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Facebook beat them to it ;)
Agreed, though I predict it will quickly fall to the same fate as the popup. It will go beyond a certain threshold of annoyingness and then websites, users, and browsers will block them out of existence.
Incidentally, and this goes for all investing: know what you're doing before you take any advice from the Internet. For example, if you don't know whether I was talking about American or European options (and what the difference is), you should probably not touch options trading.

On considered reflection I'm 75% invested in index funds, after reading Bogle et al and figuring that no matter how smart you are its impossible to reliably beat the market. The other 25% is mentally accounted for as "World of Warcraft except with a higher monthly fee and the slim possibility of better loot". (I bought a nice chunk of BAC back in the fifties, among other brilliant ideas, and am very, very glad I mentally waved adieu to all money invested prior to actually waving adieu to it.)
Actually, the data providers just give you all the data, not average anything.

I've actually worked in that business. Have you?
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does facebook's do the same?
That must be why it took four years to defeat the Japanese. If the US Navy had been really serious, instead of mucking around with fleets of aircraft carriers...
I'm just happy that Palm has been around for long enough to have a large enough patent portfolio to allow them to innovate. Without that, I'm not sure something like the Palm Pre would have a chance.
OpenID is a great idea, but the execution is off. For one, there's too many providers, so I have to remember a weird URL just to login (myvidoop.com? really?). The whole process is inherently awkward.

On the other hand, using your Facebook, Google, Twitter, or Yahoo login is easy and familiar. These services don't have the openness we want, but if the goal is to increase engagement I think its a net win.
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Here are some other facts about the two companies: Yesterday, APPL closed at 112.71, and GOOG at 362.74.

I still think getting positive publicity about a product makes that product more likely to succeed, and that there's not much harm in being a media darling.
I found myself not getting this at Safeway since it looked a lot like something Safeway would design for its "generic product".
If they've already drawn the conclusion without asking questions, then perhaps it isn't worth the attempt at explaining it to them. At least not today. Maybe tomorrow.
also as i understand it, adding a title attribute would break the purpose of using a URL shortener - i could see the link with title would take up more space than the original URL in HTML code.

I always thought URL shortening was just to make the HREF short... not the source HTML.
I can attest to that. I had to use Blackboard too when I was attending college, and it was a major pain, so much so that a sizable number of my professors preferred to just use mailing lists instead.
Not buying it. This is Google we are talking about, their main move has always been to release their own version of the service, hope to win, and only if that fails, do they open up their pocket book.

But a broken clock is still right twice a day, so who knows, maybe Arrington's source isn't full of it
They wouldn't have to brand it as Google. Think: Yahoo buying Flickr.

I also could imagine some pretty terrible things happening to Twitter... like, for example, the site displaying "FUCK OFF" on every page load, forever.
And meanwhile, before the patent system gets fixed (assuming it ever will), we shouldn't blame Blackboard if it bullies the competition out of existence?

After all, if Blackboard didn't get the patent first, some other company would, and Blackboard would be the one infringing.

That argument is along the same lines as not convicting a hitman for accepting a hit on someone by rationalizing that if he didn't kill the victim, the business would just go to some other hitman. I think convicting whichever hitman accepted the assignment is reasonable, don't you?
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If GS really highlighted the unofficial part and also linked to official support pages then companies with good support and / or people who are neutral on whether the company is ignorant or unresponsive get the check out the official support forums first and won't be confused about the nature of the GS page.

People who have already something against the support offered by ShittyCorp will stick around and use the unofficial support provided on GS - why on earth would they follow a link that they know would be unhelpful? It's only a problem if you assume a staggering amount of stupidity on the part of the target market.

As long as ShittyCorp doesn't have the option of making the GS page automatically redirect to the useless support pages all is good.
The iPhone has been out for nearly two years now. Besides from a mild software and hardware update, it largely is the same product.

In those two years, I don't think Apple's engineers have just been sitting around.

This phone may in fact be an "iPhone killer" but I think the iPhone is showing its age already. It's being duplicated all over the place.

WWDC is going to bring something entirely new, and I'm not just talking about cell phones.
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So just what's going on with the DiggBar?
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Math:116m housholds in the US. Average income: $60k. New Federal budget divided across 116M averages $31k. Those are big numbers. Yet no one is talking numbers. Math is not driving the national discussion on economics. Very frustrating!
I'm not quite sure I agree. If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google, you will see that they have often bought companies as well.

In some cases you might argue that they have bought less known companies, refactored and rebranded the service, and then used it to go after the marked share of a more known service.
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:( don't start political fights on hn. i thought this was going to be about requiring only formal logic on the senate floor, or some such. the relative size of the federal budget over the us population, not as interesting...
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Exact same reaction I had. I thought it was Safeway's house-brand as well.

Sadly having a big image of an orange and very clear indication of what type of OJ it is (pulp free, lotsa pulp) are pretty much what I look for. Guess I'm a simpleton when it comes to buying juice.

Just read Malcolm Gladwell's Blink and it has an interesting chapter on product packaging and branding. Definitely some cautionary tales in that book wrt to marketing/packaging debacles of this sort...
There is no way Twitter is going to sell itself for under 1B. They already raised at a 250M valuation, and with the team of investors they have behind them, there will be a lot of pressure to hold out until 1B or somewhere close to that.
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I ran an E-commerce company, and we had to fly in some of our products (jewellery). UPS were extortionate - they misquoted me on the phone, and my mistake was not getting it confirmed over email. DHL are fine, in my experience.
In the long term, I should have been more organised so that I had time to ship the products in.
Where do you get freelancers from? Have you tried Mechanical Turk?
That certainly does seem unwise.
I recommend reading Atlas Shrugged first... the Fountainhead is a great book too, but not quite as good.

I suggest you download the unabridged audio version of Atlas Shrugged from audible.com or iTunes. It's read incredibly well and you'll probably enjoy it immensely...
Dude the sub prime lender is nothing at all like Rand's ideas...

First, the idea of the virtue of selfishness is that we should question the "virtue of self-sacrifice". Really what she means is "the virtue of self-actualization". The idea is that the idea that we should all somehow do what we don't want (being selfless) is what she attacks, and her argument makes perfect sense.

Second, someone who is part of the home/mortgage industry is not really a capitalist. The industry is full of subsidies, tax breaks, transfers, etc., and is home to Fannie and Freddie, which are government created, Enron-style entities that allow the government to do things "off the books". You're absolutely right that there is nothing the slightest bit similar between the mortgage industry (or most big, entrenched business in the US) and Rand's heroes...
I think Ayn makes some great points, but I really think she writes like crap

Actually, i say something on these lines very often, if a discussion related to Ayn Rand is happening around me. I would say Ayn makes some good (and obvious) points, but at least for me, Fountainhead was not a "reading pleasure". It was too long and overstretched at places, when it could have been far more succinct.

Someday, i might actually get the dust off 'Atlas Shrugged' in my bookshelf, and read it.
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I thought Atlas Shrugged was better, clearer, and a more focused novel of ideas with fewer distractions. Both were great, though.
It is probably a mistake to plan for future wars in the model of a war 70 years in the past. Surface fleets were rendered obsolete around the 1960s when anti-ship missiles matured.

Things change, 70 years before the aircraft carrier, warships were made of wood and powered by the wind.
You should read the patent. It is absurd. One lawsuit this silly makes them overly-litigious in my book. Seriously, I don't know how their attorneys keep a straight face.
I've had success with posting from my blog, using elance, and meeting people in real life. Egads no on Mechanical Turk -- I don't need semi-trained monkeys working for peanuts, I need professionals who either a) do stuff that I can't or b) do stuff that I can but at a fraction of what I charge per hour.
"instead of blaming Blackboard for bad behavior"

If Blackboard is behaving badly, then yes, we should blame them for bad behavior. Abusing the patent system, and lawyering your competitors to death in a frivolous patent suit is nasty, low, bad for the customer, and should result in karmic consequences (but karma, unfortunately, is not as effective or quick as it is on TV). At the very least, the "bad for the customer" bit ought to be a sin in any business mans book. If it isn't, the business deserves to die...and probably will, eventually. SCOX isn't doing so well these days, for example (not that they were exactly swimming in success before becoming evil, but it certainly hastened their demise).
these scores are not comparable because they are missing a critical piece of the puzzle: the likelihoods of your predictions.
I predict everyday for the rest of the year that the dow jones will be above 2 and below 4 million.

The right measure is to take the difference between market and pundit opinion (you know like a real market, except unlike companies these always end at 1/0 on a certain date - like a covered option) and average that.

This is their real performance.
How about not flogging the dead borse? Anyone who's read a classic novel or two can see that Rand is a lousy writer. Yes, we do know that. Can we therefore agree that it's what she says that is interesting not how she says it?
Netbeans has been showing some real improvements recently, it'd be a shame if it gets killed. I'm hoping they'll maintain both, like Autodesk is doing with 3ds Max and Maya.
> This is Google we are talking about, their main move has always been to release their own version of the service, hope to win, and only if that fails, do they open up their pocket book.

But it failed! See what happened to Jaiku
one of the unanticipated costs for me was marketing, I sell my webbased software to businesses and its not the kind of thing you can sell via search results & adwords campaign, so alot of brochures, trade shows and cold calling are required to sell subscriptions.
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But everyone in select industries (telecoms?) wants Linux on mainframes or DB2, which still beats crap out of Oracle for some workloads. And don't forget the IBM Research
Would you say that in person? No? Then don't say it here.

By the way, I think Mike has posted here once or twice.
I mean that given the simplicity of how to use this (just prefix with digg.com), the number of stories dugg, and the level of interaction with Digg will both go up significantly. The toolbar (if we call it that) has Digg tools built in (related stories, etc...) and has sharing tools for Twitter, FB, email, etc. This is all designed to drive traffic to the main digg.com site.
I'm excited. Both of them own some really great products and are amazing at R&D. On top of that IBM is practical and profitable.
I think that must factor into their decision. Unfortunately, public opinion probably won't have much of a sway on their decision. Or rather, the public won't have an opinion. I could be wrong, but I imagine most of the money they make comes from a relatively small amount of customers buying for big school districts and universities, who certainly have other metrics than whether or not the company enforces patents it owns. In this case it seems they are doing what is best for shareholders, which is to hold and enforce the patents they own (regardless of if they really should have these patents or not, they were awarded them). It comes down to if the long-term decision to oust competitors pays off more than the short-term decision to lose some amount of paying customers.

A sad fact is that the average Joe doesn't really care enough to be aware of these patent issues.

*I added one to many 'not' in my last comment.
Wow, I guess I'm #3. But my idea quickly expanded into a full fledged "credibility index"- because why not keep track of present-day claims they make about things already known to be false? It seems like one in the same issue to me.

And wouldn't it make sense to quantify the vagueness/concreteness of statements made? It's easy for a pundit to say something is "dangerous for America" without giving a specific consequence, and people who make specific predictions that are borne out deserve more credit than people who make vague claims that can't be either affirmed or falsified.

And from there, why not keep track of how many times a commentator uses equivocating devices like "borders on", "all but certain", "just short of"?

And then, what about commentators who keep predicting a specific thing will happen but ascribing different causes to it?

You can also measure how "substantive" a commentator tends to be by looking at the frequency with which concrete facts or examples are cited to support their claim, vs. how many times vague subjective judgments are invoked, vs. how many times nothing is brought forward to support the claim at all.

You can measure how frequently a commentator tends to repeat the same news event or same analysis.

You can take transcripts of their shows and put them into a program that determines what reading level, (in terms of school grades like 7th grade, 9th grade...) their discussion was judged to be at.

And there are probably tons of others.

Granted, systems like this, if they caught on, could turn around and bite us like those stories about wish-granting genies with a sense of irony- surely this would result in a whole host of unanticipated structural biases generated by such stats that change the character and quality of the discussion; surely pundits would find, even discover, new ways to misinform and adapt to the structure accordingly.

But that has already happened. Pundits already speak in a language designed to make as many claims as possible without being on the hook in any way that risks their credibility. So while it would create new biases, I think it would overturn a whole bunch of pre-existing biases that I think are much worse (or at least shed light on them).

This is a long-winded way of saying I really want something like this to happen, and to work.
Google is best poised to monetize twitter.. $250mn seems low though.
There is merit to what you both have said (Matt and Prophet) and I encourage you both to look at the situation from the other's point of view.
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Meant to upvote, not downvote, sorry. Upvoting 2 other of your good comments.
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When trying to explain to the general public why a computer in your house would be useful, it always seemed to boil down to recipes. From the $10,600 Honeywell H316 Pedestal (with cutting board) in 1965 to 1980s Apple II ads in the 80s to articles about the internet in the early 90s. I even observed an argument for a tablet here on HN where convenient access to one's recipes was the primary demand.

I still can't do any better online then I would do with a modest kitchen bookshelf. Obviously it's no problem pulling up a recipe for anything. ABout.com seems to have a top search result for just about an 'recipe x' query. But there's no way if figuring out which is better. You usually even end up with less pictures then you get in a cookbook. If I want to go a step further (eg 'an introduction to making pâtés), I get nowhere.

I have two questions for HN:

- How is it possible that this isn't solved yet?

- Where do a learn about pâté?
Come on now, we all know TechCrunch is ridiculously pro-twitter. I doubt there's too much in this TBH.
That part's real: modern agriculture requires fairly large fossil-fuel inputs in the form of fertilizer to yield anything. "Inefficient" is relative, of course: photosynthesis itself is only 3% efficient, so any biological process is already wasting massive amounts of energy.

However, the amount of oil used for fertilizer is a drop in the bucket compared to that used for transportation. So if we reach (or have reached) peak oil and the price of oil starts jumping, we'd feel it in our gas bill a lot sooner than we'd feel it in our food bill. And that'd spur people to get fuel efficient cars: if everyone switched from an SUV to a Prius or Fit, the amount of oil saved is several times the amount used in agriculture.

It's still nowhere near as wasteful as turning half of U.S. cropland into corn plantations to grow ethanol. You want an inefficient means of turning food into oil, try ethanol subsidies.
What is all this non sense about a war. The US and China are about as far from war as Siamese twins are from schizophrenia!

-- I know, it doesn't make any sense at all!!

Besides, the strongest weapon China has against the US is economic leverage. If they want, they can almost turn the US in a third-world nation by dumping their dollars.
This is definitely true. Plus, I think these are open to abuse. If the submissions are coming from a self-selected user base, surely its possible to self-servingly interpret certain statements as "predictions" that aren't, or a certain set of events as "proving" a prediction in one way or the other.

There is only so much fudging that can occur, of course. But this kind of on-the-margins behavior is a new challenge that this relatively new breed of sites will have to deal with.
After some research, it apears that May and Edward Melanby were published several times in high profile, peer reviewed journals (BMJ, the Lancet) on the topic of the impact of nutrition on health.

Looking at the citations, it seems that the effect of diet on tooth healing have been forgotten more than disporoved. They are cited in papers focusing on tooth developement in children (but not regeneration later on), and on the role of Vitamin D and other food in Rickets. But tooth regrowth is a well documented process in animals, and, according to these papers, it also happens in humans.

BTW, the linked blog post has it wrong. White flour is the least Ca++ chelating cereal (once again, according to E. Mellanby). Oatmeal appears to be the worst (see 1).

1. THE RELATION OFDIET TO HEALTH AND DISEASE.Some new investigations. E Mellanby, BMJ apr 1930
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2. THE EFFECT OF DIET ON THE DEVELOPEMENT AND EXTENSION OF CARIES IN THETEETH OF CHILDREN. (Preliminary Note.) MAY MELLANBY, C. LEE PATTISON AND C. W. PROUD BMJ aug 1924
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Isn't that just as bad then?
> What do you know about the merits of this article?

Personally, not much actually - I hadn't heard of them either. However, I find the site to be addictive reading and the generally positive comment sections add weight to the articles.

I am convinced however that our current monetary system is fundamentally broken..

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The concept of a victimless crime is difficult: let's say we have a kid with no money. Currently, pretty much the default route for that kid to get music is to simply pirate it. In the past, a music-loving kid might have done extra chores, got a paper route, or whatever to earn some extra cash and buy the item. The fact that someone has no money now is no indication that they wouldn't buy something if they had no other route to accessing it.

Now of course, some crimes really are victimless. People pirate stuff that they really wouldn't buy. I certainly don't quarrel with you that in this case no significant harm is done to the property owner. The key problem here is the issue of enforceability. Maybe you and I can be trusted to pay for the things we really think are worth it, but if you think everyone can, you're probably mistaken. How do you enforce copyrights if all an illegitimate copyer has to do is lie and say that they wouldn't have bought the item?

The law needs to be enforceable, and it can't possibly effectively cover every corner case. It is of necessity coarsely grained, and some activities that are victimless are nonetheless criminalised for the greater overall good: so that victimising actions can be punished. Now, you may not agree that intellectual property rights are the greater good, but that's another discussion altogether ;).
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