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You could build a twitter search app, which searches and returns real time news. It should be capable of categorizing tweets about an event as headline(MJ's dead), more info at(latimes.com), comments.

In short it should search twitter for real news and display it in a traditional blog style. Perhaps, it could even display excerpts from the info source site.
The comments display should be real time so that you can in effect discuss the news with totally random people without having to follow them or anything.

A killer feature would be an up/down voting system, so that any noise in the news items gets immediately voted out.
Btw killer domain name. Perhaps use "What's tweetin now?" as a tag line.

EDIT: Why it would be valuable: Ask Jeff Goldblum :P ( http://technologizer.com/2009/06/25/twitter-the-fastest-way-... )

EDIT2: You could also add a user rating system like the one at stackoverflow, in order to get the bots out and give more weightage to more popular users.
I'd love to, but I can't:

- You linked me to a source control repository instead of a product page.

- There's a download button, but it seems to want to give me source code.

- reading comments here, it seems that the source is actually only compilable on a Mac.

In short, you have not produced an App. Even if I wanted to use your product, and had the right system to use it on, I couldn't.

If you want this to be software the people use, you'll need to register a domain name and build a site for it. That site will need to describe what it does (which, incidentally, your github description fails to do), and provide me with a prominent Download button that links to an installer or at least an executable.

Once you do that, please post it back here, and I'll be happy to give you feedback.
As far as I'm aware how it works at the moment means that everyone on a shared server would be working from the same cache hence you have security issue.
There's a mister Hardy and a mister Weinberg that would like to have a word with you about that logic...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy-Weinberg

The other thing to keep in mind is that evolution works as a movement through nucleotide space over a fitness landscape. The fundamental flaw in much of Dawkins work is his reliance on a biologically unrealistic definition of a "gene". Sure, if you go with his definition of genes then logic can tell you all sorts of things about evolution that aren't necessarily true.
Potential Downsides of the "Magic putty that fixes compound fractures in days rather than months, and stops you needing to have your limbs amputated".

- less hospital time, thus less time spent talking to pretty nurses

- less crippling, thus less chance of lucrative disability claims

- increased activity level, thus risking further injury to the affected limbs (and limb fragments that would otherwise have been amputated and rendered safe from further harm)

- (possibly) increased risk of some minor form of cancer due to chemical side effects of the Magic Putty That Makes It So They Don't Have To Chop Off Your Legs

As you say, it's all about measuring the risks. Nobody can make the decision for you.
I actually came looking for those posts the other day and couldn't find them.
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Gates is not only a big Feynman fan, he's also a big fan of video lectures. Here's a quote:

"The thing I asked for Christmas last year, those Teach12.com DVDs, the sad fact is that in their science area I now have all of their lectures. These things are brilliant. If you weren’t here to hear me enthused about that, these are not-- they’re kind of pricy, but these are brilliant science lectures. If you want to learn about-- if you want to understand how semiconductors work, get the lecture called 'Physics in your Everyday Life' and watch it. He will explain to you, better than I’ve ever seen explained, because I’ve always tried to explain to people how semiconductors work. If you want to know about geology, just get the geology course. If you want to know biology, you want to know string theory, you want to know anything, they’ve gone and found the very best lecturers in the world and they’re fantastic.

The problem is I’ve seen them all now. I’m going to go back and re-watch maybe about half of them, because they’re that fun and interesting.

Some of them-- my daughter is 11, my son is 8 -- some of them, like I got all their high school ones. Some of those are good enough I’ll get to watch with my kids and go through and see if they’re ready for them. So, I might have to think of something new. I’ve told them they should go get more lectures. There are some areas that they don’t cover very well. They don’t cover chemistry as well as they should. There’s actually nothing that’s really good on chemistry out there."
Some sort of user quality measurement / recommendation engine thingy.

There's a lot of bullshit on Twitter these days, we need tools to sift through it to find the good stuff. Not Twitter's "Suggested Users" list, which mostly contains celebrities and companies.

There's a lot of metrics you could use:

* negative points for "follow-baiting", i.e. following hundreds or thousands of random users, hoping they'll follow you back, then unfollowing the people who don't follow you.

* number of user's Tweets favorited (normalized by number of followers?)

* average follower's rating. kind of like PageRank.

These are just a few off the top of my head.
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The argument for why the article's author thinks "the worst argument in the world" is invalid comes from a book by Alan Sokal, a physicist with a real chip on his shoulder against Postmodern philosophy.

Sokal is perhaps best known for what has come to be known as the "Sokal Hoax": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_hoax

I strongly recommend anyone interested in this article and in learning about the more recent incarnation of the analytic/continental feud in philosophy read the articles Sokal has collected on his hoax: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/index.html

Outside these articles, Sokal and his sympathizers rarely acknowledge that there could even be any reasonable response to their allegations of buffoonary and charlatanism. Unfortunately for Sokal and his sympathizers, this pose leads to the conclusion that they are either inadvertently or deliberately ignorant of much of philosophy.
The thing is, clinical [endogenous] depression strikes the successful and the unsuccessful alike - it's a biochemical imbalance, not a psychological reaction.
Most criticism I've seen has been from marxist biologists? (Like intelligence being largely inherited, it seems to contradict some dogma in Marxism.)

This sums up the old debate:
http://cogweb.ucla.edu/Debate/CEP_Gould.html

(As a non-biologist, even I know the stature of Maynard Smith, Mayr etc.)

Is there some new development with support for e.g. species-selection, etc?
I'm not sure what value this story adds. We're all (well, mostly) aware of the concept of hacker vs enterprise programmer, and this story doesn't add anything new to that idea.

On the other hand, it does seem to be a nice passive-aggressive way to complain about getting demoralised by a manager who couldn't understand the hacker mindset.
You could build an app that doesn't have anything to do with tweeting. But that may be too hard to come up with.
Headline is wrong. It was not by "accident" but planned and executed.

Also I can only yawn over this because spawning a flashmob over MJ's death is about as hard spawning one by emptying a few bags of dollar bills onto the street...
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As if the topic wasn't scary enough, they mixed up Bob Herbert's photo with that of Frankenstein.
Not to mention it would be an utter waste of a killer domain name.
The article compared communication overload with calisthenics. Of course that right after doing exercise you're not at your top performance... but stop for a while and the benefits of months of training will show.

In other words, he's comparing long time IQ change, and you're talking about short term.
I'd like to mention another problem in the B2B space: customers often feel uncomfortable buying from very small businesses. And in decision processes where Consultants are involved you can almost be sure that they usually do recommend bigger companies.

I'm a one man show myself and I've experienced the problems described above many times. Even in one case where I was the only bidder who could actually prove with a working prototype that I would be able to realize the rather complex solution, they chose one of the big players who could only provide prettier brochures (btw. they had to shut down the project after burning over 100K).

Furthermore, it is often not easy to enter conservative markets as a new player. Established companies are almost always preferred in such markets.

Therefore, my recommendation would be (it worked well for me): Look for companies that already are doing business in your target industry successfully, try to win them as resellers and become an OEM. This way you can profit from their reputation and you can reduce your marketing/sales efforts, too.

I don't know if this tip comes too late for you, but that would be the first thing I would try right now if I were in your position.
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I do, but coffee and a new drug approved by the FDA are two very different things.

I guess my initial comment should have been worded a bit more differently, as Coffee IS a drug ;) My bad.
Thanks for the suggestions.. lots to work for on Monday :) That's exactly what I wanted...

Also, on the page having too many characters, I agree with you. I spend hours adding and removing messages from there trying to make it clean, but at the same time explaining what it does.
The WIGS is an additional service to try to get traction to the site, since it is a one scan tool that people might try to see if their site is secure. I will probably move that to the "tools" page to avoid too much noise.

It is going to be free, and once we are out of beta, we will start with premium accounts with more features.
We are going to use the "freemium" model. What is now free, will continue free, but additional modules/features are going to be added only for the paid accounts.

The call back idea is very good and we will put it in our todo/research list.
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Many of us aren’t aware what is going on in other countries in regard to online e-commerce. However, we think you should become more involved so that you will benefit it. For example, if you see a decent buy on Ebay but it is based in Australia, and is MA15+, you cannot purchase this item as a result of what the Australian government are planning to do. From personal experience, I have found Australia sell the most up-to-date games online and so this will be a huge blow economically....
With stat off, of course.
Yup. Pretty much.
I will check that.. On FF/Ubuntu it is working well. I should have tested it on multiple browsers before.

As for the disabled buttons, that exactly what i did, but on Gimp :)

For the snapshots, you get alerts on intentional and unintentional changes. We have some algorithms to ignore common/normal changes (like polls, number of visitors, # of comments, etc), but it is almost impossible for us to detect if a change is authorized or not, that's why we alert on all of them.

*I will check out launchly now. the idea sounds great.
I could be wrong, but I don't believe Java is GPL'ed.
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The l0pht were such a big part of the internet world in the 90s that explaining what they were on a site with the focus such as this seems a waste of effort.

Even if you were completely unaware of them the use of the word relaunch would indicate that it was an existing site and a quick search on Google would show you why explaining who they are wouldn't always be considered necessary. Complaining of not knowing who they are just screams to me of laziness.

His assessment was targeted at a site where design is a concern for the site. The l0pht site has pretty much always been more about substance than style making a design critic pointless.
It's one thing to complain before gcc.gnu.org/java/, kaffe.org, etc showed up. However, once there is an open source compiler and JVM it's time to complain about something else.
It doesn't offer anything new but it does offer an opportunity to reflect. This story has been around a long while (this dates from '99 but I suspect it's older) and I think comes from a time when hackers had a whole lot less options. Seems to me it's a pretty good time to be a hacker right now.

EDIT: Couldn't beat curiosity, it's from March 20, 1985 according to http://www.csd.uwo.ca/~magi/personal/humour/Computer_Audienc...
It's written in Java, so can be trivially ported to Clojure and made incrementally more Lispish, no? The kernel is still Linux but that could be fixed too, why not?
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I think depression helps people "keep their head down" in oppressive situations. An aggressive alpha male can kill you so slink away and stay alive. If your younger than the alpha you can just wait him out. This might explain why it's so much more prevalent in teenagers where staying alive might gives you time to become the alpha.

Slavery is a more recent example of this, if you are aggressive you will be killed, but keep your head down at the chance exists to reproduce. And most people alive today have some slaves/peasants ancestors.

Today we end up with some suicides, but that's rare enough it might not outweigh the benefit when that feedback loop stays on track so you avoid jail etc.
I know it's old, but this is one of my favorite programming stories ... (Along with Mel, and a few other goodies)
For those that haven't read The Story of Mel:

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
I'm sure you will be surprised by some of the amazing new innovations. Some of them I can't imagine how they were developed.

I don't know anything about 3D life.
There must be a formula for queries a year, returning users, versioning and caching resources.

I bet inline styles and scripts are heavier in the long run than cached as external resources for millions of requests, specially multiple requests a day per user.

Now, I don't know how cache works, but if you have to make a resource request just to get a 'has not changed' response, then the problem is in the protocol.

How about sending all 'modified-since' tags in the header for every resource, so the client then requests a second bulk with all the resources required?

Somebody can explain how cache works in the browser?
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The company I work for has an account. I use it about once every couple of months.

The results are sometimes interesting, but it's really targeted at hard-core search marketers. As a casual user I find the reports hard to get my head around and not directly useful in improving my websites.

Great blog article, though.
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Yes. I believe you can get a second battery in the drive bay, but that'd kind of hurt the whole portability aspect.
tweet.in definetely sounds like you should be focusing on the publishing of tweets than the consuming.

one thing I have thought about doing with twitter is "lifestreaming" but properly, I want to mention gigs I have gone to, films I have watched, books I have read, bands i like. I may rate them, write a short review. but I would like to be able to go back over and see my history without silly searches
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Thanks - I'll make those changes asap
Does Wolfram|Alpha have an API? if so, you could do a pretty cool question/answer thing.

erikwiffin: @tweetin why is the sky blue?
tweetin: @erikwiffin The sky's blue color is a result of the effect of Rayleigh scattering. Shorter-wavelength blue light is... http://bit.ly/3qaEo

tweet.in could be a searchable/rankable/commentable database of all the searches that it has performed.
Helpful rule-of-thumb: retail price = 3 * bill-of-materials. For volume products, your mileage will vary, etc.

Ancient, but seems to be holding. Recently came across this example: http://www.isuppli.com/NewsDetail.aspx?ID=20398 ("... iPhone 3G S carries a BOM cost of $172.46").
I really dislike these kind of stories. A programmer that is not understood by management.

First, they are anecdotal. Second, why are the programmers not taking control of management positions if they know so much better?

I sure would like to get to play computer games at work, design software from scratch, always end up with clear and short code, make software with usability that users love, and be showered with money.

But realistically, I think Alan created the best product for the company. He analysed what was needed, to avoid the risk of creating the wrong software. He got several programmers into the project so the bus-number was higher. He set up facilities for reporting bugs. He started testing early.

Now imagine how good Charles would be if he could learn to cooperate and participate in a group like Alan's. Once the software has been written he could leave the maintenance to the others and move on to something more interesting than maintaining accounting software.
He used the hack, that makes him a 'dance-hacer if such concept exists. No need to be the inventor of the hack itself.
Yes, all those things are determined by scale, because there is a clear cost involved, that requires a certain scale to pay for itself. However, in the case of closing tags the cost is negligible, so it's something that can be used by everyone. Google claims (however, I still can't find the link that shows) that loading/rendering their search result pages slower makes people perform less searches. That's why they do not allow you to have more than 10 results per page; not even via your personal settings. The same trade off will hold for every service whose profitability is directly dependent on the number of page views. So it's not scale, just the sort of business you are in that determines whether not closing tags makes sense.
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It's common to say it that way, but that doesn't make it proper. As George Orwell argued in his 1946 essay 'Politics and the English language' (http://www.orwell.ru/library/essays/politics/english/e_polit): clarity of language is closely bound to clarity of thought. Everyone should be encouraged to write as clearly as possible, to avoid confusion and muddling of thoughts.

Of course, the grandparent overstates his case and is unconstructive as a result. His fallacy is that he argues that someone must be an idiot, because they make a trivial error. Which overlooks the fact that trivial errors are made by experts all the time, exactly because it's a trivial point that doesn't have their attention. You wouldn't believe the silly errors PhD's fix in the papers of fellow PhD's.
So they are going to try to research something. Yea, well, let me tell you some of the things I'll research (once my multi billions of dollars of government funding roll in, like darpa).

A device that will tell you whenever you are in danger. It will be very challenging, the ultimate convergence of electronics, sensors and psyonics. When it is achieved, however, you will just have to wear a little necklace and it will beep whenever you are in danger or someone is plotting against you.

A chemical fertilizer/insecticide/fungicide/candy that when applied to crops kills all pest insects and increases growth 100000% with no harmful side effects. It is also a delicious candy for children. Also the test scores of children exposed to it will go up and they will be more polite.
This just sounds like a wishful fairy-tale. Why is it the top item on hacker news?
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I am.

I think your perception of value is going to be heavily influenced by your level of SEO expertise and what your SEO workflow looks like. Aaron Wall has a great pyramid for expertise in an arbitrary market -- the beginners always outnumber the intermediates who outnumber... SEOMoz Pro is targeted at, if I don't miss my guess, high beginning/low intermediate. If you can't look at the SERP for [bingo cards] and say "This is competitive but not nearly as competitive as [student credit cards]" then they have a tool which will tell you exactly that and that provides value. For businesses who are in that sweet spot it is totally a no-brainer.

With regards to the workflow bit: SEO is primarily a game of link acquisition at the competitive levels. One common strategy for acquiring them is to identify pages on the Internet that would be good links and then email the people in charge of them to ask for the link. A lot of the SEOMoz tools are designed to make this process more efficient. I have deep misgivings about it (from both a it-is-a-nuisance and the-ROI-is-inferior-to-less-annoying-alternatives perspectives) and don't practice it myself, so those aren't so useful for me.

I would like to flatter myself and say I'm a wee bit above low-intermediate in SEO. I mostly use the Rank Tracker, and the other tools have not frequently given me actionable information. That said, I am not displeased with my $80 a month or whatever it was. If there is ONE thing I wish everyone at HN understood in their bones about SEO, it is that the ROI on it is just freaking amazing. Pick a number beyond your wildest dreams, no, it is better than that. In that context, I often spend speculatively on it, and ~100 a month is easy to justify even if it only results in positive decisions once a year.

(Edited to add: Don't let the Internet Marketing crowd fleece you, though.)
It's sad that the BBC had sufficient rights that they could sell the tapes outright but didn't feel any compulsion to simply make the films available themselves. How many other such gems are rotting in thier archives?
Is it really necessary to comment on every single individual mention of Digg so negatively? Apparently you got screwed pretty bad by them, but your posts don't come across as "being in the know", they come across as bitter.
Everyone can come up with parables that make some point of view look good. However, two diametrically opposite extremes are presented, instead of a more realistic situation, making the value of the parable zero and none.

For instance, were the 'enterprise' team to be headed by a capable technical lead that forces his team to produce reasonably readable, reasonably documented, reasonably maintainable and futureproof code, then the situation would already be very different. If we add to that that the inexperienced hacker prodigy would produce working code much faster, but his code would turn out to be brittle when someone else has to take care of it, because he does not yet have experience in interacting with lesser gods via his code, then the match would be even more equal. We may still prefer the hacker, but we would be forced to think about the trade offs involved.
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