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It should be, which is why they should quit and become founders, which is why everyone is a founder these days rather than employee #1
> It only applies to Google's ad network. Mass adoption of Contributor would have the knock-on effect of strengthening Google's advertising position.

A trend toward mass adoption of Contributor would pressure competing ad networks to develop similar systems with better UX (competing contributor-like systems might encourage ad networks other than the strongest one to work out exchange agreements to improve the UX and reach.)

> It installs a third party as a middleman, when only agreed-upon social and networking protocols are truly requisite. If Contributor were to take off, we run the risk of paying rent to Google for web-view transactions

You're already paying rent to advertising networks who pass on a portion to the content sites, its just that that rent is in the form of compromises to the format, delivery, and presentation of the content in order to fit ads in, rather than direct cash payments. Contributor (and any similar schemes) seek to transition that to direct cash payments, reducing the number of extraneous players involved (with ads, you have ad network + actual advertisers, with Contributor you just have the "ad" network.)
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"Please god somebody build tools that take advantage of that."

Like, an IDE?
UK's at about 2% :-( mainly thanks to major ISPs like BT not supporting IPv6 for their residential customers. Although that looks like it'll change[1] by 2016.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-34346803
In the video, at about 13:40 they reveal that to print you have to use the web interface which runs "On Googles Cloud".

I would not like the interface to my own printer to be "In the Google cloud". Does that mean when the company goes out of business, the printer is bricked?

And right after, they admit that they plan adding paid services. Oh oh. How will thesed paid services be announced? I can imagine how. Whenever I want to print, this thing will bug me to pay for some fancy addon.

And privacy? Goes right out of the window. Everything I print would go through all kinds of hands. The manufacturer of this printer, Google, my carrier and who knows who.

And what about security? This is probably a full blown computer they want me to give access to my lan and internet connection. Who guarantees it gets security updates?
I can't imagine Apple doing a Q&A like this 3 years ago.
If it's patented, you can safely tell us more... how does your protocol work?
On mobile, I get exactly these kind of ads in-app. Flashing yellow and red, "Scan your phone", "Speed your phone", "Phone virus?!" and crap like that. Always links direct to appstore for some home screen or launcher that requires every permission. I reported them for a week or so then gave up.
I think we broadly agree, but I can't go as far as agreeing with this: "If you want to trust a diagnostic test of a mental state, ultimately, at some point, you will also have needed to trust the self-reporting of that mental state."

I think it's true we can generally trust people's self reports. But we all know that's not always true. There's the classic comedy staple:

A: You sound upset.
B: I AM NOT UPSET!

But there's more subtlety there, too. Anybody who deals with children has had the experience of understanding what the child is feeling better than said child does. And I remember being on the other side of that as a kid. People would ask me how I was doing, and I would self-report whatever answer I thought they wanted, not my actual state, which was often mysterious to me.

And although that has lessened as I grow older, I still can look back on key moments as an adult where I thought I was feeling one thing but, upon later reflection, realize it was something else.

So I think the best we can do is to come up with a series of external tests that correlate well with self-reporting and with each other. With that, yes, I think we can tell people, "No, you're not really depressed." For example, in the months after I lost my mom to a brain tumor, I thought that I was depressed. I went to see a therapist and she said, "No, you're mourning an important loss. It's supposed to be like this." And she was right.
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You sound like a cable company bitching about netflix or Tivo.
It is a valid proposal. Google is not just selling you a search algorithm with their google.com platform, but also the server infrastructure that maintains it, the brand name (a vast swathe of less tech savvy Internet users say google X instead of go to X website), and the uptime. Yes, the algorithm constitutes a portion of their value add, but if they open sourced google.com on its own they would not see their business destroyed for it.

Would Bing suddenly become a lot better? Certainly. Would people start using Bing over Google if it just became as good as Google search? Certainly not. The only candidates that might take market share are DuckDuckGo and StartPage, who preach privacy and thus a lot of users (including myself) prefer them despite their poorer search results. If they could get Googles algorithms, they would produce better results and probably steal market share.

How much market share? 1%? Do privacy savvy searchers even constitute 1% of search traffic now?

Yes, it is absolutely a bad business decision for them to publish their source. They are much more likely to lose money than to see third party contributions to their code make their search so much better they offset the cost of everyone having access to the same quality search. But I still postulate it would not be much revenue and market share, and that there are tremendous applications for extremely sophisticated search algorithms like Googles that could produce tremendous economic prosperity for other disciplines, and I imagine their work might be applied in completely unrelated industries for other search domain problems. Their algorithm is ultra-specific to web page indexing, but I'm sure in that Goliath beast of code there is some novel ingenuity that we are missing due to its closed nature.
I wouldn't say you had bad basketball skills just because you have better things to do than play the game with me.

There are people who are a priority to me, and they seem to like my social skills just fine. And if someone wants that out of me, they aren't going to get there by telling me I have poor social skills or that I don't smile enough. That's burning your bridges, and not an example of someone in a position to offer criticism.
"In fact for any ad that's beyond static text I am more likely to remember your brand and deliberately not buy your stuff in future."

I believe you when you say you don't click on things, but if it were possible to somehow objectively test this particular claim, I'd bet against it.
> assumptions, or conclusions, about political authority

Yes, that post was only relevant for a democracy. "Agreed on together" was deliberately provocative, but you get the idea...
Yeah, only on save.

It's deal breaker for me, I want to see completions immediately, not by entering `fmt.`, saving file, backspacing, re-entering `.`.
Using your sessions with Socket.IO
That's great and good luck. I think there's an opportunity there for sure. Namerick in the App Store is a good proxy for this kind of service.
...and is likely pinging his 5000 or 500,000 fake social networking profiles every second.
No one thinks the patriarchy is a merely legal system enforced by a cabal of men. Patriarchy refers to interwoven social structures that promulgate certain ideologies, doctrines, and social customs. The nuclear family is part of patriarchy, for example.

Also, actually, there is still a cabal of men in America forcing women to behave in certain ways: The systematic, coordinated campaign against women's reproductive rights.
>> Your first mistake is assuming the only usefulness they get from you is when you click on an ad to buy something.

To the advertisers?

No I'm sure they think that 'brand awareness' is useful too, only it's not, if you annoy me into noticing your brand I will deliberately not buy it.
Doesn't Google make money off fake clicks on ads?
> Comparing a complex software system to an elevator is absurd.

No it's not, it's a metaphor, a simplification for the purpose of illustrating a point. It's true that many software systems are complex, but it's still important that they be inspectable.
This article is misleading. The writer constantly says, 'x increased conversions by y%', and then when you look at the cited articles, you see that in fact they are talking about clickthrough rate, which is a bit meaningless on its own.

In all my time working in e-commerce I have seen no evidence that basic UI changes such as wording, button colours, small page layout changes etc. provide any measurable uplift in actual conversions.
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Thanks Leonid, short and helpful!
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But how does it know that I'm me? My Google login? I don't think I'm logged in to Google everywhere. Just curious as to how this thing works, basically.
rkt and flannel host-to-host container networking
That's fine, I'm just pointing out that your expression is incompatible with basic logic. Saying "this source sucks because x" does not address in any way what they actually said.
> This is the whole problem with microtransactions: sites need them to be frictionless or else users will abandon the flow no matter how low the price is, but financial transactions need some sort of user confirmation or else they're wide open to abuse.

I agree. I solved this problem with a 3-party protocol (user, provider, authenticator) that can't be subverted by either the user or the provider.

No user intervention is required; it works seamlessly. User identity is not revealed and the provider cannot piggyback on the shared tokens to create a persistent identifier. The same scheme can be used to provide effortless passage through paywalls, as well as enabling the same model as Contributor (and before them Kachingle, Contenture, Readability and several others who've failed).
You sound too confident about what you think drives your purchasing behavior.
Why pay for this is uBlock Origin is free? I never asked for ads, and websites never asked to charge me. I'm not going to pay tons of cash to see -25% ads. Not gonna happen.
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It's a very polished product, and the "pen" mode is a cool idea. To me, they're targeting an odd demographic, Makers who can afford expensive toys / tools, but also want a very friendly, hands-off interface. I would have expected the Maker camp to be ordering ~ $700 40-50W laser cutters from Shenzhen. I suppose the Glowforge would be pretty great in a school setting, though.
This is called a "view-through conversion". Just saying that it was still tracked and attributed, regardless of clicks.
Allowing multiple generations access to an simplified UI & OS,and providing opportunity for those that thirst for knowledge a stepping stone into the world of open source. Yes, free/open source *nix distro's allow this as well, but the barrier to entry is higher when you are a young kid without even basic knowledge (providing that your hand was not held during the process).

Without Microsoft and Apple, how many of the generations that have contributed to open source, be were they are now??

Edit: Just playing Devils Advocate here - I hold no special regard for MS - but rather appreciate the symbiosis that has developed within IT in general.
You may want to consider checking out forums where people interested in p2p lending come together for discussions.

Reddit https://www.reddit.com. /r/sociallending is the primary subreddit though lightly used. I have also seen p2p lending discussions in /r/investing and /r/financialindependence.

Quora https://www.quora.com. The responders to questions related to P2P Lending, Lending Club, and Prosper (search keywords) on Quora tend to be industry participants and professionals.

Lend Academy Forum http://www.lendacademy.com/forum/index.php. This is the discussion forum exclusively related to all things P2P Lending. Most forum participants are individual investors in P2P Lending.

I have been lending on Lending Club and Prosper for over 4 years. I consider P2P Lending as part of my asset allocation to Junk Bonds.

I am attracted to these platforms as they enable direct access to an asset class, consumer lending, that was largely unavailable to individual investors previously. While debt segment is much larger than equities segment, individual investors have very little avenues to directly participate in debt/fixed income segments. P2P Lending opens up one such fixed income class - consumer lending. My primary interest with consumer lending is in the diversification aspects due to potential low correlation with other asset classes.

I enjoyed learning about consumer lending and other fixed income segments so much that in 2012 I started PeerCube https://www.peercube.com, an online crowd-lending analytics and automation platform.
We still have slave labor in the USA, just throw people in prison and strongly suggest to them their lives will suck less if they work for 30 cents per hour. If they want to go outside, they can get $1 an hour but they risk death.
How is a 40W laser Class I, but the 45W laser is Class IV?
Good question, I _think_ the ideas is the exact opposite -- you're not depending on Glowforge UI to be backed by a startups servers, the software runs on google cloud instead. Pros and cons, obviously, but I think the main pro is (like a Tesla) the machine's performance and usability can be improved without you installing any new software. As far as dependencies go, google's probably the best possible choice.
as you're the one doing the authorizing [signing].
You rock. This is why I come to Hacker News. :-)
Sure, simple tools are great when simple is what you need. But here they took a simple approach to a problem that's essentially complex, which means they lost a user.

This is an important point for tools, like type checkers, that are supposed to help deal with complexity. Type checking doesn't really matter in a small code base. The bigger you get, the more it pays off. But their type checking tool gets worse with the code base size. This is self-limiting in a way that can be fatal. If your tool doesn't matter for small code bases and it can't be used on large ones, that's a problem. It's very hard to know in advance that one's project will grow to a medium size and then stick there.
As I said, particularly with web advertising, if you've made me notice your brand then I will actively try to remember not to buy from you - I dislike advertising that much.

By viewing the ad I'm not ripping anyone off, no, but a page taking money for me viewing an ad would be, as the outcome for the advertiser is getting a best neutral and likely actually negative.
The cost of entry argument is specious because everyone has the same variable cost.

The real cause of lack of competition is the cost of physical access.
Not allowing fake ads https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6020954?hl=e... is different than allowing fake profiles to boost your monthly active user counts if your a social network.
In my case I had to take two questionnaires (one was 100+ questions for general mental disorder evaluation), a subset of an IQ test, and a computer test. The computer test was interesting... it was along the lines of left click when you see the number 2, right click when you hear a sound. No other distractions trying to trick you into clicking, but it is a 15 minute test. Excruciatingly boring, but even trying as hard as I could, the psychiatrist wondered if I had cheated/fudged the test because my results were so far out of whack compared to the IQ test.
I'm not sure who you mean by "no one" but I certainly don't agree with anything you've stated. It's a pretty extreme view I think few would share.
constructing queries in python is one of the disadvantages of using ORM. It takes away all the sql power that a DB can give you. Not to mention the magic that goes behind constructing the query that could be written in a more optimized way.

.join.filter.like.order_by etc.. is crazy imo. It's often more complicated than that and doing it in a non-sql way is suboptimal/unmaintainable.
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I am surprised it can cut paper without causing ignition.

I wonder how many of the projects shown were created using the "basic" ($2K) version and how many were produced using the pro ($4K) version?

I will say their early bird prices make these compelling for small business/etsy setups. However once they go to full price, I don't know if that will remain as true. It would take a LOT of wallets to break even at a $4K buy-in for the "basic" version.

PS - We live in an exciting world. Between 3D printers and these, you really can do more at home than ever before. And this type of technology is bringing tooling prices down massively even if you have it fabricated.

PPS - Looking at the material costs on their page, and looking at how much these items sell for on etsy right now ($39 inc. free postage), you'd have to sell over one hundred hardback skins for a Macbook Pro just to break even (and that's ignoring many of the hidden costs of running a business, like accountant, licensing, your salary, etc).
> As soon as it becomes too widespread, Google will nerf it. They rely almost entirely on advertising for their revenues.

Contributor directly replaces advertising revenue; if it provides a better UX for end-users, sites that use exclusively traditional advertising rather than Google's model with Contributor will suffer reduced traffic (and thus, won't get money from advertising.)

If Contributor gets widespread, its good for Google, increases costs for advertisers to reach eyeballs (whether they use Google's ad network or not), and bad for ad networks other than Google's that don't do something like what Google is doing with Contributor.

> It only works inside Google's semi-walled garden.

It certainly only works on sites that actively choose to use Google's advertising network. I'm not sure that's a "walled garden" in any meaningful sense.
I have seen systems that ran on hardware as old as DEC VAXs as late as 2008, but I'm not sure the reason behind not transitioning was risk aversion.

Regardless, there aren't formal controls in place. Otherwise issues like Knight Capital [1] wouldn't have happened.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight_Capital_Group#2012_stoc...
So it worked super in their favor: it got you to go to the product and they didn't have to pay for your click.
Ads will be sneakier. Product placements. Sponsored articles. Celebrity endorsements.
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This one I actually know -- biohazards depend on more than just wattage -- spot size, wavelength, pulse characteristics, etc, all go into it. I think you really compare them based on the Poynting vector. Disclosure: I'm a GF backer and am a card carrying physicist who had this question on his qualifying exam in grad school. https://www.rli.com/resources/articles/classification.aspx
It's a hard one, but I really do hate advertising and visual clutter that much, and if I remember that I have been advertised at, particularly intrusive ads, I will try to avoid that brand.

These days as I don't read paper news and don't watch broadcast tv (I subscribe to netflix, prime and nowtv instead), I actually find ads in the cinema most offensive, because I can't escape easily.

--edit--

I'm not going to try to claim I'm totally immune to brand awareness campaigns that would be silly, but I do genuinely find it that annoying now.
An IDE's a good start. But IDEs tend towards monolithic, which can mean relatively low adoption. I'd much rather see independent tools that can be plugged into IDEs. E.g., in this case, I'd rather that the type checker ran as a daemon. In its base mode, it would just produce text output. But it would also have some IDE-friendly protocol so that it could be easily bundled.
...right, but then I'd rather see the funnel than which episode gets you to 70%, because I don't think without that context you can really say anything about the episode.
Excluding all the fiddly bits:

1. A user request comes with an added header with the user's version of events.

2. The provider adds their version of events and forwards it to an authenticator.

3. The authenticator cross checks the details and signatures and logs the transaction, optionally telling the provider "yes, this person is a paying participant".

I have a more detailed protocol writeup, which is easier to follow than the patent (which was lovingly converted to patentese by a lawyer). I'm at work, happy to email to interested parties. Best address to reach me is jacques@robojar.com
Has anyone arrived at an estimate that puts the cost in terms of CPM?

I know that at least in terms of what makes it out to RTB across most of the exchanges, a person like me will account for about 1000 bid requests in a month. Even if we pad that significantly, there's a good chance I'd be paying paying a pretty rich CPM rate.

Given that folks who would likely sign up for this are probably not heavy clickers, my strong hunch is that Google is raking in a pretty fat margin. If an advertiser really wants you, they pay up and you see the ad. In other words, you're probably competing with advertisers to drive up the price of the impression.
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Put an end to feature creep
The only time I clicked on an ad, it was an ad about a product in Amazon I previously intended to purchase but it didn't have stock.

My reaction was a "wow, does it have stock now??? let me hurry!!! what? no stock? why do you advertise a product without stock???"

After that moment, the ad kept following me during several days...
When Bush was in charge, everyone was quick to blame him. But now that Obama is in charge, suddenly it is "president has never been the one pulling strings .. why is everyone blaming him?"
not at liberty to say... refused to disclose... doesn't reveal... etc. etc.

The only hard fact in the article seems to be that Github is a Ruby on Rails app.
I'd pay to remove the ad makers.
the interesting part is that he says you basically bid on the placement yourself. Lots of publishers are paid via CPC, so only when clicks are made. I'm guessing this has to be CPM bid then, in which case to be effective you're going to burn through you $2 per month awfully fast.

Another thing - if you're actually taking part in the bidding process this is a trojan horse to jack up the bid prices (they work in an auction format roughly) for everyone else.

Well played, evil Google.
This is my approach to ORM.

Use ORM for:
1. INSERT, UPDATE, DETELE
get one record

Use SQL/Stored Procedure for:
SELECTs that involved more complex joins and queries.
They fund the Core Infrastructure Initiative [1], OpenBSD [2] etc. They release free software themselves. [3]

[1] https://www.coreinfrastructure.org/

[2] http://www.openbsdfoundation.org/contributors.html

[3] https://github.com/dotnet/core
Do you know if they provide direct hardware hooks, too?

I've not met a precision cutting or metrology tool where we didn't need to get low-level access to the hardware to get simple things done....
I'd gladly take the "con" of installing new software over having a useless brick if the startup tanks.