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Your assumption is that market cap dramatically overstates the market value of companies. Your car analogy is flawed.

Why not look at mergers and acquisitions? When companies attempt hostile takeovers, are they making bids that undercut the market's own valuations? Do people like to sell their shares at large discounts? No. Companies have to pay a hefty price premium over the existing market value.
I'm indeed hesitant about it (never done it before) but thanks for the advice, I really appreciate it and will definitely take a shot at it.
"most easily be created?" ...I don't see it that way. Building mobile software platform which would be attractive to both users and developers is extremely difficult to build. They already failed several times at that.

I think this is just the same old Nokia thinking - underestimating the difficulty of creating top notch software.
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I agree, but that is what I would do if I was an annoyed phisher, blogging about the new security system in my way.
Rather than downvote it's easy to factually counter your argument: it's not because e.g. keyloggers or mitm attacks can compromise the account. Then afterward, the 2-factor auth is used against the customer as a smokescreen - basically banks say 'oh but we've got this very secure system, it can't be cracked'. Then you have to get into a very technical argument with the bank, which is either hard to win (because only 1 person involved understands, deliberate or not) or impossible (because most customers don't understand the details, and we can't expect them to).

This is not a hypothetical situation - this already happens in Western Europe! It's hard to hold banks or merchants responsible for fraud. Now they shouldn't always be held responsible, that's the first issue; but even in cases where they are (like when they guaranteed upfront that they'd take the risk of fraud, as they used to do in the early days of online banking/payment) their first line of defense will be vague 'our technology is tamper proof' arguments. Many consumer association websites are full of stories about this.
I just noticed that a Kinect game featuring Michael Phelps has been announced. Time will tell if this is brilliant, or if it's the latest way to flail badly in front of your TV. Does look like it'll make you exercise, though.
http://www.joystiq.com/2011/02/02/michael-phelps-push-the-li...
I can tell you it varies by country. In places where they are scarce it is very much a fashion label. Believe it or not, so is GAP. I've given away tons of old GAP stuff I bought in college to family and friends who absolutely adore it but can't afford it.
Why would iOS require total rework to fit? The most important thing iOS brought was the idea, that small touchscreen requires new UI paradigm. I don't see that changing anytime soon. As for the "under the hood" stuff, it already has a lot in common with OS X, and will share even more with the release of Lion.
Apple for one is known to be looking way ahead of "current market".
Because Wave looked cool in demos.

Because it required interesting technology and was challenging and fun to implement.

Because it solved problems (granted, all of the easiest and least important problems).

A lot of products are brought to market through the same flawed process. Look at the Segway for a perfect case in point.
It’s an easter egg in that there is no documentation for the feature, and it is one that only people who are “in on the joke” (use IRC) would look for. The feature being functional doesn’t prevent it from being an easter egg.
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Given the choice, I'll pick Nginx over Apache any day, however saying that Apache in this case was the problem is just plain FUD.

The OP just had no idea how to set it up properly or made a serious mistake somewhere.
Really, who would put a massive store of knowledge in a SQL database?
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Thanks for the clarification. I'd just skimmed an article summary and wasn't aware of the details of the plan.
The answer seems to be that they didn't think it was a good product, it was just a bone to keep someone around?
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Also: Meego shall ship with all development tools ONBOARD. Cross-compiling and external toolchains, and the dependence on other platforms: no longer required.

Brand Compiler-Inside, please Nokia, and reap the rewards!
This is what I'm waiting for:

http://armdevices.net/2011/01/07/nufront-arm-powered-laptops...
Well, at least its quite mobile.
Upvote simply because of babucracy - that's a great term.
This happens every now and then in most state-run colleges in India. The pattern is like this - some kid who has never been exposed to the internet comes to college and is exposed to high-speed, unlimited internet and gets immediately hooked. He starts skipping class, eventually starts flunking subjects. At the end of his pre-final year, when he has to sit for placements, he realises his situation and then he kills himself. College admins want to appear to have taken action, and internet access is time-restricted. Eventually, of course, sanity prevails, and we get to go through this whole routine all over again. Happened twice during my 4 years in college.
Another relevant movie: "The Agony and the Ecstasy" with Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as
Pope Julius II:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058886/
There was this one version in which there was a major regression which was really annoying... two finger scroll had become borked. Other than that and some minor issues, the dev-channel's been great.
Chomsky is wrong headed.

You don't have to build a bird to build a 747. And you don't have to replicate human cognition, reason, experience, culture, etc. to build a worthwhile artificial intelligence.

I think this is the greatest error that many people make in approaching AI. AI need not be complete, nor need it be like us, it merely needs to be functional and useful. It may well be that an automated agent that can do limited research for you in a manner similar in scope to Watson may not even remotely "understand" in a human sense the knowledge it is exploring, but perhaps it doesn't need to. Anymore than a 747 needs to understand how to fly.
Yes, you are quite right. I should have done that.
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Pizza Hut along with Justin Bieber is taking part in a wonderful cause, donating to 'Pencils of Promise' which is a wonderful organization committed to promoting literacy to kids who cannot afford education themselves.
In case I'm not the only person who thought “What’s Racket?”, it’s the language formerly known as PLT Scheme. It was renamed last year.
Chips that are able to put out more power than current netbooks and still fit into smarphones are not too far away, I'd expect those be ready for market in couple years. Handhelds would be phones that could also be used as laptops/dockable computers. Meego and Qt makes it almost trivial to make same apps work on touchscreen and also with traditional monitor/mouse/keyboard. Remember, the OS is not the platform anymore, it's the app ecosystem.

>Apple for one is known to be looking way ahead of "current market".

So was Nokia. So was Microsoft. It is easy get stuck into profitable segment and not to expand in fear of losses.
Ask HN: What webinar solution would you recommend?
GoToWebinar at $100/month is pricey for me.
I guess it depends on the interpretation of "some", but it only broadly says what he did (mostly keeping the market shielded off from international influences it seems, not quite what other countries should emulate - imagine what would happen if T-bonds weren't available to international buyers, or if Americans couldn't freely invest world-wide). It has no details on the economic landscape in India (for example, I have no idea about the housing market there) and it certainly doesn't address the question what effect a looser regime would have had in the light of the economic issues of 2008/09.

Now it's an NYT article, on the guy itself and not so much on the economic issues, so for the article, it's fine. But the claim that India was shielded from more economic woes because of this guy is a claim that cannot be backed up with just what is in this article.
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I sometimes use http://www.chromeplus.org/ it is supposed to be more careful with my private data
nginx is great. so is lighttpd.

but so is apache + php + apc + memcached. easy to set up, and with minimal work to write a wrapper, you have a very effective web + caching. don't understand why PHP + APC + memcached gets such short shrift.
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Do you seriously think that either I or the OP didnt realize that? The OP even says "why not desktop linux"!

The question is why Android rather than Linux. Saying Android is Linux doesn't explain anything at all.
Canary & Dev on Windows, Dev on Mac and Linux.
That looks like a promising future.
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Watson on Jeopardy, day 1 of 3 (video)
Part II: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtHlxzOXgYs
Reminds me of the law that existed up until recently in south korea mandating that all financial transactions had to be encrypted using ActiveX. Yes. You read that right. It is as mad as it sounds.

http://www.kanai.net/weblog/archive/2007/01/26/00h53m55s#003...
yes their software used to be the best but that was a long time ago, and things were simpler then.

From what I can tell they are cancelling all their different software efforts and focusing on making great hardware to go with Microsofts operating system. What makes you think this is making their lack of focus worse? Sounds to me like it's a step in the right direction? If they were adding WP7 to their current offerings I'd agree but I thought they weren't doing that?
"Commercial" is not the opposite of "open source" or "free software", "proprietary" is. And "proprietary" software can be sold or given away in a non-commercial, or non-profit making manner just like FLOSS. The two issues are almost entirely orthogonal.
You're welcome! I think I see your problem in 3, (2 isn't too hard, you can buy your DNA sequence for ~$200). There are a lot of logistics companies which may have valuable data but can't mine them properly (especially the smaller, not Fedex or DHL).

I don't know which industries interests you, but there are some industry sectors like logistics, agriculture or finance which heavily rely on new insights from their data.

You could start as a consultant for one company and build a product (consultingware). If it works successfully offer it other companies (http://nukemanbill.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-sell-your-sof...).
What is your view of books like "Infinite Loop" - which certainly portray Jobs in a somewhat unflattering light?

Clearly Jobs is a genius, but that doesn't mean he's a saint.
Google culture... don’t try to imitate it. Let it evolve and flourish.
This is amazingly hilarious, given the company's real roots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia

"In 1898, Eduard Polón founded Finnish Rubber Works, manufacturer of galoshes and other rubber products, which later became Nokia's rubber business.[28] At the beginning of the 20th century, Finnish Rubber Works established its factories near the town of Nokia and began using Nokia as its product brand.[31] In 1912, Arvid Wickström founded Finnish Cable Works, producer of telephone, telegraph and electrical cables and the foundation of Nokia's cable and electronics businesses.[28] At the end of the 1910s, shortly after World War I, the Nokia Company was nearing bankruptcy.[32] To ensure the continuation of electricity supply from Nokia's generators, Finnish Rubber Works acquired the business of the insolvent company.[32] In 1922, Finnish Rubber Works acquired Finnish Cable Works.[33] In 1937, Verner Weckman, a sport wrestler and Finland's first Olympic Gold medalist, became President of Finnish Cable Works, after 16 years as its Technical Director.[34] After World War II, Finnish Cable Works supplied cables to the Soviet Union as part of Finland's war reparations. This gave the company a good foothold for later trade.[34]

The three companies, which had been jointly owned since 1922, were merged to form a new industrial conglomerate, Nokia Corporation in 1967 and paved the way for Nokia's future as a global corporation.[35] The new company was involved in many industries, producing at one time or another paper products, car and bicycle tires, footwear (including rubber boots), communications cables, televisions and other consumer electronics, personal computers, electricity generation machinery, robotics, capacitors, military communications and equipment (such as the SANLA M/90 device and the M61 gas mask for the Finnish Army), plastics, aluminium and chemicals.[27] Each business unit had its own director who reported to the first Nokia Corporation President, Björn Westerlund. As the president of the Finnish Cable Works, he had been responsible for setting up the company’s first electronics department in 1960, sowing the seeds of Nokia’s future in telecommunications.[36]"
Well EE is nasty and I hate it, but they have the right if they choose to do so. Anyway they didn't steal the contents from anywhere. That being said, I'll probably add EE to my block list :)
There were several reports of Jonathan actively shopping the patent portfolio for offensive use as part of the sale. Could just be idle gossip though.
> Because it solved problems (granted, all of the easiest and least important problems).

Unifying the benefits of email and IM in a single conversation isn't, for me, easy or unimportant.

I thought Wave was engineering led rather than user led, but with some polish and integration into existing apps (like GMail and Outlook) could have been a killer.
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I'm curious. Do you have any thoughts on what he might have setup in the wrong way?
I use the stable build on my desktops, and the dev build on my laptops (including a Cr-48).
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No, if you re-read it, I implied that the market cap could be lower or higher. The car example said that either you have more buyers than you need, or less buyers than you need. You would end up with less than, or more than $1 million dollars, but it's unlikely you'd end up with exactly that amount.

Indeed an open-market acquisition is a good indicator of the value of the company - the value of anything being what someone is willing to pay for it.
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I agree. Totally essential, and really good for team motivation too.
Yes, this is what I thought he was saying, but I was thrown off by his 'I think this is entirely new' comment in the beginning. Pre-generating pages when the data changes is not new, we did it in 2000. Maybe I didn't fully understand and there is some aspect of it that is new (for example we used disk-based caches, not memory, but that doesn't really change the idea imo).
That was a joke. (I'm a student at IITK.)
IMHO .....because it was,
the real problem was that people didnt see its value, scalable online collaborative editing where some of the editors are programmable bots, i dont think people really realised its potential sadly.....
One day you will realise that printing money does not increase wealth. Sure, it increases all sorts of economic indexes but nobody gets richer because more bits of paper are circulating around. It takes a while for the effect to take root, but sure as apples, take root it will.

Austerity programs are taking the medicine after the party. Printing money and borrowing more is hair of the dog. Guess which person ends up with the biggest hangover?
A dependency graph between database tables and pages, no? How to define 'page' depends on the rest of the application, I guess in most frameworks it would be 'module' + 'action'.
"Is 12,000 requests per second terrible/good/great performance?"

Re: this, I don't understand this type of benchmark. A 'request' is completely undefined. Serving 12k 5-byte static pages is quite different from serving 12k frontpages with 25 db queries behind them. Is there an industry-standard interpretation of 'request' that I'm not aware of?
I've looked into this before and believe the core issue is that the power to light the screen dwarfs any savings possible from ARM vs x86 so as device and screen size increases, you're getting less and less benefit from ARM power saving and losing compatibility, speed and mass production benefits of x86. Even the iPad screen is after all only 10 inches, which is tiny for a laptop, the iPhone is a ninth as big an area to light up.
Ask HN: how my Facebook app can go viral?pls any suggestion
i have created one facebook app ,by which user can have random stranger chat like "omegle",difference is,omegle is totally anonymous ,and in my app i shows users facebook profile picture,so anybody tell me how my app can be viral? my app url is http://apps.facebook.com/thechatbookapp
I can't recommend these enough. Some thoughts:

1) If it requires > 5 seconds to refresh a page, you should be doing a cron job (or whatever) to generate and then just reading from cached data. If you have any pain in accessing data, you won't make decisions based on data.

2) I like to periodically update my dashboards to a) combat trend blindness and b) include new widgets for projects that have upcoming decisions to be made, like "Should I scale out this new SEO mini-project?" (You'd want data which showed you whether it was working or not.)

3) The point of having eye candy is not to display numbers, it is to make the right decisions. Don't include stuff that isn't actionable. (Exception: need to bamboozle investors? Give them all the data they want and more.)
Increase the lifespan of Symbian to a minimum of 5 years. Reap the profits of the existing market share and consumer preference that Symbian already enjoys in Europe and Asia.

Delusional.

Transition to an R&D setup where 90% of all Nokia R&D takes place in only two geographical locations. One of them will be in Finland and the other will be defined later.

actively visit top universities worldwide to screen and and invite top students for interviews in Nokia R&D locations.

That's a lot of long-distance flights to Finland.
Beta user here
No, it isn't undeniable. IMO it's quite the opposite.

Are you saying that the software is the place it's the easiest to create a competitive advantage? (I understand that shareholder value equals to competitive advantage)

This statement is logically wrong - if it's easy for everybody to create a competitive advantage, then it's easy for nobody.

Or did you mean "It's software where Nokia can gain a competitive advantage against the competition". If so, then you should explain what is so special about Nokia.. Because from what we've seen so far this company proved anything but that it can do software well.

Or didn't mean a competitive advantage, but just innovation and differentiation? (I think that most people that repeat this statement do think it). Well - it is indeed easy to innovate and differentiate in software (change the UI, add some bells and whistles). But does it lead to the competitive advantage and shareholder value? There are plenty of examples to show that it doesn't (Symbian, BeOS to name a few).

So: no. Just because Apple uses software to gain shareholder value doesn't mean that it's just as good an idea for other hardware producers.
This was instituted when I was still at IIT because some people just /stopped/ studying, quite literally. I suppose it was a simpler solution than offering counseling for what could (I suppose) be called 'net addiction'. Ahh, memories :)
I take it you have never had to work with a team in a different time zone? It's hard enough staying in touch with the guys that come into the office at different hours than mine. Any more separation comes at an unbelievably high cost, in my experience.
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Do a lot of startups make their own dashboards like this to show their specific data?
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I believe the banks do offer an alternative to go online and generate an OTP.

Of course, this does defeat the purpose of an IVR transaction :)

For what it's worth, I'm optimistic: the banks might listen to customer complaints and actually do something about it. I admit that I have no idea what they could do: AFAIK there's no way a telco could even guarantee that a SMS is delivered immediately after it is sent
With bezier curves (it's prettier) in Canvas/Coffeescript (assuming an existing global canvas context 'ctx'):

heart = (scale,x,y)->
ctx.beginPath()
ctx.moveTo(x,y)
p1 = [x-75*scale,y+20*scale]
ctx.bezierCurveTo(x-20*scale,y-55*scale,p1[0]-50*scale,p1[1]-55*scale,p1...)
p2 = [x,p1[1]+60*scale]
ctx.bezierCurveTo(p1[0]+25*scale,p1[1]+22.5*scale,p2[0]-35*scale,p2[1]-40*scale,p2...)

ctx.moveTo(x,y)
p1 = [x+75*scale,y+20*scale]
ctx.bezierCurveTo(x+20*scale,y-55*scale,p1[0]+50*scale,p1[1]-55*scale,p1...)
p2 = [x,p1[1]+60*scale]
ctx.bezierCurveTo(p1[0]-25*scale,p1[1]+22.5*scale,p2[0]+35*scale,p2[1]-40*scale,p2...)

ctx.strokeStyle = 'rgba(255,40,20,0.7)'
ctx.stroke()

heart(1.0, 450, 250)
I'm not sure why people are anti wave. I still use it for the purpose of multiple collaboration and it serves that purpose well. I honestly do not think it is "ultimately useless".
I think this is a nice point:
>> 2) I like to periodically update my dashboards to a) combat trend blindness

Totally happens all the time
I'm not so sure all of the barriers to entry have evaporated. they have just changed.

You can look at netflix , amazon , google and apple and the ISP's. each have a huge competitive barrier : wheter it's huge customer base , big data , big "relationships" , huge brand , huge brain trusts, large manufacturing volume, network effects, large costly infrasturtuce or a very very efficent logistical system. those are things that costs alot of money and are not easy to scale.

And if all that doesn't work , in many cases you can just buy your future disruptor.
I don't know Quora. Is it all like this? (hearsay, public knowledge with some narrative on top)
All you need is an app store to install linux desktop apps on your phone? Even the dreaded Microsoft worked out that phones aren't tiny desktop PCs.
No, their problem is exactly that. They can't write software.

A software on 3310/6310 was much simpler than what we have today. It was hard to write because of the hardware requirements, but it was simple in design.
...Those sound just like the kind of person that they should want using their service. If you're unhappy with something being attributed to you years later then you're probably writing crap.

(I do think that people might just pick 'real sounding' names though. They should try to make this the exception though...)
It's not intentional discrimination, but it has a discriminatory - harassing Arab and Indian customers more often.

Whatever the case, it makes them come across as jackasses.

It's not like "real sounding names" is going to prevent trolls. Trolls have the time and patience to pick a credible-sounding fake name. People who want to use the site for it's proper purpose will just feel insulted.

If they want real names, they could do it just by creating social pressure to provide a real name, and doing the Facebook trick of using user-submitted data to build your user name. If a few hold-outs don't want to play along with it, what's the big problem?
Roambi does look much more like it is targeted at enterprises rather than start-ups - pretty neat that it integrates directly with stuff like Essbase.