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DSP - demand side platform
Hi everyone,

I really don't mean to ask such a noob question, but I can't figure out for the life of me what a DSP really is. I've spent 3 full days googling everything possible and I still can't really pin point what it is a DSP does. If anyone can provide any insight, please share.

Thanks all,
Nico
Luxury mobile
One nice thing about the book is that it gives sympathetic economic context to some of these issues, humanizing what might otherwise seem like utter fraud. Briefly, it's a combination of:

- inevitable human motives when faced with a chance to escape poverty

- different cultural expectations about what it means to deliver on a manufacturing contract (i.e. does it have to always be exactly to spec, or can it just be roughly equivalent in the important ways)

- different cultural focus on surface appearances vs. less visible qualities

- information asymmetry between local operators and distant foreign counterparties

- greed on the part of foreign counterparties, which the Chinese manfucaturers exploit to get deals and then ruthlessly trim back everywhere they can get away with, backing off only when they push too far and get called on it

What's almost as interesting are the similarly misaligned incentives within the foreign counterparties. Western capitalist companies are unabashedly greedy, short-term (gotta make the quarterly numbers), share-price-oriented, and have all their own dysfunctions as a result. That's not to say the kickstarter guys are guilty of any of that -- just that there's plenty of parties trying to screw the other on both sides of this international dynamic, and finding a truly honest partner is difficult in business anywhere.
> Precisely. If you want to place blame, it goes squarely on the Bush Administration. (And yes, I'm sure I'll be down-voted for saying that, but it's still unquestionably, uncontroversially, non-debatably true.)

Wasn't the Patriot Act recently renewed, where "recently" means "post-Bush"?

> If you want this fixed, it has to be fixed politically at a federal level.

And Dems, who voted for the initial version overwhelmingly, were uninterested in doing so when they held all three elected branches and that didn't change when they lost one.

So, yes, it's true that it was passed under Bush, but no one is interested in fixing it. (Yes, I'm ignoring Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich.)
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This is almost certainly not true for a lot of medical data (in Canada and Australia at least, don't know about the US).

There was a rather interesting example in Queensland ~two years ago when govt. health sector payroll data (from an outgoing system) was deleted due to privacy concerns, and then the replacement system mis-functioned (never really worked) and the entire state's health payroll information was lost. $200 million and counting to fix the lost data.
Featured on HN 3 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2970550
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Now the log retention is 30days? He said 5 on the forum. Nothing but lies. He received a phone call, nothing from a court. Someone is going to prison for FIFTEEN YEARS for nothing. It's disgusting.

I wouldn't be surprised if they log EVERYTHING because they mine the traffic. It's how they under sell other providers.

Boycott this garbage
The comparison with politics is a good one! Working together but still keeping some distance is out of fashion.
It seems most of America's leadership is too busy serving their egos instead of working on the things they have been hired to do.
I do believe Apple's launchd also implements this sort of functionality. IMHO it is better than xinetd.

It's open source and POSIX, so you can use it even if you aren't on a Mac. It's pretty cool, from a design standpoint.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launchd
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What the big deal about it? What about Amazon Cloud, Apple, Dropbox? They come late.
I'm curious. How can he start uncrunched? Was AOL that dumb by not putting a non-compete clause on him?
I would like to see the data they're using to target ads at users (i.e. the metadata assembled from a user's input).
Similar story in a way, games like ff7,8 and 9 got me into RPG game making, which then got me involved in community websites which then lead to me learning PHP to help improve these websites.
test1234@example.com and tets1234@example.com yield the same background colour. Isn't the point of this to detect accidental transpositions? You may want to use a simple hash in your algorithm.

The input field may need some explanatory text to alleviate the user's astonishment as to why the field is cycling colours in the first place -- it's a very unusual UI quirk.

Also, I suspect your colour palette is not friendly to the colour blind.

Edit: This is reminiscent of Lotus Notes' password hieroglyphics and Chroma-Hash: http://foxxtrot.github.com/Chroma-Hash/. The latter has been discussed on HN several times.
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He's promising to disclose all financial conflicts of interest, which I feel are the only ones that are vital to disclosing. The idea of disclosing all other conflicts isn't even well-defined. Presumably he'll only ever write about topics he finds interesting, for one reason or another. Sure, he might be friends with the founders of Company X, but if he's genuinely interested in the company he's writing about, does it really matter why he's interested (if it's not because he invested in them)?
Yeah, I was expecting at least some kind of handwaving explanation.

Usually the writing of these press releases goes like this:

1. Researcher discovers something that's pretty cool, and as the publication or patent is getting released decides to contact the institution's media department

2. Media department, if convinced that it's interesting (or just happens to be bored) sends someone around to talk to the researcher

3. Researcher explains what the hell the research is about to the media guy, who then goes away and writes down some of the fraction of the conversation he thought he understood. He collects a couple of quotes on the "Why this is important" bit. If the researcher is lucky, he gets a draft to correct before it goes out.

Judging by this particular press release, I can only assume that the guy the media department sent around to the researcher's office didn't understand a word of what the researcher was trying to say.
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what bothers me - or has me in awe even (to some extent) is how early on in the process facebook started storing all this information! I've had status updates from years ago show up in my "this day in 2009" pop-up on the sidebar. And clearly from the content of these files on the above website - they have stuff on you that goes way -way back. It seems almost sinister - as if they knew all along that they would aggregate so much information - althought on the face of it - it was just another social networking site. Which I would assume like any other website or web-app would delete unneccesary stuff in order to save space / efficiency etc (atleast before they got huge and had their own server farms). At the same time - one cant help but wonder if having all this data (and probably a lot lot more that we dont see from an outsider's perspective) - is really what is responsible for facebook making the "right" moves every now and then with regards to really delivering features that its users will use and growing at unbelievable rates? Might be food for thought - after all - the more you know about your users - the better you can serve them!
One reason to use it is Emacs Server.

Basically, even when I have multiple open Emacs frames (window-manager windows) they are all actually instances of the same Emacs processor, sharing the same buffers. This offers many advantages, but means that I can't really use my window manager's multiple desktops for Emacs like that.
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Honestly where is Facebook taking us? Is now more that a social network, it involves getting closer to Twitter and media channels. I guess the SB will transform friendship into RSS kind of subscription. I am sure they will add the video sharing superscription community, and music?
Stop whining. Your problem is clearly not with Facebook.
I'm so tired of this discussion. Not when it's asked with sincerity but rather when it's asked and then every answer that's contrary to the questioner's preconceived notion is lambasted.

Of course, it can be any question, but if you want to actually learn something (or understand my position) then the important skills are listening, followed by perhaps integrating my experiences with your own. If you don't actually want to learn something, please persist in your ignorance quietly OR teach me something through your counter-point.
I use Cookie Monster (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monste...) as it allows more dynamic blocking of cookies.
Ask HN: Any cool Chicago start-ups up for a visitor from San Francisco?
Apologies if this is the wrong place to make such a request, but I'm the co-founder/CEO of San Francisco based Huddler.com. I'm in Chicago on business and have a bunch of time between meetings tomorrow. I'd love to meet up with any companies that are doing exciting things in Chicago. I'd be happy to just have a desk and wifi and shut up, but if I can be helpful, I'd be happy to lend a hand. Thanks!
You don't have to be a pen snob to appreciate how much nicer a good gel pen (and they don't have to be expensive, there are great ones for $2 or so) writes than a Bic. Really, just try one...it's a night and day difference. Darker, more consistent line, less pressure needed to write, which means you can write longer without your hand tiring, ink that is more permanent and less likely to smear, etc.

BTW, disclaimer...I AM a pen snob. I have a 25-year-old Montblanc on my desk.
Boards are really not set up to do any sort of serious monitoring of a complex multinational corporation, especially if they're supposed to be doing it independently of the executives they immediately supervise (CEO/CTO/COO/etc.).

Nearly every major company's board is full of people who have more-than-full-time day jobs, plus sit on 3-5 other boards. There is really no way they can do a proper job in that situation; in practice, they devote one day a month to doing the bare minimum to fulfill the responsibilities of each board position they hold, if that.

For example, after a story about Cisco acting badly (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2789540), I was motivated to look at who was on Cisco's board who might exercise some oversight. What I found didn't seem likely to be a group of people spending much time on the matter. One of the board members is the President of Stanford University, which I assume is a pretty busy job to begin with. Another is the now-former CEO of Yahoo mentioned in this piece. One more is the CEO of Mercer, the world's largest H.R. consulting firm. How much time do you think these people each take out of their day jobs to really understand how Cisco operates? I would wager very close to zero.

So this seems (to me) much more of a structural problem with how large companies are run, than an HP-specific problem. They may have gotten particularly unlucky roll of the dice, but this style of corporate governance isn't set up to favor good outcomes.
The HP board is clearly an inept circlejerk. Whitman is waiting for her bukakke initiation. The only outcome of this board is to drive the stock to 0. It's sad when Whitman looks like the smartest person in the room.
Similar advice that was given to me during a messy legal fight'; Assume that anything you put in an email might one day be read out to you in court.
My knowledge of protein folding algorithms is pretty limited, and in any case everything in this press release is pretty vague.

However, this press release is dated September 14, and this is the first I'm hearing about it. A google news search for "Oak Ridge protein folding" shows only a teensy bit of small-time coverage (i.e. reprinting of the press release).

I'm inclined to think that if there was a big deal here, somebody knowledgeable would be making more noise about it.
Um, very true, but this would also be a sign that they need to read their stack traces / test outputs, and probably try a debugger.

Seriously. Debugger. For tests, it's as simple as `gem install rdebug` and put `debugger` in the failing test(s). When it stops on that line, type `eval instance_variables`, and viola - your array contains "@microposts" and not "@micropost". Running it against a full Rails application, especially with, say, Passenger, is a bit trickier, but it's still worth the initial effort.
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This was the Global Challenge, a pretty unique event in that it was designed for a crew of amateurs with a professional captain. More here:

http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/gl...

And here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Challenge
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Nvidia Says PC Game Sales Will Surpass Console Game Sales By 2014
ps. if it turns out this is not the case, I actually like the tool - signed up and used it briefly. I'd be happy to be proved wrong because I do want to use it.
I was guessing it was a joke from the perspective of a European startup--- they'd love it if all U.S. startups ignored Europe.
Referencing two-digit xkcd comics in 2011 feels like the internet meme equivalent of a three-point-shot.

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I'm not surprised. Its the number one way to call bullshit when someone at the bar says something stupid. I've got two links at the very top of my first page of apps; one to wikipedia and one to snopes. I'm rarely let down.
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This is absolutely true. One of the most important lessons I ever learned in English class was to walk away. Always give yourself a day between when you write something and when you edit it. You come back fresh and with a new perspective.
Facebook is able to tell which profiles you view more frequently than others, so some sort of log data correlated with users is being kept.
Do you use Thermography, I've read it to be safer?
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I think the key here is the low quality work at the end of the day. I often knock off when I detect that I'm running at a very low productivity rate. Invariably the next day the overwhelming and seemingly massive task from the night before takes just a few minutes for the well rested brain.

There's also something about the "self control as a finite resource" that comes in to play here.
@Bud - upvoted.
so true. Why can't people open their eyes and realize the living web around them :)
Fantastic, thanks for the info!
I wonder the same and am having a tough time deciding which to take (or both).
Two things to add:

1. As one of the article commenters pointed out: "git diff". Seriously.

2. One of the best things I ever did was to buy a weight bench/barbell. When I do my twice-an-hour "walk away for five minutes" routine, I go and do 20 bicep curls or bench presses. I solve problems faster and also improve my health/strength. Win/win!
Dude, you owe yourself the $10 to try one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Fisher-Space-Pen-Non-Reflective-SM4B/d...

Pretty sure they're gel. They sure as hell don't smear. And that model is retractable.

I fucking love the Space Pen cartridges. Finding the right pen body can be kind of annoying though.
Hopefully he stays focused on startups and away from the fluff pieces and pandering that pretty much defined TechCrunch at the end.
The author is correct to blast the board, but the claim that Whitman "has zero background in tech" suggests that she comes to the HP job as an old-school industrialist. Starting in 1998, she spent 10 years growing eBay, which required an understanding of market dynamics and making some smart technology hires and acquisitions (including PayPal) along the way.
The Bayh-Dole Act is the reason that this can happen when the research is federally funded (in the US).
Both Bing and Yahoo display the same results -- summary/graph/links to finance product from search results, like Google -- and that this is just one example of how search has evolved past serving blue links and that to be competitive (good) at search, one needs to give the right answer without clicking through to results. Google got really good at this; everyone else wish they thought / got good at it first; and now Government is tasked with crippling Google's products -- hurting consumers -- and allow only competitors to practice "as a monopoly."

Personally, I've never felt like I was locked into Google, couldn't (didn't) have all of my data elsewhere, or couldn't manage without their presence. However, my life would suck a lot if Google didn't integrate with itself.
I have to agree missing braces in general bugs me and often causes accidental bugs.
> I'd even pay more for one knowing it was made in the US.

How much? Serious question, just curious.
Speaking of deployment, anyone has a good suggestion for a simple deploying system in AWS? Ideally a generic EC2 instance is booted up with an apptype passed in, and based on the apptype it downloads the app code from S3 and starts up the app. The code is pushed to S3 by dev when it's ready. Is there such a system?
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URL of their paper in PLoS ONE: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
You can see FindJPN in this article. Awesome!
Mieple is on!
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i think the writer is saying that this post is not about the holocaust or a debt about it and that he is not anti all jews, rather pointing out to the bias of TechCrunch and its hate to Islam as such Muslims which affected its coverage. as for the image i see that it shows you that Arrington looks from one eye, the eye of the Zionist jew not a racist pic at all.
So, you want to use Node.js require() in the browser...
I'm also a novice emacs user. I know a few commands, but I'm aware that I've barely begun to scratch the surface of what it can do.

I've been using it every day for about ten and a half years now.
"The main problem is that consoles have a massive lack in graphical power. When the Xbox 360 was first released graphics cards of the time were already around 40% more powerful, now current gpu's are around 10X more powerful than console's"

A counter-argument, saying DirectX slows down the performance of a graphics card by up to 10X, which would pretty much nullify the hypothetical gain of PC hardware over consoles:

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2011/03/16/farewel...
I don't know about blaming this on any larger trend. I think that Jarrod just didn't understand his market. I don't know anything about him, but if this was one of his first companies then blaming failure on his customers is a pretty common thing.

When my first company failed, I blamed my customers. When the second didn't get off the ground, I blamed the technology. And when my third failed, I blamed myself.
so why do you think all religions are evil and Islam in particular?
What was it like to be in the Soviet Union just before it collapsed?
This article is almost insinuating that only the developers work hard, but the other people at facebook are just coasting on the developers hard work. The fact is, other people can bring a lot to a company as well. Where do the developers think the money comes from, not from writing great code, but getting advertisers interested.
Adblocking is a practical solution to something we see as a problem. Many people don't even think this is a problem and actively ignore people trying to educate them, so what do you propose the right thing to do here is?

> So now the computer literate people know how to do X, but what about everyone else?

This is only a problem that will get worse with time. Computer literacy is important to contemporary society.
If you're interested in this stuff, there is a "Camp DevOps" in Chicago next month.

http://campdevops.com/

Involves some of the same folks who put on the excellent Erlang Camp I attended last year, on the basis of that experience, I'd expect this to be a good value.
It's good to know! Looks interesting...
I think you've found the Lisp found in SICP more easier simply because Scheme (the Lisp flavour used in SICP) is purposely more concise than Common Lisp (the language from the this book).

Some teachers claim they could teach you Scheme in about one hour (see the excellent course of Brian Harvey).

Common Lisp is a different kind of beast.
I've been a programmer for about 11 years. I've been doing it professionally for about 6. The fact that you're writing code because you want to makes you a programmer, not whether you're doing it professionally or whether you're any good at it (yet).

Welcome to the ranks. I always value one more person in this field that is driven to build something of quality.
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I agree with you here. Never happened to me, and I've never seen it happen.

Another one is if(0 == some_thing). It seems clever and I try to use it, but if you write if(some_thing = 0), the compiler just warns you. So there's no real point in doing this.
Are you think of something like chef?

http://www.opscode.com/chef/

It maybe doesn't fit the bill of simple, but it's not too dreadfully hard to get set up if you only want it to fulfill some relatively straightforward tasks like you describe.
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Show HN: A simple, header-only, MIT-licensed, C++ logging library.
Hey all,

Just opened a GitHub account and created this project. This is my first time open-sourcing anything, and also the first time I've used GitHub (and also one of the first times I've used any sort of revision-control system at all). I'm looking for any and all constructive criticism, and if you decide to use my lil' project, it'd be awesome if you dropped me a line and said so!

Thanks!

https://github.com/andrew-d/cpplog
Size is the best predictor of code quality
I chipped in $50 and I am not a pen snob.

Kickstarter has less to do with buying things and more with supporting people that do stuff that is genuinely interesting and original. This pen - or rather the pen casing - is a really unique piece of design work and I happen to like it so much that I wanted to let the designers develop it into a real product. For fun and profit, yay.
Sure, but the advertising platform itself doesn't exist without the developers. I didn't really catch the insinuation you caught. I read it as just that the developers were getting snubbed in favor of the "a-list" personalities, when they should be peers.
Well, it certainly is nice to see that Netflix's promise of securing higher-quality content is at least partially coming to fruition.

Also, it is nice to see a content creator finally start talking seriously about internet streaming versus traditional cable as a means of content delivery.
Got excited for new content on Netflix Instant -- then read further and saw it wasn't taking effect until 2013...I am now less excited.
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DreamWorks Animation, not DreamWorks. That's a much smaller subset of the DreamWorks catalogue. Link bait.
I am still waiting when I can play Netflix on Linux.
I saw the link for ifttt on HN a few weeks ago and it reminded me that Pipes existed, and that I need to actually test the limits of what it can do.
You could join a boat with experienced sailors. Google "crew wanted" and you'll find plenty of opportunities to do so.