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It depends on the kind of business you are. If you are actually a producer of porn (bang bros, naughty america, kink, etc.) you sell subscriptions or "points" packages for pay-per-view/live streaming. To get those subscriptions you use just about every method out there and continue to try since the way traffic is driven to porn sites changes every year. It's a mix of affiliate traffic with a different mix of programs like revenue sharing, pay-per-signup, etc. and then you throw in a mix of other direct ad programs like ad words.

One of the difficult parts of being in the porn business, aside from the difficulty in getting a bank that will actually process your transactions, is that the way traffic is driven to your business changes annually. The affiliates bear the brunt of that, though, but you pay them about 50% of the revenue they bring in for that so it is costly. But you're always trying to find ways to bring in traffic yourself since you don't like giving up 50% of your revenue to an affiliate.
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This argument always blows my mind. Who cares about revenue? Profit is what counts. If you make 10 trillion, but have to spend 10 trillion and 1, you're failing.

Web-based companies have to make a profit too. Why do people forget this?
"He was saying we shouldn't expect Groupon to be around in 10 years because the company's plan is to collect as much cash as possible, fire everybody, and shut down, keeping the money for the investors."

Because the problem isn't the source (the barber). It's the idea that a groupon executive would have said something like this to his barber, physician, plumber etc.

Maybe bragging to his call girl, maybe to a friend when drunk (and was overheard) but it's ridiculous to think someone would say something like this even in jest.
Out of curiosity, did you finally give Niecza a try or are you still ignoring it out of opposition to anything .NET?

I do not (only) ask to be a smart mouth -- I'm genuinely interested in how it rates on your personal scale of production-readiness...
Sorry, this came off a bit rude. I just saw the Go version having the same magic numbers all over instead of using a straightforward enum for no cost, so I felt like this was worth mentioning.

On the other hand, I feel that building all kinds of stuff around notchs MMO-CPU is just an outlet for all of the excitement that has built up. I guess its upon Mojang to deliver and stop people from diverting off course.
xkcd says it all https://xkcd.com/936/

[edit: tl;dr longer is better]
> Id fell apart when it couldn't come up with something better than the Doom franchise.

Except for, you know... Quake.

On your other point. The difference between Zynga and EA is that Zynga's games have a huge turnover rate and a very low percentage of paying customers. EA's games -- at least most of their games -- have 100% paying customers and have a large returning customer rate year after year (Madden 11, Madden 12, Madden 13, Fifa 11, Fifa 12...).

So in other words, Zynga's business model is completely different than EA's.
For me the key is making them inconspicuous, or at least look like normal glasses. I can't imagine adoption if they're bulky or have logos on them.
Yeah, I agree with this statement. The title comparing MintChip to BitCoin is probably somewhat misleading. MintChip won't provide the decentralized currency system that BitCoin does, but as an alternative to credit cards, it does seem very appealing!
Culture tends to impact laws, but that wasn't the parent's point.

The general availability of a given product in a given area affects said products availability in said area's black market.

In this case, more guns in circulation = more guns on the black market.
This isn't to say that all black market guns originated from the legal (market), but supply does trickle down.
Depends on how it's structured, doesn't it? It's entirely possible that programs and data will share the same memory with no sandboxing between programs. In that case, then without some sort of MMU a virus could just inject code into an otherwise benign program.

Even with finer program access controls, it would still be hard to protect as long as untrusted code was allowed to alter trusted.
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I'm with you. I can't think of anything more exciting in the tech world today than the potential for AR available to the masses. The potential applications are mind blowing. One example I can think of off the top of my head is developing an internal application for a manufacturer's warehouse staff. The glasses could detect QR codes on boxes making picking and shipping products simple. You might be shocked how much work goes into ensuring that the right parts are picked from a pick-list. That's one small example. I can think of dozens more.
"And that's a damn shame, because given Google's talent, it'll nevertheless be a engineering feat of epic proportion."

You know, I have respect for the people Google employs - they are certainly a very talented bunch. But what has Google ever engineered, at least physically, that has set your expectations so high?
You need to be wearing Google goggles to think this is a good idea
I think you got downvoted because you come off a little fanboyish when you retort the class action lawsuits regarding false advertising simply stating "Siri is great". Just because 90% of people use it once a month doesn't make it great. That said, I personally think Siri is great, and use it all the time. :)
But you still end up paying for the possibility of those disputes in terms of higher prices. If you make a dispute because somebody stole your card and bought stuff, the damage isn't simply undone by a chargeback. The merchant loses out. Chargebacks from identity theft, as you describe, are a massive source of risk to merchants, and they have to factor that into the price of their items. What's more, the credit card companies impose large fees on merchants who get too many disputes against them (even if they aren't engaging in fraud themselves, but instead they are the ones getting defrauded through the process you described).
This would make the Raspberry Pi distribution a "first class citizen" for Fedora.
You know the saying? Lottery is for people who are bad at math. Well, same for startups. The odds are so against you you might as well play the lottery.
I've put some thought into metrics as well. A few other alternatives suggest themselves:

- Considering the standard deviation of ratings. On a 5 point scale, an item that rates 3 because ratings are split between 1 and 5 votes, differs from one that gets mostly 3 votes. The latter is a middlin' fit for anyone, the former has an enthusiastic but niche audience. If you're looking at sales, the former can be a valuable product if properly marketed.

- An item that gathers few votes regardless of favorability ratings can exhibit multiple problems. One is that it isn't well marketed / publicised, or known. Another (particularly on content sites) is that there's very likely a sampling bias (mutual admiration society / negging attack / vote stuffing). I've tended to favor systems which take into account the total volume of voting, generally on a ln(n) basis, though not out of any particular statistical rigor. As an implementation, you'd start with a 5 point Likert score, then multiply by, say, ln(n+1) (avoiding a zero multiplier on a single vote).

- The pattern of ratings over time and space (IP or geographical) may reveal both opportunities for marketing and/or issues with your ratings system. Since any effective quality proxy will be abused, you've got to be sensitive to the latter.

The Wilson score is an improvement over multiple other methods. It still does assume a relatively unbiased estimator and rating behavior. My feeling and experience is that excess reliance on any one metric is likely to cause problems -- reality is multidimensional, metrics for assessing reality should be as well.

There's also the question of whether or not you want to make specific recommendations for an individual, or general recommendations for a population. In the former case, correlating other rankings or behavior may give a better fit (and the Wilson score may still be useful).

Though for a suitably specific goal (marketing, suitability, revenue potential) a single encompassing metric may work.
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I did a quick search through the thread for this.

I don't think we should discount the popularity of Draw Something. It's in the forefront of peoples minds and this associates it with that as well as being a fun game. I wouldn't be surprised if there is a strong correlation with the popularity of that game.
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I've been trying it out for a few minutes, and there's plenty of room for improvement.
1) I cannot edit a previously highlighted notation (it just shows me the content)
2) My notations do not show up in my Account (->recent notations). Is there maybe just a lag? Is there going to be a central place to organize/manage all notations? Perhaps notations can be combined with catching the URL (a sort of fast bookmarking service, since the data is already there).

I'll be looking forward to see how it develops.
I would pay for a large file transferring service.
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>Android was bought two years before the iPhone came out.

obligatory http://www.technobuffalo.com/companies/google/android/androi...
I wonder how many Google Glasses wearers will become Life Loggers? I meet them at conferences occasionally. Some people actively avoid them. There's something about standing face to face with someone taking a photo of you every X seconds that people find really unnerving. I certainly do. Real time video is worse and it's very different to CCTV.

How long before Google collects and mines all this video like they did with Google StreetView but in realtime? Combined with the huge advances in facial recognition the privacy implementations are frightening. It reminds me of the scifi film "The Entire History of You". [1]

In the future will people who want to opt out of face recognition and tracking have to wear identifiers*, e.g. QR codes, on their person when talking to Google Glasses users, much like Google's wifi policy? [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29#3...

[2] http://searchengineland.com/google-announces-nomap-wifi-opto...
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I don't work with these types of people, so I might sound ignorant here, but it seems like glasses like these could add a lot of "noise" to the world of an autistic or disabled adult.
jobs would cut the email export tools imap/pop access and start charging for every account.

now, back on topic, there's no silver bullet for anything. a company should be in the #1 and #2 of any market and while at there, try to invent new markets to keep being the #1 or #2 at something in the long run.
The idea matters a bit, even if it's not the top priority. If the idea doesn't matter at all, why not just take your team of gifted programmers and start a consulting company hacking and finishing all client requests in 72 hours or less? If such a company existed, they can probably charge six figures for every project they take on.
I don't think that's exactly the same comparison. Orbitz, to me, seems much more corporate and doesn't have the same connection with the developer and startup community that these do. That's not to say Orbitz isn't worthy of attention, merely they don't shove it in our faces like 37signals ;)
PHP actually seems like a good balance in terms of server support vs. (what I can guess of) the application requirements. It's brain-dead simple to run and if you weren't precomputing everything a page needs for response-time reasons the language would push you towards doing so anyways.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're using PHP for what it was originally meant to do (add a thin layer of dynamic-ness to straight html) and precomputing all of the data it uses in something else.
I simply gave up after a month

Well, there's the problem.

There was no insight in this essay, it just seemed like the ramblings of someone who wasn't paying attention for decades.
Can you expand a bit more on the autism thing? I admittedly don't know much about autism, but I was under the impression that a big hurdle was the fact that an autistic person is very routine 'dependent'. So, when there is a novel event like go to the movies and it breaks routine, it can be very difficult to cope with the break in routine

Am I just thinking of a different symptom, so to speak, of autism?
The original intention was to have an armed populace to protect against a tyrannical government.

Well, yes, and IMHO that's a completely and utterly obsolete clause. In the extremely unlikely event that this would actually be justified, do you really think that a bunch of citizens with handguns will make any difference against the largest and most high-tech military in the world?

As for the second point, since the primary sources of weapons for criminal acts are legal then we should make weapons themselves illegal? All that does is punish law-abiding citizens...

If one accepts that the desired outcome is to lower the amount of crime perpetrated against law-abiding citizens and that having guns is a means to that end, rather than an end in and of itself (in which case this particular argument is moot), then it would seem to follow that if it is found that the drawbacks of an increased supply guns trickling down to criminals outweigh the advantages in citizens being able to "defend" themselves, the rational conclusion must be that making guns illegal across the board is not in fact "punishing law-abiding citizens" but rather saving them from unnecessary crime.

A correlation of crime/murder rates and gun ownership across different nations does not give much support to the idea that having more guns make people safer. It seems like "security theater" to me.
Serious question: how does the presence of MG+MA add real credibility to any event?
License fail. Read it. It's ridiculous.
Would you be able to use a database hosted on EC2?
Not really relevant in this case, though. Clearly, Google was planning to get involved in the mobile space before the iPhone. The physical form of that involvement may have changed, but that doesn't qualify Android as a "knee-jerk reaction".

In any case, since then the iPhone notification tray has clearly copied Android, etc. etc. All to the benefit of the end user, IMO.
Thanks for taking a look. We'll let you know when Firefox is supported!
"define "apparently". i'm honestly curious "

Apparently: dictionary meaning = apparently [əˈpærəntlɪ əˈpɛər-] adv (sentence modifier) it appears that; as far as one knows; seemingly

Kara Swisher reported at http://allthingsd.com/20120330/yahoo-layoffs-set-to-begin-ne... that

"Thompson, along with consultants he has hired from the Boston Consulting Group, presented the possible plan in front of Yahoo’s senior execs on Tuesday. "

Lacy from Pando "We’ve heard that Thompson has spent most of his tenure thus far holed up in the executive suite with Boston Consulting Group. "

So there have been some reports but I don't work at Yahoo and haven't seen this with my own eyes. Hence "apparently".

Did that help satisfy your 'honest curiosity'?
Something along the lines of Gary Bernhardt's Destroy All Software (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts), but focused on iOS. Feels like there's a lack of advanced iOS knowledge sharing on the web.

As for web utilities, there's really nothing I'd pay $10 a month for.
Interesting. I guess the other factors come in and make the technical aspect less...appealing.
My gist was you don't have to be able to know, just walk down the street, then walk down the same street 6 months later, and many of the shops will have changed.
I meant that the whole notion of a HUD interface built into my glasses looks ridiculous.
I would love to have an ARM netbook that lasts for a couple of days on a full charge. Actually I'd like one with an e-ink screen. Maybe 13 inches?
The RCM mints currency for many countries and sells the purest metal coins you can buy, the RCM are nothing but innovative.
The plan might be the most rational one I've heard regarding Groupon. Not the most moral strategy, but it's one that seems to factor in their vague value proposition.
Already done in a few languages:

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I think the technical infrastructure they've built to support Youtube, Google Search, and the rest of their products is a modern technological marvel, and that was designed 100% in-house as far as I know.

I don't think they've developed a physical consumer product that is revolutionary, but I believe they have the talent to do so.
I'm not sure why you would find that quote so offensive, but to be fair, the disillusioned youth on Reddit are probably just as sensitive to the "anyone can pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" assertions by smug boomers (like the GP). Such a world-view is increasingly at odds with an economic reality in which income inequality is higher than its been in decades, and growing.
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I wonder if there's way to do it while avoiding the issues faced by megaupload and others?
An alternative approach is to avoid building systems that require you to keep the whole "huge system" in your head at once.
Savings of $375M annually would imply an average of $187500/ employee. Does this seem high to anyone else?

I can't imagine all of these employees are cream of the crop engineers/managers.
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Just another example of the two-face nature of our SF government.
please say I'm not the only person who thought of the "eyePhone" from Futurama.
Do you have to check the petrol gauge so often, that it's a great boon having it on the HUD?
This might be the right place to ask but ... is there a reason people keep reinventing SSO?

It's 2012. The first place I saw SSO was on a Banyan VINES network, in 1990. Years, I hasten to add, before NetWare figured it out.

We've got it, still, in the enterprise. It's now Active Directory, but I can use my same credentials for login and auth on Windows clients, unix machines, two different web apps from as many external providers.

Note, I have no idea how the web apps obtain my login credentials, save that the AD guy and the web guys did some black magic behind the scenes.

Why do people keep re-inventing SSO, sometimes badly? No way to make a black box that Just Works?
sigh The article makes it sound like these sites are doing everything themselves including pushing the bits.

Maybe some are but I can say from personal experience that most of your traffic, if you're smart, comes out of a CDN. The sites themselves are definitely not that interactive which makes them simpler to publish. The pages are almost all cached and that doesn't take much horsepower to serve up. The big video sites have ratings and comments but they are not that big of a deal. People go to watch porn sites to watch porn, not interact. Customer analytics have shown that over and over.

I know of virtually no porn company that handles their own transactions, either. They all go through billing companies that handle things like PCI compliance for them.

Most sites also use a system like NATs to do their affiliate management. You need one that the affiliates trust isn't shaving sign-ups from their account. They tend to trust NATs.

For the data on the backend you just have a SAN to manage the data or you just manage it on a few servers with lots of disks but if you are really at the 100TB mark then you get a SAN I would think. That's what we did. Sure, it's a lot of space but they're big files so managing them isn't that hard.

I'd say the largest issue that a company like YouPorn will have is the amount of data in their working set for a CDN. CDNs generally charge you for the size of your working set that they keep at each POP in their network so you want to keep it as small as possible.

At the end of the day running a large porn network is more about integrating the myriad of partners you need to run the network. The infrastructure is interesting for a while but once you have it working the business of doing deals and handling promotions and figuring out why integration point A isn't working like it should is what keeps you busy.
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Typical Google. Treating what should be platforms like products and treating what should be products like platforms.
Assuming Google was ok for the deal they could have sold 100% of the company against cash or maybe Google stocks. Instead they sold I think only 5% during the IPO. Right now the CEO cannot sell more of his shares until May 2012 (http://ipo.nasdaq.com/Fundamentals.asp?cikid=826818&fnid...).
Any indication how one interacts with the device aside from voice and the button for camera? Eye movement?
Saying "who cares about revenue?" is just as faulty as stating "who cares about profit?"(which I never stated).
1. With the author's blessing, the themes are indeed from Bootswatch (except for "Sandra")

2. @flixic I hear you about the small size issue.

3. Several asked how this enhances Bootstrap. At the very least, Kickstrap allows devs to start a Bootstrap project without editing the core BS files. So you can continuously upgrade Bootstrap without writing over your project. With this, there are themes, optimized web files (.htaccess, .html, crossdomain.xml), icon fonts, some js plugins, and class-granulated css animations.

4. While I think Thomas did a great job with Bootswatch, I would love to get better themes in here and I'm open to submissions.

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It's difficult to tell, though, whether you can trust the site: the MacDefender Trojan spread through vulnerabilities in sites whose owners were trustworthy, but their sites had been compromised.
Also face blindness, or people with failing memory. Imagine if this system could automatically detect friends based on their face and summon their names and relevant context (recent calendar appointments, pictures, etc.)
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You don't understand what I'm proposing. If you want to put it in terms of sandboxing, what I am proposing is a sandbox.
A friend sent me a Groupon for a local bakery. It was something ridiculous like $20 worth of food for $10. Since I had heard about the bad relationships between businesses and Groupon, and since I actually like this little store, I declined to get the Groupon. I'd rather pay full price to support a local business!
It's "scary" and "even" dangerous one may say, but not meaningless.
An alternative to QuickBooks Point of Sale. In fact I might be 30 or 40 /month for that.
Why would that be rude? On the contrary, I'd consider the people calling you while you're on vacation rude.
FWIW, we emailed an @mint.ca address asking if it is legitimate, and they confirmed.
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The author does sort of admit that.

Come to think of it, communication was never my strong suit, either.
It is very disheartening to see that something like privacy settings have not exempted from this 'lets patent everything we can get our hands On' mentality. Sure these patents may be used today only for defence but in the future when Facebook in Yahoo's shoes, who is to say they wont try to sue their competitors out of the market?
"Not in-game footage".

Just like the Google tablet mock-up video vs reality. Anyone can craft a mock-up video. Not everyone can execute on it, and in recent years Google isn't doing well on that score.