This can be addressed in two ways:
1) Randomly allow a subset of users to upvote article (like slashdot's moderation system).
2) Cap karma from articles.
Sorry if I'm massively mistaken and people don't get karma from article submissions.
Several ideas related to limiting the influence of article submissions were made here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3842554
I know that submitting articles gets you more karma, but I didn't do this to get more karma. I don't really care about getting more karma as I'm mostly just a passive observer of HN and not really an active participant.
I read a discussion on here the other day about abolishing submission karma, and I agree with it. It doesn't make sense why someone should get more karma just for posting a link, or if they do, more karma should be given for comments than for submissions.
(Same with the Mac version...if you're using Picasaweb to host your photos, you're probably already, or would be better off, using Picasa to organize them instead of kludging a plugin into iPhoto.)
I would have guessed that at least a few Googlers would be using Linux on their primary computers.
They are going away from their motto of "organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful". Yes you can find patents via other means or get government info via other means but it's defeating the motto of making it universally accessible.
Google+ is ruining everything.
From Google's own announcement: "We're redirecting the old Patent Search homepage to google.com to make sure everyone is getting the best possible experience for their patent searches. Over the past few months, we've been making updates and improvements to the Patent Search functionality on google.com—not only are you able to search the same set of U.S. patents with the same advanced search options, the new experience loads twice as fast as the old Patent Search homepage, contributes to a unified search experience across Google, and sports Google Doodles as well. The team looks forward to including patents from other countries soon, and will be rolling out additional features to Patent Search on google.com in the future."
Please re-read the whole announcement.
Oh and I don't think I see anywhere Google+ being mentioned....
(My Google Scholar still has a []patents check box. Will that go?)
Google Sync for BlackBerry
> The Patent Search "homepage" shutdown is a dud to me. I wish the dedicated undiluted space continued.
The voting of comments here represents a fact of life. In no time, you get downvoted than upvoted. "Negative" opinions prevail over positive ones. Never understood this mentality.
Android doesn't seem to have made much of an impact to their profits. Their other web properties, like Google+, make Apple's legendarily empty "eWorld" look like a boomtown. It seems like of all their acquisitions, only YouTube has really changed what Google is.
Still, better to take some projects out back and...bury them...than to Yahoo!-ize yourself with thousands of semi-popular things you have to maintain in perpetuity.
If I could grant to a NaCl app the right to read photos from USB attached cameras and a folder on disk with read/write rights then there wouldn't be a need for a dedicated Linux version.