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AdSense was designed to help Google offload their abundance of keyword inventory. They have millions of people bidding on keywords. Web pages have keywords. So AdSense is a great tool to help them sell what they already have.

Adsense wasn't designed with increasing publisher revenue in mind. Google doesn't operate it as a primary business and the revenue ig make pales in comparison to search advertising. That's why they don't act like any sane business when it comes to customer service. Ads might stop working. They certainly won't give you answers as to why. You may make a lot of money or only a little this month. On the whole, they don't care.

Google has actually changed the name to "Google Display" and a lot of the ads that I see are retargeted. I don't know if this is actually increasing publisher revenues, but I would love to hear first hand about that from the HN community.

By and large, AdSense will work well for you if a high percentage (>60%) of the traffic to your site is based on search queries. It works best as an extension of the search advertising process. If you have a community or user generated content, then you'll need to find another solution.
We don't need to eat meat at all. It's a total luxury. You can get all the nutrients, protein etc from non-meat products.
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Thank you very much for your feedback, it really is the best part of the day when a user tells you they like the service!

It's perfectly fine if you prefer the bookmarklet over the extension, as we spent more time working on it (it affects more users)! We absolutely want to add a shortcut, but don't know how to do it in Chrome yet (some research is in order).

You can already search for time ranges (the syntax is a bit weird, though), it's "added:[2010-07-01T00:00:00Z TO 2010-08-01T00:00:00Z]", for example.

We are also planning to support better autocompletion, as well as bulk edits/deletions. I have never seen the text-only view, but it sounds like a good idea, I'll take a look now! As for the URLs, we also have historius.com and historious.net. Unfortunately we don't have historious.com for symmetry :/

Thanks again!
bustaname just uses a DNS lookup for an A record at the root of the domain. they say it's not 100% reliable but it's much faster than whois and i guess they don't want to use the zone file.
Circa 2000 I and another developer at my company implemented two systems which are very good examples of prior art for this patent. Both of those systems are still in use today, and I consider the mechanism to be a standard design pattern for robust SOA components. Reading the claims, the only ones that don't match what we did are the claims that say the system is implemented in Java; ours are C++ and Perl. That should be sufficient to invalidate the patent though, at least in a reasonable world.
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http://www.xkcd.org/743/
Nicholas Carr is a pundit, not a neuroscientist. He is paid to come up with neat and pretty ideas, not to be right.
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Disagree: Sun v. Microsoft was strictly a battle on a licensing contract, not a use of probably generic/bogus? patents against an independent piece of software. And the end result was pretty much the death of Microsoft's version of Java ("Visual Studio 2005 was the last release to include J#" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%2B%2B#Visual_J.23).

A similar outcome in SCOracle v. Google would be the capping and pretty fast death of Android....

"Regardless, Clojure will remain the best way to survive the twilight of the Java era."

Well, if you're a Lisp fan like me (some Common Lisp fans are fond of Armed Bear Common Lisp: http://common-lisp.net/project/armedbear/); others strenuously disagree from both the Lisp ("Clojure is a terrifying meld of a beloved character and an unreasoning alien onslaught. http://www.reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/aqcqx/how_a_common_lis...
) and non-Lisp camps.
This falls back to the discussion on what the role of a University education is. Personally I fundamentally disagree that Universities should be relegated to glorified career training and certification bodies. Why should universities deal with certifying that someone is "fit to enter the electrical engineering field as a working professional". Couldn't that be done cheaper and faster by some sort of professional society of electrical engineers?

A degree should be seen as a certification of knowledge, not a certification you are qualified to work in a certain field. There is nothing inherently wrong with going to university for love of learning and knowledge without focusing on what job it will lead to.

But you could easily never take a class or read a book on religion and go on to become an excellent businessman, scientist, engineer, inventor, programmer, musician, etc. And still read or talk or think about religion, in your free time, whenever you felt like it. And again, for free.

You can replace "religion" in the above statement with just about any other university subject and the statement will still be true. I'm not arguing that religion is necessary or important for everyone to study, just that it is a valid field of academic inquiry and study and as such very much belongs in a university setting.
Personally, I'm glad to see a site like this. I lack the insanity that most men have about finding a date. Sending 100s of messages to get back a single 'we're not compatible' is not my idea of fun. So I don't bother any more.

But this... Yeah, I'll probably get a lot of crazy women to weed through, but I think that's better than the other way.
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Not necessarily. I'm on 10.6, but that does not seem to help.
a decent deleted name could potentially cost more at auction as buying from a squatter.
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Very good. The patents described really are laughable. An implementation of "fork"? Really?
With adsense I was making a very poor return as click-through rates were quite low (it's a discussion forum).

However I've got some advertisers really pushing to get in front of the audience for page impressions and exposure rather than click-thru.

Basically the market I have is niche, and represents the largest site on a given subculture (fixed gear cycling). This subculture happens to be very cool at the moment so even beyond those wishing to advertise bike products to the community I've been approached by EMI Music, Adidas, Puma, etc all to put adverts on the site.

I was going to just operate an intra-community rate to help support the cottage industries (sole traders who make custom courier bags for example) at a low rate. But now I've got very large brands wanting to put adverts on the site it's beyond the amount I can control, yet they are perfectly happy paying full market rate to get the brand exposure into this hard to reach niche crowd.

So basically... for me, for my site, self-serving is incredibly lucrative.

It's just that I have a full-time job, am doing an MSc in the evening, run several web-sites and am trying to keep a social life intact and a partner happy. So whilst self-serving is lucrative my trade-off is that time for my is very expensive. So I need as near to full automation as possible to take all this lovely money off the table and to put it into the community coffers.

I'm estimating it's worth at a low-end GBP 500 per month, and at an upper end GBP 4k+ per month if all of the slots are purchased by large brands. So yes, it's way in excess of what AdSense click-throughs will generate, and all because those who want to advertise on my site value exposure and eyeballs more than click-throughs... we're just hard to reach.
I did the same. But I seriously considered investing the money instead of paying it back, and earning a bit off it instead. I would have -just- paid it back before the stock market crash. I'm glad I didn't take the chance, and I wouldn't in the future, either.
Want to get on invite list of private startup/developer networking events?
the linear, literary mind has been at the centre of art

Books can be non-linear. Ever read Cryptonomicon?
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A newer link on the same topic: http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec19.html
Agree with the criticism of the article, disagree with the title of the post - you'll find dumb opinions in every newspaper, magazine and book in the world, oh and on the internet too. (Personally I'm a Guardian reader, though I have a subscription to Times online that I rarely use.)

From personal experience, I'd say that the internet has made me read less books, just because there are many things I tend to prioritise above them... but when I do find the time I can still get through them in exactly the same way I did when I was ten years old, and in the week that I spend every year in the countryside with no internet, and all data on my blackberry disabled, I get through books as fast as anything (maybe I should count how many I read in a week when I go away next month).

edit: Comment from The Times site:

"Very interesting article. I use the Internet extensively for research and I tend to agree with the writer's analysis of how this can affect concentration. However, I am not part of the "younger generation" so I still live in many ways according to the pre-Internet era."

Amazing that she's able to agree with the point while claiming that she herself isn't affected...
> Ad sales is an active pursuit. If you're waiting for people to find you, you're doing it wrong. If you're expecting advertisers to know what space to buy, you're doing it wrong. If you're not thinking in terms of campaigns and strategy, you're doing it wrong. If you're not pursuing ongoing relationships with agencies, you're doing it wrong.

Ok, sounds fair. How do you go about doing that? I have a site, http://langpop.com that could use some better advertising than AdSense, but I don't have a very good idea about how to track someone down that would pay to advertise on it.

I have some other sites where there's a more direct connection that I could make between who might want to advertise, and thus chase those deals a little bit more easily, but with that, and others that I've done, selling ads just isn't in my repertoir of skills. You've convinced me that either it should be or I should find someone who is good at it... any ideas how? AdSense is very easy to get started with.
>President Obama has already signed over 200 bills into law, including one so large and complicated it took over 50 years of unsuccessful attempts: healthcare.

I will believe it when I see it. Right now, the situation is that nobody will sell me health insurance /at any price/ and the things that are wrong with me are really pretty minor. The health plan says this won't be a problem in 2014.

Then, the people this bill was really meant to help are screaming bloody murder because they are now going to have to pay for health insurance. the thing is, most people are just getting by. Sure the bill provides help for low-income folks, but people worry they might not meet the low-income cut off, what with the payments on the truck and the house.

So yeah, I'll be /very/ surprised if this actually goes in to effect. My personal plan is to try to get a group plan for prgmr.com; I've gotta bring nick on full time anyhow, so I might as well.
I remember using Windows 98 Light Edition or something. It was a hacked version of Windows with IE surgically removed. As fast and stable as Windows 95! :p
I second that. Can't beat Magento for eCommerce.
Because it doesn't add anything useful to the mix - nginx's cache works just fine.
Two words: "64 bits". Last time I checked ARM is resolutely 32 bits and 2 years isn't enough time to produce a 64 bit version. That said, if their first offering is successful that might be enough prompt doing the work to expand ARM to 64 bits.

It's also clear they're so new they haven't even done an IP check on their name: http://www.smoothstone.com/about-us
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This is easy to fix, just stop aging... oh, wait.
Anyone got any links to good guides for getting into Vim if you are a Visual Studio user at present?

I keep hearing people talking about Vim and how it will change your life, mannn. Is there a good beginners guide?
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This might be most popular setup right now, but I wouldn't consider it the best practice. Why in the world would you use both nginx and varnish?
You understand incorrectly. Dalvik is a register based VM, unlike the stack based JVM (and most other byte code VMs I've heard of). There's a JVM to Dalvik byte code translator, but that's not hardly the same thing.
> The tones in Chinese really fuck with someone whose native language isn't tonal (and most aren't),

I speak Chinese by learning the sounds of words, but not the tones, in my active learning. If I speak quickly, in complete contextual sentences, using two-syllable words (instead of the one-syllable ones), then people generally understand me. I learn the tones passively afterwards.

> and wouldn't you rather become literate by learning 26-30 symbols than by learning thousands of symbols?

Most Chinese symbols are made up of components, of which there's about 400 to 600, depending on how you count them. E.g. the one character 解 is made up of four components 勹用刀牛.

> but you've got a relatively strict word order,

Introductory lessons in Chinese only present the standard word order, but, like in English, you can arrange the content words of a sentence in many different orders depending on what you want to make thematic or focus on.
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I just tried some things like Obama and thought that it would have something on that. Oh well. :)
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Your kind of thinking is what makes Dubai (and many other parts of the world) such a bad place to live ..
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What Do You Do When Urgent Things Are Resolved?
Every day we are facing some deadlines. We have to deal with them as a matter of priority. Big question which I have is what next? What will you do next when all urgent things are done, the pressure is gone and you still have a bit of time? You should focus on things which can have significant impact on your effectiveness and work quality.Effective people know how to distinguish tasks which are important and really matter, they know how to “put first things first”. They are proactively looking for opportunities to to get better. Are you one of them?
A version I was told to think about was competing travel agents. At each step they need to find a better solution or know when to stop looking. It's still not quite there "given the [graph and] costs and a number x, decide whether there is a round-trip route cheaper than x" but if you are handed a graph you can say it's shorter and then give it as the answer. The difference is there may be approaches that prove there is a shorter path, without finding it.

However, the mental model is vary close to the generic solution because someone can hand you the 2nd best solution which looks nothing like the best solution and you still need to find it. Where if you are handed the best solution they may be a shortcut to proving it's the best.

PS: The Clique problem always seemed like the version where shortcuts seemed most obvious. But, understanding why they fail is a larger mental jump IMO than NP Hard TSP to NP Complete TSP.
Call me cynical, but it perhaps the equity owners want to cash out before the company kills itself with subscription services.
Hallicrafters S-27 ftw!

As one of my EE professors stated, "In RADAR, the odds are stacked in favor of the jammer". While this isn't radar similar principles apply.
My father makes about $400.00 a month from adsense. He's been working with it for at least a year, and he'll probably be making five as much as that in another year.
Because until 0.7 nginx lacked a caching system, and so it made sense to use both. Now it doesn't.
Nicholas Carr is a technophobe, bordering on Luddite, and has been for as long as I have been reading him. It's not just this focus - the alleged harm of modern technology to the way we think - but he also attacked the idea that IT could ever be a sustainable advantage to businesses (Does IT Matter / IT Doesn't Matter). He seems to try to turn everything he reads against technological change for the sake of fighting technological change itself, rather than because of a unifying reason.
Real Men don't use atoms to get things done; they post them on twitter and have their friends hassle them to do it?

With apologies to Linus
"That's the real value-add of ad-supported media, the content itself is just a hook to attract and retain the right demographic."

I'd like to point out that this must also be true of the content you yourself are currently reading. HN is a hook to attract and retain potential YC candidates.
I'm 30 and I have no difficulty reading long books, nor watching Bladerunner. Actually I prefer long, slow-paced movies, especially the kind Sergio Leone made. And I've been doing this computer business since at least the age of 11.

There's a risk of bias confirmation here. Seek and ye shall find: you look for what you agree with, and you'll find it. You need to look for counterexamples too.
There is no reason to build buildings that tall when land is so cheap around it. And not just closer to the desert but also to the north and south. Just looking at the place you can see poor economic choices being made.

For comparison the strip in las vegas is basicly a tourist trap in the middle of the desert http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=las+vegas&ie=UTF... but it still has plenty of support around it. http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=las+vegas&um=1&#...
Unfortunately the downloadable product seems to be close to dead. There have been serious security problems that have not been addressed for many months. Take a look at the forum to see what I mean. Their server side product must be their focus.
I'd highly recommend Spree (http://spreecommerce.com/tour). It's based around the payment processor that Shopify uses, and it supports a lot of the more advanced Google Analytics features.
This is a good quality PHP, self-hosted A/B testing system. It's free and it works well.

http://robisit.com/8n

This is a very flexible way to accomplish A/B testing and since everything is hosted on your own site, you don't need to worry about any other variables finding their way into your tests such as additional load time. It integrates seamlessly with Google Analytics and can perform true multi-variative testing.
"Hello, Easy job for me". This thing is hilarious.
That's a shame. I'd heard good things about it in the past. I believe Google are investing in their admanager product with the doubleclick acquisition, but I haven't heard anything about it recently: https://www.google.com/intl/en_US/dfp/info/welcome.html
Probably because it's not his main focus the author leaves out how severely restricted the GPLv2 based Sun/Oracle license of its version of Java is, as well as how it can prevent compliance by refusing to license a Java Technology Compatibility Kit as the Apache Harmony project found out.
Yes, but I'd rather mention Rayuela as example.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch_(Julio_Cort%C3%A1zar_...
Caterpillar - A PHP Web Crawler using parallel requests
I created this library awhile back to be called from the CLI as a cronjob. The sole purpose is to crawl your entire domain and create a database of all pages, inbound link counts, last modified times, etc. This data can then be used by a separate script for statistical data or generating a sitemap XML file. The inbound links count gives you the capability of adding priorities to your sitemap file. The last modified time gives you a fairly accurate depiction of when the content was last updated for the sitemap file as well. This is a huge step up for sites with dynamic data that don't have any form of modified timestamp association.

The largest site I tested this on had ~500 pages. I would recommend you have your memory_limit to at least 32MB in php.ini as the crawler can be fairly memory intensive when it spawns 5 parallel processes for crawling. I did some fairly extensive optimizations to keep the memory limit down; if you spot anything that could be improved upon please let me know.
It is interesting to see this article today as the South African president has just used Russia as an example, to defend his attitude to the media (more about that below). As a South African, reading stories like this is frightening, since we seem to be embracing a trajectory that could lead us the same way.

While corruption is pretty high, it doesn't impact most people's day-to-day lives. However, serious institutional problems are becoming apparent: there have been cases where company directors have been removed by politically connected individuals, due to corruption at the government agency that registers companies. Significant amounts of real estate have been stolen due to corruption at the deeds office. And mineral rights are being seized because of weak controls at the government department that regulates these rights. In one case last week, a listed steelmaker was forced to buy mineral rights from a group of politically connected at a huge premium. All of these have been widely reported in the media, but that is where the problems start.

South Africa's media and constitution generally allow for free expression, but, a few weeks ago a newspaper was launched with an explicitly pro-ruling party stance (by some of the same people who benefitted from the steel shakedown described above). At the same time, proposals were released for a statuatory tribunal to regulate the print media (South Africa already has libel laws, so this has been interpreted as an opportunity to muzzle the press). The government is also pushing an act that would allow government officials broad powers to classify information. And a journalist was dramatically jailed (on what seem to be trumped up charges) by an elite police unit, days after reporting on a huge, and apparently irregular lease made by the Police Commissioner, again with a politically connected individual.

Will South Africa lose whatever gains it has made and follow the path of Russia? I hope not, but I am becoming increasingly pessimistic.
I read this last week and promptly expunged it from my brain. Any "Ten Reasons..." list should be automatically suspect.
Why Dubai rather than somewhere else cheap? Unless you are going just to see some place foreign (which is a valid reason to move elsewhere) I think that as another poster said, the midwestern states of the US might be the cheapest place to live, if you count the costs involved with adapting to a foreign place (I'm assuming you are an American)
To be fair, the algorithm for solving this problem is trivial (but it doesn't run in polynomial time). Still hilarious :D