skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Without knowing your traffic #'s, I can't say for sure but the big networks require a lot of pageviews/month. Among the lower is Tribal Fusion, which requires around 5,000 uniques per day. My blog is just about at this level, except for lower traffic on weekends, so I am considering applying soon.

Otherwise you might consider private ad sales (not talking about those shady link exchanges emails everyone gets, those are bad news). Not easy to work with but it's the best bet for a small blog (let's say sub-100,000 uniques/month). There's also great potential to work with affiliate stuff if you find products you can honestly recommend and that your readers would trust your opinion on. I make about 1/3 of my blog income from affiliate stuff. Also make sure to invest in a URL tracker so you can hide affiliate links with yourdomain.com/Your_Slug to increase conversions and also let you find click stats, do A/B tests etc. I use one that is a WordPress plugin, you can find it on my blog in my profile, or feel free to email me.

I'm just heading out the door but this is what was on the top of my head. I've tried pretty much everything out there for my blog over the last few years and have now gotten it to be ramen profitable (or in my case, healthier: salad w/ balsamic and chicken profitable)
This is the video many people were asking for after Startup School ended. It never was listed on startupschool.org but I noticed today it had appeared on Vimeo later.
dude, yes. Thank you for posting those links.

Do you listen to George Pettit's other band (he's the singer) City and Colour? Wayyyyy different then AOF but really freakin good too
I was looking for something to watch - I'll try Shikabane Hime then :) (not the author btw)
You're correct that visiting the page does impose an infinitesimal marginal cost. The economics would remain the same, however, if there were no cost at all for viewing the site. The content still costs money to produce. The real issue here is the denial of revenue, which as I said flows logically from nullifying the business model.

Ars wants people to think that they are in the business of reporting tech news, when in fact they are in the business of selling individuals to advertisers. I don't see any notices on Ars explicitly asking people to view ads in exchange for viewing content. The reason is that doing so would confront people with the reality of the site and turn them off, even though many of them understand the ad model in principle. And yes, a newspaper full of ads is also pretending to be free.

If Ars won't explicitly require their users to view ads, then they can hardly complain when people skip them. I have no sympathy.
Site seems to be dead (it showed up on Slashdot as well) but here's a Coral Cache version:

http://pixelqi.com.nyud.net/blog1/2010/03/07/diy-pixel-qi-ki...
Investigators estimate his success rate at around 0.1%. That's 13,500 victims from whom he's stolen as much as $40.5 million.

Oh, the title is pure guesswork. That big, big number is essentially pulled out of thin air.

I'd say more out of a thin butt. According to these figures he on average extracted $3000 USD out of 30 people, every day. If making $90k in profit per day is really as easy as sending out 13.5 million e-mails then I think I should seriously reconsider my business plan...
Most of the fx that restaraunts want to do on their website could be done with jQuery. The http://www.frenchlaundry.com/, for example, is simply a bunch of fade in/out's and a few picture slideshows.
Fonts are overrated. As long as the message comes across and it doesn't cause acute eye-strain I think that the only people that really can get upset about fonts are designers.

I've never had an end user complain about any font, but I remember two designers arguing for days on end which font (visually next to indistinguishable) we should use.

It's worse than programmers arguing about editors.
"I don't see how Ubisoft isn't getting sued for this." There is a very logical explanation: The courts are not open on Sunday.
I had an automatic 2000 Chevy Cavalier that I drove lightly around my second home when I visited it every few weeks. About 2 years in I came to red light and, in applying the brake, it fought as though I was stomping on the gas pedal. I regularly drive stick so I popped it in neutral as I brought it to the side of the road and the engine kept revving despite neither of my feet being on any pedal.

I turned off the car and re-started it without any problems so I took it to my mechanic down the street and had a friend pick me up. The mechanic gave a full run-through and basically didn't believe me.

I drove the car around for another few months without incident until I was taking a longer drive at night on I-95. The car started unexpectedly accelerating so I removed both feet from the pedals and it kept speeding up.

Long story short, this happened several more times (I have low risk-aversion) despite having the electrical system replaced and having numerous mechanics that I know and trust look at it. Before I just gave up on it (annoyed - I like to know what is wrong) one of my mechanics took it out for a drive just to try it out and had it got away from him as well. We never did figure out what caused it.
Lua is a GREAT scripting language. >_< And a LOT of people talk about lua. Like this million dollar company. http://www.roblox.com/

The users are allowed to script in this dynamic(changing) enviroment. ROBLOX is a plastic brick based online lego game. The massive physics engine creates realistic explosions, and LUA lets you alter it, make things happen. LUA is a GREAT language.
So they intentionally introduced a gaping DDoS vulnerability into their software? That doesn't exactly make me feel warm and fuzzy.

The buck stops with Ubisoft, regardless of whether it's a DDoS or not. There's no good software engineering reason for the failure of one of their servers -- or even all of their servers -- to imperil all of their users, yet they decided to design their product that way anyway. That means it's their fault when the inevitable occurs. (As it would have even without the DDoS, when they decide to shut the authentication servers down if not before.)

My grandmother could have seen this coming, and my grandmother has been dead for a long time.
Doesn't dehydra do static analysis for C++ code? In which case, of course it would do better then clang; clang doesn't even claim to have complete c++ support yet.
Unfortunately, they're likely to simply deploy even bigger cluster of authentication servers and add the cost to the next game. Then it will fall down again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
> A simple 'high braking pressure' sensor that overrides the throttle

VWs have had this for a while. I've heard it called the "drive-by-wire fun police."
Programming as Inevitable Consequence
And what if you're tired and irritated... of your home country?

I'm in my own mini-crisis myself, and I don't know what to do (emigrating is a bit drastic, but I'm considering it).
AOL (I mean, Aol; actually the former AdTech) has a pretty good self-service solution. It has a pretty dashboard, good management interface, and getting campaigns up and down is fast. Not sure on price.

http://www.adtechus.com/Home
One good book length counter-argument to "red in tooth and claw" is Robin Wright's "NonZero" (see summary site at http://www.nonzero.org/ for excerpts) that argues life's arrow is toward more complexity based on cooperation and that it's not a "zero sum game" where every gain is someone else's loss.

Wright's thesis for humanity is that people cooperate far more in the context of society than they did even 20,000 years ago, allowing for much larger populations. This larger population enables more diversity and further complexity.
Ok, I'm against DRM too, but no, if this is a DDoS, the hackers are not doing anyone favours, because what's harming the consumers in this case isn't the DRM, it's the DDoS.
Gorgeous Time-Lapse Video Of The Milky Way (video)
Maybe, but it's hard to feel sorry for anyone who knowingly bought into the deal. I will, on very rare occasions, purchase DRM'd products, but when I do I know full well it's my own darn fault if I end up losing access to them.
Taking aim at Microsoft: Google buys DocVerse
One thing that's really interesting: this is impossible to do in a standard transmission (once you've been driving one for a while). The emergency procedure for a manual is to use the brake while putting the transmission in neutral, which will make the car stop forward acceleration no matter which pedal you had your foot on in the first place.
I think he was referring to actual restaurants, not "restaurants" like pizza hut. When I think of restaurant I imagine a sit-down place that is not fast food.

These site-down restaurants without take-out/delivery should have all of their information easily available online for potential customers to find before they make a reservation. So, yes, I think that it is still very important to have an easy to use website for a restaurant.
Bleak view of US STEM education: a story of broken incentives
I was actually looking at FM data the other day (I was curious about the viability of the business model proposed by the YC journalism startup so was doing some analysis using FM ad pricing as a basis), and only about a third of the sites FM represent do more than 1M pageviews/month. About 15% of their sites do less than 100k pageviews/month.
Sounds like there is some money to be made here.
This certainly isn't a likely scenario, but I was just wondering... Since all those posts are anonymous, wouldn't it be easy to create a fake buzz about some famous DRM not working? Even without using zombie hosts, or anything advanced - with help of ~10 people you can generate hundreds of messages from different locations in the world, cafes, via tor proxy, vpses, etc. Setup a couple of blog posts and get some attention to them on twitter.

Since the issue is impossible to debug from server side (there are no errors or connections at all), I think you could keep it up for good couple of days. Is there something obvious I missed to make it more believable?

So... when is Ubisoft releasing the next game with DRM?
I have a Friench friend who, for years, has been critical about Australians. When i first met him he could continually rave on about how people in Paris are so much open with their emotions and how us Aussies are too closed by comparison. Or how the nightlife here sucked by comparison. Or how French music was better, the food tastier, the culture richer. The list went on...

The ironic part was that he would begridgingly list all the good points about living here too. In the end, he became a tangled mess. He disliked and liked being here, and also disliked and liked the idea of returning home. Sounds kindof the the same with the dude in this article. You feel like telling him to just pack his bags and return home, but you know that he won't because he'd miss the good parts of living in Tokyo and end up complaining about the US instead.

A major part of this is to do with always drawing comparisons to your original culture as a source of familiarity. The natives don't draw such comparisons. To them there is no "better" or "crappier" place. It's not Japanese work-life, it's just work-life. It's not Japanese food, it's food. Home is home, and that's just how things are.

After listening to my French friend, reading this article, and reading your comment, it seems to me that romantacising aspects of your home culture whenever you're pissed off about something in your host culture (and vice-versa), though inevitable, alomost never leads to happiness.
Amqp for Lisp
Thousands of players pinging the server every 10 seconds to save their game? It would have much the same effect as a DDoS against most public servers.
Ok, sure... but I still say please still rope them off in the same fashion.

They are already discouraged from making the front page, and we might as well banish them completely.
All appearances to the contrary, I do actually work for a living, and early morning on release Monday is a bad time to drop a thesis on my desk and ask me for comments.
And as an European I feel that American corporate culture bleeds far too far into everyone's personal life.

Huh, I had the opposite experience when I worked for a small Dutch company. The amount of enforced merry-making (not to mention all the emphasis on consensus-formation) really got on my nerves. Never saw anything like it when I was working for American companies. It did remind me of my brief career in Tokyo --- I'm not the only one to have noticed the superficial similarities between Dutch and Japanese corporate culture [1], though apparently if you dig deeper it's not as similar as it looks.

Of course, this may simply be a quirk of the industry I was in at the time (options trading). It may also be a consequence of me rubbing Dutch people the wrong way (when excusing myself from company bowling/drinking/whatever trips or expressing dissenting opinions), while knowing how not to rub American people the wrong way because I'm a lot more familiar with their culture.

[1] e.g. Joop Stam has done a lot of research on this: http://www.mb.utwente.nl/oohr/staff/professorate/stam/
I could not agree more. I don't know why people keep making claims that a technology (PuSH) can kill a service (Twitter) with a HUGE community behind it. The value in Twitter isn't the tech (it's nearly featureless), but the users, community, and experience that it provides.
Not everyone researches the DRM in their games before purchasing. Some people just buy the box at Best Buy. Seems unfair to expect everyone to know these things ahead of time... shouldn't you be able to just buy a box at Best Buy, and rightly expect to play what you paid for?
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Do I use Papyrus or Copperplate? I seriously do not know and highly doubt any of my customers do either. In 3.5 years the only time I have heard a reference to typography was "Do you have a font with an a that looks less like a typewritten a, more like a circle with a stick on the right side? Some of my kids can't recognize typewritten 'a' yet."
For the money (free, hosted) GAM is hard to beat. Google just kicked off a major update of GAM and are rebranding it as DFP and will be charging higher volume customers.

I haven't looked at OpenX in two years -- would love to hear recent experiences with OpenX.
As Glimjaur said, plus: from the quotes in the article, it sounds like the Zynga guys got rid of it once they found out how bad it was, but the quote of him finding and fixing the problem still gets used against him. So, doing good yourself doesn't cut it, you also have to avoid talking about anything bad that anyone you have a connection with did. I guess that is why No Comment is such a well used phrase.
I second that, albeit I use my studio monitors instead of ear buds as I live by myself. I listen to http://mugasha.com - a startup focusing on bringing EDM music sets online in an easy to listen way - instead of 2 hour sets, they are broken up by listing.

disclosure: one of their founders is an online friend and will be my hotel roommate at SXSW later this week
This article makes me want to move to Japan.
If you were planning on playing all day, take this opportunity to go outside and enjoy the world.
http://www.ubiubi.mobi/
We all spend days designing web forms that won't scare away customers, page designs that keep important content above the fold, bits of CSS to deal with buggy browsers, and rewrite the same sentence in an email template 20 times before we will send it all in an effort to woo the same people who fall for a 419 scam.

What can we take from the `success` of this guy and apply to our businesses?
The Golden Rule in the Wild
10 dimensions
I think everyone who posted here would be well served reading Martin Gardner's The Annotated Alice. Gardner, who was the puzzle editor for Scientific American for decades, is also a Lewis Carroll scholar, and his annotated versions of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass are tremendous.

http://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Alice-Definitive-Lewis-Carro...
He’ll dump your lover for you over the phone – and post it online
>How? Let's say you want to buy a computer and you go direct to, say, Dell. How would you have heard of Dell if not for advertising? Seen a Dell at someone else's house? How did they hear about Dell? It has to start somewhere.

You wouldn't go to Dell. You'd go to a forum where people discuss the relative qualities of their machines. You'd ask a friend who knows more than you, or you'd find a site that has a reputation for rating computers in a balanced way (e.g. Consumer Reports.)

Dell's advertising conveys no information about Dell, except that it has a high advertising budget, and that it exists. A person who wants to buy a computer would have zero difficulty realizing that Dell exists from any number of sources (for example the top result from the search "buy a computer"), and the advertising budget of a company has no direct relationship with the quality of it's product.
Google Ad Manager is free up to 90M monthly impressions, I believe.
In a hypothetical world where side servings of advertising were to dissapear, I suspect directory and review sites would expand significantly. In the small towns where my grandmother is from, there are still little booklets availible, full of adverts. No content, just a mini yellow pages where everyone advertises.
This sounds like something that would go high up on our evaluation list for the company I work for -- for us, there's a big space between our bread-and-butter high end advertisers and the remnant networks filled with advertisers that would like to make sub $5k buys but take as much or more effort than advertisers on the other side of that line.

That said, a pricing model as a % of revenue would probably be less attractive than a cost based on some function of resource utilization -- we don't necessarily need to give you incentives to figure out how to max our revenue; let us worry about optimizing our pricing and maximizing sales; you focus on providing us a kickass product.

Also, ideally we'd be able to traffic ads sold via self-serve into our existing inventory (i.e., not a separate unit or zone) AND avoid overselling impressions we don't have (e.g., we frequently "sell out" of certain geotargeted metro areas) -- so it'd probably be best if it worked in tandem with our ad serving software (currently Google Ad Manager/DFP).
Developers screwed by the Man: Dean Takahashi's take on the Infinity Ward story
Biglaw ("white shoe") firms are even worse.
Sorry, I didn't check before I wrote that. Nope. No Papyrus for you.
There's a small mistake on the website:

Leksah is completely free and distributed under the Gnu Public License 2.0"

It's the GNU General Public License, i.e. the "G" in GPL does not stand for "GNU".
This is true they don't explicitly say that. Just like food doesn't explicitly say this is edible.
Okay, It's my naivete even mentioning the word exit. I'm sure nobody's at YC is interested in an exit anyhow. I was just trying to get a sense for whether this product had legs or whether the team and area of technology were the driving factor. However, now that I've heard the term: PCMS, I see the value. I didn't make the connection with CMS.

Now, if Etacts would just actually import my gmail...
Now you've made me wonder if game designers are constantly being told to insert quicktime events and horrible inventory systems into games that were would have been fun as-is.
New AI benchmark - The Toy Box Problem
Direct PDF URL:

http://bit.ly/bocTyt
Your comment about Cadillacs reminded me of the scene from The Wire where Snoop buys a nailgun: "Man says this here the Cadillac of nailguns. He means Lexus but he don't know it."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8zavPW3Bus
"Behavioral addictions" may be added to DSM-V
This comparison is not fair.

You're free to download just the LaTeX core and the most important packages. Add a decent Editor/IDE such as Kyle or TeXnicCenter, and you're still in the range of 50-100 MB.

The 750 MB of the total LaTeX package should be compared to the size of Word along with all macros and plugins that are available for Word.
that's a great analogy. If the person giving you the offer acts offended you ask such a question, you may want to question working there. Being able to discuss compensation openly is (in my opinion) extremely important for any job.
Google Ad Manager is pretty dead simple to use. OpenX if you want a native solution.
Experiences with Commodore computers: the 300 bytes-per-second disk-drive
For speed it skims the url-less posts out of the sorted list I keep for the frontpage, which needs to be made longer to be used for this as well. I just cranked up the length a bit; should be ok now.
Ditto @thorax - check out Dimdim: http://www.dimdim.com

It's an Open Source virtual conferencing app comparable to Acrobat Connect (which we used to use as well). We make a JumpBox for it available here: http://jumpbox.com/app/dimdim
If you think these warnings are evidence that "clang is doing better and deeper static analysis than gcc", then you have no idea how compilers work.
LiveScript is what they called JavaScript before the Sun deal involving Java. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript#History for more.
What this feature needs now is code correction on the fly

integration with an IDE or vim/emacs + incremental compilation ==> smart error messages and corrections 'on the fly' while you're typing! sort of like how Eclipse gives you sqiggly line warnings almost instantaneously after you finish coding a line
That's part of their full site. If you're accessing from an iPhone, Android, or Blackberry and haven't disabled Javascript you should see a mobile friendly version. Other devices may display it differently.
Ahh ok, that's fine then.
I do this using org-mode's tables pretty frequently. It's the way I generate 95% of my Latex tables.
Ada does have useful things like a formal "denotational" semantics that make it easier than certain other languages.

http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=...

Years ago, when I looked into it, an "operational" semantics hadn't been defined for Ada, but it seems that the modern language has a defined subset or profile.
To me, "functions as first-class citizen" implies that the language being spoken about treats functions on the same level as other data. In that sense, I don't agree that OO programmers "already do this."

What you are getting at, though, is that constructs they are already familiar with can be expressed functionally. That is a good point, and it always helps make concepts more concrete when you provide a mapping from current knowledge to new knowledge.
The creator of ChatRoulette applies for US visa
I loved LaTeX for a long time, but InDesign has now trumped it for me: equally good rendering and output, with usable GUI goodness. It even uses the same hyphenation engine!