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No, that would require a modicum of modesty. I think Mr Wolfram compared himself somewhere in writing to Newton himself, but I cannot recall where I read that.
If I had a dollar for every "serious game changer on the web today..."
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Everyone knew that the next thing to hit twitter would be games. There is already several of them out there that focus mainly on trivia, which makes sense and could be used as an excellent marketing tool. What scares me is that this is listed as a "social" game, and in looking at the FAQ (http://playspymaster.com/faq) it is clear that this is Mafia Wars for Twitter.

Whats really funny is the question about people with a "Director" level title who are apparently developers or close friends of the game. The answer contains this:

"Directors are playing characters of Spymaster just like you — however, be advised that plotting assassinations against directors may have dire consequences."

But to be honest I made a twitter game a while ago with a friend just to mess with the twitter api, its called BattleBird: http://battlebird.com/
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This comment has a certain irony to it... do you feel "compelled to point this out" because the article "in some way make[s you] feel less secure such that [you have] to invest time in trying to convince the world that [the article] "ain't all that"?" Or why don't you just ignore it if it is so off?
There's a line between "big ego" and "delusion", and it appears that Wolfram has crossed it. Innovation requires big ego and positive attitude, but it also requires some contact with reality, and the ability to appreciate with humility the achievements of others.
I would agree with you for many lighter disorders, but schizophrenia is a pretty serious disorder that's well known to have a tendency to degenerate from "harmless, I-can-live-with-it" to complete disaster if not cared for.

Your advice is akin to telling someone not to see a doctor about the lump on their prostate.
Is there a service -- similar to what Clickpass does for logins -- that uses all of the consumer payment gateways that are out there (Paypal, Goog Checkout, Amazon, Revolution Money, etc.) to give the user an easy choice at checkout of how to pay for something?

I guess kinda like E-junkie but w/ more options. I'm sure there is -- and if not I definitely think there should be.
A lot of people hear voices that shout profanities and chatter constantly to the point of distraction?

No, I don't think so.
I agree, but I'd nuance it a bit more.

If, upon seeking help, you find that the voices are just the everyday mental chatter that most of us have. you should give meditation a try, as it can definitely help with that.
I hear you brother, I hear you. It's odd how some things you can just ignore (MySpace in my case) without any bad feeling, but other things (scribd, for example) are a royal pain in the ass.

I hate scribd because it's not a PDF. I'm still not sure what was wrong with PDFs in the first place, but replacing them with an in browser, Flash based thing is insane.

Oh, and as for selling ebooks on the web. What's wrong with Lulu? That's where I can sell a PDF of my GNU Make book and offer people the option of buying a printed copy.

BTW Can someone post a PDF of this?
But for many it will and that will basically create the possibility for google to do ever more finely targeted advertising

Which is where they make there money and why they are doing all these products.

It makes perfect sense.
A few interesting search results here:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Wolfram+newton
thats so fake it hurts:
- they show hardware crap that couldnt possibly work
- the lights turn on instantly
- angry people inside looking and gesturing outside (what is the first thing you do when your office lights start flashing? gesturing at your window in the 20th foor?)
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Why use bit torrent? It shuts down and reopens connections after each chunk meaning there is a good bit of overhead that could be avoided. Second using bit torrent doesn't play well with some home routers for the same reason.
I like the idea.
A lot of people are still surfing with ancient internet explorer versions so they will benefit from protection firefox and chrome users might already have.
My suggestion would be to slim it down (skip the stats stuff and follow wenberts suggestion to simplify the start page)
and see if the security-stuff convinces enough people to use the service.
Actually I was talking about it. My mind wanders. Sorry to be so vague (it's been years since I read this stuff). I didn't mean to imply sets of measure zero were what CH is about. The reals can be essentially equated with the powerset of the naturals. It's very intriguing that there is no set with cardinality in between that of the naturals and that of the reals.

The Axiom of Choice is also independent of ZF set theory. Have you read the more modern expositions of these independence proofs based on various Topoi?
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>The other 99% of the populace...

It's more like the other 99.999%.
Bye-bye kindle
"A social publishing company that aims to liberate the written word by democratizing the publishing process for everyday people".

This reminds me of that old Tom Lehrer joke about how the problem with folk music is that it was written by common people. If it had been written by professional musicians it would have been good. There are a lot of crap writers out there, giving them a platform doesn't improve anything. Not even for them. If you're a crap writer and can't get your work published you always have the mental salve that the publishers are against you. Once you can upload your crap to scribd you'll discover that it wasn't the publishers after all, it was that you suck. Which is better?

Writing is not easy and barriers to entry (such as editors or agents) actually help filter out a ton of crap.

The assumption that publishing should be democratic is ludicrous as the only books published in a democratic world would be pap that panders to the unwashed masses.
And how many did attend Google IO? How many here on HN? How many in large? So, how many can actually tinker, realistically?
innovation, in your opinion requires those things.

I'll use musicians as an example because they're most fresh in my mind. Good grief, take a look at some of the people we all acknowledge as being innovators: Motzart, who said he wrote great music like cows pee -- it was just his thing. Beethoven, who used to play performances that would make people cry -- and then would yell at the crowd for being such naves. Berlioz -- "At least I have the modesty to admit that lack of modesty is one of my failings."

Delusion is one of those things, especially with really smart people, that's easy to assume and hard to prove. Humility and all of that are wonderful social skills, but they are by no means a prerequisite for being a paradigm-changing person or leaving great innovations to society. The lack of them just makes one unpleasant, and I never said Wolfram was a pleasant person to be around.

And the kicker is -- their degree of popularity or acceptance by their peers in their own time was no indication of the contribution they eventually made. Their popularity and acceptance waxed and waned just like everyone else's: based on a bunch of social factors.
you should never have posted this, unfortunately, and you should definitely keep information regarding your mental health very private

Since I have no experience of having mental illnesses myself, I cannot disagree with you. And you're probably right - many people react with intolerance to anything that's different and hard to understand. However, that could be said for other quirks too (such as an unhealthy passion for programming...), and I would imagine most people on this community are well used to being treated as different. From entrepreneurs to technical gurus (or both at the same time), we have severed ourselves from "normal society" in a number of ways already.

Because of that, I would imagine that this kind of community is probably more tolerant of these sorts of differences than most others. One piece of evidence for that would be the useful advice posted here, and general lack of "Lolz you're nuts" or "Get off the drugs" type of comment (well, there's one or two..).

I'd like to also offer the anecdotal evidence that I know a number of people with mental disorders and those mental disorders don't get in the way of us being friends (in some cases very close friends). Not everyone ostracises people with mental disorders.
Be wary of anyone who names something after themselves. I thought it was "trip" as in "journey", but no it's "trip" as in "me".
Exactly the kind of technology that can kill your business overnight.

Now, imagine Apple finally delivering a 10" iPad with dual e-ink and full color, with their characteristic award winning industrial design we all love.

Just imagine that.
I'm getting tired of the whole "OMG this new thing is going to blow your mind away" quickly followed by "Sorry, it's not available yet" gig.

2009: the year of hypeware.
Youtube still burns millions in traffic costs every day, so I think your technology really makes sense.
But I would rather try to perfect it and then sell it to one of the big video sites, than try to start a new video site on my own.
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Uh... that's from 07/06/2001.
The title of the talk is "How to Come up with Good Ideas for Startups" not "How to add value to the web". The two are not necessarily connected.
And this article is from 1997. I'm japh myself and I love the language, so don't take this as a knock against perl. But why the ancient perl articles today?
"that's valid, but the reason I use one is that it lets me get certain tasks done much faster than I can get them done with the gui."

May I introduce you to goosh.org for web-search?
The "see you typing" thing disappeared to a large extent from IM clients because it was horrible. Users don't like other people seeing their "thoughts" and it creates a much stronger pressure to formulate/complete an immediate answer.

And the "robot" thing is just inane - it's not like bots are hard to interface with e-mail or with the web; it's just that at the current level few bots are very interesting beyond the very basic (IRC type) bots that keep track of when people last were around etc.

Wave looks interesting, but because it provides distributed/federated group chat / document editing / collaboration more than it competes with e-mail.

I'd be much more inclined to see it as an alternative to (some) wiki's and project collaboration tools like Basecamp than to e-mail.
I haven't looked into this for a while - but isn't one of the advantages of the Kindle the ecosystme that surrounds it - in the same way that the iPod is not just an mp3 player - i.e. the iTunes ecosystem?
Argh. Stop saying that. Now I just want one. And I can't get one because it's not even close to being developed yet!
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I'm not entirely sure about that. There are many books "available" on the internet, and this one appears to double up as a netbook. That's a pretty serious advantage over a plain "eReader".
I sure hope Opera is not dying or going anywhere. Most of its users are probably very faithful, myself included.
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At least three friends of mine, in Brazil, deleted their last.fm accounts upon reading the last TC post. The FUD worked.
I think the perl users on here are experimenting with what's of wide enough interest for others to care - http://ironman.enlightenedperl.org/ is publishing lots and lots of new perl stuff but I suspect most of it isn't particularly to hacker news' taste.
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The whole point about this of course is for google to allow for an even more refined advertising product.

ALL their products fundamentally is about that.

It makes perfect sense.
and there you have it...the redditization of HN...

edit: I should add that yes, this article does make me feel less secure about the quality of articles making it to the top of HN (hence the very last statement in the original comment).
It might be worth considering why the BBC tried, and then abandoned this approach with their iPlayer application. More details from the link below, but the bottom line is that consumers didn't like having their bandwidth allowance used up and CPU loaded by having to act as servers...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2008/12/introducing_i...
If you mean compatibility view in IE8 :http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/08/27/introducing-comp... then I'll have to agree that it would be better to handle the problem the same way (a button which would send a different UA string).

Think about the people who have to deal with the UA string for legitimate reasons (analytics...) they will have to deal with a special case (if (UA == "Opera/9.80...")).

It's seems a bit like a ugly hack to me.
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Sounds like this is the impressive high-res-black-and-white-or-low-res-colour display technology of the OLPC laptops, available for other companies to use. I'm looking forward to it.
My guess is that he is the guy in the left photo next to Wolfram.
You can still make web tech only apps for the iPhone... they just can't be code-signed or FairPlay stamped, hence, you can't sell them on the App Store. (The ones that were developed before the app store went live either were freeware or tried to resurrect the classic shareware model.)

(Well, technically, you can, but you do it by creating a stub ObjC wrapper around a WebKit view and point it at your HTML content... but that's not satisfying enough for most users, since you lose some UI functionality, like multitouch and sensor detection that way.)
Your conversational partners are substantially more polite than mine :)

It's not even remotely uncommon for people in my circle to leave an IM or even a group chat in the middle. We all have dozens of things going on at any given time and it's expected that, unless the conversation is Really Important it will take second fiddle to the emergency of the moment.

So for us all conversations implicitly fit into your second category unless pretty explicitly stated already.

I concede, however, that if your typical behavior doesn't fit this model already wave is likely to be somewhere between useless and actively frustrating.
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> Writing is not easy and barriers to entry...help filter out a ton of crap

For the aspiring writers out there, the best essay on writing I've ever read:

http://www.elizabethgilbert.com/writing.htm

"Magazines, editors, agents - they all employ young people making $22,000 a year whose job is to read lots of manuscripts and send back letters telling you that you aren't good enough yet: LET THEM DO IT. It's their job. Don't pre-reject yourself."

I've bought random books off Lulu. Most of them are average, as in you could probably write as well, given knowledge of the subject matter. Some of the Lulu books were travel accounts, chock full of navel-gazing type introspection. I think I bought those simply to read about what their trip did for them.
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yea, I used my OLPC mostly as a PDF reader. It was great for reading books outdoors
It would be a nice to have a convention of adding a date on articles older than N years.
IE compatibility mode is broken. It has two "modes", one of which changes the user agent version and one that doesn't (but still changes the functionality of the browser). Guess where the sniffer scripts get the version from.

The only way to make it work reliably is to look at the window.documentMode property which requires changing your code, thus defeating the point of the compatibility mode in the first place.
Do you find WolframAlpha inflexible and unhelpful re: question phrasing?
My experience with WA has been disappointing. Although it sometimes shares a lot of interesting info, I experience little or no improvement for "ask Jeeves" sort of questions. It seems that there'll be quite a learning curve, and I am prone to turn elsewhere. How much more likely to be turned off is the (less-techie) public in general.

Here is the feedback I sent to WA (who have not responded to my earlier concerns). Perhaps HNers will have thoughts:

>When you aren't "sure what to do with your(my) input"... WA certainly is not helpful in designing a search.

>Today, for example, the news is hot with Dell's drop in sales. So I thought WolframAlpha might have links to stories comparing Dell with other manufacturers 2009 sales. Nope.

>I entered into WA: computer server sales 2009

>Result: nothing "Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure what to do with your input."

>I thought that was a pretty specific, objective request (per your "tips for good results").

>I would like to like WA... and have an alternative to Goog & MS. Are your marketers & user-interface people listening?

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I don't know that this necessarily kills the Kindle and other ebook readers, but it will definitely require some serious adjustments.

Up to now, ebook readers held an a huge advantage with the e-ink screen and ergonomics. Ebook readers still have an advantage when it comes to ergonomics, but I think they'll have a hard time appealing to the average consumer based on ergonomics alone.

The ergonomics advantage isn't even one that ebook reader manufacturers can expect to keep. It will be reduced to just about nothing as soon as someone makes a netbook with a screen that can rotate around and fold down so it can be used like a tablet.

There must be price cuts. I can't imagine enough people will prefer the simplicity and ergonomics of a dedicated ebook reader over an equally priced- and now equally functioning- netbook to sustain a business.

They also need to focus on what they're good at and figure out what inherent advantages there are in having a dedicated device. Ebook readers need to be as simple as books, they shouldn't have to boot up, they should be extremely light, you shouldn't have to worry that some email worm is going to keep you from reading your books, etc.

In any case, this is only a good thing for consumers. We're likely going to see cheaper and better ebook readers as well as better netbooks.
If your point is that youngsters in continental Europe are less entrepreneurial in general, I think you're right. Not one of the students I studied with has started a company. I'm not just talking about those I befriended, I'm talking about entire classes. The fact that my alma mater has one tech spinoff every 3 years on average is further evidence of this. I don't know a single tech-sector person under fifty who has started on his own. It's as if geeks in my country are more timid or something.
Good riddance. How I despise prestige farms.
I saw the demo at google IO. Attendees have early access to develop.
I propose a simple (from 2001) appended on to the title.
What you should explain is why this techie isn't going to be the one sitting around doing all the work while you tell him what to do. In other words, you really need to sell yourselves as people who can make something happen. Do you have a track record?
"Imagine" is right - that is quite a fantasy.

First, that Kindle killer isn't even close to existing.

Second, if you think $400 is steep for a device that has a 1 second refresh rate and a gray-scale screen, just wait until you see the price tag on 10" of full-color, touchscreen, iInk.

Third, and the real barrier to entry, Amazon has the bookstore to back it up. You can make the finest e-book reader in the world, but until you have "magic" wireless delivery and a limitless library to back it up, it's considerably more inconvenient to use than the Kindle.

Apple will not crack this space. It will have to be Google or Microsoft.
His 3 step iteration for the 'Essence of Design' reminded me of WikiWikiWeb's 3 step iteration for HowToLearn [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?HowToLearn] They're strikingly similar except the language for learning is far more abstract and generalized.
Such data is VERY new and so the chances of WA having it are low (the latest data I have seen is 08)

Dont forget WA isnt really into "popular" data - searching for stuff relevant to whats happening "now" wont find you anything productive. It's a computational engine and statistical data engine.

Also dont forget they only have 1000 data entry "experts".Only a teeny tiny percentage of useful data has been hand picked for inclusion yet.

Plus the responses are mostly fairly strongly hardcoded and the AI is very bad at recognising your questions unless it is a very mathematical term (basically it appears to try to apply math to the phrase, and then falls back to hard coded, keyword based searches).
4000 developers attended. I have no idea how many from HN, but I know Anybots was there.

Some percentage of the 4000 will be developing I'd think.

Regarding HN attendance, can you start a poll? (I can't)
Exactly what I was thinking but more eloquent :)

I think most people will agree with us on this, too, even if they don't articulate it - they may not be able to because they never considered this kind of hybridization. I think people will say "it feels wrong" or just "lol wave sux." Or it will just generally

There is a real place for large, threaded, time-delayed packets of info. Email is great for this in many ways. I want to see innovation that expands on email's strengths.