skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It could still be a huge success while satisfying both of the options you outlined.

It would really just depend on the extent of the cannibalization.
A lot of social sites are "broken on purpose" to catalyze monetized features — if the product people are smart.

The problem with Facebook is that they changed an existing feature when people were closely watching it, and didn't offer any opportunities to go with it.

Generally speaking, it is a no-go to "force" people to use features. It just doesn't work, and it makes people resentful.

However, if you structure the features in such a way that it "motivates" users to pay for them, suddenly you get some action.

Facebook should have provided a "carrot" for users in the form of a highly-coveted free spot for posts that genuinely deserve attention. Nobody complains about being able to buy the top spot if you can also earn it for free.

That's what Dropbox does, for example. Buy storage or recruit friends to earn it. All love, no complaints, lots of action.

But Facebook didn't do that, so they get backlash instead. Even the big sites don't really know what they're doing sometimes.

And don't even get me started about how promoted content hurts the general idea of an Edge Rank-driven feed...
> The alligator mother allows its spawn to swim in and out of its mouth for protection

Protecting offspring, and relatives more generally, is an expected consequence of natural selection. It doesn't require any kind of intelligence, compassion, or even consciousness. Witness the many ways plants invest in protecting their seeds, for example.

What's interesting in this context is caring for the elderly, disabled or injured. The article mentions a case where a killer whale with a broken jaw was fed by other members of its pod. As far as I know, this kind of behaviour is only known in a few large mammal species.
Some of it may be but coming into the holiday season that may be people converting iPad sales to iPad mini sales and buying early in anticipation of shortages.

Probably won't know until they publish their Q4 figures in a few months time.
Not necessarily. Human infants have rights even if they are orphans with unknown family lineage. I don't think anyone wants to grant Dolphins the right to vote either. Just some basic protections, such as the right not to be killed without proper justification.
Yes.

We track the clicks and if a product shown on an advert is getting lots of clicks but zero conversions, we swap it out and show alternatives instead.

So we try to make sure that only stuff that will convert is shown.
At first I thought it’s a pointless device for me, but after several hours with it I think it’s one of the greatest casual gaming devices on the market. The screen of iPod and iPhone is too small and ‘the new or whatever’ iPad is too large by itself. This holiday season it’s a much better choice as a present for kids than iPod touch.
Short of new mutations, no dolphin has ever, is, or will ever be a fully functioning member of society.

Rules of thumb regarding treatment of immature or disabled humans is not at all appropriate.
Ok, so if dolphins were given the same rights as humans, what is done when one dolphin kills another dolphin or other offenses[1]?

1) http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_factor/2009/05/13/dolphins_are...
> Most casual iPhone owners I know never synchronize their iPhones, but take tons of pictures with it.

One interesting side effect of this is that casual users are probably not using iCloud backups, because the free space is only 5 GB and they have more than 5 GB of photos so it refuses to backup.
I live in this crap! hahaha

anyway, it's true, it's a 'beautiful city', but the 'UX' is horrible, people from much bigger cities likes São Paulo or Rio arrive here and feel like everything is way too far away(even tho you could fit 10 Brasílias inside São Paulo), also, apparently it was made for cars to move through, not people

Me and my friends theorize how this, and other architectural decisions, like the way the city is heavily location/class segregated(specially considering it's the city with the worst case of income concentration of Brazil) affects the people here, they're not as welcoming as they are in other cities we went, in our opinion
By 'only images' you of course mean links to to the individual pages to download the ebook of your choice. The content of the books is spelled out quite clearly in the titles of the books which are very easily readable from the images.
One might "question" the nobility of giving books to students (the blog is named "UK Schools blog"), in which to get any use of, you need to buy proprietary software. If the books includes a copy of SQL server, windows server, Microsoft office or Visual studio, then it might be different, but as it stand, it just advertising masquerading as books, directed at students.
A friend and I built a similar service back in 2006-2007. It was actually a rev share program based on affiliate aggregators like LinkShare and Commission Junction -- that's how we populated our product list. A quick look at some of the sample vendors mentioned and the affiliate programs they use, I suspect you are doing something similar.

Problems we ran into included: trying to normalize the product data from the vendors into a format usable to make actionable and accurate ads--the aggregators practiced very little data hygiene and did not enforce much consistency, oddly, some vendors couldn't even spell the names of their products correctly which made for some pretty crappy looking ads; at one point we had over 4 million products listed, primarily because we started importing Amazon products and vendors, so the product selection was difficult, some things have general appeal and would show up all the time and others wouldn't match much content at all; we had trouble signing up sites to display the ads, CPA was relatively new at the time for the scale we were going for, we might have been better off selling our tech to the top affiliate aggregators as a better, easier method for sites to integrate affiliate program membership; reporting was a real bitch because of the delay from click through to actual purchase to the payment showing up, which depending on the affiliate program could be upwards of 90 days.

In retrospect, we would have better off setting it up for passive income and not try to do active sales to integrator websites and instead shored up the pitch copy and made it largely self service for the integrators (it mostly was already, but I spent a lot of time tweaking the matching algorithm rather than on the sales/pitch side), and pitched it as an easier way to join affiliate networks. That would have set expectations a little better than calling it an "ad network" like AdSense, which we also considered our main competitor.
Here's some links:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2010-09/mars-methane-c...
http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-amp-space/article/20...

I know I'm probably missing something here.

UPDATE: Okay, here we go: Various campaigns in the last decade have claimed to detect martian methane at levels as intriguingly high as 30 parts per billion1 and 45 parts per billion2. But more perplexing was the way that the methane signals sometimes appeared as hotspots, or plumes, and then disappeared — implying both a sudden injecton, as well as an unknown process to destroy the methane quickly, which would otherwise mix in the atmosphere and persist. Skepticism for these claims has abounded (See “Curiosity set to weigh in on Mars methane puzzle” ).
We'll always have the Matrix problem where it's hard to "prove" self-awareness in others (Descartes does a pretty shitty job), but inasmuch as we have reason to assume other humans have self-awareness, most scientists feel comfortable making the same assumption for animals that pass the mirror test and do well on metacognitive tests where they grade their own mental processes. Examples of the latter include the "pass" test described in the article as well as tests Herbert Terrace conducted in which monkeys were asked to perform various tasks and, each time, bet a number of M&Ms proportional to how confident they were in their solution. Sure enough, they tended to bet a lot on answers they got right and much less on ones they got wrong.

Note that such tests, especially the mirror test, aren't bijective. If you pass the mirror test, we can be reasonably sure you're self-aware. However, if you don't pass the mirror test (which I didn't as a toddler), that doesn't mean you can't be self-aware.
>There is no chance any animal/fish is going to survive the brunt of us 9 billion in next fifty years.

I won't be so sure considering that unlike a Virus we are aware of the damage we are causing and are already trying to mitigate it.
The message they're sending with this press release is "all of our iPads are brand new and popular, so you can't pick the stinky old ~wrong one~ this Christmas".

Furthermore, average selling prices for iPads have already been sinking. Apple's just giving customers another $200 cheaper option to capture that demand. And as long as they can stay the default no-brainer choice in customer's minds, they'll be fine.
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That's great. I just installed on my blog, but the ads are very un-relevant(mostly about women dresses) to my topic (free and open source softwares, tools etc).
Most of the stuff discussed in this post didn't bug me, but then I got to this part:

As the Wall Street Journal confirmed in its own study, Google has been significantly altering its search results to highlight Obama-related results, but not Romney-related results (more on that later).

These Obama-related results are being inserted because obama is a magic keyword on Google. A magic keyword is a search that can transform the Google results of later searches.

Incredibly shady. Changing the results of later searches based on things I searched for in the past is the complete opposite of what I want a search engine to do.
I'd say because it's just not native to the Android development process. Android started with Java as the language of choice for development and that means Java will always be a first choice for most people because of the multitude of tutorials and docs and help (also fully supported by Google).
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This is what the simplified WordPress.com dashboard looks like for those who haven't seen it: http://d.pr/i/xetj

You can still access the full nuts-and-bolts dashboard via a drop-down menu, but it's deliberately harder to find, and editing happens in the simplified area by default. I've recommended WordPress.com accounts to a few people recently; I was surprised by this change, but they - having never used WordPress - seemed delighted by the simplicity of it. This can only be a good thing, and I can see this working in WordPress.org blogs too.
i'm guessing preorders count towards the "first day" of sale. However, this is no differrent than every other "Apple sells X of Y on launch weekend" - all of them have had a similar "preorder time". That being said, the numbers seemingly don't include Wifi + cellular models ( as with previous iPads).
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I was in the exact same position a few months ago. I wasn't anywhere near 110 WPM though; I think I was 80 WPM for the most part.

I write a lot so all it took me was a conscious decision to use all my ten fingers, even if it made me type a touch slower. I did this for a few weeks, and now I am able to type with all my ten fingers. I still don't use them all the way I'd like to... but I'm certainly better.

I haven't notice a very big change now that I'm using all the other fingers more; I have certainly added a few words per minute but nothing substantial.
My thoughts exactly.

I agree that these technologies make it easier, because you have unmonitored (or at the very least uncontrolled) avenues of communication, but revolution hasn't only happened in the last ten years!
> We've over 10,00

Over 10,000?
You used advertisers twice. Do you mean publishers the second time?
Does it fail for an individual user or is it all users at that time period. instead of reducing the number of followers, you may just need to wait 5 - 10 minutes and ask for that user again with full 100.
Does your service uses document.write() like Google Adsense? That, for me, is one of my main gripes with it...
The primary link was posted this May. Windows 7 is still most Windows developers and IT types target client platform.
Thanks for the advice, we are doing something similar yeah but we haven't normalised the products so much, we care more about that specific product from that retailer.

We are currently talking to some of the networks and affiliates about using our technology directly as well, as they seem to like our matching
Yeah sorry I was at a charity hack weekend and I'm still a little tired :)
I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I needed some kind of official entitlement to be allowed to write about this subject. Since you seem to know more, can you point me in the proper direction? Where do I get the entitlement that I require?

By the way, I also have two netbooks (a Asus running Ubuntu, and a hackintoshed Dell). That's kind of my point: netbooks aren't shitty — for people like us. We know what they are, and we can work around their limitations. Most "regular" people don't, and can't.
This has been speculated for some time, and one solution would be a Fusion Ramjet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bussard_ramjet
Nameterrific is not a good name.
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I always wondered where the assertion of "no rights without responsibilities" came from. Any ideas?
Such a programmed death would be extremely hard to do, risky and not necessary.

You could try to introduce a weakness to a particular poison (one that is not actually poisonous to anything you might want to introduce later), but that would be selected out against pretty fast. And genedrift would probably remove it even before you actually introduce the poison.

A vital dependency on some specific substance wouldn't work either. For one thing, you'd have to provide that substance Mars-wide, and also there would be a strong selection pressure to get around that dependency.

You could try to come up with some other timing methods. But genetical engineering is not magic.
We've had requests from both publishers and retailers for CPC / CPM pricing and our system is built to handle that, it's just a case of finding some time in the schedule to build and promote it!
Even using current run rate sales of the Nexus tablet, they would only be selling 3M a quarter. Apple sold 3M tablets in a weekend. If only 20% of the reported sales were for the iPad Mini, it is doubtful Apple will be outsold in the holiday quarter (even with giving competitors the extra month), especially considering its distribution reach. However, we'll never know, since neither Google nor Amazon release sales figures (Asus reported the Nexus number).
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Does Google really need news media content?
If the site had some description (say, reviews) of the books in question, it would be different. Now, it just is images, with titles, and link where to get them.

The spam in my mailbox is also just pages with images, which include links and has clearly spelled out titles.

I am almost surprised that adblock didn't block the site altogether.
I can't reply to your comment but it takes about three minutes for it to match properly, if you could email your url to dom@emberads.com I'll take a look
Neat little extension. Cute icon.

One thing I would suggest would to make the login and no notification pages smaller. For what they say, they are awfully big.
No, we insert iFrames into the DOM.
Can anyone explain how this works in simple language. I couldn't follow what was going on.
This is a big part of it. I talked with a buddy of mine recently who is a big fan of Apple products and owns pretty much every Apple product out there. At some point we started talking about the latest iPad and he said "Man, despite already having iPad 3, I am going to buy this. Not because I need it, but because I have to own it". I know more than a few people who think that way.

I'm not going to pass judgment because I've personally burned a lot of money on expensive gaming machines just because I wanted to play games on the highest settings. Everybody derives pleasure and satisfaction from different things and if burning tons of cash on Apple gadgets makes someone's life better and more enjoyable... more power to them.
I see no reason why it can't be a fork. You may not want it to be a fork, but that's different from it needing to be a new project.

There is a very popular piece of software that millions of people use today that was a fork of a large, sprawling suite of a mess of several programs that used an actual Godzilla as its mascot: Firefox.
Is this affiliate advertising (the visitors click must translate into a sale) or do you do CPC/CPM?
U.S. programmers, as a whole, won't get behind one stance on immigration.

I know many programmers from India, for instance, and they are talented people that I really like. I've seen the real contribution that these people make to America's bottom line.

I've also seen many corporate "body shops" where frankly, there's a class war going on, and management wants to "tame" the complexity of software developers by making us low-priced and low-status cogs. The low status may be more fundamental than the low price, because a professionalized stratum of programmers is a threat against managers who build castles in the air and send us off on charges of the light brigade and to build Marginot Lines.

Many U.S. programmers see H1-B as a weapon that will be used against them.

Personally I see something in both points of view on this issue but I'd find it hard to take either side as a platform position or to support an organization that takes a stance on H1-B one way or the other.

I definitely think we're missing a real professional organization for software developers. The ACM fails at this because it represents the interests of academic computer scientists, not practitioners.

I'd very much like to pay dues to something like the ACM, oriented towards practitioners, but unfortunately this doesn't exist.
you are right that there are more candidates. In fact, I'm a proponent of Gary Johnson. I just kept it simple assuming the vast majority of people are only interested in Obama vs. Romney
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Very useful, been looking for this for a bit! Thank you and well done.
No insight, no new information, not worth the time it takes to read.
Quite interesting considering how shitty android was only a year ago (edit: 2.2). Not surprising however, as there was no better alternative (if you didn't want an iPhone). It's still a nice outcome though, we could've ended up with every manufacturer running their own system.
The problem is that the government has access to near modern levels of communication and military equipment, but there's no equalizer on the peoples' side.

The power and ability gap between the Government and the People in North Korea is probably the largest that has existed in history.
Currently CPA but CPM + CPC have been requested and are on our roadmap
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We are built on top of the feeds from the affiliate networks - and yes, there are issues with some of the data :-)

We have about 9 million products in our system (although not all are active) and we regularly inspect it and blacklist products (particularly adult products).

The system also tracks which products attract clicks and more importantly convert well, and if they aren't performing, they are disabled. So crappy ads don't get shown, once the system has noticed that they are crappy.
Apple drops to 50.4% tablet market share in Q3
Not everybody wants to be "educated" in the intricacies of modern PC hardware and OS design. And, in fact, not everybody should need to be. I don't know exactly how trains work; I just sit in one, and it gets me to where I want to go.

And that's good.

It's not my job to fix the train to get it to run properly; neither should it be the user's job to fix their crappy computer. Instead, her job should be to do a heart transplant, or write a court ruling, or fix the clutch in a car. That doesn't make her uneducated; it makes her somebody who views her computer as a tool, not as a hobby.
What is the best display aspect ratio for tablets?
Apple UK Publishes Samsung correction on homepage, forces it below the fold
That's exactly who I was looking for ;)
Since I did not see this program I have to ask; did they reward the dolphin in any way for performing this task?
Happy to see fellow Malaysian on the front page
Maybe. Unless you're a long-haul trucker trying to shave some time, but those are typically plastic bottles.

Or I suppose some extended coding sessions? I can't imagine a real need for such extreme tactics but who am I to say it doesn't happen.
Careful. Employers shoulder half the burden of payroll taxes, which take the largest bite out of most employee paychecks.
Philosophically related Podcast [About 15 minutes] on animal abolitionism with Gary Francione at Philosophy Bites.

It contains a well reasoned critique of Peter Singer's approach to animal rights which has become mainstream.

http://philosophybites.com/2012/10/gary-l-francione-on-anima...
Calling it ironic would be a stretch - It's certainly humorous in context, but I definitely wouldn't expect anyone involved in software development, testing, design, or project management to waste their time making sure an in-house Powerpoint deck is designed to perfection.
No. The point is that they don't have these things, so they probably need more than 128 GB of storage on their laptop.
Android is the grey goo of operating systems, and it's almost breathtaking to realize that a dragged-out Linux will close out next year as the single most relevant and dominant OS on Earth.

The only remaining question mark in my mind: how much might it eventually sell into the portable PC market? (Beyond the natural cannibalism of mobiles blunting PC sales)
We need to be very careful here. There are those (not myself) who would contend that a fetus is a "person", thereby implying that abortion is "murder". I disagree with that, but if we say cetaceans are "persons" than is whaling then "murder"? Are we calling the Eskimo tribes who to this day hunt whales as part of their cultural tradition "murderers"? I am all for conservation, don't get me wrong, but willy-nilly throwing around the word "person" is not helpful, it is not helpful in the debate about reproductive choice and it is not helpful in the conservation debate either.

A more general idea that the more "conscious" (variously defined) an entity is, the more it should be treated humanely. That makes sense to me, and to most people I would think. But we need to figure out how to do this with getting into ethical quandaries like the ones outlined.
Indeed, would the French revolution have even happened without all the bad press the royal family got from Marie Antoinette's tweets and the subsequent flashmob at La Bastille? And the American revolution's well-attended "Boston Tea Party" Facebook event?
I've thought of that, but good ideas are hard to come by and a bad idea is never worth the execution. However yes, I need to be more active. This article is the first step.