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Yahoo [inexplicably tries to] bring back the toolbar

Actually, a new one every day for a month: http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/57582020969/kicking-off-30-days...

May be the same person that wrote this, or maybe not: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5876761

There's an NSA joke in here somewhere.

Are you planning on adding PayPal integration?

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704574 Also, no it isn't: http://www.zdnet.com/is-microsoft-reading-your-skype-instant...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663379 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5663388

"As for my writing… I wouldn’t expect much to change. I’ll still be writing columns for TechCrunch and I’ll still be writing here and elsewhere as time permits.

Obviously, there will be some knowledge that I become privy to that I won’t be able to share — but that’s not any different than it has been with many of the startups I’ve worked with over the past 19 months. The difference now is that some of that knowledge will be about one of the most successul startups of all time: Google.

Yes, they’re letting an Apple fanatic into the building — wild, I know. But as I said, I left the reporting path long ago. I’m on a new path now. Don’t worry, I’m bringing my iPhone with me."

Probably because they write sensationalist headlines and often spread rumors just for pageviews.

Nah, Google+ links can be very irregular.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617429 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5617165

Those prices beside the products say it all.

Yes, as you consider it interesting and I do too. "What to Submit - On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity." http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The site is already back. This story is from last night.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5170855 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5174832

No point in submitting twice, so here's the announcement on the main blog: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/04/say-hello-to-dropbox-for-bu...

I think he means iPhone 7. So far we have iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, and iPhone 5.

Alternative link: http://new.livestream.com/facebooklive/events/1980369

Just a few weeks after Opera decided to switch to Webkit. Interesting.

They already announced it. Dark Matter Possibly Found by $2 Billion Space Station Experiment: http://www.space.com/20490-dark-matter-discovery-space-exper...

October 23, 2012

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4675167

Yep, sorry. That was a typo; fixed.

You have to remember that every percentage point is about 10 million people. This is the whole computer market we're talking about.