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That's pretty interesting. I often dream about problems related to my code (usually trying to solve some problem) but I've never had a dream about syntax or refactoring.
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This author could have written this article about any of the current crop of browsers. I mean, tabs, status bar, and history--wow, no other browsers ever had those! Oh, wait..
I believe my rationale at the time was that my implementation would probably be imperfect in some way wrt the de facto standard of the reference implementation, so I didn't want to presumptuously call it "Arc."

And also, every project should have a cute name. My only regret is that I didn't have a logo design contest and print up T-shirts.
That BMJ parachute article has made the rounds for years now. I think I last saw it a week or two ago on reddit. I wonder if the Freakonomics guys are now entering the same sort of funk that Merlin of 43 Folders says he's coming out of.
I definitely agree with that
Did anyone not think of that as a reply?
Probably caused by a faulty wind generating turbine.
Misconfigured mime-types is not something kids will understand.
Maybe thats not such a bad idea.
Clearly the person I want in office is the candidate who is the brightest. Who therefore attracts the brightest people to volunteer for his campaign. And results in a sensible web site.

hm... I think CampaignWebSite will be my personal irrelevant and irresponsible metric for electing the Most Powerful Person On Earth.

Can't be any worse than the factors other people use.
I also don't think series A, B, Q or Z funding should be a measure of success.
Wow, exceedingly intelligent comments on this thread. (Yes, that's sarcasm.) I'm not going to complain that this is on the front page, but seriously... #1? 77 upvotes?
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I imagine that Google has a clean tech agenda here as well as a 'how do I cool & power a data center' agenda.
The technology is secondary. Firefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate. For many people IE == internet, and the only brand in the world that can compete is Google. They "abandoned" Firefox so that our parents will abandon IE.
So the Bush admin basically drops an antitrust lawsuit Clinton had already won against Microsoft, yet it's going to go after Google?
I spend a fair amount of time in NE Ohio and Western PA (probably 10-30% of the year).
The article doesn't touch on medical uses other than the same therapeutic ones as other psychedelics and I doubt that salvia would be as good medically in that sense as the more traditional psychedelics.

This is the most interesting medical usage of salvia: a new atypical opioid. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herkinorin
Try writing a (general purpose) language -- syntax and refactoring are the problem! :)
I guess that is the control group for the Emulex Hoax: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulex_hoax
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Just think about it. This is the same market dynamic that has been eroding the revenues of TV broadcasters ever since Tivo provided an easy mechanism for skipping ads. Don't you think that if most web surfers were given easy options for turning off web ads and/or making themselves more anonymous online, they would take advantage of it? The two hurdles to users doing this currently are: 1) installing Firefox, 2) installing the right addons. Granted those hurdles are still too high for a large percentage of web surfers, but I believe that if the Google-Firefox alliance breaks down over Chrome, that second hurdle will eventually go away, because it makes sense from a user experience perspective to bundle those options with the browser.

And no, I have no evidence or special insight into what high-level strategic discussions are taking place at Google or Microsoft. I'm just going out on a limb and guessing that those discussions are not about Webkit.
heh. How many people just Googled "Abraham Lincoln's favorite color"?
Another step to protect user privacy
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Top-shelf PC games without an integral multiplayer component are dead. It's getting to the point now that sales barely justify straight console-to-PC ports, much less expensive titles like Spore.
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When I was in college (not that long ago) I had a COBOL class. I learned exactly one thing from that class: It is astonishingly...astonishingly...easy to fuck up financial apps. If you see a webpage where the margins are off, or the text doesn't align...that's bad. But in a financial app, the equivilent bug amounts to catastrophe.
Windows doesn't take 8 hours to reboot. I'm gonna guess that it was some data corruption or hardware failure that forced a rebuild of some large database node.
I sold my friend a barrel of oil for $1 yesterday, briefly wiping out the world economy.
I must be the customer who gives them the hardest time (not that I intend to but I move like 5 times in the last 12 months from city to city) and they are always nice and as you say, they respond within minutes.
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Unique to GTD?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tickler_file

Perhaps not.
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An interesting take: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/magazine/07awareness-t.htm...
It will be interesting to see if anyone made money off of the false information and goes to jail because of it.
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Still a little expensive, but downright fascinating. Someone has put a heck of a lot of time into this.

It looks like they give you your own raw genomics data! Fun fun fun!
It will also be interesting to see if anyone made money off of it legally and doesn't go to jail. Probably a lot of lucky day traders.
Tracking the spread of this trend around the world...

http://edopter.com/trends/Offshore_Data_Centers
But that's the problem. I dislike most programmer/hacker types. While I think I've something of a hacker personality, I'm far more a critic than I am a hacker. And most hackers are completely unpolished and unfocused. The people who follow my account on Twitter, for instance, are the sorts of people who constantly linkspam. I can't stand that. And I find some people on Twitter funny, but that isn't productive and it's not thought-provoking. Blog posts at least provide some thought: Twitter, I find, rarely does.
Having been on both sides of this, this looks strange.

I've never even heard of "exchangeable shares." I wonder what this is designed to protect against? An angel takes fewer protections but is also getting in a much more favorable price. Nor does the angel have any LPs to answer to.

5 person board is huge and unwieldy. Can you imagine how hard it will be to get 5 people organized for a board meeting?

I think a normal vesting schedule makes more sense, perhaps with double-trigger acceleration.

Right of first refusal will make future funding rounds hard, especially since the future round really ought to be priced by a new party. Typically, a prorata share is offered. This is very important in the event of a down round.

I wish I could have done my legal work for $6k. That doesn't smell likely to me.
But to that degree, the most efficient designs require thought. For instance, people react to some typography different than they do to others. To different colors. Programs that don't think about that tend to miss out on some fairly obvious design things that stand out like a sore thumb.
Yep! Was there a lot of discussion back when THAT announcement was made?
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Videogames are becoming the new hotbed of scientific thinking for kids today.
Not really that much higher.

It's not like they'd ship a new one out from the mainland every time one failed -- they'd have a huge stack of spares sitting around on the rig and replenish it every now and then.
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Blocking IE7 is overboard. If the browser is your platform, I'd forgive blocking IE6.

If you're selling a desktop application, blocking IE6 or IE7 doesn't make financial sense.
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-They do, but that refers (again) to the CORE. Developers can do whatever they damn well please.

-Citation needed. CustomizeGoogle makes Google ugly. I see no reason why Firefox would do that. And AdBlock is a big deal, but at the same time, it's a bulky implementation and Firefox needs, more than anything, to slim down. Meanwhile, Google and Firefox programmers have similar motives and a similar system to work from. Firefox will copy Chrome, Chrome will get plug-ins, and then it's likely they'll stay as much in tandem as all the big compliant browsers are now.

-Most people don't CARE about profile tracking, first-off. Google, meanwhile, has announced that they'll be making a system for plug-ins, by which we assume they mean extensions, and one of the first ones that always gets made is an AdBlocker. Your Chrome argument is stupid: you can choose NOT to send data to Google if you choose, and if you do then you're totally off the loop. Like Google Toolbar for, what's the name again, Firefox.

Bonus comment:

-I understand that Ashu made a relevant comment that happened to knock yours back, but if somebody argues with you, don't get snipy. It pisses us third-party viewers off. Just argue back with your points and with minimum arrogance, and hopefully people will upvote you if what you're saying is relevant at all. In your case, though, you're arguing a fairly moot case and you're doing it in a pretty factless way, so you'd do best to reassemble your argument if anything.
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Nah. Google has a brand going. People will avoid Live Search if it's placed in front of them. Google has a rep as "most relevant" and that's hard to knock back.
Yeah. Among the young especially, Microsoft has a terrible name.
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so I guess this means the injunction was lifted?
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no story, just a link to a company that has been around for a year? and said link appears out of nowhere to rise to the top of HN even though there is nothing worthy about it?

can you say "PAID LINK PLACEMENT" children?

so sad for HN to go this route

p.s. 23andme and their ilk have been prohibited from marketing their services as medicine in california, since their genetic "scorecard" has been shown to be junk science...
We are officially licensed in California, NY is still pending.
This deal was mostly a lifeline to yahoo. If they didn't do it, the result would probably be worse for yahoo.
Let me know when you've got a 454 or Solexa, then I'll sign up... :)
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http://thebmxr.googlepages.com/home2 shows a video of it being done but you have a good point.
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I think you've filtered out some of the best stuff, I personally really like all the ask stuff.

Having one image of the site being linked too on the left with the content on the right or something might make it easier to skim the content, and right now you have a bunch of html mark-up in the content which of course makes it difficult to read.

The number of votes and comments I think is also key.
I personally couldn't entrust my wealth to someone named "Raleigh Rails." But then I don't actually have any wealth.
Firefox, Safari, and Opera are horrible brands that non-technical people hate.

Um, really? Most of my friends who use Firefox quite like it. Those who use Macs use Safari, for the most part. Basically no one has heard of Opera. But I don't know of a single non-technical user who "hates" any of those brands.

For many people IE == internet

I think you give far too little credit to most Internet users. Even among older users, the vast majority are aware of the difference between a client application and a website.
Its really intriguing how Google, in spite of its ever-growing size, is able to come up with out of the box solutions.
Great news =)

Good but here are things that will help me bite:

- $299-199

- a better database for people with Asian heritage. I could be wrong but I think no company in the West has this yet - well a company in Greenland is working on a partnership with a Hong Kong company

- something like HIPAA or some privacy clause. I don't want my insurance companies to know I'm genetically prone to X

- I'm not keen on someone trying to patent my genes either (don't know if you guys will or not though)
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“This was a very serious event that impacted our stock, and caused trading to be halted,” she said. “This is what happens when people are irresponsible and don’t check facts.”

If I ever have a few billion dollars lying around, I think I'm going to slowly buy United stock and then randomly dump it all one day... just to annoy her. I can see the quote:

“This was a very serious event that impacted our stock, and caused trading to be halted,” she said. “This is what happens when jrockway has too much money on his hands.”
Word to the wise: live.com is as good, if not better, than google right now. There is a lot of underlying vulnerability, though I agree that google is the dominant brand. It would take a 10 minute experiment for Mr Average to switch.
Why is this considered "radical"?
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Just messing with the OCD crew a bit :)
Why do you want a 454? I mean, as awesome as it would be to know your own genetic code, it would be of no practical use to you, even if you had a full featured tool to explore it.

And don't even get me started on personal epigenome or miRNA-omes.
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There's lots of other speculation about why PC gaming is on the way out. Shamus Young (http://shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/) generally has the view that PC gaming was killed by a) Excessive focus on graphics (which he has termed "bling mapping"), and b) Overly byzantine DRM. But mainly a, although the response to spore seems to indicate that people gasp actually like owning the things they buy.
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Man you should do something on the designing and UI of the site... its just not rocking enuf! :)
I'll suggest to get the site down for a week or two... re-design (seriously.. take care of colors and alignment.. content too.. maybe seek help from rock-events posters or sumthin lik tht) and then re-launch... because as per me, first impression is the last!
That game was sooo overhyped. It takes you about 3 hours total to go from the spore to the space age, and at the space age it gets very boring.
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To address some of the things you mentioned:

- as we add more people to our database (including Asians), we can make new discoveries relevant to particular genetic groups

- GINA prohibits employers/insurers from discriminating against you based on your genetic info

- we will not patent genes. we want to empower people by giving them the ability to access and interact with their genetic information
I can see Google filing all these patents on wacky ideas that they never intend to build, just so Microsoft goes nuts saying "me too! me too!" and wastes money trying to implement what it thinks Google is doing.
I hate to be negative about a startup that way, but it's important to realize that "direct-to-consumer genomics" is a scam. I went to a presentation by a founder of one the competitors (there are 3-4 high-flying competitors in the business), and I had the highest expectations. But then throughout the presentation I couldn't quite figure out what the company actually does. So I asked. And the answer is marketing and litigation.

* these companies don't do any research

* they don't even own sequencing equipment

* all they do is send a sample of your spit to the lab, and send you a pretty writeup

* consider why is there no "direct-to-consumer blood tests" even though that information is far more actionable

I wouldn't even have a problem with this if it was a proper scam, like XanGo MLM, a nice nutritional supplement scheme, make-money-fast setup, etc. With these you know upfront what you are getting into. But these guys look so clean, and go out of their way to skate the narrow line next to the true medical advice. Needless to say the legal budgets must be non-trivial.

I ran this by my cousin who is in nursing school. And she goes "Oh yuh, they are teaching us how to talk to people about all the nonsense results people [in increasing numbers] will get through these outfits."

Some more reading: http://microarray.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/deadline-today-fo...
>GINA prohibits employers/insurers from discriminating against you based on your genetic info

Laws change. And the value of words like "discriminating" also changes with various interpretations.

There are right and wrong ways to protect the privacy of customers. Relying on laws is one of the wrong ways.
It was a fun challenge to figure out what the product is. Their site is created by another firm, but that firm's portfolio doesn't show any other cases of blocking IE7 that I could find. That would imply to me that that it wasn't thoughtlessness or arrogance on the part of the designer -- they were presumably asked to do that.

Granted the product is Mac only, but doing that to even the front page of your website is pretty ridiculous.

For what it's worth it renders poorly for me in opera because I've set Tools -> Preferences -> Web Pages -> Fit to Width on my machine, making 1024x768 browsing somewhat better by default.
Disappointed in the article, it gives no info on how the car actually works.

Building the car:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQfm4IycP7Y

Some test driving videos:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay4zPq5O9nY&feature=relat...
I agree... As anecdotal evidence, there's the fact that "to google" is becoming a more and more common verb, while "to live search" isn't.
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It's good to see that video games do more than just improve your hand eye coordination.

I would have enjoyed grade school and high school a lot more if I had to play some video games for homework.
How would wind turbines for the home or office drive down solar prices? Competition in the market place for alternative sources of energy perhaps?
Brazil isn't exactly a 3rd world country, but thank you for your input. A great example or using our resources more effectively.

I asked about the feasibility of recycling plants because I can recall seeing piles of trash (plastics, paper, cans, food, etc) in Indonesia all over the place. Even right next to some of the local shrines. Locals may reuse/recycle some items but it looked like most of their trash when into these piles that were often burned at some point in time. The thick black smoke billowing off of these smoldering trash heaps was disgusting and can't be great for the peopl e or the environment.
Exactly! Thanks for pointing that out, not sure how I missed it.
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I wouldn't be surprised if the trading bots did it - they are getting very smart
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This is why you should test for capabilities, not agent strings. I propose a new string called "capabilities" which is a delimited list of standardized test suite sections your browser passes.

Of course, your browser could lie about its capabilities, as many Direct3D drivers do. And you will still need to test in every single browser, as game developers need to hire labs to test on the 150 most popular 3D cards.

Although, a web browser IS web-connected :-)
We could have another new string which is "I swear I am actually this browser and version." and someone (cough Google? cough) could create a web service with a mapping of real browser agent string to real tested no-foolies caps.
the trading bots did it on purpose - they are taking control of the system
What about TC40 DemoPit companies?
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For someone to sell the shares at $3 someone else had to buy them at that price.
Its impressive, but what I find depressing is that for it to be portable they have to use internal combustion engines (that have the side effect of making it look sound like a mosquito).

Its sad because I guess that makes fossil fuels still the most energy dense and practical portable form of energy.

Its am amazing achievement on the robotics side though.
Let me get this straight. If you are near my house, you can learn MAC address of my wifi rotuer. And then you will be able to use MAC address to know where I live.

I am not very frightened yet.
Bloomberg is sounding a lot like Wikipedia lately, except that when someone edits the 3 Doors Down Wikipedia entry to say that Avril Lavigne is their lead singer, nobody loses a billion.
Hey Pete good job, I didn't see the original launch but I'm fairly impressed with what you have now. The myspace music playing is really good and I do think it should auto start after you click on an artist. The map didnt really do anything for me but I noticed most of the gigs in my area (Perth Western Australia) didnt have any street address mentioned.

Anyway Congrats, I like.
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Hi izak,

This seems to be a bug that some other people are having also. I'm working on a fix for it and it'll be out for the next version.
I had read A Random Walk Down Wall Street in college. I truly thought that the markets were efficient, that any available knowledge about a company was already reflected in its stock price. Yet I saw Raleigh using the information I gave him to make money for his clients.

Heh, that's exactly what I'm experiencing now. I've always bought the efficient markets hypothesis (i.e., that current prices already factor in all available information). But, I've been meeting analysts who are supposedly experts in their respective fields, and I've come to a simple conclusion: they can't interpret the information they're given.

They are the kind of people who consider valuation by a constant multiple of eyeballs to be legitimate. They are the pointy-haired-bosses of the world, who read a few trade rags and think they are experts.

In one light, it's all rather depressing. In another, it seems like a great opportunity ;-)
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