skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's really hard to ever be able to say, "More people came to our store because we ran an ad."

Offline attribution and targeting based on offline intent is totally a thing that companies do today.
The obvious place to put it is an online learning platform, just googling "create online course" shows a dozen different websites with various monetization options.

Or you could do unlisted YouTube videos and a simple pay site. Or Vimeo has some embedding options.

The main problem I see is product differentiation, e.g. MIT has a computer security course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqmQg-cszw4&list=PLUl4u3cNGP.... If someone wants to learn they'd probably watch something like that instead of your course.
As I recall it doesn't even need to be $500k upfront, you have to (show/prove) you'll invest that and generate jobs in a couple of years.
The sites were delisted from search engines despite content moderation being put in place. That is deplatforming.

The adult content was put behind a mature section where ads weren't run against the mature content.

LiveVideo and the parents companies network of sites were deplatformed from search results.

Delisting competitors from search results who are meeting all of the requirements of their advertising policies at the time is the issue. The mature content was moderated and put behind mature content filters.
and you'll have to GTFO the US within (IIRC) 2 weeks.

I think there was a grace period of 60 days introduced in 2017 though I am not sure on the status of it now.
Both the name of the company (iqlusion) and the name of the framework (Abscissa) are references to the encrypted Kryptos sculpture on the grounds of the Central Intelligence Agency. Its first plain text message says,

> BETWEEN SUBTLE SHADING AND THE ABSENCE OF LIGHT LIES THE NUANCE OF IQLUSION

The second message is encrypted with the key "ABSCISSA".
Maybe it should be a bidding process ;)

Want the spot, spots are starting at 120k...
Depends on what it is. Even the little fans in desktop computers now are BLDC now, with the controller fitting on a tiny PCB inside the hub of the fan. They're simpler versions, though, with hall-effect feedback rather than an encoder. The power electronics these days are dirt cheap.
Where in this article does it cite "electronic jamming"? Just curious where the title is from here as it doesn't seem to match the article
Dailymotion is still there as well (although I find their product really inferior to the competitors)
>Compete with youtube

I admire the spirit. It's right up there with lets see who we can attack....hmm...US military...yeah they seem about the right size as a worthy opponent.
Can we expand this question to include other so-called NewSQL database technologies like TiDB, YugaByte, NuoDB, Citus, etc.?
That's the low quality untargeted ad each time.
Let's just agree that anyone's drones are completely fair game for anyone else with the means to destroy them. Their destruction is not justification for anything other than a claim for damages in court.
Time for a new Senate then?
In what situation that you can conjure up is being forcibly reduced to HTTP distinguishable from being down?

Like, how does it happen, ever?

And what happens to your users' credentials if you do?
I'm not an expert and I would love for someone to tell me I'm wrong. Having said that I think what I wrote in the previous post is wrong, Amazon going to $0 would clearly entail some wealth destruction, namely at least the amount that was raised in the IPO and any further issuing of stock (options not included since they only dilute). But besides that any temporary increase in the stock's value, is not equivalent to each stockholder getting an equivalent amount of cash (which was what the OP claimed and what I assumed he meant with wealth creation/destruction) just as a decrease in the stock price is not the same as an overall decrease in money in the population. Some people sell at a high or at any price above the price of the IPO/ price at which money was raised, which captures some of the temporary increase, any loss that includes the money that was actually raised by Amazon would be actual wealth destruction (cash losses), but I don't see how the rest of those losses would also correspond to actual cash losses.
I agree with most of your comment, but Youtube also had copyright problems at that time. Viacom sued them for $1 billion in 2007 (settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in 2014).
It protects privacy for the masses in the countries where most techies live, which is what most of us were paying attention to.

In places like Kazakhstan and China it's a harder problem, and HTTPS is necessary but not sufficient to solve it.
It's unfair, but also pretty decent. For my part I've often wondered if design patterns being such a big deal in OOP is really a failing of the object oriented paradigm itself, or if it's just a reflection of how, ironically enough, popular object-oriented languages tend to be really, really bad at polymorphism. You're right, Smalltalk looms large here.
Your critique of design patterns is driven by the exact same thing that causes people to copy inappropriate implementations from one language to another: you both believe design patterns have something to do with the technical means instead of the design choice. The strategy pattern has nothing to do worth first class functions. It has to do with designs in which you delegate a decision to the consumer of an API. The moment I start seeing the majority of projects in dynamic languages do that instead of passing around a massive bag of options in every API call, I’ll believe that these languages have grown out of the need for specific named components of software design.
SaaS Benchmarks
As a SaaS solopreneur and bootstrapper, my hardest challenge is to find the low hanging fruit. Ideas to increase growth are endless and they all sound great. Which ones are going to yield the best results with the least effort in the least time?

I like to use benchmarks of other SaaS companies to find the low hanging fruit. I look at which of my metrics are the lowest compared to the benchmarks and assume they'll be the easiest to improve.

But benchmarks are hard to come by. Participate in this survey and I will publish the results when I get a reasonable number of responses.

Only SaaS companies, please!

Survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FKQ6HW6
Golang or Rust don’t fit the bill?

Ahh they are looking at Rust next.
I am just astonished at how bad HBO/Warners' ability to brand these things is.

Currently they have two streaming services, HBO GO and HBO NOW, both of which stream the same programming (whatever's on HBO) but are different because one's for people who subscribe to HBO on cable and the other is for everyone else. The services have easily mixed-up names that have nothing to do with the difference between them, and practically identical logos/icons, so it's super easy for new users to get confused about which one they actually want.

Warner's solution to this confusion is to add a third streaming service, also branded with the HBO name, but not having any connection to HBO beyond carrying some of its programming. If you already have HBO GO or HBO NOW, that subscription doesn't mean you can access HBO MAX; as far as I can see it doesn't even earn you a discount on it. And if you're coming to HBO as a cord-cutter, now instead of there at least being only one choice that's right for you, you now have to choose between HBO NOW and HBO MAX -- and they don't even do you the courtesy of at least clearly positioning MAX as "everything on HBO plus some more stuff" so the choice can be simplified to "just HBO" vs. "HBO++".

If you were going to set out to intentionally design a menu of streaming services that was as confusing as possible to the customer, you'd be hard pressed to do better than this...
> "the big tech companies don't really touch porn."

Isn't that the case because mainstream American advertisers don't want anything to do with it? I don't think it's a matter of west coast tech companies being prudes, but rather tech companies appeasing big consumer goods companies that spend billions on advertising, like P&G, J&J, PepsiCo, etc. And those companies are in turn likely appeasing 'middle america' by trying to keep their brands as bland and "family friendly" as possible.

Edit: (And now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure Amazon sells pornography, so that's one of the big tech companies at least that is willing to. And I don't think it's a coincidence that advertising from those big consumer goods companies isn't nearly as important to Amazon... Then again Amazon doesn't allow nudity on twitch, which perhaps could be considered roughly analogous to Google's similar ban of pornography on youtube. Perhaps twitch, as a consumer brand, is subject to the same social pressures from the American public as PepsiCo?)
Disclaimer: It's been over 2 years since I used Grindr/Scruff/etc.

Grindr is a truly terrible app. Not because it allows men to hookup with other men but because it is just a very badly designed app. It would go for YEARS with barely a change at all then they would add some stupid useless feature that was a direct copy from Scruff (and friends).

It was impossible to manage your conversations, there was a constant stream of new messages and if you deleted a message thread you lost ALL the history. This means you could either delete threads of people you weren't interested in so you could keep track of the ones you were but then if you got messaged again by someone you deleted it was impossible to know if you had talked to them before. It was extremely frustrating to use.

I didn't like to delete messages because often a profile picture would be blank or a (misleading) torso/other. Then in the thread the person would send me pictures and I would know that I had talked to them and wasn't interested. The number of people who signed on, created an account, "got off", deleted the app, then created a new account the next time they logged on was STAGGERING.

The problem was that if I wasn't interesting in them and deleted the message then the next time they messaged me I wouldn't have any of those pictures/chats to remember who they were. It was a catch-22, either clean up your message threads and risk have the SAME conversation over and over again OR keep all your message threads and make it impossible to find the threads of people you wanted to talk to.

Also IIRC, Grindr would SCROLL TO THE TOP of your messages when you backed out of a thread. This meant if you were searching for someone with a non-obvious/blank profile picture you would scroll down, click on one, see the chats and know it's the wrong person, then have to remember how far you had scrolled down so you could go that far then keep looking. It was infuriating to use the app.

Couple all of that with the spam, harassment, new account creation to evade blocks, pissed off people because you weren't interested in fucking them, confusing UI/UX, inconsistent push notifications for paid accounts, and more.... I fucking hate Grindr. At least Scruff had a nice UI and tools/features that I actually liked using but the user-base.... Grindr DWARFED Scruff's user-base, it's why on Scruff you would stay "on the grid" for like 24 hours after opening the app while on Grindr it would be like 1hr. They had to make it seem like there were more people than there were.

I sincerely hope that my days of gay hookup apps are 100% behind me. It's a a cesspool that I never want to set foot in again. That said... If I ever become single again I'll probably be back. For all it's failings it's where I met my BF.
World governments will most certainly not adopt this view when their drone is shot down.
a merge to master should only be done after a review, eg. PR is accepted by X reviewers which most likely happens only during working hours. Not sure I understand your policy, people randomly committing/pushing to master without review is not a good idea at any time.
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This is why people want Alphabet to be split up. Google is leveraging their monopoly position in online advertising to benefit their monopoly position in online video, as well as their monopoly position in online search.
I wonder why Patreon doesn't have annual subscriptions.
Unless it's immediately adjacent to other communities, 5,000 total population is indeed very rural. I've also lived in Belfair, WA which is <4,000 and isolated. [1].

The fiftieth largest high school stadium in Texas seats more than 2x that number. [2]

Yellowstone National Park staffs that many people during the summer. [3]

So, yeah, that's small.

I understand why actually rural communities are popular for only a few people. But there's a lot that available between 10 people/sqmi farmland and NY/LA/DC/SF/Chicago metro area. Yet, big cities are still exploding. Because people like them.

[1] https://suburbanstats.org/population/washington/how-many-peo...

[2] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-largest-high-school-...

[3] https://www.nps.gov/yell/planyourvisit/parkfacts.htm
The last sentence of the post:

> In our next post, we’ll explore why we think the Rust programming language is currently the best choice for the industry to adopt whenever possible due to its ability to write systems-level programs in a memory-safe way.
Oh, I use undo in my editor for that kind of thing. But I guess if you want to make large changes, this might be one way of doing it. Pretty sure that's what 'git stash/pop' is supposed to be used for, but I don't use those either so I wouldn't know if that works well.
I don't think this solution makes sense. I agree that , from an ethical standpoint, there should to be better protections for H1B holders. But giving everyone free reign to change jobs is also ripe for abusing the system and possibly flooding the market without a general way to gauge need for that particular H1B applicant's skillset.

Currently, the process is that you need to find a company that is willing to sponsor you, then that company needs to file paperwork with the government to explain the wages, job description, etc. And then this application is either accepted or rejected based on whatever guidelines they use[1].

If we keep this situation and start allow workers to move around wherever they want, the company just ate the paperwork legal costs and the role they hired for might not even stay filled for long, prompting them to redo the process.

[1] https://www.immi-usa.com/h1b-application-process-step-by-ste...
That's not anywhere near enough. The guy who can pay is worth way more than the guy who can't pay. The $1 is the arithmetic mean but the distribution isn't uniform.
Really appreciate the responses. I'm working on a much much simpler use case for a client that has only thousands, not millions of data points. Perhaps your paper could simplify/shrink your data and/or output to illustrate the key points. Cheers.
Google is behind tesseract[0], not sure if they use this for Google Cloud Vision OCR

[0]: https://opensource.google.com/projects/tesseract
My app, Quotable, uses Azure if you were curious about perf. Works great!
First of all, Brilliant!

OK, so a lot is going on here, if I am understanding this correctly:

1) IE 1.5 is displaying and updating an image.
2) Image is from a screenshot of a current version of Chrome, running on another machine
3) Image gives the impression that you're running Chrome locally.
4) Mouse clicks and keystrokes are transferred from IE to that remote version of Chrome, and Chrome screens are transferred back (as Images) in response.

Net effect is that you've got new Chrome functionality inside of old Windows 3.51... Nice!

(Observation: It might make sense to bypass IE 1.5 altogether, and just write a simple VNC-like program that shows images from remote and sends clicks and keystrokes, but this would be great for NT 3.51 if the user didn't want to install any other programs...)

But... all in all, brilliant!!!
The only company competing successfully with google is facebook, and they are both giant ad factories that will violate your privacy without batting an eye. Wondering if there is a ceiling in how much revenue an ad company can make using reasonable methods to generate revenue, and there just is no other way but by pushing crap to our browsers.

So to compete and beat facebook and google one has to be good at the ad game not just the content game.

Whoever thought google will allow a competitor to use google’s own platform to grow and threaten their own video ad stream should probs not be in a company’s board for a while.
I'm talking about hard problems. A proof for such a program you suggest is trivial and probably not worth knowing. A program is a proof that there exists a type which satisfies a proposition. Not all propositions are interesting and neither are all programs.
Marketers care about performance. Targeting allows for higher performance. If I ran a baby product company, I want to target people with babies or who are expecting.
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Summary of claims from the interview:

Live Video was a more successful video platform in the mid 2000s until Google bought YouTube and leveraged their monopoly on search and ads to cut off traffic to Live Video. They also paid content creators to leave Live Video and sign exclusive contracts with the cash Google injected to the company. The only reason Justin TV survived is that they pivoted to gaming to avoid competing with YouTube.
> "But it's like nuclear weapons, yeah? We are the only ones who can be trusted with them."

i assume this is part of the tongue-in-cheek, as ours is the only country to use nuclear bombs in war, so history is against trusting "our side" (generally don't like dichotomizing, but doing so here for expediency). with that said, our political institutions have so far been resiliant enough to resist the "mad man with red button" scenario, even with some poor choices of chief executives.

in any case, i generally agree that none of these companies really deserves our trust, regardless of political or geographic affiliation. like tv/internet providers or mobile telecom, vigilance is warranted as they should be considered hostile actors (in that they don't share your interests, not literally violence).
> most crimes aren't throughly-planned, well-executed Hollywood-grade bank heists

And this is why Crime and Punishment is an ageless masterpiece of literature.
> What's the case for building these kinds of systems in 2019? I would love to hear your perceptive on this.

The business case has become very tenuous at this point. Because of the dominance of Google and FB + the increased pressure from regulators on privacy, most third party companies are getting crushed. GDPR increased the market position of Google which also gives them less incentive to do behavioral targeting as it's legally riskier, and they don't need it to beat the competition on ad spend as they control publishers inventory. So they'll probably push more in the direction of AMP and controlling content.

What I expect in the coming decade is a regression to "the old world" of TV advertising: ads are going to become spammier and spammier as it's going to become increasingly difficult to collect and use data to make them relevant. And big players won't have an incentive to do so because they'll control content even more.

So I expect even more HN hate for ads :)
> 2 - BTC mixers will not protect you. Correlating one single wallet with you will make it possible to them retrace the entire history.

Nothing new here. I thought transparent history was one of the main points of distributed ledgers. BTC was never meant to be anonymous
If your code base requires a genius to keep it running, it's shitty code. I don't know how much Bismark is to blame for this (probably not very), but I don't really see it as a point in his favour that the whole thing fell apart the minute he left the building.
exactly. It makes too much sense. Which is why it needs to happen, Canada has a skilled worker program and they give you a green card when you arrive. America doesn't need a visa designation in my opinion, just copy the skilled worker designation from Canada and you're there.
I visited some telescopes there 2 months ago. The researchers are doing a fantastic job. The place has no life on it, it's barren due to the altitude and the lack of oxygen. No animal, plant or human ever ever lived up there. Those observatories are mostly remote-controlled and only 4 researchers were up there to monitor the 13 observatories the day we went.
Ironically, the largest traffic going up there are actually people going there to take instagram pictures about the sacred mountain.

So sad that a very unique scientific spot, with very high altitude in the middle of an ocean is getting in trouble for religious motives.
>Religion was created as a tool to control people and explain natural disasters.

Mythology and religion also orignally served the role of upholding a unified value system and conception of reality which is critical for social cohesion and survival.
It is mentioned in this article.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/trump-us-destroyed-i...
It's really nice to see Rust gaining traction with some big names.

Also, here's a great talk that highlights Rust and memory safety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDFSrVhnZKo&t=923s. It's a video I frequent every couple of months.
I love the audacity of humans setting up laws to regulate space. Hilarious levels of hubris.
Seems to be the stance both sides here are taking - a big factor in the US not responding to the shootdown a few weeks back is that it was just a drone.
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I thought Facebook was a passing fad.
They presumably first read an article on another site such as CNN that mentions electronic jamming: https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/trump-us-destroyed-i... but then decided to share an article based on it from a particular well known source such as WSJ in this case, that happens not to mention what they included in the title. So yes, the person should have shared the actual article they read and that they based on the title on.
I agree. Spies, when detected, are often killed by the country they are operating in. Why should the machinery of a drone have a higher value on it than human life?
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I have a pretty hard time believing it contextual ads works just as well as targeted ads because the ONLY time an ads ever worked for me, was because it was targeted.

When the netbook trends started, I was interested in buying one. I made a few research on the subject but once done, that was it. A few days later, I got a Best Buy ads about the exact netbook I searched about and the price was great and I bought it.

It wouldn't have happened if it was contextual. Sure it may have happened that later on I would have got an ads of that netbook on a technology website, but it would have been one out of thousands.

People keep doing re-marketing campaigns. Theses have to provide a better return than normal advertising or else why would you do the effort? That show right there that targeting works.
The linked article doesn't mention it.

CNN reports[1]:
The drone was destroyed using electronic jamming, according to a US defense official

1 - https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/18/politics/trump-us-destroyed-i...
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