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Ask HN: Which Facebook Ad Provider to use?
I always used Adsense for everything and now that Facebook banned it I'm kind of lost.

I don't know any of the ad providers in the list (http://developers.facebook.com/adproviders/).

Any tips or recommendations?

Thanks.
Mmm, not really the same thing. In the wholesale case, the spectrum holder isn't incurring the costs of delivering service to individuals, such as customer support, individual billing, and advertising. That brings the wholesale price much lower than the marginal cost of providing retail service.

One interesting variation would be for the spectrum holders to sell only wholesale service. They would then be competing on technical attributes such as reliability, while the retailers would be competing on customer service and bundled applications. Some retailers could even offer devices that worked transparently with multiple wholesalers, allowing retailers to switch wholesalers, instead of being locked on like today's virtual carriers.
Pratt Parsers: Expression Parsing Made Easy
Check out the Austin .NET User Group (http://www.adnug.org). The meetings are typically sponsored by a different company each month. The sponsor usually gives a short pitch, looking to hire developers, before the technical presentation starts.
Kevin Rose is into digital puppies now?
> > "Why don't you prove it?"

> Because I'm not the one making extraordinary claims.

You are, though. You're the one suggesting a nuclear catastrophe, contrary to apparent scientific evidence.
I can't stand the middle-ground of things 'sorta working' I would rather have it be either fully functional or non-existant.
No bugs fixed. Mostly locale updates. Looks like it's done.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/4.0/releasenotes
I've seen the silly "start-up vs. project" debate rage on and on, to no end, but I have NEVER seen someone try to define what a "project" is and isn't. Are you actually serious???
Algorithms based on number base systems
Ha! Me too, in fact I've clicked it 3 different times today because each time I wondered why I haven't read about different phone screens yet - then slap my forehead. Apparently I really want to know about the quality of various phone screens.
Don't do this, don't do that, do this, do the other. I say have fun and cross your fingers.
Unless the file was checked in separately. If they were doing something like updating the db password, so they need to update "current running" and "up-and-coming" code. As a result, they may have made the change in production, with the typo, and the change in SVN, without the typo.

I would put my money on something like this being the cause.
A thought on bubbles
How close is your home to a nuclear plant?
I haven't interviewed for a LONG time, and I'm not sure what recruiting is because I'm quite disconnected with big business practices, but I do believe Interviewing is just Selling yourself), so on a completely arbitrary and imaginary scale, why wouldn't he just say "I'm a 10"? (I know the developer was thinking of a particular scale - but was the interviewer?)
Yes, I'm interested. This article was relevant to some community building efforts I'm involved with, and I'd love to read more veteran insights on the subject.
Our journalists routinely interview primary sources

That would be good journalistic practice, but that is not what Ben Goldacre is talking about in the blog post submitted here on HN. He is talking about news stories that purport to report on the result of a research study and what he is looking for is a citation (or a link, as appropriate to the journalistic medium) to the published research study. Not doing that doesn't pass the smell test for Goldacre.

http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/if-you-dont-link-to-primary...

Of course, even if the published study is cited, it still has to be examined carefully,

http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

but there is no reason to hide the published study from the consumer of the journalistic report. You are referring to persons as "sources," the same way I did when I was a journalist, while Goldacre is referring to publications as sources.
And to think I wonder why more women aren't in this field.
So a computer scientist and an electrical engineer are tallying up the number of computers at a Cusinart's tradeshow booth as part of a scavenger hunt.

Frustrated, the computer scientist complains that he can only find one - namely the booth attendant's iPad showcasing Cuisnart's new product line.

The EE points to the HTCPCP-enabled coffee machine and says "No, there are at least two computers in there, the microwave in the corner has one, and if you want one in the toaster, here's my card."
It's not enabled in the beta, that's all.
I'm glad you like the spirit. I didn't think about it in the terms you outlined. But you're right: the internet used to be awesom. We gotta take it back from the SEO farmers & social media whores. Put some soul back into it & yes, if you're doing a startup: bring some cojones to your business model.
In all fairness, many highly successful businesses started as side projects. In my case, I started my web site about 12 years ago as a side project, and this year I expect to exceed 1 million in revenue.

I'm not sure at what point during the evolution of my side project I went from side project, to startup, to established business.

Maybe a startup should be termed as "a business that is designed to make more money than it spends."
That programmer level matrix linked in the article is even dumber than the interview
The generally accepted definition of 'liar' is not someone who says something that is wrong, but rather, someone who knowingly says something is wrong.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lie

Note that only the third definition is the purely factual
one. When you are using the word 'liar', you are typically implying the first two. (People differ as to whether spreading a lie makes you a liar).

Now typically in science, you only get accused of lying if you intentionally misrepresent your data. This is _not_ what the linked to article says is happening.

For those interested, here's a somewhat more digested summary of the paper (with a few caveats mentioned):

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2005/09/why...
Choosing between Boston or San Francisco as a Young Entrepreneur
This topic comes up often enough that I imagine a blog or wiki would get some interest.

As for scientific research: That's really quite hard to do when dealing with people stuff. (I participated in some psych/social research that was laughably badly flawed.) I did some verification of my own ideas for my own edification while very ill, largely housebound and online a great deal. I would basically predict (to myself only) what was going to happen and then watch and see if that actually happened, then intercede at some point and see what happened. My predictions were accurate enough that I concluded I wasn't imagining things and my judgement was fairly good. But there is no documentation of any of that. <shrug>
skrebbel said that being taken into consideration and being more important doesn't mean 'became legal'.

take a look for a map of legal systems with English links about their differencies,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LegalSystemsOfTheWorldMap....
Fun stuff! It's like being the robot on mst3k. The site has a real soul to it... I find the jankiness of the design endearing, I love that you assigned me the name "renny", and I like the random touch of having my name tag appear when I click to vote. It's fun to move around! I think frozenhot is memorable, it's fine.

Main thing: how are you going to bring people here?

A few minor suggestions: make the vote countdown shorter, allow me to click the x on the popover ad, add a "this video sucks, skip it" button, fix the damn lagging. Maybe add a way for people to ping the screen for additional lulz.
The conversation in the middle of the post doesn't sound too different from conversations I've had with friends. I hope I didn't miss out on a big opportunity...
Couple questions after visting:

1) How does it work?
2) What does it do?
3) Why should I sign up for an account?

These are things that the front page should answer immediately. .

But most importantly, how do you expect to generate revenue from this project? Not having a clear answer to that question would probably eliminate this as being called a "startup."

Best of luck on your project!
Say if I want to show a buddy this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L64c5vT3NBw, I click the bookmarklet on that page and it creates a Frozenhot URL that would take the user into a chatroom and spin up that video automatically.

Smart.
I always have vertical scrollbar visible, and for the exact reason of having the same window width between the pages. This is purely a matter of visual polish. There are very few sites where the polish does not matter (or matters less than "not messing with browser defaults), so yes, it is a necessity.
Click on the little Y in the upper left hand corner to see where Hacker News comes from.
I am reminded about an incident that occurred during my time in college. A teacher had "determined" that a lot of the class was cheating(1) and decided to grade based on program performance. This led to a lot of sizing up of our fellow students. One worried my friend John and me greatly as he talked and acted as if he were God's gift to programming and was practically giddy with excitement at the prospect of kicking his fellow student's butts.

I am sure he would have said "10" to this recruiter without a second thought.

He handed in his assignment at the same time John and I did. He could not help but tell us about his algorithm to do the graphics faster than anybody else. His explanation led us to believe (and be proven right later) that he had a poor understanding of performance and believe that shorter line count always had better performance(2).

(1) the people he thought were cheating, weren't
(2) yes, load time was important, but it wouldn't tip the scale - plus writing to the same byte of memory multiple times doesn't beat an array lookup and one write
You don't do that because you aren't sure what scale the asker has in mind when they ask you to rate yourself on a 1-10 scale. If Paul Graham asks me that ?, his view of a 10 is going to be significantly different from some recruiter whose last job was managing a Dairy Queen.

I've handled this by giving my own rating as well as who I think a 10 would be. For instance, I'd say that I'm a 5 but my 10 is someone like Bill Joy or Linus Torvalds - truly world class developers.
Are you sure you want to claim that startups are unselfish? And furthermore, what is wrong with being selfish?

Selfish can make the world better as a byproduct.
Ask HN: oLark or Livezilla?
Simple question... I'm planning to integrate live help to get instant feedback or answer question from my beta users... Do you recommend LiveZilla or oLark?
If you ever get the chance to sit on the shoulder of a Bloomberg power user I would recommend doing so.

In the right hands they are mind-bendingly powerful.

Also, a large part of the cost of the terminal is the data feeds.
If you say "recruiter" to me, I think "huckster third-party middleman trying to insert themselves between HR and candidates". My definition is, I think, pretty close to the prevailing one.
Please don't shove an alert in my face. It's rude.
Frank Rich (of the NYTimes, although he's moving to NY Mag) has always been great about linking to sources. Not always necessarily a primary source, but for an op-ed writer it makes a huge difference to show that you can back up your claims. Or at least that your sources think they can
I don't mean to be nit-picky, but if you make a router store data so it can do its job, then it is by definition designed to store data. Even of that is not its main purpose.

Something as simple as the configuration files for the router (or a web front end to edit said config) would make it qualify.

The law is indeed not a computer program, but it does in general seek to be extremely explicit about everything it defines. It has to be. And in this case as well, it is very explicit about what defines a 'computer'. The way I see it, the judge did not really understand what a router really is (or can be). And consequently made an incorrect ruling that is likely to influence future rulings in similar cases.

This is one case where I am happy that one ruling does not require other judges to abide by the same ideas. One can only hope that other judges are more informed if and when the situation arises.
I can believe it. Recruiters are clueless. One of my favorite recruiter conversations (note: recruiter was British):

R: I noticed you are located in Jersey City, but this job is in New York. If you get this job, how long would it take you to relocate?

Me: I'm confused.

R: My client wants people onsite. No remote workers.

Me: I live 15-25 minutes away from lower Manhattan [where the client is located]. I take the PATH train there every day.

R: I see, but my client wants people located in NY. They are quite clear on this. You aren't even in the same state.

Me (having no intention of moving): I'll need to give my landlord 30 days notice.

Just humor recruiters. It's not their fault they have no clue. If they ask you to rate yourself on a scale of 9-10, say "11". If they have no idea of American geography, tell them you will relocate.
CSS3 is also worthy of concern. It's true that the security concern is different, and it's true that the security concerns are in general cumulative, but it's not like you can decisively say "things that add to the attack surface are bad".
Super Moon to rise Saturday night
Exactly. The singers are looking out at the world. They don't know how it works, but it's awesome. To them, reducing the mystery through science makes it less miraculous. But, they are mistaken.

As Feynman said, "It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it."
Thoughtcrime is one of the cornerstones of the justice system, it's not new at all. For pretty much any charge if you've considered or planned that action you'll pickup an additional conspiracy charge whether or not you actually carried out the plan. Libel/Slander are pure expression liabilities. As well mens rea or 'guilty mind' is an essential part of most prosecutions.

Look at what the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI found in just one two man office: over 40% of the documents concerned monitoring of political groups.

It's not armed groups that are dangerous, it's ideas. This is why people REALLY don't like Wikileaks, it exposes the truth and provides it for the people to judge in its raw and unadulterated form. Wikileaks poses only a threat to those whose power derives from deceiving the people.
Well, good...for those still affected by DRM.

I've managed to avoid DRM in an even simpler way: I consume far less content than I used to. And I have only the DRM-using companies to thank for that. When I finally took stock of my free time and realized what a waste it was to sit on my ass for 2 hours to passively absorb even one stupid movie, I basically stopped. Sure I watch things now and then, but nowhere near as much as before. I can pretty much guarantee that had there been no ridiculous roadblocks making it painful to consume content, I'd still be buying more than I do now. I wouldn't have seen a reason to change. So, thank you media companies; your intense desire to not be in business has helped me free up some time.
Because most "science" reporting is tossed-off shit. It's of no value to those outlets to make it obvious how inaccurate (or alternately, copy-and-pastey) their work is.
I see. I just checked the release notes http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/895/cpsid_89556.html

"Please note that this feature has been turned off for this Beta release, but will be available in the final Flash Player 10.2 release."

"Please note that GPU rendering was turned off for this Beta release."

It will be interesting to see how well it performs when they enable the hardware acceleration in the final 10.2 release.
I think the point of it is that you usually don't need a full-width header, so why mess up the alignment of elements on the page by using one?
Ti innovate introduction
Gradster is a new online platform that helps connect such university students with companies and organizations in need of business expertise.
Gradster bils itself as "a project marketplace connecting organizations with University year students through real-world projects." The site maintains a network of talented students interested in solving real-world business problems. It's open only to full-time students doing an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in the UK. Organizations in need of assistance can then post those opportunities on the Gradster site.
Postings can take the form either of challenges crowdsourcing-style competitions whereby a company poses a business-related challenge and students compete to develop the best solutions or mini projects, which are done by a single student or team of students. Either way, Gradster plans to charge a small posting fee along with a variable project commission based on the student compensation awarded once the project is done.
Honestly, I don't think you're over-reacting. Book publishers don't touch customers very often and their behavior here was pretty poor. Not sure if this is the only good Clojure book around, but if not, I'd consider just cancelling and buying a different one.

If it is the only good Clojure book, then I guess you're just kind of stuck. I would probably just stick with the Amazon purchase then because it would feel like every additional dollar to Manning, I would't feel comfortable with. And you probably could get someone to donate their PDF to you.
I think the problem most people had with Wave's scrollbars is that they didn't indicate the height/length of the document very well. The Canonical design above has solved this by retaining the visual indicator.
Hardly news for anyone who's been a developer for a long time. I generally solve my dev problems wandering around London. This has the added bonus of when I've sorted out the problem in my head, I'm at a location I've never been before and have the chance to find a new restaurant/pub. Win/win.
That's exactly what I meant. I love music. I just don't think "people are breathlessly excited about X" means "X is valuable". A lot of people are excited about reality TV.
Automated trading systems and meta-anomalies
Interesting that Spolsky didn't just post that himself instead of giving a blurb to Attwood to post.
Another Netflix Content Idea: Saving Cancelled Cult Hits
Sure thing! I can tell you've spent a lot of time thinking about the new hire experience...something lots of places don't really spend a lot of time on.
Odd, my browser makes links I've clicked a different color (gray versus black). Are you using lynx, or just a combination of different browsers?
10.1 had hardware acceleration of decoding. 10.2 has "Stage Video" which lets it take advantage of even more hardware for displaying the video as long as the developer of the Flash code displaying the video doesn't need to do anything fancy with it like put it on the face of a rotating cube. They seem to refer to this as hardware accelerated rendering.

This latter thing seems to be only coming to Honeycomb and up, and isn't fully baked so 10.2 for Froyo is final, while 10.2 for Honeycomb is still a beta.
I think that the problem with Wave's scrollbars wasn't so much that they were bad, they were non-standard. Scrollbars are OS territory, individual webapps should probably not try to reinvent them. (I would argue that they should only ever try to reinvent them when they provide something substantially better and when the standard OS implementation is lacking.)
I'm pretty sure HN didn't replace IRC.
>But what is really causing this stuff? What is it made of?
The electromagnetic field is one of the fundamental forces of nature, and it is mediated by photons. It is known in detail and we can predict its behavior to uncanny accuracy by means of quantum electrodynamics.

However, I am afraid no answer will be good enough for you, that you want to understand it as good as you "understand" other concepts such as "rock" or "cat". The EM field is inherently different, (for example), in that it acts at a distance. And what does it means that you understand something? Do you understand what a cat is?

Your last paragraph has a few sentences that I disagree with, but particularly :
>In the end there is nothing traveling through nothingness and all is nothing and no one knows anything.

Where my version would be:
In the end there is matter traveling through space and all is nature and we don't know the whole story yet, but we can predict many things with unbelievable accuracy and make lots of useful things.
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Paul, you're winding up in these "having to start talking about definitions" situations because you choose to describe businesses that produce millions in profits every year as "not going anywhere". At my very last job, I saw a company doing mid-8-figures profits experience pressure to exit. Pressure to exit later in life is a real hazard of accepting VC, just as pressure not to exit early in life is as well.

You don't, by the way, need to announce that you're "done now". That's passive-agressive. You can just "be done".
I was going to make this a blog post, but to honor the hacker news way I'm posting it here.

I don't believe the micro-business discussion is just about identity. I think the micro-business approach is the future of the start-up world.

Micro business will force the inevitable disintermediation between entrepreneurs, VC's/Incubators, and starting businesses.

My feeling is that 5 years from now micro-business start-ups will be the primary and dominant way that entrepreneurs start business life - without any thought (or requirement) of seed funding or VC's.

VCs/Incubators will have the same relationship to the start-up world - that record labels now have with the music industry.

Sure, they play their part, but the relationship is very different.

Disintermediation is a consistent pattern that the internet brings to us. There are way more entrepreneurs than there are positions at YC or funds available from VC's.

Like water finding cracks to flow through, entrepreneurs will flow around today's centralized funding paradigm and get started on their own. In essence the internet has made it possible to commoditize startups. The peer relationships that YC & the like bring will become less and less important as groups break away and form their own smaller microcosm venture networks.

It's a pattern that's been repeated again and again. Client server moves to peer-peer. It's happened in the music industry. It's happened in the newspaper industry.

Why not the start-up industry?
I define success as continued successful execution.

Retaking the position of CEO, losing almost half of your traffic after spearheading a new release of the site, and then resigning and taking off for your new adventure hardly seems like a case of continued successful execution by a, well, successful CEO.

So far, I would tell you that Digg was flown straight into the ground.
If this is the way most recruiters work (by just following buzzwords), why do companies have recruiters? Just curious.
Libel and slander can both have hard evidence (and libel has it by definition because it requires that there be something written, such as a publication of lies and demonstration of damages; slander is verbal, but there can be recordings). They are not automatically thought crimes.
I'm from Montreal and currently that's now year long.
Developing a brand new startup is a different challenge than maintaining a site that has a billion page views a month.
They should've sent Megatron