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Oh, I'm quite aware. And that's why I said there's no grounds to sue, not that they won't sue. :)
It's a new medium for communication. If it works, people will use it in new unexpected ways; if it doesn't, people won't use it. But there is a lot of excitement about new forms of real-time communication: twitter, recent friendfeed functionality, etc - so they may hit it right.

You are enumerating the current segmentation of the space, which is useful if you want to determine where the product stays, but these dimensions are not set in stone. For example Wikipedia is about off the cuff writing that evolves into an official document, collaboratively.
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"Twitter-based" seems a bit generous. It has its own site, and just uses OAuth and lets you tweet A) the things you do in the game and B) invitation links. Seems pretty gimmicky, though I have to admit, that's what I thought about Twitter itself at first, so maybe this game will be huge and I just don't get it.
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> For example if I make 10 micropayements of $0.25 to 10 different recipients, i am debited $2.50 once, and all that debit goes to one recipient, with everybody else's money shuffled around until all recipients ultimately get their money in as few transactions as possible.

You know what banks are doing? That's exactly how they operate transfers. Only it seems, not cheap enough. (However, almost every bank in Germany allows you to make transfers to people with accounts at other domestic banks for free. Since ages. It's just not convenient.)
That's just plain nonsense. Some of you Americans (sorry, assuming here) seem to think that Europe is some kind of communist hellhole/paradise. It's neither.
I propose not storing/generating every possible tweet, put a careful selection: Take a statistical model of tweet/sms-language, say with Markov-Chains, and generate only the tweets that fit the model with a large-enough significance.

That should reduce the number to a more manageable level, although a book may be still off limits.
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NO!

The last thing he needs is spiritual/religious/new-agey/hippy/pseudo-science bullshit.

Get medication: REAL doctors, trained and licensed.
That's why tweet filtering is your friend...
I have real-time conversations via email, too. The difference is in the expectations of the participants. It's subtle and social. I wouldn't just walk away from a fast-running IM conversation to go to lunch without saying something to let the other person know I was going to be gone for a while. That would be rude. Doubly so on the phone. You don't just hang up on somebody in the middle of a conversation unless you're pissed at them. Email is different. Nobody thinks it's weird or rude if you disappear from an email conversation for ten minutes. After sending an email, you can even walk away from your computer and not check your email again for hours, unless the content of your message indicated otherwise.

In contrast, an IM that isn't a one-off message says, "If you're there and available, I would like to have a real-time chat with you." Each mode of communication sets different expectations. It's quite handy. If you unify everything into a single mode of communication, then you have to set expectations explicitly.

"Hi, Joe. Can you tell me XYZ? Please reply when you are available to have an interactive real-time conversation with me."

"Hi, Joe. Can you tell me XYZ? Please reply at your leisure. I may not be available immediately to discuss your reply but will respond at some point if I have further questions."

See the difference? Of course, the different modes of communication don't mean the same things to everybody. I expect every company and every group of friends has a slightly different IM culture, for instance.
I realized The Economist was a decent news organization when I started reading positive stuff about open source there in the late 90ies. I have been a subscriber ever since.
This brings back (mostly) fond memories of writing PowerPC assembler many years ago. One thing that seems odd to me is that the author credits Motorola with naming of the eieio instruction. I would have thought that instruction would have been in the original Power instruction set and thus it would have been IBM that named it. Anyone know?
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I voted up this article -- because I think the underlying story is interesting -- but article itself is viciously anti-Wikipedia.

I doubt the writing quality is particularly bad, though: I suspect the author is telling exactly the story he intended to tell.
Why?

Gem publishing is opt-in. Even for forks.
Luckily the documentation explains clearly those heuristics and provides examples so you can appease them yourself :)
Ha! Its easy to understand recursion when you understand recursion!

It would have been funnier if instead of just being a link to itself, it used a little java to make your history nest, so you could back all of the way back out of it with the back button.
You have not gone nuts; that's when you give the voices greater priority than your external sensorium. But such symptoms could (at worst) be a sign of schizophrenia or Tourette's syndrome (particularly the profanity and involuntary vocalization).

There is much good advice above. Have a chat with a psychiatrist - call a few of them in your area to find out what they charge, and pick one you that sounds busy but pleasant. Don't feel bad about trying another if you leave the first meeting feeling unsatisfied in some way, that's not unusual. Setting some time and money aside to visit a doctor and having their number handy can be a good stress-reducer in and of itself. There isn't a pharmaceutical 'magic bullet' for this, by the way. Your brain chemistry is as individual as you and your thought processes, so whatever therapeutic approach you adopt, if any, will require some experimentation and patience.

Meantime, don't stress too much. Learn about the voices if you can: do they have persistent identity? do they respond to question or challenge? do they remind you of anyone? If you set aside some quiet time and just listen to the chatter, does anything of substance emerge? Having some experience with this, the best analogy I can make is that it's your regular dreaming process but with the volume turned up so that you can still hear it from the next (waking) room. I'm sure you can think of coding analogies too. Doesn't mean you're broken, and it's not necessarily a one-way thing either. It may just as well tail off in its own time.

Also, another vote for The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes; Daniel Dennett is also worth reading, and so is Stanislaw Lem.
I have advice, but no experience. And I'm afraid I can't give you life changing advice based on something my mind jumped on.
Not to mention that they aren't even the largest endowment per student, Princeton University is.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._colleges_and_unive...
lol.. good work!
Well, it might have been a "fun read" but this is someone's life and mental health we're talking about.
Like most critics of Twitter (Twitics? No. Definitely no), he's completely missed the point.

He seems to be expecting Twitter to be a drop-in replacement for his blog, but it serves an entirely different need -- at least, I suppose, when you have real-world friends on Twitter. Being able to broadcast messages to your friends is pretty powerful. My standard example use-case is "I'm going for lunch at X in 10 minutes. Anyone nearby?". Try that with a blog.
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@jpeterson. Can you give more insight. I have similar situations- sometimes swear words just come out of my mouth(mostly alone..like when i am sitting on the throne or in shower). I would like to know if there is any similarity. I don't have any kill someone thoughts, but death of my close ones sometimes engulf me. Sometimes, I catch myself making weird groans/grunts in the shower. (i try to reduce this by reading while s(h)itting and sometimes reading aloud)

I have problems concentrating on anything - lately i have been trying to work on SICP and then I read about "achievers" - who of the same age - have forged ahead and i get depressed. small things like the ongoing world-war on rails-django affects me - in terms of picking which one. I start a project (after the long battle of picking which platform) and then lose the motivation in between. (lately i thought of an idea of twitter app and then read of these out of the world ideas/apps coming out and this literally gives me the sinking feeling, i get sweaty and out of energy)

PS: i have been unemployed for a while. i am severely under-confident while giving interviews.i am highly depressed - not knowing what to concentrate on (i will do an ask-hn on this later). I think I have no programming skills.this after sitting thru enterprisey application doing j2ee/ejbs etc that could have been done in simpler ways. I envisioned the whole 20 member team being done by 7 members with some reflection apis...but i never mustered courage. Now when i start something, i think why? how is it going to help the world? i see the news - srilanka so many homeless people, darfur, faith based killings and i think what is my to-do app going to help? I cannot explain in words the depression - it is the niagara waterfall and not a stream that i can try to concentrate and pinpoint.

I tried to pen my thoughts to make myself thoughts "active". but at that instant, my mind freezes and i have nothing to write. my ever-patient wife helps me everytime she can, but while she is at work, i am getting paranoid in my isolated cell.

i have been thinking of doing an ask-hn on this for a while and everytime i dread getting these apathetic one liners - go see a doctor/ get a gf/ get laid. but i think i will post and do a reference to this one.

@jpeterson - care to share more of your thoughts/experiences and your contact info?
Just to clarify with regards to everyone saying "doctor": you could see your doctor to get a referral to a psychiatrist but make sure you are getting your mental health care from a mental health care professional.
It's always bugged me how few scholarships there are for white males, and how taboo it is to suggest that perhaps society may be overcompensating in certain areas.

On a related-yet-unrelated note, I think we should start a left-handed pride movement. Anyone with me?
> Done by an entire nation it's disgusting.

One piece of journalism does not equal the opinion of an entire nation.
I guess it must be optimising its tail calls...
On windows, I use NetBeans + the clojure plugin. You have javadoc, autocompletion, included REPL. Even if it's not finished, it's already quite good as it is.

If you're serious about clojure it also offer you a good Java Developpment environnment, wich is a neat thing.

On Linux i use Vim + VimClojure. Really nice, but REPL integration is not as nice as in SLIME for sure.
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From france, where scientology is really seen as a bad sectarian propaganda organisation, it surely seems like a good move from Wikipedia.

The tone of the register article is really bad tho, what do they have against wikipedia ?
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See a doctor and do it soon

Soon ==> today.

Make the appointment and stick to it. You and your mental health is more important than any work/home tasks Friday may bring.
For reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioperl
I actually consider The Economist to be a geek magazine, but not a s/w or h/w geek, but business/politics/economy geek news magazine. (Also a subscriber for many years.)
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Many thanks to all who have responded here. I will go with the prevailing opinion and talk to a doctor.
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Is this just gonna be Mafia Wars, etc, on Twitter? Waiting to see, but I do hope not...
Oh, that eieio. There's another one:

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EIEIO is now a part of CEDET (Collection of Emacs Development
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"The breathtaking arrogance of blowing off potential competition and touting tech buzzwords rather than at least giving a cursory examination as to how one might make money from a product is the Google way"

One must not forget that, even if it was greatly mediatised, it was still a develloper conference, not a consumer/enterprise conference. To be sure of that, you can just search other "non-techy" news sites about it, and you will see it's quite dead. For one good reason. It's not launched yet.

On the other hand, even if it's not launched, it's of great interrest to us devs, and there is some rationale behind the fact of unveiling it before a finished product is available, be it only for information purposes, since it's gonna be an open platform.

Devs are by nature quite arrogant about their new babies, there is nothing wrong with that. Wave looks quite exciting, and gigaom looks like they're lacking some good material to make themselves interresting ...
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Aggregation and Search are two different components. Full-text search ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_text_search ) will help you index the aggregated data, so that it can be searched through a UI.
Hey, check this book "Power of now", the author explains this issue in detail.
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I love how more Buzzword Compliant their slides got from Slide 9 to Slide 13 as they refined Scribd.

It started with A way for academics to publish online more easily and ended up with A social publishing company that aims to liberate the written word by democratizing the publishing process for everyday people.
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http://technomancy.us/126 is an updated set of instructions for setting up Emacs and Clojure. It's been discussed previously (http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=629816)
Summary: Sergey Brin walks around the city all by himself with no posse. He also plays with his cellphone, possibly testing a new technology on his own (no lap technicians.)

The whole article is some Businessweek journalist following Sergey Brin as the later walked a few city blocks with no socks.
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Indeed ... meditation _has_ been shown to relieve some symptoms of depression, dysthymia, cyclothymia, etc. but those are not the symptoms you are showing here.

I'm glad you've decided to see a doctor.
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Surely that makes it Google's problem than his? If Google thinks this is spam and it's still sending his site lots of traffic, then he can't be blamed for that, no?
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The theme does not look right.

Browsers like Google chrome will warn you about security issues when visiting a website. I don't see any additional value in adding this feature to a URL shortener.

IMHO there are better ways to utilize your time (assuming that you are a very good hacker) than making another URL shortener.
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RubyForge is ... web 1.0.

GitHub soon will be the new operating system for coders: repository, product wiki, tech blog, issue tracker, collaboration, messaging
I would think reliable playback trumps using a remote control. Nothing ruins my video experiences more than stuttering playback. If you told me I would never get a remote control in exchange for consistently buttery framerates, I'd take it in a heartbeat.
Integration is the big challenge. The proprietary solutions are either expensive or very limited. Open source solutions tend to be oriented towards DYIers with the right tools and attitude.

As the 12:00 blinking VCR phenomena shows, the majority of people are just not into doing this sort of stuff for themselves. Only a full service solution will meet their needs and to do that well is very expensive and people change their mind when they find out how much it is going to cost.

In 2009, it still is for the Rich and Famous and the DIYers.
The demo video isn't even up yet, and some people are already calling it the future of communication. This looks like one of Google's narrow-minded tactic to sideline Bing's news today.
I tend to read Hacker News in bulk, that is, I ctrl-right click on links and then read them. By the time I get around to some entries and write a comment, it has expired and won't take.

If I think what I wrote is good I might go back and find the entry again and resubmit. Other times I just shrug and skip it.

Would be Real Nice if comments didn't time out / expire.
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Ask HN: Interesting electronics stores in Hong Kong/Shenzhen
Hi Hacker News,

I'll be in Hong Kong and Shenzhen for a couple of days and I'd like some opinions on which local electronics stores are fun or interesting. I last visited Hong Kong in early 2007, and while I was there I checked out the Mong Kok Computer Centre and the Golden Computer Arcade. There are several others, but do they offer anything that the other two don't?

I'm particularly interested in recommendations for Shenzhen. I know from reading Andrew "bunnie" Huang's blog that it's full of stores that sell mass-produced electronic components over-the-counter in small quantities: that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

Also, if you know of any interesting gadgets or devices in particular I should look for, I'd love to hear about those, too.

Thanks!
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i got scoliosis too, and i went to chinese medical master (he also does accupuncture) that specializes in massaging and bones structure

he didn't use any equipment. i was to sit on a chair, knee/shin next to each other. an assistant locks the knees by hugging using both hands so my body cannot move easily.

he then 'measured' my backbone and then stretched my arm, twisted my back based on his initial estimate and then do the measure-stretch-twist loop. it took him quite considerable force (he's sweating)

the whole process took about an hour and must be done in many visits (mine's 3), depending on severity

i felt better but cannot provide statistics/numbers; however, my cousin can. her father is a modern doctor who cannot believe ancient chinese methods. he took x-rays after each visit. he told me that during 2 weeks of therapy, her scoliosis improved from 40deg to 20deg.

i want to visit the chinese medical man again, it's been more than 2 years. there's no 'cure' or 'pills'. i believe if i do better pose i won't need to go visiting him again ... but i'm as uneducated as layman about correct posture so i always revert back to old problems

if you have resources on this please share. the hindu squat looks very tiring -- 500 of these in one go?

btw i'm now using stand-up desk (like a week or so) and my back, heel, ankle and toes are aching and cramping. is it to be expected especially for scoliosis guys? after feeling pain, i just sit for a while. i guess after a while i'll develop endurance

thx for the links
Ask HN: please review my technology.
Thinking about the latest video streaming news, I thought about a feasible way to reduce the costs related to video distribution.

I wanted to use p2p to reduce bandwith while retaining a simple user experience, staying in the browser.
The only feasible solution I saw was to use a Java applet,
Although it wasn't maybe the best option from the user experience perspective, I have to admit the latest JVM update has reasonable startup time and I also saw some users that didn't even realize that it was java (that's good).

If you want to see the result, you can take a look at a few samples here: http://www.bitlet.org/video

Please note that data is downloaded via bittorrent, if you have it blocked by a firewall, you won't be able to see anything :°(

I'd really like to know what you think about the product, what you would change, any feedback, idea, or critic.

Thank you
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Cash is easier than a card?

You swipe the card and your done, how can it be any easier?

With cash you have to constantly go to the atm, and deal with change.
Exactly : weak article !

Instead of giving a factual opinion, he's biaised because, well, Last.fm are his friends and TC are his friends too.

It seems like he doesn't want to be in conflict with any of them.
Very wise decision. I would also recommend resisting the temptation to follow every link you can find (below, in the googlesphere, etc) that may give you information (correct, or very very wrong) about what may or may not be your medical condition. The Internet cannot diagnose you, but it's all too easy (in my experience, and that of close friends) to fall into the trap of web browsing as a displacement activity for getting real help.

If you are in the UK, free advice is available by calling SANEline on 0845 767 8000 (6pm - 11pm). Good luck and please let us know how you get along.