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They do have plans to put these promoted tweets in users' timelines...

From AdAge (http://adage.com/digiconf10/article?article_id=143237):

During this roll-out, Twitter will study how resonance works and decide in the fourth quarter whether -- or how -- to take ads beyond search and into users' Twitter feeds. "Is it great in search and horrible in the timeline? We are going to test and test and test," Mr. Costolo said.
Every time I vote up a comment the page reloads and starts at the top.
As with Google Adwords (especially PPC ads appearing when I search) this makes sense and, as long as there's a limit to how many ad-tweets appearing at one time, doesn't concern me. After all, if I tweet that I'm headed to Starbucks and get a reminder of their current promotion, that's of potential benefit to me.

Admittedly, the Twitter site itself is far too restrictive to provide me with useful communication data anyway, so I use TweetDeck to track conversations, topics, and mentions. With more real estate, ads would be less cluttering to me.
Very Interesting read. Nice =]
This is a case where the web is only as secure as its most insecure link. Even if your site uses a hash to prevent abusing redirects people can still abuse them. They need only find a site that uses hashless redirects, generate some redirect link using that site, and then create a legit redirect link using your site. Blacklisting certain domain strings in the url would not solve this- new domains are too easy to obtain. Whitelisting would help but may be prohibitive depending on what you are building...
I clicked on the form wrong and suddenly the tab was filled with Chrome's "Aw, Snap!" error. I'm impressed at how Flash is enhancing web usability with rich graphics and multimedia experiences. (Error messages are an experience, right?)
It's certainly a tumultuous time if you've based your business on a "feature" of Twitter that it could feasibly replicate itself.

http://tweetup.com launched just yesterday proclaiming their advertising value-add to the Twitter ecosystem. The atmosphere there must be pretty tense today...

As for Promoted Tweets, I wonder how this affects the ToS for people who are already using one of those tweet-brokering services. Are those services now dead in the water? What about if you take direct payments for a sponsored tweet and thus circumvent Twitter's ad platform - will this be against the new ToS?
I guess it's a bit about brand awareness
Ask HN: Where to find reputable legal advice for web startup?
Where does one find reputable IP lawyers for small business websites? Specifically, on issues of potential trademark infringement in meta-titles and landing pages?
They don't cite a single example in the wild.

I am aware of cases where gcc optimizing out this check resulted in security vulnerabilities. (No, I'm not going to give details. I think these were made public, but I'm not absolutely sure.)
Look again. There is a code sample in that screenshot and it is in a monospaced font. There is an example of line wrapping and it seems to be distinguishable from a newline.
Microsoft announces phone for socially connected generation
The RoR Meetup in Nashville does a good job of sourcing jobs to its active members. We're a b-list town and there aren't that many Rails devs here, so I'm curious how RoR Meetups in larger cities function...
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> A Consistent/Available system means that reading and writing always works the way you expect, but if one node
fails the whole system stops working.

I've seen this mistaken statement several times now and it really bugs me. A consistent/available system can't tolerate partitions, i.e. a split in the network. However, it can certainly tolerate a single failure and remain consistent and available. That's the whole point. A trivial system with these properties is one that replicates every update to all available nodes and requires reads to get matching results from at least half of the nodes. Paxos is another example.
Isn't this incredibly simple to defeat? The phishing site can send your username to the real bank's website and retrieve the image.
Theora had several drawbacks. Its performance is simply not as good as h264. It's a previous-generation codec based on VP3, whereas VP8 is cutting edge.

Flash never supported Theora, which invalidates its use for the vast majority of web users today. Even with HTML5 video, content protection worries is going to keep a lot of content wrapped up in Flash players for a while. On the other hand, Flash has a good chance to support VP8--Adobe already holds a license option on VP7 and has supported the codec line in their players.

The lack of players, content hosts, and embedded decoders all prevented Theora from ever taking off. I think there's a better chance that Google's direct backing of a codec (both as a content host, mobile platform, and browser, give VP8 a better shot.

I have also read that Theora's "patent-free" status is questionable; to my knowledge nobody has reviewed the codebase to ascertain what patents it may infringe on. On2, as a commercial enterprise licensing its codecs to others, has had to navigate the patent minefield already. I trust its status more, especially with Google behind it.

As for what Firefox will do, well, that remains to be seen. I just think it makes sense for VP8 to succeed where Theora failed.
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He's got an EEG interface and the first thing he builds is a way to turn the TV on? Is that a joke?
How about we just rewrite the format/style/design of ruby docs to be something more readable in the first place?

Or you know, actually document shit beyond "the source code".

(I'm totally grabbing this, fyi)
You've got a good point, and I'm not satisfied with that section. Can you think of a real-world example of a network partition? Maybe a parade that bisects the city?
Truth is the ultimate defense for libel suits.

Saying "elite dating.com (or whatever site it is) sued a person I know for $800 for contesting the charges of a CC and here is the proof" cannot be libel, plain and simple.
It isn't disingenuous in the least. Science is a method. You either accept that method or you don't, you can't pick and choose. If you are not an expert biologist you probably shouldn't hold expert opinions on the subject, just as you are probably not an expert surgeon so you shouldn't hold expert opinions on surgery.

To choose science for one specialty but pseudo science or dogma for another is inconsistent. The scientific method has brought us both surgery and insight in how we came to be here and so on. It's hypocrisy to claim special knowledge about our origins absence any evidence, but to be happy with the fruits of all that labour when it suits you.

I prefer the (true) Mennonites in this respect, at least they are more or less consistent in their beliefs and their application of those beliefs. That doesn't make them less wrong, but they are at least not guilty of hypocrisy.

You can't be against evolution and against science at the same time, evolution is science, and science at its best.

Just like science put men on the moon and freed us from the shackles of the church it will occasionally cause a change of belief, either by replacing a wrong theory with a better one or by proving a widely held belief to be false.

The only reason the ID'ers try to make scientific type arguments is to sound more plausible when faced with scientific opposition, not because they've suddenly seen the light. And dazzling the masses with pseudo science is a great way of confusing the issue, right up to the claim that ID is just another 'theory' that should be given equal time in education.
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Here is one from a few months ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ6Y0I4jXhc
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A washed out bridge.
I chatted back and forth via Git commit messages with another dev I was pairing with. When we turned the project over to the client, their developer sent an email a few days later on how funny the messages were.
I've actually been thinking about this whole 3.3.1 situation in spite of myself and in spite of the silliness of the whole situation. It seems to me that Apple would have been much better of not having made the change to the developer agreement, while at the same time heavily scrutinizing apps written with Adobe's tools.

There's (probably -- I haven't actually seen it) enough leeway in the old agreement that Apple can basically reject any app for any old reason they feel like, anyway, so there's no real value in adding another explicit reason to reject apps written with tools they don't like. If they're just plain lousy apps, reject them for being lousy. If tey call verboten APIs, reject them for that reason. If they load flash files, reject them for having an unapproved interpreter.

My point is simply this: I think Apple could have avoided 90% of the current controversy by simply keeping it an internal matter. Unless there's something here I'm just fundamentally misunderstanding, this seems to be one of the rare occasions where Steve Jobs has completely flubbed the PR situation.
Approved apps have been pulled before (Google Voice apps) so they could do it. I doubt they would, but it's not without precedent.
Call me old fashioned, but without exaggeration, Facebook is THE site where I am least likely to engage with strangers.
Related: April 12, 1981 was the first orbital flight of the Shuttle Transport System (Space Shuttle). The launch was originally scheduled for 2 days earlier but was scrubbed.

Every year on April 12, there is a celebration called "Yuri's Night: the World Space Party". This year it was celebrated on all seven continents (plus a couple of gatherings in Second Life), and in previous years it has been celebrated on the ISS. It's a great time to reflect on space exploration and technology, as well as on the individual work of astronauts and cosmonauts.

Of particular interest to me is the cultural exchange that went on, even during the Cold War, between those on opposite sides who shared the common experience of having been to space. I had the privilege of picking up some astronauts and cosmonauts at the airport, and every single one of them made a point of telling me about how great it was to interact with those who had been on the other side of the Cold War.
That's not going to stop these people from filing vexatious lawsuits.

Many are not enthusiastic about the idea of defending against a libel suit. Baseless or not, it can still take a lot of time, money, and energy.

The woman who paid $800 for peace of mind is the perfect example.
It's not much of a paradox if you can come up with an easy to understand explanation immediately after reading the description. :/
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E-ink readers are already 'traditional'? I'd say they're cutting edge, and that LCD is the 'traditional' variety.

E-ink uses a very small fraction of the power of a backlit LCD and is a much newer technology.
Tell HN:  Microsoft's new KIN.com website uses Adobe Flash
Just wondering why they didn't use silverlight, since even the phone is supposedly using silverlight as a platform.
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They are already affected. People will be afraid to use Unity for new projects because it's fully against the rules. You can't expect that your app will be approved. You can't expect that your app won't get pulled in the future. Now Apple may not actually do these things, but they've announced they can, so the fear is justified.
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I like it. We have a winner. Thank you!

"Think of a parliment that must have more than half of members present in order to hold a vote. If too many can't make it, say because a flood washes out the bridge, a quorum can't be formed and business can't proceed."
I'm considering developing a new one.
The code is monospaced, but the books are just XHTML and CSS, so I'll be improving the style. I just wanted to get this out for everyone!
Opera: Irrelevant on yet another platform.

Opera mini is great on a normal phone, but silly and pointless on a platform with with a real browser like the iPhone OS and Android.
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i see the sponsored retweet market as more convincing than the sponsored tweet one. targeting influencers based on the demographics/behavior (think retweet) of their followers just seems so much more relevant than advertising against search terms.

i know there are other services that already do this, but imho twitter should consider offering this directly, alongside the search campaigns, so that advertisers can manage all of their twitter campaigns from one spot. they could also build a more convenient, "official" system that makes it dead easy for influencers to sell out.

if they can't gain their own traction based on convenience, they always have the option to pull an apple and simply cripple the competition through their TOS (they could simply ban third party analytics services and sell the data to the third party companies, or they could just ban other competition outright. it's their platform, after all)

but that would obviously suck.
hopefuly they won't do this.
Yeah. It could have an Apple logo on it.
Data point: Search is the only feature of Twitter that I use. I mostly use it to see whether other people are buzzing about something at that very moment.
No. Causality can only propagate at the speed of light, with or without quantum mechanics.
Your town must be expensive. In Toronto, a beer costs about 2 CAD, which is also 2 USD (we have reached parity again). This is true even if you get it at a bar, provided you get it as a pitcher. The food then costs maybe $5 on top of that. So this is $7 per-night under the described rules ("a drink every week with some friends"), which allows just over 4 nights out with a budget of $30. And that's only if you're buying food there, too (bad idea, honestly, you can feed yourself for a week with $5 of food if you're smart. Rich people confound me.)

It's possible you go to more expensive pubs than I, but paying over $30 for a night out sounds ridiculous.
When/what was this?
Apple Approves Opera Mini Browser for iPhone
Thank you. Adding ints to pointers--it's not just a good idea, it's the law! Because, in the end, it's all adding offsets to pointers.
Google actually owns YouTube. Adobe never did.
I'd love to see this answered. Unfortunately, it'd need a different answer for every country (I'm in Germany).
"...Twitter’s announcement is the first significant step toward a business model."

That statement seems so odd.
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IronRuby just shipped 1.0 as of today, no VS integration though (yet...)
If you read the content and find it interesting (and aren't worried about neuro-linguistic hacking or subliminal messaging or hypnosis or any other covert channel), why does the source matter?
This is INCREDIBLY great news and something I've been waiting for to hear for ages. Well done Google!
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Sorry but I'm not sure users from reddit are all web savvy. It's still interesting that people don't look at urls when asked for passwords.
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That's not what they said. They said we are not taking flowers/weeds combinations that arrive on purple trucks. But if you want to dump a whole mess of stuff in a red truck, that is fine with us.
You either accept that method or you don't, you can't pick and choose.

To choose science for one specialty but pseudo science or dogma for another is inconsistent.

Yes you can (edit for clarity: Yes you can use dogma for one domain and science for another). It is perfectly consistent to say that the word of god is the ultimate truth but where god is silent on an issue science is the next best thing. There is no a priori reason to claim that the scientific method will give more accurate results than the word of god. The fact that science needs to keep updating itself is, for some (most?) people evidence enough that it can't be as accurate as the word of god.

But, thats not my point.

Most people get whatever knowledge they have of science from sources several level removed from the scientist. As a result, they don't get access to see the true science. Instead, they take what they hear from (seemingly) credible sources and trust it. Maybe they put some thought into the arguments given but generally they don't, especially if no one is disputing what they hear.

With evolution though, there's people yelling at them from both sides. Both sides use what seem to be logical sounding arguments (though, under close inspection, one side's logic breaks down). In addition, one side also claims to represent god, which they are told is the ultimate truth. In their minds therefore it becomes:

Science vs Science + Ultimate Truth

It doesn't take a genius to see which side would win in that battle.

However, with medicine, God appears to be essentially silent on the matter. There are no options to weight. Everyone agrees. Nice and simple.

So yes, there is some hypocrisy, but its limited to the politically motivated few who are pushing the ID agenda. The masses are not guilty of true hypocrisy.
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(stay signed in checkbox on myOpenID). Initial zoom levep is useless with unreadable text. Zoomed in level feels too zoomed in without ability to adjust.

But worst of all, the text area editor is custom--no autocorrection. This comment has takem far too long to edit.

In short, a really poorly executed app that should not have been approved, save for the crapstorm banning it would have caused.
Sorry for the typos--i was correcting as I went along if you can believe that.
Opera does not store any users’ private information. Opera generates statistics of the usage of Opera Mini, but these are aggregated numbers and no information can be linked to a single user.

http://www.opera.com/mobile/help/faq/#privacy
I don't see why there has to be a conflict between the two. From where I'm standing, smartbear's point is "don't try to tell people what they want" and your point is "don't be afraid to change the world". There's plenty of space where both of these are true, and I'd argue the difference is more of founder philosophy than of actual content. Reddit did not attempt to change what readers wanted. Arguably, this is why they succeeded.
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1. Your operating system gets upgraded: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c8an2XZ3MU

2. You lose your ability for self-deception, so when you come face to face with your problems you are forced to be completely honest about them. And once you're honest with yourself, it's very hard not to go through with changing your life for the better.

3. You get to diff your ordinary state of consciousness against your altered state of consciousness. This allows you to learn a ton about how your mind works, changes your theories about how lots of phenomena work, changes your assumptions about reality, etc.

4. If you take what Terence McKenna would call a 'heroic dosage', you might come up against 'the cosmic giggle'. That is, you come face to face with god or aliens or things that go completely against all of western science. And what's really interesting is that in double blind academic studies, multiple people have very similar encounters with alien entities even though they have no had no contact with each other. (C.f. Rick Strassman's book DMT: The Spirit Molecule.)

(E.g. machine elves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_elf)
Especially since they're already profitable...
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I spent the last six weeks learning the Unity system, which is a powerful, full featured engine, the best I have worked with. Now I genuinely wonder if that time is wasted and whether I should look at other alternatives. I'm sure I'm not alone.
The red bar is gone in full-screen mode so it's one or the other; full screen or scroll to top.
Strikes me as a few years too late to be competitive with full-fledged smartphones. I'm also a bit wary of any product marketed toward people who "don't need" a fully-capable device. Kin might do well if it was targeted at the younger "pay-as-you-go" customers who're still stuck with feature phones.
Finally a rational analysis of the iPad developer agreement.
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Right, but is that kind of search really monetizeable? I guess we'll find out.
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Thanks. And working with cloudomatic was a pleasure and a frenzy weekend
DevDiv makes about $1 billion for MS. Office on the other hand makes about $18 billion. So in terms of politics Office gets to decide what tools they use for the most part. Office sees it as a risk in terms of profit and hitting ship dates on time to switch to the latest stuff DevDiv is spitting out.

Rumor has it WPF is going the way of Windows Forms. It will be supported but no new features. With that in mind, think of all the UI frameworks MS has had wrapping up Win32: MFC, ATL/WTL, WinForms, WPF. Nothing seems to stick. Office just writes their own stuff that they KNOW they can depend on it being there. Duplication sure. But DevDiv is notorious for releasing things and deprecating the past "great" technology within a few years.

There is another reason they ignore the new tools: managed is slow for the client. For the server world managed is great and has won. Nobody in their right mind would write native web apps. They write the stuff that needs to be native (db, webserver) then glue the app together with python, ruby, C#, or Java (I know, a vast oversimplification of webapps).

Clients don't have the advantage of the webapps. We don't have a lot of computer to do things in parallel. Every millisecond counts to make the app appear as responsive as possible.

Why does managed suck for the client? JITing is slow and the code it generates isn't nearly as good as a compiler. NGENing is possible but still slow because of garbage collection and marshaling data between native and managed code. Little things like that add up and slow down responsiveness a lot on the UI side of things and that is what the user notices and complains about.
I'm speechless. All this response got me by surprise, so thanks to you and everybody else!
Play with an iPad right now Well an online simulator for iPad.
Providing "tweens" & young teens with a phone that does 90% of what they use their computers for at a price they can convince their parents to spend is a good formula.

Where I remember the Sidekick killing it was on the marketing - they paired up with trendy brands and sold through all sorts of retail partnerships and channels.

Put together a phone with the right features, at a price parents can love, and could be a sleeper hit.
Apple and Microsoft are among the H.264 licensors. I think they don't pay any licensing fees:

http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensors.aspx
Thanks for a nice overview. I have by and large managed to bypass concurrency issues so far, but these days an i7 CPU runs 8 threads and a run-of-the-mill dual socket Xeon could have 24 threads, so I suppose I'll just have to bite the bullet in order to get anywhere near the performance even a single box can supply.

Where would goroutines, from Google's Go (http://golang.org/ ), fit in here?

My understanding is that goroutines are pretty much the same as Erlang message passing, except that Erlang messages can work across multiple computers, while goroutines are restricted to one computer (same memory space). Is this correct?
Usually, OEMs pay Opera to have it preinstalled on their devices. That's obviously not the case with Apple...