skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure where there is really the news. With a limited number of humans and a percentage of social media users of X% of human population, this needs to slow. The slowing down seems to come early, but only because FB is such a huge success.
I think you got this article entirely wrong.

Jlouis (the author) is an advanced Erlang user who does know the language very well. He wrote etorrent, an Erlang bitorrent client in Erlang (which was also compared with combinatorrent, his Haskell version).

The article isn't about bashing Erlang, but changing the perspective under which it is observed. Namely, the language isn't about parallelism, but parallelism is a nice-to-have feature made possible by the concurrency constructs of the language, which themselves come from a need for fault-tolerance. I would certainly say he is right and I support this way of explaining things.

I'm a somewhat advanced Erlang user, and I enjoyed the article.

I am not sure where you got that competition with Haskell aspect, but I don't think it was ever the point.
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Nicholas Nethercote's blog has more technical details about the work he and others are doing to measure and optimize memory use in Firefox: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/
see also: grindr
Both Python and Ruby have well-established GUI libraries, and are able to take advantage of C extensions.

As @tobylane said, usually there's no "correct" language to use. This is because "correct" is relative to your requirements and team's skills.

However, without additional info, it's difficult to answer your question further.
Restructuring avoids default only if the creditors agree to it before default.

Default is any failure to pay the full amount of the coupon on a bond on time, where the coupon on a bond is the specification of which sums of money are payable when.
For us things have worked out of the box. But we are really looking forward to background tasks (celery) and caching.
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Of course this government debt needs to be paid with interest. The ones who pay it are the taxpayers. So government debt is a way of taking from the poor, middle classes, the vast majority, and giving to the rich, or a tiny minority.
If I only befriended people I trust with my personal data my profile would have a half a dozen friends, or less. Making it difficult for people to do something stupid is a superior strategy to making it easy for them to do so.
There's always various scrapers, like this http://vytautas.jakutis.name/2011/05/27/convert-your-faceboo... by me.
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This sounds more like a clueless rant than anything else.

> much like pretty much any website does not use HTTPS.

Apart from that just sounding line an awful sentence, that sentence is pretty much the same as saying "well bobby doesn't eat his vegetables, why do I have to!"

The author then claims his server would be burdened by the additional overhead of SSL. Funny, because I remember reading an article back when FireSheep was in the spotlight from Google stating that SSL only adds an additional 1-2% overhead tops. Over-exaggerate much?

> It turned out Amazon fails to filter out devices that should not be supported according to the Manifest file.

Welcome to the world of fragmentation. Honestly, that is the biggest difficulty with coding for Android. I really don't think you can blame Amazon for this, however. Even the Apple App Store lets iPod Touch users download applications only designed for the iPhone (unless they changed it recently). But this is an issue you have to deal with on every platform. Apples had the big PPC/Intel issue with requiring 2 binaries, one for each processor type. It's up to you to make it as clear as possible to the user if their device is supported or not.

>3. Where are my customers?

Put your email address in the description? How about in the app itself?

>Since there are so many devices available, supporting them all is difficult.

That's like a car mechanic saying "There's so many types of engines, I don't think I can learn how to fix them all!" Programming isn't something your mom can do on her way home from a soccer game. It can take an enormous amount of time, dedication, and skill. Once again, the author is blaming Amazon because coding is "hard".

The author then goes off about a review that was left filled with inaccuracies. That's yet another problem you'll have to deal with in a service like the Android Marketplace or Amazon Appstore. If they let you cherry pick reviews, it would lead to developers burying negative reviews that reveal their application does something "evil". The more time you spend getting all upset about a comment a user left, the less time you're spending improving your game or application and the less I actually would want to spend money on it.

As for the price change, the author provides next to no information on this.

Don't get mad at Amazon because you found out what Fragmentation and trolling from commenters is.
> if you emit Spidermonkey/Hydrogen bytecode

Hydrogen is not a bytecode, it is highlevel intermediate representation for optimizing compiler generated from AST. There is currently:
1) no frontend in V8 that accepts hydrogen in some serialized form;
2) no way to generate non-optimized (non-specialized) code from hydrogen which is quite crucial to make adaptive optimization pipeline running.
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> To live long/forever is to halt evolution.

evolution takes on MANY forms, to say that the life/death cycle is the ONLY form of evolution, is a gross simplification of the process.
> "Disrupt the government of Tunisia," they said, and we did. We infiltrated the prime minister's site and defaced it externally.

This is about as "disruptive" as smearing "penis" on a Tunisian government building but I love how they sell off their website "hacks" as amazing and courageous acts of human rights.

> I mean, we're talking about the potential of crashing stocks or spreading damaging rumours.

Well, Assange is way ahead of you with the Bank of America shenanigans...
They were covered in the 5th edition, but there have been changes since 5.10, so the book has been updated in those sections as well.

>> Smart matching and given-when has mutated a bit since their introduction in Perl 5.10, so we update Chapter 15 to cover the new rules.
It's about time someone posted about this.
Great summary - when I first started working on an international system I was hunting for this kind of article. Now if someone could only do one on languages, regional settings, character sets and encodings. . .
It's so important for non-technical co-founders to trust their technical co-founders, and to make a huge effort to communicate as clearly and unambiguously as possible.
Facebook's "export tool" generates an incomplete static HTML version of some of the data you put into Facebook. The friend list wouldn't really be of any use unless people had unique names.
When you ask hard-core Tauists what the area of a unit circle is, do they actually answer "tau over two"? Or do they just say "pi"?

By the way, this whole discussion reminds me of what W.V.O. Quine called "mathematosis".
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Have a read of this person's experience marketing an iPad app:
http://www.shindigital.com/blogpost/74

Check out the other posts on his blog, too. They might be helpful.
Perhaps we are contentiously making that tradeoff, with today's amount of knowledge you do not have time to deeply learn it all, so you instead just skim learn and store pointers for future times you might actually need it.
I want researchers to come on G+
Can't you import friends by downloading your friends list using the facebook export tool? Google can use that to match people up with their friends as long as their friends have opted into Google+ with their facebook UID too.
Is this particularly new news? This extension was the first thing I tried Wednesday night when I got into the service, and it didn't export anything but profile URLs. I had to make a throwaway Yahoo account to export my contacts.
Thanks, I'll put that into the story.
I would be happy to show you what I'm working on. Send me an email: david927 at gmail.
I think it was to be expected in Asia, with China blocking them, but the real surprise was that people are quitting it in its core market: North America. And that was even before Google+ was announced. The launch of Google+ will only accelerate the exodus, because I believe there are a lot of Facebook early adopters who got tired of it, and they couldn't wait to move on to the next big thing. Unfortunately, until Google+ there was no such thing.
Poll on Google+ : 98% like it; 81% Prefer it to Facebook
Also 53% Prefer it to Twitter; 77% think it will be a success. Based on 220 votes of early Google+ users.
Damnit, this is just as bad as the tau manifesto. The point is that it doesn't matter what the bloody constant is, we don't need any -more- goddamn manifestos. Call it an arc constant or an angle constant or whatever you want.

However, there is one massive abuse of terminology that is driving me insane, which is the use of the phrase "Quadratic forms". E = 1/2 k x^2 is not a quadratic form. A quadratic form is a homogeneous polynomial of degree two, and it's a topic discussed in number theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_form

The vast majority of people will never encounter a legitimate quadratic form. Call it a quadratic equation or whatever -- it's not a quadratic form. Both the tau manifesto and the pi manifesto got this bit manifestly wrong.
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Bonds are not like equities. Bonds pay out a fixed amount of interest, and so there is no chance of hitting the lottery; with equities, the company stock can skyrocket.

Hence bonds are a risk-averse investment, and so bond holders are very jumpy about default.

The Greek bonds, IIRC, before the CDS rates (credit default swap: basically a bet on the chance of a bond going into default) started creeping up, were issued at around 3% coupon. This value is consistent only with a very low perceived risk of serious default by the buyers of bonds. At the moment, CDS markets are showing a near probability of Greece going into default: the bond rates are artificially low only because of massive government and IMF intervention in the markets.

Note also that even after the drastic austerity measures, Greece is still running a budget deficit, so if it defaults, it cannot finance its expenses even in the short term.

Greece is small fry, but it is seen as a test case for bigger countries: probably Spain, possibly Italy. Actually, the situation is worse in Portugal than Greece, since Portugal is also insolvent and has shown nothing like the political resolve that Greece has. But Portugal is tiny.

Many of the banks in wealthier European countries are heavily exposed to PIGS (Portugal-Spain-Ireland-Greece) debt, so expect serious PIGS defaults to be followed by rich country bank crises. German banks, in particular, are badly exposed to Spanish government debt. The "stress tests" of European banks carried out in 2010 explicitly did not test for sovereign default, presumably to avoid frightening bond holders.
And I can agree with that.
Talking of the DST point, how do you manage this in your apps? Say we're in the UK, you schedule something to run at 9am GMT. In the summer, the timezone changes to BST, so 9am GMT is still 9am UTC. I've never seen a scheduling app where you say 9am UK, and have it automatically switch GMT to BST. The closest I've seen is "use server time" where you have to setup the server to automatically apply the DST rules - but then you have issues when working with out of sync DST rules, such as those of the US.
They should have been working on these issues a long time ago. I think they are far more important than many of the new features that came with v5. The only thing holding many of us back from using FF is the memory issue. Good thing the FB debugger is so awesome, because that's the only thing that keeps bringing me back at this point.
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then someone should make an extension (or webapp) that walks you through creating the throwaway yahoo account and moving everything into G+.
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The randomness kind of bothers me. People don't write music randomly, and composition isn't just following some mechanical process and seeing what comes out. This method might get you music that sounds nice, but it can't stand up to music that is actually composed.

If you really want to learn about music, I think it's better to study good music. If you thought adding rhythm had surprising effects, this video will blow your mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0ZE38BQmvQ It's an analysis of Mozart in Leonard Bernstein's Norton lectures at Harvard.
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Did you mean 0:00 is night and 12:00 is day?
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From the article it seems like the app is scraping. Why? The Facebook Graph API should be able return all this data. That Facebook prevent scraping, which is most likely conducted by some scamming services, is a good thing IMHO considering most (all?) of the data is available through their API. If this is the case the title should be "Facebook prevents scraping" as Facebook still allows export of data through the API. The Facebook Graph API usage is managed by the specified permissions for the app and thus you can control it to a greater extend compared to a browser extension which could do whatever it wants to the pages you visit and your authenticated session.
I'm on board with every statement except the first one, "Test whispers instead of screams."

The author suggests that you should only test the big things that could be "grand slams," like a "radically different design."

There are two major problems with that statement. First, a radically different design is going to have so many differences that you'll never be able to pinpoint which element made the difference. If you're seeing a 10% lift, does that mean you might have gotten rid of something that was working great, and you could have had a 30% lift by just fixing the actual problem? What if the radical new design actually lower sales? Now you have to find out which of the forty-seven changes caused it, or just go back to the old design altogether. That's a lot of unnecessary and expensive work.

The second major problem is that by going for "grand slams," you're basically throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks.

Instead, take the time to be analytical and form real testable hypotheses about what could make an impact.

Jared Spool tells a story in the book "Web Form Design" about a checkout process that started with a simple two-field input form asking users to register for an account or login before paying for their purchase. After looking at user data carefully, they found that almost all of their dropoffs were happening right there. They tried moving the login fields to the end of the checkout process instead of the beginning, and saw a 45% conversion increase, over $1.5 million in the first month.

A radical redesign wouldn't have fixed the problem - they needed to do user path analysis and give the issue careful thought before deciding where to make the change.

It's often a single usability issue that's causing the problems, and you can't find those by changing everything on a page and hoping for the best.
glaring omissions from the article what are the personal and corp tax rates? (high!) and how easy is it to hire and fire employees (hard I hear).

No one doubts the nightlife and leafy suburbs of germany are nice
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Btw, DreamHost does it too.
Myspace is in a pretty bad space at the moment
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From what I understand, the "official" API doesn't include friends' emails.
> 2) Chrome extensions are JS and not native code, meaning they're less likely to leak due to programmer error, and there are fewer of them, to boot

Are there really that many Firefox extensions that use native code?
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disagrees (sure, it is outdated).

the đồng is lower on XE though.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert/?Amount=1&From=KWD&To=...
even this one is lower.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi?Amount=1&From=KWD&...
Because a random subset of fanboyish social networking addicts in the follower list of the kind of person who finds this stuff interesting enough to create a poll, is a representative sample of the average user.
I agree. This is a guest post on our blog but my opinion is that one should do a lot (and lot) of small A/B tests coupled with a couple of big, large scale tests. Interestingly, most of our A/B testing case studies have been about small changes leading to large conversion rate changes: http://visualwebsiteoptimizer.com/case-studies.php

Although "grand slam" tests are essential so that you don't get trapped to local minima.
I tried putting a free app of mine up on the Amazon store just to see how quick it would move compared to Android Market. It sat in the approval queue for 2-3 weeks, long enough that when I got an email from them about it, I totally forgot I had even submitted it.

Their response was that I had improperly signed my binary; I misread their instructions and uploaded the same APK I sign for the Market. This is stuff Apple catches immediately upon upload so you don't wait a week to find this out.

I then had to wait 2 more weeks for the re-signed version to get approved. That's no fun.
While it's true that "[some] identify freedom with license, the freedom to act on impulse", I never have. I simply define freedom as the absence of force or its immediate threat. That's always a good place to start, but as the author rightly observes, it takes discipline to use freedom effectively.
This is the closest thing I've found:
http://plaintextoffenders.com/
Firebug. I remember using it for the first time - felt like I was born again.
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"
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Thanks for your comments Jayson. Funnily enough, I actually agree with your comments, depending on the type of tester you are.

There are basically 2 ways to test radical changes.

1) Like you said. Do it little by little.

2) Do research FIRST and find out what people want, and then test 2-3 radical changes. Once you find the best "radical" change... you test each individual component.

So basically, it's your personal preference.

It also depends on the amount of traffic you get. Smaller websites are basically FORCED to do "screams" while sites getting thousands of visitors per day can afford to do whispers.

The bottom line is... each method has pro's and con's and works great depending on the circumstance. I know I've personally done both for myself and clients :)

Oh and as a "P.S"... you're definitely NOT throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what sticks. When doing radical changes, you're not just slapping up any random idea. Each individual component should be put in there based on previous testing data and best practices.

Then... you go from there and test each individual component.

Hope that explanation helps!

Jeremy
That's a terribly depressing thread towards the end.
I can confirm that they're still doing this. I recently had a conversation with their support staff about it and I don't think they'll be changing it any time soon. I like Dreamhost, but if they don't change this I'll probably bail.
You imply there is a direct choice between working on one feature vs another. In reality not everyone can work on every aspect of a project. Plus it's a free software project. Contributors will work on whatever is important to them/their company.
Probably interesting to the person making the poll, to see how many of her followers liked Google+. Completely useless to anyone else.
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Doesn't mean I'll make it easy for them to get mine.
Especially for a url that will loose its value the day google implments the functionality, a temporary vanity url is of little use (to me.)
For me this debate is the monumental evidence that when people get obsessed over something their intellectual openness shrinks to a very small dividend of pi, sorry I meant tau :)