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As a developer, I can vouch for that :)

In fact, I ended up building this because I didn't want to pay for the other mobile services platforms (there are a few of them) when attempting to add mobile features to another project I'm experimenting with.

But to your original point, I absolutely agree, pitching this as a "mobile" "platform" for "widgets" is probably hopeless. Quite simply, it must solve somebody's problem. And I believe that we can get it to do just that. One area that we think is promising is using email to invoke applications that do interesting things because
(1) everyone knows how to send email, and
(2) you can attach lots of useful things to email.

So, what if we added the ability to recognize a ton of different file formats and allowed you to query the data within an attached file to invoke other web services?

For example, lets say you have a site that does group payments, and you want to let your users send you an Excel spreadsheet with the names of your friends and how much they owe you for that trip you just took together and automatically create an invoice on your site, and then notify everyone that they owe money. That seems interesting, and our product could support that pretty easily.

Anyways, it is definitely our immediate burden to focus this technology on solving _real_ problems.
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I only find this remarkable because it's the first bureau to point at the elephant in the room. But honestly, I think it's a depression; according to John Williams, the depression started in the last quarter of 2006.
But that's exactly the result of not dumping old browsers. If developing for the browser drags productivity down as much as it does, mainstream developers will dump the browser, or - more realistically - reduce the browser to a plugin installation platform.
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He says in the article: Google doesn't seem to use stop words any more. (in fact he makes a point of that fact).
Maybe you should have read all the way through.
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So, what if we added the ability to recognize a ton of different file formats and allowed you to query the data within an attached file to invoke other web services?

You're still talking in terms of solutions. "Hey, we could build this cool solution! Would that solve any problems?" I've never managed to find a worthwhile business idea that way (not that I'm an expert at it or anything).. in my experience the way to do that is to find the problem first and then figure out what solution you could build (using your technology) to help solve that problem. Then figure out if there really is a market for that solution, and then build it incrementally and evolve it to serve that market. Then at one point flick the switch and start charging.
I think this is actually really cool. I agree with the other commenters that you're probably a long way from this being a "startup" (at least in the post-Oct2008 world that would like to see some business model), but you are certainly doing some interesting things.

How you turn this into a business is another problem but I think you will probably see people picking up on the ideas here and rapidly creating their own innovations. That might seem like a bad thing, but I think it's good because it means you've come up with something very powerful.

Probably the most interesting thing to me is the subset / scripting language that makes interacting with various services and providing the backend infrastructure for performing that automation.

Good luck!
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Saturating the channel? Hmmm, I'm not sure what this means. If I'm not mistaken this is a forum where people try to help each other and try to learn and understand new things. If people don't care about this topic they certainly won't respond or even look at it, so I hardly see where I can be 'saturating the channel' as you claim I am.

Unfortunately it seems you would rather complain and find fault than to contribute something useful. Your suggestion that I go somewhere else and pay someone with experience to 'deal with all this' won't work when I need to gain at least a general understanding of how all these issues relate to each other first!

It would be much nicer if you would stop trying to derail my attempts to learn something here, and just "remain silent and observe" if you don't have anything useful or constructive to offer.

But complaining about the way I've separated sub-topics by posting them separately in this thread, or about the way I've quoted comments from the previous thread so people don't have to go back and review then in the old thread any more ... well it just seems like you're trying to find fault with my efforts any way you can -- and it strikes me as precisely the wrong thing to do in a forum like HN, that's all.

:(
I don't know of a way to access those from browser JavaScript though.
I have to wonder if part of the problem is that he's running Windows in a VM. VMs are notorious for their odd timing behaviour. He's running the comparison tests in a native installation of OSX, not in a VM.
I thought the reason for submitting was sharing something worthwhile with other HN'ers. The dupe only increases that sharing. That you're making this a personal thing seems to imply a different motivation.

I don't think dupes are good, but we'll live.
equity should also be split to reward risk taken. if the downside for one founder is much higher than for the other, he should be rewarded more. e.g. one co-founder can easily go back to college or consulting whereas the other really has to make the startup work or else. all with appropriate vesting, of course.
Nah, it just means she's been collecting the garbage since the 70's. :/
I'll more-or-less repeat my advice from the other thread..

Keep the current highest bid as well as timestamp and owner of the bid in a very simple data structure in RAM. In another section of RAM, keep a datastructure for each user, keeping track of bids, and the current number of bids for the auction and the current bid.

When a new bid comes in, first lookup the user's record, and check if the bid is legal, and then pass it on to compare with the current highest bid. This is your critical section. if the bid is higher than the current, update, otherwise reject.
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I don't have time to watch videos, sorry.

Meaning: I'll happily take a look at your site, and have many times in the past here. What I don't want to do is sit through a video that I can't jump around, explore, and so on, like I might with a site, or a brief article.
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This link was taken from a comment by mlLK:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362394

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This will work itself out. If you have an idea for a product that profitably solves a problem for hair on fire customers, you'll still be able to get money. Some of the so-so ideas might not get the amount of time and funding they were used to.
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also discussed here:
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Considering the level of spelling and grammatical mistakes in this article, and the loose thinking displayed in the proposed arguments, I think it's fair to call it an EPIC FAIL.
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The good thing about a recession is that it trims down the bad companies, the ones that only survive because of inertia, and spares the good ones, the ones that really deserve to grow.

In fact, several companies have made monopolies, virtual empires, precisely in times of crysis. No crysis = too much worthless competition, too much marketing noise.
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If you are the main technical force behind making a product, you should be properly reimbursed for that.

It's like a record label "employing" a solo artist singer for an average wage, and then pocketing all the profits from their music and passing none of it on. It's just a pretty raw deal.
then why did he start the article with it? :(
i guess i should have read it more then
From the article:

I was worried that these results were from the virtual machine (I also loaded up Parallels but saw similar results to running VMware) so I just loaded Windows XP proper: Nope, the results are the same as using the VM.
I came here to post that same sentiment.

But in his/her defense: English might not be his/her first language.
And in this case, yahoo seems to be better than google:
http://twingine.no/search.php?q=the+the

Now all we need is a MySQL stopword story contest...
They stepped over a few lines, but writers actually got scoops from time to time. It was generally a fun read.

The Wag will be missed.
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The results are either uninteresting and unreliable, or uninteresting and reliable. Shortcircuit logic keeps me from worrying about reliability.

Your shortlogic is going the wrong way. The results are either unreliable, or reliable. That is what Resig was trying to find out.

And that the Windows GetTickCount/GetTime functions have a bad precision is common knowledge.

Yet the SunSpider benchmark is often used to measure browser performance. If, as Resig says, the error rate for any test run in [Internet Explorer 8, Opera, Safari, and WebKit Nightly] would be huge then SunSpider benchmarks don't have a lot of value.
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I like RDF for its flexibility, but OWL is very weak. You can't even define very basic constraints that RDBMS schema languages have had for ages. All value constraints on properties have to be constants. So, for example, you cannot state that shipping_date must greater than order_date.

Querying RDF triples within reasonable performance constraints is very hard for the general case. I've tried a lot in that area. You just can't get around the fact that not using upfront knowledge about access paths to define the storage structures means to accept a huge number of joins. However, it's certainly a possibility to encode that knowledge in indexes instead of the logical data model.

Column databases seem to be promising for RDF storage and query.
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Thank you for that, I know have another url to post on Hacker news everytime some idiot writes another uninformed article about the death of SEO.
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All I need is a picture of a cat.
Agreed. For instance:

"How to build a company with a market cap of $180 billion" - Me

vs.

"How to build a company with a market cap of $180 billion" - Bill Gates

Also, having gone through the very same process Gabor is, I can say the content does stand on its own merit.
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My favorite question:

Under what circumstances would you do a spontaneous "happy dance" without even realizing it?

My personal answer:

1. When something really cool that I wrote runs for the first time.

2. When the Pittsburgh Steelers score a touchdown.

Knowing what really turns someone on tells you a lot about them.
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No, it only seems longer when working on Windows.
Why should I pay for what is more or less a commodity business that is located in one of the most expensive parts of the country?
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I really dont think there's anything good about a recession at all. When "bad companies" go down people lose their jobs, the economy takes a hit, social security costs rise and everyone hurts.

I don't really understand what worthless competition is either. "Worthless competition" is surely a contradiction in terms. If they were bad/worthless they wouldn't be competing.
I ran into a similar problem teaching myself perl a couple years ago by doing a short tutorial then foolishly jumping into a co-worker's code. "What the hell is '$.'? Hmm, well I'm sure Google can help me. What? No matching documents?!? What is this crazy s.o.b. doing here??"
Curse you NYTimes and your annoying, intrusive password requirements and your bugmenot disabling.
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Apple has certainly improved, but I don't see iTunes as much more than a well written library program with an MP3 player tacked on.

I'm a long time Mac user, but that pretty much nails what iTunes really is. Ever since Apple bought out SoundJam and turned it into iTunes, the app's focus has been less about song playback and more about being the "showcase" or demonstration for what QuickTime is supposed to be used for. QuickTime was little too far ahead of its time for its architecture to be compatible with modern systems; though, at least on the Mac platform, its been able to survive as a respectable, if creaky, media API. (QT really was a child of the multimedia CD-ROM era. The media model it uses isn't really a good fit for streaming Internet data.)
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I'd love an equally usable audio player with better sound quality. I encode everything at 224, which should yield pretty good sound, but today I threw in a CD (left the iPod in my car) and there is a very noticeable difference in sound quality. I'm only going to play my CDs when I'm home now.
iTunes was awesome when it came out for OS9, and Apple hasn't done much of anything to improve it since then. It's essentially the same application, but with many more annoying features meant to upsell.
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The wrong way? My point was that you don't need to test if the results are going to be uninteresting. Benchmarking javascript is useless because it's gui level code. Even if it takes 100ms to run you don't care.

Measure browser performance.... why? Why do you care how fast your browser is? Your web apps have to run in any browser, so -if- you care you just have to test if it runs fast enough in the slowest browser.

So yes, I'm claiming that SunSpider is trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist (except for javascript compiler writers). Let me quote from the site:

"[Sunspider is for measuring speed of] parsing JSON input, a 3D raytracer, cryptography tests, code decompression"

Great. Fast javascript client-side cryptography. Just what I need.
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Then maybe he shouldn't be so diffident about his lack of education in that respect.

PS: English isn't my first language either.
I figure Google is too smart to restrict its hiring to knowing a certain set of languages, especially for its research division. Languages can be quickly learned, sheer badassery cannot.
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Agreed. Recessions are good and a natural part of the business cycle.

It's called a feedback loop. Business tend to grow and get fat in places they can't afford. Recessions come along and then everybody has to take a very careful look at just what jobs and expenses are really needed and what are fluff.

The business cycle is a good and natural thing. I just wish we had more, less severe cycles than fewer, more severe ones.
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I'm sure my atrocious eating and exercise habits will counter-act any sort of extra longevity from braininess.
As explicitly in my other post IMHO encouraging dupes is the problem, what the top voted comment here said.

I find it appalling most people here don't seem to see it, as it happens in most other user submitted link sites. Even Digg, usually mocked here, has quite strong software to mitigate this issue, and very often the comment discussions go quite hard on obvious dupes.

If you prefer instead to second guess me, like I care about points or something along the lines, fine.
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I believe he'll keep you covered. Afterall, he does have @kevinscold (found via valleywag).
heh completely unrelated, but our smartfilter is at the moment, for some reason, blocking the NYTimes as having a "malicious web reputation."
Alternatively, you could support open source software without all the politics, by participating in the FreeBSD Foundation's year-end fund raising drive: http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/fundraising.shtml

(Disclosure: I'm a FreeBSD developer, and the FreeBSD Foundation paid for me to go to a conference a few years ago.)
It is intrusive. However, I think they are doing it to prevent any embarassing scandals. Be assured, journalists will (as they should BTW) do the same thing to you if you become a WH employee.
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The original NYTimes headline is much better: For a Washington Job, Be Prepared to Tell All
So apparently the change candidate wants to start by weeding out anyone who has ever spoken up against the status quo.
I'd like some info on this too.
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By coincidence, I was up until 2 last night getting a Passenger install to work. I'm deploying multiple apps to this new server I'm setting up and didn't want to install gems globally (Rails' version of DLL hell) and had all sorts of fun with freezing Rails and gems, and getting Capistrano to work.

And, yes, Passenger made this whole process easier than it was when I did this with Mongrels. It's still not simple and easy.
No.

Suppose you make a profit of P0 in a market with no medallion system, a profit of P1 in a market with a medallion system when you have no medallion, and a profit of P2 in a market with a medallion system when you have a medallion. Then that sale suggests that P2-P1 is at least $600k, but that doesn't tell us anything about P2-P0.

Probably P1 is approximately 0, at least for someone who's already got a substantial legal taxi business, since it's illegal to operate a taxi with no medallion. So we know that P2 is at least $600k. But we know nothing at all about P0; it might be just the same, or much less, or much more.

And, actually, we don't even really know that P2-P1 is at least $600k. The person who paid that much might be an idiot (unlikely) or a speculator who thinks others will foolishly be prepared to pay even more (not so unlikely); or he may think that he'll keep the medallion for a few years and then sell it for approximately the same amount. In that case, our lower bound on P2-P1 is something like 5% of $600k per year (taking 5% as a ballpark interest rate).

So: sorry, but I'm totally unconvinced. Am I missing something?
That's pretty in depth. On one hand, the controversial stuff will be dug up by the media or someone else anyway, but on the other, it's asking quite a lot to hand over every bit of privacy you might have had.
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In a down market, investors should be buying and not selling. In the context of VCs, it's probably a good time to fund ventures because the equity they get for their cash will be higher, and it's probably a bad time to exit because the cash they get for their equity will be lower. So, maybe VCs are simply being solid, patient investors.
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Interesting wikipedia article. Thanks for sharing. I have only a limited exposure to economics.

From a mostly layperson's perspective, however, in a credit crisis, it makes sense to increase loanable funds, therefore saving may be very good for the economy in the long run.
The Apache Software Foundation has no such year-end fundraising drive, but is another place that does more "business-friendly" open source.

http://www.apache.org/foundation/contributing.html

(I'm not a badass developer like cperciva is, but I am part of the ASF).
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And the "no lobbyists on my staff" rule is out. New rule is "nobody who has lobbied in the last year"
My assumption would be that he just wants to know about it. If he rejects everyone out of hand who has skeletons, he won't be able to find people. I agree that the questionnaire's invasive, but it's not like many people are going to be rejected based on minor embarrassments.
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The point isn't to measure something specific at a rate - it's to measure anything to see if the timer results continue to bin the results. It doesn't matter if it's a microbenchmark, or not, at that point.

The issue here is that Chrome and Firefox 3 are perfectly capable of producing accurate time results on Windows - so there obviously is a better solution out there. In the ticket in which the Firefox team [1] fixed the bug they detail the solutions that they used to fix it.

I would disagree that this is a knowledge issue here, as well. It certainly wasn't obvious to the WebKit, Firefox, and Chrome teams who were all happily testing on Windows XP using bum tests - and those are some pretty smart people (IMO).

In reply to your comment further down the thread:
"Measure browser performance.... why? Why do you care how fast your browser is?"

Because it's better to have fast JavaScript than to have slow JavaScript? Any performance tests are better than no performance tests - but I will definitely agree that quality is a huge factor. For Dromaeo [2] I included a number of DOM tests that provide a more-real-world result. I'm working to try and provide more (especially related to CSS and rendering).

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363258#c19
[2] http://dromaeo.com/
Politely asking a big organization to refrain from a power grab? Addressing it as "Dear OCLC"? I don't understand the plan.
Neither the article nor the policy mention anything about speaking up against the status quo. They appear instead to be looking for "conflicts of interest" and "possible sources of embarrassment."

There's a difference.
This is why I qualified my post with "at scale". I don't think there are enough qualified, technologically knowledgeable angel investors out there to cover a significant fraction of the startups that need funding. Keep in mind, also, that although the economy will recover, the glacial retreat of the 20th-century big-box corporations is a rather permanent state of affairs, which means that there will be a lot more people trying to start companies, while the number of wealthy individuals/angels will not increase at nearly the same rate.
RDF is a new solution.

What about the old solutions to this old problem? That's what I was asking about.
Quite a few of the early comments are mentioning Clojure. Since it runs on the JVM, that might make more sense than CL for Google (whose main languages are Java and Python, IIRC).