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You can't easily sell advertising against user generated content. YouTube's inventory is full of UGC videos and advertisers simply don't want to be associated with it. YouTube has a whole bunch of partners that produce videos & syndicate them through YouTube and are making money by selling advertising against them.

This is why live streaming video companies have such hard time monetizing... it's impossible for advertisers to approve of the content since no one knows what people will do while the feed is live.

Since Hulu has high-quality content, they can command premium prices for advertising and since they're funded/owned by big media companies, they even benefit from their ad sales teams.
Well I am familiar with these. I just never got my hands on a real world data analysis problem.
That last sentence is so true it hurts, and that's a point I've been trying to preach for a very long time (only to get downvotes). There is nothing of worth on Facebook. Nothing.

Was it Mashable.com that did the study and found that almost every Facebook app was developed and marketed as a "just for fun" app?

I find more utility out of Twitter than I do Facebook; over the last year I've made four new friends on Twitter who live near me one of whom is about to let me rent a house from him. That's utility, and it's organic; I don't need some marketplace to look for someone to rent from. When you're capable of making connections just on location alone and let people do the work of becoming friends you've got something. And on that, Twitter beats out Facebook everytime.
Totally, plus Hulu has a much easier job. YouTube has to store millions upon millions of videos and make them searchable. Hulu has very few videos by comparison, they can be pre-processed by people who know what they're doing, they know how many more GB of video they'll get each week, they have a pretty good idea of which of their videos will be most popular. . .

YouTube is based off of the unknown becoming known. Hulu knows how much storage it needs, and what's going to be the most popular. They can push the latest episode of the Office to CDNs knowing it will generate a lot of traffic. YouTube can only do that in reaction to content that becomes popular.

It's incredible that YouTube works as well as it does considering the number of unknowns they have to deal with. Hulu has a really easy job adding, say, 100 videos a week.
Heterosexual marriage isn't fundamental to our very existence and survival. Making babies is essential, which some heterosexual people do, and raising babies into adults is essential, which some gay people and some straight people do. Marriage isn't necessary for any of it.

Treating people equally isn't fundamental to our existence either, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
Interesting, I had indeed not heard of it. And before you get all confused like I did, I should point out that this article is from 2003.

Recent data: http://www.investmenttools.com/futures/bdi_baltic_dry_index....
Thanks for the reply. I'm sure you're right that it's typical paperwork delay - it just doesn't work for me. Unfortunately, this attitude of mine will prevent me from dealing with some large companies (with large cheques). I will think about what you say.

However, switching to closed source did fix this problem, and I was still getting sales from large companies.
I skimmed over the original article (Burson et al '06) to decode "noise and bias model":

The authors found out that on easy tasks less skilled people overestimated their performance while more skilled people estimated correctly that they did ok.

On hard tasks more skilled people underestimated their performance, while bad performers correctly estimated that they performed poorly.

In other words, on easy tasks everybody thought they were doing ok, on hard tasks everybody thought they were doing badly.

Thus it seems nobody did any metacognition; people of all skill levels just assessed task difficulty. On easy tasks "smart" people happened to be correct, on difficult tasks it was "dumb" people turn.
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It's news.

Why would news organizations not report it?
Here's an animation showing how the map is folded out from the globe: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=vfOcYUWfVqE
Indeed, this is not true. Sustained attention is necessary in certain types of problems, but those you would call "state of the art" encompasses something much broader.

The immediate example in my mind is the benzene ring story, conceived in a dream.
I see--I didn't realize that the language had that history here. (I've only been reading posts here for about six months.)

Sorry for the blunder on my behalf! Is it possible to change the post to reflect this?
When i read people who assume intelligence has anything to do with perfectly mimicing others systematically, I assume it's because they read so much they can't think for themselves, and stick so closely to analyzing the text that they don't engage the ideas.

People making systematic mistakes is why we don't all speak shakespearian. It's how the DNA of ideas evolves. I'z skateboarden on yur sidewak, levin u behind. Yur Rulez u wasted yur life mastezing our obsoletest. Possible realities are like a fractal wave and evolving languages holographically in the 21st century is more useful then rigidly adhering to rules made by 20th century monkeys thinking 19th century ways. Can u deal with it, grandpa?
Damn, I posted in the wrong thread it seems.

Mamma.com is a company with too much money and no vision - at least that's how they were when someone I knew was dealing with them. I don't know how an "insider" manages to not sell his shares as soon as the opportunity arises.
Well at leas there are only 90!
If I couldn't pipe my Twitter updates to Facebook, I would never update Facebook.
Want a decent HTML parser to sanitize HTML documents? Write it by yourself or pay for crappy third-party closed-source component.

Sounds like a fantastic platform/market, if you want to write great components and sell them.
Not much of a response...
What's your purpose? That is, "better" for what?
They mention it fairly often on the day-time market-watching shows on CNBC.
Realism about your own skills, if coupled with realism about others' skills, might encourage you to build a stronger team earlier. The point of the article is that "you should listen to those you disagree with instead of writing them off as idiots." Overestimating your own abilities makes it less likely you will listen.
Honda makes money building cars in the US. Industry's with large upfront capital outlays tend to have a fairly constant and positive ROI for the most efficient participants. Because people don't spend a billion+ to enter the market if the odds of a positive ROI are poor.
wait, you didn't include a way to contact you.

i tried emailing to:
join("adam", "@", "8planes", ".com")

but my email client returned an error.
Developing for a client is much different than developing for the web. I see two options here.
1 - If you don't like doing client development and your true passion is in web development, quit or find a new position in the company where you can do web development
2 - Take the opportunity to learn a new language and platform. Adding a tool to your belt is never a bad thing, and as a professional programmer, getting caught up in "X is evil, I'm only going to use Y" religious thinking probably will do more to reduce opportunties than to open up new ones. Good, experienced devs use the best tool for the job, and if the only tool you have is a hammer... As for WPF, for Win client development, it's (worst case) as good a choice as any and (best case) probably the right tool for the job.
Cuban may well have been selectively targeted here. Let's not forget that the SEC used its power to get back at Joe Nacchio for refusing to go along with the warrantless wiretapping. Not to say that Nacchio (or Cuban) wasn't guilty, but there could be more here than meets the eye.
A question for the more financially minded around here: How much of an impact would Cuban's sale of the stock have made on the price? As in, had he waited until their announcement, then sold all of his (largest minority) share, how much of a price deflation could have been expected?

I imagine if that drop were large enough, he'd at least have an argument that he shouldn't need to pay all of the $750k back.
Most five year plans had little to do with real engineering and where focused on "helping X" at the cost of Y.
I realized as much, np. At the very least appreciate what you wrote, but i'll checkout "corporate taxation". Thanks.
You shouldn't report just headlines. This morning CNN literally just had an unclickable headline about Cuban. No article. No link. Nothing. Just more "breaking news" linkbait/trafficbait bullshit.

Ironically, TC has had the best coverage so far.
"There is nothing of worth on Facebook. Nothing."

I could not disagree more. Facebook is rapidly replacing email, phone, and other channels as the method that many people use to keep up with friends and family. My parents and literally hundreds of their friends have started using it over the last six months and now use it aggressively. These people are definitely not early adopters or anything...most of them are conservative midwesterners in their 40s and 50s, and most of them are very active on a daily basis, using everything from status updates to photo uploads.

Facebook hasn't figured out how to monetize their userbase yet, but the social utility value is enormous.
Of course he is allowed to sell the stocks if he wants to. But if he knew more than the other shareholders and sold because he knew the stock would plummet, it's neither lawful nor "right".

According to the article, he knew he was not allowed to sell his stake. Maybe he was upset and was not thinking straight, but if the events happened as depicted in the article, there is no other way to describe this than "wrong".
I don't know. Does it? A relatively small number of people made a ton of money off of it while a relatively large number of people got burned.
Anything more than that would be likely prohibited by his lawyer. It's very, very easy to make the wrong public statement.
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Wow, that's umm...really low brow.
More of a quantum chemist, though I realize this is a distinction most people who aren't theoretical solid-state physicists are unlikely to care about.

Margaret Thatcher also had a chemistry background (though only a Bachelors, unlike Merkel's PhD).
IMHO, Hulu's incredible success is a big milestone in the inevitable digital entertainment convergence story.

Prediction: The next-gen gaming consoles will bring together TV and movie streaming services to put a ton of pressure on both the traditional rental market and cable companies. I could see Xbox 720 partnering with Hulu + Netflix streaming, PS4 hooking up with YouTube, and potentially Apple building a gaming platform + iTunes (or maybe partnering with Nintendo). Along with a convergence of tv, movies, and gaming, the platforms already have a social network component that will bring together social media experiences that will create new forms of entertainment that cable companies simply can't match. Just like home phones were a no-brainer necessity prior to cell phone ubiquity, so are the days numbered for big cable.
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I think that there is an optimal appetite for risk. Probably higher than what results in repeated reality checks, but lower than what results in exuberance bubbles.
We do tend to calibrate our risk appetites depending on events [1], but there is a baseline around which this level fluctuates.
It is a separately interesting issue if overconfidence is merely a scaling factor in the current scenario when it wasn't risk being underestimated in the model, but the model itself being utterly flawed.

[1] http://cat.inist.fr/?aModele=afficheN&cpsidt=19871303
Why would one want to play a game that makes them vomit?
studies show the headline is the most read, influential, and remembered part.

you're not supposed to want to think, you're supposed to want to be able to convey to other people that you're part of the same cult they are by using key phrases while not putting in the effort to actually think, and be mesmerized by the ads while you are skimming well enough to bullshit your way through meaningless pseudo-conversation with other cult members about the headline along the paradigm of choices the puppet-masters create for you.

Of course they should just report headlines. You are the product they sell to their customers (advertisers). You think they care one little bit about informing you of the world as it is? It works out best for everyone except you if they don't. Go back to sleep, watch american gladiators, and don't think about it too much.
Perhaps it will turn out that people don't want their friendships to be "monetized".
Readers depend on news websites to report breaking news in a timely manner. I'm sure CNN would love to have a full article about the charges as soon as they are announced, but even they need some time to read, digest, and write up their report.
Yep, I'm sure Cuban would love to talk about it, but he could get in legal hot-water depending on what he says. (In fact, I'm surprised he said anything.)
I had left CS after I graduated in '04 because I thought the job market was bad and I didn't like the hard classes I took my last 2 semesters. I was working on a Masters in Urban Planning and read pg's essay "How to Be Silicon Valley" (http://paulgraham.com/siliconvalley.html) which showed up in some urban planning discussion forums. It was provocative and well written so I read his other stuff, which reignited the interest in computing that I had when I was younger but lost when I became focused on school and jobs.
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I found this off-the-cuff with a few google queries, but trust me man I feel your pain; this might not be the solution you're looking for if you know some CSS and HTML; otherwise, your welcome. Honestly I'd browse the plethora of free themes available at http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/ ; find one you like, figure out the themes image dimensions then Photoshop your site according to your brand. Otherwise, hire a web-designer. ;)
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Wow! Those studies are very good at uncovering the obvious. Maybe that's what you want to do, but it's not what _I_ want to do. And it's one of the many reasons why old school publications & media companies are dying. Good. While the in depth, real reporting publications are doing well (e.g. The Economist).

I think you're the one that needs to go back to sleep; you've obviously given it more thought than me.

What's american gladiators? You're being factitious right?
True, but you could also talk about aggregate skill estimation of a team as a whole, and what they should do when another team (or the stock market) disagrees with them.
Realism would be nice to arrive at, but say I hope to build a better mousetrap. How do I realistically estimate my chances in this endeavor?
"But the past two years have been rocky for Tesla, which first announced it would build a big factory in New Mexico, then said it would instead build in San Jose, after California dangled incentives to stay in the state."

Oh no! They took advantage of incentives to change their plans.
Perhaps fellow insider trader Martha Stewart could send him some cookies if they lock him up.
I'm going to let the courts decide before passing judgment. Right now, the only perspective we've heard is the government's.
The problem with focusing on actual needs is they are cheep to satisfy.

Food is a good example of this as there is little nutritional benefit to spending more than ~10$ / person / day at a grocery store. So to increase profits you to convince people to buy food with little nutritional value which produces over consumption (soda). Or you charge high prices for organic food which might provide some benefit. Or you go for the convenience of a microwave dinner. Finally, people buy apples based on what they can see not on how they taste so there is a disconnect between actual value and preceved value. Which is where advertising comes in you can't make a better tasting soda but you can convince people to pay extra for your brand of soda.

PS: Notice how none of these have anything to do with the basic function of food.
Even as a libertarian, I find the temptation to call for a ban on leveraging past about 10x very strong. It's just insane. As the article says, at 30x you're looking at a 3% drop wiping you out and 4% sending you into horrifying debt. What market, anywhere, ever, can guarantee never to drop 3%? None worth being in.

And it has to be a guarantee, too, because like gambling in Vegas, once you're wiped out, you lose and can't play again. (Without a government prop, anyhow.)

Add to that the way leverage calls tend to cascade and crash the entire system, and it just seems an insane primitive to build a financial system on.

(In practice, my ban would fail anyhow, since I'm sure some financial legerdemain could figure out how to triple-leverage something if somebody really wanted it, regardless of how carefully the law was written. Maybe what I really want is the ability to invest money (including my bank savings account) and specify a leverage tolerance limit. Anyway, I'm not really trying to propose a solution, just express some horror at the use of leverage in our system.)
-1000, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100, 100

average of entries 0, 10 of 11 entries above average

I'll bet that the typical college prof believes that a small fraction of her "peers" rate -1000 or worse.
I have trouble seeing how insider trading is "wrong", myself. Somebody bought or sold stock who was going to buy/sell at that time anyway. How did the actions of the inside trader hurt them?

Life is full of insider advantages. People profit from personal connections and information all over the place. Why should we pretend the stock market is any different? Especially considering how flimsy the charade really is. "Insider trading" is truly rampant and enforcement is an arbitrary joke.
Recovering overwritten data from a modern hard drive is impossible. Even Peter Gutmann himself admits that in the paper that everybody cites but nobody reads.

Fill your disk with zeros (just once) and you're good to go.
i believe the reason hulu is able to monetize is because they know the industry well. these guys already have the contacts and the content in place. i think youtube will rise to the top eventually when the show creator realizes that s/he can make more money on youtube. the already established companies that run hulu have a higher cost to operate than youtube. also, since youtube deals with a higher volume of content (both short clips and long clips), they know how to manage/automate a lot of their tasks that in the long run will lower operating expenses (head count).

another thing to take note, is that youtube is adding a lot of older content (old tv shows) to their collection. they already have the younger audience, and now they are trying to capture the older audience. the people in the middle who go to hulu are in the 20-30 year old range. this is a smaller segment of the population that is already familiar with youtube, and therefore already recognize the brand. so, if youtube succeeds with capturing the mature audience (people with money), they are establishing a business that is far more leverage-able than hulu.
http://www.slate.com/id/2203121/pagenum/all

Did people who knew about secret, CIA-led coups use that information to game the stock market? Sure looks like it.
Holy crap. 25 million views?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRH3iTQPrk

How can I spend 12 hours a day on the internet and not have seen that? I was equally shocked when the whole benny lava craze passed me by.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
Is there a "selective targeting" exemption from insider trading regulations?
Reminds me of:

http://cr.yp.to/sarcasm/modest-proposal.txt
Even a short paragraph (which ESPN/WSJ had before them) would be nice. It demonstrates a level of due diligence.

The term "breaking news" doesn't mean anything any more because it's so overused. It's like the word unique or the word special.
I never knew there was a mamma.com
I'm glad to see the program being handled by Amazon this time around; hopefully that will prevent all of the distribution headaches that happened during the previous program.
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Irrelevant really. Selective targeting didn't coerce him into breaking a law (if he did).
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How are you coming to these conclusions?

The latest IRS reports show that the wealthiest 10% and large corporations still pay over 60% of all taxes despite loopholes and creative accounting techniques.
If you're not actively trading, you should only care about long term changes. The best indicator I know is changes in productivity. It is a great predictor of permanent increases in wealth.
What's almost as bad is how ambiguous the rules are. At one point in my life I studied for the CFA, and the Ethics section (which included Insider Trading among other things) was one of the hardest sections because everything was so cryptic and muddy.
"You're being factitious right?"

see you don't want to think, you want me to give you an answer! You are starting to stir, but your next realization needs to be that your desire to read the economist instead of the CNN headlines, and the resultant feeling of superiority are themselves programming delivered the same way through the same mechanisms.

Picture Rupert Murdoch playing with puppet strings attached to education, political, and religious groups talking to an emperor palpatine figure who is the ghost of Edward Barney's, being told, "We'll control the rubes with Fox, and we'll control the slightly smarter rubes with the message 'Well the rubes watching fox are brainwashed, but the source I get my information from is more sophisticated.' which we can imprint on them the same ways. We'll just program them to think they are thinking, as a way to stop them fro actually thinking."

Go back to sleep, it's not as nice when you're always aware of it.
Sorry dude, the rich and corporations might not pay all the tax they're supposed to, but they pay the majority of the taxes collected.

http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1118/do-the-rich-pa...
If you spend one month on an app and make ~8k from it your doing fine. The trick is to only spend ~1month per 8k of profit.
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american gladiators

He/she is probably making a reference to Bill Hicks: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqs9ap3iV-4
Wrong - it wasn't. Cute attempt though. Your answers sounds like it was from someone who watches American Gladiators, but you probably already knew that. Did Rupert help produce?

Unfortunately, voice tone doesn't carry over in written communication, and when someone writes with attitude dripping off theirs words it's hard to decipher what they mean.

Go back to sleep, maybe when you wake up you won't be as pretentious.
PG will edit it if he wants to -- that's why I flagged the post, to draw it to his attention. :-)
That's a dangerous point of view. They carefully calibrate the laws so that most people are breaking some of them at least sometimes.
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