skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What advertisers need to do is create advertisements that people want to see, rather than trying to force people or trick them into watching it.

For example, consider the TV show "Detroit Muscle". Ostensibly, it's about customizing and hot rodding your car. But it's actually a product placement show. I enjoy watching it, because various products are worked into the car project, and they show you what the products are good for and how to use them. For example, I'm likely to buy a welder that was featured on the show.
The outlier is the kitchen faucet, not the person. It's fact that there exists multiple data-driven targeted advertising firms, and their data shows them that it works. That doesn't mean that every single impression works, it means that a high enough (likely very low) percentage of the impressions work.

Now we can debate if it ought to work, if it's ethical etc., but let's get the facts straight, it does work.
Are you me?

Yes. I am byzbor, your competing unit for this dimension.

How regularly were you taking them?

At the time on a daily basis. Taking two a month will be more than fine. I can take them now - thankfully stomach lining regenerates and gastro-intestinal issues, unless quite serious, will sort themselves out. But I avoid them where possible. Aspirin, which is an NSAID but has a different mechanism of action to ibuprofen and other NSAIDs, is my go-to pain killer these days.

I also like whisky, and I've recently moved to Japan.

1. You're in the right place for great yet reasonably priced whisky. 2. I hope you're enjoying Japan. I've been quite a few times, chiefly Tokyo, and found while it's a great place to visit, the social expectations and work expectations are soul-crushing. Time is valuable, and sitting in an office all day feels like a poor way to spend it.

As an aside, if you like beer try Tokyo Black. It's a porter that tastes like liquorish and coffee. Sounds terrible but it's delicious.
This is node.js? no. Golang/C/C++ I can handle, but I'm NOT installing node.js just for this.
grep cat df du ... not that complicated come on..
No I don't think that's a mistake. I suspect the probability that someone who has recently bought an item buys the same one or a similar one again is pretty high.

People buy stuff for others. People buy stuff for professional reasons. And yes people do need more than one faucet when they are building or redecorating a home for instance.

Also, showing people stuff they have recently bought may provide an incentive to recommend it to others or write a positive review online.
> Was he being serious or just trying to score some sympathy of Jews and Christians?

He's just ignorant. Jews would not vote for someone who knows so little about their history. Christians may not be as familiar with the history.

According to Jewish history Josef stored grain in the year 1532BCE, but the pyramids were mostly finished by 1759BCE, more than 200 years earlier.

The pyramids having anything whatsoever to do with the Exodus is a myth created by Hollywood, it is not a Jewish belief at all.
I agree that humans aren't simple unitary individuals, but calling us "superorganisms" kinda devalues the word. If we're superorgansisms then so are cats, dogs, mice, birds, and anything else that relies on bacteria for digestion or has reproductive complexities like chimerism. This would probably include ants... making an ant colony a superorganism of superorganisms, so we'd need a new word for that.

How about we figure out which species are unitary individuals and give them a word? Mono-organisms or something.
Part of the explosion in ad-tech companies are alternative ad-formats and methods. The future lies in native ads - TripleLift (among others) is doing interesting things. You'll see more and more "sponsored stories". With Taboola/Outbrain, brands can create their own content (giving new life to agencies). We've experimented with embedding sponsored stories into digital properties (ex: a shoppable gift guide within a digital magazine's website).
> also now google seems to index any photos and videos inside of google drive into photos

It's optional, I personally love and benefit from it. You can turn it off in the settings.
As someone who work with new recruits, we are not excepting stellar contributions from day one. We are more looking for people who are willing to learn and grow, and start contributing steadily in a few weeks or months.

As a rule of thumb anyway, if you are new, you are not going to be in charge of a critical piece of the infrastructure for years to come. Likely you'll be giving relatively straightforward tasks, and once you'll have proven to be reliable you'll be given harder and more challenging tasks.

It depends on the place, but I would say that 80% of software development is rather mundane and "easy". And for the time being the harder decision will be taken by more senior people. So actually, starting is pretty comfortable and easy most of the time.

One piece of advice, do not hesitate to ask questions. We expect people to have generic CS knowledge, but it is often not enough to understand 20 years old spaghetti code. The worst recruits are the one that are too paralyzed to ask any question, and as a result you have to spend twice as long to train them because you have to guess what's wrong first.

Personally, I don't mind answering question or mentoring new people, I see it as a form of investment. Sure I am "wasting" a few hour today, but your contribution will save me countless hours in a few weeks.
"When it comes to publishing in the Journal of Finance or the Journal of Financial Markets, the editors simply don’t have the mathematical knowledge necessary to vet some of the more complex and nuanced assertions."

Personally, I think everyone should stop reading at this point. Of course I went through to the paper itself.

What is the paper? Mathematicians citing Leontief from 1982 about the woes of economics as a science, running some simulations (no data for me, thanks!) and really getting quite angry, for what, to remind us that backtesting is a flawed methodology? If you invest based on some random back-tested wavelet bullshit you're doing it wrong, this is not news to anyone. Harvey, Liu and Zhu made their point already (note - not the Zhu who authored this paper) and nobody cares about your filling in some dull derivations in a mathematical appendix and calling them "proofs." Everyone complains about economists doing too much of that already.
Works is a pretty low bar. Obviously it makes money for some people. Obviously it's better than no targeted advertisment.

The parent described how it's broken and works crudely and bad.

That it still works and gets some sales, he probably doesn't doubt.
> the real cause is that Federated Chat failed to work.

Mostly because some industry giants first moved to support it then yanked the rug out from under it when they realized it reduced the amount of end-user lock-in.

Also: IRC.
Maybe I am wrong, but I think key innovation is to reduce cost and environmental impact. Tesla and other high tech cars are maybe cleaner to run, but have large footprint due to their complicated production.

At this front leader is India and China. Tatu in India is doing stuff like gluing car parts together. And China has huge fleet of electric vehicles and recharging stations, in form of electric bikes.
First, numbers would be required to see exactly how the market is "economically upheld" by VCs.

Second, I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic, but your example seems poorly chosen. Uber and Lyft live off of venture capital. Even absent Uber/Lyft, the transportation market was/still is one of the most cartelised around.

Third, you could certainly find satisfactory counter-examples where the money "ends up" (money keeps flowing, btw, that's why simplistic diagrams aren't very interesting) in the hands of a larger pool of companies. But if the point of the article is to tell us that social networks is a highly concentrated industry, that's hardly an upvote-worthy revelation.

Judging by the language used in the article, it is apparent that the author has a beef with advertising.

I'm glad he can have a lifestyle business sustained by earned advertising he gets with mentions on Hacker News, but it seems a little disingenuous to pretend that can work for all businesses.
Have you tried fish? I really like it, both to script and to use interactively.

Some examples:

http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_loops

http://fishshell.com/docs/current/tutorial.html#tut_command_...
You should try working really hard for a decade or so before getting your hangover. You might just have some experimental drug at hand that you can try.
As far as I know, Bayes came first and Fisher later, so some may say the analogy is the other way round.
I think retargeting ads can tell that "you're you" and are capable of having implemented such check as a condition for not showing. But I don't know for sure, I only had to deal with them once at my work, when the boss asked me to put some magic hash number in some frontend code.

> soon, on a website near you

Yeah, screw you advertisers. I honestly tried to browse with ads, but I couldn't any longer and finally reinstalled AdBlock a few months ago.
In my seventeen years online I’ve never ever bought a product or service based on an ad. I’ve bought from newsletters but never from ads. The difference the way I see it is that newsletters are highly targeted because they originate from a web site that I frequently visit. Whilst ads rarely take into account the frequency of your searches. You happen to search for shoes once and then for weeks, or even months, after you’re bombarded with relevant ads.
pkn - package node?

Super easy to type, and available on npm.
https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=pkn
Except that you don't get charged twice on Amazon or basically any web merchant when using the back button.
I suspect the OP is asking why bank websites do not gracefully handle the back button and prevent the errors mentioned on that page.
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How does that work? "Advertising is dead - that I means I should subscribe to this specific consumer ad-free service"?
I'll weigh in on morgante's side here.

What WB discusses is a common misconception. Just because it doesn't appear to work for yourself, doesn't mean that targeting is not worthwhile. It's not really designed for an improved user experience, but to provide an advantage to those running the ad campaigns.

The crucial thing that people forget, is that that targeting only has to be a little bit better than random to be worth doing (from the ad operations perspective). Given a large number of ads shown every day, with nominal cost, we've only got to push a fraction of those toward users with a slightly better propensity to interact to increase the interaction rate, and get paid more from the advertiser (presuming a model where the advertiser pays us based upon interactions that we generate).

One of the reasons that it is profitable is that the amount we might get paid for an interaction could 50p, £1 or even £10 depending upon the client and media. The cost of showing that ad is a few pence per thousand! So, we can get it wrong many many times, and still show a statistically significant improvement in interaction rates and make a huge dent in profitability for ourselves.

I discuss all of this in Chapter 5 of Algorithms of the Intelligent Web. 2nd Ed. https://www.manning.com/books/algorithms-of-the-intelligent-...
What makes you think the military want your SaaS?

The standard approach is to advise that they will need to purchase the enhanced security version which will be $whatever, which is also how SaaS vendors deal with large companies and other clients whose custom they're only willing to consider because of their deep pockets
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Well that's one anecdote, here's another:

My first ever online purchase was direct from an advert.

I needed 128mb more RAM, so I bought it from crucial. I knew of crucial because a gaming forum I visited had a single banner advert for crucial that never changed, so I always noticed it.

Advertising works, and even if you think it doesn't you're wrong. Every day you'll make purchasing decisions and often you'll tend toward products you recognise the name of. That process doesn't come from magic, it comes from advertising, the majority of which you'll not even notice.
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In his seminal essay Dabblers and Blowhards Maciej Cegłowski made the case that Paul Graham's essay Hackers and Painters was inaccurate in its depiction of many programmer's work habits being similar to that of painters.

Cegłowski's argument was compelling because he had worked as both a professional programmer and a professional oil painter. That deep expertise in both fields made it possible for him to pick the holes in PG's arguments.

It seems that Cegłowski hasn't done much work in the AdTech industry. Pity, because his summary of the Scott and Scurvy[2] story is a wonderful piece of writing.

[1] http://www.idlewords.com/2005/04/dabblers_and_blowhards.htm

[2] http://idlewords.com/2010/03/scott_and_scurvy.htm
Thanks. Now I actually learned something. I've been into airplanes since little kid, but never heard of that Raymer book. I probably have to pick it up.
I agree. I could see this being, for lack of a better phrase, a gateway drug for some to the full power of the *NIX userland.
What other bar were you hoping for? It's advertising. The fact that it works better than other kinds of advertising is a pretty relevant bar.

FWIW, since we're doing anecdata, I just checked my Amazon front page. Many things are irrelevant, a few comical (I recently looked at a 80-book box-set of Penguin classics[1], now it's systematically recommending each individual member of that box-set to me :-/ ) -- and a few are quite relevant and I clicked on them to check it out.

1: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Black-Classics-Box-Penguin/dp...
I don't see cat in the list of commands (https://github.com/askucher/nixar/tree/master/commands). cat is cat.
You are conflating the role of advertising in general vs specific kinds of advertising and consumption that you view as a waste. Our entire industry (tech) relies on advertising to boost awareness of our products. Is it overconsumption that I saw an ad yesterday for Load Impact & subsequently tested & paid for their (very cool!) service?

Overconsumption can be true on an individual level (person X did not need to buy Y). On an aggregate, consumption is "the economy" and advertising is the primary way of informing potential buyers about an offering.
Sometimes, when I'm angry at Amazon, I deliberately window-shop all those expensive feature phones from the mid-00s that Amazon still has not pruned from their database. For weeks the whole web will be decorated with ads for the fast-forgotten technical marvels of the past and there is that stupid little satisfaction of seeing what is supposed to be the greatest AI in existence filling the tipjar of websites for putting my eyeballs on pictures of a Walkman phone.
> finally reinstalled AdBlock a few months ago.

Amazing you held out that long. The difference between 'with ads' and 'without ads' is so large I can't understand how people in the tech scene (for who it is trivial to set this up, luckily for the advertising industry not all that trivial for others but getting easier all the time) still browse without some kind of blocking. Besides the security implications of running third party code on just about every website.
I looked at a number of faucets online from the same company. The only one I later received ads for was for the exact one I actually bought.
> investigating these sorts of crimes

Those are not crimes in the usual sense and it's almost always pretty clear who did it. And we know what causes terrorism. Statistical analysis isn't going to help settling political differences.
Author here, thanks for sharing this. Know that there is a bit of a tendency in the startup world to scoff at the idea of management which would probably lead many to dismiss someone like Peter Drucker...interestingly, many of the management principles he championed 50+ years ago (flatter organizations, autonomy, etc.) would probably resonate quite well with both managers and individual contributors at a lot of early stage companies. Definitely recommend reading Drucker.

His ideas, along with our own personal experiences, sparked the idea for this post. Would love to hear what you think.
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Your message is a little disjointed. Are "other parts" marketing or not-marketing? Take your pick.

Anyway, the article doesn't discuss where ad money goes. It would need to use figures for that.

Instead, it tries to paint a market as some sort of a conspiracy that purposely creates complexity to steal money from consumers. It's essentially FUD.

You seem to suffer from the very common bias of "build it and they will come."

It's irrelevant whether a cost is "essential" to the production of the item. Distribution is a cost that's not part of production. Would you say that people pay a "consumption tax" on freight transport when they buy any physical product?

You say "most" web startups are based on advertising. That would require proof. I recall seeing someone breaking down the list of the current "unicorns" by revenue model. A minority is financed by advertising.
Those "tools" often give different answers to the same questions. Clearly, at least one of them is wrong. And one is probably better than the other.

Now if you're tempted to use one or the other in a case by case basis, how are we supposed to choose which is best?
The total footprint is already lower than for ICE cars according to this study: http://www.ucsusa.org/clean-vehicles/electric-vehicles/life-...
It would cost less to get the unbranded kind and a bag of skittles for the sugar and a can of coke for the caffeine they often add (to make it 'fast acting').

In the UK branded ones are often $5 where as unbranded could be as little as $0.35.
That's a medically supervised dose after a rare event. GP post spoke about long term use.
2022 - Analphablet.photos ?
I you can hack other's people accounts, it seems a good opportunity to force people out of WhatsApp.
Just hack a guy's phone and connect him to WhatsApp through a third party client, get him permanently banned, and voilà!
http://jakevdp.github.io/blog/2014/03/11/frequentism-and-bay...

I recommend this series of posts on frequentism and bayesianism. Of particular interest is part 3, which has a very good explanation of why frequetism shouldn't be used in science.

Let me say it directly: you should be suspicious of the use of frequentist
confidence intervals and p-values in science. In a scientific setting,
confidence intervals, and closely-related p-values, provide the correct
answer to the wrong question.
I personally jumped right into Clojure on the jvm without much Java experience. I've found it to be awesome. Is there a non-political reason that someone should choose Java over Clojure (or possibly Scala)? Where does Java shine?
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The whole Valley of the Kings system (formal pyramid without grave goods; secret tomb with grave goods) started because they were tired of public tombs getting plundered.
The fact that we don't know whether to consider a virus as "alive" or "non-living dynamic thingamabob" pretty much shreds that notion of atomic organisms.

There is no Platonic ideal of the word "superorganism" to worry about here. There's Aspens[0] and Ants[1] alike, and plenty in between.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspen

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buggers
I think it valorizes suffering. That's hardly new to humanity, but I think we've hit upon a new medium and a format to do it in the form of the micro-complaint.

Edit: precisely this: "Irritations that the passage of time may have soothed can, in the moment, be immediately expressed to an audience."
Product placement is not something that I want to see, because the reviewer will definitely be biased in its conclusions. This would be a classic example of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
I would really be interested in the Nixar commands beeing implemented as normal bash alias commands.
> Many brilliant coders can't get a handle on the business stuff because they just assume everyone else thinks and behaves like they do.

Ironically, the successful products I've created in my career I built to please myself. The ones I built to please others have all been failures. Apparently I'm not the unique snowflake others allege I am :-)
Call me when a microwave can create the tasty maillard reaction that's needed for so many foods.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction
Possibly naive question but...is there a repository of ad-banners that are currently being served somewhere (and maybe also an archive of historic banners)?
Yeah... I don't do this
Yup, don't hesitate to ask for help when you need it. Don't waste time spinning your wheels fruitlessly. If you are worried that you are asking for help too early (i.e. before you have explored the problem to the best of your abilities), then try writing an email (or something similar). I find it to be a useful way to anticipate the questions that others will ask ("Oh, have you tried X yet?", "Have you tried turning it off & on again?"). If you can't answer any of the extra questions that you come up with composing your email, then it's probably a good time to ask for help.
This is a sort of pattern. (1) We create categories and concepts that rely on categories: molecules, organisms, species, galaxies; water, rebecca, potatoes, multiple personality disorder. (2) We use those categories to describe and understand things, engineer and theorize using them. We have evolution and chemistry and potato salad recipes. (3) Then we discover that these categories aren't really real. They're real, like, but not really real, you know what I mean. Tasmanian devils are being decimated by a contagious cancer. A mutated cell in some devil reproduced until it was lumps, then the devils bit another delve in the face (they're not nice animals) and some of that cancer jumped into another one and spread. Now, that cancer has outlived his maker and is going around spreading in the world with complete disregard for the concepts of organism or species and behaving like a bacteria, virus or somesuch. Instead of spreading normally like the rest of the devil by sexy with other devils it jumps into the other devil's face (sometimes during sex, they are not nice animals). Maybe one day it will evolve into our replacement. Maybe it will find symbioses with sheep and become a beneficial gut fauna (it is a taste devil after all).

We make up these categories for convenience. They are not obligated to comply.
I think brand advertising does work. Otherwise you can't explain the survival of Coca-Cola.
Caffiene isn't just for fast acting, it also helps efficacy.

http://www.evidentlycochrane.net/caffeine-and-health-evidenc...
> [SMS] is the only thing left that can communicate with everybody.

Except for when it does not. More often than not carriers don't return the correct status codes, marking messages as delivered when in fact the recipient does not even have SMS enabled in their contract. This gets even worse with international messages that can be routed through multiple carriers' networks until they reach (or don't) their final destination.
I'd click an 'I bought it' button to get rid of the follow through annoyance, surprised I've not seen that yet.
Another fantastic resource, from a programmer's perspective. Very little math.
http://karpathy.github.io/neuralnets/
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