skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The point about user intent vs. value of advertising is neither new nor obscure - any semi-competent online marketer knows this (and this is also why Google continues to make the big bucks).

The generic complaints re: "traffic first, fuck revenue!" is true, but like the above, is neither a new statement nor is it one that really needs popularizing - it's already being repeated ad nauseum in the community.

There's also a whole side of marketing being discounted - which is that it is not always necessary for ads to convert directly to a sale. Coca-Cola, for example, invests a great deal of money in advertising without the expectation that each impression convert directly to a sale. Brand maintenance is a valid field, but that's besides the point.

Your post is simply repeating a point that's been hammered home, repeatedly and enthusiastically, by various people over the last few weeks. It's getting pretty old. Which isn't to say the topic should be verboten, but can we refrain from writing another diatribe against the failure of ad-based business models unless we have something new to bring to the table?

[edit] And another thing, and this isn't necessarily pointed at you - but these "screw ad-based business models!" posts seem to have come about mainly after the poor Facebook IPO. There are a lot of people cashing in on the schadenfreude, writing "I told you so!" posts. It all strikes me as self congratulatory and needlessly vindictive.
What is convertible equity (or a convertible security)?
Any time you get an e-mail you didn't need to read, ask yourself "how do I stop these from coming?". More likely than not there is an answer.

You can easily cut your volume by a factor of 10x.
The comments section on that page alsi mention these:

* Deathbed Vigil - The last days of Commodore 1994 2 hr dvd

* Commodore 64 Training Tape Host Jim Butterfield 1983 2 hr dvd

* Once Upon Atari 1999 4 Episodes 2 hr DVD

* http://www.youtube.com/user/TTVRewind/videos?flow=grid&v...
Just getting into iOS design, great resource! Thanks!
Exactly right. Did they actually compare students from same school districts but different income families?

I would think that what is most likely is that good income family students (who can afford summer schools) probably go to better school, which is by itself self-reinforcing.
...is everybody really that obsessed about working more, learning more, doing more and wants to drive this onto our children too?! wtf?! why can't we use technology in ways that allow us to work LESS, to do LESS, to have more of "free time" for both us and our children?

paraphrasing a late wise man: the little buggers should have MORE time to just play with a stick in the mud! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6wOt2iXdc4)

what about "FREE TIME"? children especially should have MORE of it, not less. and maybe this way, we, the adults would finally understand the cruelty of having less then 2 months vacation a year! I know, it's America, where everything is overdone, but for fuck's sake, don't do this to your children too (...'cause afterwards everyone else will take your example)!
It is with this lens that I was finally able to come up with an idea for a company that was actually interesting to me. Before, everything I came up with was pretty one-dimensional. I couldn't get excited about building them because I couldn't ever come up with a satisfactory answer to "What else could/should this company do?" I found it hard to find the motivation to work on something that I didn't see growth potential in. Once I landed on an idea that had room for expansion, the code, designs and ideas just started to come.
And we've almost all seen what's happened to Gmail, Google Reader, Google Labs and 20% time.
I did, and while i'm not going to be as aggressive as the poster above you, it really doesn't say anything new.

It's rehash of arguments that occurred the very second facebook and twitter became popular.
It's not fair but it's equal. America's judicial system is not about fairness so much as it is equality

Experts cannot be enhanced by the uninformed, but the uninformed can be enhanced by experts. When you average proficiency and incompetence, you end up with incompetence.
That and..... people DO go right to Facebook and Twitter now to start their research on a product.

Typing the name of a product into Twitter often times tells me exactly how people feel when they are using it. This is especially true of entertainment items like movies, games or apps.

Facebook - I've been known to post "does anyone have/know/own/used a .... " and wait for my peers to tell me if it's worth it.
"Nutjob"

To me it just looks like a kid who is willing to randomly make up stuff to try and get a Raspberry Pi for free.

As amusing/crazy as this was, I'm not really sure if it merited it's own blog post (or HN submission for that matter).
To be more specific, I meant as a founder so it's you that they're acqui-hiring.
Sachin - the point is that "convertible equity" can be characterized as qualified small business stock, with potentially a lower capital gain tax rate. It's not the start period on long term capital gains -- as LTCG would start when convertible debt is issued anyway.
I kept waiting for the guy Steve to type "someone set us up the bomb"
Youtube does, and is used as a main music player for a lot of people.
Is it a coincidence they had to link the term "responsive design" to a Wikipedia entry?

Is it not self-evident what "responsive design" means?
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I would love to. Can you email me? My email is on http://qbix.com/contact

I dont know how to message you otherwise.
Did you have an emotional response when you learned that you could only hold "7, plus or minus 2" things in your short-term working memory? Or when you found out what your adult height was going to be for the rest of your life?
Oh, but I don't. What do you think is the valuation of TV networks these days? Brand reinforcement advertising is worth much less than intent-based ads that leads to instant conversion.

"A stat like $3.5 million for 30 seconds of airtime may see a serious hit in the future as advertisers realize that the internet can yield just as big an audience as football without having to go through NBC."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/01/30/the-end-of...
As it will be the first time people see your product's output, the welcome email (and every other email you send) is a promotional email where you want to showcase something great.
Open plan is for business not for workers. Business like it because it's 'flexible', work can 'flow' around the office, it's 'cheap'.

Workers hate it because there is no space for them. There is no quiet away from coworkers. There is no freedom from the smells of co-workers (coffee, curry, cologne/perfume). When one phone rings everyone's brain momentarily switches from their task to their phone.

When I was 20 I could counter all of these but I was more keen than effective. Now I'm nearly 40 highly trained, highly effective and I can't stand offices like this, it's wasting my time, I just walk away from it.
The WSJ Got it Wrong on Pair Programming
People have complained about the lack of originality from the beginning of times. Please stop writing about it unless you have something new to say.
"Being mean" is about HOW you present the facts. Yes, this is more or less difficult with some facts (such as getting fired), but there are ways(It's not you, it's me).

It's up to us to care enough to be nice and how we're perceived.
If they are losing the knowledge over a 2 week break, are they really keeping that knowledge with them over the course of a school year?
just iterating:

for (Object o: collection) {
}

causes memory allocation.

If you are interested, android team at had several talks at Google I/O (not just 2012) about optimizing memory usage.
Agreed. My grade school was year-round, repeating x weeks on, y weeks off. I would love my kids to be on that schedule. An extra benefit would be that travel wouldn't be so crowded and expensive.
I would rather have people working on ads and them showing up on my Google searches then have to pay X amount per search to pay for the cost to develop/run/maintain.
I don't think you'll get that kind of in-depth analysis and research from a "a nonprofit that promotes expanding learning time to improve student achievement".
>Did you have an emotional response when you learned that you could only hold "7, plus or minus 2" things in your short-term working memory?

Well, no - because I could use tools to extend that. And it's not about insecurity, as I'm quite comfortable with myself and my brain. I just don't see it as being a valuable reference. However, I know if I had a number I'd start comparison-shopping and I might feel either elated (if high) or depressed (if low). Is anyone here, if you have had an IQ test, honestly prepared to say that you didn't or wouldn't be curious about what that meant and that it wouldn't affect how you viewed yourself?

I just don't need to know. I guess that for me, as long as there isn't a 'goal' or a 'fence', the sky's the limit.
think I'm going to agree...don't think this "journalist" deserves any publicity
> If you thought $38 was a good price, this must be a good time to buy some more with the prices low.

Only if you never factor in new information to your decision making.

If you $38 was good with the assumption that there would be a pop to $50 then now you wouldn't buy as it's now clear there won't be a quick pop that gets you to $50.
What OS/Programs where you running on those dell monitors in that video? Looks like it's doing some sampling? Pretty curious.
Another way of thinking about it: There are N nodes that loop back to themselves. When starting at a given node, what are the odds that you'll never hit one of these N nodes? Additionally, we know that many of the N nodes are very general ones, like "truth", under which many topics roll up.
You could probably get a small chunk of change on Flippa.
The very first trade of a stock in the open market is by most accounts considered the IPO price or opening bid which for FB was 42.05. The IPO offer price was $38.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/217235-ipo-offering-vs-openi...

http://i.stack.imgur.com/35bNv.jpg
Here's his problem:

-> Seq Scan on movie_person (cost=0.00..10117.01 rows=97 width=8)
(actual time=2.540..59.933 rows=9 loops=1)
Filter: (person_id = 160)

If he had an index on movie_person, that would be a ~ 1ms index lookup, not a table scan. You can't do that sort of database layout without putting indexes on the M2M mapping table.

(edit, oh, yeah, it's right there in the parent post....)
Somewhat agree with Diego. But unfortunately, people are not used to pay on the web. I've built an extremely useful service but only 1 in 100 was willing to pay, which is ridiculous to say.

On a side note, what if you are building a startup to deliver ads? :) (Any thoughts on building a startup for ad-tech)
I noticed something like this several times in the article: "Each machine has 2x 1gbit ethernet ports, in this case we’re only using one."

It sounds like a single switch failure could take down a large amount of their infrastructure. The seeming lack of geographic (or even datacenter) redundancy also seems a little dangerous at this scale.
In practice many people tend to overvalue potential, regardless of what the logical outcome would be. For example, investors tend to overprice stocks based on potential growth. This can be seen in the fact that high P/E stocks typically underperform low P/E stocks when considering risk-adjusted returns.
Yup, there are forums full of people trying to get things for free using "social engineering". See: http://www.hackforums.net/forumdisplay.php?fid=70

In chrome, if you want to see a thread without signing up, just type in cache: before the URL and it will show you the full content visible to googlebot
This wasn't quite the diatribe I was expecting.

I basically agree that what Amazon (and Google for that matter; disclaimer: I work for Google on display ads) is intent and intent is huge. Much as Facebook would like to become the de facto Internet, I don't see it ever capturing that intent (let alone Twitter).

That being said, I think people discount what an inordinate amount of good advertising has done and just focus on the negatives (eg the "shit you don't need"). For example:

1. While you might be able to afford a few dollars a month to pay for the cost of GMail, as one example (note: I have no idea what the cost would be here; I'm just making up numbers), would you? People are highly reluctant to spend on this. But more to the point, what about people in Africa or Asia for whom a few dollars a month is a significant sum of money? Those people can enjoy the same service with an ad-supported model; and

2. Traditional advertising channels (print, radio, TV) weren't affordable to smaller businesses. Things like Adwords have allowed many businesses to exist that otherwise couldn't before the advent of online advertising. How many jobs do you think this has created and supports?

But I do see the whole "eyeballs-then-advertising" SV model as peaking if it hasn't already. Facebook may well be the 800 pound gorilla that broke the camel's back on that one.

And while the author notes that advertising space is growing faster than purchasing power not all advertising space is created equal. What you simply has is a diversity of distribution channels for your advertising. That's a good thing. But not everyone will succeed with an ad-supported model, that's true.

To the author's problem of working on big problems, I agree. The fact that SpaceX spent less developing a launch system and reentry vehicle than was spent buying Instagram [1] with its 13 employees makes me sad that so many bright minds are working on the apocryphal social network for cats.

[1]: I realize with the 50%+ drop in Facebook's IPO price, that sum is now significantly less.
Maxcdn giving out a free year of service today (1TB limit)
The article cites customer service interactions as the obvious (and obviously effective) remediation step once a player is identified as likely to quit in a few weeks. I'd like to know if this is really true. What if the game's fundamental problem is that players become bored over time? What can a CSR do to fix this? Probably not much. The analysis shows that changes in gameplay frequency are far from a random walk and do indeed predict future declines, but it doesn't offer much in the way of clues for how to keep customers engaged. What if it could be shown that a breakdown of a player's in-game social structure (I'm not a gamer, so I'm being vague) also predicts churn? Perhaps helping the player to find some new relationships would be effective. Is game play repetitive? Maybe decreasing frequency of novel experiences predicts churn? This would be good feedback for game designers. Predicting the future isn't of much valuable if it isn't actionable.
I would be happy to maintain a newbie's guide, syntax changes and all (I've read the meeting notes, I know what you're talking about) if somebody can help me learn enough Rust to know what I'm talking about.

Edit: Fuck it, I'll make a website.
Critical bug in newest Java gives attackers complete control of PCs
Based on the info in the thread I would say no, you don't need a technical co-founder but you are going to have to give up some equity and pay market rate to the main technical guy you bring in. I would say 5 percent vested over some time with another 5% to vest to the core team that s/he brings in. So 10% total to put together a core team, should you plan be to grow past a single technical person.
It's easier to just run a couple of surveys and pick the stats that make your case stick.
Comparison to amazon: http://www.cdnplanet.com/compare/cloudfront/maxcdn/
Ah nice! Missed that. Cool.
Building Atari With CreateJS
"No way to make money" != "sold $5B in advertising space"
Playing CS:GO on Fedora 17 with the latest nVidia drivers is an absolute nightmare. However, the framerate and audio lag are doing wonders for building my patience.
or you could add an index to the join table and see a similar speedup without the accuracy tradeoff. I'm not saying that the approach doesn't have applications, but it would be much more useful if the post discussed a case that couldn't be addressed easily by standard means.
And you wouldn't be first - there is at least one x86 Android phone: Orange San Diego.
Being clever is all well and good as long as you're right. But all those enemies you're making by being a jagoff are waiting for you to slip (or at least won't be forgiving).

In the mean time, Forrest Gump has buddies everywhere who willing to give him the benefit of the doubt when he accidentally commits a broken build.

Be excellent to each other.
From that article:

> > Do you think if you hadn't been on the jury then we might have ended up with a very different verdict?

> I think so. But let's not say me specifically.
> ... maybe this way, we, the adults would finally understand the cruelty of having less then 2 months vacation a year!

But then how are we going to compete with the Chinese?! How will the children survive when they're competing with 15 billion other people in the world (and more people is always better)? Or let's skip to the real point: how will they make rich people as richer?
Patch... now with even larger hole!
TL;DR -- of course Ph.D life is sketchy, from numbers-game perspective. But it's like acting, being a writer, a musician, a star pastry chef, or anything else that's not merely a vocation, but rather, a calling. The only reason to go into research is if the drive is just in your bones, like a giant rock, and you just have to let it out.
This article spends a ton of time talking about the bottom line and then a scant few lines at the end discussing the idea that there may be something more than just money to all this, and even then the treatment is rather surface-level.

Perhaps it's foolish, but at least some part of my desire to pursue a PhD is that I believe deeply in the academy and in what it is capable of with regards to solving problems of great worth to humanity. Even at this time, the academy has done so much to further my development intellectually and otherwise, and to me, pursuing a PhD is simply the next step in this cycle of development. Doing research feels very good, even when it's "unsuccessful".
Making a blanket statement like "advertising is bad" is like saying that commerce is bad.

We all agree that bad advertising is annoying. We all agree that most advertising today is bad advertising. But that's no reason to stop working on advertising.

EDIT: Advertising is a $600B a year industry. It isn't going to disappear. Improving advertising seems like a good goal to me. Yes there are loftier goals, but this is a good one.

EDIT: I'm fascinated by the downvotes. Could someone comment on how I've violated the guidelines here?
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For those who criticize the lack of "anything new" in my post:

What motivated me to write it is that in the past few weeks I've met SEVERAL entrepreneurs who are starting businesses that would have no choice but to depend on ads. I'm almost at the point where I want to start a campaign to convince people that this is a bad idea, given how many other important problems are not receiving enough attention. I'm not saying that people should become missionaries. Many of those problems will create huge companies. Data suggest that starting a traffic-driven business today is like starting a new Hotmail.
Plus, "Most likely to outperform peers" at what? I suspect at stuff that won't help them much in their adulthood.
It's because it's something we suck at and so have to consciously work on. I imagine that there's an extrovert party going on somewhere where they're all talking up how important being right actually is.
Wow..this is seriously good news...can't wait to see open Source software like this prosper...hopefully no one will sue them, though..
> Don't blame the jurors. They're just regular folks who are earnestly trying do their best as though they're performing a civic duty. In reality, they're being played like a fiddle.

I blame them a fair amount. They had hundreds of questions to answer and were asked to take as much time as they needed. Instead, they cranked them out in a couple days.

The pay is shit, the tasks are boring and inscrutable, and people have lives to get back to. But I don't think that's a full excuse for phoning it in like this jury did.
Inbox Pause is also quite a bit easier and less technical, I think!

If you want to do this manually, the filter above will probably let stuff slip through on some percentage of accounts. We found "from:(*) label:inbox" to be the most reliable. Or just, you know, click the pause button :)

(I helped write Inbox Pause)
You and I appear to have posted similar sentiments at the exact same time. I think you hit the nail on the head - having not to pursue a PhD would be simply awful. When research is something that you daydream about in the shower, breaking away from it early seems foolhardy.
I recommend Stroustroup's book as it really leaves no area unexplored. It is better to read it after having read some other material, as you have. I would wait for the 4th edition, though, which covers C++11.
As someone suggested I think that rather than having one really long break there should be more small breaks in between. When I was in middle school I remember one year we were taught how to write in cursive. Summer came and I forgot it completely. We can't expect children to practice and maintain skills they don't even understand the value of over breaks (not that cursive is particularly valuable).
> You don't get paid while you're not at work;

Speak for yourself. I work at a Fortune 500 company and jury duty is paid, and I don't think this is at all uncommon.

That being said, I'd rather be at work than on jury duty any day of the week.
I don't get it. Is it just a conference call? I wasn't going to give them permission to use my microphone or camera, so I couldn't tell if it did anything else.
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Looking forward to seeing the next "Show HN: awesome hacker news reader" to be written in Enyo :)
Blog seems to be down, cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.id...
and you probably want to include these indices in any case to enforce that a given (user, movie) pair in the join table is unique (unless you want to track if a rating was changed and when, etc.)

further, you might decide to cluster on the index or partition.
Tizen is dead.
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I've gotten to the point of beyond jaded when it comes to articles damning how fucked up the US public education system is. Not because people are constantly beating a dead horse but because these articles will often be about one glaring facet which is obviously a problem but is, from a mile-high view one of the MANY problems that afflict public education.

With all these voices screaming from every corner and Arne Duncan clueless in Washington, it's like watching a sinking ship with the crew not rallying to save each other, but instead scurrying up to the crow's nest to save themselves, beating back others from trying to reach it first.
I'll take clever over kind any day.
Set up a filter, and dump all the CC ones into a semi-spam folder. If it's important, you should be a "To". If it's not...
So its just a mandatory convertible zero interest bond? Why is it called convertible equity?