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Ah extrapolation by mean difference. My favourite part is the assumption that growth will continue to accelerate as market share increases, when firstly, that doesn't make any sense, and secondly, we have data from Firefox's growth showing that the opposite happens.
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I completely see your point, and in many cases I agree with you. But there is sometimes a tendency for evolutionary biologists to assign deeper reasons to things that are just a consequence of physics. Occam's razor and all that.

In this particular case that fact that the phenomenon is not present when the nerves are severed does present a pretty relevant argument against simple biomechanics.
Google has a history of doing things like this. In their IPO filing, they intended to raise $2,718,281,828 [see https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/E_-_base_of_n...].
The G1 wasn't the start.

http://techcrunch.com/2007/12/17/android-prototype-lets-hope...
I wrote a simliar extension for CSS.

It's free in the Chrome store:
http://goo.gl/vWcqr
Great article! Thanks for being so prompt on this info!
Google should now spend Pi billion dollars lobbying the US government to abolish software patents. ;-)
Does FaceTime have any kind of momentum behind it right now that Google, Facebook, or Skype/Microsoft would care?

Especially since Apple decided to replace Facebook Auth with Twitter Auth for native iOS integration, I think we can disqualify that relationship at this point.

Personally, I've used FaceTime twice: Once when it first came out to try it out, and once more this week (4 months later) to surprise my girlfriend while I'm travelling because I know she had FaceTime installed on her Macbook and it pops up unexpectedly when you call.

Do other people use FaceTime a lot?
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Everyone has families, so that's a pretty big "other than". I live in a different country than my family, so I call them on Skype video 2-4 times a week.
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It's not automatic, but maybe we could create a directory of HN users on G+. I hear that the Google+ Developers API will be released soon, so we could use that to (hopefully) log into the directory. If you're logged in the directory would list all G+ HN users that you don't currently have added.

Just a thought.
Of course that kind of extrapolation is mostly just wishful thinking, but Google's success in this market is impressive. IMO they've raised the quality bar for all the other browsers in a very short time.
Honestly and evenly, if I'm a proficient vim/emacs user, why would I want to try this out?

I know there's plenty of market not underneath that hypothetical, but an editor has to answer that question to even register with me these days. I also assume I'm not alone.
It's great that Everyme is trying to address a very common contacts problem. I always use Google services to keep contacts up-to-date but when people change their contact details, I tend to confuse the old details with the new once after some time. And it's great Everyme is addressing this very same issue.

There are other problems related to contact management which some people usually get into too. I don't know if Everyme supports these, but here I go just in case.

1. Not every mobile network allows calling when you are using the international extension for a local number. For example I have a mobile number which I use in Singapore which doesn't allow me to use have the singapore's international calling code in the number to call from singapore to singapore. So having the international code added to the phone number doesn't make sense all the time. When switching to such a network, we have to change all the numbers to comply with these conditions.

2. Some mobile networks allows bypassing regular IDD and instead call through a VOIP service of their own. This is different from network operator to operator and operators require you to have a number prefix specific to the network if you want to make an international call through that service. But when you have more than 200-300 contacts in your phone, out of which at least 50 are contacts you regularly use, this becomes a headache to change these prefixes when you transfer from one network to other. I personally experience this trouble a lot as I am traveling between 4 countries regularly.

If Everyme can address these solutions, I'm sure this services will be a great win for lot of travelers.

Cheers!
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Things like this make it hard to ever really abolish patents, either a lot of companies would be out a lot of money or the government would have to reimburse they a lot of money.
"The size of the bribes indicates how much Montesinos was willing to pay to buy off those who could have
checked his power. The typical bribe paid to a television-channel owner was about a hundred times larger than that paid to a politician..."

Very interesting analysis, it measures the perceived power of the different political actors.
I live in Florida. We are middle of the pack as far as per student funding goes. Since $10,878 per student per year is insufficient, what funding level would you recommend?

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Is it just me or is Safari on Lion really fast?
Or it just the classic Hawthorne effect/"it seems snappier!" deal?
I don't understand why the article refers to this as "shenanigans that didn't work". The problem wasn't that they bid pi billion dollars. The problem was that they didn't have enough money to buy the patents.
I don't consider that sexism at all. It's a common term and everybody know's the meaning of it. It's not implying that women are less technically competent than their male counterparts, it's simply a term that's now used to define simplicity.

It reminds me of the South Park episode that circled around the word "fag". While it originally was a derogatory term used towards homosexuals, thats generally no longer the way it's used. I know myself, and many many others that occasionally drop the "fag" word and don't mean it as a negative connotation towards a homosexual. The same can be said for "so simple your mom could use it". The sex of the subject has very very little to do with the message being portrayed.

I personally think, if anything, people need to start being less sensitive to this type of stuff.
Hi Oliver,

Thanks for participating in this thread. Just out of curiosity, how will your service differentiate from iCloud for Apple users?
They certainly had the money, they just didn't bid enough money.
should have bid 2.71828 and 0.42331 bil.
Balsamiq or mockflow.com (Basic version is free but its kinda useless)

Also, go here for a good list of wireframing tools: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/01/35-excellent-wire...

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Depends how effective they are at converting people that don't really care. Pretty much everyone that really spends any time at all thinking about browsers and their differences would have already tried chrome.

I think they will continue to make inroads into IE with word of mouth recommendations and user frustration, a lot of the Firefox crowd though would be pretty happy with it and unlikely to change.
The sad thing is that Fujimori (who was Montesinos president and partner in crime) almost got a free pass out of prison a month ago by getting his daughter elected. Luckily half of Peruvians still have some kind of memory (I live in Peru) and voted for her opponent.
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Was that the problem? My understanding was that they could see the other bids, but chose not to bid higher.
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I don't see it that way. Abolishing software patents would only apply to new patents. Currently-in-force patents would just be allowed to expire at the normal timeline, which I think is around 20 years.
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They are a granted monopoly, you pay the filing fee whether it is accepted or not hence the gov't has no liability. Look at making gold illegal for examples of how the gov't can drastically devalue your assets with no recourse.
If anything, it's good for the brand (at least with the people that matter).
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I think it will level out eventually IMHO mostly because the other two probably will have users that really don't want to switch.
Interesting that Plaxo can be reinvented years later and get funded. And I don't mean that in a snarky way.
I've installed Chrome on at least 4 people's computers and they are still using it. If you win over the geeks, you get a lot of other 'dependent' people.

Business usage will be harder, though... Maybe if Chromebooks really take off.
Indeed. Even the comic book that they released to explain the innovations of Chrome was a great idea to make people understand and care more about this important piece of software.
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Google has 36 billion dollars of cash on hand, so they had the money, they apparently weren't willing to bid more than pi billion though.
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I'm unsurprised people are unwilling to pay for this service: InboxCleaner provides very little added value on top of a service which is free.

Further: it's trivial for a competitor to undercut your app with a free alternative. I suggest you give this away for free to (a) build goodwill and (b) attract people to your other products.

Another thought: you mess with your pricing an awful lot. If I was your customer, and recommending your product to my friends, I'd be pretty pissed to find out the price has changed and made me a liar.
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I think it encourages a very high signal/noise ratio with the right moderation. eg whirlpool.net.au. Posters are encouraged to make their own threads, not go offtopic, etc.
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* More ads than content on shopping cart and product pages

* Pages with huge "CONTINUE (and add $29.99/mo email+superAWESOMETASTIC email hosting to cart)" and tiny "Continue without adding to cart" links

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* Alleged theft of domains[0]

* Killing of elephants

Godaddy tricks people who don't know better into using their products, then makes an impossible maze of an interface to discourage leaving. Godaddy is like a shameless salesman that will do anything to get you to just buy one more $19.99 something or other. If you model your business after that, best of luck to you, but i won't be a customer any time soon.

[0] I'm not sure if there was ever conclusive proof of this, but it sure looked suspicious. Grain of salt.
These "tests" are hardly a measure of competence. A good quantitative score to measure competence should be measured over a longer period of time.

There are good programmers in India. But the signal to noise ratio is very high. IMO, this is attributed to an over abundance of engineering colleges with poor faculty quality.
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Indeed, encrypting something that's already encrypted isn't a bad thing
I, too, also immediately thought, 'So . . . Plaxo for your phone?' I notice that they have avoided any mention of Plaxo, so hopefully their service will not be a spammy waste.
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The skeptic in me suspects that companies doing this are counting on group dynamics to bring the actual number of vacation days below the usual number.

I looked around on Google a bit for statistics, but I couldn't find them. I did find some research that mentions unlimited leave / vacation and they found that 1% of companies offered it last year, but they don't show how much people use it.
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Some articles mention studies showing that productivity has gone up as a result of such a policy. Again, the skeptic in me wonders how much of that productivity is due to people taking less holidays. On the other hand, I rarely trust any metric of productivity anyway.
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Not to mention market share can't exceed 100%...
I'm leaning very much towards everyone owning their own data. If someone doesn't want you to have their phone number, but you already know it, I don't think it's fair that the number should be deleted.

As Everyme syncs everywhere, deleting any type of info would be very, very bad.
Thanks, good point, I'll change that.
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It's nice that you download the mp3 or watch the video.

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iCloud is basically just for syncing your contacts that you manually created. We actually use iCloud to make syncing everywhere possible.

For example, if a person changes their phone number, that gets pushed to Everyme, which then is pushed to iCloud. As such, all of your devices now have the up-to-date info.
Really? Why do you say so?
We've definitely learnt from Plaxo's mistakes. Our invite system is incredibly polite, for example if 10 people invite you, you'll only ever get one email.
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Thanks for the frozenset. Yet pickle makes the file 2 times bigger and 20 times slower to parse on my machine:

>python wordlist.py -w wordlist -p wordlist.pkl
>python wordlist.py -T wordlist wordlist.pkl 10 3
2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:46:32) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)]
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words_slower(wordfile): 161.00 best msec/loop
words_normalized(wordfile): 295.84 best msec/loop
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Do you have different results?
Arg! I misread the title as "Why Yo-Yo Ma won't use Google+..." Interesting article anyway. I've heard more than one person say that people aren't going to switch from Facebook. As someone who doesn't use Facebook... I think I might actually use Google+ Then again I said that about Wave too.
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The South Park guys recently had a funny take on this: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/388732/its-called-gett...

The idea is that, to the extent their kids are 'hip', you could also seek out the parents who are having a mid-life crisis.
I dunno, I guess services like this have kind of jumped the shark for me personally. Google+ ties much of this up in a nice little bow, for how I want to consume this data.
iOS and web at first, then followed shortly by Android.
For the people who don't care what browser they use, Google is converting them by bundling Chrome with other products like Skype, which automatically installs Chrome and makes it the default browser on IE users' computers. I posted some more details about this in the previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2719358
My take from the article is that the patents fetched so much money because they would be a good defense against being sued. In Google's case, 'the search giant's interest was primarily defensive, “to create a disincentive for others to sue Google."'

So the patents don't represent innovation to the bidders, the patents represent a legal defense fund.
I don't think they are going to "just plug in to Skype" -- sources seem to suggest that there will be some sort of browser based experience. That said, they can definitely get a leg up on Google+ if they don't require you to download a plug-in.
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Ah, interesting. Yeah, that sounds like they're just planning to stop optimizing V8 or something, since you can clearly do better than that. The type inference branch of Jaegermonkey is already faster than V8+Crankshaft on compute-heavy (as opposed to GC-heavy, where V8's better garbage collector gives it a big edge) workloads, and that's without LICM or smart register allocation or any of the other global optimizations that are still coming online.

It's unfortunate that Google is deciding to focus on Native Client, with its portability issues, if that's what's going on.
One of the many reasons this sort of simple extrapolation of current trends makes no sense in the long run.
I'd guess that the reason their bribes were higher isn't because they had more power, but because they had more money. If a politician is making 50k, a 10k bribe would be significant. That same 10k is a drop in the bucket for a tv station owner with millions.
But they said Google News is just a part of it, since they also show blogs, videos, etc

Google's search result pages have options to search blogs, videos, realtime, etc too. Seems like they just integrated this functionality into Plus.
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In some ways that seems even worse. Canned messages that you have to inflict on your friends to use something are one step shy of pure spam. They also seem to be ignored in much the same ways.
Another option is to test password complexity in javascript on client (ála Google and others), which provides immediate feedback to the user. This is prone to a dictionary attack only if the user uses well known character replacements like 'p@$sw0rd', which pass these tests undetected.

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But taking a random sample of people and getting a hopefully-large-enough subset of their friends is not what you want for a social product: you want all of your friends in it, or you just get frustrated and go back to your previous solutions. Facebook /nailed this/ with their multi-year long staged rollout by targeting colleges: already self-contained social ecosystems where almost all of a student's friends are going to be other students; you start with one college, then two, then slowly ramp up until you can flip the big switch. Google simply does not understand this, and keeps falling back to their experience with Gmail, which was a fundamentally different beast.
Yea, who do you think Larry Page and Sergey Brin is?
The real interesting thing in the article isn't that the nerd number bids, it's how the alliances formed. They weren't set going in, people hit their limit then looked to buy into an alliance. Intel chose to partner with Google instead of Microsoft and Apple. Android vendor Sony-Ericsson went with Apple instead of Google.
Is it possible by any mean?
What about having a '+1' button on Facebook and 'Like' button on Google+ !
So they're just betting on an acquisition? How about explaining how they're gonna make money w/o resorting to that?
True, although my impression is that in most startups the folks putting in long hours actually own company stock and are hoping for a huge pay-off eventually.
The ads and interface have always been a pain, yes. But I wouldn't call their domains overpriced...I've used coupon codes from RetailMeNot and other sites for years and have gotten domains for 7.99/yr (at most). And that's renewals and new domains.

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