skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok I am going to TechCrunch bash. But ONLY because this is a transparent example of how their writing fails recently.

The story is valid and the content of the article is fairly accurate: that the status ID's are going to trip over beyond the 32-bit integer limit which presents potential problems for third parties.

Twitter sensibly pushed this forward by a few hours to make sure it happened in a "were noticing shit right now" period and thus got fixed. They announce this by tweeting a tongue in cheek "Twitapocalypse" message.

The crucial problem is that TC siezed on that idea and hammered at it - yes they do mention it will only affect apps BUT

- They dont mantion that it wont kill Twitter, inference from the article theoretically could go either way and I imagine many people left the page worried Twitter would crash and burn (and that the Twitterati were beavering away to "fix" things). Lines like "Hopefully Twitter will be able to resolve this quickly." emphasis this idea subtely.

- They heavily suggest Twitter themselves are working on this. Whiklst im sure they are trying ot make sure app developers notice it I seriouslky doubt they have all hands on deck to "fix" an issue they themselves arent facing. They were courteous enough to push it up into working hours to give devs a chance to fix errors "live" etc. But there is nothing Twitter themselves have to do, right?

All in all it's a good story written very badly - as a journalist I have to take issue with the sensationalism. It hurts the vendor and wosre it hurts the readers it dupes.

:)

EDIT: to be explicit. It smacks less of bad writing as deliberately badly structured writing to suck in an audience. The former is frustrating but unavoidable - the second is "evil".
Yes, but the number of downloads still measures a level of interest. I don't think anyone thinks that those downloads represent switchers or full time Safari users, but it's still a significant number.
What about if you take a low non-psychotic dose? I've read that if you take an extremely low dose it's non-psychotic but still has a number of positive cognitive effects. So, is this possible and, if so, is it true?
Jason,

The above statement makes it clear that you do not really follow Mono closely and your opinions are based on rumors rather than real life experience.

Let me explain:

I have not seen you post ever on our Mono mailing lists requesting the specific feature that is keeping your code from running on Mono.

I am having a hard time coming up with a feature of .NET 1.1 that you need to have on Mono (the stuff we do not implement does not make any sense on Linux, like support for WMI).

Mono implements quite happily all the core functionality up to .NET 3.5 with gaps on Windows Workflow (not there), WCF (Partial) and WPF (we are not going to implement it).

People that are adopting Mono (many of them) use our Migration Analysis tool to identify the spots that require rewriting (to remove Windows dependencies, and provide the Linux equivalent for example) and get moving on with their life.

From the statistics that we have colleced with the Moma Tool 1,592 application work out of the box; 1,823 require between 1 and 3 source code changes another 1,200 require from 4 to 10 changes. Now if you are even a remotely competent programmer, yous should be able to find work around for up to 10 changes in say, an afternoon?

The rest are more complicated, the next 3,000 or so reports will likely take from a week worth of work to a full scale reimplementation effort (the ones that have up to say 300 P/Invoke calls).

As for innovation in Mono: nothing anywhere says that we should stop at working on compatibility with .NET. We created Mono to create better applications for Linux, which is why we created bindings to Gtk# as well as some other couple hundred libraries: because we want to improve our ecosystem.
I posted this earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=654560
Care to detail exactly what is missing?

And if you do not know what is missing, download our tool, and it will do the work for you:

www.mono-project.com/Moma
i would call about.com the most annoying website ever
Beating the Competition
At least we received the mandatory Twitter response that they know they made a mistake in letting us know so late and will try to improve on that in the future.
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Odd, lots of people have absolutely no problem doing just that.

Perhaps a little Googling is in order?
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"Humans"? This was one study of students playing a particular game in a modern American university. The jump to "(all) humans" seems unjustified. But suppose the researcher might have wanted to show the effect of cockiness.
Message passing and cooperating processes do have a lot of real advantages:
- race conditions are almost eliminated
- deadlock is more easily avoided
- no need for locks
I would suggest looking at redis (http://code.google.com/p/redis/). In my own experience, redis is really fast, and you have persistent storage of the tasks.
Blu-ray gets Managed Copy next year, requires new hardware
Agreed. I laughed out loud at the punchline. Scientists are sometimes hilarious.
Thank God for *nix based systems
Social Networking Sites Are The Best Source Of Web 2.0 Traffic
According to news by BBC, Business 2.0 magazine has named StumbleUpon the number one social media company. It is a net discovery site founded in the year 2001, has member strength of more than 2 million registered users.
Everyone Reads My Blog: How Generalizing Can Help You
Yeah. It's kind of strange, the article sounded like a puff piece until you got to those points. It's almost like the blogger put his post together by cutting and pasting straight out of his inbox.

If it's true about the poker, then they are hosed and talk of an IPO is patently ridiculous.
Visual Studio is not a factor here, value types, delegates (aka safe function pointers), mono SIMD and C# are the factors that mono was chosen over Java. C# is more expressive and concise than Java, C# supports unsafe (pointer) operations inside unsafe blocks which is very valuable for a game engine if such a thing is required. Mono has a more powerful eventing model through the use of delegates, where the Java equivalent of using anonymous inner classes is much more syntax and runtime heavy. C# supports semantic closures and has iterators, very useful features for scripting support.

Plus Mono is more open than Java, was developed by open source community, therefore was already more easy to modify than Java, which has in house developed source.

My 2c.
Trevor, I would invite you to read my blog post on obviously wrong truths: http://blog.figuringshitout.com/nov-2nd-day-21-obviously-wro.... What you said is correct, my observation is obviously wrong. But at the same time, I think it's true... I know that sounds like a copout.

I think the thing you're missing is that this is not a statement of futility. Wrong things are still worth doing. I think maybe the clearest way I can describe it is that it's akin to the existentialist belief that life is futile but you should live it to the fullest.
I couldn't believe the kludginess of Windows did run that deep - I had to check it out: http://www.dieblinkenlights.com/blog_en/the-unbearable-kludg...

And what's the matter with the "all extensions" thing?

/me ducks and says goodbye to karma.
I've been meaning to do a post like this, listing all of the dozens of things I've tried. What I've found success with is similar, try to find environments where ideas are already being proven and take the best parts. I adapted an HTML widget that was making the rounds on layout/generator sites to become a Facebook widget, and that reached 9 millions users.

What upset me though was the difficulty of monetizing some small fun widget. So next I looked at what is working on Facebook and that could also make money, and found some widgets where you can collect points to rank higher among your friends. Sort of like social games, just without the game part. I implemented a similar app, but simplified it even further. It is doing very well and is now in the top 20 apps on MySpace.

I had no success at all with ideas that were purely my own, and had to look for elements elsewhere. It's like taking ideas from nature, except in this case nature is the app ecosystem.
What is RubySpec?
Back when it was permissible to do science on the subject, there were some studies: http://leda.lycaeum.org/?ID=8811
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I can't imagine the logistical nightmare of having to replicate their staging environment, with the caching and message queue systems. It probably isn't `cp -r staging/ sandbox/` :-/
Are there other multi-implementation languages that have an executable language spec like this?
> Actually, I find confident people much easier to evaluate.

The same goes for why we may like extroverted people more than introverted types. Because with most extroverts, you're getting a relatively good impression of what they're about...because they're putting themselves out there (expressing their opinions); whereas with introverted types, you're using mental cycles trying to figure out what's their view/what do they want
it serves no larger good to dismiss the conversations out of hand.

Read any newspaper from more than a few years ago, and I think you'll see that most of it is quite trivial. And yet, that was the content judged newsworthy! I think it's clear that people vastly overestimate the importance of their own words and opinions. The person who decided that there is a "right" to Internet access has a similarly worthless opinion. I think Internet access is important, but creating new rights is an extremely bad idea. Every time you add another absolute, you create more cases that your rights-system can't cover.
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I've recognized that what holds me back is what I fear and in some cases I feel default non-optimal social habits are my default because I am addicted to the feeling of being a lone wolf, the wallflower in a social situation.

As you point out, hacks only work if you iterate on them. You can't unit test social graces you can only have good exception handling. And good exception handling may come down to experience handling situations earned by actual trial-and-error and as this article says - a certain amount of cockiness.
Active Twitter User? Thoughts on Hubspot's Methodology
Clearing Passwords in Memory with Python
fucking up your brain

Do you have data to back this up?

I pity those that feel you need drugs to accomplish

People who feel you need drugs are in the extreme minority if they exist at all. As far as I can tell, people tend to regard the use of (some) drugs as simply an enriching experience, as they would with seeing a great film, listening to certain music, or visiting a certain place.
I'm curious how this is done in non-CPython land.
Reminded me of this Snopes piece about the width of space shuttle parts being determined by the size of a horse' butt.
http://www.snopes.com/history/american/gauge.asp

Technology may not be immune from the stubbornness of standards that no one feels inclined to change.
for indeed they are free of all historical cruft, hallelujah!
the solution is just don't buy Blu-ray. problem solved.
Ask HN: Would forcing everyone to know their IQ reduce overall ignorance?
As an example, there are many low IQ people who do not think evolution is true. But if they knew that their IQ is low in unequivocal terms, then they might reconsider their opposition to well-established scientific truths.

There would be no requirement to disclose your IQ (e.g., when applying for a job, participating in a debate, etc.). But you can if you want to and it would be socially acceptable behavior to do so.

Moreover, if someone claims to have a certain IQ, then his/her IQ test results would be made public for anyone to check.
They already have an internal development environment, clone that.
All my games are now free
I can't argue that most newspapers and the media in general are pretty weak these days, and I work for one of them.

I don't think this is about creating a new right to internet access, per se, instead, I think that the point is being made that the right to free speech extends across multiple mediums, not just the press. In other words, the government cannot interfere with your right to publish a newspaper, and similarly it can't interfere with your right to publish on the internet. In a sense, this is a question of due process.

Note that I am not advocating the position that there should be no way for the government to sever your connection or that there should be any obligation for it to be provided. The government does not provide printing presses, either. If you commit a crime and are convicted of it, you can have your right to internet access terminated in the same way in the US you'd lose the right to bear arms or vote.

That you say this is a worthless opinion doesn't really help your position. Ad hominem argumentation does no one any good.

I see this situation as being similar to what happens in the US when legislation is overturned by the Supreme Court on constitutional grounds. You have the opportunity to go back and make the legislation compliant. It sounds like that could be done in this case.
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Care to share the rationale behind those choices? Sounds interesting.
An idealized 2d fluid flow is non-compressible, so heating it up at a point does nothing.
how sentimental, I love the old bugs, off by one, buffer overrun, math overflow... The good old days before garbage collection and 'number' datatypes... happy says.
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IQ in unequivocal terms ...

Thats your problem right there ...
IQ only says something about a persons ability to solve a subset of the problems encountered in life. For a scientist, mathematician, programmer and statistician IQ is important. For a politician, leader, teacher and psychologist things like social ability is much more important.

I know high IQ people that are easily tricked by charismatic people, indeed I know a person that is a member of mensa that has been tricked by a charismatic leader.

IQ isn't strongly correlated to a persons ability to deal with life and all it's strange and interesting facets.
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If the charismatic people you mention are not of high IQ, people would stop listening to them. In particular, they would probably not disclose their IQ and people would become suspicious of what they say.
They don't believe the proof that evolution is true, so why would they believe the proof that their IQ test was true.

There are probably plenty of people who don't believe in evolution that have a high IQ. If you are indoctrinated at a young age into your religion, would your high IQ still mean you would be able to think your way free?
I get the Managed Copy concept. What is not clear to me, however, is whether or not this means existing players will be able to play the analog-disabled AACS disks to be produced in the future. In other words, if an existing player doesn't honor the "no analog" switch, will the disk still work over HDMI, or will it just fail on that player completely?
Sure, in brief: Smalltalk because we're most productive in it, Java for some code that particularly needed to be performant, and Ruby because it's better than the other two at interacting with the OS/tying all the pieces together. Obv JS for client-side whiz-bang.
Darn, I wonder if he would have even wanted to work for you. If you are looking for dirt you can always find it. Everyone has flaws.
Stay tuned to the App Engine blog for more info, we're working hard on launch:

http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/

-- @mdrcode, App Engine PM
This guy is getting much more attention for his presentation than he would have making something tame. Has everyone here just been link baited?
LSD starts as a liquid. Eating a drop or two is sometimes is how you take it. But frequently that liquid is dropped with an eye-dropper onto cardboard. This cardboard is perforated and torn into tiny squares.

Roughly one drop per square [also called a Tab of Acid ].

But there you go.

1. How concentrated is the liquid acid?

2. How much was put onto the little square?

3. How long ago was this all made?

4. How accurate was the (illegal) chemist who made the LSD in the first place?

I will say that one TINY drop of acid is enough to make you trip for 24 hours. And on the square of cardboard the LSD is not necessarily evenly distributed, so a corner of the square can be where 90% of the active ingredient is. The effects vary wildly: Some LSD is quite visual, some has almost no visuals but plenty of mind-messing.

All of these factors combine to mean it is EXTREMELY difficult for anyone to estimate what a low dose is. Especially someone experimenting for the first few times.

Please research carefully, and if you still decide to experiment, ensure you are in a safe environment with understanding people.

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I've read that if you take an extremely low dose it's non-psychotic but still has a number of positive cognitive effects

Please read my comment item?id=654676 carefully.

Non-psychotic depends a lot on who-you-are: not the dose. I don't know you, and further I don't know anyone else reading this in the future.

Depending on the type of person you are, you could flip out badly on any dose.

LSD can unleash things inside you. People who you love... you may see them as snakes/undead. You may see your face melt off. More importantly you will feel horrified when this happens. It takes a lot of training to overcome the horror (if it happens).

I am not going to give the green light for experimentation with something that has such power when the downsides are so grim.

All my friends who flipped out were sold on the Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds version of events. But the variability of the ingredients, their situation and their personality sometimes made it awful.
i also use mono on ubuntu. if the scope is larger than what i want to do in a scripting language, like bash, then i use c#. it's a great language. i have my eye on mvc support in mono, because if all goes well, i can save a lot of money on windows 2008 licenses.
You promote data to code.

JSON is usually a data format, like {result: 42}. If you wrap that in callback({result: 42}), that's executable javascript code.

Including script tags on your pags via JS, like how the Delicious API / Flickr API / Google Translate & whatnot APIs, all rely on this. Check out http://developer.yahoo.com/common/json.html#callbackparam
How much for mixit.fm?
This is why I bought an HD-DVD player and supported HD-DVD media. Unfortunately my side lost.

I'm unsure what to do at this point, as Blu-Ray now has a monopoly. Just not buying new HD movies doesn't seem like problem solved to me. :/
Why does the article call them "Harvard math majors"?

Maybe because they both majored in math (as undergraduate students) at Harvard?

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/06/03/tech_entrepreneurs/s...
It's obviously doing an "or" search which is a horrible mistake.
Google Translator (Hebrew > English) of the articles:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.haa...
That's simply not true. Some charismatic people have a high IQ and some don't. Silvio Berlusconi is certainly charismatic, but he doesn't seem particularly intelligent. The same goes for people such as Simon Cowell and Richard Branson.

Charisma and IQ, while probably somewhat correlated are totally different character traits.
I am sorry your doctor didn't take it seriously but I'd wait before accusing of "arrogance, condescension and non-sense". You make it sound like a conspiracy.

Why don't you go to a sleep center, see a sleep doctor and have a polysomnography done? That way you'll make sure what the problem is. With a polysomnography they routinely measure the air influx in and out: if you have in but not out they'll see that, no need to "look for it".

Good luck!
I think the people that want to make illegal copies (read: to make money on) will just keep downloading them from the usual places, and as usual, the honest consumer will continue to be the whipping boy for international piracy rings.
To all you Mono haters
At least my proposal would make low IQ charismatic people a lot less convincing.

High IQ charismatic people may not be all that bad. They would at least more clearly see the consequences of their actions.
I'll ignore the question of IQ as it relates to its relevance to anything.

Humans suffer from a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. It means that if facts contradict what they believe to be true, they will invent reasons why the facts do not matter. In this case, people would claim that IQ is irrelevant, or a tool of elitists, or in violation of God's will, or whatever.

Read The Psychology of Persuasion by Cialdini for some interesting material on this (all backed up by solid studies).
What gets me aren't devices that may have phyisical limitations or regulations to overcome (e.g., Kindle net access is bound to a US provider, hence not available here), but the purely online services that there's no reason we can't access other than a paranoid legal team and a US-only registration form. Amazon's Mechanical Turk is one big example of that. Amazon FPS and Google Checkout are a couple others. Are we really that small of a market that we're not worth considering even after several years?
Should you move your startup to the Valley?
I want an analytics system that I can give different style sheets to, it will apply them like in AB testing automatically, and show me the performance results.

Google analytics is good enough for collecting data but how do you help us implement the data?
Yeah, there were a couple of real gems in that "article":

> It’s possibly a coincidence, but Twitter has just welcomed two new members to its API team today. Is Twitter manning up for the battle?

Right, because as a company, what you really want to do if a big hammer is about to fall on you is immediately hire a couple of new programmers who aren't familiar with your internals at all.

> It’s now past 2 PM and no reports of massive failures yet. Perhaps this really is just like Y2K.

Yep, because there's no such thing as a bunch of programmers who spent a lot of hours fixing code _before_ it broke. (I was one of them.)
The reason I use HDMI is that it's a single cable that handles video and audio. I can plug in my notebook with a fairly thin cable and use my LCD TV as a second display. I've never had any issues with the onscreen menus but I don't think I'm outputting HDCP from my notebook.
This is a crazy idea, in my honest opinion. IQ tests are not perfect, not should they be used to create a class-ist society ruled by high testers.

Paris Hilton has a 129 IQ and Andy Warhol's was 86. But who contributed more to society?

source http://www.eatliver.com/i.php?n=4327
My point is that a high IQ doesn't give you extraordinary powers of clarity regarding choices and consequences in life, whether these choices are for yourself or others.

A good case study is Bobby Fischer, one of the best Chess Grandmasters of all time, generally considered a genius and certainly a very high IQ. He was involved with the sect "the church of God", came out with some extremely unfortunate hate comments about Jews that backfired on him, and died in Iceland as a refugee from the US tax system.

I think you're putting IQ on a piedestal where it doesn't belong.
At E3, we announced 1080p instant watch streaming, coming soon to your Xbox 360. The compression is directly related to your internet connection.
Hopefully that won't last too long, or all the air on the planet will end up at point two! (A constant amount of non-compressible air was assumed in the example.)