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> They're pretty plainly saying that 388,000 sites were trash.

> How else to interpret no "activity beyond an impression?"

I'd argue the reverse.

Sites that generate a consistently high click rate are optimizing for people to leave. Sometimes the click target is obscured, so you'll end up with a high bounce rate. At the end of the day: If you don't prove the relationship between clicks and acquisitions you're going to just fund ad fraud.

Meanwhile, if the ad is in-view, and your marketing team isn't an idiot and managed to get 30 or so impressions on someone in a month (and enough someones in your market) then you'll be able to detect (by surveying) an increased brand awareness and preference.

This could be valuable because I suspect a lot of people who are considering another credit card will call in on the deal they remember, after talking about it with their spouse, than will click on an ad.

Of course, Chase doesn't ask people why they are signing up, so the only attribution data they have is clicks and post-click signups.

> I could print their ads on toilet paper and have the same result.

Yes you could, but that says more about the tools they're using to measure the result than the usefulness of toilet paper.

In this case, someone looked at their sources breakdown in mediaocean, it said the pay-per-click stuff was a winner. Well no kidding.

And when I say probably, I should say: I've worked with the ZO guys on the Chase account in my past life. This is probably what happened.
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In addition you are more mission-flexible with the weight expended for fuel. It can be used to either soft land the stage, or give extra boost to a GEO mission or a heavier payload.
I find it troubling how many commenters here are so passive to automatic, mandatory payroll tax deductions, that they overlook how effective those payroll tax deductions actually are (and how Norquist is right, if for the wrong reasons).

Yes, government payroll deductions are convenient. Yes, all other things being the same, they make your average salaried worker's life easier. And yes, they absolutely mask how much you are paying in taxes, by softening the psychological impact of making an annual tax payment with money you earned, instead slowly pilfering the money from each paycheck. Most importantly, it ensures you never get to see that portion of the money you earned in the first place -- it doesn't hurt as bad to lose something you never really had.

I personally think this should have passed -- if nothing else, to force the IRS to reveal all the information it really has on you. However, the opposing argument has a point that shouldn't be dismissed as completely ridiculous, because a pretty indisputable side effect would be more apathy regarding taxes, which is not a good thing.
That's not at all the problem with EU democracy. I'm sorry but you've clearly not understood the issues even slightly, given such a long explanation that overlooks the actual problem. The EU can never solve its issues when people are so confused about it.

The reason the EU Parliament isn't democratic is that its members can't actually change the law, which means it isn't a Parliament at all. Because MEPs can't change EU law, they can't have any policies. Because they can't have any policies, their "politics" such that it is simply boils down to how pro or anti EU they are. Inevitably, given the uselessness of the EU Parliament as an institution, the vast majority of people who run for election to it are ideologically driven EU-philes who are true believers in the vision and just want to be close to it. This means it is worthless even as a check and balance, so people tune out, which is why nobody knows or cares who their MEP is.

Moreover, even despite this withered and pointless setup, the EU Parliament fails to even be open and democratic within its constitutional limits. Last year all EU law was made in secret "trilogue" meetings that don't formally exist, so you can't find out when they happen, get notes, find out who attended etc. These meetings are not mentioned in the treaties for obvious reasons, yet they now are how the EU makes law. Only North Korea and the EU make law in secret this way.

Yes ... even if all these problems were solved, the EU would still have the problem of being far too large. But there's a thousand major reforms needed before that becomes the top issue and the EU's deceptively named 'democracy' has gone backwards over time, not forwards.
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The most notable GPLv2 project is the Linux kernel, driven by a highly professional "community" of developers.
First comment from your link debunks the whole ordeal.
pv is for monitoring the progress of data going through a pipe, hardly related to dd.
there are few things you need to consider.

first is language. need to choose a familiar language.

second is feature set. they don't implement the same set of operators. but if you only want to use the common ones, most frameworks should have them.

the third is their ability to train in parallel. for example, does a framework support multiple machines? or just single machine, multiple gpus? Performance is also a factor. Do they support simd/gpu? do they generate intermittent code and compile it into cpp/cuda? or they just call into gpu libraries? Do you want to support mobile devices?

the fourth difference is the level of abstraction. if a framework is very low level, users need to understand many fundamentals of deep learning. but on the other hand, if you want to extend the framework to add new operators, a low level framework is easier to hack.

a high level framework lets you to write less code, but it hides details and makes it harder to hack.

the last thing that can be considered is the difference between dynamic/static framework. dynet and chainer and tensorflow with something called "fold" are dynamic frameworks. I was told they are more flexible. but I don't understand the details.
True. My scanner is second hand. It was given to me because its drivers were not compatible with windows 7 onward. Thanks to linux and open drivers, this scanner got a life extension of 6 years so far and it's still doin' great.
We've been controlling our fertility since the beginning of recorded history. There's a plant, silphium, that went extinct in the ancient Near East because it was overharvested as an effective abortifacient.
You could just have written "highly professional community of developers".
Yeah, I thought it was too good to be true.

I mean, I do have my original D2 1.0 disc... but I'm not sure it works on Windows 7 or not. I just thought this could be a re-release of sorts.

Now that I think of it... Blizzard is still patching D2 apparently. No reason to give it away for free I guess.

"Diablo II v1.14b Patch Notes (April 7, 2016)"

https://us.battle.net/forums/en/bnet/topic/20742964214
Once again, I get the feeling you know very little about the details of the EU.

The UK's attempt to join the (forerunner to the) EU was vetoed multiple times, by France. Your first sentence about how the EU "always wanted to have the UK on board" is factually and historically false. It never needed the UK to exist and it doesn't need it now.

As for "no hard feelings", tell that to your politicians, not us. Because they seem to think most so-called Europeans want the opposite.
Anyone to provide a bit of context ? I don't see how a brand new company can release an ide , plus a cross platform mobile sdk, plus a remote build environment, out of nowhere. I'd like to get the history behind this project.
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I understand the game theory, but I think politically, it would be easy to spin this as the EU being a bully who punishes you if you don't play with them, and many voters would prefer to tell such a bully to bugger off than to play along (indeed, a lot of the Leave campaign was already about how Brussels bullies Brits into doing things they don't want).
Is Poe's law making a fool of me, or do you truly believe this?
Ad exchanges do not usually charge the sites.

Ad exchanges usually charge a fixed rate on revenue (like 15% or 20%).

If the spend is the same, then the ad exchanges don't make any more money.

There are other middle men, like the audit companies and the impression counters, but they end up making less money because they usually charge by the volume of impressions: Since the same budget will be spent over a smaller number of sites, the prices for those sites will raise and the number of impressions will go down.

The only people who win are the publishers of those sites who now have more money for the same users.
I meant data doesn't always equal huge breakthrough. For example, theorems, neural networks, quantum physics, etc. existed long before data were available. Data helps, supercharges them, but that doesn't count as "breakthrough" for me (so, I have a very ambitious notion of breakthrough)
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Why would you need a new version every year? Does the tax code change that frequently?
This is non-news, when talking about Display Ads.

Relevant: http://www.businessinsider.com/its-more-likely-you-will-surv...
> They may oppose it ideologically, on the basis that the government should experience as much friction as possible in its efforts to fleece the populace. Such an ideological position is a valid reason to oppose this change.

Tax evasion is not a valid ideological policy. Tax minimization, fine, everyone is entitled to deduct as much as the tax code allows. Tax evasion is crossing the line into crime. That's literally always where the line has been drawn on taxes - "pay unto Caesar what is Caesar's".

If you don't like the tax policy, leave. It's part of the social contract - find somewhere to live where you agree with the social contract.

(and yes expatriation should be easier)
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> You seem very hostile to the UK generally. Weird given your last comparatively friendly comment

We'd better get used to this. Just look at statements by European politicians since the vote. Occasionally they make a token attempt to be friendly, and saying how of course everyone wants what's best for everyone, but then they go right back to talking about how awful it'll be for the UK and how it's like suicide, how they'd never be stupid enough to let people vote on the EU, etc.

My experience of anyone who thinks of themselves as "European" or a supporter of the EU is actually, when the surface is scratched, extremely angry and vicious. They want the UK to bleed and bleed hard, because they think if it doesn't their dream of a united European future will end. And they are correct: at this point the only thing holding the EU together is fear. They unfortunately don't see how dystopian this makes them.
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Comparative advantage. Self-sufficiency would make us all worse off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_advantage
I don't see how it was impossible for Remain to win. There was <4% margin; different turnout demographics could have swung it. I can imagine holding it a week earlier or later could have led to a different result.
Interesting way to see it. If anything, Chiang took all the humor out of Vonnegut's story, which made the ludicrous bearable by making us laugh as well as cry.
Why do people use this phrase?

Yes the planet's going to be fine, in the sense that a spherical mass will continue to orbit the sun.

But if every species but the cockroach is wiped out from runaway biological ecosystem collapse, is that really "being fine"?
Hi there, I work in advertising, and I absolutely use the EDNS0 data to track users. I'm okay with a 1:250ish potential error rate since outside of facebook and google, you probably don't go to the same websites as your neighbour.

Thanks for your hard work.
You're describing the future : 100% capitalistic society... I'm not sure I like it...
I didn't follow this bit (from
Part 2):

"This requires a bit more geometry. Recall from last time that we detect an intersection by constructing a right triangle between the camera origin and the center of the sphere. We can calculate the distance between the center of the sphere and the camera, and the distance between the camera and the right angle of our triangle. From there, we can use Pythagoras’ Theorem to calculate the length of the opposite side of the triangle. If the length is greater than the radius of the sphere, there is no intersection."

The two sides he describes have the camera in common - so the "opposite" side of that triangle is the line from the center of the sphere to the right angle - I don't see how this helps....

Edit: ok I finally get it but I think he should just label some of these lengths on the diagram with letters (a,b,c etc) and then just show how they are related by stating Pythagoras theorem explicitly...
I'd go with the recommendation from the FSF

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html

While Kyle Mitchell seems to discourage the use of the AGPL, the description on the FSF site seems to be pretty much what I as a developer who cares about free software would want for server software.
reusability is the key to commodity rockets. look at the car and how depreciation works, people will own a rockets after 5 owners for a ridiculously cheap price. at that point fuel will be the number one cost issue and the fuel source will charge.
When I read this "starve the beast" thing, I can't avoid to ask myself where this people think the money is coming from in the first place?

In order to tax, the government have to spend before.
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> I mean, what 400,000 sites do you think Chase was advertising on? Ones that really have to do with banking?

Hang on: ad placement is not based on page content but the viewers profile (constructed from search and browsing history, facilitated by tracking)

Right?
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... with 71,000 miles.
It's a shame MS-PL isn't on the list, it would be nice to see where it fits.
Lasik still has no 100% guarantee (and your vision might still get worse by mere aging). And to me it really doesn't matter whether I'll have the hassle of 0.5-1.5 corrective lenses or my current 6's.

And yeah, multifocal lenses are a thing. Even my regular ones are weighted, and you can do the same there to achieve the same results as regular bifocal glasses. Although I know someone who just has different corrections for each eye, which sounds a bit weird to me.
GNU ddrescue[1] and not dd_rescue[2]. I'm adding this precision because depending on the linux distros dd_rescue package name may be ddrescue and GNU ddrescue package name may be gddrescue.

[1]: http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
[2]: http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
I'd love for this to be true, though I remain skeptical as "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence"

For example, the chap who claimed he had built bird-like wings suitable for launching a human into the air[0] garnered a lot of attention until it was revealed to be a hoax [1].

Some similarities between the two videos. Low resolution. Lots of chopping and changing. Involves human flight - a naturally exciting area and excitement can suspend rationality.

[0]:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojSkxF6Qq_c
[1]:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newsvideo/weirdnewsvideo/915...
It reminds me of this story: "Connecticut bishops fight sex abuse bill" [1]

[1] http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/11/connecticut.abuse.bi...
> what will he do when trucks are suddenly driving themselves?

As paid work becomes less available, it hopefully becomes less integral to our picture of a fulfilled adult's life (particularly a fulfilled man's life). If that happens, I hope to see a huge uptick in reproductive work: people whose jobs have been automated away using their daytime to raise their children, care for their elderly, or serve their community.
The US oligarchy strikes again, even in California, crazy. It works in almost all Western countries. Filing my taxes takes about 15mins each year.
Wow the class from which this video is taken looks really interesting, and has more videos! Thanks for the link.

http://soft-dev.org/events/vmss16/
I thought dd could be used for this purpose and ended up with a dead drive and an unusable partial image. Now I know better and use GNU ddrescue.
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Yes, that article doesn't read much like "Lawyer's perception of open source licenses" and more like "Licenses liked by companies”. Companies don't like copyleft or responsibility, and want a clear patent clause, that's it.

The pain rating is "how difficult is compliance" and the confusion rating is "do I trivially understand the concepts" (and apparently copyleft is hard). It was a bit of a disappointing read as I was expecting some more analysis than one-line descriptions.

edit: that was probably a bit unfair of me, since the author has dissected several free software licenses on their blog in separate articles, which I recommend reading
Of course it's aimed at replacing people. We're just not fast enough compared to how many tasks are being piled on year after year.
i prefer to knew more about it.. but seem here down vote making me sad those coward downvoter.. maybe i will close this account..
That's kind of why the West is rich ... well it wasn't so natural but hundreds of years of on-going colonialism made it so.
The fundamental issue here is human behavior. Whatever system you come up with, people will come up with ways to turn it to their advantage.
He's not flying, he hasn't gone high enough to stop benefiting from the pushback from the ground. See also "Ground effect vehicle", "wing in ground effect", "ekranoplan"

Look out in this sort of video for the lack of sustained level flight at a height substantially over the width of the device/craft (1) if they can't stay at that level, it's not quite flying.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_(aerodynamics)

"When an aircraft flies at a ground level approximately at or below the length of the aircraft's wingspan or helicopter's rotor diameter ... an often noticeable ground effect. "
> I have a huge problem with the way some animals are tagged and tracked

What is the issue with this?
You seem to have missed the news that the privacy exposure you fear from the Obama regulation change being removed is already happening and has been since 2015. The Obama administration kept that privacy hole open and didn't submit a privacy regulation until three months ago, and it wouldn't take effect until next December at the earliest anyway.

Indeed, most people do not understand the reality of the subject at all.
A lot has changed in Poland trough past couple years especially for developers. You can now get decent salary in major cities. It's still not as good as in UK where you can have decent salary in cities with population of 30k+ but it's getting there, plus there is always Germany witch is close enough.

Quick story. I am working for small UK holidays company located in one of the biggest IT hubs outside of London. Our whole dev team is made up from non UK, EU citizens. Recently we had openings for mid backend dev and junior/mid frontend dev roles and only about 20% of CVs was from native UK citizens (mostly, highly under qualified even for junior role/couldn't pass FizzBuzz). Rest of candidates was mix of EU, visas and double citizenship and we ended up offering both positions to two EU citizens.

If UK government will ban employment of people from outside of UK or make it difficult or expensive then small companies like ours will not be able to operate.

I see that developers are looking more and more for jobs outside of the UK. Recruiters and EU employers also can see what is going on and I'm receiving more job offers from them, offering help with relocation outside of UK.
I would like an on-line version that can generate mp3 from supplied text. In English using a British accent. Female.

I have my reasons.
Ask HN: App screenshot on business card?
I want to put part of screenshot from our app on a business card. This would not be a personal card, but one to pass out to people so they get the idea of the app and then (hopefully) download it.

Has anyone done this and if so how was the response? Did it spur questions about the app? Do you think a screen shot is good enough quality to put on a business card?
On the flip side these guys have figured it out partially https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czy0pXRRZcs

Do I think the "iron man" suit can do more than hover? Not really. It is pretty cool nonetheless.
As long as you can set it on both ends it doesn't really matter. It's actually better for clients that the servers listen on 443.

If it conflicts then that means you're putting multiple services on your server. Don't.

Personally I've put dnscrypt on my regular dns servers, they only listen on 53.
Very cool. I think Tilly-Odlyzko did hint at cost interactions as well in their reference to spam. Curious why you agree with T-O in the nlog(n) valuation of networks, but judge that costs still grow quadratically? Surely not all negative interactions are equally negative to all members of a network? (an online bully doesn't bully everyone equally, etc.)
Why not using native dd parameter status=progress ?
> Outside of a Java-style high-level VM, cross-platform cross-architecture in the C world requires compilation.

Kind of.

On IBM i, C compiles to TIMI bytecode just like everything else. For producing actual native code directly from the compiler you need the Metal C compiler, or the POSIX compatibility environment (PASE).

The TenDRA C and C++ compilers also used bytecode (TenDRA Distribution Format).

http://www.tendra.org/tdf-guide
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What worries me about LASIK is that there is no agreed definition of what constitutes a successful surgery.

I see adverts with claims like "98% of our patients see 20/20 or better after surgery". I feel like this is disingenuous and taking advantage of the fact that "20/20" is perceived as the gold standard for vision.

In fact many glasses and contacts wearers achieve 20/15 or 20/10 vision after correction, so the advert is telling me nothing about my chances of my best-corrected vision after surgery being as good as it is now. Plus there's a chance that LASIK might leave me with good vision but other side effects like dryness or haloes. AND there's the 2% chance they actually admit to that I'll have worse than 20/20 vision.

I don't know, maybe some people are so happy to throw away their glasses for ever that they'll put up with slightly worse vision and other side effects. I'm just not sure yet whether I'm one of them.
If you dd'ed the wrong disk the syntax of your dd invocation was correct.
Regex101[1] does a pretty good job.

[1]: https://regex101.com/
Anarchism is a paradox though. Because it doesn't exist naturally. We always develop some kind of hierarchy. To do away with hierarchy, we need some kind of enforcement body. And how do we get that without some kind of hierarchy?

I'm kind of anarchic myself, in that I like decentralization of power and resources.

I think the key is to realize that no ideology will work by itself in its absolutist form. Rather we try to get close to it.

So the question to me is, how do we get relative equality without losing the benefits of companies like Google and Amazon.

It's a hard problem. Maybe we're already at the best compromise?