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> "PayPal doesn’t want their cut of tens of millions of dollars of revenue we project in the next two years. Any idea of who does?"

If you makes you feel any better, I offered them a cut of a projected billion dollars and they still didn't take it.

More seriously though, just go to your bank and open a merchant account.

this is what he wrote prior to Disconnect. if you have the later, it does Facebook and other sites

You effectively outsource spam and troll blocking to Facebook. They allow test profiles (I have around 4) - but they know who you really are.

Fake accounts get shut down very quickly, they have a mechanism that seems to detect those accounts very quickly.

A hotel review from October 2003 isn't relevant information

That is a bit different then. I agree about the conference, I have never been inclined to go.

The impression that I get is that the program is full of self-proclaimed experts who pack themselves and their 2 page bio's onto panels to talk about subjects that nobody outside of that room cares about, and that nobody in the room will ever actually implement or do anything about.

I applaud the effort of setting up an area of sxsw that is more hackerish - but it would probably be better to just organize something separately, preferably in a different city and at a different time.

Edit: relevant: http://ttk.me/t4AY6

terminology is being muddied by calling these 'web applications'.

how about 'browser apps'? or just, something else

I hate this attitude. Especially when we all know that it is impossible to be productive for 12 hours a day, 365 days per year - let alone the 16, or whatever hours, some 'hackers' claim to do

I would rather work an effective 4 hours a day (which you end up doing, or less, anyway, between all the web surfing and snarky comments on HN), take a few weeks off a year, take the odd year off, and actually enjoy life through meeting and interacting with other people.

out of interest, does anybody know how export.ly gets twitter data? is it by paying for the firehose, paying through gnip or another way?

likeness is ok - for eg. I can take a photo of somebody and sell it for $10.

what would not be ok is a copyright and no permission or license from the owner of the original image, even if it has been altered. see the obama 'hope' image dilemma[1]

the original image in this case is © WENN[2]. op - did you get their permission? The exif[3] of the image has copyright Nikki Nelson / WENN. TinyEye finds it in a few places, and other than a few spammy blogs and forums, most seem like legit online outlets that would license.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster#...

[2] http://www.superiorpics.com/wenn_album/Charlie_Sheen_-_TV_La...

[3] http://xrl.us/sheenexif

because they will eventually have a superset copy of all this data, which these companies are building a business model on. eg. Facebook API access is for Facebook apps that use Facebook credits. Twitter API access is expensive (Gnip charge $10k+ a month plus just for a slice).

So true. The mobile photo sharing space has been around for 5+ years, it's just that most users only caught on with iphones and other smartphones becoming more popular.

To claim that this space was 'created' last year and that 'sharing your cameraroll' was a brilliant innovative idea then, is just wrong.

Not knowing about BuzzFeed etc. and why they didn't catch on might explain why this attempt didn't catch on either. Remarkable that they didn't know who's shoulders they were standing on.

thanks

considered just pushing all your code to GH ?

What was the online editing service?

$30M to build Watson to buy all this PR is brilliant. As was Deep Blue.

I just hope the next challenge isn't "defeat a standing army"

If you forced a person to give four answers to a question and rank them in probability of being correct, then at least 3 and possibly 4 of them will look 'batty'

> Saudi Princes and other royalty from the Middle East.

Getting their orders in before their governments fall

We hope

They wouldn't be able to fly without it - they aren't aero stable

I usually setup purge tasks (copy to same table in another db) every week or fortnight in low-traffic periods

This is why I never have a DELETE call anywhere in my app or admin code. I always mark as deleted (there are performance improvements in this for some databases as well)

you almost rescued the analogy, but not quiet.

Does anybody have a link to the HN thread where the clone was first submitted? I can't find it, thx

robots.txt is meant to be read by robots, hence the markup and location.

for humans just use normal web pages. like an 'about' page, for example

except HN readers

He said it during a press event in New York. There were ppl live blogging in the room but somehow nobody picked up that part of what he said, but I remember at least one person tweeting it.

He said it in passing, while talking about the Google mobile strategy (the summary of what he said was "we sort of fell into this business, nobody really understands it just yet (mobile ads) or how big the opportunity will be")

I agree Android was setting itself up for an acquisition, same as what happen with Danger. They were probably aiming for a carrier or large non-Apple manufacturer.

They probably would have never made a dollar, but it would have been awesome

(btw, Larry and Sergey bought Android without telling Eric, to give you an idea of what could have been)

His first request was "Super Co-Founder"

A foursquare joke? what is this, 2010?

Note: IF you have flash disabled, you will not see it, since the 'listen' feature is a flash applet

The easter egg is a simple 'beat box' icon below the original text much like the 'listen' icon under the translated text.

Edit: somebody in the thread uploaded a screenshot, thx: http://i.imgur.com/4jd5y.png