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Doesn't this block all other notifications too?

Yup. CMC tries to account for this in its pricing (which is volume-weighted btw) by ignoring those exchanges (which it discloses in the "Markets" section).

Even if FB/Instagram knows my wife and I share an IP address or there were both FB/Instagram and Google cookies on the same browser where I searched for Meow Mix, how would Instagram know my Google/Youtube history?

A couple of weeks ago I search for (on Google) and played (on YouTube, logged into my account) the Meow Mix song to play it for my 4 year old.

Less than an hour later, Instagram showed a Meow Mix advertisement on my wife's account, on her phone.

We have no animals. We have never had animals. She probably (though maybe not) has never logged into Instagram or Facebook on my browser.

It was too much of a coincidence.

10x return isn't worth the downside

A lot of hedge fund traders still use AIM. The sell side is going to use whatever the buy side wants, and the buy side has some tech dinosaurs.

Symphony is trying to tap into that market.

Also interesting, Bloomberg is coming out with a cheap version of their instant messenger ($10/month)

I tried this, but Do Not Disturb silences all texts, including those from contacts. Deal breaker for me.

To users, will this affect location-based actions? (Like Google Inbox delivering an email upon arrival to a location.)

SF: Del Popolo

If you're an independent contractor, you'll pay a 15% rate on your income. 15%.

Also: "those earning less than $48,400 will experience an annual tax cut of less than $400, while those earning in excess of $700,000 will walk away with an average of an extra $215,000 per year." (That's probably assuming the 700k is from business interests, not salary)

http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/la-na-sanders-campaig... "The ex-employee, Josh Uretsky, told CNN that he wasn't trying to steal Clinton data but rather trying to understand the gap in security in the system."

Does anyone have a lock recommendation for making an apartment/house more secure?

If "Good to Great" were written today, I wonder what Jim Collins would have said about Apple (stock price increase was the basis for choosing good-to-great companies). Was Steve Jobs a Level 5 leader?

Using office suites for non-work intrigues me:

Video games:

http://www.excelgames.org/

Art:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/19/excel-art-danielle-...

Direct link to slideshow: https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0Ad5oWim5dM7AZG1xNzZ...

Non-software startup entrepreneurs:

What are your Hacker News alternatives? What forums do you use?

What insider trading information does Google aggregate?

Wasn't RFID supposed to fix this by now?

Milpitas/Fremont: clean tech

Even if he worked a ton of overtime, would you work less hours? Or would you still find stuff to do with the freed up time?

If you choose to invest in stocks, invest in the S&P 500.

FWIW, in the book Getting Things Done, David Allen mentions being "in the zone" (or "mind like water," which he mentions comes from karate) is a key to being more productive.

It makes sense our flight-or-fight instinct could put us in the zone, much like your comment describes.

I've been trying to harness that power (but in more non-life-threatening situations, like at work).

Or pigeon

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/in-south-africa-carrier-pigeon...

What's keeping someone else from making a Lala clone if Apple isn't interested in keeping the service around?

I spent more time reading this article than playing Google Pac-Man.

Interesting tidbits:

Q:If i have a business plan, how do you want me to send it to you?

A:Have someone who already knows us refer you to us. If you don't know someone who knows us, we are highly unlikely to fund your company as a practical matter.

Advice: I would skip the networking events and spend your time building your reputation through hard (and brilliant) work.

A super-simple way to email groups. Something where someone can easily subscribe and unsubscribe. Something that doesn't require signing up for an account, but only add an email address.

Concept:

Go to www.saturdaymorningrunninggroup.emailgroups.com

The webpage will have a box to easily add your email address.

To email the group, you send an email to saturdaymorningrunninggroup@emailgroups.com and it is broadcast to everyone on the list.

You can expand your horizons by making new hacker friends. Good luck!

The most interesting thing about this article to me is where the author got the data -- http://www.aggdata.com .

I ran across aggdata some time ago while looking for a list that they happened to provide for free. They provide niche data that they scraped from the internet. Their data is cheap enough that it's not worth trying to scrape the data yourself. I think the business model can be duplicated easily and there is plenty of room on the long tail.

http://www.givemesomethingtoread.com

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