skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed, in Japan and in Finland people already buy goods via their phones.

From here: http://www.pcworld.com/article/122590/use_your_cell_phone_in...

I would have found better references if I had more time and google didn't keep returning results for vending machines which dispense cell phones, instead of allowing you to pay via cell phone.
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Not being dense, but what is TFA?
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Here comes the "Windows Cloud"
Someone should do a startup that takes the best of Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, Socialbrowse and Friendfeed. I'll help.
On the other hand, would Adobe spend however much it costs to develop this product without assurances from Apple?
iPhone is not a leader in the smartphone market:

Numbers from:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/09/09/gartner_q22008_smart...

Q2 2008:
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Symbian: 57.1%
RIM: 17.4%
Windows Mobile: 12.0%
Linux: 7.3% (!)
iPhone: 2.8%

The new 3G iPhone will probably increase the market share significantly this quarter, but it still has a long way to go. But it is impressive that the iPhone alone has that kind of market share. If you compare model for model, the market share for iPhone would look much better
Science is all done by scientists, and (most/all/?) scientists are humans (so far).

For the last 4 centuries, we have seen a continuous increase of science to form peoples' opinion.

But science is only science (no joke -- it's the current opinion of most scientists).

So, peoples' opinion and science are deeply related.
http://millicomputing.blogspot.com/2008/09/netflix-api-and-g...
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Maybe the widgets need to refocus on the actual user doing the install?
Japan has a lot of stuff that we don't and that never really works here because our cultures are so different. They'll buy a device so laden with features that they don't even know how to use 3/4 of them, because they value that. We'll buy a device that looks better and is simple to operate.

The iPhone is a much better model of what Americans want now (and possibly what the Japanese will want in 5 years) than the feature packed phones they have.
Why is it not known? It seems like an experiment should have already been done.

For example, one could arrange an experiment with two groups of rats. The active group R would be administered very low doses of Benzene, whereas the control group C would not. Then, both groups would be studied over a sufficient period of time. If rats from R develop cancer and rats from C don't, then it is known that Benzene does cause cancer at low doses. Otherwise, if the experiment is repeated a sufficient number of times, the chance that Benzene causes cancer in low doses is statistically irrelevant.

Our points are the same: it is not generally known whether cancer can actually be caused by low doses of Benzene, so it is detrimental to freak over sensationalist articles like this one.

Also, it is especially distasteful to frighten people by claiming that there is some measure of truth ("science") in these inherently unscientific claims.
Yeah, it would sound like that unless you actually read the article, in which I mention that I've been using mobile devices for 5 years.
The experience doesn't get that much better. I've been using it for 5 years. Data speeds have greatly improved, especially with EVDO Rev A. Keypads today are barely better than the Treo 650's. Apple's made some definite strides in making the touch screen usable (far beyond the old Palms) but it's still vastly inferior to a 19" LCD and a mouse, and improvements will now come incrementally.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/RTFA
I entered a few tasks in this system in the morning and they were already done by the time I was back from lunch.. Great service so far!
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That works largely because service is prepaid there right? Otherwise the phone companies are essentially acting as credit providers.

Which I could totally see happening here, but having 3 or 4 phone company lenders would be nowhere near as good as having the thousands of banks that combine to make credit card products for people of all FICO scores.
Sometimes true, but science has self-correcting measures that compensate for this eventually.

In contrast, religion could (in these terms) be characterized as a process in which someone has a revelation and tries to pass it on, it gradually becomes distorted through transmission, and there are recurring attempts to return to the original vision.
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I've read about that too, and it is pretty neat. I could totally see phones extending small credit lines (and maybe larger ones to customers with better credit scores) to be used that way. It will still never match the efficiency of our credit card industry though, just due to sheer numbers.
Strange choice of headline above; Microsoft acquired FAST quite some time ago. The news today is something different....
Some enterprise companies do well with a baby pool approach.

You only have to be deeper than the other guy, and there may not be much competition. On the other hand, every customer needs a new feature...
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Exactly. Which is not to say that I don't expect India (and the rest of the BRIC) to some day be a source of revenue. It will, undoubtedly. They're getting their economic act together.

But it's going to be a process that will take more than 5 years. When they have a GDP per capita of $40k, they'll be worth a hell of a lot to whichever search engines they use.

But even then, the growth won't be attributable so much to mobile (even though it may come through that channel) as to developing nations.
What is unknown is what the Mac computers are giving off, if anything, and in what quantities. Without that, it's impossible to even start talking about benzene.
> Sometimes true, but science has self-correcting measures that compensate for this eventually.

I completely agree: but sometimes you have to wait centuries for this to happen...
Then is that really mobile growth? I mean, it might replace a PC, but that's not growth, it's just switching from one device to another.

The iPhone has a long way to go there. It can barely even run flash on that potato chip of a processor.
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Obviously you've never tried to surf normal web sites on a phone. It's an experience that I imagine to be about as fun as giving yourself a tracheotomy.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up. I actually did read the article, I just happen to disagree that revenge is the primary motivation for the American people's lack of support for the bailout. I may be a bit too idealistic in my assessment though.
Such as? Google already has SMS products, and everyone already has SMS, yet it's a negligible source of revenue for them.
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It's not just that though. Look at the mobile operators etc.
In the UK, I get an iPhone 3g with excellent edge/3g coverage, free wifi from thousands of wifi spots, and unlimited data.

I don't think I would have bought the iPhone without the unlimited data and free wifi, as I use it mainly as a portable browser.

The US seriously needs to catch up in terms of pricing plans, data, etc.
OPEC. They cut production if the price falls too much.
It's answered in the FAQ.
I lived in Japan for a year. The reports about how advanced the Japanese mobile phone situation are a bit overblown. The most popular service was still i-Mode, which is old, proprietary and severely limited. It is kind of like if "Prodigy" ran on mobile phones.

According to wikipedia:

Even i-mode's creator, Takeshi Natsuno, has stated "I believe the iPhone is closer to the mobile phone of the future, compared with the latest Japanese mobile phones."
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I know people make apps to play Sirius satellite radio. Probably can't put "Netflix" in your app name though, but I'm sure something appropriately "flixed" will work just as well. Then again, it never hurts to ask them.
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I don't understand. From the article:

According to Liberation.fr (english translation), as reported on ZDNet,
the odor being emitted from Mac Pros manufactured before 2008 includes a
number of chemicals including Benzene, a known carcinogen that in high
doses is lethal.

So we're saying the same thing... I think? If the report is unconfirmed, then this article is extremely objectionable because the implication is that Mac Pros kill people (which would rightfully freak people out), but there is no supporting evidence. So therefore, the story might as well have been completely made up.
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You serious? I'm pretty happy using Safari, zooming, etc Sure, it's a small screen and you might have to pan around a while, but it's certainly usable.

And as the parent pointed to, I very rarely use mine as a phone. It's a portable internet device.
yeah, this one is hard. None of the ideas look really viable to me (sorry guys). I put my mind to it and couldn't come up with anything.

One thing I'm not sure about though, is if the API allows you to control the streaming. One report said you got stop and play controls. I would love it if someone released an app to watch your netflix streaming movies on your iPhone.
Luckily, though, that problem has been corrected for "Web 3.0"

:)
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I'm more interested in the derivative - how fast are each of these growing?
There are actually fewer Perl sites now. That is sad :(
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What kind of medicine: the modern/european/american/... one, or the antique/chinese/naturalistic/... one?

One of them seems to be real science, the other is more similar to religion than to real science.

The most important fact is: only the scientific one is full of adverse effects...
regardless, it's probably the future. All you need is a few more years of Moore's law plus a screen like this

http://images.google.com/images?q=plastic+logic

I don't know why phone companies aren't scrambling. With skype & wireless almost done, all the pieces are here, if not in place.
I agree, revenge is a real tough sell when a majority of people are a homeowner.
Most people use their mobile primarily as a phone or email device. Most people will always prioritize those functions above web surfing because they will prefer web surfing on a PC and are usually near one.

And why would you want to deal with all of the zooming when you can just have a monitor? I mean, it's great when you're on the road, which is maybe what, 5-10% of your waking hours for the average Joe, but at home?
They should just use Disqus...
The reason I thought the article was interesting was not because it purports to explain the actual motivation of people who are not in favor of the bailout. Rather it describes interesting experimental evidence about why that could be a plausible contributor due to a hard-wired aspect of our brains.
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I agree that it's probably a factor in the decision, but the approval process is probably a greater concern to developers.
Maybe it would be better if we try a more top down approach generating data semantically?
the map is not the territory. anytime you have people associate a positive with some arbitrary measure, the people controlling that measure have an incentive to inflate it. this makes it appear that they are improving things while doing nothing.
see: the economy, public schooling, housing, etc.
"In the case of preservatives, it may benefit the company that uses them since their food won't spoil on the shelf -- but it doesn't benefit me in any way."

You only think that way because you've grown up with the luxury of a food supply that is well-protected against a huge number of scourges that were killing significant numbers of people less than a century ago.

Without preservatives, a huge number of the foods we take for granted today (such as canned foods) would be impossible to produce. So unless you can/pickle/preserve all of your own vegetables (which still carries a significant risk of botulism), it's pretty difficult to say that preservatives don't benefit you.
My first thought was "great, they've invented a way to make paper as dubious a backup medium as hard drives".

But, in fact, this is a pretty interesting idea.
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Sorry to disappoint you there. Although, we do support source code highlighting in lessons, so some Dojo toolkit docs could easily be made with Dojo Learning. For example, here's a lesson that has code in it:

http://simian.dojolearning.com/course-contents-action/id.33/...
I don't buy that at all. What about people stuck on a train? What are you going to do? Surf the web on your iphone.
What about if you're waiting in a dentist? You're going to whip it out of your pocket, and surf. Yes, compared to time spent at a PC, this is a small amount of time. But I'd bet the usage on the iPhone is the browser, then email, then phone/sms (With games+music in there somewhere).

I don't even think young people use their phones as phones (voice calls) very often now (UK anyway). It's all sms.

Of course it won't replace the laptop, but it replaces a lot. It's much easier to wake up, pick up the iPhone and check a few sites, than get on your laptop.

I agree about the zooming to a point, obviously if there was a hologram projector or something, it'd be great. But the scroll/zoom works for now.
Another thought: If their docs currently suck, you can also monetize lessons on Dojo Learning, so you may be able to make some money selling high quality docs... You can sell lessons even with our free account, so no cost to get started either :)
Aren't the first two points mutually contradictory? It seems to me that 'making decisions early' is roughly the same as 'planning'. Why not plunge ahead with a design approach, and give yourself permission to fail?
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thanks for the heads up. We've fixed it. Upvoted, of course.
No plans yet to offer another language. Hard to find native-quality speakers and we don't want to compromise service quality.
...moments ago from my girlfriend:

> you never checked on [important thing] did you? You are so irresponsible.

Yeah, I need this badly.
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I agree. I have never liked widgets much on pages. I do agree though that it would be nice to give people the option (from a READER perspective) put the apps/widgets back on the single profile page. Personally I like that everything is pushed off to the side.
As far as I know it's usually the same group that got access to the original SDK before it was officially released.
Like I said, it's a sensationalist article. Without knowing the composition and quantities involved, it's impossible to say anything with certainty.
Agreed, hence my posting links to MSDSs below: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=320901

And here's the MSDS for benzene: http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Benzene-9927339
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The one that discovered insulin and penicillin.

The one that has doubled the world average life expectancy over the last century.
You can start by explaining how this combination of features would be compelling enough to get users from any of these services to migrate to yours.
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So what do we disagree on? I'm confused now.

I surely wasn't suggesting that nobody will ever browse from a mobile. Just that it will remain small potatoes relative to non-mobile for quite some times, especially in terms of profit.
Um, operating system? Doesn't sound accurate...
Interesting. All of my knowledge of Japanese patterns comes from mobile sites and articles I read, so admittedly it all has a filter and could be somewhat inaccurate.
> The "a-ha" moment came from developing compounds that change color when they absorb a certain wavelength of light but then will gradually disappear.

How about everything but the "disappear" part (by time or heat)? I'd like to never buy another ink or toner cartridge again.
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Well, I think we all agree on that.
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I was at UCBoulder when Trey and Matt dropped out of their art programs and started South Park. They were more "successful" than their peers who had excellent grades.
Oh processors will be fine. The problem is in heating and batteries, and that is almost there. I am at a certain prominent laboratory often, and I have seen what is happening in that area.

Mobile is changing. It's absolutely not about small screens anymore, it's now about a generic app running OS, and the screen is just a display format of the app.

Apple didn't see this coming when they released the iphone, but google has seen it, and now apple has also got the message. The phone has become the computer, the question is just who is going to create the first full screen scalable phone that interfaces with a standard keyboard.

Your perspective is wrong, because you are looking at what was, and what is, instead of what will be.
Correct, but it's impossible to say anything with absolute certainty. However, we can judge the probabilities based on our previous experiences. So my assertions are:

- There are claims that Mac Pros emit an odor that contains Benzene.

- It's unlikely that the amount of Benzene is enough to be statistically dangerous, or even the source of the odor itself.

- Therefore, this article is pointless.
this perspective is 2 years older than this post... even RDF people agree that the semantic web lower case is taking hold
Another lesson in "Why it's a great idea to keep capital around to invest during the bad times" or "How to buy GE at a 42% discount" from Mr. Buffett.
But it actually happens, which is pretty remarkable in light of the rest of human history.
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Because I really want to fill my life with those awesome TechCrunch readers.
I think "runner's high" is endorphins, but I'm wondering how the lactate interacts with the endorphins as well.

incidentally, what exactly is lactate? ...milk bits?
I saw this comment about the timing of the NDA-drop on slashdot. I'm figured I'd cross-post it here, even though it isn't mine. Don't mod me up. :)

http://mobile.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=982211&cid=25...
"They wanted to wait for the Android release so the API could not legally borrow too heavily from the iPhone API.
At least, that seems like a reasonable guess..."
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This was my first thought, too -- how do you manage licensing fees for Windows virtual machines?

My hunch is that the price per CPU-hour will be a bit higher, with the difference going straight to Microsoft. They've been looking for a way to migrate to a subscription-based pricing model for a long time, and this could provide just the test-case they need to gauge the willingness of customers to accept such a pricing scheme.
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Pretty cool, but I'm not sure I understand all of the distortion. Perhaps if they are using much smaller territories than the color coding, for example each state of the US, that would give rise to some of the shear.
Not all browsers are capable yet. My point, however, was that when they do become 'capable', the idea of distinguishing them from PCs will be moot.

My only beef with the iPhone right now is sluggishness. If it could render pages faster, I'd spend more time browsing the web on it.
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NB: Outselling != market share.
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Agreed. I think I am going to announce that I have stopped eating babies and then enjoy all the good publicity.

Apple are the marketing masters, however, and this is just one more way to market the iPhone to developers. It's apparently working, judging from the 99 upmods so far.
No good can come of this. The Nielsen gods will be angered.
Well, I see the rampant complaints about the iPhone 3G's battery life, and the relatively slow improvement in batteries overall. It's going to take a tremendous leap for a phone to match my laptop's dual core processor, and have a graphics card that can power an external display, while getting battery life that's tolerable to most people. You really think it's almost there?

I'm definitely not privy to any research labs, but I've seen nothing in the past, or in current literature, to make me optimistic about that big of a leap. Laptops still lag significantly behind desktops in general, especially at the same price point. Why should phones not lag even further?

Also, even if what you say is true, and they swap laptops for phones, that's not growth, it's just a shift. If they still use the phone primarily docked, where they would previously have used a PC, and only 10% of the time mobile, then it's only 10% growth from Google's perspective.
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