Pro tip: avoid hardware, stick to software. Just kidding.

The title should say "Student falsely IDed by Reddit and 4chan"...

No, the title should say, "Brown University student, missing since 15th of March, found dead."

That would not make story interesting/relevant enough to be the tech news.

Correct, but I will not encourage ambiguous and sensational titles for the sake of 'being interesting/relevant enough to be tech news'.

Or, more accurately, "Student falsely IDed by some users on massive popular sites Reddit and 4chan."

I will never understand why it's acceptable to talk about the actions of a small percentage of a user base as if they represent the entire group.

>I will never understand why it's acceptable to talk about the actions of a small percentage of a user base as if they represent the entire group.

Because if the group tolerates it, and is known to do that kind of thing frequently, they DO represent it.

The group as a whole has to be aware of it to tolerate it as a whole. This is not the case with a lot of Reddit users. Personally, I didn't even know this happened until these articles started popping up.

If one aggressive subreddit takes irresponsible action, is that fair to say "Reddit did 'X'".

Or is it more accurate to say "the subreddit /r/findthebostonbombers of the Reddit web site did 'X'"?

I would argue for the latter. Granted, the mainstream media is unlikely to make the distinction or care, but it's an important difference.

The same way we talk about the actions of a small percentage of the employees of a company as if they represent the entire company.

I do not think these are equivalent. A company is a hierarchical structure of individuals, with oversight and management relationships. Reddit is just a bunch of unaffiliated individuals talking to each other.

Actually it should have been "by 4chan and agreed by some redditors". There were many redditors who questioned whether it was the same guy or not.

Maybe they had Xamarin in mind when they asked you that: http://xamarin.com/monotouch

Congrats to Joel and team. I remember reading your post [1] on HN from a couple of weeks ago about how you guys barely had 100 signups the first month. You've come a long way since then and totally deserve the success you're seeing. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5387168

Don't you think people should accept both positive and negetive feedback.

Yes, You are right.

Nice project. The spider was a bit unexpected though. I had to jolt back a bit. I then pulled it out of the web and it died. Phew. (:

It will spring back to life if you put it back where it belongs - no spiders have been hurt.

I thought you were joking (about dragging the spider out), but it actually works! Extremely well-done.

You drag it slightly off the web and she will hold on for dear life. Verly funny!

Amazingly "life-like" behaviour on the spider considering such simple "AI"

Thanks =)

That gave me a good chuckle. Well played.

A little too much, you see.

Wow. Very impressive site.

I wonder what it would look like if the stack was filled with one dollar bills rather than 100s. I'm sure the visualization would be quite mind boggling.

This is why some one wins a lottery and the wants to see the hard cash, its always in small bills. Showing them in large bills is a massive disappointment.

bet it'd be 100x as big...

hah sorry had to.. but seriously would be crazy!

Now do it in pennies.

Here's a trillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/sixteen.asp

And if that's not enough, one quadrillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/seventeen.asp

and if that's still not enough, one quintillion pennies:

http://www.kokogiak.com/megapenny/eighteen.asp

Now do it in peak-of-hyperinflation Zimbabwean pennies! I'm not sure if there's enough atoms in the universe for that.