skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Respectfully, I think you're still missing my point.

It isn't primarily about the time cost for the sales team. It is about what sort of image they want to portray for "what companies advertise on Tumblr." If you see a bunch of acai and weightloss ads, and you're a big brand, you're not going to advertise there. That's a problem, because odds are you have a lot more money to spend. So in order to attract the right advertisers, Tumblr has to portray an image of success that aligns with those targets.

So your statement about small and midsize startups doesn't make sense in that context. They don't want small and midsize startups. Again, they want big brands. And you approach the business strategy for that very differently.

Also, "native" ads aren't really that different than display. I'd personally consider it a subset of display (like video). You generally are looking at post-impression (vs. click) performance, reach, engagement, etc. It is VERY hard to measure well. So small and midsize startups are again not the right fit if they care about measurable ROI.

Tumblr doesn't want "some of these companies" that might grow into bigger companies. They want the big companies that have the big dollars and will pay high-margin CPMs TODAY.

Once you have that business funnel doing well, THEN maybe you consider expanding out to a self-serve platform with lots of small guys. Because at that point large advertisers will know you are a solid inventory source and not be swayed when a tiny little startup who doesn't even know how to set a conversion tag claims that the clicks they are tracking aren't driving them lots of profit (see pretty much every post griping about FB ads on HN).

Also, setting up a self-serve system takes a LOT of work and resources compared to tossing together some janky (but functional) tools that your internal ad ops team can use to traffic things. Which again makes it low on the list.

And "profitably" vs. "revenue positive" doesn't matter--if you care about direct response performance, they don't want you as an advertiser at that stage.

Again, not saying you or other smaller companies couldn't find success on Tumblr. But just because you want them does not mean they want you (at least at the stage they are at). That $25k min. is to weed out smaller budgets and direct response advertisers who need to test small and see profit before continuing to spend more.
Though note that AlphaGo used Torch too, so it can't be the source of Facebook's weakness at a Go engine.

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1015344288418214...
I disagree. While the use of the word 'bug' is often stretched (i.e. feature requests being made in the issue tracker), the contracts in this case are not purely the product of a writer - they are also a contract, as in a written, explicit agreement. Calling an unintended consequence a bug may be true from the perceptive of the writer, but not necessarily from the perspective of the second-party, who may have agreed to the written contract, but not the "intent". Hence a document with two parties does not have objective bugs in that sense, unless both parties agree, which is not the case in disputes requiring a judge.
I'm one of the co-founders of SigOpt (YC W15) and am happy to answer any questions about this post or the underlying Bayesian optimization methods.

For more info about the underlying research check out https://sigopt.com/research
I wish that the shopping experience was

1) I go to a store and pick up what I need
2) I walk out of the store with everything and take it home
3) Store knows what I took (RFID tags)
4) Store knows who I am (Cameras, gait analysis, face, whatever, fingerprint at the door, phone swipe, credit card swipe, be creative)
5) I receive an e-bill when the vendor identifies me
6) I set up an auto-pay on my e-bill

Honestly, tap-to-pay doesn't seem like any difference at all vs cash or credit to me. Show me something where I don't even need to interact on exiting the store!
I'd say it's terrible news, cause node.js development is going to be influenced heavily by Samsung. Remember Tizen?
Yeah, the timescale for the Fermi Paradox is millions of years; it'd be a hard sell that 1500 years can make a dent in it.
I agree and did not intend to say that there should be any force.

Around 2005-2006 when I hadn't changed majors to computer science yet and was student teaching middle school, there were still things being said to girls like 'its just more natural for boys' from older teachers.

It just didn't let them build the resilience up to work through the 'hard' aspects of math.
Ask HN: Where is it acceptable to advertise a beta mobile game?
I just finished the MVP of Community Chess (www.AngryElement.com) and I'm trying to figure out how to get beta testers. I've thought of posting to /r/playmygame but it doesn't appear to be for betas and certainly not for closed betas. I thought of doing a "Show HN" but that's also not for doing beta signups. I currently have 30 people who are ready to test but they are work friends and family members so I'm worried about their bias. Thanks for any advice you can give. I'd also love to get some tips/tricks on how to improve my website.
Someone have the full text?
I run Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) and W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com) alone. I initially developed Improvely in 2012, and W3Counter in 2004. They, along with some other side projects, are how I have made a living for most of the past 10 years.
I think it's more the case that there is no good general-purpose solution yet, and a bunch of people use Markdown because it's easy within a very limited scope, so now you have to deal with Markdown's near-ubiquity if you suggest something else.

I would never try to write a book in Markdown, no matter how extended; but considering the HTML produced by asciidoc|tor, you might also say "don't use AsciiDoc for simple Web publishing."

What I find much more fascinating is the question why there is no good general-purpose format that works equally well for blogging and for scientific papers and for books?

Is it really that hard a problem?
Not saying it's a universal trait.
Partly that's because the US banks didn't think the EU standard was secure enough. They were proven somewhat right when a fraud ring found a way to bypass some of the authentication[1]. Long story made short: The EU system did something like authorizing the pin to the card using the chip, but not requiring the bank to authenticate, which allowed the terminals to function without a network connection. Criminals inserted the chip from one card over the chip from another, intercepting the pin authentication request to the card and allowing it, and then allowing the transaction to proceed against the regular card. This would not work in the US where all the requests are verified by the bank over the network (which is why it takes longer).

That the US card industry is trying to move away from requiring a pin is somewhat strange, but I think can be explained by different people weighing in at different stages. Engineers nixed the EU type system as not secure enough, and then different company decision makers start pushing for no pin, to make sure they don't see a dip in usage. What you end up with is this.

1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10414375
Why are posts that require a sign in or subscription even allowed?
I put all my 2FA credentials into my Yubikey as well. Plus, if I lose it, you have to guess my PIN in three tries, otherwise the secrets get deleted.
I'd consider reading it if I didn't have to sign up.
People have said exactly what you are saying about every single underrepresented minority in almost any field of human endeavor. Almost every single time history has proven them wrong.

Maybe people are right on this one. But I doubt it.
The original pitch for the RFIDs was that they'd just be able to scan your whole cart. I'm not sure what happened in the interim.
Hitting the |web| button above usually works (and did for me in this case)
For sure. Although I think again, it's mostly about people in the big companies fighting over each other for what management has allocated for raises and promotions. I've seen men duke it out as well.

Overall I would agree it's a higher up-hill climb for women, but I think getting the crap work means you're generally a less valued employee (most likely some strong correlation there between being a woman, but not causation IMHO).
smart contracts are still a good idea, separate from implementation concerns.

I also consider the strictness, and lack of third-party mediation a "pro", not a "con".
Guy Uses EDM Song to Show Off His Home Automation Lighting System
I had one from Wells Fargo and was pretty sad when my new card didn't have it. I used to love to pay for things without taking my card out of my wallet.
Why do people who complain about wsj on every thread even allowed? Click the "web" link.
I like your landing pages.

How do you monetize W3Counter? I'd imagine you compete directly with Google Analytics, which is free.
> That's quite a claim, where's the evidence to back it? There are funds[1] that have consistently beat the market every year for decades, their very existence disproves the gambling hypothesis.

No it doesn't. I was a professional poker player, and professionals have existed for decades. Their existence doesn't mean there's no gambling in poker.

If you're taking offense to the wording of "just gambling," sure, I can see that. Like poker, it's gambling with an element of skill. Or perhaps more aptly put, it's a skill game with a gambling element.

What makes it gambling is that you have no influence over part of the process. You can control your decisions (bet/fold/buy/sell), but the rest (company performance, turn/river cards) is out of your hands.

So yes, of course this is gambling.
Sure. I wasn't making any implicit contrast with the USA. But all this focus on desert and who did what first isn't really the issue.
BOOM goes the dynamite.
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The fact that there are retractions shows that evidence matters... so "Yeah."
It's freemium. People pay between $5 and $50 per month for extra features. It's really not hard to compete with Google Analytics (especially when you start before GA existed). There are a ton of large companies making millions and billions in the analytics space.
Some of us are on mobile...
Probiotics on the brain: One gut microbe reverses autism-like symptoms in mice
> You are describing human judgement or human discretion. It's probably a given that AI will surpass humans in judgement and discretion of many things in the coming years and would be at least as able to avoid reacting to a false-positive as any human.

Maybe, maybe not, either way that's a worthless pie-in-the-sky declaration because those AIs don't exist and I have not seen you declare that smart contracts shouldn't happen before those AIs arise.

> The problem […] is deferring to an arbiter.

You're confused, the problem is the handling of contracts breaking down due to bugs or boundary conditions.

> the thing you propose as a solution is deferring to an arbiter.

It's not "the thing I propose as a solution" it's the solution we currently have, and one which we know works.

> This is not human judgement as much as it is human authority. We conflate the two in meatspace because of the social rank conferred upon such positions.

Authority and social rank have nothing to do with it, only that both parties accept an arbiter and that the arbiter's decision will be the binding resolution of the issue.

Courts are convenient arbiters as they don't require active cooperation between the parties (quite the opposite) and there are long-standing legal frameworks and case laws, they're not the only option.

> The very idea of decentralization is a different authority model than what is typically in human institutions.

That's irrelevant to the issue at hand.

> In meatspace, a judge must be chosen, elected/appointed, confirmed, etc., and when that judge needs to be replaced we take an entirely different (largely unknown) judge and do a full-scale migration to that new judge's "firmware".

So what?

> With smart contracts, we can divide the execution into many smaller smart-contracts, each with a specific domain of expertise. This makes versioning, incremental improvement, and extreme transparency possible.

You're just masturbating about with "smart contracts" bullshit, you still haven't provided for the handling of contracts breaking down, which is what concerns us here.
How is the incompleteness theorem relevant?
> This is a sign of their incompetence. Period

Per parent, this could also be an internet issue. If the POS is processing with a delay, the employee has little control and blaming "incompetence" is ludicrous.

Having first hand experience with dealing with impatient customers because the POS is running slow creates a feeling of entitlement (on the person pointing out how incompetent someone is) and resentment (on the side of the affected employee who is helpless in the situation).
Click on he "web" link at the top, under the article title. This kind of comment gets made every time these articles are posted. It's not that hard. Sometimes you gotta use an icognito window, but not always.
Wait, people have social lives outside of reading HN? I find this information disturbing.
Direct link to the video [all the way at the bottom of the page]:

https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Seth-Juarez/Windows-Subsyste...

I found it to be an even better explanation.
I think we've run out of words or something. Look at Canvas too
Thats such a cool idea! OMFG
It's lame that I have to use the google referrer trick: https://www.google.com/search?q=Yahoo%27s+Marissa+Mayer+Stum...
this is cool do more
DIY 5 Node Cluster of Raspberry Pi 3s
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Totally. Cool stat here -- 80% of the borrows in our first semester occurred between people that had never heard of each other. 12% were acquainted or familiar with the person but not friends. Certainly women can still ask friends to borrow "offline!"
Just go a google search of the title and you can get around the sub-wall
> Your credit score is negatively impacted if you close a credit card account

What happens if you raise the credit limit on your remaining cards to eat the loss of total credit?
What’s new in robotics this week? Commercial 3D printer in space is working
> So, yeah, I'd love to have some females on our engineering team

You could start by not talking about women like this. It makes you sound like a Ferengi.
I think if so many people complain about it then the link isn't very well known
Not sure where you're saying Gödel's incompleteness theorems come in, but I agree that DAO is a game of Nomic.

Now... the ability to hard-fork is kind of in the rules as well. So it's a Nomic with a complicated endgame. Some guy just won the Nomic, but now he's finding that not only do you want to win, you want to win subtly, or else a majority can vote to undo your win.

But anyone who still thinks DAO is an investment vehicle is missing the fact that it's a high-stakes game, and cleverer people than them are going to win it.
Why doesn't "web" link pop up when the link to the article is clicked instead of sign or subscribe? How would people know without this comment?
Correct. In the US, whenever I insert my card to use the chip, it takes forever (as you watch the Do Not Remove Your Card prompt). When I've used the same card for swiping (not using the chip), it completes right away.
> I can't see how Rust's parallelism model would help either.

I'm unaware of a Rust parallelism model. Care to explain?
Exactly, you can generate multiple keys with a push of a button, while your phone number is very personal, supplemented by a contract with an operator. Also, try calling me on my public key.
Same. I recently had credit report pulled for a mortgage refinance, and although I pay all my credit card balances in full every month, it still showed several accounts with a "high balance relative to credit limit" or some such thing.
Holy crap. I had no idea that existed.
Glad to see you're still around. I remember when you used to post on SitePoint often. I always looked up to your work. Just felt like saying that.
Please don't do the bogus-generalization thing and please don't go on about downvotes: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11923736 and marked it off-topic.
People made a lot of noise about https://joindiaspora.com/ but in reality almost nobody cares about decentralized social media yet
I thought about that after I wrote my comment. I only had them for one year in high school, so it's possible that they were subjected to years of other conditioning.

But, really, I have seen the exact opposite. Girls are actively encouraged to participate in math and science from a very early age in a lot of our schools.

I don't have any numbers on hand, but there seems to a drastic change in middle school where girls stop being interested in math and science. So by the time they get to high school, it seems like the fight for their interest is already over.

This is just my experience from being in education for several years.
It also assumes that aliens could respond at the speed of light. Now in Star Trek, they could, but it wasn't our signaling that caught their attention.
Rob Walling started out doing his stuff on his own. He's a prolific writer and podcaster - his material is well worth looking up. His book is somewhat dated, but still pretty good: http://amzn.to/1UdN0Ap
CS240h: Functional Systems in Haskell
Am I misreading this? The suggested solution is hard code an account hash into the source of Ethereum? If that's the case, how can that be taken seriously? It sounds like Ethereum should just start over entirely. The experiment part I failed.
The police and the law should protect consumers from fraud.

One major root of the problem is the liability shift from police to the cards and banks. If you're a buyer, you're suppose to file a chargeback, not call the police. If you're the merchant, you're suppose to contest the chargeback, not call the police. In a real sense, it's legalized theft enabled by a card ecosystem sustained by companies with a monopoly that make too much. To think the law favors these companies more than the people is outright disgusting.
Thanks for illustrating my point so nicely :)

For one thing, rather than engaging with what I actually said, you inaccurately framed it as an accusation of misogyny.

What other ways do you see your comment as a good example of what I was saying?

How do you see the other comments in the thread as examples?
The Progress of Web Apps
The Ethereum VM is only a small issue, the contracts running on it are the actual problem. DAO isn't falling to an ethereum bug.
I don't know the answer. I had assumed that it was the act of closing the account that was viewed as a negative and not the reduction in the aggregate credit limit. But I could be wrong.
>I always wondered why there was such a rush to launch the DAO.

So Slock.it could raise money, obviously. A common complaint right around when Slock.it launched the DAO was that Slock.it planned to offer the first funding proposal on it but only provided a brief 2-week period for review and debate before the voting started. It had the appearance of an attempt at railroading the crowdfunding process for a quick payoff.

Fortunately cooler heads uncovered the problems and spoke out, putting the brakes on. Now it's a big learning experience for the ~23,000 people who blindly jumped on the hypetrain and put money into a flawed investment vehicle. You'd think the first 7 years of Bitcoin would have taught people a lesson that this technology is risky, but dollar signs in the eyes tend to obscure hindsight I guess.
Onymos customers are in 6 of 7 continents
another good one is archive.is/[url]

here's the full text: https://archive.is/glTH3
$5 seems like way too low of a fee for a dress worth > $100 to prevent potential damage. That's going to be less than the cost of the drink that I spilled on it.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)
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Can you a share a link to your project? It seems really useful to me
> She has defended her strategy by stressing that growth is the lifeblood of internet businesses.

Or, you know, utility.

It's funny how she defends all these acquisitions underneath some imaginary fable that growth == success. Google didn't reach where it is today because it grew fast -- it was able to grow because it has basic utility and was known as the best amongst the competitors.

The key question for Yahoo has always been, what is the core part of our business that users love us for? As she probably knew, fantasy sports is a big one, but unfortunately that's not going to be enough for a company as large as Yahoo. As a result, they bought up a bunch of startups to try and find more core-utility.

It's been fun to watch, but I'm with the crowd that says Yahoo can't really change and should just sell its core off. When the average consumer thinks internet, they're not thinking "oh thank god Yahoo is there", but without Google or Amazon -- two companies that can justify aggressive growth -- we'd be left with a shoddier internet and that's just the basic truth of it all.
Good comment!

I'm highly surprised by the skepticism, especially by 'Hacker News' readers, some comments read as if science is but an inconvenience.

Westerners don't live in complete isolation from the environment and other nations of the world.

Our air comes from our oceans (which are in-trouble), cheap goods that prop up modern consumer driven economies (very sadly) come from places which are already being hit hard by warming temperatures, deforestation and drought and mass migration events are already taking place.

More needs to be done.
I've been here for ages and it didn't occur to me to use the Web link to sneak past their sign up wall earlier today. I support no longer allowing submissions that require "one weird trick" just to read.
Here's how Google defines Cloud Functions: "Lightweight Event-based Microservices".

Google Cloud Functions is a lightweight, event-based, asynchronous compute solution that allows you to create small, single-purpose functions that respond to cloud events without the need to manage a server or a runtime environment.

Where is the reference to scripting?
I seem to remember reading about a service almost exactly like this not that long ago (~1 year maybe)? It failed.... Am I going crazy?
Vlad Zamfir, Greg Meredith, and Emin Gun Sirer are working on this for Ethereum's next consensus algo, Casper. Not aware that they've published anything on it yet though.
Another fine example!

In what ways do you see your comment as a good example of what I was saying?

How do you see the other comments in the thread as examples?
"We are on the third planet around a tediously boring star surrounded by other completely normal stars about two-thirds of the way along one of several arms of a remarkably average spiral galaxy."
About passive event listeners
Wikipedia claims that the entire galaxy can be traversed in ~1M years. Life on earth has been around for ~3.8G years. If life started somewhere in the galaxy a few million years earlier than that, and evolved into a spacefaring civilization, it's not too far fetched that they could either have already been here, or, if they are close enough, they could pick up our signals and come for a look-see.
Like Comcast, Google Fiber now forces customers into arbitration
I've done (almost) this at an Apple Store with their store app. It was surreal. ;-)
I _think_ http://cushionapp.com might be profitable. The founder has recently started using some freelancers to help with features but as far as I know it's still a one person company.

The founder writes about their experiences here: http://cushionapp.com/journal
The insane things people do in Bash sometimes...although I don't think anything can top the x86 Assembler that was written entirely in Bash:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2001-02/msg00054....
PDFBUDDY.com is one.