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Yeah, just setup the pop3 account and download it. I think you export your contacts as vcards - even if not most of your contacts should be right there in your email.

I fire up thunderbird everyonce in a while to basically backup my emails because of those horror stories of people losing all their email or even access to the account
There is NO way his "contacts" are worth 50% of a startup. As already pointed out there are plenty of investors about that you can meet w/o already signing away half your future revenue!

He needs to offer more than that to be worth that much :)
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It'd have to be something like AdSense click-thru rates affecting search positions.

If there was a causation, then if you want higher SERPs, you'd need to use AdSense over competing ad providers. Essentially, using their monopoly in Search to be anti-competitive in text-ads.

I wonder if anybody has done such a test already...
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As much as we'd like for that to be true, I don't think it is, otherwise Linux would have "won" a long time ago.
Here's the actual text from the iPhone SDK Agreement:

"No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple’s Published APIs and built-in interpreter(s)."

It only forbids applications from interpreting code that they download. The JavaScript code for PhoneGap apps is installed on the phone. Also, it has an explicit exception for using built-in, documented interpreters like WebKit/JavaScriptCore. (Otherwise no applications that embedded a WebKit control could legally view any web page that contained script elements.)
Because updatedb isn't inherently useless, but rather that file system caching (especially for pages read once) shouldn't eject application pages from RAM to disk.

Being able to run locate and have it quickly return an accurate result is useful at times. I just don't want it paging my entire session out to disk every night in order to do that.
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As an Indian living in America, like the author, I have the following points to make, all of which counter the author's theses:

1) Obama 'must' not do anything, and will not do anything, just because India is a great nation and the world's largest democracy and so on...geopolitical relationships are always centered first on self interest (of each country).

2) Just because Obama does not say hail India more often does not mean Indo-US relations are in bad shape. The United States is fighting a tough war in Pakistan and walking a very thin line between 'helping' Pakistan to avoid a huge civil crisis, using US drones to attack militants inside Pakistan etc and at least appearing to show some respect for Pakistan's sovereignty. Given Pakistan's suspicion of anything India related, it makes sense for the US government not to make any loud pro-India gestures without sufficient reason. Behind the scenes the picture may be (and indeed most likely is) very different. See for example the appointment of Richard Holbrooke. Originally he was supposed to be the US envoy for Afghanistan, Pakistan and Kashmir. Kashmir was dropped because India insisted the US has no role meddling in its internal affairs.

3) Why this obsession with how much attention the US pays India? I understand that expatriates from all countries in the world who are now US citizens lobby for better US relations with their countries of origin (see Israel for example), but India's growth (or lack thereof) is not going to come from how much praise a US administration showers on us. In fact it's quite the reverse, this and future US administrations will have a lot of incentive to treat India favorably as long as India's growth story as an economy and a democracy is intact.
There are four numbers (1950, 2000, one-half, 1%) between annual and per year. Even though it's redundant, it makes it easier to read. A big part of Motley Fool's appeal is the accessibility of their writing and explanation.
I think one of the major problems is that it's hard to use. I struggle to find songs or artists on there - and it seems like there is no easy way to browse about and find suggestions etc. They could lear a lot from Last.fm's way of doing all that.

Plus the "radio" stations are useless - set it to metal and you get 90's punk......

So, I'd say their main problem is a poor product :)
You get interrupted every fifteen minutes or so by an advert - surely they make money from that?

The article completely misses this...
Are people in India knowledgeable about all the other major regions and powers in the world? Does the average Indian have an informed, accurate understanding of the nations of, say Africa and South America?

True, U.S. Americans should be more knowledgeable about other parts of the world. But as the world's largest economy and military power, most other nations have a vested interest in what happens in the U.S. The inverse is not as true. The U.S. has important economic and diplomatic relations with pretty much every other nation on Earth.

In general, we U.S. Americans are (unfortunately) only interested in the specific aspects of the relationships with other countries that seem to have a direct bearing on our lives. Thus, Latin America means illegal immigrants depressing wages of low skilled workers, Indian technology workers mean depressing wages of skilled workers through outsourcing and H1-Bs, China means cheap stuff at WalMart and the evaporation of the U.S. manufacturing sector, Iraq and the Middle East means oil prices and young men and women coming home in body bags. The situations in all of these places is of course far more complex and interesting than that (if the stereotypes are true at all). But I honestly wonder if people in other places do not have similar shorthands for thinking of people in other countries only in terms of how those people are perceived to affect them. I seem to remember a French campaign against the expansion of the EU revolving around a Polish plumber, for example.
Admittedly I like a lot of mainstream music, but I easily find huge wodges of music I like on there.
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That depends on what you mean by "win". If by winning you mean their platform is adopted by hackers and becomes popular with the subculture, then yes I agree with you.

On the other hand, they may be more interested in defining "winning" as selling product to an audience that is not opposed to paying a premium price for quality if that means sacrificing some flexibility.

Anyway, I'm not sure what's so "hacker un-friendly" about the current SDK. You can write and use anything you want on your own phone by paying nothing more than the $99 "anti-bozo tax", you just can't count on being able to distribute it via iTunes. If you're serious about being "open and free", you can even distribute your app without restriction in source code form.

...and for "serious" hackers, there's always the jailbreak option. Yes that will void your warranty and such but when has that stopped a good hacker before?
There's an interesting comment about "passing information back to record labels" especially given: "It was stated that the labels own 30 per cent of Spotify through equity investments. It may be higher."

I'm not implying it's some big conspiracy, just that keeping user data private when you're (part) owned by the companies a lot of your users are scared of is _hard_.
I'm not sure if they would have put it like that themselves though. They extracted the quote from USA Today.
Google may have a monopoly on search, however, it hasn't come to that monopoly via anticompetitive actions, as far as we know. At least, no one has reported on any. Furthermore, as I think Gruber pointed out not too long ago, Google isn't selling search, it's selling advertising.
> Research firm NPD Group says Apple's April Mac shipments were down 1.8% year-over-year.

Isn't that well within the bound of random chance? 1.8% is not a tremendous difference, particularly considering the general economic slowdown.

I see other numbers are about some polling/brand perception thing, but sales are probably a more concrete measurement.
Although I understand the appeal of your argument, using a 3rd party workaround to provide support for performing javascript interpretation outside of the browser--whether or not they happen to be hijacking the system's underlying javascript interpreter--is not an "Apple Published API".
How can a person in Canada "simulate" an IP address seeming to originate in the UK to get access to Spotify? It currently rejects visitors from Canada.
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I assume that is because they are still pursuing growth over immediate profits. I imagine that they could easily be profitable at these revenue levels if they were to just keep enough staff around to keep the servers running, for example. In other words, with that much revenue, I think the only reason not to be profitable is because they think they can be even more profitable by continuing to accelerate growth, for now.
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From the sound of it they don't make enough money to cover the costs of licencing the songs from the labels... though I'm just guessing this based on the article.
Arctic startup has a go at success of Spotify and what it could mean to the future of iTunes.

http://www.arcticstartup.com/2009/05/12/the-future-of-spotif...

IMO, Spotify's popularity means that they're already a prime acquisition target.
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Where by "working" they mean "are making Microsoft look like a value proposition and Apple less so". In other words, they make Microsoft look cheap and Apple look premium ... this is not a message Apple is going to be upset by.

The entire campaign has struck me as strange. "Hey, we know you want a cool, desirable Mac, but you can't afford one -- so settle for us, we're cheap!"

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For those who don't know, Phorm, from Wikipedia:

Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a Delaware, United States-based digital technology company known for its advertising software. Founded in 2002, the company originally distributed programs that were considered spyware, from which they made millions of dollars in revenue. It has since stopped distributing those programs after complaints from groups in the United States and Canada, and announced it was talking with several United Kingdom Internet service providers (ISPs) to deliver targeted advertising based on the websites that users visit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phorm

The article implies that Spotify will essentially turn into something similar to survive.
If that's the way you see it, flag it (but don't comment)

I was interested from the standpoint of how the technology sector transfer of knowledge, and common cultural values has led these two great nations closer together. After all, a significant portion of HN readers are from India.

I really don't like the Obama slant, and I wished it were left out. But (so far) I don't see the conversation degenerating along typical partisan divides.

In short, it's a politics and policy article, but (in my eyes) it's more along the lines of 30-year strategy instead of being some immediate, blabbed-on-cable issue. It raises some interesting questions.

Where's the strong ties, between the US and India or between the US and China? Where is more room for growth? Is there more security and opportunity for startups in one country than the other? How do people from each country see our relationship?

If it was simply Obama-bashing or left-vs-right or something, I'd consider it more out-of-bounds. But it's your call. I can only explain why it interested me.
I think the problem might be that Phonegap allows people to develop rich internet applications. From there, it's only a hop and a skip to implementing a web browser, which they do not want app developers to do. Look at these two pages to see how I arrived at that theory:
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50% is a ripoff. 5% is more acceptable, but even then, you'd have to know he would be providing some serious networking juice.
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I question their methods. First off, the Microsoft Ads suck. They aren't funny or interesting. I don't say 'ooh! A new batch of Microsoft ads' and run off to their website to check them out like I do with Apple's ads.

Second, their index says the index for Apple has fallen from 70 to 12.4? That's way too big of a shift for such a poorly executed ad campaign. As far as sales goes, haven't they noticed we're in the middle of a recession? Apple has been doing pretty darned well considering the skyrocketing unemployment rate and lack of consumer spending.
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For a language like this to overtake Python, several things would have to happen:

1) It would have to offer something a lot more than slight improvements in syntax. What improvements it offers already are definitely nice, but I'm not going "OMG I have to have that!"

2) Lots of documentation would be needed (link points this out). As PG mentioned in an essay, an O'Reilly book too (or equivalent).

3) Having a large pre-existing code base, and project base you can build off of is key (i.e., Python has Django, tons of useful modules, etc...). This comes in time.

4) Community of users to ask questions (needs to be built up over time - publishing articles like this is a good way to start one).

I think to overtake Python it'll also have to offer something much different, substantially different^, from Python. Maybe build upon being easier to debug more. Or perhaps look at the most confusing aspects of Python and make them simpler (OOP can be very complicated for a newbie learning how to code - it was for me).

^By substantially different, I mean it doesn't have to try and be "black" to Python's "white". But it has to save programmers something (time, frustration, reduced learning curve, etc) that Python, or some other language, doesn't meet.
To be fair, it has worked quite well for Wal-Mart ;)

But I agree completely, that message does not upset Apple at all.
As far as I can tell from the PhoneGap source code, it just embeds a UIWebView and hooks into its standard APIs and events. I didn't spot any unpublished APIs in use. Can you give an example of what you mean by "hijacking"?

If I built a non-PhoneGap application that used a WebView to display pages I built with HTML/CSS/JavaScript, do you think that would violate the SDK agreement?
Iirc, Skype offered cheap international phone calls (to POTS phone numbers) at the same time as skype-to-skype calls... so they were indeed useful even in isolation.

Taking this screenshot as evidence:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Skype_1.4.0.58_alpha_for_L...

Skype 1.4 already offered this. I'm pretty sure SkypeOut was available even before that, too.
(Not to get off topic but...) I do find it amusing that there is SUCH an outcry over phorm (again, not passign judgement either way, just observing) and yet when companies do something like this hardly anyone is bothered or notices...
Obama is the US's CEO. Maybe he should be more dull.
I don't see anything supporting the assertion that the shifts were due to Microsoft's advertising. Given the recession (and the media's mood regarding it), I'm not at all surprised that consumers are acting a bit more frugal.
I havent heard an actual advert for weeks. Currently it is just "<insert name here> from Spotify" telling us how cool it is.
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"it's a politics and policy article, but (in my eyes) it's more along the lines of 30-year strategy instead of being some immediate, blabbed-on-cable issue. It raises some interesting questions.

Where's the strong ties, between the US and India or between the US and China? Where is more room for growth? Is there more security and opportunity for startups in one country than the other? How do people from each country see our relationship?"

All this is fine but it is still "politics".

From the HN guidelines,

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."

I guess we are now arguing on whether this story falls in the "most stories about politics" bucket or not. You seem to think it is some kind exceptionally brilliant article which is evidence for a new phenomenon.. I see it as the typical political hack job, and inappropriate for HN.

I would rather not see such US foreign policy discussions on HN. This particular article isn't even very interesting intellectually, which could be "of interest to Hackers" imo. This is a very fluffy article with some Indian guy (I am Indian too) pushing his pov on how the USA (and Obama in particular) should treat his nation of origin. Meh.

Point taken about not commenting on flagging.
Mea Culpa. Totally.

Chalk it down to the fact that I was just overcome by the horror of a submitter who I respect submitting such a political article (that too such a fluffy one, with no meat on its bones), and seeing it as number one on the main page, with multiple upvotes.

So I still stand by "this doesn't belong on HN" or "Arrgh politics" ;-).

I'll quietly flag such articles in the future. Thanks cdr and DM for pointing out the right way to flag.
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(Hey, guys. Downvoting a genuine question is a bit cruel!)

They can use a proxy or similar so "traffic" goes through a server in the UK first.
Another one in the same (dull) vein by Brooks: 'Genius, the Modern View': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/opinion/01brooks.html

It seems that Mr. Brooks likes to do at least some of his editorializing based on actual research. We need more like him.
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I was told Spotify pays per play for music licensing. This is interesting because it means as Spotify grows at a crazy rate, so do their costs.
It isn't that bad, I definitely wouldn't call it a "poor product".

The radio feature is next to useless, yes, and in terms of finding new stuff, it's not great; however the pros (high quality music, practically zero buffering, and everything for free) vastly outweigh the cons.

I'm hoping they do find a way to monetize the free plan, because I for one love the service, and happily pay for it (even though the paid subscription offers basically nothing more over the free plan, which seems like a bit of a mistake if you ask me)
In other words, they make Microsoft look cheap and Apple look premium

I think the ads go further than that. They make Macs look elitist - in every ad the person representing someone real that the viewer could relate to to says something like "I'm not cool enough to have a Mac". Once they manage to get that message across to the majority of people that these Macs are elitist and PCs are more down-to-earth it might well become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I don't think this can be true - look at iCab Mobile, for example - it's pretty upfront about being a web browser.
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I hate mac because I need a mac to test with. If apple allowed us to VM macs, well, they wont be as horrible.

The point is that for the same price as an iMac I can get a pretty damn awesome gaming/compiling machine with 4 cores 8 gigs of ram, 260gig hdd, a nice video card, a giant monitor, and be able to upgrade it. Why would I want a mac?

But in the end, Mac OS is a superior OS compared to Windows XP. Congradulations Apple, you are finally able to compete with a 8 year old operating system. Thumbs up. Vista is actually pretty good, granted that some software is not compatible, but other than that it can work on the high-end PCs. People tend to compare vista's performance on a low-end pc with a high-end mac + mac os. Guess which one will run faster.
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The ads are localized. Here in Norway I tend to get an ad or two (excluding the user feedback) during a 7 hour workday.
The article did show a massive downfall of consumers thinking Macs are awesome, and a rise of consumers thinking PCs are.
Possibly, since I don't use anything else I don't know (except in a virtual machine). I get the impression however that the firefox people spend a lot of time optimizing for MacOS and Windows that they don't spend on Linux for some reason.
Are you kidding, how many ministers did the current government go through in the first couple of weeks in power because of scandals? I know I lost count.

Then there's the whole case with the tsunami tapes going missing.

The case with bodströms possibly advocating direct control of the police to raid TPBs hosting company.

I remember a whole array of ministers getting kicked out head first because of various visits to strip clubs in the 90's.

Then you've got Mona Sahlin cheating on her taxes as well as a wide array of scandals with Gudrun Schyman and alcohol.

That's just the things I can remember on the top of my head and I have just about barely payed attention to local news for the last couple of years until recently.

I think that we might be less sensationalist and have a shorter memory but we do have plenty of scandals. You have to realize though that we are only made up of 9 million people, their scandals should be both greater size and of greater numbers.

As for the two opinions thing, Americans are much more extrovert than Sweeds are. They like to yell at things, it's their thing. We like to sit and whine about things, that's our thing. I do think however that our politicians don't blatantly lie as much, our minister of finance isn't standing there telling us everything is great when it's obvious we hurting and going down deeper.

Now I happened to find Swedish media pretty boring, but that's another thing entirely.
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Good article but I found the last paragraph to be wildly speculative and not particularly well thought out.