skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>"Digital advertising is becoming a rather simple proposition: Facebook, Google, or don’t bother."

This is true only for the worst marketers. Due to the law of shitty returns, the ROI of any given advertising channel declines over time as it gets saturated with more and more marketing competition. This both drives up prices for the marketer and desensitizes users to ads.

Nobody gets the returns on facebook ad campaigns that were possible in 2010 or the returns on adsense campaigns that were possilbe in 2005. Today, if you want that kind of reach for your money, you're advertising on Pinterest, Vine or even Plenty of Fish.

If all you use is Facebook and Google, you'll be bidding against a lot of others like you.
> We spend the least resources on the children who need it most.

Actually we spend a lot more with no returns. No amount of investment will ever offset bad parenting. Short of removing the children, which will never happen, what can be done?
I think the idea is that if you're willing to program the server, you just use MongoDB or SQL or whatever. Parse is all about having the option not to deal with those things.
YC Backed Zenefits Fires CEO Over Compliance Issues
Those are all good ideas.

The expiring tweets suggestion is an interesting one. I wouldn't have thought of that because frankly I don't get Snapchat.
Sounds like a nifty feature to me.
Anyone else notice that Crytobin appears to be down? Wonder if they took it offline because of this or are they simply blocking traffic in the US to it?
> trying to persuade someone to do something is immoral.

It depends on how you do it. If your ad takes up a lot of bandwidth and processing power, to the point where by the time the article loads on my phone I can't scroll through the actual content because my CPU is busy trying to render your pretty little ad, then you've fucked me, you've fucked yourself, and you've fucked the content provider.

It's the equivalent of a local pizza chain sending someone to play a vuvuzela outside my bedroom window.

The problem is that I don't know whether ads coming in are a person politely handing out flyers, or a vuvuzela-playing jackass - and that's assuming he's not trying to literally pick-pocket me - so it's easier to just rub my magic ad-block lamp and tell the Genie to disappear everyone.
Why? Explain yourself.
But that includes a communal area, which is a really important difference.

I had a small student room in a new building in London, but it felt cramped. I spent very little time in it as a result, preferring instead the communal kitchen or common room.
Inexpensive linux board for school project
Hey!
I've a school project and need info on a cheap sbc board that runs linux (like to run lua or python on it)... Any examples of cheapest board?
Why not make a relatively simple node app that hooks up with apples servers? It is (if I recall correctly) a very simple protocol and it is free, even if you send lots of notifications.
I think caring so much was part of his shortcoming as a leader of Microsoft. He loved the company so much, and values loyalty so much, that he permitted a bubble to form around Microsoft that insulated them from the world changing around them. By the time they woke up, it was too late; they had lost their dominant position in computing.

It was clear that he thought that part of his role as CEO was to be the chief cheerleader for Microsoft. Hence the high-energy appearances at the annual meeting, the scoffing at competitors, the bombastic interviews, etc.

What Microsoft probably needed more was a tough critic--someone who could impose upon the company a set of standards and demands that would keep them from becoming too complacent. That's how Bill Gates saw himself. He kept a Mac in his office while they were working on Windows just so he could torment his dev team with the comparison.

Under Ballmer, Microsoft missed the rise of search, missed the rise of open source, missed the rise of social media, and missed the rise of mobile--despite having solid technology and marketshare early in each of those instances.
If ads aren't obtrusive, irrelevant, insulting, distracting, inappropriate, or malevolent, I have no problem with them. But until at least those last two still exist, even infrequently, I must strongly recommend an ad-blocker to all friends and family for their own protection.
Something from your first paragraph answers the question in your second paragraph!

Yes, all advertising will be filtered through Google, Facebook and someone like a Verizon (or whichever Telco can weaponize its data best, currently looking like Verizon).

What that means is that sites like Reddit can still make ad revenue, but only by filtering it through one of those players. That could mean using Google's ad server tech, or integration with Facebook's audience network, or whatever Verizon comes up with.

But yes, most digital ad revenue currently flows through those few players and that will only accelerate.

The true future of Reddit and other publications is as marketing vehicles to sell stuff directly to their readers/audience. Ads are basically just a stopgap along the way to content-driven commerce.
I haven't done my own experiments, but reading the Lambda docs on Security has made me think these are real VMs and not containers.
There's a lot of demand for programmers. In the marketplace, there are tool makers, and tool users. Some people make and use tools, of course, but for the most part workers will fall primarily into either camp. Naturally, tool makers are more expensive. It's possible the OP is paying a tool user rate and wants a tool maker. Due to the high demand for tool makers they are expensive.
Zuckerberg must be learning from Volkswagen. I love to see cross-industry collaboration.
Yeah, I totally failed in reading comprehension. Sorry.
Yeah my Political Science degree is not much help at the moment.
Hah let me know how it goes ;) Have never got around to it, but after being on both sides of super frustrating interviews I bet it could give some surprising results.
That's because Uber's not a tech company. And it really doesn't have network effects. And it doesn't benefit from Moore's law.
Thanks! That's quite good.
what are the advantages over colordiff[0]? (or a graphic differ like kdiff3[1])

[0] http://www.colordiff.org/
[1] http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/
That's what I do as email is more akin to a postcard than a letter. If that makes someone uncomfortable, then they should choose another medium.
I created a completely free unlimited file hosting service and I'd like feedback
Recently, when I was logging into my AWS S3 account just to upload a large file so that I could email it to somebody (my DropBox was playing up) - I asked myself why there weren't more options out there to send data, quickly, anonymously, for free. I mean that's what the internet is supposed to be. Right?

There's WeTransfer, sure, but it has it's 2GB limit for free users.

DropBox is great, but it can be tedious when you get stuck in a sync loop of hell.

Drive requires you to register.

And any other alternatives are usually covered in horrible ads, malware, or worse.

So I built a quick one pager, initially for me, that would let me drag & drop files in and get a short URL back immediately.

I then decided to make it public.

http://uploadfiles.io

3 days in now and I'm seeing some organic usage which is cool. I'd like to get feedback from as many people as possible now...

Things I'd like opinions on, such as:

1) Do people want this? Or is everybody just happy with Google Drive & DropBox these days?

2) For now this is totally free, if it takes off I'll look at figuring out how to cover costs later. Is that a non starter?

3) I'll add an SSL soon, I'd usually use CloudFlare but they have a stupid 100MB upload limit. Once I get an SSL the uploads will be much more anonymous and secure.

4) No logging of any kind. I don't log who uploads what, server logs are auto cleared and all uploads are deleted after 30 days.

5) 100GB upload limit. (currently) If I can figure out how to increase the load balancer timeout to more than 60mins I would like to remove all upload limits entirely.

I can't be the first person to attempt a side project like this, so I'm assuming there's some glaringly obvious pitfall I'm overlooking, but for now, it's a fun ride.

Thoughts please.
Ideally you want your press released at a time where it's most visible for your target demographic (unless it's bad news, in which case you release at the least visible time, a tactic that startups have been employing). Press releases aren't evergreen content.
For performance marketers, sure. But lots of marketers are lazy or are big brand spenders just looking to do whatever gives them the most reach and the richest targeting they can sell to their boss. That spend is migrating from TV/Radio/Print to digital and once it goes digital it goes to Google/Facebook.

There's always going to be new channels that open up and present short term opportunities. Those channels will get acquired or subsumed by Google/Facebook. That's what the next 4-6 years look like in terms of advertising.
I'm more perplexed by how to solve it, since any odd number of salads is a solution. I.e. for every k, 836.5 - 6.5 * (2 * k + 1) is an even number
Nice improvement to diff but I think I'll still use `git difftool` with Diffmerge https://sourcegear.com/diffmerge/
Meaning you consider it a medium sized studio?

There's tons of apartments in Tokyo that are < 20m^2. In fact I did a quick search, didn't even filter by size, first page of hits is 14, 14, 39, 10, 14, 15, 15, 15, 15, 14, 13, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 7.5, 15, 15, 15, 15

Here's one of the 7.5 ones
http://www.chintai.net/detail/bk-C01005807000000000000025000...

at least it's only about $500 a month and it's actually downtown.

Also Hong Kong.

Note: As someone that grew up in a ~100m^2 house I desire a similar space but having spent 6 years in a 28m^2 studio and having visited a few families in Tokyo and HK crammed into tiny spaces I sometimes wonder how spoiled I am.
Imagine an infinite space divided in infinite number of finite volumes each containing a finite number of "lighter elements". All the light elements form a star in their local volume and burn up all the light elements locally. The result: all the infinite number of finite volumes are void of the light elements. The infinite space is dark.
Here in DC (One of the most expensive US metro areas), it's super common to rent a room in a 'group house' in your 20s with 2-5 other young professionals or students. I'd say the majority of my 25-35 year old friend group started that way, and the single ones still do.

That's partially a quirk of fast gentrification making housing super expensive, combined with lots of housing stock that fits well (row houses), and the fact that not many young people own cars, so parking isn't a problem.

Given the choice I'm sure virtually all of them would prefer a 1br apartment, but that starts at $1800+/mo in the desirable parts of the city.

Previously I lived in St. Louis, which is a much more spread out, cheap suburban city, and most of my friends had apartments.

If I had to guess I'd say the 'group house' model (whatever the local nickname) is predominant in New York, SF, DC, Seattle, and a few other expensive, dense cities, and rarer in the more suburban cities of the midwest/south. In NYC people often share small apartments since even a row house is out of reach.
Second that with our experience sending 1m push notifications a day to android/ios
NSA’s FAQs Demystify the Demise of Suite B
what about all the light that doesn't hit us.
Wow thats really amazing!
I will try it out next time I will find a job!
Compare and swap has a consensus number of 2. A consensus number is the maximum number of processes for which the object can solve a simple consensus problem. It is impossible to construct a wait-free implementation of an object with consensus number n from an object with a lower consensus number.
In other words, test-and-set is weaker than transactions or Paxos for >2 concurrent clients.

http://cs.brown.edu/~mph/Herlihy91/p124-herlihy.pdf
>No, a child does not understand that owing a billion dollars means several lifetimes of debt that they will never pay.

They do. They only agree because they realize it would never be enforced. Maybe a really young child wouldn't, but a preteen would know similar amounts as an 18 year old. That said, most 18 year olds don't really comprehend how much it will take to pay back their college loans and many, once they figure it out, say they wouldn't have agreed. There are also many who take out pay day loans not realizing how bad a deal it would be who would not have taken them had they understood the true costs.

>Because this can pretty much be generalized to all minors

There is nothing you can generalize between a 2 year old and a 16 year old that couldn't also be generalized to someone 18+.
SF has plenty of young professionals who are living with roommates. I would say a lot of that is driven by the cost of housing, but also because many young people like the community that comes with roommates.

That said, I think there is a distinct inflection point in people's lives here where they either partner up or just get tired of not having a space that is entirely their own. The 2nd seems to happen to 30-35 year olds a lot.
I saw a great presentation once that put a slide up with several well-known companies - Google, Facebook, Yahoo, etc. The presenter asked what business they're all in. The answer is advertising. Then he put up a slide with over 200 companies. What business are they all in? Advertising.

Then he pointed out that advertising is only 2% of the GDP, and internet ads aren't even a majority of that.

The point was to consider enterprise and medtech for startups instead, places where real businesses will pay real money for your products, rather than going out to find a million eyeballs and trying to sell them.
I think I would rather my copy of the original hard cover w/ published corrections.

"...recasts many equations for clearer comprehension" to me is an unacceptable modification.
Being rich or poor has no bearing on someones ability to score highly on any standardized test. Its entirely about motivation which can be somewhat externally supplied by many factors such as parents, teachers or their peers; or it can be supplied by the person who is going to be taking the test.

In the US many public libraries having computers that are available for use by anyone and are often open till 8 or 9 at night(and many schools also allow students access to computers during their "free/study" period(s)). And with the Labor laws restricting the hours a minor can work on a school day; only situations at home that require their presence would prevent a self-motivated "poor" student from studying for this test.

Now how a "poor" student would be able to afford to take this test much less the crazy expensive colleges/universities in the US is an entirely different matter.
What Investors Look for in Startups and Founders
I see the same with new guys. When they need to calculate the intersection area between a few rectangles they spend hours looking on GitHub instead of writing 50 lines of code. And they have no idea how even a simple linked list implementation could look like.

There seems to be something in the training that tells them it's not cool to implement things themselves, instead only libraries are OK.
How does containers help? Building a hundred different nginx's shouldn't be neither harder nor easier if you stuff the binary in a container or not.
> There really should be some kind of standard or mail header though. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face
It's definitely a problem, which is why I recommend following very incrementally. If you add too many power users at once, it gets noisy fast.
The matter isn't moving. Space is expanding, ie, space is being inserted in-between all bits of matter.

Edit: To elaborate further: Since all the newly expanded space also expands, the distance to travel continuously increases as the light travels, to the point where over a certain distance the light never completes the journey.

So, the net effect is that the two objects become further apart faster than c, even though neither of them are moving.
diff --patience uses a different algorithm that works to optimise the diffed number of lines (it's less efficient though), which will probably solve your issue (the way the standard algorithm works is to essentially find common features on a first-come-first-served basis.
But stars are getting fainter and fainter as they are further and further away. I get that there would be an infinite amount of them, but then it's an infinite times a zero. The limit is not obvious and I've never seen anyone discussing the actual maths of this. I don't know those maths, but it seems reasonable to me that since the sky is indeed black, then it has to be that it's because the dimness of stars prevails over their number and/or density.
Space itself might be able to expand faster than the speed of light.
Programmers are expected to know about more than ever before. There are more abstractions than ever before. While I wouldn't let a senior developer get away with not knowing those things, I would give beginners and intermediate developers some leeway.

I would opt to learn how much code they've written and their general programming ability over trivia.

If they are smart and capable, they can dive into the details of any challenge that comes their way.
> Why? Just curious if there's any brainstorming to be done.

I'm afraid that I don't know about the actual costs. There are several classes offered, and though students only take one at a time, they sometimes link a few and stay for up to 8 weeks. It's a pretty large board-at-the-university-for-x-weeks style summer program.

I'm an instructor, and I don't set prices. I also understand that there is a non-negligible cost to house and feed a student for a month. But program costs each student about $6000 dollars. I think that's enough to be called "prohibitively expensive," although I'm not sure how to compare these things really.
High risk in the sense that companies founded by Y-Combinator are focused on raising a lot of capital to feed extremely fast growth. This is not slow healthy growth. From Y-combinator's perspective they are fine since a.) initial investment is low and b.) extreme diversification. But the companies themselves can be very volatile and risky.
If you reduce the power of infinite stars, you still have infinite stars producing infinite light.

x * infinity = infinity (so long as x > 0; even if x is infinitesimally small)
A wise lesson once given to me by a person I can't recall:

If you're going to "practice" guitar, then actually concentrate on what you're doing - don't just have one in your hands and fumble around with it while you're watching TV - focus and you will improve.

...which blends with another maxim I picked up:

There are some guitarists who can truthfully say they've played for 40 years - and it sounds impressive until you find out they've only played the same 9 chords the entire time.

So I can appreciate what the article is kind of pointing out in a lot of words - "Practice makes better" - it's a perfectly reasonable message to put forward. The examples are okay overall. There's a lesson in there about the ceramics class, but it seems like a setup from the beginning - a lot of varibles in the outcome depending on the professor, right? I mean, just letting the non-quantity group sit there and drool or goof off isn't maximizing the actual concept of reaching for perfection.

Oh, and I listened to a 60 minute long tape of Kanye from that prolific period. The end results are really cookie-cutter. He basically found a sample of music that somebody else wrote & recorded, stretched/looped it, added a hip-hop sounding MPC kit line under it, and called it done. It's a strong example of mechanical repetition to hone the tools of a trade (production/sound engineering). Personally I view it as the antithesis of writing original material, but like I said, personal opinion.
I've been into Erlang for about 5 years now and once I found it, I never looked back. They really nailed it and many competitive technologies like Go don't have a preemptive scheduler yet. I wish Elixir had a Pythonic syntax, but I'm all for anything BEAM gaining steam and have enjoyed using Elixir.

I personally feel that if someone made a Pythonic version of Elixir, say "Hydra", it would take over the world. If anyone starts such a project, look me up!
It's not as simple as that. There are a lot of rural areas where teachers make almost nothing. Chicago can afford to spend a lot of money (since it has rich areas it can tax). So they spend a lot on schools in poor areas of the city.

And then educational outcomes of the poor rural and poor (but expensive) urban schools aren't different.
Investigators considering criminal charges in Flint water crisis
I would argue if you don't want to fix it. then hire someone to. It will be way cheaper than writing it in house and way more likely to succeed than complaining.
AdTech companies are completely fucked. Just totally and utterly fucked. Google and Facebook are kicking their asses left and right.

Google "worked with" 3rd parties for the better part of a decade while they improved on their products, but now they are working to muscle them out by taking their best products and blocking them to adtech companies. They took youtube inventory out of their Ad exchange last year. It cost them nothing to do so but crippled a handful of video ad companies and exposed them as powerless.

Criteo has long been held up as an example of a company that managed to forge its own way, but eventually they've started running out of gas too. Their stock price has been tanking since last summer. It's not surprising either. Criteo's bread and butter are dynamic ads, which show specific products to retail shoppers. Well Facebook rolled out its own version of that and it's pretty tremendous. Criteo has to resell that product or lose relevance to its customers but now its just a reseller instead of providing the ad serving and inventory for its customers. This destroys its value proposition majorly.
I've experimented with patience diff, but not seen it deliver reliably superior results than myers (the current default).
I manage to practice 6-8 hours a day and I work full time. Just leaves me with absolutely no time for anything else once chores are taken care of. Can't wait to buy a tiny remote cottage so I can practice full time with minimal bills.
Looks like it's been dropped from DNS servers.

$ nslookup cryptobin.org
Server:	8.8.8.8
Address:	8.8.8.8#53

** server can't find cryptobin.org: NXDOMAIN

It can still be accessed directly via https://151.236.7.117
That's really not the impression I get around here. I think it's clearly the intrusiveness with which ads are displayed and all those strings (trackers) that come attached with them.

I think most people on HN would agree that ads which don't require huge amounts of scripts, show video, play audio, connect to 17 tracking networks or make up 70% of the page weight would very much be tolerable.
Compiling nginx is surprisingly easy and straightforward; a perfect example to get started with packaging for yourself.
You need to include "Remote" as a location. :p

Also, you should allow "Other" to be the only location used. I had to pick an irrelevant location to get the profile to go through.
We've been “detecting space-time distortions” by means of falling for quite some time.
Would be nice if it was clearer that it is only taking a US address at the moment (I think)
> Our belief is that if someone doesn’t like them, and they won’t click on them, any impressions served to them will only annoy them-- plus, serving ads to people who won’t click on them harms campaign performance.

Okay, so why not then make ad-blockers unnecessary by providing a "don't show ads" option?