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No,

You don't get the point.

Apple is a company full of awesome engineers executing one awesome man's vision. Without Jobs Apple is still a awesome company, with awesome people. But they will lack that vision. That taste, they will lack the spirit that made Apple, Apple as we know it.

True test for Apple will come when their current product line will be totally exhausted and they will have to work on something new to survive. Whether the same UI innovation, hardware design will continue is a big unanswered question.

The engineers may still continue to do awesome work. But not in an awesome direction. Without Jobs they will lose the 'Think different' factor. Its like a restaurant losing its chief chef. You will still have other good chef's but the guy who had a tongue for a unique taste is gone. You might still get good food, but that 'taste' will be gone.
I read though this missive - and the first thing that came to my mind was the definition that "more than six clicks a minute is considered invalid" - and I tried to recall if there was a time in the past year that I clicked on six display ads in a day.

I then realized that, when I'm searching to purchase something on Google, I may click on half a dozen ads in a minute - but realistically, each of those has a chance at getting $20-$40 worth of revenue (and the potential, as in the case of monoprice, of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars of revenue after I discover the site)

I'm wondering if anybody has done a definitive study on the conversion value of a "click" on google versus Facebook, both in terms of brand recognition, immediate conversion (purchase), and long term conversion (delayed purchase) - that study, if definitive, would probably adjust GOOG/FB by 10s of billions of dollars - clearly a leading indicator of future revenue.
My problem is that I do exactly this while already reading hacker news.
If your business can be killed by another company changing a regex, was it a business in the first place?
What you say is valid, however no-script users are a small minority of internet users. I doubt their numbers would tip the results in either direction.
So, a "binary search tree in an array, like the way heaps are implemented" actually would not experience the problem described in this article. The typical layout of the tree for a heap is "breadth-first, level-order" as opposed to the "depth-first, in-order" tree that is implicit to a sorted array. This means that your accesses to the first couple levels are in the same cache line, and your subsequence accesses as you move down the tree are less likely to line up. This is definitely not to say this is "optimal", however.
> How does this shit make it to the front page?

Obviously the title was a little ridiculous, but I up-voted it, because it's a novel idea. If you're planning to have almost all of your static assets hosted from the CDN (which is pretty reasonable for almost everyone) then why bother with a super high-throughput low-latency web server if the only purpose is to occasionally refill the CDN? If you end up thrashing the CDN and constantly going back to refill it, you're going to have bigger problems.

From what I can tell, the rest of your comment is just super aggressive and doesn't really go anywhere. I will tell you that I have extensive experience with every piece you've mentioned here, and none of that really has any effect on the author's thesis (again, no need to optimize serving static content from your host if a CDN is going to do the legwork).

In general though, when someone works at Mozilla, I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt regarding their knowledge of elementary computing principles.
I would agree with what you said if you replaced "an application" with "a kind of application". This is a 10MLoC project that was mostly not written for unit testablility. As stated in the article, they are doing automatic integration testing on a functional level to catch regressions. They are enforcing zero warnings and run static analysis software. And most importantly, their code has worked in the field for a long time. I strongly suspect that refactoring for unit testability would be a very significant risk in their case. The quote does not say that they don't unit-test new code.
Not so much. Can you explain?
I'm wondering if anybody has done a definitive study on the conversion value of a "click" on google versus Facebook, both in terms of brand recognition, immediate conversion (purchase), and long term conversion (delayed purchase)

Probably not, but it sounds like a fun weekend project. I think you just gave me something to do this weekend :D Thanks
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You can pick up formal analytical tools on your own, you just have to be very good at sniffing out the right kinds of information, which is hard.
How do you work around a broken captcha? You don't you just hit the little refresh icon most have and get a new one.
I tend to prefer http://hckrnews.com just because of the more intuitive browsing interface and filtering options (top 10, top 20, etc). I have it as a shortcut on my main phone screen and bookmarked in all browsers.
Nginx can handle much higher loads than Varnish in many situations.

Check this out for a look at Nginx's architecture:
http://www.aosabook.org/en/nginx.html
Because the clicks by these "clickants" are worthless, and shouldn't be sold. Somebody blindly clicking on ads has no value, and you shouldn't be selling their clicks. It's akin to selling advertising on TVs that happened to be fast forwarded/skipped on Tivo. If the advertisers are aware from DVR logs that fewer people saw the logs, they need to reflect that in reduced costs to the advertisers by reducing bill-rates over time.
Very cool - thanks for the early look at this patch! Is this live streaming practical for high bandwidth I/O - say live video streaming?
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These are the kinds of comments I downvote. You come off as a petulant child.

FWIW, Thunderbolt is crap, precisely because it's been almost two years and there's still not a fucking thing to plug into it.
I think the difference with Apple is that developers are not piggy bagging on Apple's infrastructure, but provide new kinds of services that Apple hasn't thought of. Then when these services prove to be popular Apple implements similar feature and uses the notorious clause in their contract prohibiting replication of native functionality. This approach is much more dirty.
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I found Mashape via google as I was looking for a simple way to monetize our API (and get some exposure) about a year ago. We posted our Whois API (http://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit) on Mashape.

In the early days it was quiet but I liked the auto-generated clients. It's really been picking up in the last few months and the hassle-free billing, documentation is great. Augusto is great, he is still personally answering mails when there are issues.

What could be improved on: Better stats for the admin interface, .NET support (I'm aware this has been on their roadmap but customers have repeatedly asked me for this), more payout options like bank transfer would be awesome too.
Badly. I've never seen a company ship so many bugs so consistantly.
You sound like someone who has arrived at a steakhouse and is upset because they don't have Big Macs on the menu. Okay... you have very specific desires and GAE isn't that. That isn't necessarily a problem with GAE.
Guess double standards are still alive. Wonder how google+ and facebook handle this.
This video has a very good introduction to the problem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAiJocr6ZKg
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this is a bit of a stretch in that the concepts used in category theory are surely useful to programmers, but in reality programming is often sufficiently complex that category theory is too general to apply. you can spend all day drawing diagrams about morphisms, direct products, pullbacks, etc but the real work is in coding the api, not drawing pretty pictures.

most programmers don't have the time or inclination to complete an undergraduate degree in mathematics, which is essentially a prerequisite for taking a legit category theory course. category theory is usually taught at the graduate level.

category theory definitely helps in theoretical physics :)
Very true and it is sad to see a TV company using bullying as its approach to social media.
In January my startup ran a trial Facebook ad campaign using a free $100 advertising credit from Facebook. Extremely pleased with the results, we started paying to advertise and immediately noticed a substantial drop off in the conversion rate (down over 70%) even though we were using the same targeting, ads, and made zero changes to our website.

As a Facebook advertiser, user, and stockholder, I'm not impressed.
If it helps at all, I'm pretty sure there was a period around 3:30 when http was working but https was not.
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Yes but NBC are social media bullies, what next there communications officer calling all people who complain names, oh wait no that already happened.

This is the same NBC that cancelled Star Trek, they clearly have not learned how to handle social interactions and feedback still from there customers and potentual customers.
It is sad to see twitter becoming yet another ad bloated cyclopean monstrosity desperately trying to fleece it's users before they flee for greener pastures.

I've been quite fond of it over the years, but if it starts engaging in vindictive censorship; then it becomes a poisoned well and can no longer be trusted.
Good catch. I just checked the data. The effect of Snowflake is not too high, the error in the estimate because of this is perhaps 10M to 20M accounts. It's almost in the noise considering Twitter's daily signup rate. Also, it may even offset the fact that Twitter wouldn't return accounts created in the past ten days through the API.
> We must know different people.

Yes. This is likely.

> I don't know anyone that would even think of using a thick client, except to keep a backup of their gmail. Obviously it sounds like your experience is different, depends on the crowd we hang out with I suppose.

All my friends used webmail when I was 20, too. That was in the 90s.
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It will always stop, at least for the most part. It will take a long time, though, and by then it will only be a dim memory, so you probably won't notice.

(Netcraft confirms: BSD is dying!)
My problem was Twitter's API not having a more intelligent filter API. If you want to use it to filter all tweets with stocks (i.e. "\$\w{1,4}") you can't as far as I could tell. Instead you have to filter on '$' which gets you a ton of noise ("got me some $$$ for 2NITE! yeah!!!!").
Nice to see google+ has a more fair policy and are less suseptable to bullying via shrinking TV companies.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/?tab=wX#110741260330832413403/po...

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Somehow I don't think any harm will come if Hacker News goes down for a few hours.

Frankly, every time HN is down, I wonder whether this is finally the day PG has given up on the project, because it's slipped into dire form in recent years.
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You act as if the distinction makes sense. Structural materials are more abundant than energy-containing materials? Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. Structures, regardless of what they're made of, contain embodied energy by virtue of having structure.
Why did YC fund a content theft website?
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In the past, Burt says, when a build took 4 hours instead of 45 minutes...

Wow! And they've apparently spent a tremendous amount of time and resources optimizing the build process.

It's been 10 years since I worked on a project where a build took more than a few minutes. Back then, a project I worked on took over 3 hours to compile on a 4-processor Solaris box. The PC technology improved so drastically that in a few years we were able to get it cross-compiling to Solaris from a Linux box in under 20 minutes.
Ask HN: How do you write Windows desktop software these days?
I have an idea for app but instead of going the mobile route I've been thinking of making it for the good ol' Windows desktop. The problem is, I'm a couple of years removed from desktop development and things look kind of cluttered to me right now. You have .NET, WPF, and even win32 and MFC are still around (sort of). Then you have all these third-part toolkits like Qt and bindings for other languages and runtimes like PySide and wxPython.

I guess the short version of my question is: For a commercial Windows desktop application, where do you turn to get it done?
He never said to ban the suspicious accounts, just don't charge companies for their clicks.

The detection part aside, it's a simple fix. I just wonder why FB hasn't already. (Is it because it'd hurt their revenue when they need it the most?)
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I don't think the author is saying the clicks are malicious, just that they are lower 'quality'. Based on the authors experience he seems to be saying the intent of some facebook clickers is different than regular web link/banner clickers. He seems to imply the Facebook clickers have some other incentive to click other than to see the advertises website; and that incentive might be to collect 'likes'. And that actually makes sense to me, reminds me a bit of the incentivized clicks of the eagerly 00s, not worthless just worth a whole lot less than organic clicks. If Facebook has a lot of these clickers their inventory value becomes worth less.
What makes you think assignment is simple? V8 is a multi-stage, dynamically optimizing just-in-time compiler. That's complex and advanced, pretty much by definition.
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Very cool! I wrote some quick and dirty code that adds some functionality to the page: http://pastebin.com/FZGwjJvv . It should work if you have a javascript console or greasemonkey or something like that.

h - Toggle visibility of the HUD (minimap and information)

space - Toggle the rotation on/off

- (numpad) - Slow down the rotation (slowing below 0 reverses rotation)

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- (main keyboard) - Lower the delta by which the rotation speed is increased/decreased (default delta is 0.005, lowers by 0.0001)

= (main keyboard) - Raise the delta by which the rotation speed is increased/decreased (default delta is 0.005, raises by 0.0001)

Might I suggest warp speed? ;)
I see no special "molten ice":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_point#Other_triple_point...

It might have an exotic form of ice, of course.
Some VC's are excellent because they ask the right questions. Once they join they are a member of your team and will go out of their way to make it a successful venture...

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Can you elaborate on this some?
And it's weirder when you work at Apple and posers refer to him as "SJ" as if they were on a nickname basis. Just awkward.
I find it weird enough to be an actual fan of a corporation. It's a phenomenon that I haven't really witnessed outside of the Apple crowd very often (there are always exceptions but they're rare).
I wrote this blog posting. I am not claiming that these are bots or that Facebook is defrauding us in the strict legal sense. After a bunch of research, I believe they are real people, as Facebook asserted to me and to the BBC among others. However, I believe Facebook is misleading advertisers and behaving unethically by not disclosing this fairly widespread, unusual and costly user behavior, one that hits the campaigns of less sophisticated small advertisers particularly hard.

The problem has two main parts:

1) The click behavior of these users is _extremely_ unusual and unexpected according to the beliefs of the advertisers and advertising experts I have shared these finding with. Most people think that 'no one clicks on FB ads.' So when they learn there are profiles of real people that click 5-6 likes in a minute, dozens of times a day adding up to thousands of times a year, they immediately exclaim 'no one does that, they must be bots, you must be wrong.' But they are real people. And unless you are extraordinarily careful (see here: http://wp.me/p2dKfK-7x), Facebook naturally charges the same for their clicks as for everyone else, even though their clicks are nearly meaningless from an advertiser perspective.

2) These real people were taught this behavior by the new Facebook timeline interface, which a) makes the number of 'Likes' extremely prominent, b) encourages rapid liking of ads by refreshing the ads immediately as they are clicked and c) uses these likes to change the content that appears in the stream of stories.

Perhaps a better one of my postings to read is this one, where I estimate how widespread the problem may be from an advertiser perspective http://wahanegi.com/10-percent-of-fb-revenue/. To save you time, here is the main bit, a quote from one of these users after I asked them why they like ads in batches of 5-6 throughout the day:

"Yes, I do remember why I liked things in batches. Facebook suggests things for you to like in the right column on some pages. As soon as you click to like one of them, it replaces it with another suggestion. I’m quite happy to like thousands of things on Facebook as it improves the kind of stories and ads that come up in my news feed and again in the right column. I would rather see things I am interested in than things I’m not."

Makes sense for him. But not so much for a small advertiser who just paid Facebook a few hundred or a few thousand bucks so that Facebook could use the ads like click-bait for: people aiming to hone their Edge Rank content preferences, people who are bored and enjoy choosing which ads they like best in the list, or people who want to get their Likes 'score' higher because it gives them a sense of accomplishment.

Trust me, once an small advertiser learns that there are two types of people on Facebook, and they get charged the same amount for clicks from each, they are not happy. Especially after Facebook customer service gives them the Heisman.

;)
I noticed that too. I'm not sure of the time, but it was more than a momentary thing. Https was either not responding at all or it was responding only after a long wait. A bit later, https was taking 20-30 seconds before returning the page, which I think was an improvement over the earlier period where I didn't see it return a page at all.

I didn't personally notice any http outage or delay.
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Interesting, thanks for the info. This article (http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20060801zg.html) is a couple years old but give a decent summary in English of what the situation is here. An official billing with all the necessary legal documentation would probably go a lot further than some of the goons going around as collection agents.
Very strict no noise rule. No playing music or videos without headphones ever. Breaking someone's concentration is just about the worst thing you can do to a person that's deep in the zone.
... Which you could them pull into a database and filter with your Regex after the API. What does the noise cost you? It's a solvable problem. true, the expanded results may keep you from getting relevant tweets due to rate limiting.
I have a feeling if this thing does not stop spreading, then expect Facebook stock to drop by 50% on their next earning report...

Advertisers will cut their budget and that will kill Facebook revenue. Well, maybe start a short position?
A very blunt reply would be: A dumbed down one.

Really, I think it's hard to dumb down an operating system enough to make it impossible to be productive with it. However, one can try. To my terms a consumer is the exact opposite of a producer. Therefore a consumer platform is obviously a platform for people who consume products, like software, and whatever they've got on iTunes, rather than for those who make it.

Now this is a bit awkward, cause you provably can still do productive work on OSX - lots of people do that rather successfully. So it's really hard to put your finger on what exactly is "consumer" about it and since I haven't used OSX more than a couple of hours (didn't like it), I frankly don't really know. Maybe somebody else can elaborate on that?
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Same problem here, with Opera 12 and IE9.

Edit: Got it to work, it was the firewall blocking something.
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Of course they were of lower quality, they were intentionally running their ads to people from the "Philippines, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh".
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I'm really concentrating mostly on the App Store. In addition to that I did a StackSocial sale once (https://stacksocial.com/) and apart from that whenever a blog or any guy asks for promo codes for a competition / contest / event to host on his blog / site, etc, I always give them redeem codes so that people that get the app for free may hopefully share their love by telling friends.
Also, once I gave away 120 licenses for a big instagram photo contest in NY. That gave the app a lot of traction since all the people that got the license were really good photographers who used Instagram a lot. So they in return told many friends and tweeted about InstaDesk, etc.

But that's really it. I do have a non-app store licensed branch of InstaDesk that would work with a license file system, but I'm only keeping that alive in case the App Store becomes too draconian. Just so that I always have a way out. Though that's becoming more difficult now with the iCloud integration.

Hope that helps a bit.