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> It's not because Twitter's technology is any more superior. It's the simple thing called 'network effects'.

I agree, and the solution must be to provide a service that is useful even when not many people are using it. For example, could an rstat.us account be set up so that everything published on it is automatically republished on the user's Twitter and facebook accounts, and any replies from those places published back to rstat.us?
I really don't understand the other negative posts. If this works half as well as the video says, I would pay for it.
Not a fan of Billy Mays, I take it.
I was lucky enough to start "Talking Fingers" class in 2nd grade! I got a 90 WPM in Typeracer.
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originally it was meant to be silly ones, but the userbase got more serious over time.

i know the person that built/runs it.
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I love this.

I had something built that is VERY similar (architecture - blobs of text with titles, twitter login, comments, voting, tags, flask+mongody) except for another completely different use: http://cluedb.com/

Might be interesting to share code?
Is it really too much for someone to make a blog platform that actually works correctly, as opposed to using JavaScript to paper over fundamental deficiencies?
Twitter is not "microblogging", thinking of it that way will only cause you to misunderstand twitter and come to incorrect conclusions. Twitter is closer to facebook and IRC than it is to blogging.
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Has anyone managed to subscribe to an rstat.us feed from identi.ca?
Color Security?
On Hacker News, we don't downvote someone just because we can't find the right words to describe how radically we disagree.

There really are two types of people in the world: lottery players and everyone else.
Ask HN: "Badges" anyone else a little unenthused? 
Seems every new site is offering me the chance to gain a badge of one form or another.

This trend doesn't grab me so much - I don't want 'badges' for anything. Is that because I'm an old grump? Are all the young hipsters super enthused about sporting all sorts of digital badges?

I like the concept of gamification but shouldn't it be more smooth and less jarring than offering 'badges'?

Are there any good websites out there parodying badges? Maybe the Hipster Hacker http://twitter.com/hipsterhacker is working on a badge heavy new social site with node.js and mongodb?

Perhaps there is a commercial opportunity for a website that converts all your digital web 2.0 badges into real world embroidered badges so your mum can sew them onto your flannel shirt sleeves.
Here is the demo: http://kenneth.kufluk.com/google/js-mindmap/
I might be the only person on the planet who still uses it, but RSS would be awesome!
Right. The result is in fact probably eco-friendly :) What annoys me a bit is I feel we are trying to force the "eco-friendly" virtue a bit too much on people who are doing nothing more than pursue their own self-interest (which I believe is perfectly fine and desirable).
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A million times yes.
> The device can communicate with peers over a Software Defined Radio.

For extra points, allows several such devices within range of each other to automatically create an ad hoc mesh network.
I come to Hacker News to see what interests a small demographic with whom I share some. To find out everything else, I go out on the street and interact with people.
Although it would decrease the "greenness" of the home, I can imagine that making the walls motor-powered would make room switching easier. You could integrate a master controller into the wall with options for which room you want to switch to.
Why did Color get so much money?
For a second I parsed this as indicating that HN had instituted a system of badges, about which you were unenthused... phew!
Well executed. I would love an RSS feed to subscribe to.
Given the industry trend for badges I wouldn't be surprised. Do I get an HN badge for having karma over 400?
I don't get this application. Why would I want to use such a thing?
"We've created an entire parallel vocabulary which will do -nothing- helpful to the conversation."

You haven't created one. It already exists. I'm not proscribing, I'm describing. This is well within normal definitions of worship, which is a fairly fuzzy word as it is. Go ask ten people on the street to define it and see what you get. You'll get at least one that fits this close enough. "Spending ones mind and body on that which you prioritize the highest" is not that far out a definition, which is at least close to the sense used in that quote; when one talks about "worshiping money" we do not generally mean that a Benjamin has been placed on a literal pedestal and one is literally bowing in front of it and expecting favors from Mammon, yet the phrase is clearly in common use and has some sort of meaning.

The quote does not equivocate and you've misdiagnosed the fallacy. Equivocation is when you change your definition halfway through. There's no change in that quote. It starts with a certain (though as I said implicit) definition and it carries it through. If you think it changed, again, I'd really suggest reading it more carefully and considering the possibility that it is in fact not out to trap you in linguistic wordplay but actually has something to say that is in fact not even particularly religious (or perhaps more accurately supernatural) in nature. It's an observation about human nature that can still be true in a purely mechanistic universe. I'm not even sure what better terminology there might be.

The conversation isn't being poisoned with equivocation, the conversation is poisoned by people being simply unclear by their word usage, and refusing to grant the author any benefit of the doubt because they have their own baggage surrounding certain words. (That's two distinct things.)

English sucks. If you agree that there are no platonic definitions of words, then you need to be willing to follow through with the implications of that and bend a little to follow people in good faith. You're getting caught up in particular definitions and also appear to consequently not actually understand what the quote was saying. Right or wrong (because I'm not sure I 100% agree with it as is), how can you fairly judge it if you choose to not understand it?
Sure, but aren't Google, Salesforce, Amazon and others doing much the same thing by building/buying cloud computing platforms, social networking products, and so on?

That's widening the companies from those Ben Horowitz named, so maybe valuation:value IS climbing for public companies that are trying to get in on the hot stuff of the day. That would certainly be an interesting argument, I'd love to see someone make it :)
Humorous, but I beg to differ: http://www.cookingforgeeks.com/

It's a great book. Tons of analogies that engineers will love.
Over 500 (or somesuch -- it's a moving target) gets you the ability to downvote.

Which raises an interesting point -- badges do nothing for me, but feature unlocking is compelling, as much as I wish it weren't. I don't actually care, but if I stop paying attention I often find myself behaving as if I did.
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Somewhere between 10 and 100 WPM, depending on whether I am programming, writing a blog entry, typing loosely flowing thoughts, or copying the words on the screen in front of me.

Oddly enough, I never really type the proper way. I do some sort of hunt and peck using primarily my middle and index fingers for typing, with only the occasional thumb, ring, or pinky finger. If I grew up typing how you're supposed to type I might be a little faster, but usually the brain is the bottleneck for me.
It doesn't matter where you think the goalposts should be. Moving them in order to make a counterpoint is a fallacy.
I am not exactly worried about getting downvoted but thanks anyway :-)

I guess I should elaborate on my previous comment: I am saying that there is no reason to look at someone actually trying something big and say "Dude, give up! It won't work!" no matter how rooted in reality you think your choices are.

IMHO it is not helpful or interesting to view the world in binary terms as "lottery players and everyone else". In the risk profile continuum, you're drawing a line at your max risk tolerance level and viewing it as a binary choice. But it is a continuum. Someone else may view everyone not working for the government with pension benefits as a lottery player.
Every comment here seems to be piling on RIM. The skepticism is painfully forced, really.

I haven't been a fan of RIM's products as of late, but I think the PlayBook is actually the only credible competitor to the iPad 2 right now. The pricing is right, it excels in a couple of areas that the iPad 2 does not (particularly, enterprise security), it matches or exceeds almost all of the hardware specs (including battery life, apparently), and it is very clearly targeted at the enterprise market. Plus, the OS isn't a clunky piece of crap like the versions on their current phones.
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There's also

http://www.cookingforengineers.com/
The calcium in the milk helps: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/163169.php
I type ~100 wpm with essentially two fingers. I do use my thumb for the spacebar and my middle fingers for ~4 specific edge keys, but otherwise it's all index all the time.

I have a hairbrained theory that this has helped me avoid carpal tunnel because it forces my hands to move around a lot more, rather than hover in one specific position. I have no data whatsoever to back this up.
He has a great track record and an almost Jobsian "reality distortion field" around him.

If Steve Jobs left to found a startup he could raise money on irrationally great terms too.
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I'm surprised no one's mentioned Nathan Myhrvold's multi-volume cookbook: http://www.techflash.com/mobile/seattle/2010/08/former_micro...
Yup, at this point you can't get people to move away from twitter just by providing a nearly identical service. Because the network effect makes them no longer identical. You need to add a way for people to either proxy through the competition (e.g. parallels on a Macbook, skype integrating with the existing phone system, etc.) or you need a featureset that is so superior enough people will switch anyway to catalyze a larger migration.
90-100 range for me
The fact that you're getting advice from people you know rather than strangers and spammers seems like a huge advantage, but I don't think they've nailed the right QA model yet. This seems more awkward and harder to search than something like Yelp.

What we really need is something more like Yelp or Quora with answers custom-weighted by FB network distance.
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I wonder what this guy could have gotten had he taken all the money he spent on his high tech setup and just bought a bigger, nicer apartment.
So was MySpace. So will be the next big thing and the one after that.
I think the responses are more "dude, try something else, that won't work", which is quite a bit different.
That's your opinion. It's too generic of a service for it to be used in one way.
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Not much longer than 140 years ago, /nice/ had pretty much the opposite meaning it does now.

You can't just pick a word's meaning from hundreds of years ago (worse, a foreign-languag equivalent) and drop it into modern conversation without stating that that's what you're doing.
I'm sort of interested in your opinion on this. Care to elaborate?
The last official test I did, a couple years ago, stated just over 100wpm..however just last year I had a data entry job which required some SERIOUS typing speed. New employees would get introuble if they couldn't keep up with the others (who, most of which, had been there since before I was even BORN!). I can feel I've definitely gone up since that summer
Using the app confuses me. It prompted me for my name nonstop (when I say nonstop, I mean I typed my name and clicked "OK", and then it asked me for my name again, repeat), I finally had to press back until it dropped me at what I presumed was the default screen of the app. After a while it stopped using my name and just said "User". When I took pictures and clicked "Ok", it would flash to the app and then back to the camera to have me take yet another picture.

The interface has no hints as to what's going on. I'm just completely confused by the app and I have a tendency to find my way around all sorts of bad apps and websites.

All I know is, Sequoia better have seen some top secret stuff. My eyebrows are at very different heights.
I think it's a very interesting concept. My only concern is using two fingers for most of functions. Personally for me, it's not practical. Also, as the video mentioned, our fingers are big and clunky, so an added finger would block even more of the screen from the user. But I love the idea and the effort put towards solving this problem.
Mistake one: thinking its his country. It is not.

Mistake two: the idea of a country's honor is ludicrous.

I'm with him, otherwise, although I don't think the case is as clear-cut as I used to.
Perhaps. But the code will be there, and somebody can start up their own site on their own server at any point of time.

And the beauty of it: the way the technology works (OStatus), every time somebody does this, the overall network gets larger. In my opinion, it's really only a matter of time.
You're playing a semantic game with the word faith here that makes it indistinguishable from the word "believe" in every single one of its definitions. A typical next step from there is to equate an atheist's acceptance of a scientifically supported theory to a religious person's belief in a supernatural claim. Thus all belief is faith and all faith is belief and everyone is equally justified in it.
Two of us spent about 45 minutes trying "Color" out this evening.

Now, I love gadgets. And New technology. But, for the life of me, and the people at the table, we really could not figure out the color interface. It has a bunch of non-standard icons with clocks, and globes, and loops and a color wheel (that we eventually discovered is the camera icon - not sure what would have been wrong with a camera icon).

The app is still buggy. I would take pictures that eventually would be visible to my friend, but It took me about 5 or 6 more minutes before I could see his.

The whole "We map out lighting to determine if you are in the same room" algorithm may have been the same problem, as different parts of the room had totally different lighting levels.

I'm certainly not getting that Instagram "Wow, this is awesome" feeling. We'll see how it plays out.
Yep, I do the same thing essentially. I can't quite get to 100 WPM, but I'm in the high 80's and most people remark how fast I type. Heh.

Never learned to touch type the "right" way...

Not sure I'd want to...
This is a nitpick, but the first sentence bothers me. Theoretically, the world shouldn't be divided into time zones at all, but rather one continuous timeline, where local noon is always when the sun is at its highest point.

I don't actually object to timezones (I'm not nuts!), and they do discuss local mean time later on -- but for a piece trying to explain them, it seems odd that it starts by arbitrarily positing 24 equal 1-hour timezones as the most "natural" time.
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Launching right after SXSW is in itself disruptive ;)

I don't take photos on my phone to share on Facebook, so I genuinely don't know: do Facebook photos have location data? I think what's really interesting about Color is the notion of an elastic/ad-hoc/inferred social network based on location and meaningful action. The issue is you need Color to be the default photo application before that really works.
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It's not identical to facebook or IRC either, that's my point as well. It's a new sort of thing that requires careful thought to properly understand, applying inaccurate labels doesn't help.
If I'm transcribing something from paper or converting my thoughts into text, I do between 130-140 WPM. When programming I probably do something more like 5 WPM. My main keyboard is a full-sized Apple keyboard which I prefer over my Das Keyboard and my Kinesis Split keyboard due to the short travel on the keys. I use Dvorak.

I only type using three fingers on each hand. My three left hand fingers rest on A, W and E (in QWERTY) when idle. My three right hand fingers rest on M, L and : when idle. My right pinky holds down shift when necessary, so I can type nearly full speed in all caps. I actually do not use either of my thumbs to hit the spacebar; my right index finger does as it's right next to the spacebar when idle.

I realise this is really weird and it's probably why my thumb starts to involuntarily twitch (in addition to hurting in general) when I use laptop keyboards too much. :(
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The judge is a 'she'

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I LOVE the fact that you can 'login with twitter' to rstat :-)
I don't buy it either. You're telling me that every room on the same floor of a building (for example) has a specific audio signature, but identical rooms on other floors do not? I betcha if I sat next to the pop machine in my office's cafeteria, it wouldn't match the ambient noise in the conference room next door.
For the confused:

Ffmpeg is as I understand it a library for encoding and decoding media, used in many applications.

From the responses to this announcement it appears ffmpeg-mt is a long in development branch of ffmpeg that adds support for multithreaded decoding and encoding, which should be very useful for people looking to accelerate playback and encoding of high def content now that single core cpu performance is no longer trending upward moore's law style.

Hopefully someone familiar with ffmpeg-mt can provide more detail.
I am curious why this post was down-voted. It provides a simple engineering solution to the problem as stated.
By the same logic, were the Nazi trials at Nuremberg a violation of German sovereignty?
If a country's honor as a concept is ludicrous, why should a country bother to be moral?

Surely you can see that honor and morality are closely tied concepts, such that a country's moral actions define its honor. In what respect can someone deny the validity of honor and still evaluate the quality of a country's actions?

In other words, did America 'do wrong' by Iraq?
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> Even if the chances of success is 0.01% . . .

If chance of success * probable value of outcome + (the converse of failure) - cost > 0, it's worth it. Is that really the case here? Personally I think you are overestimating chance of success by a wide margin.
I agree 100%, twitter is 'SMS for the web' and NOTHING else! 140 character limit should be enough to make this point.
Canadian competitors to american produce aren't always appreciated (think Justin Bieber, etc.) ;)
This is a pretty cool idea! I'm more an artist than a programmer, so I could see myself maybe using this. I keep on thinking about doing my own edition of Alice in Wonderland...

Do you have plans to hook this up to Amazon as well? I'm nerdy enough to consider doing the markup myself, but if you can automate sending stuff to multiple formats that would start to make it worth half the profits for me.
Making something "my bitch" isn't a compelling metaphor for a lot of people, myself included.
Valuation plus- 6 patents pending. Maybe not a plus for innovation, but a plus for valuation.

Valuation eh- "Our tech knows where you are". Maybe, but very likely not as well as you claim, and even if so...eh.
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I'm having similar lag issues when scrolling up and down the home page with latest Chrome on Ubuntu 10.10. Firefox 3.6 is fine.

Good stuff, indeed. I have always a place to go to just discuss ideas with other creative people. I've used Twitter to do something similar, mentioning Twitter handles of those who would could use the idea I had in mind.

I'll post tonight!
I think www.iinspireus.com does a much better job at soliciting feedback for your ideas!
While I don't disagree with this statement (I upvoted), it still happens all the time, including on this very site.

It's just the nature of the beast.
What will be a shame is when your ISP decides your routable address is worth $11 to them and they sell it out from under you, leaving you behind an ISP-level NAT.
How is that bad for RIM? RIM still make their 30% of the app, they still get a lot of apps. The only downside is they do not get exclusives, and they may not get the apps that are designed for their device. A small price to pay to stay relevant.

Rim aren't confused, they know there is not enough room for more than 2 device platforms, and they are the underdog.
I've never had a reason to go above 60wpm. Just like reading, I see the words in my head and choose not to break that barrier.
We like to send them crap we don't want ;-)

Jokes aside, that's not really the issue... every American I've ever asked didn't know that RIM was Canadian. Hell, they had no problem when their president was seen everywhere with a BlackBerry.
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Here's a good article on the psychology of badges: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2328684 . And here's one about achievement design: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2356944 .

Badges motivate users to set goals. Badges are also symbols of status and reputation.
>I sort of wonder how atheists process someone like him believing in God.

Cognitive dissonance.

I kid, I kid: but I see too many atheists happy to deride a viewpoint with that pop-psychology term as a means of writing it off. Qualifying a behavior as inherently rational or irrational runs the risk of functioning rather like a dogma.
I'm fine with people believing in some sort of entity, I do have a problem if they actually adhere to an organized religion.

You can't definitely prove there is no god, but you can certainly show how dumb the concept of organized religion is, especially the books they rely on.
So I've got this installed and from the looks of it, it's a web browser with innovative interfacing--or am I missing something?

And like someone else already pointed out, one handed control is the holy grail here...
I don't think the technology or location are to blame. The leadership is. Sure the leadership made those decisions, but they lacked a focused goal (or it sees any goal for that matter) which would have decided on the ideal technology. It actually makes sense for a large component of MySpace to be in LA because media was/is the big difference between MySpace and FB.

Let's not forget that being in LA and written in ColdFusion didn't stop them from their explosive growth in the early days of MySpace.
To be fair, the pile-on of cynicism was a mile deep when the iPad was originally announced. Where are the feminine hygiene product jokes now, hmmmmmmm? ;-)