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In certain verticals, Bing really outshines Google like travel search, video search, and image search. Bing maps is really quite good.

Microsoft is a cash cow, and has multiple sources of strong revenue. Google has one: advertising. Microsoft can afford to bleed cash for years, just to give Google a black eye.

Microsoft only this past year got out from under government oversight for antitrust violations. I've spent quite a bit of time talking to people at Microsoft the past 2 years. A lot of the BizSpark team are ex-Sun people. And a number of them have mentioned to me how shocked they were at how profoundly the anti trust litigation still affected employees within the company 10 years later.

Windows 8 is the first OS since ME that comes out without government anti trust oversight, and it looks like Microsoft has come out swinging, both at Apple and Google. http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/BUILD/BUILD2011/KEY-0001

Google is just now starting to get into anti trust how water, and I have no idea how they are going to get out of it. I think Yelp in particular has a really strong case: http://www.pcworld.com/article/240330/google_faces_antitrust...
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Yes, and the changes have pretty much ruined the iOS app's "news" display.
Hopefully they'll ditch the external antennas so you can actually make a phone call no matter how "incorrectly" you hold the phone.
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>“The carriers are beginning to coalesce around the need for a third ecosystem,” said McAdam.

But can the carriers cause that to happen if not enough consumers want the third choice? In other words, how much influence do the carriers have here?
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The queries people do when testing a search engine are very different from the queries they do in real life. For starters, the first thing people do to test a search engine is to search for their own name.
Connect/Express do little more than set up a callback chain for you that passes along the request and response objects it received from node's request listener.

Strata gives you a sane environment modeled after the WSGI/Rack/CGI model, which has been the backbone of web servers for years.

Also, Strata's API matches the WSGI/Rack model. This may seem small, but in practice it's a significant benefit.

Add to that the list of features cited in the release email, including native support for streams in node 0.4.
As someone else has already replied, this layout minimizes the managing of friends, at least in terms of prioritizing who you want to see most of. The curation seems to be based on how much you interact with another user. By definition, your best friends on FB are the ones you interact with most, or at least whose profiles you peruse the most often. And so with FB's curation algorithm, you don't have to generate a best friends list.
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The most interesting thing a google search for my name reveals is that I have a very common name.
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So he's doing a bad job, and their solution is to bring in....Meg Whitman? Seriously?
"Saying you can cover liabilities from notional future profits is illegal"

Almost every business does this, so I suppose they should all be prosecuted and we should send our financial system back to the Middle Ages. If I take out $1M loan and invest it in my business, my intent is to pay that liability with notional future profits. If I purchase something Net 90 and don't have the money in the bank, I'm apparently violating the law. Off to jail I go.
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I came to say the same thing - Wesabe had a similar concept of "safe to spend" and for me it made it a great app. I was disappointed to see them go under. Bank Simple doesn't appear to bring a whole lot new to the table.
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The reason the Start Fund works is that the terms are so good--uncapped and no discount--that if you're planning to raise money at all, you should take it, and so the investors get a real index, including the potential home runs.

These terms are significantly below the mean for the last YC batch, and I'd bet that some of the best startups don't take the deal. It's a decidedly less clear strategy to invest in only the not-so-good startups in a batch.
I'd say that along those lines, one aspect of the purpose of the sections is that the center is long-form attention and the right sidebar is short-form "constant check" attention.

And just to put the button on it: I fully believe that FB is at least this cynical when it comes to the design of the page.
I'm not going to get in to this further because I don't think it really pertains to the topic. But I'm quite familiar with the poker affiliate market, as I've been involved in it for the last 4 years. Most of your paragraph 1 is accurate, although the last part is not (affiliates cannot 'incentivize' how they like. FT caps all RB that can be proffered to 27%; pokerstars does not permit any cash incentives at all, etc). Most networks these days offer RB in-house or what can be offered is fixed; FT will put players on to one specific RB provider if they request it (and don't have a prior arrangement with another affiliate). The margins these days for affiliates is very thin, normally taking 1-3% with the rest kicked back to the player.

but we are getting way off-topic. I was correcting the original comment above about what the definition of rakeback was.
Sounds great. A Hacker BnB. I was thinking of an office space, but you could probably sleep on the floor. ;)
I haven't followed news about BankSimple, and the firs few minutes of the demo I watched didn't help me understand what it is. Is BankSimple an actual bank (with ATM card, routing numbers, etc.)? Or is it a PayPal competitor? Or is it just a front end that interacts with Banks? Going to BankSimple.com, it seems like it's trying to be an actual bank. But the demo on the website made it seem more like a Mint competitor. So, BankSimple is just another bank but with a potentially super-awesome website? So far, I'm not convinced.
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Hey HN, this is a side project I've been working on for a bit. I've always wanted to keep track of daily data (things like sleep, weight, calories), but it's always been the kind of the thing where I do it for a week then I slowly start to forget. I made this to keep pushing me to enter new data. Hope you like it, I'd love your feedback!
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Thanks, I get it now. Think I'll go play some SSE with it http://www.igvita.com/2011/08/26/server-sent-event-notificat...
There's a difference between fixing a bug because it's getting in your way and helping somebody out with their project. Fixing a bug in code you're running on your own computer is not like walking up to someone and criticizing their clothes. It's like sewing up a hole in your own clothes.

Of course, the actual action of fixing the bug is the same in both cases. It's just a difference in how you see it.

For cases like that — where someone makes a change to some open-source software for their own purposes, not in order to help out the project — the question is not how to "recruit" them, but how to make sure that they can make those changes easily, and then how to induce them to share the changes. Stormy's point about different cultures needing different approaches still holds in that case, but they'll be different different approaches.
Larry Page has vision and conviction. Exactly what Google has lacked in many ways for a long time.

To steal people's property (Books), sell illegal drug ads, make ads barely distinguishable from content, push content way down with not relevant content but that is Google's, screw Skyhook illegally...etc.
Yeah, vision. Watch for people to fight back.

Larry is lucky he isn't in jail http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2392062,00.asp
There would have been signs of that in the iOS 5 SDK betas, if it were going to happen.
sure, there's some cool stuff in here. but is it really enough to make anyone but a geek go through the hassle of adding yet another banking service? probably not, imo.
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Yeah, awesomeTouch runs some custom Java on top of Linux, although both their hardware and software have most likely evolved since last I saw.. They just did betaSpring, I believe.

Also, hail from Lexington!
I'm confused, is this an actual deposit holding bank or not?
What do they gain by foregrounding the posts that they think are important?

Control. Facebook is free, so it IS NOT FOR YOU. It's for advertisers. The fact that there is little advertising on FB at the moment does not disprove this. Wait until the Super Bowl or the US Presidential election next year.

It's the long game.

UPD: Ah, the silent downvote.
Thanks for the heads up. Now about reductionism: I believe it is true because it looks like so. To me, at least. Before Darwin, Newton, and the discovery of neurons, reductionism was an incredibly hard sell. Now however, I'm quite confident about it. But should something unexpected happen, I may well change my mind (it would be hard, but not as hard as forsaking Bayesianism itself). Sure, there are some (huge) loose ends, but it still looks like there's reasonable hope. And of course, Occam's razor strongly favours reductionism, though it could still lose.

Regarding "dead matter", I'm not sure the term is useful. The wave function, which is supposed to be at the bottom of all things (according to current physics), isn't even close to what we intuitively call "dead matter". Its behaviour certainly is (conceptually) simple and deterministic, though.

I hadn't exactly Popper's falsification in mind. But even from a Bayesian perspective, most experiments that don't end up as predicted still deal huge blows to the underlying theories.
They want to index it, but in using that info, it typically sends the user to other sites.

Once upon a time maybe. Now they send people to ads mostly, and Google content.
I think 'Anon' owned them in the comments.
I'm intrigued by the fact that the piece highlighted by techstars is simply the number of companies acquired (along with founded, active, and failed). That shouldn't be the metric of success for a company.

I founded a startup to build a big scaleable business. If I end up selling, then it will only be a success if the acquiring team, the impact to our vision, and the economics are all excellent.

If I wanted to compare the incubators, I'd want to see relative user bases, revenue generated, valuations, etc. The proof is in the pudding, and that's the pudding.
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When does it text me? I'd be pissed if I got an SMS at 8am, or 2am. It would be nice to schedule this sort of thing - and also, perhaps, schedule it for multiple messages a day.
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In order to have plausible deniability, the guy at Yahoo has to have direct, personal access to ban this domain. This makes him an ops person. Pretty much anyone else needs to go through a chain to get anything like this into production, denying them deniability.

If there's a conspiracy, it's an ops guy showing off to an oligarch friend. I don't see how any member of a thigh-knit oligarchy could get this done without leaving a trail that could get him fired for cause and publicly humiliated.
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I still see Google as a silly name, but at least it has some rationale in the corporate philosophy and a hint of geek cred. "Bing" just smacks of a committee of corporate drones trying to look hip with an unintentional parody of younger, cooler Web 2.0 company names.
I agree with you. I think what people are thinking as a 'larger' screen is really Apple shrinking the phone around the current screen. Apple is crazy about thin and small and I'm sure they want the iPhone to be more like the iTouch if possible.
Real-time virtual puppeting has been done in movies/television and research for a while now and yes, it can easily fool people.

A professor friend of mine Jeremy Bailenson at Stanford actually uses the Kinect to track facial movements and uses 3D models of others to create puppets in real-time. Even more interesting, he can morph your face with the person you're video conferencing with to create a feeling of commonality in them.

He actually wrote a book on it called Infinite Reality [1] which talks about all kinds of ways people will probably get manipulated in the future. He talks about things like mirroring movements (which he can do automatically in a video conference), looking into the eyes of every participant in a group video conference and other really interesting psychological hacks.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Infinite-Reality-Avatars-Eternal-Revol...
I'm very curious about the differences you think exist between the two services regarding ethics.
I found one bug in Design + JavaScript..... Click on post privacy option one drop down list open, then you scroll down its over come on top bar...
This may go completely unnoticed, but I'll talk to myself a bit in case someone ever reads this.

In my experience, people who want to learn how to program find setting up a development environment painful and tricky. Hence, learning tools like IDLE and Racket. We wanted to create something similar, but in the browser. Perl made this relatively simple, so we built a component to do this.

Separately, I hope to use this in future educational projects and I hope others will do the same. We can hopefully allow people to get their feet wet before embarking down the mundane and sometimes frustrating path to installing an interpreter, text editor, etc.
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Awesome! I took a look at the source - it's unrecognizable from what we cooked up that summer. 4 high school hackers in a basement, making an EMR system for the "CEO"'s mother who was an internal medicine doctor.

There was some really horrific things in there - this was before I knew what a JOIN was, so I'm glad some of my shame is long gone.

Still, it's awesome to see that the project is still alive.
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I imagine this will do to movies what autotune did to music. In other words, you no longer will have to find someone who is both good at acting and attractive.
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They were running on revenue, and had grown to a team of a dozen people, or so, without raising any additional capital beyond the few hundred thousand they'd raised in the beginning...so, they were obviously comfortably profitable and growing fast. There would have been no reason for them to sell for anything less than a very attractive offer that took that growth into account. And, those guys are not stupid; they declined a number of acquisition offers in the past from companies wanting to do mostly-stock deals. I'm certain at least a significant portion of the deal was for cash.
Wow, with headlines like this, it makes me want to short Apple. Not that I want to, but comments like this indicate a top.
Oh god. This is horrifying. Less is more facebook.. less is more. I agree with the people complaining about facebooks need to curate things for you. Thats what the "hide posts from this person" should be used for. Just give me one stream and let me decide what filters to put on it.
"Typically Asian countries are more high context than Western countries. Think Korea and Japan."

"Low context cultures are process driven. They rely on facts and processes."

Ergo, Korean and Japanese programmers don't rely on facts and processes?

* in response to the downvotes: I'm not trying to be pedantic here. I can kind of guess what the author is trying to say, but this is such a vague, confusing statement as to be completely useless. Perhaps she meant some other phrase besides "facts and processes"?
Very nice. Helped me understanding Storm better. To bad that the demo was in Java made everything more compicated. Its kind of obvious that the Strom was written in Clojure. The Java Api seams to be a rather thin layer ontop of the clojure version. I cant imagen that you would have the same serialization problems in clojure, Nathan would of have fixed this. It will probebly be fixed in the java layer soon enought.

Edit: "I cant imagen that you would have the same serialization problems in clojure, Nathan would of have fixed this." seams like the wrong formulation. I didn't want to criticize. I guessed that the problem was in the Java API witch probebly has less testing then the clojure version but it seams to be a design decision.
Good for employees but when a contractor, you're lucky not to have to sue them :(
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In other words, like a Microsoft Surface table, but set up for dining?

What's the advantage of using a projector over a touchscreen?
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All of the Android LTE phones have user replaceable batteries. If the battery loses capacity they can easily be replaced at decent prices which makes your point moot.
Sorry, but this post is ridiculous. To expect hundreds of millions of people to up and leave a site...that is highly unlikely.

Is facebook obnoxious? Yes. Do their features generally work well enough to keep the unwashed 95% happy? Yes. Are people proficient with computers/interwebz more likely to be upset anytime FB/another entity changes something? Yes.

This post seems to fall into the latter of the above 3 categories. The take-away, I suppose, is that people tend to be averse to change. No surprise there...
I don't understand what they want?
Who asked for this text wall?

To be honest, 99% of the time i just check for new messages or use the chat and don't care about anything else.

There may be a lot of people who care about this stuff, but how are they supposed to find anything relevant?
I'm creepin', but I usually get downvoted to hell. Surprise surprise.
Our company's been C++0x-heavy since the first bits rolled out in GCC. We're lucky enough not to have any legacy, so we can afford this.

The other day I was stuck on a system with only a C++ (03) compiler, and it was a truly crippling experience without lambdas and the new STL.

Anecdotes aren't worth much, sure, but I find it difficult to disagree with this article.
I can guarantee that the snark is intrinsic to Raymond. He is just that type of guy. He loves a good story, is very sarcastic and likes to troll co-workers.

(I could tell quite a few Raymond stories from when we worked together but it is better to leave it to him. It is a shame that he sticks to technical topics mostly on his blog.)
I'm with you. I think the main people who are all over LTE are those that want to replace their hard lines with cell. The problem is that the carriers are going to cap and charge big money for LTE so using it as a primary connection is likely not going to be cost effective.
Nice, I should have read that. Thanks for the correction. I should read the article again more seriously.
Anyone remember the HBGary hack. After what came out about government and corporate dirty tricks during that episode is it so unreasonable to think that somewhere in the US a consulting service was working for some Wall Street billionaire to derail the protests.