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It makes me wonder: Does he even talk to people outside the tech industry? 90% of people I know that aren't in software/technology think that Twitter is a retarded fad. While I don't agree with that, they have an enormous amount of credibility building to do within the non-technical community.

I don't care if CNN or Fox News reads tweets during their "news" broadcasts. Twitter already has a retention problem, and Walter J. McTraditionalbusinessman isn't signing up for a Twitter account because Rupert Murdoch won't let Google index his results. He'll just search Google, and not find the WSJ's articles.

edit: To be fair, you don't need to be a twitter user to view public tweets. I do think, however, there is a general skepticism about the service that won't end soon in the business world.
Ideas are nothing without actually making it happen, even the really great ones.

If it were as easy as just coming up with the idea, everyone would do it.
That's why I said retool a group from Pogo.com. If you look at that site it's pretty clear that EA's had folks working on casual flash games for ages. It would not be a difficult move over to get folks from that group working on Facebook apps.
This is pretty awesome. Even before the acquisition you could use a combination of Gizmo5 and Google Voice to get a free phone line, but this could make everything even more seamless.
http://spreecommerce.com/features seems like a good fit for what you're looking for.
Another interesting perspective of detroit:
http://www.sweet-juniper.com/2009/07/feral-houses.html

Jim takes lots of pictures of Detroit. He's also got his more original site, which is less bloggy and I like it better: http://jamesgriffioen.net/index.php?/prairies/feral-houses/
With competitors that do not have their liability of having funded years of research to advance the field, but have simply copied the idea after, often by reverse-engineering, as the TFA states.
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I've heard it a million times and for hopefully the last time: FB/Twitter will not replace Google. As much as the social networking fundies would love to see that happen.

This is a huge blunder on Murdoch's part - as if Fox was reporting news in the first place. Good riddens.
That's not true. If you're a publisher, and you focus on your readers (for content value) and your advertisers (for ad value), then you win. The point of this post is that paging hurts both kinds of customers.
His bit about a lack of pretty applications should be the cue for every software entrepreneur to start salivating. Miss the iPhone app-craze boat? Now's your second chance...
That's a very moving and worthwhile read, not just because of the practical matter discussed, but also because of the shadow side of any 'advance' in technology.
You have no room to be picky about pagination if your URLs look like that.
What do you mean? Certainly you don't need supporting data to prove to you that people lie and lie a lot?
> It's not what people have actually paid for, it's what they think they've been paying for.

I would argue that the distinction is irrelevant in this case. If the news was priced according to the cost of creating content tomorrow, the number of buyers would be correspondingly smaller than it is today.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931306
I think this guy misses Rupert's point entirely. Rupert doesn't want the random people that are coming from search engines, or twitter to use his sites. He wants the people that click on his news sites everyday to pay a subscription.

And yes the writer highly over values the importance of twitter. Twitter is good for trends, but to lead users to specific links or sites, like a search engine does based on popularity or relevancy.. is not the same. When a event occurs unless you're one of the first new sites to break it, you'll get thousands of news sites links with the same content.
"Does my bum look big in this?"

"Is she prettier than me?"

"What are you thinking right now?"

If you can answer any of those with 100% honesty, every time, well you're a braver man than I, my friend :-)
Yeah, the transition to Grosse Pointe is dramatic. You can see it clearly on gmaps: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=42.390833,-82.911389&#... As you go down jefferson ave to the northeast it goes from vacant lots to a couple blocks of small homes to one of the wealthiest areas in the midwest. Along the river is even more dramatic: http://maps.google.com/maps?t=h&q=42.390833,-82.911389&#...
From your replies, it's pretty clear that you're not familiar with medicine in the United States. Antibiotics are frequently prescribed without necessity by doctors that would rather have a happy (and continuing) customer than lose a client for doing the right thing.
Is it just me or does it seem that all these exchange sites are creating some really horrible color schemes in an attempt to appear unique?
The Web's next act: A worldwide database (discusses Semantic Web)
It's worth noting that Department-level CxOs in the Federal government read this publication.
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This makes me feel so tired. Why not just wait and see how it plays out in the long run.
The pundits are poor at predicting future jobs. When I was a freshman in college I wasn't sure whether I wanted to be an electrical engineer or a journalist.

I was counseled that there would be few opportunities in electrical engineering, four graudates to every job. But in journalism there would be four jobs for every student.

So I chose Journalism and in four years it was exactly the reverse. You have as much chance of these guys being right as knowing what the weather would be like in a month.
Until the deal is done, it doesn't amount to much.
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yep, it's pdfTeX, I just verified it in the document properties. I'm glad you used it :)
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Am I the only one experiencing this?
Why should you trust any of the info on http://answers.onstartups.com/ ? It's not like the founders are the ones answering every question. How do you know that intelligent individuals are answering your question? Isn't that a question you can ask about any internet forum?

Unless you can tell by looking at the site's history of intelligent responses. In which case you can do that with startups.com, if not most sites on the internet.
Which is proof positive that it does not warrant a patent, since apparently having access to the input and the output data is enough to re-create the box in the middle.

Besides that, such a big fuss over being able to 'bill a constant amount' month-to-month, it really is nothing but a business method, no matter how intricate the computations behind the scenes.

It's a convenience at best, and one that I would assume would be re-creatable by any number of mathematicians given the assignment.
http://www.rethinkdb.com/
> Start a grocery store. Seriously.

WalMart's big innovation was to apply sophisticated, dynamic just-in-time production methods to its product distribution system, cutting out both inventory costs and out-of-stock sales losses. The efficiencies from JIT logistics allowed the company to grow big enough that it could dictate prices to suppliers, driving competitors out of business and further locking in its monopoly in discount retail.
Thanks Joel for posting about Startups.com. Awesome to make it here, and it seems there are quite a few people interested on the site. When it comes to design, it's really a subjective issue. We ran some tests and this one came out as the winner. We're tarteting a broad group of people interested in "business" in general, not only on startups. We'll see how it goes. We're the people behind KillerStartups.com, internet entrepreneurs at heart. Matias de Tezanos, currently founder and CEO of HealthCare.com (sold Hoteles.com to Hotels.com back in the day, raised $10M for HealtCare.com, Inc. and funded several other startups), and Gonzalo Arzuaga, who sold GauchoNet to Terra/Lycos in 1999, and wrote 5 books about business on the internet (unfortunately, in spanish)
Why not? I mean, rhino has methodNotFound-like thing, so you certainly can.
hi, my name is jurg. i am one of the developers of decaf. we started out with an android version, because there are several things we need that an android can do easily and are somewhat problematic on an iphone.

but because everyone is so enthusiastic we have no choice, i think. we extended our team with iphone experience and are starting the process of porting/transforming decaf for the iphone.

you can check the site (a bit difficult still) or follow one of our team members or me on twitter. or wait until you see us in the app store.
An example of how to reduce bounce rates: http://www.marco.org/237630497
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FWIW, my comment is meant to be positive towards you and negative towards Scoble. You are not a fanboi because your review doesn't say something like, "I tried viewing my website on the iPhone, but dropped the iPhone and the screen cracked. When I view my site on the Android phone, my screen doesn't crack." Scoble's does.
You're right, our fault. I just posted a comment and mentioned it a bit about us. We're internet entrepreneurs from latinamerica, that have build a few successful startups over the last ten years.
And in his defense, someone who has not used BeautifulSoup might not realize how robust it is. I was deeply impressed with it when I used it for a scraping project - it's really good at handling tag soup and giving you powerful access to the parse tree. I would not have expected one tool to perform well in both those areas.

ESR probably just made some assumptions about the capabilities of available parsing options that would be correct but for a few exceptional tools. Let's fault him for not checking his assumptions rather than name-calling about poor programming.
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Walmart has been a huge company since, I don't know, I did a report on their stock in grammar school in the '80s. Is it really the case that sophisticated/JIT/dynamic/etc has always been their key differentiator?

Not arguing, just asking.
Our thoughts exactly. We didn't mention the killerstartups.com name because we thought it was more appropiate (mabye it wasn't a good idea.) KillerStartups.com was launched in January 2007 and it's getting a good number of visitors per day (90k). And yes, we did pay mid-six figures for Startups.com (ouch :)
welcome onboard. i believe its nw a family affair
That's an interesting idea especially given some of the Detroit land prices that have been discussed here on HN over the last few months.

There are urban/suburban farmers who currently supply fresh crops to upscale restaurants, the same could probably be done on a local scale at lower cost given more cheap land. The smaller plots mean that farm automation is cheaper. e.g., there are scaled down farm implements (plows, disks, seeders, etc) designed to be towed by ATVs or riding mowers instead of the larger ones designed for full size tractors and they cost a fraction of the commercial varieties. Not to mention that an ecosystem around repair and small scale manufacture would rise up to support the farmers.

It's possible to grow some animals at reasonable densities with minimal pollution. Chickens come to mind: raising them doesn't require the horrific conditions of "industrial" production. Lots of people raise meat & egg chickens on pasture and the costs are low, animal welfare and food taste is demonstrably better.

I raise poultry as a hobby, and while I've considered making it break even, I've never bothered to actually run the numbers since I really don't want to turn a fun pastime into a part time job. However, my gut tells me that with low cost of real estate, proper management (software tools to help here) and relaxed zoning, it's possible to be self sufficient in the city doing small scale agriculture.
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Hi Ben. This first version attacks the most efficient way to use the bridge -- keep the Ruby and JavaScript parts as self-contained as possible, crossing the bridge only when absolutely necessary. A future version will likely provide the type of feature you are describing for use in scenarios where performance is less critical.
hopefully we'll be able to find the best mix for our audience. We launched 4 days ago, and we're happy with the traction we're getting. Of course there are tons of little details to polish, but hey, did you expect something different for a startup? :)
Yep. Classic stereotype and headline generation of an over-generalization to grab attention. Though she's wrong, she's right some of the time.

That said, it probably means she herself isn't too bad at marketing since, after all, it certainly grabbed quite the attention span here (and exactly the sort of crowd that would benefit from the knowledge she has shared).
What makes me feel tired is reading words in ALL CAPS LOCK; this isn't the year 1999, or 2004. Heck, it's not even 2008...
>Ok, as clueless as he is, not even Mark Cuban can believe Twitter and Facebook live updates are going to supplant search engines.

He wasn't suggesting that! Just that Twitter is already a better source than Google for real-time news...not a very new or controversial statement.
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It might be plausible. If the sessions were brief, the researcher could probably conduct 16 interviews per day. At that rate, it would only take 114 working days dedicated to that task per year to hit the 40,000 mark. That's roughly equivalent to a part-time job dedicated to interviewing subjects, which doesn't seem terribly unreasonable, especially when the author's states that a significant portion of his work is dedicated to just that: "In my job I listen to (and look at) a lot of people."
first of all the idea is great, and when my son is older I will definitely use this. What would be really nice is some sort of guidance system by age. For instance, which worksheets are appropriate for which age, maybe as a wide range. and the parameters within the worksheets could use a recommendation as well. This is because as a first time parent it is hard to tell as i've already gotten the feeling that presenting toys of wrong difficulty sometimes really results in reduced intended effect.
hopefully gizmo on the mac will stop sucking, I have to reinstall gizmo every few weeks because some how the binary gets corrupted and won't start. The only way I can get it to work is to do a reinstall. Other than that issue, it is great to make phone calls totally for free with google voice and gizmo.
also see how they integrated ipod and iphone into the machine. It's simplistic but functional: http://www.spacapsule.com/home.php?page=SpaCapsule_iPod
The point is that he doesn't make money from Google's indexing of his content. Did you even read the article?
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Competition is great for users, and for competitors too IMHO.
His point basically is that, compared to Twitter, Google is unimportant for News Corp, traffic-wise. Which I personally find hard to believe.
Oh don't be sad. I'm overdramatizing, there's really no way to be sure that I would have continued programming if I had got past that hurdle. Or I might even not have enjoyed it. Maybe I needed to see the ugliness of economics very closely before I could really appreciate the beauty of programming.

Luckily the internet bubble came along just at the right moment, made it really easy to become a programmer on the job and now everything is fine.
Well, not all pagination is bad. On very long articles (like the Ars review of Snow Leopard[1]) the pagination is actually useful. It's the exception to the rule, granted.

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.a...
Interesting.

Direct benefits notwithstanding, Google continues to make forays into the mobile world in ways that suggest they are attempting to route around the biggest bottleneck in the whole thing: the price of network access.

It seems that sometime in the future, Google will be able to provide communication services to individuals without the requirement of leasing a non-google medium, like a cell phone or internet connection.

Such a development will make the RIAA vs. the users question seem like discussing the politics of ink distribution in the days before the printing press.
Hmm,

Excellent point. Makes me think about information design in general. Stackoverflow is a great interface and a great site. But part of it's success is it's interface is well tuned to both the kind of questions programmers ask AND the kind of expertise that a programmer would accept to have their question answered.

Most professional programmers are successful at programming - they create programs that are released and so forth. So the understanding of what it takes to succeed is somewhat "democratically" distributed. Most startups fail, the distribution about the information needed to succeed is much less democratically distributed. Also, programmers generally don't have an incentive to hide information or to try to sell you things. People who talk about startup have some incentive to do both.

In investing, there's both different questions AND a different kind of expertise one would be looking for. As a programmer, I'll accept a programming answer that has been voted up by many random programmers (hopefully my peers). As a founder/investor/business person I might not want the answer "everyone" votes up.
Not that it was easy to find, but it was there:

""Fourteen of these 19 subjects subsequently participated in the remain- ing phases of the program. Among this cohort, the mean self-estimated handwashing rate was 73% (range, 50%-95%), compared with the covertly observed rate for this cohort of 8.6% before and 10.8% after patient contact, with an individual mean rate of 10% (range, 0-33%)."
You're certainly right - did you notice how Steve Blank never actually explained how to bridge the gap between "schedule meetings with people" and "get the deal done"?

"Scheduling meetings" is required, it just can't be used as a metric for progress. Don't get fooled into believing all these problems can be solved by sitting down and writing code for 10 hours.
I agree -- it's easy to forget the tradeoffs technology & specialization gives us. The fact that we spent years learning to read, write, do math, etc. means that most of us don't know much about farming and wilderness survival compared to our ancestors. They'd probably be shocked at our lack of knowledge in these "basic life skills".
use a combination of Gizmo5 and Google Voice to get a free phone line

Well, you could talk for free anyway. Not long after Google Voice started handing out accounts they changed the requirements so you had to have a traditional 10-digit phone number registered with the account.

I was excited by Google Voice and Gizmo because I wanted to ditch my cell phone all together (I use about 75 minutes a month). Once they added that requirement though, I couldn't.
I wonder what this means for us Adwhirl users.
There's definitely a sliding scale for lies, and everybody positions themselves differently on that scale.

Here's an example.. I've been receiving a lot of forwarded mails from certain family members. Everything from anti-Obama hate to kitten pictures to chain letters, etc. I have told these family members that I don't want to receive these kinds of emails, but they don't seem to get the message.

So over the weekend I configured postfix to bounce them back to the sender. Easy fix, and I included a note in the bounceback with some fake legalease about noncompliance with the CAN SPAM act.

Problem solved, I thought. But when I told my wife about it, she was kind of upset. She considers what I did 'lying' to my family. So everybody draws the line in a different place.

Still, I think the fake legalease is much kinder and faster way to solve the problem than a strongly worded "stop sending me this crap" message.
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Ask HN: How to be more critical of your work before getting feedback?
This seems like a hard thing to do. It might seem that continuously comparing your work to that of others would do, but I don't think this works.

One approach is to look back on what you have done a few months/years later.

Is there a better way (aside from not working alone)?
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Haha, Sorry, I misinterpreted your comment :)
notice how Steve Blank never actually explained how to bridge the gap between "schedule meetings with people" and "get the deal done"?

He does in his book. But a blog post has to have a limited scope or it becomes a rambling mess.
Cool, now maybe I can more easily link my SIP phones and PBXs into Google Voice.
This type of math-programming-graphics-game mind soup resonates with me very well.

I did mine on a TI-83 calculator, went to visual basic, and then C++/DirectX. Once I grasped sin/cos/tan, I created Microcosm (missle command, angles, rotation as my primary game mechanic due to my fascination of the power of trig, http://arcade.connersc.com).

I feel the same way. You put it in words clearly. :)
So obviously I don't understand this market at all, can someone explain to me why google couldn't just copy ad-mob's business practices and features?
I rather did read the article. If you can get traffic from Twitter, why would you cut off getting traffic from Google?

"he doesn't make money from Google's indexing of his content"

How does he make money from Twitter users posting his content? The only way he makes money from Twitter is traffic, and Google also drives traffic. Therefore how does it make sense to cut off a source of traffic?
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I was a little after this, but it was similar. Dad had QBASIC on his Gateway2000 machine that we played Oregon Trail, WITWICSD, Prince of Persia and so forth on. I had fun with qmaze, qbricks, and so forth - and then I asked dad if there was a way to cheat. He showed me the qbasic ide, and handed me a qbasic manual. And then he said, "Have fun!" - I was in the single digits when this happened, as well. Unfortunately, I never really made much with it - just had fun making custom brick shapes in the tetris clone.

I was lucky, and in middle school, we had an elective that allowed us to use lego robotics and logo to do some really basic stuff (one of the projects, if I recall, was building a robot arm to sort bricks based on color). Not much problem solving involved in it, though - they just gave us "type this in" and "put the legos together this way" instruction booklets. If we had been encouraged to solve the problems for ourselves, I might have gotten a lot more out of it. As it is, I don't recall any logo at all.

Didn't do any more programming until sophomore year of high school, and things like optimized sort algorithms really caught my imagination. Haven't really looked back since...
This is a very nice and pithy observation - you're basically arguing that it's a classic power-law distribution: a few huge winners, and lots and lots of small players - who traditionally would have been defined as losers, had costs stayed the same. But they haven't, so the long tail is full of (small) winners.

I'm going to update my original post with some variation of this... Thanks.
It's not a well-known feature, but you can actually use VLC (http://www.videolan.org) for screencasting.

Go to Media > Open Capture Device > Capture Device, and select Desktop. This will open your desktop as a video source.

Then you can either use VLC's streaming feature (Media > Streaming) or record the desktop to a file by enabling recording controls (View > Advanced Controls).
Imagine that it was someone you really dislike who made what you made. You'll be newly motivated to find flaws in it. This works uncomfortably well.
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