.com/2011/01/true-story-...

Results on BBC News for immigration pakistan wife: none. No surprises there.
According to the Daily Mail Online

That's where the story ends folks.
@guiseppe was it @mariusz? If so, you can find my profile on linked in (the same as nick).
Pardon the somewhat OT question, but do any of these services offer standard protocol support so that any OS can store data? I know DropBox supports Linux, and some services support OS X, but I haven't seen anything generic enough for my FreeBSD workstation, though the concept of cloud storage sounds great.

Give me NFS or SMB access if you must, but I'd love to get in on this cheap consumer cloud storage thing without resorting to lame hacks like using VMs or emulation due to lack of native access for my platform.
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They know what they're doing. The problem is that they're biased.

It's fundamentally the same issue that plagues financial regulation. The people who are the most qualified to understand the technological and regulatory issues are the most biased, because almost by necessity they're products of the same industry they're supposed to regulate.
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Yeah true, but action is set to happen in parliament tomorrow, so if they are just lying it will be evident very soon.
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But Grubber was not invited to the Verizon iPhone announcement.
https://twitter.com/gruber/status/24937327675580416
that is what they want you to think..ask yourself why they had to 'borrow' 1.5 billion form medicaid for this..
The media likes to talk about twitter and facebook because it is profitable. Social media stories have good margins, and wide market appeal.

Getting source material for a story is very easy and very cheap, this increases their margins as opposed to paying a correspondent and crew which is very expensive.

Also, talking about social media allows an uninformed and uninterested western audience to relate to the events in a far away place. This increases the potential market of the story.

News is a business, stories are their product.
I love this:

It's often said that people become entrepreneurs because they can't handle a regular job. Perhaps these people are simply too "defective" to fit into any mold, or maybe they lack the extrinsic motivation necessary to care about bosses, performance reviews, and other things which are so important for success in the corporate environment.
Apple has warmed to Gruber in the last year. One of Steve Jobs' replies to a customer email quoted him directly and said that he was "very insightful"

http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/10/steve-jobs-responds-to-ipho...
The fact that "Android" and "Droid" are becoming synonymous for many people is very, very good for Verizon.

Is it? It seems to me that people (correctly) see them as equivalent so what's the value in owning the "Droid" trademark?

"I want a Droid."

"Come to T-Mobile, we have Androids!"

"OK!"
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Utter stupidity

"...If you long-press the desktop, you’ll bring up the widget/wallpaper selector, which some people will undoubtedly activate accidentally (and promptly panic). The third button in the bottom left corner lets you jump between recently used applications — a feature that I’ll love, but could confuse people who aren’t sure what’s going on."

This idiot thinks that long-click wallpaper widgets will cause panic and that he's smarter than all the common folk who will be too confused by the recently used apps list.

And those are his detriments to the platform? TC's staff rarely provide anything of value to the conversation.
Nope. iPhones have for a long time now been available on tons of carriers all over the world. The phone's fine (though not great).
I'm not in the mobile space, and I do like the idea of the product, although it sounds a tad intrusive for a web app, but I don't know...
Yeah, the main issue here is that a few big telcos and cable providers own the majority of the infrastructure for broadband in Canada. As a result, it was mandated that they had to have "wholesale" rates available to any smaller competitors who wanted to utilize their networks (since many of the networks were paid for with tax payer dollars anyway).

The big telcos wanted the ability to enforce the same rules they put on their own clients onto the wholesalers, which meant restrictive caps and lower speed packages. That would have effectively pinched off what little competition there was already...
I like the subtitle - "Legal humor. Seriously". Indeed :)
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That was Verizon's event and they sent out the invites.
I wouldn't get too far ahead of myself. I'm a former employee of the CRTC. We had one guy who was ~60 years old making decisions on what the definition of Broadband was, having no prior experience using said service. He was happy with his dialup back home...

As far as he was concerned, the Bell/Telus/Rogers Mobile internet devices were MORE than adequately priced and provisioned for in the broadband category.

Edit: My point is, anticipate more decisions like this.
I'd love to see whether the average person realizes that Droid and Android aren't the same thing. It always seemed like a huge concession for Google to let Verizon essentially own the public face of Android, but I guess they were feeling the pressure when they made that call...
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Lawyer up, hit the gym.

Seriously - get out and run/climb/bike HARD.

The exercise will clear your mind and will change your esteem.
"and positive" don't forget that ;)
You can reference the diagram in my post here (and the more detailed one in the response to my post): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2158888

This was mostly about Bell's ability to bring UBB to bear on the 3rd party ISPs that are leasing their lines (and thereby forcing all of those ISPs' customers onto a usage-based-billing model). Thought if you read that full thread you'll see that there's was a bit of debate over exactly what part of the infrastructure most of the 3rd party ISPs are leasing from Bell.

I'm of the mind that so long as the ISPs aren't going over Bell's peering connections to the wider internet (meaning that they have their own), then Bell shouldn't be able to force usage-based billing onto those ISPs. If any of those ISPs want to use Bell's peering connections to the internet.... then I don't know.

Of note is that Bell is the only one allowed to lay new last-mile phone lines. So if a 3rd party ISP wants to hook-up customers with their DSL, they have to go over Bell's last-mile lines (to the DSLAM at least).
According to Wikipedia, PayPal claimed they canceled the service because wikileak's funding origination, Wau Holland Foundation, violated its "Acceptable Use Policy" by engaging in "illegal activities".

Wau Holland Foundation is responding by suing PayPal. That's how the law works.

Partisan politics has no place in business.
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As someone whose imagination was shaped in large part by reading Tolkien's vivid descriptions of Middle Earth as a child, I couldn't agree more. You put it beautifully.
The medium isnt important as the message, the medium can help promote and spread that message, Gladwell seems to really want to take what everyone else knows as common sense and turning it into some "Twitter Sucks" agenda.
Downloaded the app earlier today. Well done.

The only thing that I thought was a bit strange was on the sign-up page was my user name it said should be prefaced with the @ sign, so I put it in, unsure if I was supposed to or not. Of course, that errored out, but that would be a really nice little tweak. Just put the @ symbol in a slightly greyed out box to the left of the username box should do it.

I had been using the "Photo Stylist" app, but like your filters, and it seems to work a bit quicker too.

All the best
If oil hadn't been available do you think Karl Benz would have sat down and invented the entire drilling, refining and transport system before he started on the car?

The ICE was possible because oil infrastructure was there - the first gas stations were the pharmacists who already sold the oil
You know when I saw that whole NP for Hope. I was on stunned. What the? I thought (despite all the beauracracies and marketing hype), the NP was meant for people who "did something". Well if it was an experiment in incentives clearly it was an epic failure.

I am hoping that the NBP nomination of Assange at least reduces the probability of him being extradited to US.
If someone re-posts a submission you made (same URL), your original is upvoted by 1 instead of posting a duplicate.
Can Verizon label a non-Android phone as a Droid?
Andrew...I cannot believe you are apologizing for answering emails slower than usual...WHEN YOU ARE IN THE FRIKKIN HOSPITAL!!!

Dude...get some rest and recover. Who will do interviews if you are dead :)

Get better soon.
Thats pretty good- find some way to aggregate the tweets and facebook comments about the story. Something like Echo but something that fits the overall feel.
you know that egypt has had the internet cut off for some time until recently right? twitter simply does not matter here. not one iota.
Sweet, looks a lot like the readability bookmarklet. They just merged/did something with instapaper, so it looks like some interesting movement in the market.

Maybe try a bookmarklet as well. Link to original source in the top title, and preserve links if possible.
Also note the lack of names in the story
Which was actually an Apple Event in disguise. Gizmodo, Ryan Block and Leo Laporte were not invited.
That confirms my suspicion that Amy Chua's article was a most fine piece of trolling. She wrote outrageous things in the article thereby trolling thousands of parents into buying her book, i.e. the WSJ article was "link-bait" to her book. Even if you're a non-parent you might be drawn by the someone-is-wrong-on-internet effect into criticizing her claims, but she's got a simple answer ready for you: "buy my book".
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I read "I'm starting my own MBA reading club and you're not invited" [ http://www.kadavy.net/blog/posts/i-started-a-diy-mba-group-y...] and that's where I got the idea from. Do it locally, face-to-face discussion over a lunch every X weeks.

Invite local business owners to come and speak so you're building relationships between the group and the outside business community.

I hadn't considered a remote group, meet over Skype, or just via forum. If you're interested, shoot me an email and we'll go from there.
"People with a grievance will always find ways to communicate with each other. How they choose to do it is less interesting, in the end, than why they were driven to do it in the first place."

I am not convinced this is true: by lowering the friction of communication by making it real-time and instantaneous.

I'm an English grad student, and I'm reminded of some of the arguments in the field around the development of the novel as a genre (to see one such argument: http://jseliger.com/2010/09/28/the-novel-an-alternative-hist... ). Basically, a lot of people want to argue about the development of the novel without taking into account the printing press. To me, this is silly, because mass cheap printing was a precondition to the novel as we know it. Without that, we would have fictional prose narratives of some length, but we probably wouldn't have them alluding to one another, we wouldn't have large portions of the population reading them, and we wouldn't have (relatively) large portions of the population with enough disposable income to avoid them. If you look at surviving works prior to ~1600, almost all of them are religious in nature because only the church had the resources to fund writing, maintain large collections of writing, and bother writing anything down.

After ~1600 (or ~1500, if you prefer, but that's about it), you have a lot of things written that would previously not have been considered "worth" writing down because writing and copying manuscripts was so expensive and time consuming. Technology did change what was said. How something was said changed what was said. Technology is doing the same thing now.

Gladwell is right in one sense: the media is probably overstating the importance of Twitter and SMS. But both of those still play an important role in what's going on. Somehow, people with grievances against monarchs and dictators weren't all that successful on average in the years prior to ~1600. After that, they got more and more successful, to the point where a fair bit of world's population now lives without dictators. Part of the reason is because ideas about freedom and good governance could be disseminated cheaply, where before they couldn't, and everyone spent most waking hours covered in shit, farming, and hoping they're not going to starve to death in late winter / early spring.
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Ask HN: Any Austin, TX based developers looking for a new startup?
I've been working on a new startup with a small team for the past month and we're in need of another person. We're language agnostic at the moment as we've only focused on the product planning phase, front-end, and some iOS.

I'm not going to say much about the project on HN yet but I'd love to buy you coffee or a beer if you're in Austin and willing to at least hear me out. Feel free to reply here or reply to: cullenw@gmail.com
That's because the protests had reached critical mass by then so it was too late ... If the Internet blackout had started a week ago we might be telling a different story right now.
I was going to handwrite them all so OCR wouldn't work effectively.
I use XMonad as my tiling window manager, and I make judicious use of the "toggle struts" shortcut. When 'docks' set themselves up at the edges of the screen they define 'struts' (which are the areas that they intend to use) so that normal windows can avoid them. Then they are toggled off in XMonad, the tiling manager reclaims that portion of the screen, allowing the currently displayed windows to cover the docks. This allows me to keep docks that are informative, but reclaim that desktop space or just axe the visual clutter with a Super+b ('Super' being the Windows or Apple key under Linux).
I like that - maybe a good title for the upcoming detailed blog post!
Still trying to figure out why HN is obsessed with this story...
Austin dev here, too busy working on my own side projects ... Just wanted to show support.
An exploit will be found. But paying $20k for thousands of man hours of security testing is a bargain.
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Now if only they'd supercede and effectively repeal the state money transmitter laws, we might actually be able to compete with PayPal!

Fortunately there's a hearing in two weeks about the Durbin amendment to Dodd-Frank, and if it's ever going to come up, it might as well be then.
I don't think the idea is exploitive...just opportunistic, which is an awesome mindset to have in business if you stay on the right side of things. So, kudos on the idea.

That said, I do have a problem with the execution:

The section "Please don't buy this shirt if you died. That's just lying, and nobody likes a liar..." is obviously intended just for laughs, but it's not really that funny and you run the risk of offending someone that, say, knows someone who actually died in the "Snowpacalypse." My wife, for example, knew one of the seven people that are known to have died in Chicago as a result of the blizzard. I'm one of the least sensitive or "PC" people on earth, but I think you might rethink what you gain vs. what you lose with that particular sentence. Offending people can be fine (and inevitable), but there should usually be a reason for it. [BTW, "I survived X" is a common T-shirt meme and Snowpacalypse is a recent meme, so I didn't think anything of it until the one sentence made a more concrete connection between 'death' and the blizzard...which made me think of the news reports etc. - which might tip the creepy scale for some potential buyers. Maybe A/B test it?]
If you advertise that you lead to a marrige then its not about you getting married today, its that x people who use site y get married every day. Of course there is no garantee that the marrige had anything to do with the site. If person x and y are on a dating site, there is no reason to assume that it MUST be true that if x and y met/get merried it is due to the site. They could meet outside. With 20 million accounts it is VERY likely that you got married to someone with an account on that site.

I like the corelation you can build from the site: By giving you bad matches to increase business, each person looking gets less likely to find someone because they have to send so many emails. Note that the 30% chance to get a response * 1/30 chance that an account is not active != 1/100 chance of a response. The 30% chance to get a response can already take into account that a bunch of people may not be active.

You can play with the numbers. I think the final guesses are not that accurate, but it does put things into perspective regarding the marketing numbers.
I'm not sure if I should be depressed or cheered up by that. Maybe depressed because compared to Buchheit I must be super lazy. Maybe cheered up because it might be that I'm no lazier than him, and might be able to accomplish great things just as well.