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Clearly not everyone on the internet acts on that knowledge which is why frequently asking people visiting your website to click on ads does increase the number of (unfortunately worthless to the advertiser) clicks.

Google doesn't prevent you from discussing how AdSense works in general.

What you cannot do is to specifically ask people to click on ads on your website.

The underlaying premise is not that people are ignorant but that they will do the things you ask them to do.
Cloud is a good product. But it basically just resell AMZN ec2 instances and doesn't provide the simplicity of Heroku. I switched from EY to Opscode's Platform and it's both much cheaper and much more powerful.

edit: ok, I love engineyard and the people there. I'm really sorry to say that EY cloud is not actually a good product. I despise it. Probably the worst tool I've ever used to deploy rails.
There is also cost of your time for the coffee and whatever may follow, as well as material costs (potentially high when dealing with upper-echelon), so it is not an outright win situation.
#FTW! then was making the thing pop sounds and draw :)
While EngineYard is cloud Ruby hosting, they actually offer a very different product. Heroku is like "Accept a few limitations, never worry about anything," while EngineYard is like "Don't worry about ever writing Chef scripts again."

I deployed to both today.
I like it! I'll keep that on my radar.
I wonder how many rejections a man would have to face to develop a "cockiness shield", to continue pursuing and hitting on women no matter how rejected he becomes. After all, it's a small effort for a potentially good returns.

With practice he could certainly toughen up with regard to that but I think that by doing so he would inevitably have shut out part of his heart. Getting rejected by a woman is hard for a man. H-a-r-d. It might very well be that once he successfully hits on a woman he finds interesting, he might have a hard time softening down to something resembling an emotional human being capable of falling into love and a loving relationship.
Can you list some of the examples? I actually personally find that instinct to be true in almost all cases, but would be happy to be wrong about it.
I did note that MS is not listed as one of the defendants.Odd as I'm sure a cursory look would find an infringement of some sort.
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Why are you posting here, and not the actual website? It's less likely that the author of the post will read it.
It's fun. It's a whole lot of fun, in fact. Mind you, I've never released any (I did release a metamorphic code engine for .NET some years ago, but that's the closest I've come), but it's really fun to think through it and come up with clever ideas. It also helps you gain perspective for the security side of things.
The issue is precisely this. You're making an assumption about my coding history which is entirely unfounded and apparently based on my age. You are right, I have not coded in Java for a company for 35 [sic] years. My good friend Bob has not coded at a company in Haskell for even 2 years. I'm not sure what your point is. I have done mundane, boring, "customer databases in Java"-esque programming before, but again, I don't see how it is relevant.
This just kills me. I run a nonprofit building open tech for the music industry. While we're not without reach or connections, but it's still challenging as hell. No investors, a long road to true 501(c)3 status, and the reality is that finding millions from a wealthy benefactor doesn't happen for most.

I guess my point is that most startup nonprofits don't get the benefit of healthy salaries or even seed money. It's a labor of love — not unlike any entrepreneurial venture, but without the potential payout at the end of the road. I think new and innovative nonprofits have a real place in our economy, but hearing about $400k salaries for unproven CEOs at a first-year nonprofit doesn't win new people over to the side of innovative philanthropy.

If they blow it and don't make it past this first year (and it sounds like there's a good chance of that happening) then it could be a real black mark on new model nonprofits...
While Apple's iTunes Store, App Store, and Apple TV are targeted in the lawsuit, iOS was notably not named as infringing Interval's patents.

Notification is an area in which iOS is conspicuously lagging behind Android. I wonder if this "peripheral attention" patent has something to do with that.
Look at other examples of a purely online company. I'm not saying not to be innovative, but logo branding is similar offline and online.
You're telling me multiple site visitors, who feel no emotional connection to a site...

Sorry, serious question--aren't we talking about OP's visitors, who have a very distinct emotional connection to his site?
I hear it's a special kind of hungry.
People like similar people. They have more in common. Relationships between similar status people end up happiest and work out the best, on average.

That doesn't mean people always hit on those of equal attractiveness alone. If you have more money than the girl, then she can have more prettiness. But if she's way ahead on looks, you better be way ahead on money or something or it isn't an equal relationship.

What does this add up to? Simply: the edge of the bell curve is always lonely.
I think you are mistaking what "master key" means here. They found the dongle HMAC secret, which means that anyone can create a new dongle for getting into service mode, which is apparently useful for downgrading to a different OS in some cases, but has no utility outside of that.

It's not the master key for cryptographically signing executables or OS images.
Amazes me how resilient overall the PS3 has been to hacking/ playing copied games give that so much stuff these days is cracked on release day.
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Nice algorithm! I've just written a little Javascript implementation, because it looked fun: http://s3.boskent.com/mazes/eller.html

Tomorrow I’ll make it into a little interactive game.
Pretty sure his AdSense accounts are suspended, not his YouTube posting ability. He should be able to remove his own content.
No, wouldn't be particularly useful for me. Occasionally I forget about a cool article I was reading, but thats what my browser history is for I guess.
That isn't what I asked. This has nothing to do with understanding the world around you, this has to do with understanding things that were written down on small slips of paper and filed away in boxes inside of a building in Virginia.

The slips of paper (which have now been scanned into a computer; images of them are now available on the internet) are there to mark the occasion of the first person writing that particular series of symbols down on that particular piece of paper. The idea is that if you write a certain series of symbols down on the paper, you are the only person that is to be allowed to do whatever it was that you described with the symbols. If somebody doesn't know about the occasion of you writing down the symbols and does whatever it was you described (well, in this case, predicted they might do), then you are entitled to a portion of that unlucky person's assets.

The entire thing is absurd, and if you can't see that, then I suggest you devote more time to "understanding how the world around you works".
This reflects something I've noticed at some conferences: the keynote speaker is often alone in the bar afterwards, looking bored because no one gets up the nerve to talk to them.
It's really not so amazing. Unlike other platforms, the PS3 gave hackers a good deal of freedom to do as they wished when it was released. It was only a few months ago when OtherOS was removed that people got pissed and actually started looking at jailbreaking it in a serious way.
Yes, there was. You can read about the issue (and a potential solution) here:

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100602/full/465537a.html

This happens because HeLa cells are very hardy, robust growers and they're found in most tissue-culture labs. So if you get even a single HeLa cell in your culture, they'll eventually proliferate and take-over the cells you thought you had. Regardless, there are still many, many other legit cell-lines.
No, unfortunately I can't without further eroding someone's privacy if I'm right and if I'm right Wired is in the same position, which is part of why they can't really explain themselves to everyone's satisfaction.

As for disclosing ties, yeah, I agree they might have gotten a bit sloppy there, but reporters cultivate personal relationships with sources all the time. I don't necessarily see that as a dealbreaker. But it seems sloppy at worst.

I think they need to defend themselves from Greenwald's articles because he is making people hate them. Unfortunately to actually defend themselves would be to explain why they have to hold the information private, which they can't really do, without spoiling people's privacy.

I think we need to give Wired some trust on this one.
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To use the addons in a standalone setup you need to create an account at the provider's website. I assumed that Heroku had some agreement with the providers which lets them bypass this and instead passes on the user's Heroku details transparently
I agree that textbook goliaths are going down, but you didn't present the solution to the problem.

IMO, you should have included the basic description of your business at the end, instead of going all mysterious. Like from your website:

-Professors post course content.

-Bookxor collects feedback and analytics from students and colleagues.

-Professors use feedback to retune their content, share and collaborate.
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Why would Google block a business model of helping site owners to avoid click fraud? That's doing Google a favor and not even charging them for it.
I noticed this too. We run on Azure but I would love to evaluate other options.

But, could someone really compete with Windows Azure and all the features that come with it? It would take a startup quite a bit of time and money to match services such as Blob Storage, Table Storage, Message Queues and Distributed Caching.

Perhaps those features aren't for everyone. I guess there is still a need for quickly and easily creating nodes running IIS.
I find it very interesting that I always find articles on slashdot 3 days after I read them on HN. HN always seems to be super fresh.
The actual quote was:

About 440,000 public school buses carry 24 million children more than 4.3 billion miles a year, but only about six children die each year in bus accidents, according to annual statistics compiled the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

So yes, those six or seven only cover the students inside the actual bus.
Ah, I see that I truly missed your earlier point. I suppose I would just do this:

def fib(max):
a, b = 0, 1
while a < max:
yield a
a, b = b, a + b

for k in fib(100):
print(k)
We need more people like you in this world. I had a (foreign) prof that used loose constantly in the handouts. I think no one ever mentioned that to him..
I hope he has all the success he did with "Paul Allen's Charter Communication™".
Apologies if this is overly simplified, not sure of your level of expertise (can give you the more complex one too if you want more information!). The dongle in this case is a USB diagnostic tool used by Sony employees and technicians to put a PS3 into service mode.

Essentially it's plugged in and the PS3 started up. The PS3 communicates with the dongle and swaps a set of 'secure' keys to authenticate that the dongle is a legitimate, then runs some code to give you access to all sorts of options you normally wouldn't be able to see/use.

What these guys have done is found the master key found in all PS3s that allows it to authenticate any/all service dongles. Using this information one can generate their own service ID and ultimately create their own dongle.

Basically this was possible to do because the protection mechanisms in place to protect the key relied on the rest of the system not being broken. Once the system was hacked it was simply a matter of time before this was decoded as well.
He's generating revenue via a subscription, so that's an alternative to AdSense already (or supplement, as it were). Luckily there are other ad networks, and the ability to sell ads directly (which he is already doing) as a way to generate more income on the website.

As far as the videos on YouTube though, I agree there is not much alternative because of the sheer size and reach of YouTube.
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I had a landlord once who wasn't very social, and as a result wasn't very good with women (but he was a specialized mechanic and made a ton of money). Was talking to him one day, and he said that his therapist had given him an assignment to get out of his shell.

His assignment was to go to a bar (or any sort of similar place) and get rejected by ten women. That is, between that session and his next (the span of a week I believe), his goal was to get shot down by ten women in a social situation. Not necessarily crash and burn, but some kind of rejection.

After a while, you realize rejection isn't really that bad - it's the fear of rejection that's the big problem. Once you can get over that, you're going to be doing a lot better.
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IIRC, there's a class-action lawsuit against Sony for removing OtherOS.
yeah why is the octocat under ugly? i mean i get 4square, that thing looks like someone colored a volleyball poster from the 60ies...
Potentially true but at least B&N has fallen in line with their PubIt! platform for indie authors on the Nook. Exact same pricing structure to revenue sharing %s. And last I knew B&N is the only thing even CLOSE to competition for the Kindle store right now, and even it is way behind.
I remember reading somewhere that Google was trying to get pure Django code to work on App Engine (with limited support for queries, of course), and I am very interested to see how that goes. If that happens, (and App Engine gets SSL and an SLA), App Engine will probably come out on top.

But the competition never hurts.

EDIT: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/roadmap.html

At the moment, Google only has "bulk datastore import/export tool" on their roadmap, which implies that they are trying to reduce their lock-in at least a little.

EDIT 2: http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/django-nonrel.html

Looks like you technically can run pure Django with some limitations.
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One interesting thing is that foods with same amounts of calories can differ a lot in how full they make you feel.

http://www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes_food_diet/satiety_index....
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Journalism and politics are sort of aspects of the same thing. Neither is too far from money. People should understand Bay Citizen in that mode of thinking.

[aside: I have a really clever start-up idea for a journalistic venture in Berkeley, CA and would like to find some partners. (lord -at- emf.net) Here's some back story to the linked story, though.]

In the Bay Area, the journalism industry has crashed pretty hard. Papers have failed, others shrunk considerably. A lot of government operates under far less scrutiny than T any time in living memory.

Historically, news moguls have had enormous political power. The movie Citizen Kane gives a cartoonish sense of the Hearst news / political machine. (The S.F. Chronicle is currently a Hearst paper. The real world Hearst castle that corresponds to the one in the movie is in these parts. Etc.)

The Hellman's (Bay Citizen's main benefactors and instigators) qualify, in this region, as "old money". The first Hellman to rise prominence here was a major player. If you read the society pages (what's left of them) you'll sometimes see the Hellman's and branches of that family like the Dinkelspiel's come up. They are Big Shots in these parts.

Thus, Bay Citizen could be characterized as "old money" swooping into to fill a journalistic void, in part motivated by a recognition of the political power represented in that void. I want to be clear that I'm absolutely not saying that Hellman is an egotistical power-grabbing Kane type or anything so cartoonish or anything so ethically simple minded. I'm just saying that it's not so surprising that when the regional journalism industry collapsed... one of our prominent and well established families would step up and try to get something going in that area. If it wasn't Hellman money, why, then, there's a short list of other family names that would have been next in line.

I won't comment on the editorial politics of Bay Citizen or some of their partner sites because I'll both get myself in trouble and bore most HN readers with too much insider Bay Area politics but I will skip to a prediction:

Bay Citizen isn't about to go under. The highly paid execs, I bet, mostly won't be tossed (if any will at all). Or if it gets rebooted and lots of people tossed ... it'll still be booted up and resume. Some funding will be renewed and the experiment will continue a few more years. The political power stakes are too high to just walk away. The money amounts are very low relative to those stakes. The tentative successes of Bay Citizen (e.g., a modest amount of syndication, etc.) look promising on paper. Nobody seriously expected a self-sustaining operation at the end of one year (especially given the peanuts they said they pay stringers).

Right now, Bay Citizen --- journalistically disappointing as it has been, in some of our views --- is nevertheless one of the loudest journalistic voices in a news-starved region. $5M was a bargain, so far. The project is an easy to make fun of tentative success, as far as I can tell, in the eyes of its main sponsors.
I believe I first encountered the description of this phenomenon in one of Leil Lowndes' books, "How To Talk To Anyone" IIRC.

And I encountered the phenomenon IRL a good few years back at a convention, where I had a really nice conversation with an actress who played a major role in a prominent SF series. Apparently, I was one of a few people who'd even just stopped to ask her how she was enjoying the show: everyone else was either staff, stewards or fanbois who only wanted her autograph, photo or both.

I got to sit with her and her retinue later that night in the hotel restaurant: a dinner date I'll never forget.

The Hot Girl effect is pretty real. And if you can get past that barrier of your own fears to approach the unapproachable, yet retain your humility as you do so, the rewards can often be awesome and memorable.
The two are similar at first glance but pretty different when you get into it.

jQuery specializes in making javascript/DOM interaction drop dead simple. Nothing else out there comes close to achieving this as well as jQuery. When I write with jQuery, the most basic pages are written functionally and when I need something more advanced it's easy to step into some OO. But, jQuery does nothing to help with object oriented javascript, you have to use javascripts prototype model.

MooTools specializes in being more of a javascript framework. It adds functionality to javascript (which is controversial in itself), and lends itself to a very classical object oriented development approach.

Both tools are quality, jQuery has a huge user base, whereas MooTools has a smaller and very rabid user base. If your project is a very UI/javascript focused project then MooTools may be the right answer. If it is not, and is just your typical site/application, then jQuery is probably it.
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You have to understand that it is mostly one guy and one extended family that self-funded Bay Citizen. Those hefty salaries just signal that their approach is to give some of the core group they've hired some breathing room to experiment and incubate. It's just not a good comparison to a grass roots NPO.
For reasons of economics.

As an analogy, if you're a one-person developer, your problem is usually that you don't have enough users. You can participate in forum discussions with users of your software, fix bugs within days, send a personalized thank you e-mail for every purchase, all to provide exceptional level of service to grow word of mouth and get more customers. When you get to the size of Microsoft, that won't work anymore. Your expensive devs have to separated from users by layer of product management, your support calls cost you serious money and one troublesome buyer can cost you much more than he paid for in software etc.

Google finds itself in the same boat with AdSense. I don't know the exact scale of AdSense but it must be in millions of publishers and thousands of advertisers. Even a small number of people insisting you give them special consideration or explain in detail what exactly did they do wrong will burn incredible amount of support time and money.

It's clear why he was banned from AdSense and yet he wrote an epic post detailing his experience and inventing multiple reasons for why it wasn't so bad. Do you think that if someone at Google sent him a personal note explaining why he was banned, he would just say "oh, I get it now, you were so totally justified in terminating my account". No, he would keep badgering Google until they finally gave up responding and he would end up writing the same epic post, this time quoting extensively his correspondence with heartless Google employee who was not swayed by his obviously correct arguments.

Someone arguing with Google to not suspend their account has all the incentive to keep badgering Google until Google says "this is a final decision".

Google can't win this battle and they do the best anyone can do at that scale.
Can you expand on that?

For example AWS uses HMACs for signatures, what kind of scheme would you propose?
Keep in mind that these seat belts would be retrofitted to existing models, models which may not be designed to hold seat belts since, as discussed in the article, almost no states require seat belts on school buses over a certain weight. Whatever the case, it wouldn't be surprising if installing a seat belt were 150-250 bucks as there are probably a metric fuckton of regulations on what such a seat belt needs to be.

This is pure speculation of course and, as you've said, only distracts from the real point. Whatever the cost, adding seat belts would probably only make things worse.
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Good data, but online dating may be different due to the lower perceived cost of approaches and rejection.